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Sharing this. JV Last, https://www.thebulwark.com/p/should-liberals-start-arming-themselves Should Liberals start arming themselves? https://www.thebulwark.com/p/should-liberals-start-arming-themselves This is this first part showing a bit of history. 1) Clive Bundy vs Bureau of Land Management 2) Michigan 2020 Protesters with guns inside the State Capitol. Key takeaways leading up to what is currently happening with ICE, an armed force...

He may be a pia, but at this point I'll take it. Both him and Massey

They'd have to pay me a ton of money to watch this. Meanwhile I'll skip the real halftime sho for free

Falls under laws for thee but not for me category..

So Putin is in the still unreleased Epstein Files????

Lovell, a teacher at Boston’s South Grammar School, was imprisoned by the redcoats for spying after the Battle of Bunker Hill. Washington, under instructions from the Continental Congress, proposed exchanging him for Philip Skene, a royal official of upstate New York and Vermont. “I fully intended to have given” Lovell his “Liberty,” Howe writes, but now that “cannot take Place.” Lovell will be taken with the British when they withdraw from New England in March.

No argument. It sure beats standing in line and running the gauntlet of "supporters" outside the polls.

One more. The genus of Christopher Guest, with an under rated classic of A Mighty Wind, The paring of Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara...

If our Disruptor In Chief really wanted fair elections, he would suggest (not demand on his private social media) something like this. 1) Hand marked paper ballots. Standardized paper as to size and format. 2) Optical scanning of all ballots 3) Ballots counted when they are returned, results withheld until after election day. This includes both mail in and hand delivered early voting. 4) No pure electronic voting. 5) Standardized Audits, triggered automatically if the percentage of the vote is within certain perimeters (say 1-3%). The audits performed by independent parties (this maybe a stretch). All audit results must be transparent. No pure electronic voting. There must be a paper trail Independent and secure methods to transport ballots if moved to a central location. Heavy fines for frivolous challenges, Just a few thoughts. I have no objections to early voting, or mail in ballots. There must be cutoff dates for mail in ballots, say postmarked 10 before election day. Walk-in early voting ends the Friday before election day. I would leave most of this for the states to decide since elections are still run by the states and not the Federal Goverment,

Oakland County, Farmington Hills instituted "absentee, early voting, for senior citizens" several years ago. In Virginia we can ask for a mail in ballot. I get one and usually drop it off at the county registrar's office when my wife goes to vote. It's quick, and extremely easy. The ballots are read by an optical machine. Hanging Chad's are probably an ancient relic now. Anyone who opposes this system is a loser and ckouldn't graduate from sixth grade unless their father paid someone off

About as accurate as our forecasts have been several days out. (said with tongue in cheek)

Surprise! Who would have thunk it?

We've had voting machines since the mid '60s on a regular basis if not before. I would say most machines are optical readers, leaving a paper trail. Getting rid of mail in ballots disenfranchises poor citizens, Ones that cannot afford to take the time off to stand in line at a polling place, do not have the means of getting there, or have employers that will not allow time off. If you are going in that direction then declare it a national holiday, mandate that all businesses must be closed on election days and provide transportation for all who desire it. Also do away with absentee ballots. **** your planned vacation, if you want to vote, stay home. That includes all politician's as well. The only people who think the current system is rigged are the ones trying to rig it

February 2 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/february-2?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2026-0202-02022026

More from the Trumpstein files...Showing their true colors

This is definitely another example of small ***** syndrome. Trump has been sufferingbfrom it his whole life https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-washington-dc-arch-b2911497.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

That's what I keep telling myself, its only been two weekends and yesterday's "event" was a nothing burger (not complaining). It's cold today and i'm sitting here at the CW Visitor Center playing on the internet. Last week's ice was maddening, we don't have the proper tools to break up ice about 3/4 of an inch thick, along with snow sheets. Temps will be above freezing this week. the past week was a reminder why we left...(or one of the reasons)

February 1 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/february-1?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2026-0201-02012026

Meanwhile my soon to be 14 year old grandson loves the sport. I'm not sure his school has a team, but he's found some sort of league in Livonia where he rolls on a fairly regular basis. This is after trying baseball, soccer, football, basketball and discovering he has his parents and grandparents sports genes

This is a minor blip on most folks radar but Dr Robert Reynolds who served for 26 years as director of bands at the University of Michigan and nearly 30 years as conductor o the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, as well as mentoring numerous current and former band and orchestra directors around Michigan and the nation passed yesterday. He was 91. When we lived in Michigan I was fortunate to spend a bit of time playing in the Farmington Concert Band. Director Damien Crutcher was one of his students (and friends). He had Dr Reynolds in on a few occasions to conduct the band, including our 60th Anniversary concert at Orchestra Hall.