An excerpt from an “About Me” web page created in the Land of Science (TM):
I currently reside with my family on the ancestral and occupied lands of Nonantum of the Indigenous Massachusett people, whose name was appropriated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I commit to being LGBTQIA2S+ affirming and anti-racist in my personal and professional life. My pronouns are she/her/hers.”
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day to those who celebrate!
An indigenous LGBTQIA2S+ resident of Maskachusetts would be a shoo-in for a job with elderly progressive Senator Markey (BIPOC = “Black, Indigenous, and People of Color”, remember).
How is it remotely legal/Constitutional under the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection clause to say that a Black Indigenous lesbian would be hired ahead of a white cisgender heterosexual male? (Yes, in theory they hide behind the fig leaf of “encouraged to apply”, like the person whose social media output is 90% criticism of Israel who says “I don’t hate Jews, but only the world’s only Jewish state”, but does anyone believe that when choosing between two candidates with equal qualifications the victimhood categories of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ wouldn’t be used to tip the hiring decision?) And if the elderly progressive white male is so passionate about BIPOC and LGBTQ+ people getting federal paychecks, why doesn’t he resign the position that he earned only through white male privilege and allow the governor (highlighted as lesbian by state-sponsored PBS) to appoint a BIPOC LGBTQ+ replacement?
Speaking of celebration, the heavily regulated Massachusetts health insurance market is apparently a fantastic place to make a profit. From LinkedIn:
After digging through more Medicare Advantage numbers, there’s such blatant corruption that defies not just economic principles, not just healthcare principles, but somehow lets MA insurers make 3 TIMES the gross profit margins when compared to normal private insurance margins.
Using KFF’s analysis of insurer financial filings, I looked at gross margin per enrollee, meaning premium revenue minus the medical claims insurers actually paid out. In 2024, Medicare Advantage insurers kept $1,655 per enrollee. Individual market plans kept $987. Fully insured employer plans kept $846. Medicaid managed care kept $608.
What makes no sense is that, like Medicare Advantage, Medicaid runs through private insurer contracts. 78% of Medicaid beneficiaries, more than 66 million people, are enrolled in private managed care plans, and five publicly traded insurers, Centene, UnitedHealth, Elevance, Molina, and CVS/Aetna, control 47% of that enrollment.
These are the exact same companies that administer MA plans, paid by the same government, yet in the MA program they keep nearly 3x as much per enrollee.
This happens every single year. Between 2018 through 2024, MA gross profit margin was higher than self funded plans, fully insured employer plans, and Medicaid plans.
Just as Arabs became indigenous to any territory that they conquer, I think it is fair to say that these highly profitable health insurers are indigenous to Massachusetts by virtue of having conquered so much profit.
Related:
- Día de la Hispanidad (“National Day of Spain”), which is today because without Columbus’s idiocy and the expedition that followed from that misunderstanding/miscalculation, we would have no “Hispanics”
Gemini, regarding what life was like when the Massachusett ruled Massachusetts:
Public Ritual Torture: Captured enemy male warriors were sometimes subjected to prolonged public torture before execution. This served as a spiritual and emotional outlet for grieving families (a component of the widespread “mourning war” complex) and provided a platform for the captive warrior to demonstrate stoicism and physical courage in the face of death.
Mutilation: Captives or slain enemies were occasionally dismembered or burned, both to neutralize the enemy’s spirit and to serve as a psychological deterrent to rivals.
Taking severed body parts—specifically scalps, heads, or hands—as battle trophies was practiced as proof of victory, honor, and spiritual dominance over an adversary.
Internal Justice System: Internal tribal discipline for severe offenses—such as murder, treason, or theft within the group—was swift and physical. Punishments meted out by the sachem (chief) or council could include beatings, banishment (which was often a slow death sentence given reliance on tribal food networks), or summary execution.
Meanwhile, in Florida, the state DOT encourages a celebration that is both more and less traditional (source):
None of you are indigenous. Your ancestors all came out of Africa long ago, and it is impossible to determine exactly who arrived where first. My people, on the other hand, are the only truly indigenous ones.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/1942138-chinese-challenge-to-out-of-africa-theory/
> None of you are indigenous.
I’m indigenous to England. Made up out of thin Anglo air.
Phil, as I read your post today, I felt a Profound Sense of Sadness that you missed an opportunity to Educate your Wonderful Readers about Stolen Lands and the Sacred Land Acknowledgment that Evil White Colonists owe (at a minimum) to those whose lands we have stolen and continue to Occupy. I’ve attached a link for what I think a proper Acknowledgement should be, one which I delivered last December. Please have a read, and my hope is that you dig deep down inside and have a bit more empathy going forward.
Also, it’s Essential to Acknowledge the disproportionate contributions to our Society of our First Nations Peoples, particularly in Nunavut, the largest of our three Territories and where the First Nations comprise 85% of the population, and hence it is essentially controlled by them. You will note that personal income per capital there is $30,063 CAD, the lowest of all our Provinces and Territories (as you know, Lower is of course Better) because they are leading our country in all types of Industry. Why is this? Because despite their land being Stolen, they have largely retained the elements that made them into a Great Society before the Evil White Man showed up. Sort of like Ethiopia, which was never Colonized by Evil White Men and where personal income per capita is even lower, at ~$1,000 U.S.
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2025/12/02/prime-minister-carney-delivers-remarks-assembly-first-nations-special
Hey gov.,
You ought to invest some money or monies (USD/CAD/EUR) into taking a remedial English class, with a concentration in capitalization rules, see “Stolen”. I’m an evil white man, but not an Evil White Man (wasn’t that Springsteen’s first band?).
Mx. OAG, you may not be aware but I earned my undergraduate degree from Harvard University, which is where I learned both Grammar and Arithmetic from the Great Ones like Claudine Gay. I hope that helps you.
Governor Carney: Thank you for everything that you’ve done for the First Nations, especially for sharing what you learned about Comparative Victimhood during your time at Harvard. It is a little sad that you graduated before you could study Black Plagiarism Studies with Claudine Gay, but as Canadians love to point out, “Allah is the best of planners” (Surah Al-Anfal (Verse 30) and Surah Ali ‘Imran (Verse 54)).
John McCarthy was an Eval White Man.
This land-acknowledgment pep talk is like someone walking up to you, shitting in your mouth, and then offering empty words of acknowledgment of what they did as if to make you feel better. Seriously? Can we please stop the insults and stop pouring more salt into the wound?
If you truly want to acknowledge Indigenous people, start by treating them as first-class citizens, with the dignity, respect, and *services* they deserve. Most of the illegals and legal on welfare get better access to services and support than Indigenous communities do.
Also, if we are being told to acknowledge that we are living on “stolen” land, why are we allowing illegal or even legal migrant and immigrants to come here and use more of that “stolen” land? Shouldn’t we stop *all* immigration to ensure that no more “stealing” takes place?