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A poem not to be taken for granite

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Wed, 15/04/2026 - 19:11

On Tender Hooks Let me cut to the cheese:every time you open your mouth,I’m on tender hooks. You charge at the English languagelike a bowl in a china shop.I wish you’d nip it in the butt. On the spurt of the moment,another eggcorn tumbles out.It’s time you gave up the goat. Curve your enthusiasmand don’t…

Armed Off-Duty Cop Tried to Incite Violence at a High School Anti-ICE Protest

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Wed, 15/04/2026 - 18:11

“My plan is legitimately to just let them all assault me and you guys arrest them all,” the Phoenix cop told fellow police after the incident.

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Tax Day Could Be Easy. They’re Fighting To Make It Hard.

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Wed, 15/04/2026 - 17:00

The IRS already knows what you owe. Why are you drowning in paperwork every April?

however i am the undisputed global expert on what it's like being me, uncontested though that field may be

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