The weekend Obamacare passed back in 2010, the tea party held a rally outside the House chamber. Pretty funny to look back and see how different things were.
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Ryan S. Powers
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Ryan S. Powers
@RyanSPowers
Research guy doing research things
Washington, DC Katılım Mart 2009
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@Mdixon55 @RyanSPowers whattt me neither! going to ask my parents about this
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@Mdixon55 @ElizLanders They’re going to have to pry the 850 from my cold, dead hands.
(Although I remember my house number & RPOF’s main line from when it was still at 904 #)
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@ElizLanders That’s mine as well. Had never seen anything quite like it, but such is Sunshine State politics
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Just explained the five second rule to my five year old and I’m think it just broke his brain…
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@maxwelltani Some people here value their sanity. (I know, I know…)
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nbc inadvertently ended up with what would've been a kind of insane interview and they canceled it?
The Hollywood Reporter@THR
'Bachelorette' Star Taylor Frankie Paul Responds to Leaked Video of Domestic Incident as NBC Cancels Her 'Tonight Show' Appearance hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bac…
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Remember, kids....bipartisanship is only good (or bad depending on which way @RepBrendanBoyle is leaning at any given moment) when you think you can score points with it:
Congressman Brendan Boyle@RepBrendanBoyle
Once again Sen Fetterman shows why he is Trump’s favorite Democrat. He needs to go.
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High-stakes decisions with massive ripple effects.
New edition live → open.substack.com/pub/otdactuall…
#OnThisDayActuay
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One mutinous bullet in 1687 killed explorer La Salle in Texas… yet helped France claim Louisiana and reshape America forever.
March 19 also gave us Spain’s radical Cádiz Constitution, Nevada quietly launching Vegas, Speer defying Hitler’s Nero Decree, C-SPAN’s debut, & more.
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Who needs social media when you can just take a stroll through MtP?
Ryan S. Powers@RyanSPowers
Hadn’t heard the COVID-Epstein one yet? Slightly afraid to ask someone to explain?
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Hadn’t heard the COVID-Epstein one yet?
Slightly afraid to ask someone to explain?
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Years later, Harry Chapin turned the crash into “30,000 Pounds of Bananas,” a darkly comic protest song about the pressures on American workers that somehow became a concert singalong — and drew criticism for treating a real tragedy like a bit.
youtu.be/mvCFTnFOx3Q?si…
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On March 18, 1965, a truck hauling 30,000 pounds of bananas lost its brakes on a hill in Scranton, Pennsylvania, smashing cars, killing the driver, and forcing the city to change its trucking laws.
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From Parliament trying to end a colonial crisis (and unintentionally making it worse), to the 1990 art heist that left empty frames on the wall as a permanent symbol of hope. And a whole lot in between.
Check it out in today's "On This Day, Actually..."
#OTDActually #StampAct
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“For context, New York City’s median household income is $81,228. That means every unsheltered homeless person would technically join the middle class if the city just wrote them a check for what it’s spending on their behalf.”
Ryan S. Powers@RyanSPowers
“New York City spent about $81,705 per unsheltered homeless person last year, up from $28,428 six years earlier, according to a new report from the state comptroller.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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