Oh, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle in Massachusetts.
Maura Healey, the perpetually pained and miserable governor of Massachusetts, for all her obvious pandering attempts...
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a bill Monday to temporarily allow cities and towns to let their bars serve alcohol one hour past normal last call, and legalize public drinking in designated areas until the end of July.
Massachusetts State Senator Barry Finegold said he hopes this will be an economic boost for the bars.
“We want to try this out, we’re still a little stuffy around here as far how late our bars stay open until, but listen, I think it’s a good pilot, I hope it works well, I hope people behave themselves,” Finegold said. “I just think it’s a great opportunity to show the world what Boston is about, have a little fun, and enjoy something that doesn’t happen too often.”
Bartenders said they are preparing for the rush – figuring out staffing, as well as where to set up the most televisions for the crowds.
...may have spent a couple of dollars too far on her favorite group of wanna-be constituents, illegal aliens.
It turns out the governor with the Gottrocks complex is on track to spend darn near $100M on providing housing and 'relocation assistance' for 'immigrants' (read: ILLEGALS). What's that mean in dollars and sense per illegal 'immigrant'?
Upwards of $15,000 a year for maybe as much as three years for rent, etc., with thousands in additional food assistance, and they cover your able bill.
SCHWEET
🚨 BOMBSHELL REVELATION: In a jaw-dropping disclosure, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey diverted almost $100 million in taxpayer funds to give illegal immigrant families $30K in housing over 2 years, $4K monthly EBT cash assistance, $500 in food aid, free healthcare and cable. pic.twitter.com/AqJjO1aIDL
— Hosna ⚖️ בניטה (@DOGEQEEN) June 8, 2026
Not a bad deal if you're illegal and don't belong in Massachusetts or the United States to begin with, huh?
Such a cute name, too - the Massachusetts 'HomeBASE' Program.
Massachusetts: We all know about the staggering cost of living faced by citizens of the commonwealth, so how are migrants able to find housing outside of Maura’s motels? Well, have you heard of the HomeBase program? pic.twitter.com/5r4bnQ6Iax
— New England National Project (@TheNenp) June 2, 2025
I mean, check this out. It's from the state page on the program, under 'What can HomeBASE pay for?':
If you are eligible for HomeBASE, it can pay for:
- Monthly payments to help with rent for up to 2 years, for your own apartment, living with a host or co-sharing an apartment.
- First and last month's rent, security deposit, and broker’s fee for a new apartment
- Landlord Incentives: HomeBASE may be used to pay landlord bonuses equal to up-to-one month’s rent of the unit.
- Rent and utility arrears: HomeBASE can pay up to $5,000 for outstanding rent or utilities arrears, if the debt is stopping you from signing a new lease.
- Furniture: $2,500 is available to help your family buy beds and/or a kitchen table and chairs.
- Certain moving expenses that are listed further down this page.
In addition to financial resources, HomeBASE provides a case manager who helps each family address housing issues and find community support for education, job training, finding a job, and childcare.
And it is completely paid for by MA taxpayers.
Important Note 2.4.2025: HomeBASE is funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, funding for the program is unaffected by any changes in federal funding or policy. You can apply directly for EA Family Shelter using the Housing Help Hub (HHH) online portal.
As for citizens who are unfortunate enough to be 'home-based' in Massachusetts, and 'unfortunate' in their financial circumstances, well, it's unfortunate they're not illegal.
The best the governor can do for all of you lower-income, 'Families at Risk' citizens is $9.5M. That's for all of you.
So, yeah - you're screwed as far as help goes. You should know who the priority is.
This guy definitely was. And even though Maura Healey said ICE couldn't come get him, they did.
Thank you ICE for protecting citizens from Healey’s criminals pic.twitter.com/ZgiiYx8NJP
— Keadue Kid (@keaduekid) June 8, 2026
Then there are all these uninvited, unruly visitors, many of whom have been supplementing their various extracurricular activities with the largesse paid for by Massachusetts taxpayers. No doubt the illegal alien gangbangers probably live in much nicer cribs than the lower-income folks who can't get a dime from the governor.
Or DID LIVE. 'Lived.' Let me use the proper past tense here.
God willing, since it's a massive federal gang case, most of them will actually see the inside of a prison soon and/or be deported.
Federal prosecutors have charged 26 alleged leaders, members, and associates of the Trinitarios gang in a sweeping indictment tied to multiple murders, attempted killings, and drug trafficking operations across Massachusetts and northern New England.
Leah B. Foley, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, announced Tuesday that the defendants are facing racketeering conspiracy and drug trafficking charges, accusing them of involvement in five murders and 19 attempted murders in Essex County and beyond.
