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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…
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Seth Abramson
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…
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Seth Abramson
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…
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Seth Abramson
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…
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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…
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Seth Abramson
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…
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Seth Abramson
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…
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Seth Abramson
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March 2025

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…
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Seth Abramson
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…
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Seth Abramson
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…
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Seth Abramson
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