WHITE WASH II: ADAMS GOES WITH CACC … DEM SHUTDOWN … A RIBBON AT A TIME
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE THE WEEKEND EDITION, OCT. 31-NOV. 2, 2025) — In our previous column, we announced that our Right Honorable Good Friend Peter White had been selected town administrator in Adams. Well, the board ultimately went with Nick “The Quick” Caccamo. Bully for them! They made the right choice. THE PLANET wishes Nick good luck and godspeed. He made good in Williamsburg, and we expect the same in Adams.
Readers will recall we did note an asterisk of a footnote of the fine print that could kick-in to scuttle White’s bid, and apparently it did. At any rate, something did. Voltron Pete somehow managed to yank defeat from the shackles of victory … or it was done for him. Of course, being president of the Bitchfield city council, White has an uncanny talent for failure by his mere presence.
This is the old good-news/bad-news bit. The bad news is that Bithfield appears stuck with its dismal Two-Pete reign. The good news is that the McKinley statue will be sending the newly installed mud flaps to the Bitchfield council chambers.
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PLANETEERS, as the country prepares for the cut-off in SNAP benefits, let us raise a final toast to the welfare state.
“Let them eat cake,” Queen Marie said in France a couple hundred years ago. That’s when France, unlike America, had Kings, not that Loon-Left Liberals and pussyhats know it … about America, that is. Well, cake might be hard to come by today, and the nation will feel the consequences of having become a “gimme” state. Everything free in America, unless you have a job and pay taxes.
This is without question a Democrat shutdown. They insist on expanding Obamacare to all sorts of unworthies and add the financial burden to the already-overloaded taxpayers, who work for a living. Republicans have offered numerous proposals that would (a) keep the government going (b) while continuing talks on the health insurance issue. In short, Mike Johnson wants to keep SNAP benefits going to keep people fed but Chuck Schumer wants to defund SNAP to use as a leverage.
To make the issue clear to everyone, THE PLANET presents this image, which explains everything:
Yes, your scariest nightmare come true.
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THE PLANET had to chuckle watching iBerkshires‘ footage of Pete White trying to cut the ribbon for the grand opening of the new arcade on quiet, bucolic, drug-free Tyler Street. You know Tyler Street, recipient of untold millions stolen from Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski for all kinds of “improvements,” including dim-bulb street lighting, bump outs, speed bumps, traffic circles, and a never-ending cycle of road work.
White, scissors in hand, tries to cut the tape. He fails. Maybe he was chewing gum at the same time. When he did finally make the crusty cut, a lively crowd of broke out in a lusty chorus of “The Night They Invented Champagne.”
Just what the city needs: An arcade. On a street where, up the road a short piece and just down a crossing street, a 17-year-old high school student was shot to death … on a street where the illegal drug trade booms. We give the business a year.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
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“We hand petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office” — Aesop.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Perhaps White realized it was a really bad look for him to be bailing in the middle of a city shitstorm and pulled his name at the last minute.
But isn’t Caccamo cut from the same cloth?
I am so disappointed he did not get the job.
I’m not surprised at all. He literally asked to do both jobs and seemed to prioritize one over the other in his answers. Caccamo, while probably as useless as he was in Ward 3 was fully invested. He can also move out of his family’s house at the ripe age of 30-something. Definitely Italian
Me to. Halloween kids candy No have. Maybe we could afford it if we had the (pick your pocket\.what super citizen called it) tax to use …..Sorry.
I agree with the Town of Adams choosing Nick Caccamo. Especially over Bitchfield CC Prez Wimpy White.
Here are few highlights of Wimpy’s political career:
*The Picklefield/Bitchfield taxpayers are still waiting on Wimpy’s “houseless report,” that he has been “working on,” ever since the 2019 election cycle. 6 years and counting. Wimpy? Wimpy? Wimpy White?
*Wimpy White is thought of as the GOBSIG’s next batter (stooge) up in the Bitchfield mayoral cycle. He’d be following in failed footsteps of Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont and Lumpy Marchetti, in being the face-person for Jimmy, Barry, and gang.
So, why would he leave for a lower paying, less bennies, smaller locale than Bitchfield? Hmmmmm
*I believe like Vendetta Vale mentioned in a few posts ago, the lawsuits are going to start happening with the Bitchfield Pubic Scohol Skandel and Wimpy is trying to get out of Dodge ASAP to try and avoid having to testify about his knowledge of this situation.
Allison “Sheppard’s Pie” Sheppard had a penchant for sending low-income, juvenile males of color, pictures of a pu$$y, and current and former city leaders (BCC Work Czar) SWEPT THE PEDOPHILE PROBLEM UNDER THE RUG!!!
An NDA only keeps Sheppard’s Pie from running to the media and to place the blame on others. It DOES NOT allow her blanket immunity from a civil deposition. She’s going to have to spill the beans on everything, or face jail time for perjury.
The financial rewards for the victims will only continue to rise, if it’s found out that these issues were known years ago by city leaders and they ignored it. And to add salt to an open wound, the offender was allowed to return to the scene of the crime.
Plus, the DEI law firm did next to nothing in terms of actually investigating this incident other than making a few Zoom calls and a few attempted phone calls to the victims.
I’d also subpoena Mary Lou-(cor)Rup(t), put her under oath and ask her to explain in detail what she was told to do and told not to do by Bitchfield “leaders,” in terms of deep diving into this matter.
