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I. Am. CaNEIGHdian. Curious about my avatar? 1) That's not me. 🤭 2) That's the original clothes horse; the •Tweed Steed• 🫴 the race horse Morestead. Welcome to my NEIGHbourhood! ✌🏼🟥🍁🟥

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🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · Mar 13

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🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 13h

I think 47's fellow numpties are all getting all the vaccines they're telling us not to get.

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Blink once for yes.

🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 1d

When I think of 47, I think of silly putty; smells weird but super malleable. Very convenient for the puppet master.

🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 1d

They want us to know they're OK with us knowing they're broadcasting they're fascists.

🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 1d

Searches 🤳 inflatable avocado costume...

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What's next, avocado toast everywhere? Vegan burgers? Macchiatos?
The HORROR!!!!!

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🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 1d

Regime47 relishes their pathological lying. Mike Johnson's smirk is very telling. They likely all get off knowing that we •know• they're lying, and keep tossing out bigger lies bc they don't GAF. It probably fuels the dark void within them. They're energy vampires.

🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 1d

At least it's not leaving dark trails down his face, Giuliani style.

🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 1d

An army of antifa amphibians is a delight to see.
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🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 2d

#unFROGettable 🤭

FYI: A group of frogs is called an army or colony.

A group of frogs or toads is called an army or colony.

Sources include: Wikimedia Foundation

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.

Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 1d

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

source:
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.
These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

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🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 1d

Mike has no lane. He's gutter material.

🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 1d

Truth Social post by
@realDonaldTrump
Thank you to President Putin!
President Putin responds to President Trump not winning the Nobel Peace Prize:
"This award lost credibility. The committee discussed the prize for people who have done nothing for the world."

"He solves complex problems, crises that last for decades."

From Mario Nawfal

som3bodysdaddy comments:
Giving Trump the Nobel Peace
Prize is like giving Epstein the
Kids Choice Awards.

🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 1d

May Randy Erwin inspire many more to stand up to the mango menace.

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🔥 🚨🔥 Meet Randy Erwin. Randy is the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees — a union representing ~ 150k employees across the country. We need more RANDY ERWIN ENERGY in this country! Sound ⬆️ & Share. 1/2

🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 1d

ALT: A scene from Veep. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as former Sen. Selina Meyer turned vice president, loudly expressing: "I WANT MY NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!"

Veep is an American political satire comedy series that aired on HBO from 2012 to 2019.

Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Perry: “I’m trying to put this delicately. There has been evidence submitted that the very presence of federal agents, that the way they’re interacting with the populace, is itself the cause of violence.”

Judge blocks Trump from deploying troops in Illinois for now

Officials in Oregon and Illinois had challenged the Trump administration’s push to dispatch the National Guard in both states.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2d

Reporter: Why didn’t Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Nobel committee chair: We only give the award to people of courage and integrity.

OH SNAP 😅🤣😂

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2d

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 2d

#unFROGettable 🤭

FYI: A group of frogs is called an army or colony.

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Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 2d

Automatic tax filing, permanent school food program coming in budget: Carney

Prime Minister Mark Carney is announcing a series of affordability measures Friday, making good on some spring campaign commitments ahead of the fall budget.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2d

#Quebec man rolling through 5 provinces in his wheelchair to raise funds for #ALS

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Quebec man rolling through 5 provinces in his wheelchair to raise funds for ALS

A Quebec man is rolling across Canada to raise money for the battle against Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS.

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Ernesto O. @ernest33141.bsky.social · 2d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.
#FuckTrump

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2d

You don't blow up Venezuelan & Colombian boats in international waters -- killing 21 people -- and expect a Nobel Peace Prize.

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President Trump Can't Pronounce 'Yosemite' | NowThis

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump didn't receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Experts say he had 'no chance' at winning - ABC News share.google/5Tdby1EY3GCt.... I don't understand why he missed out. After all he told Netanyahu to finish the Job, bombed Iran, is murdering Venezuelan fisherman and declared war on Americans

Donald Trump had 'no chance' of winning Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump has not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and, despite his persistent claim that he "deserves the prize", experts are not at all surprised he didn't win.

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🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 2d

ALT:
Fun historical fact. Once you peacefully install a fascist, you cannot peacefully remove them.

Damian Lynch 🟧 🇦🇺 Rebellion is Mandatory during times of Tyranny @dpsl.bsky.social · 2d

Fascist Authoritarian Regimes don’t leave power peacefully

🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 2d

Your ALT: "now dirt napping" 😆

Bornstein died on January 8, 2021 at the age of 73. The place and cause of death was not disclosed.🤔