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Grand Mogul
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Professional protestor. Boise, ID.
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Lowly Worm wanted to get back to Busytown
Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm driving an apple car
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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#NoKings in #Boise ❌👑
The crowd at the 10/18/25 No Kings protest in front of the Idaho Capitol in Boise. One of the protest signs reads, "Ice Cream Taters Not Dictators" A protest sign with Lowly Worm from Richard Scarry's books, driving a car shaped like an apple. The sign reads, "My Other Car Is RFK Jr's Brain"
October 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The "you wouldn't download a car" meme, except it's "you wouldn't download a looted business establishment"
October 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Fun Fact: instead of using US-provided funds and material to build an airport, the Royal Laotian Government put up one of these in Vientiane before the overthrow of the monarchy. "From a closer distance, it appears even less impressive, like a monster of concrete."
The Patuxai or Victory Gate in Vientiane, capital of Laos Photo by Stefan Fussan A description of the Patuxai in Laotian and English. The English text reads: At the northeastern end of the LaneXang Ave. arises a huge structure resembling the Arc de Triomphe. It is the Patuxay or Victory Gate of Vientiane, built in 1962 (B.E. 2505), but never complete due to the country's turbulent history. From a closer distance, it appears even less impressive, like a monster of concrete. Nowadays this place is used as leisure ground for the people of Vientiane and the seventh floor on top of the building serves as excellent view point over the city. Photo by Atif Guzlar
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Strange how Rep. Simpson will tell Bloomberg Government that Democrats have a legitimate concern with impoundment, when two days ago he was again lying in an email to constituents about Dems wanting "free health care for illegal aliens" #idpol
Part of Rep. Simpson's "Simpson Standard" email to constituents from Oct. 12, 2025. The excerpt lies about what Democratic health care proposals would do (and about GOP policy in the OBBB). It reads: Claim: Republicans are forcing hospitals, nursing homes, and health clinics to close. Reality: President Trump and Republicans won’t force American taxpayers to pay for free health care for illegal aliens. The Democrats' counterproposal repeals the $50 billion investment in improving rural health care. In contrast, Republicans offered a nonpartisan bill that is a straightforward, short-term funding extension with no policy changes, and health care programs are fully funded at the current levels.
October 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Poster for the film Sink the Bismarck! (1960), showing a Swordfish torpedo bomber approaching the titular battleship
September 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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"I have found the technician at fault."
Marco Rubio pointing to his official portrait as Florida Speaker of the House
September 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Anatoly Fomenko, mathematician and theorist behind the pseudohistorical New Chronology which claims that most history has been forged and most ancient historical events really took place between 1000 and 1500 CE, to cover up the existence of the world-spanning "Russian Horde," with a speech bubble under him
September 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Also, the photo used might be from around the time Dershowitz wrote that birthday greeting for Epstein
Information about the 2005 Bellwood lecture featuring Alan Dershowitz as speaker, with a non-current photo of Dershowitz
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation discussing Irish unification in the episode The High Ground, with the line crudely changed to "the Irish Unification of 2029"
September 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A pertinent I Ching reading outside Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise
Written in chalk on a sidewalk, the I Ching hexagram Difficulty (water over thunder), and the following accompanying text: Not going anywhere it is beneficial to abide in correctness Correctness is not vacant emptiness without action it does not mean there is nothing to do When you have done things by the human mentality for a long time the mind of the Way is hidden Some of the chalk text has apparently been washed away by the sprinklers in the cemetery next to the sidewalk. In the background, behind the cemetery fence, stand rows upon rows of white veteran headstones.
September 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Dark Abundance:
Destroy broken government and replace it with effective, centralized power
Achieve energy dominance at all costs
Support industrial policy to encourage innovation and deployment of new technologies
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Director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) as seen in Andor season 2
September 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The painting Destruction, from The Course of Empire series by Thomas Cole. "A barbarous and destroying enemy conquers and sacks the city. Description of this picture is perhaps needless; carnage and destruction are its elements."
September 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Lisa and Bart Simpson playing rock, paper, scissors. Lisa, knowing Bart always plays rock, played paper. From S4 E19 of The Simpsons
August 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Bugs Bunny at a drawing table
August 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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The Doge of Venice Marino Faliero's portrait was removed from the Doge's Palace and painted over with a black shroud as damnatio memoriae for his attempted coup. The shroud bears the Latin phrase, This is the space for Marino Faliero, beheaded for crimes.
August 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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A black and white photo of the head of an emu, with red glowing laser eyes added
July 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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For those who would like more info, I would recommend Varda's The Gleaners and I, which briefly examines the painting as it documents modern-day gleaners in France
The cover of the Criterion Collection edition of Agnes Varda's The Gleaners and I, showing the director with a sheaf of wheat
July 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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BattleMechs, how do they work?
Illustration of a BattleTech Hatchetman 'Mech, by Duane Loose
July 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Neo from The Matrix, with the subtitle "I know Bewegungskrieg."
July 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Header from a Guardian article: The panel What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas
July 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Ya like candy corn?
The cover of Jerry Seinfeld's Halloween children's book, featuring a young Jerry Seinfeld with a disproportionately large head and surrounded by stacks of candy
June 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Froggy?
Screenshot of the TSA pop quiz from the Key and Peele Prepared for Terries sketch, asking: If you see some terries trying to get froggy, you should: A Fireboard those motherjammers B Hypothetical them in the clavicle C Draxx them sklounst
June 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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The plan? Win the general election after your stunning primary victory with rent freezes, no cost childcare, and big suits
Nathan Fielder in a big suit, from the Nathan for You episode The Anecdote
June 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The Leadership, Order, Power (written in Aurebesh) poster depicting Emperor Palpatine, from Star Wars Battlefront Ii
June 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM