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I grew up in Maine and have had the exact same experience with the descendants of french canadians. Some of the most pro-trump, anti-immigrant voters. There ancestors were hated by the anglo-protestant people in Maine.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This is the thing I have been most worried about in the era of Trump. It is insane that we as a country gave him this power.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

To your point, I saw this post but followed you because i want to know more about fish and more about sharks in particular (love your bluesky name)

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I think this is exactly right and it is maddening. I reached out to my state legislator asking her (Democrat as am I) to support a law allowing traffic cameras at red lights and was told it was a privacy issue.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I think Professor Martin West at Harvard did research on holding back 3rd graders. I think the findings included that this reduced high school retention without increasing the risk of dropouts or not graduating high school. Paired w/changes to instruction can boost literacy.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Some folks working on early literacy are also focusing on building background knowledge. If schools switch to science of reading and building background knowledge, my hope is that the impact can last longer.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Honestly, for me, a part of becoming middle aged has been finally admitting to myself that all of these movies just aren't as good as I want to pretend they are.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I loved going to vote with my daughter after she turned 18. I made her take a selfie with me.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I am a big Bruce fan and Thunder Road is my favorite song of his

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Thanks for your response. My impression has always been that we (the US) gives more total aid but smaller as a percent of GDP. I could be wrong about that.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Is it even true those other countries don't give aid?

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I live in Massachusetts. What can I do to support this?

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

When I was in HS I needed a signature from my driving instructor. As I walked out of school I saw him drive by. My history teacher happened to be sitting in his car right there. I jumped in the passenger seat and said follow that car. He did. And I got the signature.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Number one is such a scary possibility.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This is the new infrastructure week

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Is this just him wanting to be able to claim he introduced a bill to repeal medicaid cuts when running for election even though he knows it won't pass?

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I keep thinking about this thread. It gets at something I have been really worried about. And I think it points to the fact that there is no going back to what was. We will continue on our current path or find a new (hopefully better) one.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I am glad they are willing to say this. I hope it helps to continue turning public opinion.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I also think about vigilante movies (Reacher, the punisher, etc..). No one imagines the possibility of the the vigilante getting it wrong. Punishing an innocent person and not the guilty.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

What would some future administration have to do to make something like this illegal?

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Vader was on the death star and has to have at least some of the responsibility. He was one of the leaders of the Empire, whether he gave that specific order or not

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I think about this all the time. He also killed children and was responsible for destroying an entire planet.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I don't know what his compensation should be, but the fact that he is extremely rich does not bother me

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

To me, the point is he founded Amazon and no one else did. others tried to build on-line retailers and failed. He saw that online retail was going to be very different than what came before when others didn't.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I agree with your overall point about incentives, but the second part of this statement is bullshit. Education, public safety, national defense, public health, roads are way more important for the average person. In fact Amazon couldn't exist without government but government existed before Amazon

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

They will also use it as further evidence you can't trust the government instead of just blaming it on one party

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

To be clear, this probably means actual criminals are getting less time to support made up crimes by immigrants. The Trump admin, putting criminals on the streets!

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

What did you get? I need a new one.

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

And didn't Republicans claim economic growth would make tax cuts revenue neutral for the first Trump tax cut and under Bush's tax cut only for subsequent analysis to show that didn't happen?

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joewyman.bsky.social @joewyman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I thought that was one of the most bizarre parts of the whole interview and I have seen no one else mention it!

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