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Wisconsin native, longtime Northeast DC resident, amateur genealogist, retired from the railway. Now in Racine, Wis. He/him. 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚂🚃🌲🍦🍺
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Oh, Biscuit Head*. It’s been far too long. *Greenville, SC, location.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Through my role, I have met Melissa, and the attack on her, her husband, and another lawmaker and his spouse is devastating.  Our thoughts are with their loved ones.  No one should ever fear for their lives because of their service to their community. Statement from the WI Legislative Leadership:

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 16 days ago • 895 comments

Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.

submitted 16 days ago • 38 comments

Someone drove the SS Pontiac into town tonight. (Town being Racine, Wis.)

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

You mean to tell me the guy who was in charge of cutting federal spending also got a ton of federal subsidies and contracts?!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

In Clear Lake town (Iowa) is the Surf Ballroom, where Buddy Holly and the others played just before boarding their plane. It’s still an active music venue, with small museum. They let you walk all around during the day, even up on stage. The town itself is quite charming.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Just north of Clear Lake, Iowa, is where a plane crashed in February 1959, killing rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper, and their pilot, Roger Peterson. I stopped to visit last week. You park where the big specs are, and walk along a fence line to the crash site.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Good morning from Prairie du Chien, Wis.! It is the second-oldest town in the state.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Sean Duffy is such a complete wimp, with misdirected anxieties. I see far more frequent lawbreaking and anti-social behavior from motorists in my Wis. neighborhood every day, than I ever did on urban transit. Not that he cares about that.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

If you know anyone who still supports this rambling loon, play this audio for them and then ask them to guess the event he’s speaking at.

submitted 31 days ago • 181 comments

US Government Accountability Office finds that—as has been clear for months—the Trump Administration is committing illegal impoundment by pausing the distribution of certain transportation funds.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

It’s still hard for me to believe that after so many years of deranged posts like this, we’ve still never had a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health.

submitted 37 days ago • 3217 comments

A fog bow, visible to the east of Racine, Wis., over Lake Michigan. It has been much cooler near the lake than a few miles inland, for the past three days. The past two days, a fog bank has been over the lake, occasionally drifting a short distance inland and rolling up my street.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

But remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils

submitted 45 days ago • 140 comments

MAGA America in three panels: 2024, 2025, 2026

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

It's not just libertarians who "hate the left more than they love liberty". It's also pretty much any post-Reagan conservative.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

News from one of my ancestral villages, in this case, Caledon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. They opened a chest that was a millennial project back in 2000, which was meant to be opened in 25 years' time. I visited the place in 2008--closer to 2000 than to now. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

"The late Pontiff – himself the son of a railway worker – was a passionate advocate for public transport. And on a more personal level, he nurtured a lifelong affection for trains, seeing in them both a practical necessity and a powerful symbol of connection."

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite part of this story is the NY pro-Trump couple who were angry that the Vance private tour of the Coliseum meant they could not get in. He said at least the American ticket-holders could be admitted first (as if non-Americans don't matter) and she blamed the Italians for the chaos...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

I remember the Degenerate Art exhibit at the Smithsonian back in the 90s. It made a deep impression on me. I was grateful that I lived in a country whose national museum could show and discuss this art history openly. Now, under the MAGA regime, the Smithsonian would never have this show.

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

No “due process“, unless you count the hearings, trials and incarceration in an American prison after a guilty verdict by a jury of their peers.

submitted 64 days ago • 230 comments