Ted Roche 🌄 ⛈ 🌡 ⛅ 🌪 🌀
@tedroche.contoocook.org
He/him. Wx observer: CWOP/CoCoRaHS/SKYWARN® StormSpotter at https://contoocook.org. ¾-retired computer consultant, book & article author, conference speaker. Veteran USN submarine nuclear plant operator. #ETTD, duh. Slava Ukraini. Mundus sine Cæsaribus.
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We are now 42 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
January 30, 2026 at 12:15 PM
We are now 42 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
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For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 AM
For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
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Chief Judge Schilitz of MN (Scalia clerk) orders ICE director Todd Lyons to appear before him Friday. Says his "patience is at an end." Says his order to release or hold bail hearing for a detainee was defied as have dozens of other such orders.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Chief Judge Schilitz of MN (Scalia clerk) orders ICE director Todd Lyons to appear before him Friday. Says his "patience is at an end." Says his order to release or hold bail hearing for a detainee was defied as have dozens of other such orders.
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It's that old saw:
If one side says it's raining, and another side says it's not, a journalist's job is not to quote them both.
IT'S TO OPEN THE DAMN WINDOW AND REPORT WHAT THEY SEE.
If one side says it's raining, and another side says it's not, a journalist's job is not to quote them both.
IT'S TO OPEN THE DAMN WINDOW AND REPORT WHAT THEY SEE.
Is it really a “clash over the facts”?
January 26, 2026 at 4:08 PM
It's that old saw:
If one side says it's raining, and another side says it's not, a journalist's job is not to quote them both.
IT'S TO OPEN THE DAMN WINDOW AND REPORT WHAT THEY SEE.
If one side says it's raining, and another side says it's not, a journalist's job is not to quote them both.
IT'S TO OPEN THE DAMN WINDOW AND REPORT WHAT THEY SEE.
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My "I don't have...what do you call it...(Alzheimer's)...Alzheimer's" press conference has people asking lots of questions already answered by my press conference
January 26, 2026 at 4:09 PM
My "I don't have...what do you call it...(Alzheimer's)...Alzheimer's" press conference has people asking lots of questions already answered by my press conference
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Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. The whole DHS needs to go.
Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. The whole DHS needs to go.
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To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.
www.wired.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 AM
To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
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Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Board of Peace - Season 1
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NH House Republicans file a bill, HB1703, requiring even 8 yr olds to register their bikes at $50 per year. NH doesn't even require registration for guns which, by the way, are the leading cause of childhood deaths. The GOP is out of control. #NHPolitics gc.nh.gov/bill_status/...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:02 PM
NH House Republicans file a bill, HB1703, requiring even 8 yr olds to register their bikes at $50 per year. NH doesn't even require registration for guns which, by the way, are the leading cause of childhood deaths. The GOP is out of control. #NHPolitics gc.nh.gov/bill_status/...
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📻the show is up📻 @brookegladstone.bsky.social speaks to @vermontgmg.bsky.social about the state of…everything. And @micahloewinger.bsky.social dives into ICE surveillance and recruitment with @josephcox.bsky.social and @drewharwell.com ITS A GOOD ONE 👉 www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Trump's Plan to Tank America | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Children as young as five have been detained by immigration agents in Minnesota. On this week’s On the Media, how I.C.E. uses technology to surveil the public and recruit more members...
www.wnycstudios.org
January 24, 2026 at 1:03 AM
📻the show is up📻 @brookegladstone.bsky.social speaks to @vermontgmg.bsky.social about the state of…everything. And @micahloewinger.bsky.social dives into ICE surveillance and recruitment with @josephcox.bsky.social and @drewharwell.com ITS A GOOD ONE 👉 www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Northern New England gets really cold tonight and a lot of snow on Sunday night through Tuesday morning. Source: www.weather.gov/gyx/weathers...
January 24, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Northern New England gets really cold tonight and a lot of snow on Sunday night through Tuesday morning. Source: www.weather.gov/gyx/weathers...
Simultaneous number of Winter Storm Warnings is likely an all-time record. This is a 2300-mile-wide storm. Prepare if you haven't already. Stay home if it's already storming where you are. Serious long-term damage from TX to VA expected, lots of snow on the East Coast. Be careful out there.
Well, my database now computes 1,431 counties/zones for Sunday and 1,281 max on Saturday, that's wildly above the previous max value denoted below
January 24, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Simultaneous number of Winter Storm Warnings is likely an all-time record. This is a 2300-mile-wide storm. Prepare if you haven't already. Stay home if it's already storming where you are. Serious long-term damage from TX to VA expected, lots of snow on the East Coast. Be careful out there.
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Hate what brought us together but I'm glad we are together
📷: AP
📷: AP
January 23, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Hate what brought us together but I'm glad we are together
📷: AP
📷: AP
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I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
January 22, 2026 at 11:51 AM
I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
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This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 21, 2026 at 11:13 AM
This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index
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January 21, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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January 21, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Ah, for the good old days...
January 21, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Ah, for the good old days...
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I am still surprised at how many New Hampshire citizens do not understand the Koch funded Free State Project, how it has captured the GOP and our state government.
Knowledge is power. They can be beat back.
#NHpolitics
Knowledge is power. They can be beat back.
#NHpolitics
“It’s clear that the oft-touted New Hampshire Advantage exists primarily for the wealthy.” #NHPolitics www.keenesentinel.com/opinion/edit...
Sentinel Opinion: Interest and Dividends; Cutting a tax that only wealthy Granite Staters paid has left everyone else on the hook
New Hampshire’s repeal of the century-old Interest and Dividends Tax is proving to be a losing proposition, as some predicted. Combined with recent reductions in two other major revenue generators,
www.keenesentinel.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:34 PM
I am still surprised at how many New Hampshire citizens do not understand the Koch funded Free State Project, how it has captured the GOP and our state government.
Knowledge is power. They can be beat back.
#NHpolitics
Knowledge is power. They can be beat back.
#NHpolitics
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PRINCE HENRY
How does the king?
GLOUCESTER
Exceeding ill.
How does the king?
GLOUCESTER
Exceeding ill.
January 20, 2026 at 10:54 PM
PRINCE HENRY
How does the king?
GLOUCESTER
Exceeding ill.
How does the king?
GLOUCESTER
Exceeding ill.
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"Wealth tends to corrupt the mind and to nourish its love of power, and to stimulate it to oppression. History proves this to be the spirit of the opulent."
G. Morris at the Constitutional Convention, July 19, 1787
Not the wisdom of the founders usually emphasized.
G. Morris at the Constitutional Convention, July 19, 1787
Not the wisdom of the founders usually emphasized.
January 20, 2026 at 3:58 PM
"Wealth tends to corrupt the mind and to nourish its love of power, and to stimulate it to oppression. History proves this to be the spirit of the opulent."
G. Morris at the Constitutional Convention, July 19, 1787
Not the wisdom of the founders usually emphasized.
G. Morris at the Constitutional Convention, July 19, 1787
Not the wisdom of the founders usually emphasized.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.