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Hugh C. McBride
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Rest in peace, Donna Jean. Thank you for the music and the memories.
Black and white photo of Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a white woman with long black hair. She is looking to the left and smiling serenely. Below, white text on a black background reads "Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay ... May the four winds blow you safely home ..."
November 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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So the ones who are currently terrorizing folks across the country are the "smart ones," huh?
Closeup photo of George Carlin, a white balding man with a closely-cropped grey beard. Next to him the text reads "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
October 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Rest in peace, legend.
Ace Frehley of KISS in metallic grey vest, black tights, platform silver boots, and “Spaceman” makeup, playing a guitar while flames and smoke pour out of it.
October 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Back when we were a proper country, this was how "young" Republicans revealed that they were losers:
Paul Ryan, who was then the Republican VP nominee, sits on a weight bench trying to look cool. He is wearing dark grey shorts, a light grey t-shirt, & a red baseball hat turned backwards. He also has earbuds that are connected to a player in a band on his left arm. He has his right arm extended toward the camera for some unknowable reason. There are four dumbbells (the weightlifting kind, not the political kinds) on the floor.
October 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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That moment when Karoline Leavitt decides the best way to defend her boss is by plagiarizing @paulnoth.bsky.social.
Political cartoon by Paul Noth: A flock of sheep stand in a field near a political sign. The sign has a photo of a wolf in a business suit and the quote "I am going to eat you." One of the sheep says "He tells it like it is."
September 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Could not agree more. Don't know if you've ever read Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Fr. Greg Boyle (founder of Homebody Industries), but he wrote about doing exactly what you've just described.
Blue square with white text that reads: “No daylight to separate us. Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one standing outside of that circle, moving ourselves closer to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless. At the edges, we join the easily despised and the readily left out. We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop. We situate ourselves right next to the disposable so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.” - Fr. Gregory Boyle, from Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
August 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Our government is being run by people who have adopted the Costanza Approach as a guiding principle.
George Costanza, a balding man wearing glasses, says "Jerry, just remember ... it's not a lie if you believe it."
August 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Same energy:
California Gov. Gavin Newsome, wearing blue pants and a white button-down shirt, pretends to be reading "Beloved" by Toni Morrison. He is seated at a table with an empty plate and a carefully stacked pile of four other books that he may pretend to read later.
August 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The judges would also have accepted:
A photo of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl from the TV show Newhart.
August 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Pawn Stars meme. A bald gun & his son, both wearing black polo shirts, stand behind a counter. Top text: Can we bioengineer Magneto in a vat? Bottom text: Trump Admin: Best we can do is a nuclear reactor on the moon.
August 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Meme featuring two images of Principal Skinner (from the Simpsons). Top image reads "Am I utterly repugnant?" Bottom image reads "No, it's the pierogi vendors who are wrong."
July 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Principal Skinner (from The Simpsons) meme. Top panel: Am I utterly repugnant? Bottom panel: No, it's the pierogi vendors who are wrong.
July 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Always wondered what the dude who titled Jerry Sandusky's autobiography has been up to lately.
Book cover with a grey-haired man, in profile, pointing to the left. The text reads, "Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story ... Jerry Sanduscy with Kip Richeal
July 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Screenshot of a Tweet from @dril dated Dec. 28, 2014. White text on a black background reads, "and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
July 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Don't make us tap the sign again, kids.
Image of a tweet from @dril, white text on black background, that reads, "issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
July 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek stands next to Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery during a Saturday Night Live sketch about the TV quiz show Jeopardy
June 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Imagine facing off against Elton John in a funky tinted shades competition & getting fourth place.

Dude was one of only two people in the contest & he didn't even medal.
June 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Less plaid in the pressbox, more plaid on the sidelines.
Jack Ramsay, a white, balding NBA coach, is shown with hands on hips staring at the players on the floor during a game in the early 1980s. He is wearing a dark jacket with wide lapels, a light brown shirt with a large collar with three buttons undone, and plaid pants.
June 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Even when it’s someone’s name.
Cover of Sports Illustrated magazine showing Mark Duper of the Miami Dolphins sitting on the bench. He is wearing the Dolphins’ aqua home jersey with number 85. The headline reads “SUPER DUPER! Wide Receiver Mark Duper of the Undefeated Miami Dolphins.”
June 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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White text on black background that reads as follows: "Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none." - Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
June 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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We need an adapted version of Godwin's Law. "As any discussions of shady activities in this administration grow longer, the probability of Trump accidentially or intentionally confessing approaches one."
May 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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A "shocking" conclusion, he says.
Image from The Princess Bride of Mandy Patinkin's character speaking to Wallace Stevens's character. The text reads "You keep using that word. I do no think it means what you think it means."
May 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The average American has three friends.
Photo of the Golden Girls. Bea Arthur seated on the left, Estelle Getty seated in the middle, Betty White seated on the right, and Rue McClanahan standing behind Estelle Getty.
May 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Well, he may not have gone to war, but he did have a lot of sex w/out getting an STD, which I’ve been told is basically the same thing.

www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...
Photo of an DonLd Trump at a podium, beneath a headline that reads: 'Feel like a brave soldier': Trump calls avoiding STDs his 'personal Vietnam' in old video
May 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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And, of course, representing the administration:
Lionel Hutz, a lawyer on The Simpsons, facing the camera while wearing a blue suit and red/white striped tie.
April 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM