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Mesopotamians in 3300 BC

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Volkswagen Workers Win Tentative Agreement - TVLR 2/7/26

Southern Auto Workers secured a huge win last week - we talk about it. We'd love to hear from Chattanoogans about the deal! Leave us a voicemail at 844-899-TVLR. ALSO: A Florida lawmaker introduced an anti-union bill he hadn't read yet. ✦ A

i think the better question is what happened to Gen X that we had total freedom as children but then refuse to grant that same freedom to our own children

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

It was the car I was planning to buy once my 3 was paid off just in time to pass to the teens as their first car.

Alas. The world went to shit

Hawkins Cheezies

Continuing to support American companies, Canada post is moving away from local taxi companies to drive carriers to their routes, and using Uber.

Aw hey.

Inside the Right-Wing Movement Pushing Alberta to Secede From Canada Trump officials have repeatedly met with secessionist leaders from the province, which has large oil and gas deposits.

Here is my latest for @truthout.org ... I explain the Alberta sovereignty movement for Americans, who might be surprised to hear that there are Canadians who think that they will lend them $500B to become independent.

truthout.org/articles/ins...

I like that Trump was clearly like hell yeah this’ll scare them straight, meanwhile every Canadian on my timeline is like “oh the Chinese government won’t let my hockey team play? Don’t threaten me with a good time.”

Elon Musk

Unionize your workplace so you can call the president a pedophile in the national spotlight and keep your job

UNIONS! More of us need to join or start them.

Dear Lord it's only 730. Goddammit.

The hospital or the hole behind my house? Either way, I'll be there a while

$0. I only gamble with my life.

Did I take my pills today? Who knows?

Well now someone's going to tell you in the replies.

Up here we have a whole ass hockey team named The Remparts.

Well, Le Remparts since it's in Quebec.

@jon_bois a football player carries the ball to the 49 yard line, then the 50 yard line. however, after taking another step forward, he finds to his astonishment that he is once again at the 49 yard line. but how can this be? this is the grand riddle of football

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Bon Jovi introducing the Pats because the Dropkick Murphys guy would tell us to kill our masters and piss on their graves

Thoughts and prayers in this trying time.

Sounds like my work truck. I'm wishing they picked the jeeps over the Ford, even with the stories about repairs.

I will take that $200 but I will not earn it

I'm sorry, but I came across this awful joke I made 10 years ago so here it is again.

a cartoon of winnie the pooh sleeping in a chair with his eyes closed ALT: a cartoon of winnie the pooh sleeping in a chair with his eyes closed

Alright. Who's ready for 8 hours of absolute nothing to do?

This guy.

And there's so much to buy for those hobbies you don't have time to do! I did not buy a setup to make card opening videos and just never buy packs of cards.

A tweet from @ futurevictim_ that reads "the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard"

Never Forget

I want to hear more about your jeep problems.

400 probably. Arts school, so less than the one with sports programs that tried.