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ToadTheHalibut
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I lurk. I remain the fastest block in the west.
snitches hate this one $60,000 trick click to find out
December 11, 2024 at 6:23 PM
me looking at iOS 18 after finally getting my old ass phone to update:
November 27, 2024 at 2:17 PM
counterpoint: “somehow Palpatine returned” is still dumb, we’re just living in impossibly stupid and bad times
November 26, 2024 at 3:01 PM
wait that shitpost about Jay Leno flying off a cliff and hitting a rock wasn’t a shitpost
November 21, 2024 at 9:55 PM
i need an adult oh god no it is me the adult
November 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
My plan to not get measles is to simply eat four thousand dollars a day worth of low cost chicken eggs wait I have my MMR already because I was born when we were still trying to not die what do I do with all these eggs have I made a mistakr
November 20, 2024 at 10:34 PM
friends I have been saying “atta cams” this whole time. atta like atta boy. nobody stopped me. this was not in a vacuum
November 20, 2024 at 4:05 AM
it might work but after a few minutes he’ll be batting his hands under the door and trying to squish his little face under it
Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In
theonion.com/trump-locks-...
November 20, 2024 at 2:54 AM
oh this is a funny tweet I remember it from a few months ago on the old app

oh here it is again, that’s stra—

no you already posted it here four times

omg stop what are you—

it’s back again ahh

ahhhhh
November 19, 2024 at 4:41 PM
watching these troll accounts disappear on their first miserable efforts like mosquito larvae getting blasted with a can of raid before their wings even sprout won’t spare me from the gulag but it does warm the cockles for an instant
November 19, 2024 at 1:32 AM
every time Jeff is here he pees on my couch and eats my snacks so I kicked him out

“cool enjoy your echo chamber”
November 18, 2024 at 2:34 PM
My fave thing abt that picture of the horsemen on the plane with the Macca’s is the two wittle chockie milks. Dear leader needs his chockie milks
November 17, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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Facts
November 16, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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Nothing says “Make America Healthy Again” like a Big Mac and a lipper
November 17, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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The Trumpists won’t be able to implement everything they have planned exactly as they have planned it. But they are better prepared and in a far better position overall than they were in 2017.

More malevolent, less incompetent, with a weaker system to oppose them.

More here:
Why the Second Trump Regime Will Be Far More Dangerous
This will be a much more radical regime – and it will operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its extremist cause
thomaszimmer.substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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Sunday reading: What awaits us in a second Trump presidency?

A much more extreme rightwing regime that is vastly better prepared and will be operating under conditions that are significantly more favorable to its political cause.

I wrote about what’s different than in 2016/17.

This week’s piece:
Why the Second Trump Regime Will Be Far More Dangerous
This will be a much more radical regime – and it will operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its extremist cause
thomaszimmer.substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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do not panic
✊️ organize
November 16, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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It was a 49% to 48% election.

Fascism won by a hair.

And it took Russian and MAGA bomb threats, a hoax regarding battleground-state police raids, an illegal Musk-funded lottery, $600M given to Trump by just 15 people, Netanyahu meddling in our politics, and Democrats staying home for it to happen.
November 17, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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Rule #1
November 17, 2024 at 7:46 AM
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The Tr_mpers who voted for DT for “religious” or “abortion” reasons ~ ought to read THIS quote:
November 16, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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If this MSNBC story about courts-martial is confirmed, I'm begging people - especially writers and reporters - do not fall for the Trump line that this is about Afghanistan. This is about Trump seeking revenge on the people who woudn't him do things like shoot American protesters.
November 17, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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November 16, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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"To determine how many prison beds will be needed in future years, some states actually base part of their projection on how well current elementary students are performing on reading tests"
This is why reading is important. 50% of USians read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels. At least 45 million are functionally illiterate; 130 million more can't finish a children's book.

thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literac...
Literacy Statistics 2022-2023
Literacy Data and its impact on the Nation • Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children • 21% of adults...
thenationalliteracyinstitute.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:21 AM