Sorry, going down the PPS rabbit hole.
The Town of Adams made the absolute correct choice for TA.
An adult man in his forties with no children of his own, that still thinks dressing up in a kids costume year-round and then posting them on social media, tells you all you need to know.
On a side note, what adult man or women with an IQ above a dirty diaper, would ever vote for a person who looked like Rose DeLauro?
October 31, 2025
Happy Halloween.
Lee is fighting Pittsfield’s would-be 3rd capped “leaky” landfill full of “the” GE’s PCBs.
Adams fought off Pete White’s bid to be the new Town Manager.
The fictional Kapanski’s are fighting windmills along side of Don Quixote, as well as the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics pounding peoples’ purses and persecuting people who pay taxes and didn’t move away from Pittsfield.
What do you get when a man dressed as a pork-chop wears a Voltron headgear costume and is standing next to a Mayor with a big beer belly?
Answer: Bitchfield’s dismal duo.
Jon Melle
The Dismal Duo … good one, JON.
The abissmal Duo.
Food for thought… (pun intended) and facts to consider-
‘1.1 Million MA residents rely on SNAP food benefits- 32 percent children, 26 percent seniors, and 31 percent with disabilities. 21,000 are veterans, meaning 1 in 10 veterans and their families could go hungry and 42 million depend on SNAP national wide.’
‘The USDA has billions of dollars in SNAP specific – contingency funds appropriated by Congress for the purpose of SNAP continuation during a shutdown, including $23 million in Section 32 funds.’
‘Every other presidential administration has used this funding to continue SNAP, but President Trump is choosing not to’ ‘
(From Mass.gov press release)
Thanks President Trump!
I agree, thank you President Trump for kicking illegal aliens and deadbeats off the taxpayers’ backs.
As far as SNAP, you can thank Pocahontas Warren, Ed “the ghoul” Markey, and Chuck Schumer, for using low-income people as political pawns.
MAGA has sent a clean CR 13 times, I repeat 13 times, that the democRATS have voted against.
The clean CR takes 60 votes in the senate to pass. There are only 53 Republicans in the Senate.
I’ll even do the math for you: 60 – 53 = 7.
*** 7 more votes are needed to help eligible SNAP recipients get their benefits.
Go dust off that Bitchfield Pubic Scohol Deplohma proudly Meanwhile (Larry Bird). You truly erned it.
MA
Trump does NOT need ANY votes to release the emergency funds for SNAP, so your reading skills and math skills just don’t add up! Hunger is not a partisan issue.Trump is making it such.
Oh and by the way- You definitely have me confused someone else. I am not Larry Bird …. And definitely earned my Diplomas but not from S..tsfield Public Schools. Based on your reading and math skills though, it seems yours certainly might be.
You’ve had your nose and eyes, submerged up to your ears, at the Leftist MSM FAKE NEWS pig trough. Drink deeply!
There is not enough USDA “emergency funds” to sustain even 1 month of SNAP., for Americans.
Especially since much of SNAP is illegally diverted to CRIMINAL ALIENS; D-Gov Maura Healey diverted nearly $1 BILLION in US Taxpayer funded benefits, in mASSachusetts to people who should be deported.
Meanwhile doesn’t put two and two together very easily. I’ll do it for him.
This is why you democRATS tried to assassinate President Donald Trump TWICE during campaign season.
Failed democRAT gubernors like Maura Healey never envisioned the lack of federal monies, as she PI$$ED AWAY over $1,000,000,000 of MA taxpayers money on illegal aliens.
Not to mention kicking out a few US Veterans from housing in favor of illegal aliens.
Is the picture a little clearer for you now Meanwhile/LB/CF?
Trump has been diverting SNAP benefits to Ukrainian astronauts since his first term. You know it and I know it so stop it. Just stop it.
Can’t we just focus on his much needed 300 million dollar ballroom and forget about supposed hungry children please? This man is focusing on priorities so back the hell off.
And as soon as he sends American marines into Venezuela to die in their jungles, we can celebrate each body bag as it comes back over the Gulf of America into our beautiful country. Just like we did when they came back from Viet Nam where trump and his family served honorably alongside of millions of other young men and woman. MAGA!
MT,
You cast too many aspersions about me without knowing me at all. ‘. I am submerged in MSMBC fake news’ Really? And you know this how?
Hunger is not a partisan issue! Trump is making it so.
Enough said!
Pssssttttt……Trump cannot vote on funding bills. That is the job of Congress. I know You can’t fathom that fact.
It’s is the Leftists/Liberals/neo-Democrats who won’t pass a funding bill, 14 times now. Trump cannot vote on funding bills, his job is POTUS.
What is holding things up is all the Leftists insist on giving CRIMINAL ALIENS, US Taxpayer paid benefits: SNAP, Medicaid, housing, etc. Why are you supporting that?
Americans don’t want that.
Americans do want US taxpayer benefits to go to, Americans.
He tore down the East wing of the whitehouse without discussing it with congress. He sent warships to the coast of Venezuela without discussing with congress. He is sending the National Guard into America cities without discussing with congress.
Stop the gaslighting bozo. you are looking more foolish by the day.
I don’t remember you complaining when Bathhouse Barry spent $376,000,000 on a basketball court at the White House, so he and Big Mike could play some hoop.
Did Barack Obama spend $376 million for the White House basketball court? Here’s the truth | Hindustan Times
^^^^^ That is ALL within POTUS Trump’s authorities as supreme Commander, as granted by the US Constitution.
That document seems to irritate Leftists.
So you agree that tearing down a historic building and using 300 million dollars is a good thing for America? Something that needed to be done right away? Needed to take priority over a collapsing economy?
Doofis, ALL the constructin was privately funded. No US Taxpayer dollars spent. T
Contrast that with the Democrats/Leftists giving the US Citizen’s taxpayers money to Criminal Aliens.
Great point. Not a penny in US tax dollars. This is an improvement to the White House. Previously, for official state dinners and such functions, staff would have to piecemeal indoor space. The Obama solution was to rent tents and port-a-potties … literally. Nice look for America. This will give this president and all future presidents a proper space to received world leaders.
Now Marchetti is going to want to tear down the East Wing of Pittsfield high school and build a ballroom for special interest dignitaries. The Wiggins ballroom will become an economic engine and major tourist attraction for the city.
Brilliant! The Wiggins ballroom. Maybe the Dancing Dean can cut the ribbon.
Maybe they should try reading it. It’s obvious that none have. They live by “Rules for thee but not for me”
Something seriously wrong when billionaires get a little over a trillionin tax breaks. And the Dow way up last few months. But snap being cut? That’s not right Dan.
Why not? There should be zero free groceries. Period. Get a job.
T&S
The SNAP situation is a perfect time to cleanse the rolls of as many freeloaders and grifters as possible. Keep only those who truly need help. You mention the solution for freeloading folks: GET A F****** job.
Dan,
And in the meantime…and according to your logic… those who do ‘truly need it’ go hungry. Elders, disabled, children, veterans! Now I understand.
I am elderly and a double veteran and have 4 jobs. I do not get food stamps. Even most disabled can work.
And you are correct. Take Snele for instance,he could be licking envelopes or something. And would probably enjoy that.
Must be the better-tasting glue.
CELTS
You only THINK you understand. The in true need will NOT go hungry. So now let’s employ actual logic. (a) The freebie lists have expanded to include millions who do not deserve them. Top of the list: illegals and criminals. (b) paring those lists frees up more $$ for the honest needy. (c) which will happen without having to raise taxes. Thanks for the message.
There are people that truly need govt (taxpayers) subsidy programs. Those deserve it. But there are people that are in the third or fourth generation of living on govt subsidies. Their grandparents depended on it, their parents depended on it and now they depend on it and are raising their children to depend on it. They have grown up in the belief that they are entitled to support by taxpayer dollars. These are the ones I do not feel sorry for. They are also the ones that have no or little education, no skills, won’t work and no desire to attain any. This doesn’t even include all those who aren’t here legally get taxpayer funded
benefits.
And..There also should be a time limit for public assistance for all able bodied legal citizens,no different than unemployment insurance for those who are part of a layoff. Unemployment does not last forever. It is generally about 6 months of benefits that both the employer and employee have contributed to.
Illegal aliens should get nothing other than a one-way ticket home. And after deportation, we send their country of citizenship a bill for transportation and administrative services.
I see- And as you say….’These’ in true need will NOT go hungry’…
ill be sure to let the elderly and disabled I have worked with the last few days that their immediate worry about feeding themselves is unnecessary and their hunger pains imagined as ‘they will not go Hungary’.I am sure it will be a great immediate assurance, relief and comfort to them and the word salad will fill them up, Thanks for clarifying Dan and helping me to see more clearly and understand even more.
I’d not go to “Hungary” or Eastern Europe, to get groceries either.
Even if POTUS Trump’s good friend there, President Viktor Orban, was selling eggs $1 dozen.
Not likely you could find Hungary on a map dude, even if you used Google Maps and a Waze app. But if you do decide to go let me know and I will help you pack up your cat and blow up doll and get you to a bus stop.
You forgot the CRIMINAL ALIENS. The hungry 20+ Million horde Biden imported 2021-2025 must “truly need it”.
That is what is preventing even one Leftist in Congress, from voting on funding benefits for, Americans.
You are correct. The dilkusional would make you think it’s illegals only who get snap.
The entitlement is taught. The entitled do not reflect American values and culture. It’s time for them to become uncomfortable. Love the Benjamin Franklin quote:
“I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin
Tech companies appearing to do well is giving impression market in general is doing well. Very misleading. That bubble may burst and if so it is 1929 all over again. Do your homework people. The AI tech investments are drawing in the money but the reality of building it all out to the point where it begins to pay back is shrouded in doubt.
It is the Democrats/Liberals/Leftists that won’t sign a level funding bill to continue current benefits.
They insist on adding to the bill, US Taxpayer paid benefits, Food/Medicaid/Housing …etc as gifts to Criminal Aliens.
And You are wrong with the assertion that it is Trump’s fault. Congress has the sole authority for budget.
Look to the two congressional minority “Leaders”, “Juaquin” Jefferies and “Chuki” Hsummer, as they are starring as the Villains.
^^^^^ America/Americans LAST!
I don’t follow your logic. If the Democrats voted anyone of the 13 times for the CR ( continuing resolution), the current level of funding would of funded the SNAP program at the current level. So, why would place the blame on Trump and not the Democrats ?
Dan’s Trump. Make everyone suffer.
Another uninformed Eagle reader. Democrats voted it down for the 14th time today. The Go Fund Paper should come with a disclaimer, Beware!! If you read this from cover to cover, you could become ignorant.
JT
No Eagle Reader here, as I wouldn’t pay money for that tag, but I do and can read…. A skill you seem to lack. As previously stated….
The USDA has billions of dollars in SNAP specific – contingency funds appropriated by Congress for the purpose of SNAP continuation during a shutdown, including $23 million in Section 32 funds.’
‘Every other presidential administration has used this funding to continue SNAP, but President Trump is choosing not to’ ‘
See- No votes needed Joe. Hunger is not a partisan issue, but Trump is making it so.
Eagle is reportuping a beta Administrator appointed at 152 g ? Really? To schedule bus routs?
Dan. I have a bet tonight against a friend,twenty g . I’m giving twenty seven points against Taconic. The game is in south county. The game is also on t v. I will be there.
When food stamps started only 1% of the population qualified….why the big change in need? Could it be Democrat policies?
BTW the Democrats are the ones causing the issue…I know where you get your “facts or talking points” can mislead you but this is their doing.
October 31, 2025
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
The Berkshire Eagle’s editorial, below, concludes by stating: “These candidates represent Pittsfield’s best chance to keep progress steady, solutions practical and government responsive to all.”
This is a perfect illustration of The Twilight Zone! Especially when it comes to “Sara Shoegum”, who mockingly laughed at a young woman PHS student who spoke at open mic about the city’s Level 5 (failed), Group 11 (underclass) school scandals. Sara Hathaway publicly stated: You kids with your anxieties.
Sara Hathaway should have resigned her elected office on the Pittsfield School Committee. Moreover, the IRONY here is that one decade prior, Sara Hathaway sued the city’s public school district over sex and age discrimination, and she walked away with an undisclosed financial settlement from the fictional Kapanski’s taxpayer dollars via then-Mayor Dan Bianchi’s administration.
In summary, Sara Hathaway mocked a young woman who spoke publicly to her elected officials, but only 10 years prior, she won an undisclosed settlement check from city taxpayers.
In closing, how are the above facts worthy of the Eagle stating that she – and the other political candidates, including Pete White – are the ones representing “Pittsfield’s best chance to keep progress steady, solutions practical and government responsive to all”?
Please write a column in reply to my open letter, and please publish it on your awesome blog: Planet Valenti.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
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“Our picks for Pittsfield’s future: Endorsements for the Nov. 4 [2025] election”
The Berkshire Eagle, Editorial, October 31, 2025
As Pittsfield voters prepare to head to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 4, we offer the following recommendations for City Council — candidates who demonstrate the experience, integrity and pragmatic leadership needed to keep our city moving forward.
At-large councilors
Four at-large seats will be decided on Tuesday.
Peter White and Earl Persip III have proven to be the steady hands on the council. Both bring level-headed leadership and a commitment to keeping discussion civil and productive. White, in particular, knows city operations inside and out. He’s unafraid to take unpopular stances when they serve the city’s long-term interests and is widely regarded as a resource for colleagues who need clarity or context on complex issues. Persip brings a similar calm focus and collaborative spirit that help the council function as it should — with balance and reason.
Alisa Costa deserves a seat alongside them. Her background as a housing policy analyst and project manager gives her a much-needed perspective on one of Pittsfield’s most pressing challenges. Costa’s professional experience, combined with her connections to local advocacy groups, will help bridge city policy and community needs.
As for the fourth at-large seat, we see two strong options in Sara Hathaway and Kathy Amuso. Both are experienced public servants who take a thoughtful approach to policy. Hathaway, a former mayor, brings deep institutional knowledge and a willingness to push for creative ideas — including efforts to seek state relief on the city’s cap for liquor licenses. Hathaway’s policy instincts remain a clear asset, and her recent experience on the school committee will bring insight to the council. Amuso often serves as a voice of reason, viewing issues through a compassionate and practical lens, plus she brings diverse experience from service on city boards. City voters would be well-served by Hathaway or Amuso, though we see Hathaway’s past recent school committee and mayoral experience as points in her favor.
Ward 2
Cam Cunningham is the clear choice. An engineer at General Dynamics, Cunningham combines technical expertise with empathy and initiative. He’s already shown his commitment by attending City Council meetings regularly and contributing thoughtful ideas, including the creation of a dedicated city grant writer position. His accessibility and preparation make him a promising new leader.
Ward 5
Patrick Kavey has earned another term. As chair of the city’s Community and Economic Development Committee, Kavey has helped attract new businesses — including Lee Bank’s expansion into Ward 5 — and continues to demonstrate a deep understanding of the issues facing his constituents. His responsiveness and dedication are exemplary; residents know they can count on him to listen and act.
His challenger, Michael Grady, offers little in the way of a concrete platform, while Kavey’s record and engagement speak for themselves.
Ward 6
Dina Lampiasi stands out for her sharp policy acumen and genuine compassion. Drawing on her experience in the state Attorney General’s office, she approaches legislation with analytical rigor and a deep understanding of how laws affect residents’ daily lives. Alongside Kavey, she’s worked to develop humane, practical solutions — such as joint petitions urging the city to craft an emergency camping plan that balances public health with dignity for those without housing. Lampiasi comes to meetings prepared and principled, a combination Pittsfield likes.
