@NortonMpls Tell me what is it about the way he lived his life that is memorable?
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61Bigguns
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61Bigguns
@61Bigguns
Mechanical Engineer, Industrialist, 30 year college educator. Catholic, married. Kids that are adults and 4 y/o in my eyes.
Upper Midwest Katılım Mayıs 2023
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Beautiful day in Minneapolis to honor George Floyd’s memory
daviss 📸@daviss
Now: Brass Solidarity performs Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy at George Floyd Square during the 6th annual Rise and Remember Festival. Prince tribute band coming up on the Main Stage around 5:30. Minneapolis May 25, 2026
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@scuupt @NortonMpls That too. We've lost the de Tocquevillian sense of morality in civic life.
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@61Bigguns @NortonMpls I think you mean, “…when a Leftist mob is universally encouraged and not stopped from burning down a police precinct with police officers still in it, your city will descend into a new lower level of hell.”
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6 yrs ago Mayor Frey performatively sobbed over George Floyd’s casket and promised police reform.
Then officers disengaged, leaving the force or slowing their response, and Frey relented. There were no meaningful reforms to policing because reelection was more important to Frey.
Mayor Jacob Frey@MayorFrey
We’ve worked hard to reform policing, strengthen our department, and rebuild trust with neighbors – while knowing there is still more work ahead. This anniversary also comes as reconstruction begins at George Floyd Square and work continues on the People’s Way.
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@PioneerPress What would possess anyone to keep writing about this 60-year-old story?
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Separate and unequal: The ‘Whites Only’ sign was a visible reminder of American racism. twincities.com/2026/05/24/ame…
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@CrusaderTrade Is this post about State Universities, heavy drinking or the culture?
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2/ If Biff's drinking is a problem, then we need to go back to a less degenerate culture.
If you think certain large (and actually selective) state universities suck, then we need to cut off Federal aid to them and end loans to their students, so no one else is scammed. (cont.)
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1/ If you don't want to hire my cousin Biff who "drank himself to an IT degree at Arizona State," that is fine. But if I were in charge, you wouldn't be able to sell goods or services in America if you don't. (cont.)
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@wystler_ @MattWalshBlog A nice red wine pairs perfectly with a medium rare steak.
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I swear this is all just another subtle way for foreign influence to destroy western culture. Don’t eat red meat! So many factors between AGS blowing up and the insane cost to buy it we’ve intentionally caused by bad policy. This makes the Indians happy too. Now, don’t drink, you have no self control and think about how much time you will take away from doomscrolling if you’re out socializing. You know who else doesn’t drink alcohol? Mohammed and company. We’re being replaced and these are subtle ways to shape the culture in those directions.
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The anti-alcohol stuff has become totally hysterical. It’s the worst and the gayest of the 90s anti-smoking propaganda all over again. Give up alcohol if you want but the stuff isn’t battery acid. A sip won’t send you to the hospital. A glass of wine ruined three days of your life? When did it become normal and acceptable for men to brag about their weak constitutions? Really weird.
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”
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@WhiteySwolz @MattWalshBlog One drink isn't going to intoxicate you.
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@MattWalshBlog No, 1 drink isn't going to kill you, but it's still basically drinking poison. It's toxic to the body. There's a reason they call it "getting intoxicated".
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It has a long answer. But the short of it is because they think it’s culture. They have not been taught their culture so they act accordingly. No respect to history, the struggle of our people to enrich ourselves, no sense of honor. Just generations of ignorance passed down from one welfare mama to the next, to the present. So sad…
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Very dignified!! So embarrassing!!
꧁♛𝓑𝓵✯𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓼♛꧂@heyitsmeCarolyn
This is why we can’t have nice things…. 👀
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@cylonsRus @JWhitebread1 We used to hire an artist in Milwaukee. He never did any art for us, we'd just meet at his studio and assemble prototypes ourselves.
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@JWhitebread1 A student told me one summer he was interning at Harley Davidson & taking a tour of the facility on day one. A fellow intern bumped a table, knocking a wrench off onto the floor. When the student bent to pick it up, he was screamed at for taking away a union job.
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Once as a grad student I helped a professor set up a trade booth for the Society of Architectural Historians at a convention. It took 15 min. No biggie. Then a union rep came over and chewed us out, told us we weren't allowed to do that, and demanded we take it all down. We did. Then we waited for hours until a union guy from the carpenter's union could put it up. He finally came over, and even though we were trying to tell him how to do it, he was absolutely incompetent and it took forever. We eventually gave up and just let him do it. Finally it was up but was threatening to fall over it was done so badly. So we waited for him to leave, took it all down and put it up AGAIN so it was right and safe. Unions are a racket.
Geeky REAL GINGER Sparkles@desert_starr_57
Yep. This is super common at some big venues. @Kneon used to design and deliver trade show booths, and the company had to pay to have them loaded in. Thankfully, a lot of locations do not do this, but it's something you should check if you are considering doing a show.
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@JWhitebread1 I used to work at a motorcycle manufacturer. The union had it in their contract that no one else in the company including the engineering department could possess hand tools. My boss framed the grievance letter stating that he was a "known tooler".
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@WehnerNick @MoundLore As a Christian, I'm always interested in a non Christians telling me what my beliefs are.
