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Hey guys trust me on something. The people that are in the Trump admin, honest to god they are weak children still mentally stuffed in a locker in high school. Leave them there, don’t be afraid of these kids

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in the years to come, everyone involved will tell a different version of what happened next

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...the face of a man who had no idea this morning that he was going to be asked to convince three hundred million americans that their best collective future as a nation is to become a lower-rent version of china

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#economists this week

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#cheers

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here, the increasingly rare carolina #obliviouspanther (carolina oblitus panthera) fails to realize that he is not completely hidden by the bird

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🇨🇦

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this never ends well

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Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

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🐾🐾🐾

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Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you

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🙊🙈🙉

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LISTEN none of this is about efficiency it's about deliberately degrading systems in order to argue "oh look at how badly broken things are" and then sell off our public infrastructure to for-profit companies (those that play nice) who will then happily rent our things back to us this is not new

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her: ...and this place has been threatening you via fortune cookie? me: for years. i mean, they're all but saying that they're gonna unalive one of my grandparents. her: ...should we really keep eating there? me: well, they're close by and have good tofu.

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here we see the stealthy carolina #HamperPanther, hidden behind the impenetrable walls of her home fort, plotting her next cinematically hyperviolent ambush #cats

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didn't think that it was possible to lose the cold war retroactively yet here we are

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lego tuxedo cat assembly, step 595 of 595 (…if you get an itchy feeling like it’s staring into your uncensored soul, the lego assembly manual says that’s often normal, and to avoid prolonged eye contact.) #lego #cats

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also this

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this. the whole idea that government should be run like a business is a cancer in our society that I've watched metastasize since Reagan part of the reason that the USPS exists is in order to provide services to (mostly rural) citizens that would be uneconomical for a for-profit enterprise

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"Always two, there are. No more. No less. A master and an apprentice." — Yoda

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...one of the bigger problems in the country now is that we have been taught that wealth is a proxy measure for intelligence

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Our next president will have to be technologically competent, at least , in order for us to sustain our place in the world. This will become increasingly obvious over the next 4 years as AI gets more powerful This isn’t necessarily bad. Truly. Done right, we will be a better, more equal society

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Yesterday it struck me that a huge chunk of the US population won't be as chronically online as we all are and so has no idea that DOGE is named after an old meme. They are unable to fathom quite how embarrassing it is.

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lego tuxedo cat assembly, step 470 of 565 (…my biology classes led me to believe that cat anatomy was much different - messier, and with far fewer parts that can snap together)

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Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

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HI MY NAME'S XENI I'M FIVE YEARS OLD AND FOR MY AUDITION TODAY I'LL BE SINGING THAT SONG THAT TAYLOR SWIFT SANG IN THE MUSICAL "CATS" #caturday

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(licks fur, clears throat) GROUNDHOGS ARE TERRIBLE METEOROLOGISTS AND YOU SHOULD NOT BE MAKING LIFE DECISIONS BASED SOLELY ON THEIR ILL-INFORMED OPINIONS ABOUT SEASONAL WEATHER TRENDS #groundhogday #cats

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here we see the rare carolina #lazypanther, an apex predator known for its uniquely energy-efficient hunting method, which involves catching its prey and sitting on it until its bladder explodes #cats

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that feeling when someone is trying to jedi-mind-trick you into running the red light #dogs #jedi

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lego tuxedo cat assembly, day 4; (step 170 of 565) #cats #lego

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things one learns when its 16 degrees outside and the modern heat pump is struggling to keep the house from becoming Vermont: 1) the thermal energy output of a resting cat is 10.9 watts (equivalent power cost roughly $0.01/hr) #cats #cold

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Everyone get out your dictionaries and look up the word "kakistocracy."

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What you look like scrolling

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Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X. 1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.

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No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

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What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.? In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

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