Ward 7
Kathy Moody offers voters a moderate, thoughtful alternative to incumbent Tony Maffuccio. Moody is deeply engaged with the issues facing Pittsfield’s downtown and neighborhoods. She’s done her homework, particularly on homelessness and public space policy, taking the position that no camping ban should pass without a designated and sanitary encampment area. An engineer by training with the Department of Defense, she combines analytical skill with a personable, accessible approach to leadership.
The bottom line
This year’s ballot gives Pittsfield voters an opportunity to strengthen the council with experienced, pragmatic voices who understand both the technical and human sides of governing.
For their proven records, accessibility and commitment to balanced leadership, we endorse:
At-large: Peter White, Earl Persip, Alisa Costa and Sara Hathaway
Ward 2: Cam Cunningham
Ward 5: Patrick Kavey
Ward 6: Dina Lampiasi
Ward 7: Kathy Moody
These candidates represent Pittsfield’s best chance to keep progress steady, solutions practical and government responsive to all.
Tooooooo Loooooooonnnnnggg!!!!!!!!!
This is why most of you can’t retain and process factual information. You refuse to read information that is more than 3 paragraphs long.
Sometimes, less is more. In Johnny’s case he likes to repeat himself. He’s the Ground Hogs Day of journalism.
This is why reading matters. You’re wrong — if you’d actually read it, you’d see it was a straight copy-and-paste of the Berkshire Eagle’s own endorsement article for Voltron, Persip, Costa, and the rest.
Don’t remind me why I stopped buying “The Left Winged Parrot” , the end of last Millennium (1999).
That “newspaper” (notice the quote marks) is now as thin as a wafer with “safe” content, that is, politically correct. Circulation continues to decline, newsroom morale low, those with talent hampered and muzzled, a clueless publisher, and incompetence rising through the ranks.
You know you hit rock bottom, when you are begging for money, so you can continue your hard hitting news. Like the article recently, regarding the person who paid for a Billboard in Pittsfield. The Eagle and its radical readers want to know. How dare they express their views, inside are echo chamber of progressive thought. You lost get over it.
We’d be embarrassed to work there. The rag is profitable, barely, only because it starves the newsroom and overworks employees. As circulation continues to drop, the rag will have to reduce its ad rates. It’s in a slow process of attrition. It has no competition as a daily, and the city has suffered. The publisher should be proud to have contributed so mightily to the decline of the city’s quality of life.
And their election advice is to vote back in almost every incumbent hack that has got the city into the deep and deepening mess it is in.
What possible motive would they have for doing this? Don’t they want things to get better?
It’s become so obvious, that the local rag exists to only support and nourish the Democrat Party. Consider the always negative Trump anything in article after article a big tell.
The Eagle is nothing more than low-end democRAT propaganda.
Nothing in the Eagle about President Trump’s peace deals, US stock markets/investments SOARING because of US tariffs (mine sure is), or sadly, Charlie Kirk’s murder.
Instead, I saw front page stories and pictures of: a “No Kings” rally sponsored by Soros and other liberal communist billionaires, helped in burying the Bitchfield Pubic Scohol Skandel, and most recently, what at first I thought was mother and daughter opening an LGBTQ bookstore on NON, only to later learn they were married. Nothing wrong with gay marriage, but that bookstore has a very narrow audience and it’s thinning by the day. That federal taxpayer paid-grift is drying up too.
Not to mention Vendetta Vale stated one of them was “nonbinary,” whatever the fu&k that means? I only learned about a boy and a girl in my day.
Another reason to get liberal indoctrination out of public schools.
Mental illness should be treated, not exploited. Especially using kids as your test subjects.
Why should the Eagle report the genders and sexual preferences of citizens opening a small business? Why is that even newsworthy to you? It has absolutely nothing to do with the business or the story.
What I did expect was exactly this — that once you realized it wasn’t a conservative bookstore, you’d all start frothing at the mouth, turning nasty, and doing whatever you could to tear them down simply because they’re different from you.
The only “mental illness” in this conversation isn’t theirs — it’s yours. It’s called hate and fear, and you’re choking on it.
If you read the article genius, you would see it was the Eagle, not me, who made a reference to their sexual preference.
I only mentioned that I thought it was a mother and daughter opening the business. Not spouses. That’s all.
You are the one who made a post about one of them being “nonbinary,” again NOT ME.
I only made reference to it, by calling you out for exploiting mental illness, not helping it.
It’s called Gender Dysphoria. A mental illness, according to the AMA.
I’ve noticed you like to point out different peoples posts, highlighting the sexual proclivity to the post.
Are you sexually frustrated cupcake? Purple haired freaks don’t cut the mustard for ya?
I am absolutely disgusted by the level of HATE and FEAR oozing through this comment section.
This is the very last time you make this mental health comment without choking on it.
Imagine being such a small, bitter man that someone else’s illness threatens you so much, your only instinct is to mock them. Do you shove people on crutches too? Laugh at veterans with PTSD? Ridicule kids struggling with ADHD? Does depression offend you that deeply? Because let’s be real — your brand of cruelty is its own sickness, and it’s a hell of a lot more dangerous than anything they’re battling.
Shame on you.
Depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, OCD, bipolar disorder, and substance use disorder are among the most common mental health conditions in this country. So when you’re tearing down people who are fighting those battles every day, take a hard look in the mirror — because the only one here truly unwell is you.
