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Ron Hogan
@ronhogan.bsky.social
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He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
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Me, testifying before the House.
Leonard Rossiter in Britannia Hospital. I’m PRETTY sure this is the scene where he say “You wouldn’t know Karl Marx from a toffee apple.” I’ve captioned it that way, anyhow.
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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James Nayler tore into 17th-century England’s political & religious elites: “The gospel is hid from you, and you[,] having denied the light and erred from it, are got up into hardness of heart, imprisoning, beating, and making havoc like mad beasts.”

Little has changed.

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A woman in a purple frock and a yellow headdress stands in the middle of a flock of lambs, holding one against her body with her left arm while raising a small branch with leaves with her right.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Post your favorite "The Lord of The Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
Liam Neeson as Aragorn, or whatever the character in Krull is called.
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
A campaign sign, using the “Zohran for New York” typefaces, but mine says “Shoes for Industry.”
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This text may possibly be the stupidest pitch I’ve ever received on behalf of a political candidate, so of course it comes from James Carville.

I’m *almost* tempted to revisit a McGrath candidacy. ALMOST.
“James Carville here. I'm not gonna waste your time with political mumbo-jumbo. But let me tell you something: Kentucky's about to surprise the hell out of our country now that we've got a Democrat who can actually win. His name's Dale Romans, and if you haven't heard of him yet, you will soon. He's not some slick-talking career politician; He's a horse trainer who's won the Preakness, the Travers - hell, he's won more races than most folks have even entered for crying out loud!! Now, Dale's running his biggest race yet, for the U.S. Senate.”
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The “Mamdani Isn’t the Future of the Democrats. This Guy Is.” screenshot from the NYT Opinion section, but I’ve replaced whoever they wanted to boost with Al Gore’s head from Futurama.
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Not AMERICAN football, perhaps.
John McGuirk, elementary school soccer coach, from the beloved hit series Home Movies.
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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I’m with you.
Michael Bolton, a character in the film Office Space, says, “No way. Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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What did Paul REALLY mean when he told the Thessalonians “anyone unwilling to work should not eat”?

Because he would never have encouraged them to let food-insecure neighbors go hungry.

Next Sunday’s readings & homiliies should be very uncomfortable for some folks.

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Canned goods donated to a food bank.
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Okay, I’ll play along.
I used the Zohran campaign sign generator to say “SHOES FOR INDUSTRY.”
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Pre-Fab Sprout’s classic album “Two Wheels Good.” Well, that’s what we called it in the United States, for legal reasons. It took me twenty years to get the Orwell reference, though. We read 1984 in my junior high instead of Animal Farm.
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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The tagline from an old BatLash comic (“Will he save the West… or RUIN it?”) but I crossed out “he” and replaced it with “AI.”
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Charlie Brown dances down the sidewalk, singing “I don’t care! Ha! Ha! Ha!” While Violet and the girl with the short blonde hair whose name I always forget stare at him.
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Great minds think alike, hahaha!
@jortsthecat.bsky.social & I post about Zohran’s invocation of Eugene Debs in his victory address.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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“Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory?” Haggai asks at the ruins of Jerusalem’s temple. A brutal question for a people born in exile, only just returned to their ancestral homeland.

And—at least as I read it—a brutal question for Americans today.

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A portrait of Haggai by the 16th-century painter Moretto da Brescia. From his hands unfurls a giant scroll bearing a Latin translation of Haggai 2:6-7.
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Clippy says, “It looks like you’re trying to vote for Andrew Cuomo. Can I help?”
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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McBain, from the Simpsons, saying “That’s the joke” during his brief foray into standup comedy.
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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“That is one nutty World Series.”
Bill Murray in Tootsie, delivering his climactic one-liner.
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
De La Soul, Three Feet High and Rising.
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula
Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster
October 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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“Oh, my. Now how did that happen? Must be a ghost in here.”
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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What’s it like inside your head?
A panel from a Dick Tracy comic in which a blonde woman says, “That music! Is it ‘Tubthumping’ by Chumbawumba?”
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
A black and white photograph of what I assume was the original cast of the off-Broadway musical Oh Calcutta! which had songs co-written and co-composed by Peter Schickele, aka PDQ Bach.
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Like, this was the best campaign logo of the 2020 primaries, no question.
The Kidman for Senate logo, which looks like a guillotine, but also plausibly like the sun as seen through an open window.
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM