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Marie Novello

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Beautiful story about carrying on family traditions.

Thank you @pbump.com

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

I like to share a family tradition in which we save parts of old Christmas trees and then talk about family history on Christmas Eve.

This year, I learned that my grandmother liked to share that tradition, too.

Finding a tradition inside of a tradition

Every so often, I Google the names of my grandparents. The internet keeps expanding backward as more pre-internet information is digitized so it's interesting to see if anything else has surfaced. I w...

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December 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

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a new cartoon as we ease into our post-thanksgiving week: donald's war on woke

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Cartoon: The war on woke

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December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Philip Bump

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Know a student in Oklahoma who will soon be taught about 2020 election “discrepancies”? I compiled a debunking in advance.
They may not get an A using this, but at least they’ll get an actual education.
Gift link: wapo.st/4m3cvcw

Opinion | Hey, Oklahoma students. Here’s your real ‘election fraud’ primer.

The state’s curriculum now teaches kids to be skeptical about the results of the 2020 election.

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May 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM

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R.E.M.

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Here's a special dispatch from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty including messages from Mike & Michael of R.E.M. and Radio Free's Europe's president Stephen Capus on World Press Freedom Day TODAY! More here: ffm.to/remrfe2025

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