Big “Alpha Male” energy — crying because someone else has a mental illness. It must be exhausting for you, huh? All that pain, discomfort, and shattered quality of life every time someone else exists differently than you. Do you also weep when someone wins the lottery or when kids get free candy on Halloween? Pathetic. You’re not an alpha — you’re just weak and threatened by anyone who reminds you of how small you really are.
You liberal-loons are so bitter and angry, it literally makes me laugh out loud.
I didn’t tear down one person.
I said you (liberals) enjoy exploiting people, in this case a person who obviously suffers from Gender Dysphoria, to try and further a political agenda.
And like a true liberal, when someone (me) opposes that view with facts or their opinion (or maybe both), you resort to name calling, labeling, and “shaming” me.”
You did the classic democRAT playbook tactic to try and silence your critics.
Unfortunately for you lemon-drop, there are no “safe spaces,” on The Planet. Go cry elsewhere.
MARK
’tis true–THE PLANET has no “safe rooms.”
Except the one you hide in like a little troll, Dan.
As we said, no “safe rooms” on THE PLANET, as your post proves!
Look at you cry when you are treated in the same manner you treat others. Talk about CRYING.
Oh honey, you really thought that word salad came with a side of logic, didn’t you?
You didn’t present “facts.” You regurgitated decades-old talking points dressed up as concern, pretending it’s empathy when it’s really contempt. No one’s buying the “I’m just worried about society” act anymore — it’s the political equivalent of “I’m not racist, but…”
You want to talk about exploiting people? The only thing being exploited here is your own outrage for clicks, likes, and a dopamine hit.
And please — spare me the “safe spaces” bit. The only one crying is you, every time someone pushes back with reality instead of your curated Fox-News fan fiction.
Now wipe the spittle off your keyboard, lemon-drop, and come back when you’ve got something better than “liberals bad.”
Speaking of word salads, did you save me any croutons sugarplum?
Oh please — you wouldn’t know a word salad if it slapped you with a thesaurus. You’ve been living off reheated Facebook memes and calling it philosophy. Don’t worry, though, I’ll save you a crouton — something small, dry, and stale enough to match your personality.
I like that. Funny stuff right there.
THE PLANET has been following your recent exchanges with MARK. It’s obvious an emotional issue for you, one that hits close to home. An observation: He seems to have rattled you. VV, you’re much better when you can keep a steady, balanced tone. We enjoy your contributions to this board.
Dan
Vale is passionate, to a fault?
Seems immature, due to age? But knowledgeable…
It would be encouraging ,to find someone young interested in, local political and social matters. Most smart kids ,migrate to greener pastures.
On an important matter, have you made the connection of Lamar Cook and the Dancing Dean Wiggins?…
Bet judge CorRuppt,is wishing,she didn’t cover up the criminal conduct.
Hubris is a wonderful trait in an advisary!
It’s only just begun, look for raids on courts, city halls and law enforcement,soon.
Tom
11/4/25@10pm
TOM
Yes, I made the connection to which you refer. It will be in Wednesday’s edition. Your last sentence seems accurate. For a while, we have, mainly through sources, been aware of what I call some disturbing tremors in the local political Mt. Vesuvius. Something big seems to be brewing, and our sense of it is that there are two sides now in a fight–those who want certain things exposed and those who are working to keep the lid on and an apparent cover-up going. Behind the scenes, Bitchfield is splitting and falling apart.
Rattled? Not a chance. Pissed off? You bet.
No one here’s got the skill or the spine to rattle me.
And Dan — as long as you’re still playing hall monitor with the comments, this is your cozy little safe space. You don’t get to call it “unsafe” until you stop monitoring, censoring and let people actually speak their minds. Put your money where your mouth is!
VV
I found this text among the 3,000 books in THE PLANET’s library. It might help you:
“’tis a fyne lyne ‘twixt “pissed off” and rattled.
to explaign the diffrence t’would riske someone prattled.
an t’would bring distress to see thou become addled,
lyke clymbing a bull an not beinge saddled.” — Sir Francis Bacon and Eggs.
As far as “putting money”, that I have done since founding this blog at the end of September 2010. It’s funded by $$$ I’ve earned in the Dreaded Private Sector. No mooching of public money has ever been involved. Not a cent. We don’t beg, borrow, or leech off the public treasury. We finance it in the good-old fashioned capitalistic manner as a public service to stimulate debate, discussion, and perhaps deliberation. With respect to THE PLANET’s “cozy little safe space,” you’re confusing “monitoring, censoring” with the editorial functions of any written piece. The proof: You are actually speaking your mind, ain’t cha? See? Hope this helps clear up your confusion.
My cat goes outside if I line the litter box with LWP.
Perhaps it is just trying to get away from you for a little while.
Poor thing.
Nope, LWP smells of Neo-Democrats and Rutberger.
Blue State AGs (17 so far I think) have sued the USDA, for asking the states for data as to WHO receives SNAP benefits , in their State. That is the Blue States want no accountability whatsoever how the Federal/US Taxpayer money was spent. Massachusetts is among them.
What does D-Gov Maura Healey have to hide? Didn’t she spend near $1 Billion out of one of the Federal cookie jars, on questionable non-citizens/non-permanent residents?
More craziness from the Berkshire Eagle complaining about the pro-Trump billboards that appeared for 30 days in Pittsfield and Lenox. These were very dignified billboards unlike the Pittsfield one that put an “x” over Trump’s face. The Eagle had no motivation to expose the unidentified Dalton resident who put up that anti-Trump billboard. In fact no complaints about it at all from the Berkshire Eagle. Their real concern is how dare anyone interfere with the successful indoctrination the politicians have of the people here in Berkshire County.
