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Barbara Davis

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Holbrook, MA school committee chair; Town Meeting member; Chair, Town Scholarship Committee; Mass Assoc of School Committees Division 3 Chair; MASC Life Member; occasional bread baker; happily retired. #maedu she/her

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
October 2, 2026
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October 2, 2026
Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 3, 2026
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October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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Massachusetts Association of School Committees @mascschoolcomm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The MASC Board of Directors is urging Governor Maura Healey not to opt Massachusetts into the federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program. Read the full statement from MASC at bit.ly/4rNU274
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The Massachusetts Association of School Committees urges Governor Maura Healey to refrain from opting into the federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program."
The MASC Board of Directors
full press release at masc.org
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
October 1, 2026
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October 1, 2026
John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 30, 2026
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September 30, 2026
A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 29, 2026
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gotta keep pushing on Q3…vote no! (Glad to see the numbers on 9 so solid!)
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
September 27, 2026
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September 27, 2026
A friend tells me that when I take a night off, other people feel they can take a night off, too.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
September 26, 2026
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September 26, 2026
Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.
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Barbara Davis @bpdavis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So, I went outside to cut some scallions and onion scapes for dinner and saw this amazing sunset just before the rain.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
September 24, 2026
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September 24, 2026
After a hearing yesterday about Trump’s Friday ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House campus, very early this morning—I was still awake writing yesterday’s letter—U.S.
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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
MA has 9 statewide ballot questions this year. Be an informed voter! #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/2026ballot/
This November, Massachusetts will see *9* statewide ballot questions, a historic number. But we’ve got you covered. 

✅VOTE YES ON 1 to expand the public records law to cover the Governor and the Legislature. We’re the only state in the country that doesn’t do that already. Let the sunlight in.

✅VOTE YES ON 2 to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, and public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid, should be no exception. 

❌VOTE NO ON 3 to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our election system in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders, disadvantage grassroots candidates, and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers. 

✅VOTE YES ON 4 to enable voters to register to vote or update their registration on Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to a clerical error, and this reform is one of the most proven ways to increase voter turnout. 

❌VOTE NO ON 5 to protect our state’s ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. The rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services. 

⚪VOTE how you want on 6. Question 6 fell shy of our endorsement threshold: our members valued land and water conservation, but were worried about the dedication of existing funds as opposed to new ones. 

✅VOTE YES on 7 to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth. We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements mean fewer homes are able to be built. 

❌VOTE NO on 8 to protect our state’s cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs back in 2016, and we shouldn’t turn back time and destroy local economies. 

