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2020 Democrats Announce Comedy Tour https://t.co/Rr049AnjYC

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@RonDeSantis @rebelaiusa Did you forget about the 2000 election?

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@HazelLiaqa4848 Yes, and for good reason.

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@Hunter19302 No one lives in the red areas.

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@EdwardTWinz Play stupid games, win stupid prizes 🤷

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The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

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@Tamra_Diane @HouseGOP @tribilintoby -ed into a corner with Iran

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@_Zaraquin @LouisMontalvo23 Pete Hegseth a boner.

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Billionaires hoard all this money just to have a space race and blow shit up.

What a waste.

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@mrmikeMTL Just me 😭

[Little Beirut Films @TheZombieCats]

Independent filmmaking is hard.
So naturally we decided to make a Cold War zombie cat epic.

We’ve already shot part of the film, and now we’re launching Kickstarter to finish it.

If this weird little universe speaks to you, follow the campaign.

🧟🐈🚀

#Kickstarter #IndieFilm

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@BasedMikeLee Republicans are the biggest victims 😭😭😭

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@Ander1749 @DualBladeSteven @Damaan4u33 Omg what a burn 👏 👏 👏

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@Ander1749 @Mickkie @Damaan4u33 Omg, you love rapists!

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@ML3democrats Yes

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@KristinFisher I remember when the Apollo program blew up 10 Saturn V rockets before finally going to the moon.

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Greenland is not a 13 year old gir.

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Starship exploded. Again. Like it always explodes. It explodes because it's a dead-end design. SpaceX will never reach the moon. SpaceX will never reach Mars. SpaceX sets the US space program back every day we foolishly decide to rely on it.

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Why? Is Israel bombing Germany?

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@Vain_RD @DimaZeniuk And then you burn to death 🤷

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@DimaZeniuk Successfully exploded.