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reapplying to the University of New Hampshire's PhD program in Rhetoric, Literacy, and Composition Studies

North Carolina
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@mountain_goats
The Mountain Goats
4 years
I want to play Magic: the Gathering
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officer, I need to report a murder
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Cawthorn's claim is, verbatim, that he "watched [an unnamed person] do a key bump right in front of [him]" this shouldn't require pointing out, and people should live how they like, but: people who don't do key bumps are very, very seldom people who know the term "key bump"
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2 years
the egg bagel has been released from quarantine
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5 years
this is a good line imo
@SteveHoffmanTV
Steve Hoffman
5 years
"Snowflake is a word used by sociopaths in an attempt to discredit the notion of empathy." - John Cleese
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7 years
lotta real bad takes out there today but "Hawaii doesn't know anything about being attacked" has gotta be among the worst, congrats Phil
@FiveRights
Philip Schuyler
7 years
Hawaii, what do you know? You were 5,000 miles from 9/11. You run your little world and let the grownups run the mainland.
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2 years
drugged by an informant and murdered in his sleep at the age of 21 by the Chicago police while his wife, nine months' pregnant, was detained in the adjacent room. The police claimed they had been attacked; this was false, as has been proven.
@haymarketbooks
Haymarket Books
2 years
β€œSchool is not important. Work is not important. Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” β€”Fred Hampton
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The Mountain Goats
5 years
β€œRotato the potato” has singlehandedly rescued my morning
@Donttreadonpee
Sassy Sega Pencil
6 years
Rotato the potato
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1 year
there has never been a performance art bit as total as dril's interview with the washington post
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2 years
Lorne M please be advised that the Mountain Goats are in NY right now and are well loved by the TikTok Dancing Massive. Get well soon Ed & holler at me Lorne
@PageSix
Page Six
2 years
'SNL' producers 'scrambling' to replace Ed Sheeran amid COVID-19 diagnosis
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7 years
remove all Confederate symbols from every piece of public land in the country. the Confederacy is & was white supremacist trash
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2 years
he fears our power
@TheAVClub
The A.V. Club
2 years
Ed Sheeran shatters The Mountain Goats' hopes of playing SNL
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The Mountain Goats
2 years
so I was washing potatoes last night when I got excited
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
I'll tell you a story about new years
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3 years
Man if you wanna get vaccinated but you’re afraid of your anti vax fam finding out I will alibi you, personally. You were with the Mountain Goats. You were guesting on a track. You bodied the track, too. I’ll swear under oath. Just get your shot.
@thedailybeast
The Daily Beast
3 years
People in Missouri are donning disguises to receive a coronavirus vaccine, according to a doctor there. Patients are worried about how their family members and friends will treat them if they reveal they have been vaccinated.
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3 years
when you knew your editor was eager to clock out and you had this one thing that’s been bugging you for four years
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3 years
My new job is providing an improvised soundtrack for my son as he utterly crushes Breath of the Wild
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2 years
there are no circumstances under which I would ask for money for somebody quoting my lyrics, how grotesque. I might deny a permission on political / yuck grounds but that would be an extreme case. please use tMG lyrics as epigraphs when they are appropriate, author friends
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Laura Poole
2 years
Dear authors: Stop. Quoting. Song lyrics. Just stop. You don't have explicit written permission from the copyright holders. You probably can't afford permission. Just don't do it.
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celibacy is a state of voluntary renunciation btw. no such thing as "involuntary celibacy." "incels" should be called "dwsoeisottptwgws," which is short for "dudes whose sense of entitlement is severely off-putting to the people they wanna get with." please fix this, thanks
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5 years
every year I see that people are listening to "This Year" on 12/31 and I think, well, isn't that something. just the best damn thing
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4 years
88 of them, you say, and the number of ads was placed by the campaign, you say. The campaign of the American President, you say
@mmfa
Media Matters
4 years
Facebook let the Trump campaign run 88 ads with inverted red triangle β€” an infamous Nazi symbol
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5 years
drag me, church sign
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6 years
@realDonaldTrump the judge explicitly said that your inability to keep your mouth shut necessitated a lighter sentence. study a little law, maybe, champ
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4 years
the people in this audience, along with the presenters of this show, are assuring that conscientious musicians won't be able to work their jobs for a while, and that conscientious audiences won't be able to see shows for the foreseeable, and to be blunt, that fucking sucks.
@stereogum
Stereogum
4 years
Tennessee concert attracted packed crowd with no masks or social distancing
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5 years
look I don't mean to be all "we stan a legend" because both stanning & legends are kinda iffy prospects imo but Greta Thunberg has changed her Twitter bio to the very phrase the president used sarcastically to try to mock her so indeed indeed we stan
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6 years
β€œI saw Waluigi singing a Mountain Goats song” is a sentence my son just said so henceforth 6/29 is a religious holiday
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even a man who is pure in heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf in the punishing glare of the flashing ham biscuit light
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5 years
GRITTY WAS AT THE MOUNTAIN GOATS SHOW. REPEAT, GRITTY, FRIEND TO THE WORKER, SCOURGE OF BOSSES, WAS AT THE MOUNTAIN GOATS SHOW
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grittyphilly
5 years
Amazing show as always @mountain_goats Philly loves you
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11 years
Despite all my rage I am still just a frog in a ball http://t.co/pnVlQiDryU
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4 years
starting the day right
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5 years
sing us a song, you're the piano man / everyone who plays piano can sing / don't argue with me, I'm a real-estate novelist / reasonably sure that's a thing
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
At least the poets have not abandoned us
@APgelston
Dan Gelston
4 years
The Phanatic does the wave!
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3 years
My son keeps singing β€œwe wish you a merry Christmas, but a happy new year” and the conjunction shift is killing me
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The Mountain Goats
6 years
good morning, ICE is a fascist org using long-established fascist tactics and any other opinions about it, you'll forgive me for putting it harshly, are trash, have a great day
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@tedcruz just say "I don't care; the guns are more important to me than the schoolchildren." It will feel good to tell the truth.
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6 years
If you like what I do, musically, some of that is down to my father, who went home to be with the Lord today. He instilled in me a love of music, and a lifelong devotion to it. Goodbye, Dad. I owe you big time.
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3 years
Why I never get invited to teach the writing seminar
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5 years
if I can stop pretending to be all calm and focused now may I just reiterate that I'M ANNOUNCING OUR NEW ALBUM FROM WIZARDS OF THE COAST TODAY, AND THE ALBUM'S CALLED IN LEAGUE WITH DRAGONS, AND THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
Ok wow
@chicagotribune
Chicago Tribune
4 years
There is a shortage in the blood supply, but there is no shortage of blood
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The Mountain Goats
2 years
message to the boy sitting, utterly rapt, in front of his grandmother's TV, watching the premiere of "Wonder Woman" in 1975: JD, you will not believe this, but
@RealLyndaCarter
Lynda Carter
2 years
I like living in a world where songs by the @mountain_goats go viral. Good job, Internet.
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
it is difficult to convey to these, the future generations, how completely this seemed to be from another planet when it was new
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
Seriously am I on Zoom to get compliments on my look? No. I’m on Zoom because we live in Hell. Accordingly I look cursed, that is the situation
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4 years
Jesus did not come to help you feel great about loving your country
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3 years
straight up incredible meme. maximum respect
@libshipwreck
Librarianshipwreck
3 years
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3 years
6-y.o. son in kindergarten Zoom this morning. Teacher asks what superpower anybody would have if they could have one. My dude raises hand IMMEDIATELY, teacher says "you already have an answer?" and unmutes. My son, my beloved son: "TWO THINGS. SHIELD ELBOW AND LASER EYES"
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2 years
miss me with your fundraising emails, @TheDemocrats . every single time reproductive justice advocates have begged you to proactively safeguard these rights, you've explained why it's not needed, or practical. my money's going to my local abortion fund, or to @AbortionFunds .
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4 years
Pick a movie. The movie is "Hellraiser." Everything about the movie is the same as it was when it came out in 1987, and the movie is "Hellraiser."
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
worked 40 hours a week my first year of college to pay full tuition because I couldn't get a loan. Paid off the 3 years I borrowed about 10 years later. I fully support free college for everybody, because I'm not a petty narcissistic bitch
@scalzi
John Scalzi
4 years
I worked my way through school and worked afterward to pay off loans, and pay full freight for my kid to go to school. Bite me, James Carville, I don't want to hear YOUR shit. I'd be fucking DELIGHTED to have my taxes go to free college tuition for this and future generations.
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2 years
Solidarity today Solidarity tomorrow Solidarity forever
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4 years
the answer to all our struggle is clear let the Mountain Goats play β€œThis Year” at the Super Bowl
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I need all the anti-union bozos in my mentions to go into work tomorrow & tell their bosses they don't believe in the minimum wage, weekends, or sick leave, and to decline all the gains won for them by the union & the union only. solidarity forever
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The Mountain Goats
6 years
this is a revolutionary take
@JasonIsbell
Jason Isbell
6 years
I think every contestant in the hot dog eating contest should have to eat only 1 hot dog, and they judge on style
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she was looking quite foreboding with ancient jewels exploding in the shape of a sword on her thorax / well the years start coming and they
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incredible shade
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protip if yr husband says anything like "I am the alpha in this relationship" at yr wedding, halt everything, tell everyone in the building what he said, then film his face as normal people point & laugh
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you: vaporwave has exhausted itself. a fascinating moment, but its tropes eventuall-- me: check this shit out it sounds like they left the tape in a bucket of warm water
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6 years
Damn. Says here in the #JFKFiles that Mr. Mime is the best Pokemon. wild if true
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3 years
*wakes up, puts on old school metal tee* man I love this band. wonder if their singer thinks the Moderna vaccine is a plot to inject microcomputers into the bloodstream
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6 years
I am very here for high school students telling ignorant scavenger pundits to their faces that they're worthless grifters
@carlynovell
carly
6 years
I was hiding in a closet for 2 hours. It was about guns. You weren't there, you don't know how it felt. Guns give these disgusting people the ability to kill other human beings. This IS about guns and this is about all the people who had their life abruptly ended because of guns.
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Linkin Park meant a LOT to a lot of kids I used to take care of in treatments & placements & therefore to me, too. Very sad today.
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@shrimpkolkhoz I would immediately print a "FUN IN MY OWN WAY" t-shirt
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5 years
if your immediate response to this is anything other than β€œoh hell yes” then you and I are on very different spiritual paths
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2 years
1) solve for β€œour” 2) wtf are you even talking about? Toni Morrison, U.K. LeGuin, Didion, Willa Cather for the love of God, K.A. Porter a stylist before whom all tremble, the list is literally five pages long before you get to the transphobe
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@mountain_goats
The Mountain Goats
2 years
Now that’s what I like to see on the first day of tour. Good morning Richmond! You’re beautiful!
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
Guys, check it out. what if *huffs paint* we get a system of government *wolfs down some pills* wholly reliant on *giant salvia bong rip* a document that predates the industrial revolution, an event which *shotguns three beers* informs every aspect of our lives
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
Saw somebody asking why the right hates Antifa, I think I can clear this up. Antifa is anti fascist. The American right is very pro-fascist, so anti fascist orgs really get them agitated. It’s as simple as that
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
It is not my style to post sales figures and stuff like that, that’s always felt like the realm of the industry that’s self- congratulatory and weird...but this is humbling and I wanted to share. Thank you all for embracing our hateful little song
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4 years
on the wild chance that anybody reading this is into the Mountain Goats, I will have a small something for y'all at 4:00.
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4 years
giant shout out to this dog I met in Portland back in September
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4 years
after hearing this song I idly returned to the verse several times to see if I could find any better rhymes for them there but "doctrinal efficacy" would have forced the short i to take a stress which for me is a non-starter
@roxaloxa
ari velazquez 🌯
4 years
if everyone is gonna keep talking about that high hopes song, it's worth revisiting when john darnielle heard it for the first time
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The Mountain Goats
2 years
I met ⁦ @kumailn ⁩ about 15 years back at Local 506 in Chapel Hill. Today, at the end of a flight from Charlotte to Los Angeles, the guy across the aisle from you says: β€œare you John?” Here’s to renewing long connections!
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3 years
I want everyone to know two things: 1. I worship the risen Lord, Jesus Christ, Who came to set the captive free 2. Jesus Christ was not afraid of the devil, and does not care, even the tiniest bit, if you wear some funny devil sneakers & make Satan jokes
@GovKristiNoem
Governor Kristi Noem
3 years
Our kids are being told that this kind of product is, not only okay, it's "exclusive." But do you know what's more exclusive? Their God-given eternal soul. We are in a fight for the soul of our nation. We need to fight hard. And we need to fight smart. We have to win.
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
we gotta fund basic history education better
@nycjim
Jim Roberts
4 years
57 members of Buffalo Police riot response team resign from the unit in support of the 2 officers who were suspended for pushing elderly protester to the ground. They say the 2 suspended officers "were simply following orders.”
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6 years
I feel the Twitter has a right to see me dressed up for the β€œWord of the Day” sketch at my son’s school (the word was β€œuncanny”)
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@mountain_goats
The Mountain Goats
2 years
and may the rest of us, collectively, defiantly, never forget it /thread
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
these people think Jesus cares a lot about whether you say β€œmerry Christmas” but not about whether you feed the hungry. This is their morality.
@NBCNews
NBC News
4 years
BREAKING: Trump admin. has formalized work requirements for recipients of food stamps, a move that will cause nearly 700,000 people to lose access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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hey @tacobell I'm starting a chain of restaurants called Potato Bell and our menu is gonna reflect that we know it's touring vegetarians that keep the ship afloat and it's gonna be awesome and also we will have video game cabinets in the restaurant like in the 80s. check and mate
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
you do not "reach out" to the people who didn't think the children of Flint deserved clean drinking water. you make them understand that light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has understood it not, and the triumph of evil over good is always short-lived
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
parenting websites think of children's joy as an annoyance to be overcome. ten years later these people ask questions like "why doesn't my child care what I have to say"
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
Any take besides this one is horseshit, honestly.
@BernieSanders
Bernie Sanders
4 years
Suspend evictions, foreclosures, and utility shut-offs nationwide.
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
it is a very humbling honor that our song is useful to people in these difficult and uncertain times and when we get outta this quarantine there will be an abundance of good rocking tunes and jumping up and down and whatnot
@chanonista
medusa
4 years
drove past the venue i work for today, screamed, turned the car around and came back to take this picture. apparently my boss is also a @mountain_goats fan πŸ₯Ί
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
to all trans youth in Arkansas and everywhere, we stand with you in this bullshit moment. Strength power and love to you all.
@transscribe
Katelyn Burns
3 years
Arkansas Senate votes 25-8 to override the veto of HB 1570, transition care for trans minors will now be banned in Arkansas.
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The Mountain Goats
6 years
to make the point very clear: about 2,000 years ago the author of the Book of James very explicitly said that thoughts and prayers by themselves don't count at all and are in fact rotting, dead flesh.
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
quick word about this nonsense @tedcruz is up on: of course prisoners should be able to vote. they're wards of the state. their stake in how government is run is actually greater than most people's.
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
As many know, I have a long-standing opposition to releasing a Christmas record, but the paucity of Christmas records by big pop acts has me feeling salty. So, stay tuned for β€œI’m Divorcing You for Christmas” by the Mountain Goats, coming your way in 2021
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The Mountain Goats
4 years
We’ve been stuck at the Norwegian border for about four hours and the customs people looked us up on Spotify
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
genuinely in tears to read this. lost so many friends during the hard years. Reagan was in office. friends who lived in NY shut down the bridges & tunnels in a cry of anguish. the wait has been so long.
@DrMikeStanton
Dr. Mike Stanton
3 years
HIV vaccine might be right around the corner.
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
imagine if your flow was so terrible that Roger Stone felt it
@VenturaReport
Jorge Ventura Media
3 years
Walking into #CPAC and I see this
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@USN2RN @realDonaldTrump he is literally directly responsible for the lighter sentence; he forfeits the right to bitch & whine about it.
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The Mountain Goats
6 years
"why do people hate the police?"
@thehill
The Hill
6 years
Police defend using taser on 87-year-old who was cutting dandelions
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The Mountain Goats
2 years
it was me standing at the stove in a house where I'm safe. got here on my own two feet. had a lot of help. plenty of points where I wouldn't have bet on the outcome. now I have three potatoes, you know?
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
the tasty treat speaks for all of us
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Marc
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The Mountain Goats
6 years
a free new song by me, every day, for the rest of your life, to the person who gets David Brooks fired. if I die before you, you get ghost songs
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The Mountain Goats
3 years
Somebody @β€˜d me asking if I’d write a song to make them less afraid of death but deleted the ask before I could respond but I liked my riff so just in case it helps
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The Mountain Goats
5 years
Can somebody advise me if there are any airlines considered labor-friendly, or at least not labor-hostile? Have flown @Delta for years (platinum status!) but would rather take my money elsewhere if this is how they wanna roll.
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The Mountain Goats
7 years
WHATEVER WENT DOWN IN YOUR LIFE THIS YEAR THAT YOU HATED, WATCH IT GO UP IN FLAMES IN YOUR MIND'S EYE
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The Mountain Goats
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if you're the kind of classist shithead who throws entire regions/states into "fuck those people" politics to make yourself feel great about yr politics, grow up, thanks
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The Mountain Goats
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"Now that I've been banned from the mall, I can pursue my true passion, the ten commandments"
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If I had not left the Church years ago the Holy Father’s position here would be a moment of profound crisis for me, as I have prayed since early childhood for the robots to annihilate us all
@nypost
New York Post
3 years
Pope Francis: Pray that robots don't turn against us
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The Mountain Goats
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QED, I Love the Cows
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2 years
If I had a nickel for every @mountain_goats in this category I’d have a SHOCKING amount of nickels
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