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IN THE WAKE OF THE LINDSEY CLANCY TRIAL, MASSACHUSSETTS GOV. 

MAURA HEALEY PROPOSED A SOLUTION AFTER SPEAKING WITH OTHERS.... 

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AN OPTION FOR A FOLLOW-UP VISIT THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR NEW MOMS.... 

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How a proposal to offer nurse visits to new parents in Mass. spiraled online

Gov. Maura Healey speaks during a press conference about measures aimed at improving maternal mental healthcare screening and support at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (Screenshot via Katie Castellani/State House News Service)

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Welcome back to Mass. Politics, where we canvass social media so you don’t have to. In this edition: Maura Healey, Mike Minogue, Ted Cruz and more.

How did a nurse home visit program become the center of a social media firestorm?

When Gov. Maura Healey said there should be more talk about maternal health in the aftermath of the Lindsay Clancy trial, the conversation that followed on social media was probably not what she had in mind.

Let’s back up: At a Sept. 15 press conference inside Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, surrounded by doctors and public health officials, Healey publicized a $2 million proposal to massively expand the “Welcome Family” program, which offers families with newborns a free, one-time home visit by a nurse.

Currently, the program — first launched in 2013 — serves about 3,000 births a year. But Healey’s proposal would allow it to offer visits to every new parent in Massachusetts that wants one. (The state currently has about 68,000 births a year.)

“It's free, voluntary home visiting for families who've just welcomed a baby,” Healey said, adding that the nurses “can answer questions about feeding, sleep and caring for a new baby while monitoring a mom's postpartum health, screening for depression and other mental health concerns.”

A study published in 2023 found the program has benefits, including serving as a “key entry point into a continuum of care for families with infants and young children.” It’s not yet funded by the state, but rather has been supported via federal contracts with the Health Resources and Services Administration. In 2024, a bipartisan maternal health bill directed state officials to expand the program statewide.

Fast forward to this month: Healey’s proposal to actually allocate state money toward the expansion was folded into a spending bill she filed last week, after lawmakers passed on her initial proposal to include it in the full budget earlier this year.

Talk of the program took off after Healey appeared on GBH’s “Boston Public Radio” on Sept. 16 to highlight the effort to fund it. Healey discussed the program for about two and a half minutes, but one 15-second clip ripped through social media. Among some right-wing pundits and politicians, her description of the program – “You’re going to have a home visit” – was misconstrued as less than voluntary.

Radio show host Howie Carr said it takes “nanny state to the next level.” Libs of TikTok, an influential right-wing news aggregator with 4.7 million followers on X, posted, “Stay out of our homes you power hungry creep.” Fox News Politics followed suit, inaccurately proclaiming in a post to its 1.8 million followers on X that, “Healey wants to send government nurses into the homes of every family with a newborn.”

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz also weighed in, writing, “These lunatics think they own your children.” So did other national Republicans, like South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace and Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy.

Amy Carnevale, the MassGOP chair, said on Fox News it was an example of government overreach. “The Massachusetts Republican Party has been hearing from moms and dads across the state really objecting to this new policy,” she added.

Healey, a Democrat, referred to the conservative backlash as “typical Fox MAGA conspiracy nonsense” and reiterated that the program is voluntary, not mandatory.

“What I've heard in the conversations that I've had with so many moms is, you know, there was so much talk and preparation of the pregnancy, of delivery, during the course of pregnancy,” she told reporters at a press conference last week. “But there wasn't talk about what life is like for the mom, for the dad, for the household after birth.”

What does TRUMPER Mike Minogue, the Republican running against Healey in this fall’s general election, think about all this? In a statement to WBUR, he characterized Healey’s proposal as “extreme politics” and added the answer to women’s physical and emotional needs after they give birth “isn’t more bureaucracy and paperwork.”

“Maura Healey told us what she believes: that the state is responsible for the safety and well-being of children. That is at odds with the majority of us in Massachusetts who believe parents and families are responsible for the care of their children,” Minogue said.

