Trent retweeted
Looking at the referendum results around the country:
1) everyone dislikes taxes. Especially property taxes
2) abortion and weed is popular
3) voter ID is popular
4) banning transgender athletes from playing girls sports is popular
5) data centers are unpopular
6) fighting crime is popular
7) building new homes is popular
I don’t understand how MAGA, who claims to love the country and the military more than anyone, blindly accepts Trump’s support of Russia when they are actively assisting Iran targeting American servicemen abroad.
Trent retweeted
Hello. My name is Angela Paradise, mom to Owen Coyne, Marblehead Class of 2027 and Williams College Football Commit. Im so sorry to be sharing this news online. It is with profound sadness and indescribable grief that we share that Owen passed away after a sudden brain hemorrhage last week. Owen (Owie to his family, OC to his friends, teammates and coaches ) was the sweetest soul you’ll ever meet— truly a gift! Owen was a wonderful, respectful son, a doting older brother to Grady, Landon and Ella, and a beloved grandson, cousin and nephew. He surrounded himself with the very best friends and teammates a boy could have. O’s kindness, positivity, warmth and humble nature left an indelible mark on everyone he met during his brief 17-years on earth. He was a proud Captain of the MHS Football team (and he was so very pumped for this season!), a talented and much-loved sailing instructor for the Town of Marblehead, an avid boater and the very best captain of our boat, “Coyne Collection,” a valuable teammate of the MHS Varsity Baseball and Track teams, and a member of the CYC where he spent his childhood summers canon-balling into the pool. Owen loved Marblehead fiercely, and Marblehead loved him right back. A stellar student-athlete, Owen had recently announced his commitment to pursue his academic and football career at Williams College next Fall. The day we visited this campus, toured the grounds, and met the team and staff, we knew then that Owen had found his
next “home.” That we will never see our Owie pursue his college dreams after working so very hard throughout high school to earn his spot at Williams is beyond heartbreaking. Owen’s passing is a devastating loss for our family, and we recognize that this is also a staggering loss for our Marblehead community. Owen, you were truly a gift — the BEST gift—to all of us— so much so that his organs went on to save 5 people! Owen, I love you with all of my heart and I will miss you every minute of every day until my time on earth is done. Words cannot convey how sorry (and gutted and angry and shattered and confused) I am that you were robbed of your beautiful life with us- and with SO much promise ahead. As your mom , I promise you that I will do my very, very best to remember you, celebrate you, talk about you and carry your legacy forward until my dying day. I love you, my sweet, beautiful Owie. ❤️🖤
marbleheadcurrent.org/2026/1…
Learner Tien has a lot of heart but needs some kind of explosive weapon out there. Can’t just play fetch all day. Need to push your opponent back sometimes.
Facts
A reminder on the evolution of 2020 "stolen election" theories: First we had mail-in fraud + Dominion + "illegal law changes" (Nov–Dec 2020) then → Georgia election workers + foreign interference/Italygate (Dec 2020–Jan 2021, concurrent) then → 2,000 Mules (ballot stuffers) (2022) then → social-media-censorship revival via Twitter Files (Dec 2022) then → renewed foreign-interference claims (2024–present).
Through all this, we've had:
1. Dominion getting $787 million from Fox News for defamation
2. Rudy Giuliani admitting he lied about Georgia election workers (and the jury awarding the workers $148 million)
3. Sidney Powell admitting in court "no reasonable person would conclude" her claims of election fraud “were truly statements of fact"
4. The Gateway Pundit retracting claims of election fraud in Atlanta
5. The Media company that put out D'Souza's 2,000 Mules film apologizing and removing it after law enforcement proved it falsely accused people of fraud
6. Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN) settling with Smartmatic
It is NOT true that none of these allegations have seen a court room. Most have. Of the 64 cases of fraud that Trump and his legal team filed in court, 30 were dismissed that included a hearing on the merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his allies before a hearing, and just 20 were dismissed for lack of standing before a hearing on the merits. One case, involving far too few votes to impact the election, prevailed in Pennsylvania. That case was about voter ID deadlines, not election fraud.
Those are the facts.
Whatever happens Thursday night, please try to remember them.
Every exam needs to be in person, written by pen.
40 out of 86 Brown students scored a perfect 100 on their midterm. Then the professor moved the final in person, and 22 of those perfect scorers never showed up again.
He'd suspected AI cheating from the start. The take-home midterm was deliberately harder than usual, yet the class averaged 96 when the historical range is 65 to 80. Some answers contained odd phrasing that matched what ChatGPT produced when he ran the questions through it himself.
Roberto Serrano has taught economics at Brown for 34 years. He filed no accusations. He announced the final would be in person, count for half the grade, and that if the two distributions didn't match, the final alone would determine grades.
Then the exodus. 27 students never showed up. 22 of them had perfect midterms. Of the 59 who did show, 19 failed. Several signed the exam and turned it in blank. The average fell from 96 to 48, the lowest in the course's history.
He never needed a plagiarism detector. The cheaters identified themselves by walking away. A grade distribution became a confession.
Here's the part nobody's sitting with. Serrano proved it. He sent the distributions to Brown's dean and provost. The provost never responded. The academic committee's reply amounted to calling it "a wake-up call." The students who bailed before the final walked away clean.
Every university in America is now grading two populations, students and students plus ChatGPT, on one curve. The honest kids in Serrano's class watched a 96 average get set by machines, then sat a real final against it. The cheaters lost nothing. That's the incentive structure now, and it grades itself.
Brutal USMNT performance. Should have known it was coming when anything Trump interacts with fails miserably
Is there a better metaphor for @realDonaldTrump than this?
I just went 70-12, think you can go 82-0? 82-0.com/share?id=5ea4caoThS… #NBA #82and0 Can’t believe this team would lose 12.
My god no. Just run a moderate. Only one from MA worth a run one day is @sethmoulton
Axios: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is being publicly and privately courted by Democrats eyeing presidential bids in 2028.
She met privately with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear for tea this month and has a texting relationship with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Axios has learned.
axios.com/2026/05/24/democra…
Trent retweeted
Great that the DNC has released is internal autopsy of what went wrong in the 2024 campaign,
If it’s not clear enough, here’s what went wrong:
👉 everyone in America could see that Joe Biden did not have the physical or mental capacity to complete a second term.
👉 few people in the Democratic Party had the wherewithal to demand that Biden announce he will not seek reelection and that there needed be a competitive primary.
👉 by waiting so long to drop out after the disastrous debate performance from which there was no return, Biden destroyed the possibility of a competitive primary.
👉 by anointing Kamala Harris with no competitive primary, the party ensured that no one other than hard-core Democrats would understand why she was the nominee.
👉 by failing to differentiate herself from any policies of the Biden administration, Kamala Harris made herself the ultimate establishment candidate when the electrate wanted change.
👉 by failing to separate herself from the madness of the far left, Kamala Harris became the de facto far left candidate.
👉 in large part, the American people hated woke so much they were willing to elect a convicted felon rather than someone they perceived as being aligned with the crazies.
It shouldn’t take 200 pages and months of internal civil war to make clear what went wrong and how we Democrats need to do better going forward.
If we don’t kick the bigoted far left skunks out of our big tent, they will spoil the party.
If we don’t have a positive vision for all Americans that fills people with hope and a sense of common purpose, there will be no reason for people to support Democratic candidates other than antipathy to Donald Trump and his many minions.
I believe the Democratic Party has the potential to rejuvenate itself, but only if it learns very serious lessons from our catastrophic failures.