Stephen Sheffield

Cohasset MA 2/7/26

$5 postcards

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Documents confirm ICE plans for N.H. warehouse; state officials knew for weeks Documents obtained by the ACLU show the Department of Homeland Security planned purchase and transform a vacant warehouse in Merrimack, New Hampshire into a Boston ICE processing center. While the dep...

Documents obtained by the ACLU show the Department of Homeland Security planned purchase and transform a vacant warehouse in Merrimack, New Hampshire into a Boston ICE processing center.

Synthetic Tears, Real Consequences How the White House used AI to reshape reality

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January 31, 2026 White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning:

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Old Bay Ridge
1oz rye
1oz aquavit
1tsp demerara syrup
2dash angostura bitters
Stir, & add 1 big cube
Recipe by David Wondrich, Brooklyn, NY

I won’t stop reporting on the Epstein survivors fight for transparency, no matter how loud the headlines get or how many they roll out.

January 24, 2026 This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.

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Titled, No Thugs In Our House.
- I made this collage on Jan 7, 2021 as a direct and angry response to the events at the US Capitol Building on 1/6/2021.
It is a song title by the band XTC and is about a young man becoming a nazi while his parents sit by oblivious.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

After Minneapolis shooting, Boston protests while Wu calls out 'cruel and vicious agenda' of Trump administration The reverberations from the shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross are being felt in Boston. A large crowd gathered Thursday on Boston Common to protest ICE, the sec...

The reverberations from the shooting in Minneapolis are being felt in Boston. A large crowd gathered Thursday on Boston Common to protest ICE, the second night of demonstrations.

Willcutt Commons, Cohasset, MA.
Through February.

January 1, 2026 On January 1, 1892, seventeen-year-old Annie Moore walked down the gangway from the steamship Nevada with her two brothers Anthony, eleven, and Philip, nine, and into history as the first person proce...

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But “Trump appears to be disintegrating, rotting, collapsing before our eyes, mentally and physically, and Republicans in Congress—first of all with the vote to release the Epstein files—are breaking from him.” - Heather Cox Richardson

Sunday beach walk.

Hingham, MA, 12/27/25

Cohasset, MA, 12/27/25

The RFK, jr effect.

Our nation needs to decide right now that the time for these massacres ends now.

We have the ability to prevent so much tragedy. We only need leaders with the courage to do it.

TRUTH (continued)
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Mark Twain

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. James Russell Lowell
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Five Fingers

November 30, 2025 On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...

The realization that Trump is bolstering and protecting an entitled elite rather than defending everyday Americans victimized by them has dovetailed with this administration’s undermining of the economy, firing of civil servants, attacks on public health, and…. (bolstering) “the Epstein class.”