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MSU Spartan from birth, Detroit Lions fan for life. #USWNT & woso, baby!
Women's rights are human rights. #BLM
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Anthony Carter breaking a tackle against the Buckeyes.
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Chloe would love to know if she can be of assistance. (Chloe suffers slightly from anxiety, but deep down knows it will be okay.)
Tabby cat sitting in sn office chair in front of a table, staring directly into your soul.
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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"That's the crucial message of the book, Julie, is apathy is a bigger threat to democracy than anger, right? Charlottesville and Jan. 6 were spasms of anger. People were mad at institutions. We can control that over time better than we did there. Apathy is harder. "I worry that because of that cynicism, that justifiable cynicism, that a lot of people just withdraw. They don't vote, they don't educate themselves, they don't engage with their neighbors. That, to me, gives outsized power to perspectives across the board politically that are not quite there for the common good, but are more special interest or niche. And that's a problem, right? If everybody in America participates, I feel like democracy is in good hands. "If I have one message, it's [to] run toward the fire. If you see problems in our society and those institutions, go toward the problems. Be part of the solution. Resist the temptation to just throw up your hands and say, it just doesn't matter what I do."
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Oh my fucking Lord.....
Picture of a big ass sub with tater tots, roughly 6 fried eggs, and some kinda tomato-looking sauce - ketchup? who can say - as the base. Heart attack on a sub.
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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theweek.com/culture-life...
Ghislaine Maxwell is described as a "molester with posh manners and an aristocratic pedigree" who played "den mother to Epstein's family of dysfunctional girls". Giuffre also writes about her first meeting with the British socialite, who approached her while she was working as a teenager in a Mar-a-Lago spa. She describes being invited to Epstein's house, where Maxwell allegedly instructed her to "do what I do", before the pair sexually abused her. "The disappointment was excruciating. I blamed myself. 'Is sex all anyone will ever want from me'," she writes.
October 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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A half-stick of butter that says on the wrapper, "EMAILS"
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I got an ALL-HANDS e-mail from folks at the DNC about a rule proposed by America First Legal Foundation, asking the Election Assistance Commission to require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Deadline for comments today. Funnily enough, the website seems to be janked.
Screengrab from federal Regulations.gov website on EAC-2025-0236-0001, America First Legal Foundation's request to require documentary proof of US citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. "The petition submitted by America First Legal Foundation seeks to initiate a rulemaking process to amend 11 CFR 9428.4 and the federal voter registration form to require applicants to provide one of the following as proof of citizenship: U.S. Passport, State-issued Real ID-compliant driver's license indicating that the applicant is a citizen, an official military identification card that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States, or a valid Federal or State government-issued photo identification if such identification indicates that the applicant is a United States citizen or if such identification is otherwise accompanied by proof of United States citizenship. "The EAC seeks comments on the petition. The public may inspect the petition here: https://www.eac.gov.sites/default/files/2025-08/America_First_Legal_EAC_DPOC_Rule_Petition.pdf. The EAC will not consider the petition's" and then the screengrab breaks off.
October 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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It really doesn't matter. The team is screwed with the travel, now double-screwed with the kickoff time. It just adds the non-PNW Spartan fans into the "Screw these people" pot.
A photograph of a lightning strike into what looks like Lake Michigan off Chicago (but might be another waterfront, idk). The lightning strike is spectacular, with three distinct bolts splitting into 6 at the surface of the water. Caption is, "Fuck these 6 fish in particular." 😂
September 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Close. He was a Senator, and quite an effective one. The fellow who beat him nearly to death was a Representative.
Screengrab from Wiki article on Charles Sumner: In 1859, Sumner returned to the Senate permanently. Though fellow Republicans advised a less strident tone, he answered: "When crime and criminals are thrust before us, they are to be met by all the energies that God has given us by argument, scorn, sarcasm and denunciation." He delivered his first return speech, "The Barbarism of Slavery," on June 4, 1860. He attacked attempts to depict slavery as a benevolent institution, said it stifled economic development in the South, and that it left slaveholders reliant on "the bludgeon, the revolver, and the bowie-knife". He addressed an anticipated objeciton o nthe part of one of his colleagues: "Say, sir, in your madness, that you own the sun, the stars, the moon; but do not say that you own a man, endowed with a soul that shall live immortal, when the sun and moon and stars have passed away". Even allies found his language too strong, one calling it "harsh, vindictive, and slightly brutal". He spent the summer rallying the anti-slavery forces for the election of 1860 and opposing talk of compromise.
September 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Post a PERFECT album from the ‘90s that isn’t Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

There are so many.
Cover of The Cranberries' "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" Two long-haired young man and a short-haired woman sit on a brown leather loveseat, with another bespectacled long-haired man sitting on the floor in front of them.
September 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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My @oliveandyork.com Grant Wahl Memorial Jersey arrived, and it is more beautiful than I could have imagined. Thank you.
Black short-sleeved soccer kit with rainbow stripes up the sleeve (red, orange, yellow, green, sky blue, lavender) and a badge on the left breast showing a profile of Grant Wahl with his name above, and his years of birth and death (1973 - 2022) below. There is a pale Olive & York logo on the left breast. The inside of the collar says, "Light years, light years away from you/The National"
August 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Goddammit, Portland! You can't do this without public comment, fuckers! The public WILL comment, you cowards, and your names will be written in history with Vidkun Quisling's.

If you can make it to Portland (ME) City Hall TODAY for a 9AM protest, do.

