The Manchester Free Press

Tuesday • June 9 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.XXIV

Manchester, N.H.

OPINION: AI Needs a Cost/Benefit Analysis

Granite Grok - 33 min 40 sec ago

Author: (laughing as Claude is getting settled into the booth) Hey, buddy! You’re late today! What were you up to, huh? I can sort of picture you giving Waymo passengers the ride of their literal lives, or arresting some innocent schlunk, or maybe, better yet, having a half-billion-dollar token bonfire! You can tell me! I ... Read more

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Morning Update: Buh Bye Spy?

Granite Grok - 3 hours 33 min ago

Today, on the Morning Update, are we looking at more 4D chess? FISA Section 702, which was used to spy on Trump’s campaign as part of the fake Steele Dossier and RussiaGate treason, expires on June 12th. Democrats and RINOs in the Senate refused to reauthorize it over this. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel ... Read more

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PAYNE: The Greatest Independence Day Gift

Granite Grok - 5 hours 33 min ago

On January 7, President Trump issued a memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies ordering them to withdraw from using public funds that support international organizations with interests contrary to the U.S. ( 31 UN entities). This appears to be a great birthday gift for America’s 250th anniversary;  a serious effort to put ... Read more

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OPINION: The 100 Year Islamic Plan Of Conquest

Granite Grok - 12 hours 33 min ago

In 1982, a rare Muslim Brotherhood document called “The Project” first appeared, outlining a long-term strategic plan for “civilization jihad” or “Islamization” of Western societies. This strategy did not involve violence but rather both mass migration and infiltration of all institutions in order to subvert democratic systems from within, exploiting their generosity, tolerance, and naivety. ... Read more

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GrokTALK!: ICYMI – Free Speech and Self-Censorship

Granite Grok - 14 hours 33 min ago

This week, on GrokTALK!, let’s revisit the decline of free speech in western Democracies with a focus on the latest nonsense in the not-so-United Kingdom. Lessons we need to learn, and things we must watch out for, because globalist progressives all want the same thing, and that’s to find ways to get people to self-censor. ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Campus Carry “Feelings”

Granite Grok - Mon, 2026-06-08 21:00 +0000

You are endowed by your Creator with certain unalienable rights. They cannot be specific to you or your tribe. As enumerated, they do not provide for location exceptions. No matter where you live, or what you look like, or who you love, you have rights the government may not infringe. Rights that government exists to ... Read more

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SMITH: Who Should Sell Rosenwald’s House?

Granite Grok - Mon, 2026-06-08 18:00 +0000

It’s already common knowledge that Rosenwald is retiring from the senate, and the enemy camp has selected Telerski to be her replacement.  Queen Sharon called her and Ruth Ward up to her podium to be recognized and receive clocks as retirement gifts and address the rest of the senate.  I expected the usual themes a ... Read more

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Monday Memes

Granite Grok - Mon, 2026-06-08 16:00 +0000

Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither “fact-checked” nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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ROPER: The Devastating Legacy of Democrat Leadership

Granite Grok - Mon, 2026-06-08 14:00 +0000

Both Vermont’s Senate President Pro-Tem Philip Baruth (D/P-Chittenden) and Speaker of the House Jill Krowinski (D-Burlington), the top leaders in the state legislature, announced that they will be retiring after sixteen and fourteen years, respectively. And, not to put too fine a point on it, they, and more importantly the entire clown car they’ve been ... Read more

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Morning Update: Karl Marx on Skis

Granite Grok - Mon, 2026-06-08 11:00 +0000

Today, on your Morning Update, we celebrate the 26th birthday of “your kids won’t know snow,” with some good news for snow and a reminder why it doesn’t matter how much or how little snow we get. This Climate thing has nothing to do with the weather. I’m a bit sleepy and hoarse in this ... Read more

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KLAR: ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water? What Is the EPA Up To?

