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Doug Coulson
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Rhetoric professor at Carnegie Mellon. Lawyer, bold wordsmith. Exploring how legal language shapes justice, identity, and power. Latest book Judicial Rhapsodies: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/b2773z23s
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Andromeda and Friends apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25111...
A detailed astrophotograph of the Andromeda Galaxy seen edge-on against a star-filled black sky, its bright yellowish core surrounded by tilted spiral arms tinted blue and pink with glowing red nebulae, and two smaller, fuzzy satellite galaxies shining nearby.
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Ella Baron cartoon of Donald Trump—orange-faced, blue suit, red tie—leaning back to shout “WOKE,” the speech tail twisting into a massive hurricane’s eye in a black-gray sky, evoking Hurricane Melissa and Trump’s climate denial.
November 1, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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July 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Dark Sand Cascades on Mars apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25062...
Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The featured image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks — streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions but cast no shadows. Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer.
June 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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"His Home…" by Jerome Tiger (1966)
A lone Indigenous man stands with a cane, gazing toward a distant house under a large yellow sun. Painting by Jerome Tiger, "His Home…" (1966).
June 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The movie character Crocodile Dundee, wearing a leather hat and vest, smirks as he holds up a massive bowie knife. Overlaid bold text reads “THAT’S NOT A KNIFE / THIS IS A KNIFE,” mocking a mugger’s small blade.
May 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Two aliens stand in front of a crucifix with a figure resembling Jesus nailed to it while their flying saucer is parked nearby. One alien, looking up at the crucifix, says to the other: “You know what we need to do? We need to get the f*ck out of here. That’s what we need to do.”
April 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Scene from an Indiana Jones film where Indiana is punching a Nazi soldier. Overlaid text reads: “I came here to study the humanities and punch Nazis — and they just cut funding for the humanities.”
March 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Mr. Burns, a character from The Simpsons, with a sly grin and his fingers steepled together. He appears to be scheming or plotting something, set against a pink background.
February 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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February 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A map centered on the Gulf of Mexico but it's renamed "Gulf of Donald Trump is on the Epstein Client List."
February 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Mary Oliver.
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
January 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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A favorite derivative.
Vintage horror movie poster for "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde," featuring bold text warning of shocking transformations and laboratory experiments. The design includes a terrified face, overlapping male-to-female silhouettes, and dramatic phrases like "Kill, kill, kill!" to emphasize dark themes.
January 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Iconic scene on the grand staircase of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining reimagined as a meme about the new year. The top panel, captioned "2025" and "I'm not going to hurt you!," shows Jack Nicholson's character standing menacingly with his arms outstretched. In the bottom panel, Shelley Duvall’s character brandishes a baseball bat near the top of the stairs and shouts "Stay away from me!"
December 29, 2024 at 7:20 PM