Tim Sperry

WHEN ARE PEOPLE GOING TO REALIZE THAT TARIFFS ARE CHARGED TO THE COMPANY DOING THE IMPORTING? No country is paying the bill. AMERICANS ARE! Stop being stupid.

It continues to blow my mind that these shitty strip malls get little to no pushback but a townhouse or apartments send them over the edge.

I encourage all my white friends who have the privilege of age and community stature to use the hashtag #iceout . Be like Minneapolis. Make it difficult for them.

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It all began with our first date fifty years ago! Lots of adventures between then and now at home and abroad. NJ, WI, PA, NC, Massachusetts and now Connecticut. Kids, cats, dogs, a daughter-in-law and now a grandchild make for an ever-changing family. New joys & adventures lie ahead.

In light of Trump’s gutting environmental controls and the EPA’s fealty to the pesticide companies, MAHA is truly an empty suit. Kids dying of asthma while eating dye free cereals. Let that sink in.

I am always amazed and shocked when I see an unplowed sidewalk adjacent to one that has been plowed. Be neighborly and just keep on going! My father did half our neighborhood well into his late 80’s. It is a tradition I continue. That said, Towns should take care of sidewalks, as they do roads.

Frightening possibility. Do not discount it.

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Along Party Lines - you got it in the story but not the headline.

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Nice start to the day

Every Sunday I have been posting what I call a timeline photo cleanse. Always a pretty picture, enabling us to have a short respite from all the chaos and terror that surrounds us in our own country.

January 24, 2026 This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.

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“Director [Todd] Lyons, who’s running ICE right now, I hope you’re hearing this from this Marine to you. You guys are criminal thugs. You need to be held accountable to law if you think you can enforce it, and you need to be prosecuted right now.”

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Watching Minneapolis and Portland respond to the Gestapo thugs is so uplifting. America is at its best when folks do this.

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Lawless behavior. To be expected.

January 19, 2026 Late last night, Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour posted on social media that the staff of the U.S.

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The headline is great and the text and list are even better. Love the story about the driveway. We had a similar experience earlier this month. It’s how we roll in CT and New England.

January 19, 2026 Late last night, Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour posted on social media that the staff of the U.S.

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“Tonight Danish troops—the same troops who stood shoulder to shoulder with U.S. troops in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021—arrived in Greenland to defend the island from the United States of America.”

West Wing Season 3 Episode 23. Lots of practical adults in the room. The occupants of this administration are embarrassments and don’t hold a candle to all those in this episode. Please watch it. Netflix and HBO Max.

Guilford, CT said “ICE Out” today.

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We need another Edward R Murrow.

States have the authority to run their elections and manage their voting rolls. This is a Federal fishing expedition. No thanks.

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open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... We learn from the historians!

The CT GOP toadies march on with no understanding of what is really going on.

Almost 20 years ago, I warned we were heading toward a world where states invade each other at will, and that America had an obligation to restore the higher bar for going to war. Not gonna say I told ya so, but...well, okay, I will.

There's a reason I chose these quotes to open the book.