When asked to more directly state his stance on the “Welcome Family” program, a Minogue spokesperson wrote, “He does not oppose the program.”

What’s your take on the firestorm — and the program itself? Drop me a line: gin@bu.edu.

WBUR






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The $1,600 in Susan Collins’ campaign never came straight from Adam Kidan, the convicted fraudster Trump pardoned. It rode in through a committee Sen. John Kennedy shares with other Republican senators, and nobody noticed it until we traced it. Your subscription paid for that digging. Upgrade to a Founding membership to keep it going, or give a gift subscription to put the next eleven investigations in someone else’s inbox.



Trump Pardoned Abramoff’s Partner. We Found His Money In Eight Republican Senate Campaigns.

Also: a congressman on his way out files 26 impeachment charges against Trump, a carpenter beats ICE in Manhattan, and farm country picks a side.


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The Pardoned Fraudster’s Money

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Remember Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist at the heart of one of Washington’s biggest scandals? Adam Kidan was his business partner. Both went to prison for defrauding lenders when they bought a fleet of Florida casino boats, and were ordered to repay about $21.7 million.

The Florida Bulldog news org found “no indication” in Kidan’s court file that he ever paid; his lawyer said in 2023 that he’s complying. Trump pardoned him on July 3 of this year. Weeks later, Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Ryan Mackenzie sent back Kidan’s $2,600 “to avoid even an appearance of impropriety,” NOTUS reported.

Here’s what nobody has covered until now: federal filings put Kidan’s money in the campaigns of eight Republicans on the Senate ballot this November. In March 2025 he gave $25,000 to a fundraising committee John Kennedy shares with other Republicans. Susan Collins in Maine, Roger Marshall in Kansas, and Jon Husted in Ohio each took in $1,600 of it. Kennedy’s committee also passed $1,600 of Kidan’s money to Dan Sullivan in Alaska and Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.

They aren’t the only ones. Michael Whatley in North Carolina got $14,000 from Kidan and his wife, Cris. Ashley Moody in Florida took in $7,000, and Mike Rogers in Michigan received the same amount through his own fundraising committee.

The reports Marshall, Moody, Rogers, and Sullivan filed after the pardon show no refund to Kidan. The other four don’t report again until October 15.

We asked Collins, Husted, Rogers, Sullivan, and Whatley whether they’ll give the money back. None responded by press time.

Mackenzie figured it out in weeks. Five Senate candidates still haven’t answered a yes-or-no question.


Steve Cohen Hands The Next Congress 26

 Charges


Dem Rep. Steve Cohen will be leaving the House in January. Tennessee Republicans sliced his Memphis district into pieces. It was all but impossible to win, so he chose not to run again.

Last week, Cohen filed 26 articles of impeachment against Trump. They cover his illegal war against Iran, killing people without trial off the Venezuelan coast, and the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Others include the corrupt use of his pardon power, the destruction of the East Wing, and profiting off of the office.

Cohen didn’t hold back: “Trump is clearly the most impeachable President our country has ever endured.” He was rougher on the House: “That the sycophantic Republican majority in Congress is derelict in its duty does not mean that I must abandon my responsibilities.”

He believes “the 120th Congress will better live up to its duties.” That’s the Congress voters pick in November, sworn in the month Cohen walks out.

The charges are on paper with Trump’s name on them. All that’s missing is a House willing to vote for them. November is how we get there.


The Carpenter Who Beat ICE In Manhattan


On August 8, 2025, Peru-born carpenter Sergio Alberto Barco Mercado showed up for his immigration court date at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan—just like he was supposed to. Immediately after, ICE put him in a holding room in the same building.

Before then, ICE usually held fewer than 10 people in those rooms at a time. That summer it was often more than 100—some days over 150. One man was held there for almost three weeks. People slept sitting up because there was no room to lie down. One detainee called the food “slop.”

So Barco Mercado fought back. The same day he was detained he sued the Trump regime, with the ACLU and New York lawyers behind him. The regime appealed an early ruling, then quietly dropped it. On September 24, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan called the conditions “squalid” and ordered ICE to give anyone held overnight a mat, a pillow, and a blanket, dim the lights at night, and let every detainee call a lawyer within an hour of arriving. These are basic human rights.

A DHS spokesperson summed up the regime’s view: “Being in detention is a choice.” So was suing. He won, and now everyone ICE locks in those rooms gets a phone call to a lawyer and, if they’re there overnight, a place to lie down.


The Iowa Farmers Union Just Picked A Side


The Iowa Farmers Union is no Democratic club. It has backed Republicans for the statehouse before, and it did again this month. But on September 21, it endorsed Democrats in all five races for Congress, starting with Josh Turek for Senate. Union president Aaron Lehman laid it out: “Farmers are facing unprecedented challenges, from unfair trade policies and corporate consolidation to threats to water quality and rural healthcare.”

Three days later, cattlemen in three red states spoke up. ICE had swept through southwest Kansas meatpacking towns that week. The big cattle groups in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas warned the raids were having “a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table.” They said it “will lead to higher beef prices.” Ground beef already hit a record $6.92 a pound in August.

The regime’s homeland security chief, Markwayne Mullin, insisted ICE wasn’t running worksite operations in Kansas. Last Friday, about 200 people rallied in Dodge City’s Wright Park. Less than an hour later, the city announced ICE had wrapped up and was expected to leave.

Farm country was supposed to be Trump’s for good. The Iowa Senate seat on the ballot is Republican right now, but a new Marist poll has Turek up eight.


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JUST A FEW COMMENTS AMONG MANY: 


Thirty-five days. That’s not a slogan. That’s a clock. I know some of you opened this tired. I know the last month has felt like shouting into a machine that just keeps producing new outrages.

But they are the ones running out of time, not us. None of this happened because a consultant had a good week. It happened because people refused to treat the ending as finished. Stay in it with me. We did not come this far to get quiet now.


As Scott likes to say, Onward! ✨


How did you know I can barely keep my eyes open? I’d be sleeping now if I didn’t have a telephone visit with my neurologist in 30 min.

LOL 😴


I hope the call goes well. That comment was more for me than anyone! 😂 ☕️


It was fine. Issues being addressed, nothing we can’t handle. Thank you.


Don’t tell me a pardon makes the money clean. Argue with the office that took it and went quiet.


WATCH tRump's PARDONS! There's ALWAYS MONEY that's not repaid!


I would say the number one reason for impeachment is grift, bribery and foreign "gifts". All the other impeachable offenses stem from a president who is making decisions based on what he and his family can personally gain rather than what is best for the people. That seems like a high crime to me.


“There is no kind of government more deformed than that in which the wealthiest are regarded as the noblest.” - Cicero


Great quote


He lost his head over it.


The politicians who received Kiden’s money should be forced to donate it for the benefit of our children’s education. If it was necessary for Trump to have heart surgery, the doctors would discover he doesn’t have one.


So many reasons to impeach Drumpf, but #1 on my list is the wanton destruction of the White House East Wing. The White House is 'the peoples' house', a president temporarily occupies it. Close on its heels is the illegal (tho maybe not to SCROTUS) use of Executive actions to deprive people of human, never mind civil, rights.


I believe profiting from the office then denying the poor, the homeless, the sick , the average hardworking American what they need to survive is extremely cruel.


1) Give it back, at a minimum. But that won’t undo the inappropriate influence enabled by the funds

2) Impeach frump for treason, for Jan 6th, like he should have been removed and tried in the first place. Election interference is always on the table.


Is being born and inflicting one’s malevolent, malignant narcissistic brutality on human, nonhuman, children, habitat, climate, families, other nationalities (in America, and the world - including Americans), the elderly, the poor, the sick, the hungry, the disabled, the trans children and adults, LGBQ+ people, any and everyone with the xx chromosome, any and everyone of color, anyone not a billionaire struggling, anything historic and accurate, ETC. and ET AL: is oppressing these entities impeachable?

