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Karina Coombs
@karinacoombs.com
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Writer in MA interested in pop culture, news, and books. Dog enabler. Mom. Little library curator.
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Woman kneeling down next to child with an arm resting on his shoulder, “Are there any classes you’re struggling with?” Child, with both hands on his head while holding a pencil and looking down at a table with an open book on it,”The Bourgeoisie.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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JD Vance’s face superimposed over Leonardo DiCaprio sitting in a recliner with beer and cigarette and pointing.
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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'I could smell the onions and the mustard'
Movie still of Robert Duvall from Apocalypse Now.
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Graphic showing the firing of a subway sandwich toward its target and labeled sandwich, line of aim, safety limit, and target.
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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And republicans out here showing all of us that they still very much are your grandather’s party.
Portland frog facing fascists.
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Imagine…
January 6 riot at US Capital photo
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Any time I make a mistake
The Simpson’s Ralph Wiggum standing in front of a row of school lockers with the text, “Me fail English? That’s unpossible!”
October 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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What’s your sign?
A sign that reads “Ye Olde New England Boiled Potatoes” with a drawing of a pointing hand and a potato wearing a tricorn hat.
September 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This photo out of South Korea today. Oof.

(Photo: Yonhap | The Korea Times)
Photo of poster featuring an ICE officer wearing a Trump mask and carrying an assault rifle and a bag of money with “I heart Korea. Poster text reads “We’re friends! Aren’t we?”
September 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Some days the news is just too much so here’s a baby bunny in my yard.
Baby bunny surrounded by grass and leaves
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Four perfect albums that came out when I was 16:
Eurythmics album cover for Be Yourself Tonight The Waterboys album cover for This is the Sea INXS album cover for Listen Like Thieves Album cover for Fine Young Cannibals
July 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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This sticker was in Cambridge, MA a few months back.
Peeling sticker of Saint Luigi on the back of a street sign
June 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Stealth.
Wonder Woman’s invisible “stealth” plane.
June 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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They are all over my yard digging holes?
Some kind of creature in the grass.
June 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I needed this today.
“I most commonly hear despair framed as an end point, a feeling that affixes itself to exhaustion, or to a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn't have to be so. I have Black elders in my life whom I love dearly. I am not related to them, and we don't maintain the façade of age-based hierarchy that can come with blood ties. We're part of a community of equals. We play cards. I listen to the good gossip from the nursing home. If time has its way, and it always does, many of them won't live to see the world become significantly worse than it is now. They may witness the groundwork being laid for its worsening, but not the most damaging results. These are people who firmly understand that they are counting time in units of a few years, or a good handful of months, and yet they worry about the world. They ache for it, they are displeased by what they see, and still they organize, in the small ways they can—by donating clothes, or by ordering a bus to take them to go and vote. I won't claim to know exactly how they would define their range of feelings. But my heart is broken and repaired by them, in equal measure. They are aware of the limited time they have left, and aware that their time on earth may stop while the time of their grandchildren, or children, or anyone younger than them whom they love, will continue on—and what a shame to see a world growing more undeserving of their beloveds each day—and so they spend at least some of whatever time they have left stitching together small pieces that, eventually, might make something big enough to be meaningful.”
May 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Quote post with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe
Wonder Woman flying her invisible plane in a cloudy blue sky.
May 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Took a walk in Harvard Square tonight with my daughter and found Saint Luigi.
Sticker of Luigi Mangione designed to look like a saint stuck to the back of a metal street sign.
May 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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The average American has three friends
A nearly empty basket of tortilla chips, a nearly empty bowl of guacamole, and a half full bowl of salsa atop a wooden table.
May 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The average American has three friends
Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, and Lily Tomlin posing together from the movie, “9 to 5”.
May 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Hillary Clinton Benghazi hearing gif with her hand on her chin and shaking her head looking unamused
April 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Kid giving side eye
April 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Simpson’s Ralph Wiggum covered in a measles rash with the text, “I got Jesus freckles!”
April 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Day’s looking up.
Screenshot of Tesla stock cratering
April 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Text, “Musk has 13 other children by a number of different women. He does not appear to be terribly involved with any of them. He is actively hostile to one of them. He seems to spend more time -much, much more time— playing video games than parenting. Like Abrego Garcia, Musk is an immigrant. Except that he did not have to scrap his way to America. Musk was born wealthy, in South Africa, and came here to attend an Ivy League school on a student visa. One of these individuals is a paragon of manliness; the other is an effete parasite. The fact that the MAGA movement has them confused is a problem.”
April 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Took the high school junior for a college tour of UMASS Amherst yesterday. As a native MA resident, I’d never seen the campus before and didn’t fully appreciate how it could successfully spread out 23,000 undergrads to make the university feel small.
Photo of a utility pile with a sticker that says “UMASS tortures monkeys” with a graphic showing a tamarin behind jail bars and wearing chains on its wrists.
March 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM