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5. Capitalism the Clown Say what you will about Bezos the clown; he gets things done. Despite several injuries and lawsuits against his company, this American clown has produced results! The master at making all your money disappear at just the click of a button, at products to mildly inconvenience the non-clown kind, and at unpaid assistants that may or may not get injured, he is truly a fine example of what the ideal clown should be. All he is missing is a flower that squi

To whom it may concern...

What's up homies, it's your boy...

The year is 2026. Your 9-5 job can’t even pay for a single McNugget due to inflation. The government is shut down due to all the geriatric white men going senile. Tiktok’s For You page is choked with AI storytimes and those male pregnancy mermaid videos. You are curled up in the fetal position in the 1x1 studio apartment that you pay $1,000,000 dollars a month to live in, crying, wishing that there was some escape. Luckily, there’s a solution! As one prestigious fuck once s

The following note was found by one of The Squirrel's undercover journalist squirrels, located in a trashcan at the Selinsgrove Denny’s parking lot. My dearest, Wall-E, Bro we are so fucked. I’m writing you this letter on a napkin that slapped me in the face on my way to work using some bank’s shitty branded pen that I found in a fallen bird’s nest. I think the nest was knocked over by a drone. I digress. I didn’t used to think you were real, actually, but seeing how thi

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Ah yes, our society has somehow made it to 2026...

Enough time has passed that I can finally be true to myself...

It's been a minute since the Squirrel...

By: The Susquehanna Times “This isn’t a good look for anyone.” - Liam, 19, from Boston, Ma. Liam is an active member of his college’s Democrat club majoring in History Education. He’s been reading the New York Times, listening to NPR, questioning the void, and doomscrolling Twitter for his news. In his free time, he plays guitar and uses Twitter to get into long, needlessly personal fights with strangers. His screentime is roughly sixteen hours a day and he’s mutuals with Eli