✅VOTE YES ON 9 to protect our state’s landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
September 23, 2026
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September 23, 2026
Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...
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Barbara Davis @bpdavis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
September 22, 2026
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September 22, 2026
In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.
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Barbara Davis @bpdavis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Massachusetts Association of School Committees @mascschoolcomm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today's Public Policy report from today's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is now available: www.masc.org/public-polic... #MAEdu
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Public Policy Updates: September 2026 Board of Elementary and Secondary Education - masc.org
The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education met for their regular September meeting on September 22. The agenda can be found here; a video of the meeting is available here....
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
September 21, 2026
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September 21, 2026
On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
September 19, 2026
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September 19, 2026
On September 19, 1676, three hundred and fifty years ago today, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, the capital of the Virginia Colony.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
September 18, 2026
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September 18, 2026
According to the American Automobile Association, diesel hit its highest recorded average price today at just above $6.44 per gallon.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
September 17, 2026
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September 17, 2026
In 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Fifteen years later, i...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
September 16, 2026
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September 16, 2026
Yesterday U.S.
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Barbara Davis @bpdavis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My second full potato 🥔 harvest of the season.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
September 14, 2026
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September 14, 2026
This morning, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski of ProPublica broke the news that Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, spent hundreds of thousands of...
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Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni @heshan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Site visitors automatically transmit to Musk their: full name, birthday, home address, email address, cellphone number, IP address, browser, operating system, screen size and language of device, location, district, voter registration status, every link they click on, and every web page they visit.”
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Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data
Musk's "VoteSafe.org" is a scam that doesn't actually register voters
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Massachusetts Association of School Committees @mascschoolcomm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Don't forget tomorrow evening's "What to expect at the MASC/MASS Conference" session online, hosted by Division IX in partnership with Divisions II & V Sign up on our website: www.masc.org/event/what-t...
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What to Expect at the MASC/MASS Conference - masc.org
Hosted by Division IX in partnership with Divisions II & V Whether you’re attending the MASC Annual Conference for the first time or are a returning participant, this virtual session...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
September 13, 2026
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September 13, 2026
On Saturday, September 12, Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for AI companies to slow down their improvem...
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Barbara Davis @bpdavis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We got Chinese food tonight for supper and this was my fortune. Seems appropriate to share with the #mascmass26 coming up.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
September 12, 2026
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September 12, 2026
On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
September 10, 2026
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September 10, 2026
We woke up today to news that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of the city and seaport of Mocha and much of the shoreline of the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, another c...
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Christopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tisch College at Tufts also has a great website that breaks down the ballot questions in an easy-to-understand format. tischcollege.tufts.edu/take-action/...
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Voters' Guide to 2026 Massachusetts Ballot Questions
To help voters understand policy issues in Massachusetts, the Center for State Policy Analysis (cSPA) provides non-partisan research on all state ballot questions. cSPA's findings are summarized here;...
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Christopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Massachusetts has an unusually large number of ballot questions this November. Here is my hot take on them...
Q1: Yes (open records law should apply to governor and legislature)
Q2: Yes (all state employees should have right to unionize)
Q3: No ("jungle primaries" create confusion-I support rank choice voting instead)
Q4: Yes (same day voter registration is a good thing)
Q5: No (creates frequent small tax refunds for taxpayers, but not worth the reduction in funds for state services)
Q6: No (raises no new revenue for a fund that state does not need)
Q7: Yes (would allow more housing to be built more quickly)
Q8: No (keep marijuana legal in Massachusetts)
Q9: Yes (keep Massachusetts gun laws as they are currently written)
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
September 9, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 9, 2026
Yesterday, at a White House event honoring those who sacrificed their lives on 9/11, President Donald Trump went off script and claimed he had taken a crew downtown “right after this happened.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
September 8, 2026
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September 8, 2026
On Sunday, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternativ für Deutschland, or AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in a legislative election in the small state of Saxony-Anhalt, formerly part of ...
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Barbara Davis @bpdavis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honored to be a recipient of a UMass Boston 2026 Beacon Award for Community Service. www.alumni.umb.edu/s/1355/22/in...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
September 7, 2026
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September 7, 2026
Since yesterday, President Donald J.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
September 5, 2026
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September 5, 2026
Events of Friday, September 4, showed the Trump administration in a nutshell.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
September 4, 2026
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September 4, 2026
On September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
September 3, 2026
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September 3, 2026
Election analyst Charlie Cook told Republicans today to “brace themselves” for the midterms.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
September 2, 2026
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September 2, 2026
A number of pundits, especially Republican pundits, interpreted Trump’s win in 2024 as a permanent political realignment proving that post–World War II liberalism was dead.
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Massachusetts Association of School Committees @mascschoolcomm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Early bird pricing for the Annual MASC MASS Joint Conference ends this week! Be sure you register to join us in Danvers November 4-6! www.masc.org/conference/
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Annual Conference - masc.org
Annual ConferenceNovember 4-6, 2026 DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore | Danvers, MA Navigating Complex Times: Centering on Students The three information-packed days will be focused on the...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
September 1, 2026
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September 1, 2026
Yesterday, by a vote of 5–4, the United States Supreme Court allowed Trump to continue to build his ballroom.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
August 31, 2026
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August 31, 2026
Alex Horton and Tara Copp of the Washington Post reported on Sunday, August 30, that military leaders are warning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that a plan to continue large-scale operations in Iran ...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
August 29 2026
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August 29, 2026
On Thursday, August 27, Tolouse Olorunnipa reported on the attempts of Republican lawmakers to restrict the ability of naturalized and dual citizens to run for office.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
August 28, 2026
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August 28, 2026
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that took place on August 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C., is remembered today primarily because it was the occasion when the final speaker, the Reverend Dr.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
August 27, 2026
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August 27, 2026
This morning, a headline in the Guardian read: “RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate.” The story by Michelle R.
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Massachusetts Association of School Committees @mascschoolcomm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Members, as you're getting your back-to-school calendar update, please be sure you're including our fall events, including upcoming Learning Lunches, Charting the Course, and Division meetings. Find it all: www.masc.org/events/
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Events Archive - masc.org
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Mark Jones @markjonesmotion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could. From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America. Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.
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