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I'm not sure it's been mentioned here but Death By Lightening is a good short series. It's about the election and Presidency of James Garfield. Excellent cast. Michael Shannon as Garfield, Matthew Macfayden as assassin Charles Guiteau, Bradley Whitfield as James Blaine, Nick Offerman as Chester Arthur, Shey Whigham eating up scenery as Roscoe Conklin. It's fairly accurate but does overplay a few roles. Macfayden and Shannon are especially impressive

I grew up around a bunch of kids whose dads were members of the state police, county sherrifs and so forth. Just like every other organization there are a few bad apples mixed in. With Trump's "Army" what we are seeing is a bunch of wantabes, Mostly the same group we saw during January 6. A bunch of guys who want to play soldier but could never cut the mustard in the real thing. Just like the Faker in Chief himself who had his daddy pay off a doctor. A tough guy until confronted. These ICE pretenders need fee some real pushback

I can't believe I'm quoting MAGA Marge. The world is turning upside down, if not sideways

I agree, DiCaprio played the burnt out revolutionary quite well, though it did have a bit of the Jeff Bridges "The Dude" feel. It took me a while to recognize Sean Penn

That was my thought as well. It's been a while since I hung out at the Mac, I was trying to figure out whether it came in thru the garage (not sure if Delta still uses the counters there anymore or on the main level). Security Cameras, maybe??

January 25 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-25?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2026-0125-01252026

Mike McCarthy to the Steelers???

Still paying less overall than I was in Oakland Co, Michigan. The weather is better too, except for this weekend. Can't complain. We looked at a few "low tax" areas. Trust me you get what you pay for. I'll pay the little more for a bit of real civilazation, unlike Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida, etc

Why are you so concerned about Virginia. It doesn't affect you, aand we don't want your kind. And judging from what I see from Trumpers on places like NextDoor, they don't want anyone else to move in next to them

Once again your propaganda is misleading. The 13.8% Repugakins are pushing combines two separate, proposed taxes that would apply to certain high income and investment income, not to everyone's wages. Only very high earners, basically those with incomes over $1 million would face the 10% top marginal rate and only those same high income households and significant investment income would pay the additional 3.8%. Most Virginians will probably see no change at all.

January 24 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-24

Now that he's solved Venezuela and Greenland, his current attention is on Cuba....

Cool story. Just learned about this a few days ago... Surprised it took to the mid '80s for someone to recognize and actually do something relatively simple. And the guy took no money for his idea. edit. I see the Journal story was paywalled. Here's another version https://www.autoweek.com/news/a69889877/gas-guage-little-arrow-inventor-has-passed-away/

I'm sure I'm in that database someplace...probably from that moratorium rally I observed in 1969 or "correcting" a conservative social studies teacher on Earth Day about the same time. Probably for a few of my posts here obviously.

And the Trumpian Band plays on...."Nearer our Orange god to thee"

Somewhere in the mid to late '60s early '70s the parties did a major beliefs switch. It was part of Nixon's "Southern Strategy" combined with backlash over Viet Nam. Johnson's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act turned Conservative Southern States against the Democratic Party. Nixon sealed the deal. When the walls came down with the Fairness Act, all hell broke loose. IMO

More Trump Regime TACO

When the "news" organization and Republican Party dissed Fred Rogers they lost me forever. Right now I believe Fox and the GOP owes me about $10 Billion for my suffering https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar.bsky.social/post/3md3ym75ts22l