Grandson of four immigrants. Former NH State Representative and Manchester alderman. Burly southpaw. Cat Dude. Sox, Pats, Man City, Razorbacks. A man with a fork in a world of soup.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
Trump on DC: "One of my top people got killed waiting for his wife to come out of an office building, bring her home. And this guy comes up and wants the car and shoots him right through the head. Dead."
Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."
"Kindred Spirits" is a monument dedicated to the Choctaw people, expressing gratitude for the aid provided to the Irish during the Great Hunger and recognizing the common bond between two oppressed indigenous communities.
The sculpture is in my grandmother's home town of Midleton, Co. Cork.
"Winning in American elections is about expectations as much as who claims more seats," writes @sbg1.bsky.social. So will a predicted Democratic surge materialize and, if so, will it match or beat the party's own soaring expectations? www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The underlying law in this case was brought to us by the same paranoid weirdos who are obsessed with mythical "buses of Latinos from Lawrence and Lowell" driving to small town polling places.
Stonewalling the student vote has a long history in NH, dating back long before the MAGA era. The Other Brother Darrells in Plymouth and Goffstown have always feared students would swamp them in races for selectman or school board, even though municipal elections draw almost no student voters.
Mo was a funny guy.
He told a story about campaigning for President in New Hampshire. Walked into a barber shop and said, โIโm Mo Udall and Iโm running for presidentโ. The barber looked up and said, โYeah, we were just laughing about thatโ.
Self-deprecating political humor is mostly extinct now.
I don't want a "Joe Rogan of the Left".
You know what I want? A young Mo Udall, a smart liberal with both a biting wit and a wonderfully self-deprecating sense of humor.
I wore this to school when I was in middle school during Durkin's unsuccessful re-election campaign, alongside an Anderson/Lucey button. I was an odd kid.
Russian operatives are likely trying to meddle in the Senate race in Texas in the most prominent example yet of a foreign effort to mislead voters ahead of the midterm elections, three teams of disinformation researchers say.
Ashley Hinson: "This one really really ticked me off. Josh Turek thinks it's okay to go school and have the kids be able to change their gender pronouns at school and not tell the parents about it. That is just crazy, right?"
Bernie bamboozled a lot of people into thinking that the entire world uses a Canadian/British NHS system, and wrecked any hope of having a serious discussion.