Yes. And he should be impeached AND punished accordingly.

That’s my thinking. And punishment should be put to a vote by The People he has thoroughly abused (those of us who remain standing).


I agree and it's time to impeach all of them and try them for treason! They are all GUILTY!!!! KEEP ON FIGHTING THIS REGIME EVEN AFTER NOVEMBER!!!!!!


👏👏👏👏👏💪💪💪💪💪

Yes!!!


Because he’s a crook!!


All 8 Republicans that took Kidans money should give it back. However, they are all crooks so I expect them to keep the money.

There are so many reasons why Trump should be impeached. But Bondi/Blanches willingness to be behind his dirty work to redact his name from the Epstein files should be a reason.


Way to GO, Cohen!!!!! So even if he’s not there, these articles will be waiting for us in November? Cohen rocks! What a great way to sign off as a Representative!


🍊 has lied so many times. He promised no new wars. Now we are entangled in his war of choice with Iran and have no clear way out. Too many service members have been wounded or killed. And we all are paying the price in the increasing costs 💲 of diesel and groceries — while 🍊and his sycophants are grifting off the system.

Second: follow the money 💰. Release ALL the Epstein files! 🗂️


I agree SeeRay. Everyone is correct that there are so many reasons for Trump to be impeached. (I really wish for prosecuted and jailed), but Trump is a traitor to this Country, to our Constitution and Rules of Law. I absolutely agree that he should have been jailed for treason for J6. Democrats didn't fight hard enough and Republicans were and are useless and spineless. Vote Progressive Democrats. Vote for yourselves. Take out the trash!

Multiple criminal involvements.


This line absolutely infuriates me and is exactly why ICE AND THE CURRENT DHS need to be abolished: A DHS spokesperson summed up the regime’s view: “Being in detention is a choice.” How is it a "choice"?

This gentleman was following the law...making the RIGHT choices. How is it a "choice" when multiple people ram your car, drag you out, and beat you?

Can we say "Being incarcerated for the rest of your life due to your crimes against humanity is a choice" when all those thugs and the regime go on trial?


Same here, that line made me really upset


It’s so hard to pick just one reason trump should be impeached, but I believe while his unbelievable corruption - making 2billion while in office is egregious, the unlawful war in Iran has done the most harm to our country, economically, politically, and especially to the reputation of America as a free democratic nation.


Q1: Eight Republicans running for Senate took money from Adam Kidan. Should they give it back?

A1: Yes, but it really won’t help them at this point. The exposure of this issue has already impacted their chances for reelection. Those voters who don’t care what the Senators did will vote for them regardless, and those who do care probably have already decided who they are going to vote for.

Q2: Steve Cohen wrote 26 articles of impeachment. What do you think should be the #1 reason why Trump should be impeached and removed from office?

A2: Oh, gosh. That’s a hard choice considering all the reasons to impeach DJT. The question that should be asked is which of the many reasons to impeach DJT would be the quickest, less controversial and easiest to garner swift and full support of both the House and Senate. But, if I had to choose, it would be the war with Iran that he started without approval from Congress as required.


Take a minute to consider the desperate actions of MAGA MAGGOTS! 

In the wake of the tragic LINDSEY CLANCY trial, everyone, including DIM WIT DON, felt the need to comment. 

Gov. Maura Healey offered a well considered option. 

Just a FREE VISIT to check on MOM! 

EVERY RIGHT WING LUNATIC WENT INSANE! 
Not a single one offered ANY SOLUTIONS!


How a proposal to offer nurse visits to new parents in Mass. spiraled online

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/28/massachusetts-maura-healey-nurse-visit-newborn-social-media?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WBURToday_Editorial_092926&utm_term=went+down+the+rabbit+hole+in+this+week%26amp%3b%23x27%3bs+Mass.+Politics+newsletter&utm_id=234925&sfmc_id=24374920&mid=546001099





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