The Memes You Need, Vol. 19: ICE Edition

The fascist takeover of America and its democracy has begun. Our nation is now ruled by an authoritarian who doesn’t plan on leaving D.C. and has a…

Sep 28 • 

Seth Abramson

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August 2025

The Memes You Need, Vol. 18: The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Edition, Part 2

The Trump-Epstein Scandal is a political scandal like none other this century—and has the memes to match. It doesn’t seem to be going away, either…

Aug 7 • 

Seth Abramson

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July 2025

The Memes You Need, Vol. 17: The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Edition

Trump has blown up his political base in a desperate attempt to keep the Epstein Files and Epstein Client List hidden from MAGAs—and the internet has…

Jul 13 • 

Seth Abramson

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The Best of the Best TV Shows, Vol. 11

In this Retro series, a longtime professional art critic and a former professor of digital culture ranks the best television programs of this…

Jul 11 • 

Seth Abramson

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June 2025

The Memes You Need, Vol. 16: The Iran War Edition

Instead of us having essential conversations about domestic U.S. policy in the days ahead, we will be agonizing over another morally bankrupt, GOP-made…

Jun 22 • 

Seth Abramson

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The Memes You Need, Vol. 15: No Kings Day Edition

It’s official: No Kings Day—which has its own flag and (hopefully) annual observance tradition on June 14—was the largest day of American protest in all…

Jun 17 • 

Seth Abramson

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The Less Famous of the Two Max Muncys in Major League Baseball Is Doing Something We May Never Have Seen Before in Baseball

This is one hell of a strange story—a three-act play that must be read and pondered over for quite some time to be believed. It’s possible that nothing…

Jun 16 • 

Seth Abramson

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The Memes You Need, Vol. 14: Trump-Musk Civil War Edition

The Trump-Musk Civil War—the first digital nuclear war—may be over now.... or half over, or not even close to over... anyway, we’ll always have the…

Jun 6 • 

Seth Abramson

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May 2025

The New Music Discovery Project, Vol. 24

These Retro-exclusive YouTube playlists offer a mix of contemporary genres curated by a former DJ. And if past is precedent, each is guaranteed to hold…

May 24 • 

Seth Abramson

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The Memes You Need, Vol. 13: Our Largest Meme Archive Ever

Here you’ll find a curated gallery of 95 top-shelf memes aimed at making dealing with idiots online far easier. And with more idiots online than ever…

May 23 • 

Seth Abramson

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The Consensus Top 75 Most Evil People in America

A large-scale poll taken on the Twitter feed associated with this substack lets readers see who Americans deem our biggest villain, and…

May 20 • 

Seth Abramson

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March 2025

The Memes You Need, Vol. 12: Time to Fight Back Against Fascism

As MSNBC reports, “There’s a serious strategy behind Trump resistance jokes. From memes to pranks, the fight against the second Trump administration is…

Mar 2 • 

Seth Abramson

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