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The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states.
It included illegal immigrants and handed
Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it.
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October 6, 2025
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U.S. Department of Commerce Washington, DXC 20230
Dear Secretary Lutaick:
I urge you to investigate and correct erroes from the 2020 Census that handed disproportionntd political power to Democrats and illogal alicns. The Census Burcau adoptod a now and opaque
voting districts. As preparod by the Biden administration, the 2020 Censas roports miscountod the population of fourteen states, ' wrongly allocating six congressional scats aod Electoral
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Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding
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“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time
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What
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Maybe the best animal logo ever I’m not even exaggerating I love him
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene inadvertently saves democracy it will be like an inverted version of Gollum causing the destruction of the One Ring on Mount Doom
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dead ball era is back baby. move those runners up!
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Good to think positive like that.
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Sending good wishes from a fan of your writing.
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(But in all seriousness, that’s a really compelling thread by @tomewing.bsky.social)
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Expect to hear a lot of chatbot references to “tears in rain”
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Is it a Cantonese bar? Or Madonna’s?
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wow, we've got a real one
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I can, but I choose not to. Somehow photographing a monitor feels wrong. Also, right now it's gotten dimmer and less beautiful
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apparently because of the tariffs, a replacement won't be available for a couple of weeks. so the race is on, like the Nothing in Never Ending Story.
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my monitor is dying in a beautiful way, a stack of vertical lines of diminishing size & variable color creeping in from the left. I can't screen capture it because it doesn't show up when I do so — it is a thing we can only perceive on the outside, not something the machine perceives about itself.
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l'abréviation, if you will
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Oh, no — I was personally jarred only by your decision to abbreviate.
I agree with you completely about steamed vs. fried (which reminds me that I had a dream about a steamer basket last night — this is my commitment to the cooking technique)
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I had the same question here
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People are going to call for Daboll to be fired, and he probably should be, but the Giants look an awful lot like a rebuilding team that is starting two rookies at premiere positions and just lost their best offensive player
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<leans forward>
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The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.
They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.
Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:
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part of putting us back on a less insane footing, society-wide, is massively increasing the social penalty business owners thinks they’ll incur if they sanction products like this. people should treat someone who creates a chat bot like this as they would any run of the mill pornographer.
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notice taped to a shuttered storefront
claire's
NOTICE OF STORE CLOSURE
To Our Valued Customers,
This Claire's location has been permanently closed. The decision reflects both external pressures & internal restructuring. In recent months, repeated attacks of ridicule by radical left agitators have gone beyond mere criticism, escalating into a deliberate effort to destabilize our company - conduct we recognize as Domestic Economic Terrorism.
At the same time, our transition under new private equity ownership required difficult financial choices. Protecting the stability of shareholders was prioritized, & this store - along with its local workforce - was deemed expendable in service of that obligation.
Despite these challenges, Claire's remains committed to our identity as a traditional American company rooted in values of family & community.
We will not be silenced by those who attempt to undermine that mission, & we continue to move forward with confidence in our future.
Here at Claire's, we look forward to working with the current administration to reinvigorate our brand presence across the United States, ensuring that we remain a part of American life for generations to come.
We invite you to continue supporting Claire's by shopping online at www.claires.com
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Claire's Stores, Inc.
2400 West Central Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192| Claire's Stores, Inc. |CBI Distributing Corp.
love when it’s the radical left, not private equity, to blame
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didn't they literally file for Chapter 11 a month ago
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Given how often those people talk about how scary the NYC subway is *now*, Sliwa — the 1970s vigilante subway guy, among other things — is strangely the perfect Republican to tell them what whining cowards they all are
Not that they'll listen to him, but still
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Politicans like Schatz and Schumer who talk about "lines in sand" and "forks in roads" want us to believe that there is no accumulative quality to their past decisions, only moments of abrupt change that determine if the country functions one way or another. Their goal is to maintain the status quo.
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The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
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"Grounds" also implies a functional, rational system of justice, which has not existed for anything deemed "terrorism" since at least 2001. This isn't to say we shouldn't demand that "grounds" be produced, but we know they won't be, and should focus our energy on dismantling the framework itself
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Not sure I can recall a film going for that level of storytelling since maybe Malick’s Tree of Life.
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That was a very…ambitious film
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Finally watching Sinners tonight
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