Mash Notes, Hate Mail & Other Correspondence

N.H. DOE’s “Nuclear Roadmap”

To the N.H. Department of Energy, Concord, N.H.: Dear Sirs, On behalf of Seacoast Anti-Pollution League (SAPL) and our approximately 300 members throughout the Seacoast region of New Hampshire, I’d like to submit the following comments in regard to your “Nuclear Roadmap” process. In considering an energy “roadmap,” I thought of a famous essay in Foreign Affairs, by energy expert Amory Lovins of Rocky Mountain Institute—which was published 50 years ago this year. In it, he posited two paths to our energy future—50 years on—dubbed “hard” and “soft,” and you can likely guess which is which. While the soft path was mostly neglected over the …

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U.S. Reds Reject Trump’s Labeling

NEW YORK—The Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA) condemned President Trump’s latest red‑baiting tirade against the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) primary victories in New York and the District of Columbia mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George, calling it a dangerous escalation of anti‑communist hysteria. “MAGA is going to lose the midterms and Trump’s getting desperate,” co-chair Rossana Cambron said. On Friday, [June 26th,] President Trump told the Faith & Freedom Coalition that communism is the “greatest threat” facing the United States in its 250 year history. “They’re animals! These ruthless Communists will attack all religions but, in particular, Christianity,” he said. The party’s co-chair, Joe Sims, responded …

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Should We Call Them What They Are?

To the Editor, I’ve been wracking my brain for a name to describe the new class of ultra-wealthy billionaires—some 900 strong—who are making significant changes to our lives. Some call them the one-percent. I find that’s not very descriptive. Since they give enormous amounts of money to influence state and federal legislation, political candidates, elections, judicial appointments, etc.—all to continue their own legacy at the cost of the rest of us, it seems fitting that they have their own name. I’ll call them the Parasite Class. The dictionary defines a parasite as “a person who lives at the expense of another or others without making …

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Sounding the Alarm on Section 224

To the editor: Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act 2027, announced May 23, 2026, is quite alarming. It provides for almost a complete integration of the U.S. military with Israel’s military, meaning the U.S. military data may soon be Israel’s data. In addition, it would shift the funds the U.S. now gives Israel to deep inside the Pentagon, where sunlight rarely shines. While some will argue that this integration already exists, Section 224 brings this to a new level providing Israel with a level of integration with the U.S. higher than the U.S. has with any other country in the world. Ro Khanna, …

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Stand Up, People!

To the Editor: When President Trump started the war with Iran, he said it would last two to four weeks. Then it was four to six weeks. Now he said it will not last as long as the ten-year long Vietnam war. He also said he does not care about the economic pain this war is causing the American people. The pain is real, not just in the price of gasoline. Food, energy, electricity, rents, mortgages, and health care are all rising. The cost of living in March was 1.2 percent higher than in February and April was 0.9 percent higher than in March. This …

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John Sununu — Man of the People

To the Editor: As a proud U.S. Marine Corps veteran, I will not sit idly by while Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Sununu sells out Granite Staters to support a war that is not important or critical for our national security, is directly hurting the lives of Granite-Staters, and has been boosting his personal wealth. As of May 11th, 15 of my brothers and sisters have died and hundreds more have been wounded in Trump’s ill-planned war in Iran which involves our New Hampshire Air National Guard 157th Air Refueling Wing. Mr. Sununu has repeatedly expressed support for Trump’s war, calling it “important and critical” …

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