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joy @simchajoy.com · 06/09/2026

Whenever he said something then, ME! I think of Grover in “The monster at the end of this book”.

The last two pages of the monster at the end of this book. It says “well look at that! This is the end of the book, and the only one here is… ME! I, lovable, furry old Grover in the monster at the end of this book. And you were so scared! I told you and told you there was nothing to be afraid of. the end.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 22/08/2026

where i would live.

Id live in California, maybe Oregon if a city, Yes Washington if Seattle, maybe NM if a city, prob not to Colorado, WVA, VT, NH, Maybe to VA if city near DC, absolutely to Maryland if Baltimore City, absolutely to PA if Philly, absolutely to RI, CT, Mass if major cities only, maybe to ME but only in a city, and yes to NY if NYC, absolutely to Chicago IL. Prob not to Hawaii bc I hate tsunamis. The rest NO.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 27/07/2026

the things you find in thrift stores

spiro agnew jigsaw puzzle “friend of the silent majority”

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joy @simchajoy.com · 26/06/2026

I was a little surprised ngl. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

political quiz. I’m woke and such. Zohran Mamdani

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joy @simchajoy.com · 18/04/2026

Gift Link for SCOTUS article in today’s New York Times #Giftlink #SCOTUS #NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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joy @simchajoy.com · 07/04/2026

My blurry eyes upon waking were not prepared for the president explicitly threatening genocide of millions.

Ron war life Trump says “a whole civil elation will die tonight” if Tehran does not make a deal by deadline. Photo from the Associated Press app.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 16/03/2026

Chotiner strikes again. Why David Boies Thinks We Should Support Trump’s Iran War www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Chotiner- Sir, you’re a very very smart guy. You don’t think Donald Trump actually cares about casualties do you?

Bois- look,, I actually do, OK? In his first administration, in 2019, when he first turned back the bombers from hitting Iran, I think he did that because I do think he actually cares about human life. Now that doesn’t mean that he respects human life the way I would.

Chotiner: it’s a sliding scale

Bois: but, if we bomb With you that I think the evidence is all we did, I don’t think it serves us well to deny it.

On the other hand, I do understand that in wartime people a lot of things that are un to support their side. In every war we fought. now, with respect to civilian casualties, it is a terrible cost of war, And, by my account, the cy Stees that have been incurred are far less than the civilian casualties of the Iran caused in suppressing the protests.

Chotiner- these are in competition other right they’re both bad independently.

Bois- exactly right.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 06/03/2026

#Trump on possible terror at home- “but yeah when you go to war you expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war some people will die.” time.com/7382697/trum...

One Iranian drone killed six American service members at a US command center in Kuwait. Asked whether American should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. “I guess,“ he says. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time we think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.“

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joy @simchajoy.com · 01/03/2026

It gives me great hope in the future of my career as an educator with two Master’s degrees to see a community college student drop out turned podcaster of hate on the main fed govt building of edu in this USA as an “American Hero of Education”. Is there no Confederate or KKK memorial available?

department of education building in Washington DC with six banners on it representing the 250th year of America Booker T Washington on one banner, Catharine Beecher in another. Racist, xenophobic, antisemitic and Islamophobic hatemonger Charlie Kirk banner hangs next to Beecher’s then a 1776 red banner, then a larger banner with empowering our states to tell the stories of our heroes in American education.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 28/02/2026

check on your friends who have home screens that look like this:

Apple home screen with apps: The New York Times ProPublica associated press Reuters blue sky Reddit the New Yorker The Atlantic Apple news New York magazine the app that you use to call senators and government officials and then in one smaller group Spotify Apple Music Gmail and the bulwark

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joy @simchajoy.com · 28/02/2026

NYT says US bombing as well.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 04/02/2026

The WSJ today has a long article on Stephen Miller (hiss). www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Miller was influential in Trump’s first term, but his power has expanded in the second one. He personally drafted or edited every executive order the president sign, faced little opposition from administration officials to his work to reshape immigration policy. Miller help come up with the idea to blow up drug boats, official said, and to deport migrants into a prison in El Salvador using wartime alien enemies act, and action now under court challenge.