ICE OUT OF PORTLAND
Colorful flyer with text, a frownie face, black fists raised in protest, and a black chain with a link broken. The text reads, EMERGENCY PROTEST August 21st 2025 Portland City Hall//9AM Portland City Council accepts $21M federal grant despite immigration cooperation mandate The council called an emergency meeting Wednesday to debate how to proceed before officially signing a grant agreement, which councilors said had been changed by the Federal Aviation Administration. Under the veil of an executive meeting, Portland City Council approved a grant for airport improvements that MANDATES cooperation with ICE. Not only is this intolerable, THIS IS FASCISM. EMERGENCY PROTEST
August 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Hello, Gavin! Pleased to meet you! My name is Chloe!
Brown and grey tabby cat with green eyes wearing a pink collar, sitting with her tail curled around her front paws.
August 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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The "unnecessary" fucking war? Really? Tell the folks who died in the Blitz.

People just WANT to be stupid sometimes. I'd typically say "Let 'em" except when their stupidity ends up in people dying - like anti-vaxxers and proto Nazis.
Map of sites of recorded bombing locations from August 24 - 25, 1940. The FUCKING NAZIS bombed BRITAIN. Sites listed are Edmonton, Tottenham, Walthstow, Leyton, Hackney, Islington, Bethnal Green, East Ham, West Ham, Stephney, Finsbury, Twickenham, Feltham, Staines, Kingston, and Esher. Staines, Feltham, Twickenham, Kingston, and Esher are represented by green dots. Edmonton, Tottenham, Walthstow, Leyton, Islington, East Ham, and West Ham are represented by blue dots. Finsbury, Hackney, Bethnal Green, and Stepney are represented by dots that are half orange, half blue. No legend is given to explain the difference in colors, or what they represent. Source: https://battleofbritainhistoricalsociety.org.uk/history-of-the-battle-of-britain/
August 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Chloe says Happy #Caturday to those who observe.
Brown and grey tabby cat with green eyes, sitting in a window with the sun shining in behind her, looks directly at you.
August 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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I told my cat the #FRAGER game might go to extra time and even maybe PK's. Her reaction:
Brown and tan tabby cat sitting on a windowsill, sunlight streaming in behind her. Her ears are back, and she has a positively evil scowl on her face.
July 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Edvard Munch's painting, "The Scream," with the caption, "Oh no! I've become a meme!"
July 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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France vs Germany in Women's Euro Cup 2025 quarterfinals. GER player has full-on grabbed the whole ponytail of a FRA player, twisting her neck. It's the act that caused a red card & penalty kick (converted by FRA), yet the player in question couldn't believe she was ejected for this play. Oh.
July 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I hate this for us.

omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/strong...
Screengrab from article: With a definition in place, the researchers then determined which measures mattered to a storm's impact, landing on maximum sustained windspeed and changes to precipitation. Examining these facets, they determined that over the past 85 years, the strongest nor'easters have intensified, likely driven by warmer ocean temperatures. The team also pinpointed a 6-percent increase in average windspeeds. "That might sound modest," Mann says, "but that 6-percent increase actually translates into a 20-percent increase in terms of destructive potential."
July 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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How quickly we - how quickly *I* - forget.
Beginning of the attached opinion piece. It reads: In June 2016, British member of Parliament Jo Cox, a close friend who worked with me at the humanitarian group Oxfam International, was murdered on the steps of her office in West Yorkshire, England. Jo was more than a rising star in British politics - she was a humanitarian, mother, friend, and a fighting force of hope in dark times. A man ended her life with a homemade gun, a knife, and a far-right ideology rooted in hatred. I still remember the phone call I got that day - the disbelief that Jo could be gone and that someone was so consumed by political disagreement that he could take her life. I mourn the loss of Jo every year in June. But this year, that sadness became shock as political violence claimed yet another lawmaker's life. The killing of Melissa Hortman, a Democratic member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and her husband Mark, and the wounding of Democratic State Senator John Hoffman, and his wife Yvette were equally senseless.
July 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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God, that's disturbing. And a child's show to boot.
Promo shot of an actual living breathing (?) TV show titled "The Banana Splits." It features adult-sized furry mascots, basically - a chimpanzee wearing shades and a leer, a brown dog, an elephant wearing pink John Lennon glasses, and a recumbent...dog, I guess - hard to tell - wearing shades. Will be inhabiting my nightmares going forward.
July 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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😆

Literally side-by-side in my feed.

Oh, what a world.
Two stories side-by-side. The first, from Science Focus, has the headline, "Here's How the Powerful Lose Touch With Reality, According to Neuroscience." The photograph is of a white chess king surrounded by black chess pieces, all knocked over. The second, from The Week, is titled, "King Charles and the Sovereign Grant: How UK Taxpayers Fund the Monarchy." The picture accompanying the article is of King Charles and Queen Camilla in full regalia, bejeweled crowns included, waving a royal paw to the downtrodden masses.
July 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Page from Wikipedia, describing the Latin phase "Lorem ipsum" as "a dummy or placeholder text commonly used in graphic design, publishing, and development. Its purpose is to permit a page layout to be designed, independently of the copy that will subsequently populate it, or to demonstrate various fonts of a typeface without meaningful text that could be distracting." It goes on a bit.
July 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Images from "Lord of the Rings" - Gandalf saying, "What do you see?", Frodo's grubby little fingers holding the One Ring with inscriptions on it in the form of the Las Vegas Elvis (I just gave away the joke, but it wouldn't make ANY sense otherwise), and Frodo saying, "It is some form of elvis." Really, really, REALLY funny on multiple levels. I'm sorry I couldn't do it justice.
June 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I'd love to see them ALL tonight.

LFG!!!!!!!!

#USWNT
Bullet point #3: USA head coach Emma Hayes called in four new players in this June/July camp: • Jordyn Bugg - Defender, Seattle Reign FC • Lilly Reale - Defender, Gotham FC • Izzy Rodriguez - Defender, Kansas City Current • Sam Meza - Midfielder, Seattle Reign FC
June 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM