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Just a middle-aged guy in the Boston suburbs. Grain-fed skeets since September’23

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How do you say 'laissez bon temps rouler' in Hebrew

05.03.2026 01:22 — 👍 49    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

Insurance and house builder (not a developer, just a guy that people paid to build houses for them. I know he did carpentry and electric. Not sure about the plumbing)

05.03.2026 00:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There will be pardons

04.03.2026 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For most of his life there was no income tax at all.

He died in 1919. The modern income tax system was established in 1913. The 90% marginal rate was instituted in 1944.

Not saying he was any sort of saint, but his philanthropy was not a tax dodge.

02.03.2026 23:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The number of public libraries across this country funded by Carnegie is astounding.

One thousand, six hundred and eighty-seven!

02.03.2026 22:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right there next to Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason”.

A message is being sent.

02.03.2026 22:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's right. Legal watch, illegal war

01.03.2026 17:19 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Assassination attempt?

You can’t just come out and say this crap. Produce the evidence of a credible threat.

Much as I hate him she’s right I don’t want Iran assassinating POTUS.

But even more, I don’t want our service members dying because someone got an angry email.

02.03.2026 01:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean … it’s right there in the fucking song!

“… Landslide brings you down”

Right fucking there!

02.03.2026 01:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,

1. Hating their government

2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

01.03.2026 17:31 — 👍 6885    🔁 1134    💬 62    📌 23

Surely even without the war everyone expected him to die in office. Would they have ever paid out if he died peacefully in his sleep while still Supreme Leader?

01.03.2026 17:02 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I need a ruling from @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online on this one.

01.03.2026 18:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So reports say leaders from Saudi Arabia & Israel privately convinced Trump to invade Iran, as our own intelligence warned against it—all w/out Congress’ authorization

For the record, “constitutional conservative” & “America 1st” has 0.0 to do w/ ANY of that.

The bill should go right to Mar-a-Lago

01.03.2026 15:24 — 👍 54    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

Print the children’s book!

01.03.2026 14:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This will never happen (because Murdochs and Ellisons are tied at the hip on this deal), but if a cable company can give me basic cable at a reasonable price ($75-ish), without Fox News (and its outlandish rights fees), and with NESN (for the Red Sox) I’m signing up.

27.02.2026 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are gonna fuckin win!

25.02.2026 11:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m just here for #Celtics content. 🍀

25.02.2026 04:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Plans for proposed ICE facility in Merrimack, N.H., won’t move forward, governor says - The Boston Globe The announcement comes after months of protest and pushback from Merrimack residents over the proposal.

The Trump administration has scrapped plans to convert a warehouse in Merrimack, N.H., into an immigration detention facility, according to Governor Kelly Ayotte.

24.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 615    🔁 145    💬 19    📌 31
The a screenshot of the above skeet immediately followed by a skeet of a cat with his tongue out. The caption says *Phhhfft*

The a screenshot of the above skeet immediately followed by a skeet of a cat with his tongue out. The caption says *Phhhfft*

The algorithm is delivering tonight.

24.02.2026 03:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And I don’t think “socialist” means what they think it does.

24.02.2026 02:32 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still snowing ❄️

24.02.2026 00:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

16 minutes of stoppage time?

That’s insane.

(Or are they doing the ‘real’ stoppage time where they actually keep track? Either way, insane)

24.02.2026 00:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Y2K | This Is SportsCenter
YouTube video by ESPN Y2K | This Is SportsCenter

Basically this:

youtu.be/99z_d-iRnsg

23.02.2026 17:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s near a small population center, but the base itself is huge. Easy to keep secluded.

23.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pease is a former Air Force base and is still primarily used by NH Air National Guard refueling wing (they fly the tankers that provide in-flight refueling for other aircraft).

Hardly any civil traffic and even less commercial.

23.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I get it, he’s waiting on the corner 3, but at least fake the back cut

23.02.2026 01:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t love Baylor just standing in the corner watching everyone else play

23.02.2026 01:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Seems like if we’re going by population we should count each medal for every member in a team event. Or maybe you are?

Does gold in 4-man bobsled count as one medal or 4?

22.02.2026 22:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Out of bananas. And onions. And the good chocolate chips. But somehow we’ll muddle through.

22.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Just got home from the Basket. Hand-to-hand combat out there.

22.02.2026 21:38 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0