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Let’s Not Make This Political

@letsnotmakethis.bsky.social
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Local isn’t a place, it’s a level of governance. Covering Plymouth County and Mass. news with the unbiased decoding it deserves. 100% Grade-A sourced data. The journalism is always free. Paid Bonus Humor.

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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We’ve dropped slightly, but we’re still on the leader board. The competition is fierce. We appreciate all readers, their interest in local government, and their support.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can we not? I’m tired.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🌀 sea foam in the Marshfield streets, municipal budget nightmare in the sheets 🌀
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rain delay. Plan accordingly, seafood fam.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Zoning out so I don’t run my mouth about Plymouth County officials making a big deal about suing and “saving” money on administrative contracts before repurposing hundreds of thousands to spend as legal funds.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tonight 👇👇
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tonight. 🎇🎆🎇🎆
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Plymouth County drama has been postponed until Sept. 22
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Plymouth may add 90 parking spaces behind Nathaniel Morton Elementary School. substack.com/@letsnotmake...
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The state of the housing market in Plymouth County and Mass. #Mapoli #Massachusetts
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Still topping the charts
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wholesome. We’re here for it.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We’re #34 in rising humor out of the whole platform. The journalism is real and always free. While we only ask for a free subscription to help us grow, paid subscriptions get fun bonus + humor content and keep us doing more. Obviously, we’re worth it. 😎
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
But like…meet us on TikTok soon. #SouthShore #PlymouthCounty #Massachusetts #LocalMatters
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Minogue will be addressing the issues that matter to Massachusetts, including affordability. #MaPoli #SouthShoreNews
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#DuxburyMA #Duxbury #Massachusetts #MaPoli #Mass
Duxbury and their bridges. Oy.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#MassachusettsPolitics #MaPoli #Massachusetts
Headline
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#Massachusetts #MA #Mass #MaPoli #Housing
Yup
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
#Massachusetts #MA
We asked 100 south shore residents what an enterprise fund is.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
#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
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#HanoverMA #Massachusetts #SouthShoreMA #SouthShoreNews #MAPoli #politics
LET'S NOT MAKE THIS POLITICAL
PART ONE: Asked and
Answered: Hanover's Headed for Override 3.0 (Here's Why)
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
#SouthShoreMa #SouthShoreNews #HanoverMa #Massachusetts #Politics #MaPoli
LET'S NOT MAKE THIS POLITICAL
Hanover Officials Retreat Into Secret Portal Marked "M.G.L.
Chapter 30A §21(a) (3)" After Realizing They May Owe a Weed Company $630K
LET'S NOT MAKE THIS POLITICAL
TODAY AT 12:12 PM
LET'S NOT MAKE THIS POLITICAL
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“The outcome of a vote is never the problem. That’s democracy. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You show up, you vote, you maybe grab a snack and a sticker on the way out, and no matter what happens, you move forward.” #SouthShoreNews #SouthShore #News
Raynham Raynham Raynham
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#RocklandMa #Massachusetts #MassPoli #MassachusettsPolitics #Politics #MaPoli #SouthShoreNews
Rockland WTf
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
We’re not a PAC. We’re not your neighbor who brings up mill rates over burgers. We’re just a blog that’s read too many override proposals. Here’s why you should vote yes. #Raynham #SouthShore #MassachusettsPolitics #MassPoli #Bridgewater #Override
Nobody Asked Us. But Here We Are, Telling You to Vote Yes in Raynham
No Theater, No Spin: Bridgewater-Raynham's
Override was the Real Thing
LET'S NOT MAKE THIS POLITICAL
JUN 22, 2025 AT 10:12 PM
LET'S NOT MAKE THIS POLITICAL
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
“But fast forward one year to June 2025 — now chair of the Marshfield Select Board — and Eric Kelley unilaterally removed the town’s annual Pride Proclamation from the meeting agenda. Quietly. Without discussion. Without a vote. Without any public transparency whatsoever.” #MarshfieldMA
Marshfield. What are you doing?
