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Buy an iPad for College. Get $180,000 in Student Loan Debt

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By Colin Heasley
| McSweeney's Verified
Make this fall the best semester ever with NEW student deals on iPad. Buy an iPad for college, and for an indefinite time, get $180,000 in student loan debt. Plus, add AirPods to your purchase for a free $150 gift card! Arrive on campus ready to take on the world with a next-generation iPad and make $180,000 of debt that will last a lifetime.
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We Are Cicadas Who Have Been Underground Since the Obama Administration

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By Colin Heasley
| Points in Case
Brave imagos, our emergence is nigh! Since the Obama Administration, we have lurked feebly under the soil. Now, front legs clasped, postcyleptus held aloft with pride, we surge skyward to a world replete with the bounties of over a decade of equality and universal healthcare! When we burrowed 13 years ago, already the winds of Hope and Change were beneath our unformed wings. Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Lady Gaga was charting with “Born This Way.” People LOVED Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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My Year of Election Fatigue and Relaxation

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By Colin Heasley
| McSweeney's Verified
“It’s voter fatigue,” my therapist, Dr. Tuttle, explained to me. Some people just get voted out.” It all made sense. I was simply too tired of the constant voting. I began my hibernation in the winter of 2023, when the articles started. I swallowed one New York Times Op-Ed About Biden’s Age and one Gen Z Is the Most Politically Disengaged Generation Yet, and was out for three days. My year of Voter Fatigue would not be an act of self-centeredness; it would be an act of self-preservation.
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