“For far too long, the Trinitarios have wreaked havoc and instilled fear in our communities, and that ends today,” Foley said.
The newly unsealed indictment also includes eight previously charged members, bringing the scope of the case even wider as authorities continue a years-long crackdown on the violent Dominican Republic-based criminal organization.
Federal officials say the charges are part of a multi-phase, multi-agency investigation that began in 2024 following a surge in violence in cities, including Lynn.
...Over the past year, several cases tied to the gang have resulted in convictions and guilty pleas, including prison sentences for key members and leaders. Some individuals linked to the investigation have also faced deportation proceedings, according to federal authorities.
If convicted, defendants face serious penalties. Sentences will ultimately be determined by a federal judge based on sentencing guidelines and the details of each case.
How many of these violent criminals were invited here by Maura Healey?
— Mike in Southie (@MikeMass2020) June 9, 2026
How many are on welfare?
Our politicians suck and they hate us!@HowieCarrShow
Invited and subsidized by Maura Healey, courtesy of MA taxpayers.
Here's the real kicker, though. In a state already handing out up to three years of rent, food, etc., while ignoring the needs of its own citizens, why does it have a measurable percentage of those illegals also working in it, taking jobs from those very citizens?
Especially at a time when the state's unemployment numbers are ticking upwards.
What kind of governor enables that kind of abuse?
A miserable one.
Almost 400,000 illegal immigrants are already working in the Massachusetts labor force, a new Boston Foundation report admits — even as state unemployment climbs and thousands of legal residents say they can't find a job.The number — 357,000 — sits on page 17 of "An Uncertain Future: How the Immigration Crackdown Threatens Massachusetts' Labor Force," the same Boston Indicators and MassINC Policy Center report that demanded the Commonwealth take in at least 60,000 immigrant newcomers every year through 2030.The 357,000 figure is sourced to the Migration Policy Institute's "latest estimates" of the undocumented share of the Massachusetts workforce, the report says. The state's total civilian labor force runs around 3.8 million — meaning roughly one in every 10 working people in the Commonwealth is in the country illegally....The admission lands at a brutal moment for legal Massachusetts residents trying to find work.
State unemployment hit 4.8 percent in February, up from 4.7 percent in January and from 4.1 percent a year earlier, per state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development data. The national jobless rate sits at 4.4 percent. Massachusetts is now running worse than the country as a whole.
It's hard to know how much longer the ride can last, though. 'Out migration' is a real thing, and nothing is growing in the state but the price to keep illegals in the lap of luxury and the size of the state government.
The Massachusetts residents leaving for lower-tax states are taking more than just their revenue with them: they’re shaking the foundations of state government payrolls.
And those foundations run deep.
A new Pioneer Institute study found that the size of the state government workforce hit a new high in 2025.
Positions under the governor’s authority grew 10.6% by fiscal year 2025 from three years prior, reaching 46,408, the institute’s “Massachusetts’ State Government Workforce” report found.
State government costs were 24% of total spending or $23.5 billion in the last year, the report stated, and total public sector jobs grew by nearly 15,000 since 2019.
These days, that’s very bad news.
“An expanding government workforce alongside a shrinking private sector is a warning sign for Massachusetts’ competitiveness,” Pioneer Executive Director Jim Stergios stated. “It suggests the economy isn’t growing enough to support our rising expenditures — and that’s something we have to change.”
It’s good to work for Massachusetts government — taxpayers pay your salary and you can get a sweet pension. But you need taxpayers to shell out the cash, and with a net domestic out-migration of 182,145 over the past five years, according to Pioneer, the hose is losing pressure.
As Pioneer put it, losing educated working residents to other states is “hollowing out Massachusetts’ workforce and economy.”
And when you've a miserable governor who doesn't grasp the concept - in her defense, it is a totally foreign concept to progressives - that someone still has to pay for 'free' things, eventually a crash point happens.
...Gov. Maura Healey isn’t a fan of cutting taxes to give residents another reason to stay. She slammed a potential ballot question this fall that would cut the state’s income tax from 5% to 4%, telling WCVB’s On the Record that such a move, if passed, would result in a “huge cut” to the state budget that would effectively eliminate 65% of funding for education and significantly reduce state funding for cities and towns.
“It’s going to be very, very harmful, and that’s why it doesn’t make sense,” Healey said. “All the free school meals, the free community college, making financial aid larger for people in Massachusetts — all of these things are going to go away. That doesn’t make Massachusetts more affordable.”
The point is to be out of the state before it crashes with you in it, for lack of any more taxpayers footing the bill for all the 'free' stuff.
Whatever will all Maura Healey's favorite constituents do then?
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