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Thank you for the much needed dose of cuteness.

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I'm shocked..."Ezo for you to say."

I thought I knew you people.

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Thank you. I came for the gif this morning.

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Go back inside, cute little…furry thing! It’s not safe out here!

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D'awwwwwwwwwww! That was awesome to see first thing in the morning. Thanks, Tini.

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She has so much eyeliner on!

Thanks for this beautiful face popping out to start the day.

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Whar moose?

No ... wait. "Bullwinkle" would not work that well in Japan.

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Happy birthday, Menotsure! Hope your day is just as wonderful as you are, sweet friend.

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Whacha gitme?

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My eternal affection! And that's priceless, my friend.

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Many thanks.

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Happy Birthday MNS! May all your "not sures" turn into "boths" or "some" or "yesses" or "noes" as best suits the person wearing your birthday suit! Cheers!

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Smart Ezo!

I also stuck my head out briefly and decided "Nah--"

Between the cold snap and prevailing stupidity, inside seems like the wise choice...

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That little bugger was prairie doggin'.

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Cute little bugger.

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Does that adorable creature…eat people?

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What do you think he's hewing on?

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"... for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth."

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"What an eccentric performance."

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"It's no ordinary rabbit - it's a killer!"

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Look at the bones!

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Only if properly and very carefully prepared.

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Looks cute and cozy.

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Cute Tiny Rodent is tiny and cutest.

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Ezo sounds like an obscure alcoholic beverage.

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Fermented mouse pee.

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For shame.

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Ouzo says hello.

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I think we posted the same thing.

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Yeah. That's it! I knew I got that impression from somewhere.

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If we are to keep fighting we must take care of ourselves. We must go on living, no matter how many skies have fallen. (h/t dh lawrence via salman rushdie)

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Biden knew Trump and company would break every law to put people like Fauci on Stalinist show trials and even public hangings. A Presidential pardon is a "no backsies" even for Trump. In these parlous days, being forgiven for crimes you never committed is safer than being being dragged before a tribunal and the Right Wing media to pay for imaginary crimes.

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It's going to take a while but eventually people are going to realize how good they had it under President Biden. Maybe if he had put his name on all those checks like Trump did people would have thought better of him.

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~~Elon Musk is giving the fire victims in Los Angeles a “free month of Internet” that will only cost them $395, and then $120 a month.

Hey Elon, did you know that among the many things to be found on the Internet are dictionaries, where you could look up the definition of "free"?

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That is the rich version of "free". Applicable to everybody but them.

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I haz a confuze.

Vivek Ramaswamy plans to run for Governor of Ohio.

Donald Chump's executive order does away with birthright citizenship.

Can Vivek run for Governor if he's not an American citizen?

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Check the state constitution. He may need to become a naturalized citizen first. Or unnaturalized citizen might be a better term for what will happen when Trump starts issuing exemptions.

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Ms. O saw something about the EO being narrowed to just undocumented immigrants.

Maybe too many techbros quaking in their {insert expensive male shoe here}.

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Ms. O has an online retail business, Celtic Mink Jewelry and Treasures (https://celticminkjewelry.com/ shameless plug), selling her handmade jewelry. She's had a Facebook business page for over ten years. In the online retail world, a Facebook page has always been a badge of legitimacy.

Zuck the Cuck just announced that all Facebook users will have Donald Trump, Melanie Trump, and JD Vance added to their feeds, and these users can't be unfriended, unsubscribed to, or blocked.

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All users or just USians?

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Only heard about Americans.

If he does it everywhere, he will so piss everyone off.

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Which means of course he will.

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Sorry, my Queen...it will be a cold day in hell that the Dems will nom ANOTHER woman,

Maybe in 2036? Sorry....

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Hanne Blank has a great read on surviving These Times (tm)

https://open.substack.com/pub/rntq/p/survival-course

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"I’m officially on AOC 2028. And you?"

Jeebus. Now let me get this straight. First, we establish that Amurika is sexist. So what do we do? We virtue-signal the shit out of this thing and nominate a woman in the 2024 election. (Even the Mango Mussolini understood this--with any number of qualified candidates, he wouldn't even let a woman NEAR the VP nomination.)

But are we done? NOOOOO... We establish that Amurika is also racist, so we make sure that she's also black.

And then we act surprised when we get our collective ass handed to us.

Could we please drop the dumbest motherfuckers act (I HOPE that it's an act) and find just one WHITE, MALE, performatively XHRISTER candidate who also wants the same things that we want?

Just ONE?

Sure, I'm all on board for nominating AOC for any goddamned Cabinet post she wants. AFTER we get our white, male xhrister progressive actually ELECTED.

For your penance, see (again) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjMqda19wk. Right around 1:58 in.

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Thank you for the Ifill piece!! Just the voice for these times. Unflinching and empowering

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Anyway, here is Ozzyman’s reaction to Muskrat’s salute.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15gT3JnwJ9/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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I think I'll pass. Zuck the Cuck just made everyone follow Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and JD Vance.

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I don’t know if Stinky was confessing to stealing Pennsylvania or he was just riffing. It’s always hard to tell. But Muskrat’s skills with computers are about as overrated as his gaming skills. Though, of course, he could have just hired someone to do the work and then take credit for it, as per his usual M.O.

We’ll probably never know.

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So I work at the institute formerly headed by Tony Fauci. And my wife did a clinical fellowship here and did rounds with him. He is responsible for saving millions of lives, between the AIDS epidemic and COVID and so many other scary infectious diseases. And Trump is responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans due to his shitty response to COVID and his unwillingness to WEAR A FUCKING MASK. So, yeah, god bless Dr. Fauci, and FUCK TRUMP.

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May he live long and prosper. While Trump's moral degeneration is outpaced by his neural degeneration.

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One million times upfist!

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A million times liked!

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RE: TCM - "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" could have been the screenplay for Rachel's "Ultra".

Except for the US winning at trial part.

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