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Baseball/Hockey nut, history/civics teacher, musician/occasional actor, alcohol/dinosaur enthusiast Owns way too many hats The world needs more trains Jersey City, NJ
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Always take joy where you can find it.

Maaaaaaan, that's bad, and it's gonna keep getting worse. I know part of their plan is to destroy universities, but this is already ruining the tourism sector, and soon it'll kill a *ton* of private companies.

TFW you know portions of the history, know it ties too well to what's going on right now, but reading it all in one place and getting more details just makes it all the more depressing. Do seem like some good books to pick up, though. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Super rare and an absurd what-if.

Not a fan of current Dem leadership, but what kind of leftists are we if all we keep asking is "why aren't tHe dEmS doing anything?!" Since when has *anything of value* been accomplished by waiting for elected politicians to take the lead?

Points to Senate Dems, even Fetterman came through, here. Consider calling/contacting them with a "thanks, keep doing it". edition.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...

the secret moral to all my stories is to be nice to me and it's a REALLY important moral www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Civics teacher here, can confirm

Warms my heart to see my congresscritter on this list. Gonna be a fun primary season in Jersey. prospect.org/politics/202...

See, *this* is the stuff I'm thinking of when I try to argue against the "both sides are the same" schtick. But the GOP is the part of the [certain kind of] working class, right? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184...