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John Fetterman Punched Us in the Mouth
On May 10, 2022, I published an article on this page under the headline "John Fetterman Will Punch You in the Mouth!" I meant it as tribute. I called him "what a Democrat used to be," a man "of the land, against the elite power, for the common good," and I welcomed him into my invented fraternity of "Big Uglies," the large, plain, unpressed men who do the country's heavy carrying. The year before, on my Human Meme podcast, in an episode called "The Great White Bridge as Throughline," I had floated him as a future Democratic President, with Keisha Lance Bottoms standing as his second. I believed the hoodie. I believed the shorts, the goatee, the 6'8" frame, the tattooed forearms, the whole costume of the steel-town avenger who, I assured you, "suffers no fools." Four years later I am here to take it back, in public, at length, because the recantation is owed, and because the autopsy of my error teaches more than the error did. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/05/john-fetterman-punched-us-in-the-mouth/
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Owner of Bastille Brasserie and Bar launches new galetterie in Alexandria this week
Galette Complete from Maison Breizh (courtesy of Maison Breizh) Galette Saisonierre from Maison Breizh (courtesy of Maison Breizh) Crepe du Saison from Ma…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchcuisine #aroundtown #braddock #francais #france #French #localbusiness #newrestaurant #restaurant
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2669175/owner-of-bastille-brasserie-and-bar-launches-new-galetterie-in-alexandria-this-week/ -
My understanding is that John Fetterman is, among other things, a landlord. One of my passengers was outraged that he was renting apartments in downtown Braddock for, if memory serves, $650 per month.
That’s not a high rent in #Pittsburgh generally, but #Braddock is a distressed community. Even with a piece of the U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson works, it still looks like a lot of communities afflicted by redlining and the collapse of the steel industry. There are about three blocks that have been redeveloped (I wasn’t here when Fetterman was Braddock’s mayor so I don’t know if he had anything to do with this); the rest is either blight or just this side of blight.
From: @br00t4c
https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/112227202812795100
