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Can I still pay my union dues by sacrificing goats, bartering homemade macramé, or offering to house-sit while the high priestess is on vacation in Tulum?
The Topeka Coven has long accepted sacrificial gifts to our dark lord, in-kind bartering, and occasional house-sitting as payment for dues and services rendered. This will continue to be true after unionization and all suggestions made by Kathy that the coven will be moving to a hard currency-only system are false.

I’ve heard rumors from Kathy that unionizing might stifle spell-casting innovation. Will spells be standardized and/or require union approval moving forward?
No. Under union leadership, you will still be able to cast individualized spells against anyone and everyone in your orbit—from your HOA president to your mother-in-law—but now you will be eligible for exclusive discounts at Costco, Lowes, and Walmart.

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Without massive, unconditional U.S. military subsidies, Israel would have had to practice diplomacy with their neighbors years ago.

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Considered Angola’s crown jewel by many, Lobito is a colorful port city on the country’s scenic Atlantic coast where a nearly five-kilometer strip of land creates a natural harbor. Its white sand beaches, vibrant blue waters, and mild tropical climate have made Lobito a tourist destination in recent years. Yet under its shiny new facade is a history fraught with colonial violence and exploitation. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to lay claim to Angola in the late sixteenth century. For nearly four centuries, they didn’t relent until a bloody, 27-year civil war with anticolonial guerillas (aided by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces) and bolstered by a leftist coup in distant Lisbon, Portugal’s capital, overthrew that colonial regime in 1974.... Read more

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This memo serves to answer questions that you, my eight- and six-year-old children, have about Scoopy Daddy.

What is Scoopy Daddy? How did we get here?

Scoopy Daddy is a child-development teaching tool that I, your father, developed in response to recent changes in attitude and behavior you each exhibited. You likely remember the debut of Scoopy Daddy. Several weeks ago, the family was having ice cream as a special treat, and, as is typical, I began to scoop out your portions. This is a reasonable role for me, your legal guardian, to play.

However, you each began screaming and crying like babies about how you wanted to scoop out your ice cream. In response, I began to play the character of “Scoopy Daddy,” a grown adult father with the temperament you were displaying—that of a misbehaving toddler. Scoopy Daddy stomped his feet and began to scream back at both of you:

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