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Postage is going up for the second time this year. As of July, forever stamps will be 73 cents. It's gone up 36% since 2019.
I'm glad I mail about five things a year.

 

Just got my AAA renewal notice. $164 for two people.

$119 three years ago.

37.8% increase.

 

The United States of Amnesia: How the Trump campaign is expecting you to forget that his negligence and conspiracy theories lead to the deaths of 1.2 million Americans....and about January 6th

 

AAA membership isn't mentioned in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution as being controlled by the federal government.

 

but when you pinch pennies, there's always something to gripe about.

 

"What isn’t said enough is that rural whites are being told to blame all the wrong people for their very real problems. As we argue in the book, Hollywood liberals didn’t destroy the family farm, college professors didn’t move manufacturing jobs overseas, immigrants didn’t pour opioids into rural communities, and critical race theory didn’t close hundreds of rural hospitals. When Republican politicians and the conservative media tell rural whites to aim their anger at those targets, it’s so they won’t ask why the people they keep electing haven’t done anything to improve life in their communities."

An Honest Assessment of Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue

 

11 years in the insurance industry has shown me the cost of tow calls has gone up exponentially. $75-$100 used to be the norm, now you're lucky to see anything under $200.

 

oh look more local cops welcoming Fat Orange Hitler on the tarmac at atlanta i'm sure this is fine

 

I was told it was NPR having too many actualities from a street market in Nairobi.

 

If only there was an alternative message being delivered by a group opposite that of the Republicans.

 

RFK Jr. New York campaign staff member Rita Palma has been fired

 

Not before she told the truth. RFKJ might as well put on the bad yellow toupee and the orange paint.