DARK SECRETS: 6 - The Real Truth

The average reading level needed to digest statewide ballot measures

Welcome to the Monday, October 24, Brew. 

Ballotpedia · Oct 24, 2022

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2022

'Swift-footed lizard' is named the Massachusetts state dinosaur

Podokesaurus holyokensis, which lived millions of years ago in what is now Massachusetts, has been named the state's official dinosaur under legislation signed into law by Gov. Charlie Baker.

WEKU · Oct 19, 2022

Mass. GOP gubernatorial nominee slams newspaper for weaving ‘false narrative’ on accepting election results

BOSTON — The Diehl campaign is hitting back after a recent New York Times piece seemed to indicate the Republican nominee would not commit to accepting the results of the general election in November.

Boston Herald · Sep 19, 2022

Migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard are being rehoused on a base in Cape Cod

The immigrants who were sent from Texas to Martha's Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will now be housed in Joint Base Cape Cod.

WEKU · Sep 16, 2022

Migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard moving to US military base

White House condemns transfer of 50 Venezuelan migrants to wealthy US island as ‘cruel stunt’ by Republicans.

Al Jazeera · Sep 16, 2022

Don Jr jokes about violence against migrants in Instagram post as he backs DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard stunt

President’s son shares series of memes depicting scenes where migrants were attacked by border officials on the US southern border

The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2022

DeSantis criticized for sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard: ‘It’s un-American’

Democrats outraged at the ‘reckless’ and ‘soulless’ actions and question the legality of what some called a political stunt

The Guardian - US · Sep 16, 2022

Tucker Carlson backs DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard migrant planes: ‘It doesn’t look that bad’

On Thursday, the filmmaker Burns had said DeSantis’ actions were coming straight from the ‘authoritarian playbook’ and was treating human lives as ‘political pawns’

The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2022

Migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard offered shelter at Cape Cod military base

The nation is watching as state and local officials figure out long-term plans to house the Venezuelan migrants.

Axios · Sep 16, 2022