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pdbiss

@pdbiss.bsky.social

Teacher, dad, husband, Lutheran, music lover, craft beer lover, Vikings, Twins, MNUFC, Everton, Dortmund. Opinions my own, except when I share others.

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Kathleen Alves@katalves18c.bsky.social · last mo.

Dollyland employees, both part time and full time, receive 100% of tuition covered. Healthcare, medical, vision, retirement benefits, childcare. A saint that walked among us. Every other wealthy person should be ashamed of themselves if they don't live up to Dolly standards.

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · last mo.

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

Nils Gilman@nilsgilman.bsky.social · last mo.

The national message should be super simple: "Trump's made billions since he went back to Washington. How are you doing?" This was Péter Magyar's approach to ousting Viktor Orbán: focusing not on his insults to democracy, but rather on the corruption & economic exclusion that have been the result.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

SCANDINAVIANS No people on earth, probably excel the Scandinavians, and scarcely any equal them, unless it may be the Swiss mountaineers, in attachment to their native country. The Scandinavian emigrant brings with him to this country, not only his love of home, but his attachments to customs and habits of his old home. So strong is this passion that it is hard for him to assimilate to the customs of his new home, and to conform to the ideas of American citizenship, but he remains in his adopted land, a foreigner, in all that pertains to his modes, manners, habits, likes and dislikes.This peculiar habit of our Scandinavian fellow citizens, and this strong, over-mastering attachment to their native land, has not been generally known and appreciated by our own citizens, "to the manor born." It will take several generations to wear away this foster land attachment, and to assimilate the Scandinavian emigrant, and absorb him into the language, habits, customs and true idea of a homogeneous American citizenship.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."