Granite Grok - Mon, 2026-06-08 09:00 +0000

Much controversy has surrounded the May 18 announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of proposed rule changes to Biden administration regulations that direct the cleanup of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in Americans’ drinking water. Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said he strongly supports the EPA’s new tack. “I’ve read ... Read more

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CORNERSTONE: Right To Try Expansion Passes and Fails

Granite Grok - Mon, 2026-06-08 02:00 +0000

HB 1735: A Setback for Right to Try in New Hampshire After several weeks of negotiations and efforts to rescue HB 1735 — championed from the start by prime sponsor Rep. Brian Cole — the Senate brought the bill to a final vote on Thursday, June 4 and passed it with an amendment that rendered it essentially ... Read more

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BEST/GATO: Marisol Fuentes – Do You See What I See

Granite Grok - Mon, 2026-06-08 00:00 +0000

Executive Councilor Janet Stevens has been chasing the Berlin Police Department through 91-A for details on domestic violence protocols followed or not followed by the police prior to Marisol Fuentes’ murder by her husband. The Berlin Police Department is denying access to records, citing privacy issues for Marisol Fuentes. Executive Councilor Janet Stevens is now ... Read more

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NJOYA: Justice Clarence Thomas, Harry Jaffa, and the Declaration of Independence

Granite Grok - Sun, 2026-06-07 21:00 +0000

In a speech given on April 15 at the University of Texas, to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Justice Clarence Thomas explained the meaning of formal equality before the law, saying: Despite the multiplicity of laws and customs that reeked of bigotry, it was universally believed among those blacks with whom I ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Why Isn’t Woke Wu Holding a Prostate Pride Event?

Granite Grok - Sun, 2026-06-07 18:00 +0000

People who claim they don’t like it when other people have guns should not be allowed to use the tax dollars of people they disarm to pay for armed guards. I don’t know; that just seems like a reasonable request to me. Pay for it yourself. I mean, if you are such a gift to ... Read more

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CARDELLO: Al Sharpton is a Fraud on Par with Jussie Smollett

Granite Grok - Sun, 2026-06-07 16:00 +0000

How many times and how much longer will we be writing stories about Al Sharpton? The difference between Al and Black Lives Matter and Jussie Smollett is that we recognized early on that BLM and Smollett were shams looking to benefit from the hysteria created whenever the scourge of racism is brought out of storage. ... Read more

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KLAR: Biden-Pardoned Drug Dealer Quickly Got Back To Work

Granite Grok - Sun, 2026-06-07 14:00 +0000

One of President Sleepy Joe’s last-minute Autopen pardon recipients, a narcotics dealer, just got arrested in Vermont…for dealing hardcore narcotics! The case reveals the travesty not just of Biden’s unpardonable pardons, but the death and destruction wrought by Democrat policies that are soft on crime and hard on public safety. Todd “Rocky” Jarvis was one ... Read more

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MACDONALD: People are Fleeing Your State in Droves and THIS is a Priority?

Granite Grok - Sun, 2026-06-07 11:00 +0000

Two recent themes just collided in what passes for my headspace and blog-space. New York, which attracts attention because I lived there for the younger part of my life. The first thirty years, minus a few. I had the good sense to bail back in 1990, and I’ve lived in New Hampshire for the past ... Read more

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DE MAYO: Grafton County News

Granite Grok - Sun, 2026-06-07 09:00 +0000

LTE, “Heard at the County, 5/26/26 Commissioners’ Meeting.” Grafton County Commissioners’ discussions & actions on May 26, 2026 include: Nick De Mayo, M. Ed., Sugar Hill, NH  Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Disagree, agree, Got Something to ... Read more

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OPINION: Clinging To Gender Ideology Mandates Is A Losing Strategy

Granite Grok - Sun, 2026-06-07 02:00 +0000

In a May 20 settlement that should send shockwaves through every child welfare agency still clinging to gender ideology mandates, the state’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families agreed to a permanent injunction barring officials from denying or restricting foster care licenses based on applicants’ religious beliefs about marriage, gender, or sexual relationships. The settlement in the Washington ... Read more

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