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shot/chaser in just 2 sentences
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
shot/chaser in just 2 sentences
🤯 this is terrifying. Please excuse me while I go figure out if my nephew knows how to read properly.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🤯 this is terrifying. Please excuse me while I go figure out if my nephew knows how to read properly.
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MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
Oh boy is #rapturetok triggering for those of us who grew up evangelical.
Story time! My first real panic attack was at 8 years old when I thought my parents had been raptured (they were next door) after a screening of a Billy Graham movie.
Story time! My first real panic attack was at 8 years old when I thought my parents had been raptured (they were next door) after a screening of a Billy Graham movie.
September 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Oh boy is #rapturetok triggering for those of us who grew up evangelical.
Story time! My first real panic attack was at 8 years old when I thought my parents had been raptured (they were next door) after a screening of a Billy Graham movie.
Story time! My first real panic attack was at 8 years old when I thought my parents had been raptured (they were next door) after a screening of a Billy Graham movie.
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Days before the 2019 opener, App State assistant Shawn Clark convinced the staff to hike "The Knob." They won, so they did every game week, including when he became head coach. I did it with them once.
An incredibly nice guy. He loved App so much. RIP. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...
An incredibly nice guy. He loved App so much. RIP. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...
Shawn Clark, UCF O-line coach and former Appalachian State head coach, dead at 50
Clark coached offensive line for most of a two-decade career in college football but succeeded Eli Drinkwitz as App State head coach in '19.
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Days before the 2019 opener, App State assistant Shawn Clark convinced the staff to hike "The Knob." They won, so they did every game week, including when he became head coach. I did it with them once.
An incredibly nice guy. He loved App so much. RIP. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...
An incredibly nice guy. He loved App so much. RIP. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...
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I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.
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[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
August 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
While I understand the discourse isn’t always nuanced, the AE jeans campaign is giving tone deaf marketing execs that didn’t listen to the perpetually online staff who objected.
Sending wine to that millennial woman who has been texting the group chat “I freaking told him!”
Sending wine to that millennial woman who has been texting the group chat “I freaking told him!”
July 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
While I understand the discourse isn’t always nuanced, the AE jeans campaign is giving tone deaf marketing execs that didn’t listen to the perpetually online staff who objected.
Sending wine to that millennial woman who has been texting the group chat “I freaking told him!”
Sending wine to that millennial woman who has been texting the group chat “I freaking told him!”
Really didn’t think we’d be replaying my senior year of high school the year I turn 40.
June 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Really didn’t think we’d be replaying my senior year of high school the year I turn 40.
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At the moment there are exactly 3 types of posts:
- Fuck fascist ICE
- Israel commandeered Greta Thunberg’s aid ship
- THE TONYS!!!
- Fuck fascist ICE
- Israel commandeered Greta Thunberg’s aid ship
- THE TONYS!!!
June 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
At the moment there are exactly 3 types of posts:
- Fuck fascist ICE
- Israel commandeered Greta Thunberg’s aid ship
- THE TONYS!!!
- Fuck fascist ICE
- Israel commandeered Greta Thunberg’s aid ship
- THE TONYS!!!
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there are queens and then there's the woman who made sure the scathing songs about her ex were so iconic that his whole career would be defined by them
happy birthday to human goddess stevie nicks ✨
happy birthday to human goddess stevie nicks ✨
May 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
there are queens and then there's the woman who made sure the scathing songs about her ex were so iconic that his whole career would be defined by them
happy birthday to human goddess stevie nicks ✨
happy birthday to human goddess stevie nicks ✨
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Has anyone considered the possibility that they legit think they are negotiating with China, but are actually the prank victims of a drive-time morning zoo radio program in Shanghai?
China Foreign Ministry spox overnight: “Let me make it clear one more time – China and the US are not engaged in any consultation or negotiation on tariffs.”
Treasury Secretary Bessent on CNBC just now:
*BESSENT: ALL ASPECTS OF GOVERNMENT IN CONTACT WITH CHINA
Who you gunna believe?
Treasury Secretary Bessent on CNBC just now:
*BESSENT: ALL ASPECTS OF GOVERNMENT IN CONTACT WITH CHINA
Who you gunna believe?
April 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Has anyone considered the possibility that they legit think they are negotiating with China, but are actually the prank victims of a drive-time morning zoo radio program in Shanghai?
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i'm so sorry but the pope cannot be a name I doodled on my notebook approximately 396 times in the eighth grade
April 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
i'm so sorry but the pope cannot be a name I doodled on my notebook approximately 396 times in the eighth grade
Sometimes I don’t think we can get any dumber takes on manufacturing and then some dumb blue checkmark proves me wrong.
chairman trump, the people yearn for a great leap forward. we will revitalize american manufacturing with a fleet of garage 3d printers that stretches from sea to shining sea.
April 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Sometimes I don’t think we can get any dumber takes on manufacturing and then some dumb blue checkmark proves me wrong.
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Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
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Catharsis.
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Catharsis.
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who's on what platform, 2025 edition
March 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
who's on what platform, 2025 edition
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Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
March 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
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There is much and mounting evidence that Trump loyalists know he's done grave damage to the economy already. Which means they knew they were lying about the strong Biden economy they inherited, and will be lying intentionally, too, about the Trump recession when it comes.
Be Prepared
Trump is sabotaging the economy, but we shouldn't assume public opinion will follow automatically.
www.offmessage.net
March 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There is much and mounting evidence that Trump loyalists know he's done grave damage to the economy already. Which means they knew they were lying about the strong Biden economy they inherited, and will be lying intentionally, too, about the Trump recession when it comes.
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This is literally the problem: We NEED to be rude. We need emotion. These fuckers are destroying democracy & hurting people; our elected Democrats *should* be pissed. When they're not, they're essentially gaslighting the rest of us. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is literally the problem: We NEED to be rude. We need emotion. These fuckers are destroying democracy & hurting people; our elected Democrats *should* be pissed. When they're not, they're essentially gaslighting the rest of us. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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"It’s the 12th highest monthly job cuts total in the 32 years Challenger has been tracking them.
"The 11 others (4 came during the Covid pandemic) all occurred when the US was in a recession..."
www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/e...
"The 11 others (4 came during the Covid pandemic) all occurred when the US was in a recession..."
www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/e...
US employers cut more jobs last month than any February since 2009 | CNN Business
The Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoffs last month, new data showed Thursday.
www.cnn.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"It’s the 12th highest monthly job cuts total in the 32 years Challenger has been tracking them.
"The 11 others (4 came during the Covid pandemic) all occurred when the US was in a recession..."
www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/e...
"The 11 others (4 came during the Covid pandemic) all occurred when the US was in a recession..."
www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/e...
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no matter how long I live I'll never get over the fact that Charmin turned "does a bear shit in the woods" into a successful marketing campaign
March 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
no matter how long I live I'll never get over the fact that Charmin turned "does a bear shit in the woods" into a successful marketing campaign
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Yes, I recapped all 33 minutes.
coach dowell talked to the media for 33 minutes so here’s a recap
Kind of an out-of-nowhere press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Been 13 days since late National Signing Day, Spring Practice ain’t starting for a little bit longer and President’s Day …
pipedreams.blog
February 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Yes, I recapped all 33 minutes.
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At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895
February 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895