Senior administration officials credit Miller with increasing cooperation with the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies to the immigration effort, as well as pushing the state department to force countries to take back immigrants period White House officials who defend Miller say his work as homeland security advisor requires his involvement in a range of the president‘s priorities

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joy @simchajoy.com · 02/02/2026

Nancy Mace NY Mag article lays out the case that she’s a draconian tequila drinking Michael Scott like leader and probably needs an intervention. nymag.com/intelligence...

we were scared of her said one of her former aids she would make the staffers cry she would threaten to fire them, take their money away, not give them raises, not give them days off, religious days. Intimacy only exacerbated the situation. The closer you get to her the harder she messes up your brain, a different former staffer said. It’s a classic story of never meet your heroes.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 02/02/2026

My favorite part of this interview is that all it took for Spinotti to feel comfy with spilling tea: Chotiner:

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joy @simchajoy.com · 23/01/2026

ICE continues to use children, hungry ones at that, as bait in Minneapolis. America.

hello Sullivan families, we have learned that ice is sending out flyers offering food support for families. For your safety do not respond to these offers. If your family is in need of support, please contact the school and we will connect you with one of our school social workers thank you.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 20/01/2026

While the president of the United States is ranting, riffing, making stupid jokes and showing off what he calls “convictions” (mugshots) ABC reminds viewers that the stock market is flailing.

donald trump complaining in a presser about biden and fraud. meanwhile the stock ticker keeps digging deeper into the negative

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joy @simchajoy.com · 10/12/2025

pretty ironic that trump still says the Sleepy Joe “joke” still seeing how he looks like this much of the time

slumped over trump during cabinet meeting

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joy @simchajoy.com · 05/11/2025

picture i wish i could put into my veins #election #schadenfreude

cuomo in his feelings after losing the election on November 4. A table with New York loves Cuomo signs a few drinks and Cuomo with his hand on his forehead, looking down to his phone, sad and alone.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 19/10/2025

Victorians ate some crazy soups.

kinds of soup from the 1900s, oxtail, tomato, chicken, bouillon, consommé, vegetable, tomato, okra, mocked, turtle, mulligatawny, vermicelli, tomato, chicken gumbo okra, clam bouillon, clam chowder, mutton, broth, printanier, asparagus julienne, celery, beef, pea

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joy @simchajoy.com · 03/10/2025

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

JVL says Democrats are negotiating about policy when they should be negotiating about power. The only compromises Democrats should accept and exchange for bailing out. The Republican controlled. Congress are the ones that would either a rebalance, the structure of government or be put limits on executive power.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 26/09/2025

I used Fight the Power in the classroom for students to ID what the claims were in the music/video.

white board with “Fight the Power” claims and some student responses on Post it Notes.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 18/09/2025

This meme has been getting heavy use.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 18/09/2025

Ya’ll. wtf. First John Yoo now this.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 15/09/2025

Make no mistake, this is dangerous af. Anyone will be able to make a submission that could ruin your life. Any wrongthink will be punished.

Make a submission to snitch on your neighbors, friends, and families who have wrong think about Charlie Kirk.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 09/05/2025

“One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -Omar El Akkad

An editorial cartoon drawn and in color, of a starving Palestinian boy with a red shirt, sorrow and trauma in his eyes, holding an empty bowl with tanks that have Israel flags filling his stomach. The background are smoke filled air, and broken buildings and dirt, surround him a Palestinian flag in the background on the side of a damaged building.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 05/05/2025

@jvl.bsky.social is right. liberalism sees state violence as a monopoly restrained by law. Fascism sees violence as a tool, unleashed when in power, and outsourced when not. It’s not hypocrisy. It’s a worldview. Call it what it is.

