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BREAKING: Group Screams About “Supporting Teachers and Education” Moments Before Heroically Reducing the Library to Whatever Helps It Barely Stay Accredited Pledging Allegiance to Education While Gutting the Only Building Full of it

Typical…
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“If You Can’t Afford It Here, Just Move,” Says South Shore Resident Who Loves to Talk About Community Engagement A case study in how to misunderstand the entire economy

Who needs a home, anyways….
#Housing #AffordableUnits #MBTA

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Plymouth County Assessor Accidentally Reveals Entire Region’s Economy Is Just One HOA Board and a Pumpkin Spice Seasonal Cycle Local Economists Begin Weeping Openly

How much is a latte again?

#PlymouthCounty #PumpkinSpice #CivicNews #SouthShore

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We Weren’t Going To Write Anything New This Morning, But We Just Absolutely Cannot With These People: Whitman-Hanson Circuit Breaker Edition SSN is, again, dropping gems this morning that run cover for poor decisions while leaving readers thinking that their friends are just victims of circumstances that they coulllldntttttt possibly have ...

What is a circuit breaker?

#WhitmanHanson #Civics #FinancialLiteracy #MaPoli #Massachusetts

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Quincy Mayor Executes Three-Point Turn, Claims It Was Always a Straight Line Between campaign finance violations, pending lawsuits, and two ten-foot saints, Koch finally hit the limit on Quincy’s tolerance for side quests

Imagine having the confidence to give yourself an almost 90% raise…HOW?

#Quincy #QuincyMA #Massachusetts #MA #MassPoli

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THE SOUTH SHORE’S MOST POWERFUL POLITICIAN IS A GUY NO ONE HAS MET AND HE’S MADE ENTIRELY OF ACTUARIAL TABLES While residents argue on Facebook, the mortality table is busy deciding which departments get sacrificed for math reasons this year.

This guy looks like my ex

#MassPoli #SouthShoreNews #Massachusetts #Mass #MA #Civics
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Study Finds Hingham’s Most Functional Institution Is a Bunch of People Holding Signs at the Post Office HINGHAM — In a groundbreaking discovery that researchers described as “deeply embarrassing for municipal government,” a new analysis has confirmed that Hingham’s most reliable, stable, and well-run in...

Because…democracy.

#HinghamMA #SouthShoreNews #Satire #MaPoli #MassPoli #Massachusetts

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South Shore Officials Announce All School Districts Are “Struggling Equally,” Accidentally Reveal They’ve Never Looked at a Budget in Their Lives In a bold act of regional solidarity — or basic confusion — several South Shore officials declared this week that “all our schools are the same” and “we’re all dealing with the same financial hardship...

It’s civics.

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SNAP-POCALYPSE NOW: AMERICA’S #1 ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM, CURRENTLY ON AIRPLANE MODE The government shutdown has lasted so long that we’re staring down Week Six like, “Do we get a prize?

The government shutdown has lasted so long that we’re staring down Week Six like, “Do we get a prize? A badge? A tote bag that says I survived the world’s dumbest hostage situation?”

#Massachusetts #MaPoli #MassPoli #Mass #SNAP #Government

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We Asked 40 Select Board Members Across the South Shore What Open Meeting Law Meant. 39 Said “We’ll Get Back to You in Executive Session.” In an ambitious regional survey of transparency, Let’s Not Make This Political asked forty South Shore Select Board members a simple question: “What is the Open Meeting Law?”

In an ambitious regional survey of transparency, Let’s Not Make This Political asked forty South Shore Select Board members a simple question: “What is the Open Meeting Law?”

#MassachusettsNews #MaNews #MassPoli #LocalGovernment
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Winthrop Tries To Stop Development By Rejecting Housing Plan, Accidentally Triggers MORE Development Winthrop, MA has announced a bold new economic strategy:

Winthrop, MA has announced a bold new economic strategy: Sabotage the town to own the state.

#WinthropMA #MBTACommunitiesAct #Mass #3A #MaPoli

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Hanover Releases Press Release About 30 SNAP Recipients, Forgets Hundreds of People Exist (An LNMTP Explainer on Food Insecurity, Fiscal Denial, and How the South Shore Is Winning the Hunger Games)

#Massachusetts #Mass
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HINGHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT ISSUES WARNING TO SELF-DRIVING CAR FOR BEHAVING EXACTLY LIKE A MASSACHUSETTS DRIVER HINGHAM, MA — The future officially arrived this week, and it came with a Masshole accent.

The future is here. And it refuses to stop for school buses. #Massachusetts #Tesla #Satire #Withfacts
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Hanover to Voters: Remember That $1.3 Million We Already Spent? We Need It Again.” Remember that $1.3 million teacher-contract restructuring from August?

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Government Reminds 40 Million Americans That Hunger Builds Character (Resources, How to Help, and Other Fun Info) WASHINGTON, D.C.

#Massachusetts
#FoodInsecurity
#MAPoli
Hunger isn’t a small problem — it’s a systems failure we keep pretending is someone else’s.
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The $75,000 Ad That Broke NAFTA, Raised Your Rent, and Made Your Matcha $12.99 WASHINGTON, D.C.

Canada made a $75,000 ad and somehow we're the ones paying $75 more for tea, cars, and couches. Read the full diplomatic meltdown before your next grocery trip costs you foreign policy money
#TrumpTradeWars #Tariffs #Massachusetts #Canada #MatchaComeHome
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Marshfield Residents React to Last Town Meeting Like They Just Watched Democracy Lose a Shoe in the Parking Lot MARSHFIELD, MA — Following what witnesses are calling “the longest episode of Survivor: Civic Edition ever filmed in a middle school gym,” Marshfield residents emerged from their third town meeting on...

#MarshfieldMa #SouthShoreNews
#Massachusetts #MaPoli
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Pentagon Replaces Reporters With Right-Wing Influencers Who Were “Too Oblivious to Prosecute,” but Now Pass the Vibe Check Subscribe for more coverage of America’s ongoing experiment in turning national security into content.

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Duxbury and their bridges. Oy.

#DuxburyMA #Duxbury #Massachusetts #MaPoli #Mass

Whining about Taylor Swift and acting like it’s a hot take is pretty pick-me

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#MassachusettsPolitics #MaPoli #Massachusetts

Trump Threatens to Deploy National Guard to Massachusetts; State Politely Responds, “Yeah, Good Luck, Buddy.” BOSTON— In what scholars are calling “a full-blown civic fever dream” and Massachusetts residents are calling “Tuesday,” President Donald Trump has reportedly considered deploying the National Guard t...

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#Massachusetts #MaPoli

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Yup

#Massachusetts #MA #Mass #MaPoli #Housing

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We Asked 100 South Shore Residents What an Enterprise Fund Is, and 97 of Them Said “Is That Like a Star Trek Thing?” What’s an enterprise fund?

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We asked 100 south shore residents what an enterprise fund is.

#Massachusetts #MA

Part 3: Hanover Police, 1995 Forever, and the Paychecks That Won’t Quit We said we weren’t going to post this weekend because Hanover’s nonsense was making our brain melt.

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