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T. S. McAdams
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Writer, teacher, dog person. Fiction in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Santa Monica Review, Pembroke, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, South Carolina Review, New Ohio Review, and other fine periodicals near you.
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Stephen Miller must be Nancy’s astrologer in this scenario.
Older white woman in ‘80s jacket, wide-collared blouse, curiously mismatched eyebrows, and hairsprayed helmet-hair. She has big green stones in her earrings and in a ring on her finger. High-quality dot-matrix astrological charts are fanned out before her on a gleaming desk.
October 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Officers in full military cosplay fire flashbangs or somesuch into a crowd of demonstrators in Oakland. Two protesters stand flat-footed in front of the officers, just a few feet away, hands at their sides, heads entirely hidden in smoke from the officers’ weapons. One officer has a noticeable wet spot on the crotch of his pants, plausibly urine or semen. A turquoise dinosaur in pink shoes walks unmolested behind the officers. Image credit: Jerome Palmer.
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Who’s your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)
Keye Luke as Master Po in ‘70s TV series Kung Fu
October 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Behold the Antichrist. Are Christians really so oblivious to their own lore?
Donald J. Trump tweet shows Trump (a bit slimmed down), palms upraised, a glowing planet earth behind him. Caption: “THE WORLD WILL SOON UNDERSTAND NOTHING CAN STOP WHAT IS COMING.”
August 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Is it not enough that woke took out the slutty m&m? Did they have to come for the sexy old man of Cracker Barrel?
Side-by-side comparison of the old Cracker Barrel logo (with the old man leaning on the barrel) and the new one (just the words “Cracker Barrel” in a streamlined version of the same font).
August 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Hagiographic Trump portrait in the style of Jon McNaughton shows Trump kneeling in prayer while the shining, semi-transparent figure of Jeffrey Epstein stands behind him, smiling benevolently, with his hands on Trump’s shoulders.
August 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
Members of the new wave band Devo, sitting in folding chairs, wearing shiny silver suits and conical red hats.
August 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Graph based on data from Courtlistener.com shows that, between May 1, 2025 and June 23, 2025, Federal District Courts ruled against the Trump administration 94.3% of the time (82 cases to 5), Circuit Courts of Appeal ruled against the Trump Administration 68.2% of the time (15 cases to 7), and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump Administration 93.7% of the time (15 cases to 1).
July 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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In a cartoon by J.A.K. (Jason Adam Katzenstein), a man is falling from the sky against a background of skyscrapers. Superman is arriving to catch the man, who looks irritated and says, “But don’t save me in a woke way.”
July 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Map of the body of water formerly (and largely still) known as the Gulf of Mexico, renamed “Gulf of Donald Trump is on the Epstein Client List.”
July 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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NAZIS TO CREATE 3 RANKS IN REICH Full Citizenship Will Be Given Only for 'Loyal Service" to the German State. JEWS TO BECOME 'GUESTS' Dr. Ley Asserts Property, Title, Descent or Position WIll Not Aid in Acquiring Franchise. Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. BERLIN, July 5.-The Third Reich of Adolf Hitler will have three classes of inhabitants if authoritative interpretations of the speech of Dr. Pfundtner, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, before the Academy for Administrative Science yesterday are a guide to the structure of the future Nazi State. In such a State the Nazis naturally belong in the first class and Jews in the third.
July 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Superman cover from the age of ten-cent comics. Box says: “Please do not reveal the secret of . . . SUPERMAN’S NEW POWER!” Superman hovers several feet off the ground, shooting rainbow beams from his fingers at a target not shown. Five white men (2 in fedoras, all in suits or sport coats, except maybe the cop, who also wears a tie) and one white woman stare at Superman’s unseen target. One man says, “Great Scott! I know Superman can fly and has super-strength! But his new power is fantastic!” Another man, aiming a boxy old-school camera, says, “I’ll have to photograph the effects of Superman’s new power—or they’ll never believe me!”
July 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Dogs are handling the sound of distant fireworks pretty well.
A beige (“fawn”) bullmastiff and a gray (“blue”) frenchie snooze on an oversized green chair.
July 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
A web-fingered Patrick Duffy in The Man from Atlantis, a 1978 TV movie.
July 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I don’t know whether this needed alt-text. Maybe screen readers can already read it? But just in case.
"We won't lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children's health," she said. "But we're not stepping back, we're stepping up. The AAP will continue to publish our own immunization schedule just as we always have, developed by experts, guided by science, trusted by pediatricians and families across the country."
June 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Recovering from bath trauma.
French Bulldog sleeps on the legs of a man wearing khaki shorts. The Frenchie is mouse-gray (“blue”) and tan, his front legs curled under his chest, one hind leg dangling. He is exhausted because he has had a bath and, as usual, barely survived.
June 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Did immigration raids always involve so much military cosplay? Asking for an allegedly free country.
(Photo by jchavezmpls.bsky.social.)
Masked Homeland Security agents wear helmets and body armor (and random track shoes) and carry military weapons while standing next to an armored personnel carrier outside a very dangerous taco stand. (Photo by Jason Chavez.)
June 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Little-girl-shrugging meme. Text: ALL I AM SAYING IS THAT THE FIRST REPORTER WHO YELLS OUT "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" SHOULD GET A PULITZER PRIZE
May 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Senator Cory Booker with skull-and-tentacles symbol of Marvel Comics’ evil society Hydra on his hand, along with the words “Hail Hydra.” Caption reads: “White House Releases Photo of Cory Booker’s Hand Tattoo.”
May 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Gonna tell my offspring this is Kid Rock.
Elon Musk in cowboy hat and sunglasses speaks into a microphone.
May 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Senator Cory Booker with right hand over heart. On the back of his hand (too big & too crisp) is the skull-and-tentacle logo of the Marvel Comics evil society Hydra, along with the words “Hail Hydra.” The caption reads: “White House Releases Photo of Cory Booker’s Hand Tattoo.”
May 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Solidarity. Arthur (bullmastiff) is crated so as not to alarm a refrigerator repairman. Ned (French bulldog), who doesn’t intimidate most people, is not locked up, but you don’t let your brother do his time alone.
A brownish (“fawn”) bullmastiff rests in closed crate on a blanket decorated with French bulldogs. A mouse-gray (“blue”) Frenchie rests in a smaller create with the door open. Dog toys are piled on top of the small crate.
April 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Photo of Robert F Kennedy Jr., Trump’s Secretary of Health & Human Services. Text reads: “This pathetic moron claims the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by flu vaccines. The first flu vaccine was introduced in the 1930s and they weren't widely available until the 50s.”
April 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Screenshot from Twitter (X). tizzyent is retweeting jeanie.online. jeanie.online says: “The part that people are missing is that they're doing official communications on Signal to avoid those communications being retained. There are Project 2025 training videos that specifically recommended this type of thing as a way to avoid subpoenas. Our government is using 3rd party software to discuss OPSEC, NOFORN, and Top Secret levels of communication in avenues that do not retain data. They can stage a total takeover of the US and there will be no evidence through any official channels.” tizzyent says: “This! This is the part that should have every news organization and every politician who actually wants to put country over Trump shouting from the rooftops.”
March 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Photo of linguist Noam Chomsky (an elderly white man with glasses) and a quote: “If you don't believe in freedom of speech for people you disagree with, you don't believe in freedom of speech at all.” The words “Philosophy Flame” appear in small print in a circle (logo?) near the bottom of the graphic.
March 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM