USMC Vet. Retired. Hobbies are history, literature, tech, and hiking. I value intelligent, civil discourse, with a touch of humor and occasional sarcasm.

No time to pass the Save Act or even figure out Daylight Savings Time, but they have time to throw birthday parties for their dogs.
Sen. Jim Justice throws a huge birthday party for his dog on Capitol Hill 🎂 🎥: @hicharliecotton
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This might be one of the longest escalator rides in the world. This connects the Long Island commuter rail system with the Metro North.
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Welcome to the bowels of NYC. The train platform at Grand Central is a mess.
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Traveling into Manhattan today on the Metro North for first time since my retirement. Feels nice to slip onto a train in casual clothes with no backpack weighed down with a laptop and other work things. Rode this train daily for over ten years. NYC has a lot of issues but the commuter rail system was never one of them. I kind of miss the train routine.
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Ken Cook retweeted
Women will never understand the simple joy men get from just existing. A man can arrive in a new city, walk around for hours, explore random streets, observe people, and be completely fucking content. Then a woman joins. Now there needs to be an agenda. Cafe. Restaurant. Shopping. Tourist spot. Photos. Next location. Something always has to be happening. Meanwhile, a man can grab a good drink, sit in the town square for three hours, watch the world move around him, and think: "Yeah. This is f*cking nice." No itinerary. No entertainment. No destination. Just existing without needing existence to entertain you. Being a man is peaceful.
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I changed my profile pic today to my own self instead of my favorite historical figure (Winston Churchill) and now my Premium X account, which has been active for years has been placed under review. Oh well. I figured since I’m retired I can put my actual image out there. This photo was taken during a five mile hike in central Massachusetts on September 21, 2026.
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Well that was quick. The review only took about an hour or so. Thanks X.
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Pay close attention to which Republican are fearmongering, black pilling and dooming before the midterms. We have net negative immigration to the United States of America for the first time in 75 years. That is astounding. And it's exactly what needs to happen if we have any chance of saving this country. Inflation is also way down despite temporarily elevated gas prices. This has been one of the best administrations of my lifetime. If you sit out this election because you only got 95% of what you wanted, not 100%... ...then you are giving back power to the political party that just let 20 million illegal immigrants pour through our southern border.
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I am making one on Wednesday and now I feel justified in eliminating celery as an ingredient! Never did understand why people thought celery would be good in any stew.
Celery does not belong in beef stew. -Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Nobody who helped perpetrate it wants us to remember the COVID scam. They want us to forget the forced masking, the six feet apart nonsense, the elders dying alone in hospitals, the lockdowns, and the compulsory vaccinations. They want us to pretend it never happened. I will never forget.
It's funny how covid was this big unprecedented historical event but they're never going to make any movies about it because it would make everyone look retarded
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Your entire life will be spent voting for the lesser of two evils. I’m 45 years old and that’s all I’ve ever gotten to do. Welcome to being a grown up. Politicians suck. Choose the one who sucks the least.
Many of us are through with the ‘but the other side is worse than us’ logic. If we continue voting for the lesser of two evils, that’s all we’ll ever get. The GOP must be purged and rebuilt. It won’t happen if we reward the Trojan Horse.
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Crazy how there is still footage of everything President Trump is doing even through the Extremely Important Press Pool decided to self-censor. Almost like they're completely unnecessary.
President Trump boarded Air Force One this afternoon at Joint Base Andrews. He is on his way to New York City.
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Replying to @jackunheard
THEY ALL RECEIVED THEIR ORDERS 😂 Save me your faux outrage of Trump banned the press. 🙄 You can publish whatever your communist news network wants. Just not from inside the Whitehouse. And every single one of you bitching now was cheering when they all deplatformed a sitting U.S. President. We didn’t forgive and we damn sure didn’t forget. In 2021 CNN treated Trump getting banned from Twitter like a victory lap. Jim Acosta: Twitter “kneecapped” him. It was an “emasculating moment.” His favorite toy was gone. Don Lemon: biggest loser, biggest snowflake. Today Trump says CNN is banned from the White House. Same network: this is an “illegal assault” on a constitutional right. So a private platform deplatforming a sitting president was justice. The government restricting access it controls is fascism. They don’t hate bans. They hate who gets banned when it’s them.
