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Posts by June Casagrande

Having a daughter constantly getting college advertisements in a post-Roe world means we play the Red state or Blue state game every time flyers come in the mail. Red state college shit goes into the shredder immediately. We’re not even entertaining those options.

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I wonder if anyone who's donated to him will make money off this? 🤔

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Looks like the prosecutors couldn’t make it stand up in court

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Ideal for parents of teens who want to record every "I hate you, Mom" for posterity and who also don't know they already own recording devices.

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And direct anger and blame at private citizens. "My job prospects are shit and my healthcare is $1,400 a month. Must be the fault of some trans kid who wants to play on his middle school's soccer team."

Unbelievable people still fall for this stuff.

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This will play great with the dozen MAGA voters who still remember they're supposed to hate Joe Biden for no good reason.

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It's not about winning. It's about burdening journalism institutions out of business. Also: Who's paying for the plaintiff's lawyers in Patel thing? Us?

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Screenshot of AP news alert says, "Beirut strikes [comma] Route 66 and more"

Screenshot of AP news alert says, "Beirut strikes [comma] Route 66 and more"

Didn't see the comma at first and was like, "Oh, shit! Colorado Boulvard?!?" #PunctuationMatters #PunctuationCounts

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Post an image from a game you played as a teenager.

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Screenshot of says: “Stock prices are not too high and Wall Street will not experience anything in the nature of a crash… We are living in an age of increasing prosperity and consequent increasing earning power of corporations and individuals. This is due in large measure to mass production and inventions such as the world never before has witnessed. The rapidity with which worthwhile inventions are brought out is the result of the tremendous research laboratories of our great industrial concerns.” Yale professor of economics Irving Fisher, Sept. 5, 1929

Screenshot of says: “Stock prices are not too high and Wall Street will not experience anything in the nature of a crash… We are living in an age of increasing prosperity and consequent increasing earning power of corporations and individuals. This is due in large measure to mass production and inventions such as the world never before has witnessed. The rapidity with which worthwhile inventions are brought out is the result of the tremendous research laboratories of our great industrial concerns.” Yale professor of economics Irving Fisher, Sept. 5, 1929

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Screenshot of 2016 Twitter post: a box marked "entertaining crackers" with the text: "Tired of crackers that sit lifelessly under your cheese, never bursting into a rousing song & dance number? So was I."

Screenshot of 2016 Twitter post: a box marked "entertaining crackers" with the text: "Tired of crackers that sit lifelessly under your cheese, never bursting into a rousing song & dance number? So was I."

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If you’re a Hachette author you should be talking to your editors and teams about this. If they’re using AI to counter AI, it’s still AI. And it may also be giving your work to the machine, serving it up on a contractual platter.

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Language Matters
Why English is so hard to learn
Marlene Davis
YOU think English is easy? Check out the following.
1. The bandage
was wound around
the wound.
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid in his hospital bed.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen about who would row. 13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when the does (females) are present.
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell
2. The farm was cultivated to produce down into a sewer line.
produce.
3. The dump was so full that the workers had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture shown at the store.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his tasty dessert in the desert.
7. Since there is no time like the pres- ent, he thought it was time to present the present to his girlfriend.
8.A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object which he showed me.
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail around the mast.
18. Upon seeing the tear in her painting she shed a tear.
19.I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Heteronyms
These are brilliant. Homonyms or homographs are words of like spelling, but with more than one meaning and sound.
When pronounced differently, they are known as heteronyms.

Language Matters Why English is so hard to learn Marlene Davis YOU think English is easy? Check out the following. 1. The bandage was wound around the wound. 11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid in his hospital bed. 12. There was a row among the oarsmen about who would row. 13. They were too close to the door to close it. 14. The buck does funny things when the does (females) are present. 15. A seamstress and a sewer fell 2. The farm was cultivated to produce down into a sewer line. produce. 3. The dump was so full that the workers had to refuse more refuse. 4. We must polish the Polish furniture shown at the store. 5. He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6. The soldier decided to desert his tasty dessert in the desert. 7. Since there is no time like the pres- ent, he thought it was time to present the present to his girlfriend. 8.A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 10. I did not object to the object which he showed me. 16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. 17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail around the mast. 18. Upon seeing the tear in her painting she shed a tear. 19.I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 20. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? Heteronyms These are brilliant. Homonyms or homographs are words of like spelling, but with more than one meaning and sound. When pronounced differently, they are known as heteronyms.

Marlene cooked with this one.

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7/7. It's worth dwelling on this point. It’s hard for Americans to process that their hard right politics is in large measure a Russian and Hungarian import — intellectually and also financially. We should take advantage of the defeat of Orbán to let this basic fact sink in.
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Fact: Physical creatures are the creaturest creatures of all the creatures.

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Two doors down they were laughin' and drinkin' and havin' a party and she made not a single arrest.

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"How dare you say you oppose forced child labor when you wear clothes every day? Hypocrisy!"

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We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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And so it goes.

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Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet.

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Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet.

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it gets lost in the shuffle of constant corruption and bloodshed but even with the memecoin ALONE, that would make him very clearly the most corrupt U.S. president in history, you could easily argue

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a group of women in red robes and white hats Alt: handmaids
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Only true psychopaths are terrified that *TEEN* birth rates are down. Isn’t this one of the greatest successes of modern times?!

Also notable: How the Trump admin is only making it HARDER to have kids as parents, not easier.

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charlie chaplin couldn’t make “the great dictator” today because he died in 1977

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Y'all are both brilliant.

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going to burgle a bunch of ham tonight just to see what they call me on the news tomorrow

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Nonprofit buys Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A nonprofit will take over the Post-Gazette after plans to shut it down.

Hey look! A potential model for sustainable and quality local journalism.

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