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“Sure, they’ll say “Oh, we’re just targeting private insurers.” But if you’re the actual human getting that bill—with a $6K deductible, or a denied out-of-network claim—good luck sorting that out after the fact.”
We’re mad today.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“Appointing him was Milton’s version of giving a toddler a clipboard and calling it a job—anything to keep him busy and out of the sandbox.”
Tom Dougherty needs to calm down
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“We’re not a PAC. We’re not your neighbor who brings up mill rates over burgers. We’re a blog that’s read too many override proposals, spent too many sleepless nights assaulted by risk mitigation plans, seen too many tornado charts cry, and know exactly when someone’s cooking the books with Canva.”
Raynham votes Tuesday
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Branding. Crimes. Call 911. #SouthShoreNews
Narrowly.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
You ask questions. We answer them. #SouthShoreNews #MaPoli #Massachusetts
What’s our problem, you ask?
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Happy Father’s Day Weekend #FathersDay #Massachusetts #Mass #MA #SummerTime #SouthShoreNews
LNMTP POWER
RANKING:
Which South Shore Daddy Would We Let
Mow Our Lawn... and Maybe Also Ruin Our Life in a Fun Way?
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The renters do not care. They are coming anyway—with air fryers, remote jobs, emotional baggage, and a Facebook Marketplace sublease in someone’s cousin’s partially finished basement. #MassachusettsHousingCrisis #MAPoli #Massachusetts
OP-ED about
Opting: You Don't Get to Opt Out of the Housing Crisis.
Renters Are
Coming.
The Zoning Fairy Is Dead and You Killed Her: A Love
Letter to Denial and Driveways
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#Cohasset #Scituate #Mollusk #WarZone #MaPoli
Cohasset and Scituate Sign
Historic Peace Accord to End Decade-Long
Shellfish
Skirmish, Immediately Apply for UN
Recognition as Co-Governors of Mollusk Stability
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Good luck if you owe tolls #Boston #BostonMA #RMV #Massschusetts open.substack.com/pub/respectf...
Massachusetts to Poor
Drivers: We'd Rather You Be
Hammered Than
Behind on Tolls
RESPECTFULLYNO.SUBSTACK.COM
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Fired, lawsuits, and more simulations. #SouthShoreNews #SouthShore #MaPoli
Hanover's
Strategy of
"Not Our
Problem" Ends in Actual Fire
Town courageously waits until controlled blaze becomes the cheapest option that still involves six agencies.
HANOVER, MA - After years of benign neglect and obsessive-aesthetic landscaping elsewhere, the Town of Hanover has finally...Duxbury
Journalist
Declares
Narrative
Emergency
After PowerPoint
Edits, Forms Cult in
Comment Section
Powerpoint Update Sparks Panic in Online Zoning Cult with 12 Members and One
Mission (and No One Knows...South Shore
Hunger Games:
Tribute
Selection
Ceremony aka
Starting
Scores: Who's Most Likely to Survive the South Shore
Hunger Games?
Honestly, Some of y'all are going to want a recount.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“‘This is why we haven’t won since Brady,’ one fan posted, as if Tom Brady left Foxborough not for $50 million, beachfront property, and tax-free Florida sunsets, but because he saw a rainbow and couldn’t go on.” #SouthShoreNews #PatriotsNation #NewEnglandPatriots #Patriots #MaPoli #Massachusetts
Pride Month
We celebrate together I Shatters
Patriots Fans' Illusion That Football
Wasn't Already, Emotional,
STADIUM
Theatrical,
WHERE THE P and Full of
& more
COlOrLLYNO.SUBSTACK.COM
Coordination
Stadium Remains Unbothered, Men Named Ron Enter Comment...
