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I like dogs, heavy metal, Irish dancing, cross stitch and crochet, and double reeds. And science.
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Clearly he’s never seen Mighty Ducks 2, or he would have know that Greenland is covered in ice, and Iceland is nice.
29.03.2025 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“Our bottle caps are manufactured in Mexico,” Butcher explained [...]. “Our pilsner malt, our base malt, comes from Canada. That’s the main ingredient in all of our beers, and so we’re going to have to increase our prices substantially.”
“Jackson argued that the president, as the only representative of all the people, should rule supreme. Congress did not agree. At the heart of the debate was the struggle between the executive and the legislature over which branch should dominate the government. That struggle continues today.”
02.03.2025 00:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“This 1834 lithograph by David Claypool Johnson shows Kentucky senator Henry Clay sewing President Andrew Jackson’s mouth shut. Jackson’s fight to destroy the Bank of the United States and his removal of the Treasury secretary led to the Senate’s censure of Jackson for abuse of presidential power.
02.03.2025 00:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have noticed a couple of misleading headlines there, just as an FYI to check them. Things are bad enough without hyperbole.
03.02.2025 18:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
25.01.2025 23:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”
25.01.2025 23:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.”
25.01.2025 23:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Had a much-needed visit to the FDR memorial today. Someone sweetly left roses with them.
“They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers…call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.”
Señorita wore blazers every day, and every day an American flag pin on her lapel. One day a few of asked her how she could possibly wear that, how could she be patriotic, knowing all of this and seeing it and teaching it to us. Her response was simple:
“Because I CAN teach you this here.” (4/4)
When it came to modern Central American history, Señorita had us read graphic depictions of atrocities committed by US-trained and US-supported fighters. This was my first exposure to the US not always representing “the good guy.” I left class every day for weeks numb or in tears. (3/4)
25.01.2025 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0One of my favorite teachers in high school was Señorita Condon who (perhaps obviously) taught the upper-level Spanish classes. In Spanish 4, my senior year, we had learned all of the grammatical rules and so the class focused mostly on practice and on history and culture. (2/4)
25.01.2025 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I love this country. Here is my patriotic origin story, but presented without further commentary, because I am scared. What’s yours? (1/4)
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