davidmeuse.bsky.social
@davidmeuse.bsky.social
NH state rep., amateur photographer, and recovering Red Sox fan.
“There’s not this clean little healing, like you put a Band-Aid over it, and then you take the Band-Aid off and there’s nothing underneath anymore.There is always something there. And sometimes that wound can reopen and feel just as raw.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/27/n...
They survived school shootings. Here’s what they want the Brown community to know. - The Boston Globe
Before Brown, there was Columbine, Sandy Hook, and too many others to count. Survivors of those school shootings say there are many ways to grieve and heal.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
December 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“It’s become easier to imagine the moment when his mystique finally evaporates, when few want to defend him anymore or admit that they ever did.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger
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December 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The proper response from Sen. McGough should have been “Hell no! No Donald Trump concentration camp in my town, my state, or my country—ever. “The fact that it wasn’t isn’t an example of caution. It’s an example of lack of moral courage. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/12/25/s...
Sen. McGough: Too Early To Discuss Report On ICE Plans To Hold Immigrants in Merrimack, NH
To speed up deportations, the Trump administration plans to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses across the country, including in Merrimack, NH, according to a story published Wednesday in the Washing...
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December 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“These three decisions share a common theme: Life is becoming less affordable and more uncertain for many Granite State families.” #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/12/22/t...
Three policy decisions from 2025 that will shape life in New Hampshire in 2026 and beyond  • New Hampshire Bulletin
As 2025 comes to an end, many Granite Staters are feeling the same things. Groceries cost more. Housing costs and property taxes are up. Health care is harder to afford and access. Too many of our nei...
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December 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
News on Christmas morning that ICE is planning to use warehouses as detention facilities in GOP-led states across the country, including a processing facility in Merrimack, NH that could hold up to 1500 people. “Like Prime, but with human beings.” #NHPolitics www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
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December 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What a free press looks like when it’s free of Bari Weiss, the Murdochs, the Trump oligarchy, and the how-dare-you-question-our-daily-lies-and-outrages crowd.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/24/m...
The Trump administration says SNAP is rife with fraud. Why their evidence doesn’t hold up. - The Boston Globe
A recent $7 million SNAP fraud case was an "anomaly," not an example of errors the Trump administration has highlighted.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Indoctrinated during paid junkets by organizations like ALEC, NH Republicans lawmakers choose profitability for conservative out-of-state fossil fuel and chemical companies over affordability and safety for consumers. Every damn time… #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/12/20/d...
Distant Dome: Affordability Is Dependent on the Whims of Corporations
A new car becomes affordable when your car does not pass inspection (a thing of the past in New Hampshire in a month or two), but the same car would be unaffordable if your car is running well and not...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“Community has long been a defense against pure self interest, but the walls are crumbling.” newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/12/18/t...
The lasting harm of the politics of disconnection • New Hampshire Bulletin
Ours is a nation of small kindnesses and large cruelties.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Just sayin’ that the green card lottery process is already far more exhaustive when it comes to regulation to root out bad apples than the firearms purchase process. It’s the guns, Donald… apnews.com/article/brow...
Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US
President Donald Trump has suspended the green card lottery program that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Holding a press conference to promote an irresponsible and dangerous campus carry bill just days after the campus mass shooting at Brown University isn’t a “solution”. It’s gaslighting. #NHPolitics www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/m...
In wake of Brown University shooting, N.H. Republicans call for ‘campus carry’ bill to override gun-free policies - The Boston Globe
The legislation would force any college or university in New Hampshire that receives public funding to allow firearms on campus.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The headline is approval of $$$ for firefighter screenings. But the real story of this Executive Council meeting is that $51 million in DHHS cuts are about to get very real for non-billionaires in NH who depend on state services. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/12/17/e...
Executive Council Approves $5M for Firefighter Screenings; Budget Cuts Criticized
Two contracts that could "literally save lives" of New Hampshire firefighters and first responders with early detection of potentially fatal illnesses were approved Wednesday by the state's Executive ...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Stagnating paychecks aren’t a priority in a party run by billionaires where the guy in charge has increased his net worth from $4.3 billion before he took office to $7.3 million and counting. www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/e...
The No. 1 cause of America’s affordability problem just got worse | CNN Business
America’s cost-of-living problem is simple math: Inflation spiked several years ago and paychecks haven’t had enough time to catch up.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
As NH House Republicans groan, Rep Alice Wade reads the names of transgender people who were murdered this year as a result of transphobia during the veto override debate on HB148. After a failed vote to silence her—and a partial GOP walkout—the veto is sustained. #NHPolitics
December 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Oversight”NH Republican-style: appoint an “oversight committee”, hold no meetings for over a year, scheme up a glowing report on their school voucher scam without Dem input, and feign shock when their “integrity” is questioned. #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/12/17/a...
After year of not meeting, Republican-led EFA oversight committee produces report • New Hampshire Bulletin
A draft version of a Republican oversight report on education freedom accounts concludes the program is “popular and successful” and pushes back at Democratic arguments that it detracts from public sc...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
When it comes to affordability, electricity prices “are the new eggs. But rather than admit their policies aren’t working, Republicans are arguing with each other, blaming Biden, and now Trump wants to go to war with Venezuela to take its oil. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/p...
December 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The most sobering part of any mass shooting is seeing the faces of the victims afterwards. May their memories be a blessing and spur the kind of change that may have saved them. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/15/m...
He dreamed of being a doctor. She was a leader in the college Republicans club. What we know about Brown shooting victims. - The Boston Globe
Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov were attending a review session for a popular economics class when a gunman came into the classroom and opened fire.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Forget the dementia test. Our sad, angry, delusional, diminished, and corrupt little president can’t even seem to pass a basic human decency test.
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If your heart wasn’t quite broken by the news from Providence and Bondi Beach over the weekend—and from California this morning—this ought to do the trick. youtu.be/9YIz13Cq5gs
Carl Reiner Leaves Behind Touching Performance In Final Curtain Call | TODAY
YouTube video by TODAY
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December 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Republicans know that wealth doesn’t actually trickle down, which is why so much of their political focus is on redirecting the fiscal hostilities of the suffering classes away from the wealthy and on to each other.” #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/12/09/n...
New Hampshire lost a fortune with a tax repeal, but I bet the wealthy spent it on lots of cool stuff • New Hampshire Bulletin
In the year that has passed since New Hampshire Republicans held a news conference to celebrate the repeal of the state’s Interest and Dividends Tax, I’ve thought (and written) a lot about the $150 mi...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM