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This is also a great counterpoint to folks who love posting demands for general strikes or mass boycotts -- but want them to appear out of nowhere. The reason the Target boycott is working is because it's built on the long-term, sturdy, proven infrastructure of Black churches.

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The guy here telling me this is what peak performance looks like, and I don't think I can argue with him.

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Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

"You're so drunk, you're probably seeing double.' "I have two guns - one for each of ya."

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[me, as a therapist] i think you should eat a bunch of Indian food about it

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

BREAKING: To claify, tariffs will now only apply on goods sold by people with specific horoscopes selling to Americans who have certain favorite Animorphs, based on the day of the week and Top 40 songs

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"oh no, this'll make the right wing mad!" Buddy they get into a frothing rage over like, cereal mascots and cartoon characters and the mere existence of gay people and what oil a French fry is cooked in and women knowing how to read, etc. They'll get mad anyway, no matter what. Tell em to fuck off

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Blessed that none of my exes ever became world famous music stars based off songs about how shitty I treated them.

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us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

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Boomer economist dad: we brought hoodies from the Grand Canyon. When do you want me up? Me: Do you want to go to the Italian place we love for mom's birthday before or when the stock market crashes. Boomer economist dad: Yeah, let's go on Wednesday.

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How can I work under these conditions

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

One weird thing about all of these awesome federal programs getting gutted out of existence is that I now know they used to exist. That’s sort of nice, I guess. It’s like learning about an animal that went extinct last Tuesday.

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The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”

submitted 2 days ago • 305 comments

Rest in peace to the director of Weekend at Bernie's, but also his estate has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

It's amazing that 4 congressional Dems voted to make it illegal for married women to vote, and the rest of the Dems didn't respond "ok yeah you are not allowed to call yourself a Democrat anymore, we're not going to help fundraise for you, just go fuck yourself"

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Sorry I can't come out tonight, I've got plans. The plans:

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Kitten physics, ft Parsnip

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

the muppets in famous works of art: thread

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

All bad things must come to an end. New shirts online now! www.raygunsite.com/products/tha... #raygun #iowa #kimreynolds