F. T. Burke

@HippyMomPhD Great book.

You know you make your kids better writers by reading them great stories, right? We are reading Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Incredible book btw - but simple. Simple language, simple story. Simple but incredibly powerful I stop at great sentences & ask "Can you see the sunrise in your mind?" We talk about her use of a quest, ancient Chinese folklore, reversals of fortune, suffering, & how you recognize yourself in the story despite it's fantastical nature My 8 year old was tasked with rewriting a story in her own words today She wrote delicate & sweet sentences. She said "I was trying to write like Minli" (what we call the book) Fill your children's minds with greatness & greatness you will reap♥️

If anybody needed more evidence of how politics have changed in America: Rachel Maddow is at Dick Cheney's funeral.

Yes, Market Basket has launched its own beer, MB Lager, a light lager brewed in collaboration with Zero Gravity Beer in Vermont. It is now available for purchase at MB Spirits and MB Beer & Wine locations in Massachusetts, and at stores in Maine and New Hampshire. A 12-pack costs $12.99.

One more from this afternoon I thought was really cool: the sun shining on the Piscataqua River Bridge (aka High Level Bridge) that carries Interstate 95 from Kittery, ME to Portsmouth, NH with sun-lit rain falling around and over it. -- October 27, 2025 from Mt. Agamenticus York, Maine

The rain drops from these small showers went from orange to pink as the sun went down over the New Hampshire coastline. -- October 26, 2025 Rye Beach, New Hampshire

@LFODCandles @TRHLofficial Aloha from Hawaii!

@TRHLofficial Love this flag the most and it’s one of our best sellers ❤️🌲

Why is the pine tree a symbol of resistance? Here is some New Hampshire lore in honor of the free staters, courtesy of “Daily Dose of the American Rev” “A 1722 law prohibited New Hampshire settlers from cutting down any white pine trees more than one foot in diameter. Those trees, the law declared, belonged to the king for potential use in naval construction. For decades the law was honored in the breach and rarely enforced. But after John Wentworth was appointed royal governor of the colony he decided to crack down on violations. In April 1772 royal authorities arrested sawmill owner Ebenezer Mudgett of Weare, New Hampshire, and charged him with breaking the law. New Englanders had long resented the so-called “pine mast laws” as infringements on their livelihoods and their liberties. The night of his arrest, after being released on bail, Mudgett and about 20 other townsmen disguised themselves and broke into a room in the local inn where the sheriff and his deputy were staying. Mudgett and his colleagues seized the two men, beat them, then ran them out of town before a jeering crowd of onlookers. Mudgett and eight others were later arrested and charged with rioting and assault. A sympathetic judge gave them nominal fines as their punishment. In the aftermath of the affair the pine tree became a symbol of the resistance to royal authority and the so-called Pine Tree Riot may have helped inspire the Boston Tea Party. During the Battle of Bunker Hill, New England Continental troops flew “pine tree flags”—red battle flags with a pine tree on the upper left. In October 1775 George Washington commissioned a pine tree flag for the American navy. Washington’s design was a pine tree on a white field, above which appeared the words “An Appeal to Heaven.” The phrase, frequently used by the revolutionaries, appeared in John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government. “For whenever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer justice,” Locke wrote, “war is made upon the sufferers, who having no appeal on earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such cases, an appeal to heaven.” The scripture cited by Locke in support of his argument made clear his meaning: an appeal to heaven for victory in war. In other words, when there is no just temporal authority to whom the oppressed can appeal, their final option is to take up arms and appeal to heaven.” The images are the Bunker Hill Pine Tree Flag and Washington’s naval Pine Tree Flag.

@KJP @_wereback Born and raised in MA and NH. That’s Indian corn (until the birds peck it off the storm door).

@_wereback Yes! I didn’t know it as anything else

What do you call this kind of corn? Trying to settle a debate

@OldSchoolBoston My parents always told me it was Ho Chi Minh’s profile in the blue stripe - something Sr. Corita did subversively on her gas tank art. I certainly see him!

Aerial view of the Boston Gas Tanks in the Dorchester Sept. 1993. (Boston Globe/ Getty Images)

Student emails: Normally: "hey..." 24 hours before deadline: "Your Excellency..."

The national anthem tradition started here: 106 years ago, at Game 1 of the 1918 World Series (Red Sox vs. Cubs), the Star-Spangled Banner was played during the 7th-inning stretch while the United States was in World War I. ❤️

In cruce salus, in cruce victōria — “In the Cross is salvation, in the Cross is victory.”

Last night's full moon rising over the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. I wasn't sure we'd see it, but it finally cleared the clouds around the dome. Single frame. #fullmoon #sturgeonmoon #jeffersonmemorial #findyourpark @capitalweather @spann #thePhotoHour #StormHour

With some of the 150 residents of the Athabascan village of Tanana on the banks of the Yukon 220 river miles from Fairbanks or 6 hours on a seasonal one lane dirt “Pioneer” road. This is one of hundreds of remote Alaskan villages that face unique challenges in accessing health care and nutritious foods. Milk costs more than soda in the only grocery store and the Yukon’s iconic King Salmon fishery is in calamitous collapse so that the tribe has been unable to fish for five years. Im touring these communities all week to learn how Indian Health Services can better meet their needs.

MG Hilbert presented the Soldiers Medal, the Army’s highest award for heroism outside of combat, to SSG Phillips, CW2 Hardy, and CW4 Quiros of the 11th Airborne Division.

Rental car companies seem so insanely helpless at their one job. You show up at the airport, reservation in hand, and they’re like “wait really? You wanted a car? Sorry, you totally caught me off guard.”

Children's author Allan Ahlberg dies aged 87 bbc.in/4ffMHGZ

@_Momologues_ @PassagePress I got a whole bunch of those originals for free at the library book sale when I was a kid. I absolutely hate what they have done to the old cover art.

@PassagePress Don’t get me started! This is why we shop at used book sales…just the devolution of Nancy Drew alone…

Children’s books are ground zero in the lefts war on aesthetics. Since the books are for children, publishers will change successful books completely if they go against “modern sensibilities”. In the 1950s, Grosset & Dunlap edited the Hardy Boys and removed the suspense, most violence, and even added in female characters. We’ve brought the originals back, with new illustrations in a beautiful box set.

@liberalismONCMD Portsmouth, NH and drive across the Piscataqua to Kittery & York, ME. Check out the Cliff Walk. Or drive up to Portland!

Name an awesome US city I should visit for a few days to clear my mind and what sight or area or restaurant I should definitely visit?

Something you don’t see every day: a Catholic Mass being celebrated in Canterbury Cathedral—once the very heart of the English Reformation—led for the first time by the Pope’s ambassador to the UK, in honour of the martyred St Thomas Becket.