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Override PTSD symptoms in Hanover, Medium dogs are tired of not being seen in Scituate, and the Plymouth County Parking Patrol wants your money. #SouthShoreNews #Massachusetts #MaPoli #MaPolitics #MassNews
Hanover
Suffers Mass
Override
Flashback
After Jell-O Prank:
Therapists
Warn of "WMD
Syndrome"
(Weapons Ofk.com
Misrepresented
Data)Scituate
Medium Dogs
Form Armed
Militia After Being Banned From Both
Small and Big Parks: "This Is About
Liberty.Andk.com
Also Tennis
Balls."Plymouth
County Parking
Nerd Patrol
Expands
Influence,
Declares New
World Order of
Metered
Obedience
RESPECTFULLYNO.SUBSTACK.COM
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
“It is with great emotional juice-box restraint that the Treehouse51 Kids and Union issue this formal response to the completely off-the-rails chaos that unfolded in the Big Kid Building, which was supposed to be a “Senior Prank.” #HanoverMA #SeniorClassof2025
Hanover Kid's
Treehouse51
Union Issues
Formal
Statement
Regarding
Senior Prank and Vandalism at the 'Big
Kids Schooldk.com
"We're not emotionally equipped to handle this many pineapples," says Union Rep.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
When the Select Board vanishes into the fog and the override fails for the fourth year in a row, there will only be two types of institutions left: ice cream stands and Facebook moderators with power complexes.
Ice Cream
Stands That Would
Definitely
Survive the Collapse of Society: South
Shore
Resilience
RankingS BSTACK.COM
Post-apocalyptic stability meets soft serve supremacy.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The 2024 event—hosted by Untamed Instincts Live Experience Co.—had been billed as a “low-risk cultural rodeo experience,” and ended with bulls rampaging across Route 495, two near-miss collisions, a CVS lockdown, and one confused heifer entering a Dunkin’ and reportedly attempting to place an order.
Raynham Select
Board Denies
Permit for Live-Action
Jumanji
Featuring Live
Bulls: Police and Fire
Chiefs
Explode suBsTacK.coM
"WE'RE FUN, DAMMIT"
Police and Fire Chiefs want...
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
#Duxbury #DuxburyMA #Massachusetts #Mass
Duxbury
Accidentally
Turns Itself On During
Zoning Meeting
After 'Primal Brain' Comment
Town overwhelmed by zoning-based lust spiral. Substack journalist warns of compliance kinKS.TFULLYNO.SUBSTACK.COM
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/respectf... #Duxbury #MaPoli #AlwaysSunnyInPhiladelpia
Duxbury Zoning
Truther
Unveils Zoning
Conspiracy
Chart So
Deranged Even
Charlie From
'It's Always Sunny' Told
Herto Calm.c.coM
Down
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
#SouthShore #MaPoli
South Shore
Town Blocks
Housing to Avoid School
Costs, Immediately Spends Millions on
New School
Anyway.SUBSTACK.coM
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
#MiltonMa #Massachusetts #Mass #Milton #Civics #Housing #MBTAcompliance
Milton Demands
Full Home Rule
While Living Off Everyone
Else's
Infrastructure
Like a Well-Spoken Teen on Their Parents' Insurances.
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
#Massachusetts #ElectrictyExplained #MA #Humor #CivicEducation open.substack.com/pub/respectf...
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Expensive Peak
Hour
(A cautionary tale for anyone who has ever turned on an appliance in July.)
RESPECTFULLYNO.SUBSTACK.COM
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
#Massachusetts #Moms #EnoughSaid
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"Project plans include: upgrading Firewall Security after the town was hacked by a group of middle schoolers demanding Hot Cheetos and a day off from gym class."
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"Ken raised an eyebrow. 'It flagged my daughter’s Macbeth essay as a ‘disciplinary risk’ because she used the word ‘murder’ too many times. It then auto-sent her a digital character-building worksheet called Perseverance Through Algorithmic Choice.'” #Massachusetts #MAPoli #AI #Tech #AndoverMA
When you think the biggest threat to your child's education is underfunded dodgeball, but it's really FERPA Loopholes and Whoever is Letting AI grade your kids
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