Doug Messel
@dougmessel.com
Current: writer, dad, and content marketer
Past: carhartt coverall and goose call enthusiast
Past: carhartt coverall and goose call enthusiast
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Typically people have been allowed to stay when they have a “change of status” pending in the system. In fact, it can screw things up if they leave.
If you are married to a US spouse, your temporary visa (usually for 3 months) will lapse before your case is processed. The government allowed you could stay in the US while awaiting case processing. Now the Trump admin is saying that is a visa overstay and arresting the spouses.
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Typically people have been allowed to stay when they have a “change of status” pending in the system. In fact, it can screw things up if they leave.
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It's okay for some campaign promises to be about optics rather than policy. "We're going to bulldoze his monument to himself on Day One and rebuild the East Wing" would be a very good one for 2028.
“It is something that has been needed and desired at the White House for over 150 years, but something which no other President was equipped to do…”
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It's okay for some campaign promises to be about optics rather than policy. "We're going to bulldoze his monument to himself on Day One and rebuild the East Wing" would be a very good one for 2028.
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This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
if it happens on Christmas Day I'm gonna be insufferable
So yes, this pic (and the enlargement) was taken today.
Yikes!
🧟♂️
Yikes!
🧟♂️
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
if it happens on Christmas Day I'm gonna be insufferable
Erin and I buy calendars for each other from Artifact Uprising and we’re sitting on our couch tonight pulling photos (it’s not a secret) and we took like zero pictures of Banjo in November 🙃
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Erin and I buy calendars for each other from Artifact Uprising and we’re sitting on our couch tonight pulling photos (it’s not a secret) and we took like zero pictures of Banjo in November 🙃
I always buy my parents books for Christmas. My dad is generally cool with anything, but my stepmom prefers listening to audiobooks on CD.
I had somehow forgotten since last year how much more expensive this makes audiobooks. 😭
I had somehow forgotten since last year how much more expensive this makes audiobooks. 😭
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I always buy my parents books for Christmas. My dad is generally cool with anything, but my stepmom prefers listening to audiobooks on CD.
I had somehow forgotten since last year how much more expensive this makes audiobooks. 😭
I had somehow forgotten since last year how much more expensive this makes audiobooks. 😭
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It is time for the Michigan police to start unholstering the pepper spray
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It is time for the Michigan police to start unholstering the pepper spray
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Absolutely red-ass mad that my body is post-Black Friday tired when I didn’t even do anything yesterday but be kind of sick in the morning and that’s it
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Absolutely red-ass mad that my body is post-Black Friday tired when I didn’t even do anything yesterday but be kind of sick in the morning and that’s it
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I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer
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HEALTH be like (synths)
(guitar)
(bass)
When you're sad... You always are...
(drop)
(video of Rei Ayanami fighting Hank Hill in the background)
(guitar)
(bass)
When you're sad... You always are...
(drop)
(video of Rei Ayanami fighting Hank Hill in the background)
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
HEALTH be like (synths)
(guitar)
(bass)
When you're sad... You always are...
(drop)
(video of Rei Ayanami fighting Hank Hill in the background)
(guitar)
(bass)
When you're sad... You always are...
(drop)
(video of Rei Ayanami fighting Hank Hill in the background)
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dino bravo being gunned down in his la-z-boy by quebecois cigarette bootleggers doesn’t even make the list
not unique to wikipedia but i love that every list of "wrestling controversies" is like
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
dino bravo being gunned down in his la-z-boy by quebecois cigarette bootleggers doesn’t even make the list
There was like one showing at AMC 30 and it was gonna be way too late for me to go 😢
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
There was like one showing at AMC 30 and it was gonna be way too late for me to go 😢
Give me a Streamline dub any day of the week because Mike Reynolds is always having a good time
Oh my god like the inherent problem with using AI aside...
I think some of the most infamously dogshit anime dubs of all time still have a million times more emotion than this and it's not even close.
I think some of the most infamously dogshit anime dubs of all time still have a million times more emotion than this and it's not even close.
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Give me a Streamline dub any day of the week because Mike Reynolds is always having a good time
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not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years
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SCROOGE (Walton Goggins) (VO): It had been seven years Old Marley had been dead. Unless this is known, nothing fantastic can be understood
MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper
MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper
December 16, 2024 at 10:20 PM
SCROOGE (Walton Goggins) (VO): It had been seven years Old Marley had been dead. Unless this is known, nothing fantastic can be understood
MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper
MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper
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I've had a horrible holiday and I may need to pay for a tow on my car. If you like my writing and want this holiday to suck less, please consider my tip jar at paypal.me/stompsite
my writing, which is all freely available for you to read, can be found at docseuss.medium.com
my writing, which is all freely available for you to read, can be found at docseuss.medium.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I've had a horrible holiday and I may need to pay for a tow on my car. If you like my writing and want this holiday to suck less, please consider my tip jar at paypal.me/stompsite
my writing, which is all freely available for you to read, can be found at docseuss.medium.com
my writing, which is all freely available for you to read, can be found at docseuss.medium.com
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Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
lol of course the damn Christmas tree doesn’t work today.
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
lol of course the damn Christmas tree doesn’t work today.
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unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
Ah, yes. Time for my “get some kind of stomach bug right after Thanksgiving” experience. Happens every 5-6 years. I was probably overdue tbh
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Ah, yes. Time for my “get some kind of stomach bug right after Thanksgiving” experience. Happens every 5-6 years. I was probably overdue tbh
Thanks to @maggieserota.bsky.social I was reminded about the glory of Son In Law. I’m describing it to Erin and it does not actually sound like a real film when the words come out of my mouth
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Thanks to @maggieserota.bsky.social I was reminded about the glory of Son In Law. I’m describing it to Erin and it does not actually sound like a real film when the words come out of my mouth
On the plus side we host Christmas so when one of my guests decides that they need to echo the color commentator I can just slink away to my basement lair to seethe
The good news is they play on Christmas Day too so you can ruin your whole holiday season if you want
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
On the plus side we host Christmas so when one of my guests decides that they need to echo the color commentator I can just slink away to my basement lair to seethe