ONLY ON THE PLANET: THE TALKING STICK IS YOURS
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MAY 30-JUNE 1, 2025 — Today THE PLANET yields the Talking Stick to the most important persons on this board: You and them, as in We The People.
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Thank you Dan for allowing this forum. Saturday May 31 , our F’ed up City, will spend our resources to have a ceremony to raise a flag in honor of folks who enjoy different sex. Nuff Sid!!!!!! RIP Shittsfield.
I second that.
The 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics pounds people’s purses!
Thank you Dan for all you have done, and continue to do, for us Kapanskis. Enjoy your weekend.
Appreciate it, JOE!
The last vestige and you know they’re praying for, is for Dan to leave and retire.
Correct. If the local deep state could get to Dan, like they tried to do with Trump, they would have taken him out of action already. He has bigger balls than Big Balls himself.
The Berkshire Eagle is reporting that the owners of a Great Barrington home construction company were refusing to let ICE take several of their employees. The business owners demanded that the ICE agents remove their masks and show ID which they refused to do, but told them to call local police to verify their identity. It says “Police” on all of their vests so these business owners surely knew they were dealing with ICE. After the arrests the business owner said, “This has put a fire in me”. To do what exactly? Prevent more criminals from being arrested? The business owners were fine when the illegal immigrants were pouring into the country with many criminals among them. That didn’t upset them. They knew what the Biden administration was doing with pouring in millions without being vetted for votes for the Democrats and to change our national identity as the globalists are doing in Europe. They weren’t upset that social security was being used by the Democrats to pay for the illegals which was putting in jeopardy a program intended for the elderly. This was discovered by DOGE.
Until they start getting serious with the companies that are hiring them for cheap labor it will continue. All you hear from the politicians around election time is them blather about good jobs with good benefits for American citizens.
Any employers hiring illegals should be put out of business, plain and simple. South county has been a haven for them for years and it’s creeping north.
There will likely be a lot more arrests in Berkshire County because of our sanctuary status. The Berkshire Eagle isn’t helping the situation by running an article about what to do and not do if you see an ICE arrest. The article isn’t helpful because it encourages people to film the arrest using certain procedures so that ICE can’t take the video and that is what Berkshire County residents are now doing. The article encourages people to just stop short of interfering by interacting with the person being arrested by talking with them, but don’t answer questions from ICE or hold doors open for them. Berkshire County residents, however, are confronting ICE as we have seen with recent arrests because they are getting too close to the situation with the videotaping and other involvement. The Dems want to manipulate the emotions of the public by running these articles in the Berkshire Eagle.
As President Trump and the overwhelming majority of Americans who voted for him rid the country of racist DEI programs, what does MA Governor Maura Healey do about it?
Lie of course. Then try and spin some bullsh!t about companies making more money because of diversity.
Has the Black Berkshire Economic Council (BBEC) created ONE JOB for a non-family member or friend yet? Over $1,000,000 in taxpayer money and counting. For what? I’ve not witnessed any ROI with MY MONEY they’ve been given.
When asked why companies are ditching racist DEI programs if there so profitable, Maura Healey gives her best Jeff Spicoli impression with her answer of “I don’t know.”
Nothing states prepared like the answer of “I don’t know.”
Here locally in Bitchfield, if diversity is so great on a company’s return on investment (ROI), then ask yourself the question has the Black Berkshire Economic Council (BBEC) created ONE JOB for a non-family member or friend yet?
Over $1,000,000 in taxpayer money and counting. For what? I’ve not witnessed any ROI with MY MONEY they’ve been given.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bxecKgdRyo
https://x.com/alx/status/1928556796395884650?s=43&t=A4dIfU1zY5Cy5R_zEZP9EQ
Dan, can you check with the techies about the edit feature again. It doesn’t work. I hit post to quick before I could edit my last post and it didn’t work. Thanks-MA
Thanks to Lumpy and dead beat council for the 1300 dollar plus tax increase.
How much money in local taxes and fees does your household pay City Hall per fiscal year, please. I estimated that the average Pittsfield tax and fee payer will pay City Hall close to $7,000 per fiscal year 2026. Is that close to what you will owe from July 01st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026?
We got your back sir.
May 31, 2025
FREE SPEECH Alert:
There is a New Hampshire state legislative proposal – HB 324 – that would remove public schools’ exemption from state obscenity laws, which would expose teachers and librarians to criminal charges for including literature that some might deem “obscene”.
It is a debate between “protecting children” versus censorship. If passed, the bill would face legal challenges in court by educators, librarians, parents, publishers, and civil rights organizations.
Should book bans be allowed in our FREE Country? Is public education about children learning for critical thinking, or is it about indoctrinating them to be against sex education and diversity and the like?
Many years ago now, when I experienced Pittsfield politics in Western Massachusetts’ beautiful Berkshires, when I exercised FREE SPEECH, it was often met with RETRIBUTION. The Berkshire Eagle has blacklisted me from publishing my letters for the past a little over 21 years now. The Eagle’s “Letters” recently emailed me: “unsubscribe”.
Jon Melle
Good for them. Excellent common sense law, the only problem is that it is needed.
Nuisance. ASIDE. A few years ago It was stated on the Planet about the need for Armored Vehicles. Where the hell is our own local business that makes the vehicle here on this demand? These type of vehicles are needed in the world now more than ever.
Can you say a goldmine?
The PHS report did not show that they interviewd any staff.We need to know why.
Follow the facts—not the press releases.
Notice the silence between the headlines.
Now, combine both.
When the same actors control the funding, the construction, the accounting, and the cleanup crew—you don’t need conspiracy theories. You need subpoenas.
Let the dots connect themselves.
Congressman Richard Neal recently visited Ireland where he was met with protests that allege that he supports genocide in Gaza by Israel.
https://www.masslive.com/politics/2025/05/turning-a-blind-eye-to-genocide-mass-rep-neals-visit-to-ireland-protested.html
I believe that Neal wants a peace agreement(s). I agree with his support for Israel. Hamas is a terrorist organization that must be destroyed.
One hundred years ago, I wish that important people took Hitler seriously and stopped his EVIL plans that led to the tragic Holocaust that are similar to Hamas’ EVIL plans against the Jewish People of Israel.
Jon Melle