DrLostCauses
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DrLostCauses
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Academic studying political causes/consequences of well-being. Fan of the interesting and important. Despairing Boston sports and happy Liverpool fan. Views and opinions are my own, not my employer’s or my state’s. I speak as a private citizen.
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Where I live, tv ads about suicide among farmers are running regularly.

We are not ok are we.
Significant deaths have a way of just suddenly hitting you randomly and out of the blue. Keep those close to you close and appreciate their impact.
Few phrases fascinate me like “sorry to bother you.”

Like it seems no one is ever actually sorry at all who says that?
Ok let’s see if the Celtics can break my heart tonight yeahhhh!
Ah a new version of the old “I saw Ted Kennedy flying First Class!”
crap.
Come on Bruins, salvage this evening for me!

YEAH!
Warsaw was rebuilt from oblivion. This too will be corrected. Rather a shame it needs to be.
Really a sign of the times that the first destruction of the White House since the War of 1812 is not even worthy of legacy media coverage.
Pretty amazing numbers here.
Here's my updated breakout of the Economist/YouGov weekly data. Trump is experiencing dramatic, across the board erosion. More here - www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/stuart-ste...
Anyone else prone to nervous eye tics find that theirs are off the charts these days?
E’s Navy Blue (Tobin Sprout) has to be one of the most criminally underrated songs from its time period.
Happy Birthday Bela Lugosi, a real one.
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America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
Worth a read. Even George W. Bush condemned this incident.
There’s a non-zero chance the teenagers of DOGE are actually running what’s left of the government.
This is what the Department of Transportation is tweeting out today.
This could recharge Jon Lovitz’s career.
Been around the block a bit re wine in my time on earth. Nothing has excited me as much as Sagrantino from Umbria, Italy of late. That’s just me and nothing of any value or worth should be read into this.
Glorious.
Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
I like that. Mine would resemble a Bosch painting more closely.
Well the CDC will get right on this, and

Oh.
New York health authorities confirmed Tuesday that a woman who fell sick on Long Island had been infected with the debilitating mosquito-borne virus chikungunya and appeared to have caught the virus locally — the first time such a case had been identified in the state.
New York Confirms State’s First Locally Acquired Case of Chikungunya
Testing proved that a Long Island woman had been exposed to the mosquito-borne virus, which is more commonly seen in the Caribbean and Central and South America.
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