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It really hit home for me as I lost one of my ND roommates to illness 3 days before my dad died in 2022. For about ten to fifteen years in the 90's and early 2000's we barely had contact, simply because both of us just busy in our careers and our families. Fortunately we reconnected fairly regularly beginning in about 2005. I would have been disconsolate when he passed if we hadn't; instead I was able to treasure the times we did have. I still think about him all the time.

Just a beautiful post, your advice is spot on, and may your friend rest in peace.

She was married to my grandfather, the street car conductor.

By the way, a very good friend of mine from Dillon Hall, is from your home state, Marshalltown to be specific. He owned a furniture store in the Quad Cities until he recently sold it and retired.

Yes, he sold davenports in Davenport. And that's a true story.

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between his 1950's childhood in the nuclear-family era and his 80's NYC Gilded Cocaine heyday. There are different terms, opinions and strands of, uh, thought that clearly tie back to one of the two. And very little beyond that, short of social media.

His landmark press conference where he stood on the front lawn and explained groceries to the American people remains quite possibly the most confounding yet instructive public appearance he's made in a decade rife with them.

When's the last time he actually went out and walked around regular society? Shopped in a supermarket? Walked into a hardware store?

I was flabbergasted. Had to sit down on the Davenport. "Luncheonettes"?

My grandfather was a streetcar conductor. And he was an immigrant!

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“I guess,” Trump, 79, responded. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things."

"Like I said, some people will die," the president added. "When you go to war, some people will die."

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I am not making this up:

“You gotta lighten up on this, they might have come into our country illegally but they're good people and they’re cheap workers. They’re working now on farms, in luncheonettes and hotels. We’re just focused on getting the murderers out.”

What. The Actual. Fook.

I wish I was kidding.

America", whatever the hell that is. Elba or St. Helena?

I wonder if she'll take Corey Lewandowski with her.

Stitt is certainly not full anti-Trump, but he is not a sycophant. As a politician in a state that overwhelmingly voted for Trump, Stitt has had to carefully pick his battles with Trump, but at least he has picked a few.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/26/nx-s1-5719201/kevin-stitt-republican-party-immigration-t...

in 30 days, to serve until the November election.

Reportedly he (Kevin Stitt) is not a Trump lackey, so maybe he'll appoint a semblance of a human being for a few months. Under state law, the appointee cannot run for the seat in the next election. It's a good law, means the governor can't be a kingmaker.

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intelligence of both the Senate and the Administration.

(credit to someone on BlueSky)

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while she was doing some sort of public presentation in Nashville.

He thanks Tubberville every day.

Don't grift without him being a part of it. Realizing how much she made from the $220 million ad campaign was the determining factor for him, not any of the awful acts of ICE. Lutnick's sons cashing in on tariff rebates is also on his radar.

But I don't know if he's "face eaten off by a dog" level of bad...yet.

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Had Kash in the survivor pool as first out.

Good riddance. I hope she gets her face eaten off by a dog. But the replacement is almost always worse. Only thing I know about Mullin is that he's from Oklahoma. A state climbing over itself to show how backwards it can be. So I don't hold out great hope.

Although her replacment, Mullin, may not be much better. Can he be worse?

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/05/us/trump-news