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Making Coal Cute Again

Decoder Ring by Slate Podcasts

Feb 11, 202643:28Society & Culture

Three weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum shared an unusual tweet : a cartoon image of himself with his arm draped around a giant, anthropomorphized lump of coal. This piece of coal has big googly eyes...

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Making Coal Cute Again is an episode from Decoder Ring by Slate Podcasts. Three weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum shared an unusual tweet : a cartoon image of himself with his arm draped around a giant, anthropomorphized...

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Published Feb 11, 2026, 43:28 long, audio available.

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