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Can We Please Not Politicize Peanut’s Death?
How a euthanized Instagram-famous squirrel became a right-wing rallying cry.
Not to be confused with the Josh Hutcherson Saturday Night Live sketch that’s almost impossible to find online, the tragedy of Peanut, an Instagram-famous squirrel that was euthanized late last month, has sent the internet into mourning. Peanut, also known as P’nut, belonged to Mark Longo, who runs an animal sanctuary in Pine City, New York, with his wife, and was seized by the Department of Environmental Conservation alongside a raccoon named Fred. “It is TERMINALLY ONLINE to think that the fate of a squirrel microcelebrity would turn even a single vote, much less swing the election, as thousands of far-right influencers now seem to believe,” Emerson T. Brooking, director of strategy and a senior resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, posted.
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