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❌ canceled for not wearing AIDS ribbon ❌ canceled for not driving EV ❌ canceled for not getting vaxxed ❌ canceled for driving the wrong EV ❌ canceled for not wanting Israel destroyed ❌ canceled for not hating data centers The tolerance people sure do spend a lot of time not tolerating people they happen to disagree with
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Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the United States, shot and killed a Founding Father in a duel while he was the sitting Vice President, and then went right back to work. In 1804, Vice President Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the former Treasury Secretary and one of the most important men in the country, had been feuding for years. Burr challenged him to a pistol duel. They faced off, Burr shot Hamilton, and Hamilton died the next day. The Vice President of the United States had just killed one of the nation's founders. Here's the insane part: he got away with it, at least legally. Burr was actually charged with murder in two different states, but as Vice President he was essentially untouchable, so he calmly returned to Washington and finished out his term. For months, the second-highest official in the country was a wanted man in multiple states while still running Senate proceedings. It gets even more surreal. While under indictment for murder, Burr presided over a Senate impeachment trial of a Supreme Court Justice, and observers actually praised him for how fair and dignified he was running it. So you had an accused murderer, calmly and gracefully overseeing one of the most important trials in the country, as part of his job. And he wasn't done making history for the wrong reasons. Not long after leaving the vice presidency, Burr got wrapped up in a bizarre scheme in the American West. He was accused of trying to raise his own private army and carve out a brand-new independent country for himself to rule. He was arrested and put on trial for treason against the United States. He was ultimately acquitted, but the former Vice President had genuinely been tried for trying to break off a piece of the country. So the real Aaron Burr: killed a Founding Father in a duel while serving as Vice President, dodged murder charges by finishing his term, ran an impeachment trial while indicted, and then got tried for treason for allegedly trying to start his own nation. That's a Vice President.
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How Vicki Lawrence (Yes, That Vicki Lawrence) Ended Up With the #1 Song in America In 1972, Vicki Lawrence was best known for making people laugh on The Carol Burnett Show. Then her husband, songwriter Bobby Russell, came home with a song called “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.” There was just one problem. He didn't like it. Vicki did. She thought it could be a hit and urged him to record a demo. Instead, Russell told her that if she liked it so much, she could sing the demo herself. So she did. Producer Snuff Garrett heard something in it, too. Liza Minnelli was considered but passed. Cher was another possibility, but according to Lawrence, Sonny Bono turned it down before Cher even heard it because he worried the Southern storyline could offend some of her fans. Eventually Garrett decided to record it with the woman who had sung the demo: Vicki Lawrence. The comedian who wasn't known as a recording artist suddenly had the #1 song in America. “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973 and sold more than a million copies. And if you're thinking, Wait—I remember Reba singing that... You're right. Reba McEntire recorded her version nearly two decades later. But the first time the lights went out in Georgia... Mama was singing. ❤️
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This is an excellent history class and it’s still available for streaming absolutely free.
Back in college, one of the most popular classes was “HIST119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era.” Now I get to listen to it on the Apple Podcasts app at 2x speed and reclining on my sofa. ☺️
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The thing that still simply amazes me is how the entire journalistic profession is utterly oblivious as to how much and WHY they are despised by the vast majority of Americans. I mean, if I was a "journalist" I would at least notice how wildly despised my profession actually is, and I would have some deep introspection as to how I could get more people to trust us. Yet such introspection is almost completely absent, other than rare exceptions like Bari Weiss. Maybe "journalism" is a profession for low-IQ narcissists?
As I told @AliVelshi the major networks and newspapers need to tell Trump they will pull their teams out of the WH if this ban happens. There should be no pool coverage, starting at the UN this week. No WH Correspondents Dinner. Cancel that. Band together and hang tough.
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Ken Cook retweeted
If you have to read the replies on a post to figure out how you feel about what the post says, you are part of the Herd Mentality that are also known as Group Thinkers. Don't be a Group Thinker.
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