Rep Liz Barbour for Hollis-Common Sense For NH

This is one of the most beloved paintings in America, and it puts its finger on something we all pass through, first as the child, and one day as the parent left behind... The painting is Breaking Home Ties, by Norman Rockwell, on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1954. A father and his teenage son sit side by side on the running board of a battered farm truck, waiting at a railway stop. A single track runs along the bottom of the picture. A ticket pokes from the boy's pocket. His suitcase is stacked with schoolbooks and wears a "State U" pennant. The train is coming to carry him off to college, away from home, for the first time in his life. Everything is in the way they sit. The son sits upright, scrubbed and dressed in his best, eyes fixed on the horizon, on the track, on the future rushing toward him. He is already half gone. For him that train is the beginning of everything. His father sits beside him in worn work clothes and scuffed boots, looking the other way, down the line, as if he cannot bear to watch it arrive. The same train means the opposite thing to him. For the son it is the start of a life. For the father it is the day the house grows quieter, the chair at the table sits empty, and the person he built his world around walks out into a life that no longer has him at its centre. Look at his hands. He is holding two hats. His own battered one, and resting on top of it, his son's crisp new one, held carefully together, because it is the last small thing he can still do for the boy... And then the dog, its head laid in the son's lap, gazing up, refusing to look away. Rockwell knew exactly what that was for: "The father couldn't show how he felt about the boy's leaving," he said. "The dog did." It has moved people for 70 years because every leaving is a beginning for one person and an ending for another. The child steps out into the world, as they should. And someone stays behind, watching them go, and loving them enough to let them go anyway...

It was March 2020 and I was living in NYC, due to give birth any moment, and there was a field hospital being built in Central Park near my apt. I was going a little stir crazy inside and was honestly scared. The hospital where I was supposed to give birth told me they couldn't guarantee they wouldn't separate me from my infant for 14 days if I tested positive for Covid. Crazy to think about now. My husband and I decided to do a funny photo shoot.

RFK Jr. wants to prove healthy eating doesn't have to be expensive — and he's launching a new cooking show to make his case. The HHS secretary's new government-backed series, "The Real Food Show," is looking to help families make healthy meals for under $5 per serving with simple, budget-friendly recipes as part of President Trump's Make America Healthy Again agenda. In an interview ahead of the show's launch, Kennedy said many Americans wrongly believe healthy food costs more than fast food. "Fast food is not less expensive. That meal costs $12 to $14. People can eat a lot cheaper at home and a lot better food. But many Americans have forgotten how to cook. It's becoming a lost art."

The CDC Warns Pregnant Women Against Eating ANY Sushi, Deli Meat, Sunny Side-Up Eggs & Raw Milk... Yet At The Same Time Wants To Mandate 4 Vaccines They Say Are "Safe & Effective." The Ingredients In DTaP, FluZone, COVID mRNA & RSV Injections Are Definitely NOT Safe & Effective: • Synthetic Formaldehyde — Group 1 carcinogen • Aluminum — Known to cause brain damage • Beta-Propiolactone — Corrosive chemical & carcinogen • Glutaraldehyde — Poisonous if ingested, causes birth defects in animals • Genetically Modified Yeast, Bacterial & Viral DNA + Dairy/Egg Components — Can alter recipient’s DNA, cause mutations & allergies • Human DNA from aborted babies + animal materials (pig/horse blood, rabbit brains, dog kidneys, monkey kidneys, chick embryos, calf serum & more) — Linked to childhood leukemia & diabetes • Thimerosal — Extremely toxic; linked to autoimmune & neurological disorders (e.g. autism) • Monosodium Glutamate — Linked to birth defects, developmental delays & infertility • Neomycin Sulphate — Interferes with B6, can lead to epilepsy & brain damage • Phenol/Phenoxyethanol — Used as antifreeze; toxic to cells, destroys immune system • Polysorbate 80 & 20 — Causes cancer in animals; linked to autoimmune issues & infertility No vaccine on the schedule has had long-term safety trials or a true placebo.

Breaking news from the delivery room: Parents are saying “No thanks” to the standard newborn protocol. More moms and dads are declining the routine vitamin K shot, Hep B vaccine at birth, and the whole “just in case” bundle. Refusal rates have skyrocketed in the last year — and it’s not rebellion. It’s research. When mom tests negative for Hep B and baby isn’t heading into a high-risk lifestyle on day one, many families are asking: Why poke a brand-new human with toxic injections they do not need? The Hep-B injection gained FDA & CDC approval from only 5 days of 'safety monitoring' of only 147 children, and no saline placebo was used... that is not a safety study. The synthetic Vitamin K injection is just that... it is NOT a natural food sourced real vitamin. It is a synthetic lab created chemical... which carries a BLACK BOX WARNING in the package insert for seizures, anaphylaxis and death. This is **informed consent** in action. Parents protecting their littlest ones by questioning the script instead of blindly following it. A quiet, powerful shift toward trusting our bodies’ natural design. If you’re in the “do your own homework” camp, this one feels like a win.

🚨 Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Jack gets a rash from penicillin → “Never give it again.” Jill swells up from peanuts → “Never give it again.” But John has a seizure after vaccines? “Coincidence. Keep injecting him.” Why are other reactions treated as real… but vaccine injuries get dismissed as “rare” or “unrelated”? This isn’t science. It’s a one-way street that protects PHARMA, not your kids. Dangerous and deadly double standard. Parents deserve the truth. Stop the shots...