The SNAP issue and the government shutdown shows in glaring light just how little the Democrats care about people receiving SNAP benefits. They could easily restore SNAP benefits by signing the “clean bill” to end it all today, but they want to milk it for all it’s worth. They have admitted they think they are benefitting from the shutdown. The phoniness of the Berkshire Eagle running articles about how to help people losing their SNAP benefits is just another example of the lengths the Democrats will go to keep their power while not allowing locals to complain about their using SNAP benefits for leverage. Berkshire County people are so brainwashed that many do think that the Republicans are at fault.
Snap should be reinstated on both parties.
With borrowed money? Massachusetts and most of the blue states have enough money to fund it themselves if they stopped funding illegal migration and diversity salaries for drug traffickers. Healy is STILL paying for restaurant meals for who knows how many foreigners with OUR money.
If Democrats want to play philanthropist let them donate their own money instead of taxpayers’ who struggle to pay for their own food and housing!
Let these loons spend on Trump negativity. Who cares?
The Eagle is deliberately ‘crazy’ . They’re blind to how economics and funding functions. They need to learn that nothing is free. There are consequences. Look at our deficit.
The problem for the Democrats is ideological inbreeding. They have enforced ideological purity so harshly for so many years that they simply don’t have anyone capable of seeing things any other way.
Any leads in the student shooting last week?
Was shot sputter involved ?
Are we still paying for that scam?
November 02, 2025
Hello U.S. President Donald Trump,
I read that a prolonged U.S. government shutdown is placing WIC benefits at significant risk, with some states potentially running out of funds for November 2025.
If I were the sitting U.S. President like Donald Trump, I would do everything that I could do to make sure that all of the innocent babies and children who depend on WIC would be fed.
It is supposed to be Women and Children who are safe first, and then the rest of us men with a good conscience who sacrifice for them.
If a local, state or federal career politician is NOT delivering on Housing, Healthcare, Education, Food Security, Living Wage Jobs, Financial Literacy, Public Safety, and the like, then they should resign their elected office to let effective politicians do the job they failed to do.
Politicians are supposed to invest in people and communities with our limited tax dollars. They are not supposed to be about the financial, corporate and ruling elites always winning, while the middle-class family structure diminishes over the past over 50 years since the early-to-mid-1970’s.
In New Hampshire – similar to in my native hometown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts – the local governments are trying to deal with the rising number of homeless residents. But, I am really frustrated by it all because nobody is stating the obvious answer: Put a ROOF over the homeless residents’ heads.
As a permanent and total 100 percent service connected disabled Veteran myself, I know that the VA has made progress with finding housing for homeless Veterans. Why aren’t the other layers of government following the VA’s lead?
I wrote to Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte, respectively, to request that they do more about homelessness in the area that I reside in, which is southern New Hampshire close to Massachusetts. Neither one of them bothered to write a letter to me about my concerns.
Like the U.S. government shutdown 2025, which costs billions of dollars more than if we had a federal budget in place, homeless residents cost taxpayers more money than if we put a ROOF over their heads. It is financial foolishness on the part of Governor Healey and Governor Ayotte alike.
I want a government that works, please. I want a government that serves all of the people from the underclass population to the billionaires. I want babies and children to receive the WIC benefits. I want a strong middle-class family structure in the 21st Century.
I am upset with President Donald Trump right now. The people I know, including those who voted for him, feel the same way right now. Republican Members of U.S. Congress express their negative feelings about him, too. Something is WRONG right now.
What I am writing here is NOT about Socialism. But rather, it is about a good government that serves all of the peoples’ needs for a strong, safe, healthy, and fair population who love the U.S.A.
I know what President Donald Trump goes through with the news media. In my case, the Berkshire Eagle newspaper has blacklisted me from publishing a letter, op-ed, column, etc., for the past over 21 years because the mean-spirited millionaire Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior, who is a disgraced politician, but walks on water in Pittsfield (Mass.), persecuted me for close to the past 30 years of my adult life of 50 years.
I opposed Trump’s “Divide and Conquer” politics, which is the oldest playbook in human history. But, I also opposed the modern liberals’ “Write the Narrative” politics whereby they say almost everything Trump does is bad, or whereby The Berkshire Eagle blacklists me – Jon Melle – from being heard.
I am happy that blogger Dan Valenti allows me to be heard on his awesome blog: Planet Valenti. I usually receive red colored thumbs downs below my posts because The Berkshire Eagle and others like them have brainwashed the people of the beautiful Berkshires into thinking only a group of political insiders are always right.
Jonathan A. Melle
Jon, can You take in a few of the CRIMINAL ALIENS?
Just the ones D-Gov Maura Healey, is giving away US Taxpayer funded Massachusetts Citizen social benefits to?
It will help fellow Americans in need, the Democrats no longer care about.
November 03, 2025
Hello Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander,
I went to my local diner for an early breakfast this morning today where I told my friends there that yesterday, I wrote to President Trump to say that if I were in his shoes right now, I would do everything in my power to fund WIC benefits for babies, children, and women.
One of my Veteran friends told me that I should write to you today to say the same thing because the U.S. Congress should end the U.S. government shutdown.