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It’s interesting how ancient history is everywhere….Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece….taught, celebrated, commercialized.
But in North America ?
Sites like Cahokia, Newark, and Poverty Point barely make the conversation.
These weren’t small tribes. They built cities, observatories, entire landscapes of meaning.
Why don’t we treat that like history too?
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@Seferyn @RobertMSterling The bubble is real. Listen to NPR reporting on Republicans and you feel like you're going on a trip to the zoo.
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All true.
It makes some sense in context, because being in the entertainment industry in New York City, 95% of the people he hangs out with are very liberal.
I think he felt like he was being a true patriot. A lot of the far-left people think they're doing a courageous thing by fighting Trump nonstop.
They truly believe all of the stuff that they're saying. And most of the people around them tend to agree.
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The tragedy of Stephen Colbert is that he really is a brilliant comedic talent and—according to those who know him in real life—a kind and thoroughly decent man.
He could have maintained his liberal political beliefs while ring-fencing them from the Late Show and no one would have cared.
Instead, though, he sold out, electing to become little more than a regime-media court jester, a funny man’s Rachel Maddow.
He chose pandering to an actuarially decaying audience of geriatric shitlibs over remaining funny to a broad and politically inclusive audience, and he ultimately paid the price through declining relevance, reduced ratings. and decimated advertising revenue.
It would be tragic, if it weren’t so completely well deserved.
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@SteveAustinWI NPR dumps a couple news shows and it has to lay off 300 staffers.
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This really is a stunning indictment of the fact many left wing organizations are not run efficiently. The guy does a show with like three guests and a band each night. And the agents of the guests all call up HIM to be on the show for PR purposes.
Brian Stelter@brianstelter
One of the great group shots of "The Late Show" staff posing on stage:
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Here's the problem: if we do this, this $11 bathmat will be purchased from some crony for $25 each, only after commissioning a "study" to determine which bathmat, which will cost $10 per mat.
Then we will hire some fraudulent "nonprofit" to distribute them, for about $20 per mat.
Then there will be follow up visits at $50 each to go check on how the bathmats are doing.
Meanwhile, we could just say "find a bathmat and you can get $11 reimbursed" -- but if we did that, there would be 1000 "Bathmat centers" in Portland Maine.
Senator Angus King@SenAngusKing
Prevention measures like an $11 bath mat could save Americans tens of thousands of dollars. If Medicare would send these out to every recipient in America, I’ll bet the investment would pay for itself in under a year.
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I think Trump needs to get on this. I’d buy one of these.
David Coyote@dvdcoyote
@EndWokeness @mrddmia They even had Bicentennial Lawnmowers being sold in 1976.
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@mrtequilatom @DanODonnellShow Why do you bring Bill Clinton into this?
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@DanODonnellShow Imagine if they put that much effort into arresting Epstein’s clients.
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MAJOR EXCLUSIVE: The FBI has begun contacting as many as 30 Milwaukee Police officers to schedule interviews related to an investigation into the 2020 presidential election. Those interviews are expected to begin next week.
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THIS IS MASSIVE FROM 🇨🇳 CHINA
🇺🇸 Trump: "China agreed not to supply weapons to Iran. I talked to them."
🇨🇳 China FM: 🔥 "We want to end rumors that China agreed with the U.S. not to supply weapons to Iran."
"To be clear: no such communication occurred. China has neither confirmed nor denied supplying weapons to Iran."
"Our security agreements and defense cooperation are sovereign matters for China alone. No foreign country may interfere in China’s internal affairs."
Trump getting humiliated every hour. 😭
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Interesting. I believe in the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. (And if Stephen attends Mass, he says he does too!)
Breitbart News@BreitbartNews
Stephen Colbert, a professed Catholic, says he believes that when we die, "there is some continuance of some kind. But it’s like a dispersion of the self into some other greater being. And I don’t have any other feelings beyond that.” This sounds more like the Gnostic concept of the Pleroma than the Catholic doctrine of Heaven.
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RadioShack was the last store where being confused felt useful.
You’d walk in for batteries and end up standing in front of tiny drawers full of parts you didn’t understand yet. Resistors. Switches. Speaker wire. Fuses. Project kits. Adapters for problems so specific they sounded made up until somebody behind the counter nodded immediately and disappeared into aisle six.
People remember the batteries.
They forget the feeling.
RadioShack made technology feel close enough to touch. You could buy a soldering iron, a police scanner, a bag of LEDs, a replacement remote part, a weird cable, a battery club card, or one tiny component that somehow brought the whole thing back to life.
Kids built crystal radios. People repaired RC cars. Teens stripped speaker wire in garages.
Some employee who looked like he had worked there since 1987 could translate your terrible explanation into exactly the part you needed. That kind of place teaches a different relationship with the world.
Machines had backs and screws and wires. Things failed for reasons. You could open them. You could make mistakes. You could learn enough to stop being intimidated.
Then the world changed.
Screens replaced screws. Batteries got glued in. Devices got sealed. Parts disappeared. Stores stopped assuming people wanted to understand anything below the surface. People call that convenience. But there’s a reason people remember RadioShack harder than they should. It was one of the last places that made technology feel unfinished.
Like normal people still had permission to participate. Now most of us carry objects more powerful than anything in that store ever sold and most of us would not even know where to begin if one stopped working.
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