A screenshot from the Bulwark. If you were sketching out, liberalism approach to state sanctioned violence, it would go something like this: the state has a near monopoly on the sanctioned use of violence. This awesome power must be scaffold by a legal framework in which of the rule of law is regular, transparent, and durable. Meanwhile, fascist, take a different view: the purpose of the state power is the subjugate the disfavored classes. Therefore, the power of the state to commit violence must be unchecked when the fascists control it; but must be tamed by private sector, violence in the period, leading up to the fascist takeover.

I bring all of this up because it’s important. Not to view this disparity as an example of garden variety, hypocrisy. It’s not. It’s a coherent world view.
And we should call that world view by it’s proper name

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joy @simchajoy.com · 29/04/2025

is it normal to feel this amount of jealousy over good polite people who say “aboat” and “eh”? #CanadianElection #Canada

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joy @simchajoy.com · 22/04/2025

My favorite thing that truly changed my life from Pope Francis is this:

One thing people may tell themselves to feel better about not giving anything. The pope said is “I give money and then he spends it on drinking a glass of wine“ but the pope said if “a glass of wine is the only happiness he has in life that’s OK instead ask yourself what do you do on the slide? What happiness do you seek in secret?“ Or another way to look at it the pope said is recognize “you are luckier with a house a wife children” then ask why should the responsibility to help be pushed onto someone else? The way one reaches out to the person asking for help is important he said, and must be done by looking them in the eyes and touching their hands.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 20/04/2025

today in peak irony: the guy who lost the popular vote twice, did an insurrection, and praises authoritarian leaders is now calling ranked-choice voting is a system designed to reflect majority will “threat to democracy.”

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joy @simchajoy.com · 15/04/2025

Hmmm… he thought things would “change for the better” with Trump as president.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 25/01/2025

Shit is about to get real.

VP casts tie breaking vote for Hegseth- a white supremacist, woman hating, drunk, asshole for Defense Secretary.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 21/12/2024

“uber eats guy stealing lemons nearby”

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joy @simchajoy.com · 05/12/2024

I stopped listening on Spotify in June, but this still tracks.

Spotify wrap up with Beyoncé in first place, then The Smiths, Radiohead, Kendrick, and Kings of Leon following.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 01/12/2024

Holy shit Ira Glass is a whole MOOD.

Glass: “ no I do not. I think that’s bullshit. I don’t care about all of that. Fuck legacy. Fuck people of the future. Fuck people who will be after all of us are dead. Fuck the people who will be alive, having lunch and seeing movies. Fuck them. I hate them. I’m not making a radio show for them. I’m making a show for people who hear it now. And when it’s done and we don’t make it anymore, it’s perfectly fine for it to vanish into the midst of time. Like everything will, and it’s fine if that happens very quickly. It doesn’t matter.”

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joy @simchajoy.com · 25/11/2024

How to be More Like Kendrick For Dummies

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joy @simchajoy.com · 25/11/2024

Best boy I ever had. Grew to be a beast. Miss him everyday.

German Shepard puppy in a passenger seat. His huge paws on the center console, indicative of his future tall stature.

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joy @simchajoy.com · 24/11/2024

This survey also reflects optimism for deportations, lower prices, and tariffs, and the economy is much better already according to R’s. Because nothing is real and it’s all just vibes. tinyurl.com/mvkbux85

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joy @simchajoy.com · 21/11/2024

Educating the neighborhood and any high school kids (across the street) trying to find an open network.

Wifi named “Tarrifs are taxes you pay everything trump touches dies”

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joy @simchajoy.com · 20/11/2024

okay. I put it at 6pm my time for now. can change

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joy @simchajoy.com · 17/11/2024

absolutely not why do people do this shit?

someone pretending to be emperor palpatine aka elon

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joy @simchajoy.com · 17/11/2024

she’s not mad. don’t put it in the paper she got mad, etc.

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