Also, I read an online news article about a young woman’s lifelong journey for survival whereby she is dependent on Obamacare, Medicaid, and the no pre-existing medical conditions law that insurance companies must comply with.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/affordable-care-act-heart-health-care_n_69027f71e4b0e763a61c9245?origin=home-zone-b-unit
We are in a literal life or death moment right now. Please fight for us.
Thank you,
Jon Melle
Permanent and Total 100 percent disabled Veteran
Jonny you should have talked to the congresswoman about your US naval service and how you liked to cook for your seamen and didn’t you earned a Purple Heart award for getting hurt?
Is Healy releasing any funds to help snap recipients? Right here they could save money by eliminating shot spotter and pick your pocket tax shot spotter nonsense.
Zohran MamMelle
If you can protest with so many writing’s to all kinds of outlets etc.. during work days while receiving government disability assistance, then you are healthy
enough to work!!
Get a job!
I also believe you don’t want to better because if you get better they may take you off military disability and you would have to go to work.
I like the new name of Zohran Mammelle. With that being said, I took a quote from your post Zohran Mammelle, and I want to ask you a question about it.
Here is your quote:
“But, I am really frustrated by it all because nobody is stating the obvious answer: Put a ROOF over the homeless residents’ heads.”
My question to you, are you willing to give up 50% or more of your disability check that you earned by being “Permanent and Total 100 percent disabled Veteran,” to “Put a ROOF over the homeless residents’ heads.”
If the answer is NO, you are a true hypocrite and gubermint dependint welfare rat.
You expect the US taxpayers to pay for all of these “houseless” people. We pay for everything else, why not this?
November 03, 2025
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
I actually agree with Pittsfield politics on the following news story.
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/80718/Pittsfield-Health-Officials-Eye-Camping-Ordinance-Alternative.html
The only thing that I question here is the delayed timing – February 2026 – of Mayor Peter Marchetti’s revised ordinance to ban encampments on public property without any alternative(s). Tomorrow is election day in Pittsfield (Mass.), and beyond of course, which means that they did NOT have the courage to vote on the sitting Mayor’s anti-homeless measure before election day 2025 because it caused so much controversy all year long.
Best wishes,
Jon Melle
Widespread fraud in SNAP programs; Mass. refuses to share data…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/700000-ineligible-snap-recipients-purged-after-usda-uncovers-widespread-food-stamp
Big surprise, not!
Should prisoners get food or starve?
Yes, FRITZ. SNAP and EBT fraud are rampant. If one correlates the rise in such fraud with the disastrous “welcome” that Obama and Biden put out for illegals, you find parallel, upward trajectories. “Everything free in America,” as the song goes from West Side Story.
Partridge oak hill Totes most overfilled. Totes overfilled garbage, lids, up knock PEDA down to in way to vote. Hope Divers get off the trucks in that ward.
I was at the linden store and this old woman was complaining to the clerk her bennies from snap had been snatched from her. In her hand we’re the numbers game card and a couple scratch tickets. Winners by the way.
And a 1,200 dollar IPhone?
Ok so here’s what ya go.
Ward 1 …..slurpy
2…….cam
3….
4……Skeepy
5…Puffy
6,..Dina
7…In the Moody
Large….White …..Persip…Anused-So…..Alisha
School….Elias….Barry…..Muil….Yawn……Batory……Burgeur…
Hathaway over Amuso at large.
You might be right. Unfortunately it doesn’t really …… matter…In Bitchfield. Taxes and water through the roof for most that pay taxes. Buffoons.
So true, EA.
The Eagle endorsed Sarah. Telitlikitiz told it like it was.
Believe tell also said Syracuse football and basketball was shit and trump is now down to proclamation speeches.
I’d take Amuso over Hathaway any day of the week
That’s an aberration. How Amuso gets elected is beyawned me.
MP
It’s beYONed me as well.
If only there was a way to use AI to root out the fraud. We have computer chips that can assist with sending a space craft to the planet Saturn to collect data but trying to figure out who is abusing food stamps is more complicated than the theory of relativity apparently.
Has anyone in the Trump administration thought of trying that? Probably not. Not as much fun as causing countrywide confusion and chaos. Chaos is trump middle name and he obviously gets off on it.
I’ll be eat ping at the new ball room next month. Not the Christian Center or the Church.
Vote today
U p s cargo disaster awful.
The people have spoken. Pittsfield government is working for them.
Expect your taxes to again rise next June. You’ll also see a Kufflinks sighting.
If you believe that why were you trying to get the job in Adams?
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Here is a look at voter turnout in yesterday’s Pittsfield municipal election:
VOTER TURNOUT
Pittsfield 1A 9.5%
Pittsfield 1B 15.6%
Pittsfield 2A 6.1%
Pittsfield 2B 16.9%
Pittsfield 3A 18.7%
Pittsfield 3B 19.6%
Pittsfield 4A 20.9%
Pittsfield 4B 23.0%
Pittsfield 5A 17.1%
Pittsfield 5B 20.7%
Pittsfield 6A 20.3%
Pittsfield 6B 14.6%
Pittsfield 7A 10.1%
Pittsfield 7B 20.1%
UO
Thanks for sharing. Pathetic turnout of 15%. Another illegitimate “government” that will continue to torment citizen taxpayers.
Ciara Batory won and that is great news. It looks like almost the whole school committee has been replaced. Unfortunately the same lame people are back on the city council. It’s a partial win.