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Let’s Not Make This Political
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A retro-modern political publication from Massachusetts — dissecting the serious, the stupid, and the strategic with the irreverence this era (and this state) deserves.
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Typical…
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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
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November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Who needs a home, anyways….
#Housing #AffordableUnits #MBTA

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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
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November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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How much is a latte again?

#PlymouthCounty #PumpkinSpice #CivicNews #SouthShore

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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
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November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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What is a circuit breaker?

#WhitmanHanson #Civics #FinancialLiteracy #MaPoli #Massachusetts

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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 ...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Imagine having the confidence to give yourself an almost 90% raise…HOW?

#Quincy #QuincyMA #Massachusetts #MA #MassPoli

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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
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November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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This guy looks like my ex

#MassPoli #SouthShoreNews #Massachusetts #Mass #MA #Civics
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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.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Because…democracy.

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

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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...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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It’s civics.

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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...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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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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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?
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November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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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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?”
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November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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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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Winthrop Tries To Stop Development By Rejecting Housing Plan, Accidentally Triggers MORE Development
Winthrop, MA has announced a bold new economic strategy:
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November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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#Massachusetts #Mass
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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)
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October 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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The future is here. And it refuses to stop for school buses. #Massachusetts #Tesla #Satire #Withfacts
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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.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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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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October 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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#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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Government Reminds 40 Million Americans That Hunger Builds Character (Resources, How to Help, and Other Fun Info)
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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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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The $75,000 Ad That Broke NAFTA, Raised Your Rent, and Made Your Matcha $12.99
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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#MarshfieldMa #SouthShoreNews
#Massachusetts #MaPoli
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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...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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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October 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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#DuxburyMA #Duxbury #Massachusetts #MaPoli #Mass
Duxbury and their bridges. Oy.
October 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#MassachusettsPolitics #MaPoli #Massachusetts
Headline
October 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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#Massachusetts #MaPoli
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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October 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#Massachusetts #MA #Mass #MaPoli #Housing
Yup
September 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We’re currently #13 in rising humor on substack. If you like digestible civic education with a side of laughs and sarcasm, please subscribe and help us keep this thing going. #Massachusetts #SouthShoreNews #SouthShore #MAPolitics #Politics
#13 in rising humor on substack.
August 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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#Massachusetts #MA
We asked 100 south shore residents what an enterprise fund is.
August 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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#SouthShoreNews #SouthShore #HanoverMa #MaPoli #Massachusetts
LET'S NOT MAKE THIS POLITICAL Part 3: Hanover Police, 1995 Forever, and the Paychecks That Won't Quit LET'S NOT MAKE THIS POLITICAL
August 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM