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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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January 2025
The Memes You Need, Vol. 11: Inaugural Edition
Nothing says the U.S. in the toilet like inaugurating a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, serial sexual predator, pathological liar, racist…
Jan 20
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Seth Abramson
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Explaining in Five Paragraphs the Scam Donald Trump Just Pulled on 150 Million American TikTok Users
Make no mistake, one of the most popular apps in the world was just down in the U.S. for 14 hours because Donald Trump ordered that it be taken down…
Jan 19
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The Top 100 TikTok Alternatives: Where to Go As Trump Dithers on Its Reinstatement and Musk Issues Weird Ransom Demands
TikTok was just down and may soon be again, Twitter is enshittified, Meta’s sites just became de facto subsidiaries of Trumpworld. So where do TikTok…
Jan 19
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Seth Abramson
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The Top 100 TikTok Alternatives: Where to Go As Trump Dithers on Its Reinstatement and Musk Issues Weird Ransom Demands
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