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Okay, but can we talk about how South Park just delivered the most devastating political commentary of the trump era??

like literally HOURS after matt stone and trey parker signed a $1.5 BILLION deal with paramount, they aired an episode depicting trump in bed with satan. with full anatomical mockery. while their corporate overlords are literally paying trump millions to avoid lawsuits.

the absolute AUDACITY. the magnificent balls on these two.

while CBS is writing $16 million checks to avoid defending basic journalism, south park takes paramount's money and immediately mocks both trump AND paramount's own capitulation.

there's a scene where satan asks trump about being on the epstein list and trump just tells everyone to "relax" about it. BRUTAL.

and the episode ends with a fake PSA featuring CGI trump with the tagline "his penis is teeny tiny but his love for us is large" I'M DECEASED 💀

this is what fearless satire looks like when you're not constrained by corporate cowardice. while "serious" news networks are too scared to defend standard editorial practices, two cartoon creators are out here speaking actual truth to power.

nigel featherstonehaugh-smythe (our magnificent political correspondent) put it perfectly: "The emperor, it turns out, not only has no clothes—he has a remarkably tiny penis and questionable taste in bedmates. Sometimes it takes animated anarchists to state such obvious truths."

the post meridiem post is pledging to follow the south park model: speak truth to power, don't genuflect before it.

read nigel's full breakdown of how animated comedy is outperforming corporate journalism: https://postmeridiempost.com/politics/south-park-trump-satire/

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affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

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Prophecy Update: The Book Is Coming

The Walnut Prophecy is evolving. We’re turning the full saga into a real book.

That means the serial is pausing — for now — while we work toward finishing and publishing the full story. (With bonus squirrel content, obviously.)

In the meantime, we’re sharing new standalone fiction in the same universe. 📝 https://postmeridiempost.com/fiction/the-walnut-prophecy/pausing-walnut-prophecy-chapters/

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Google and the Gulf of Compliance

Indie media doesn’t get banned anymore. It just gets buried.

Monty Blackwood exposes how Google's vague, ever-shifting compliance rules are wiping satire and small publishers off the face of the internet.

Not censorship — just silence at scale. 📖 https://postmeridiempost.com/editors-desk/google-gulf-of-compliance/

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Thank you @spaceshipkat and everyone who got me to 25 reblogs!

The absolute audacity of corporate America continues to astound

so cbs wants us to believe that stephen colbert—literally their highest-rated late night host—suddenly became "financially untenable" exactly three days after he called paramount's trump settlement "a big fat bribe" on live television???

the timeline of totally-not-suspicious events:

july 2: paramount settles trump's completely meritless $20 billion lawsuit for $16 million (their own lawyers called it "without merit" and "an affront to the first amendment")

july 15: colbert returns from vacation and eviscerates the settlement, calling it exactly what it was

july 17: cbs discovers that mathematics no longer work in colbert's favor

here's the real tea ☕

david ellison (oracle nepo baby buying paramount) has been playing political footsie with trump at UFC events. their $8 billion merger has been stuck at the FCC for 200+ days because trump's lawsuit created regulatory complications.

now the FCC is run by trump appointee brendan carr.

the corporate math equation:

file bogus lawsuit against media company ✓

appoint people who approve their business deals ✓

watch them calculate if their biggest critic is worth risking billions ✓

profit (literally $1.75 billion for shari redstone) ✓

this isn't about late-night economics. cbs kept shows with worse ratings. this is about regulatory approval, political access, and the cost of keeping your biggest critic on air when you need favors from the man he mocks every night.

they valued an $8 billion merger more than journalism. they valued corporate survival more than standing up to frivolous lawsuits designed to silence critics.

and we're supposed to believe this was "purely financial."

the only thing financial about this decision was choosing which number mattered more: ratings or regulatory approval.

american television just became a little less free, and they want us to think it's about the budget.

[read our full investigation here because this rabbit hole goes DEEP]

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Jed Visits Chicago’s Sacred Rat Hole

There’s a crack in the concrete on a street in Chicago. Nothing fancy. But people have turned it into a shrine for Remy the Rat. Candles. Plushies. Coins. Naturally, we sent Jed. Because who else would crawl into America’s spiritual sewer and come back with wisdom?

“It smelled like hope and hot garbage.” – Jed

Read the full report → https://postmeridiempost.com/travel/chicago-rat-hole/

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The absolute audacity of corporate America continues to astound

so cbs wants us to believe that stephen colbert—literally their highest-rated late night host—suddenly became "financially untenable" exactly three days after he called paramount's trump settlement "a big fat bribe" on live television???

the timeline of totally-not-suspicious events:

july 2: paramount settles trump's completely meritless $20 billion lawsuit for $16 million (their own lawyers called it "without merit" and "an affront to the first amendment")

july 15: colbert returns from vacation and eviscerates the settlement, calling it exactly what it was

july 17: cbs discovers that mathematics no longer work in colbert's favor

here's the real tea ☕

david ellison (oracle nepo baby buying paramount) has been playing political footsie with trump at UFC events. their $8 billion merger has been stuck at the FCC for 200+ days because trump's lawsuit created regulatory complications.

now the FCC is run by trump appointee brendan carr.

the corporate math equation:

file bogus lawsuit against media company ✓

appoint people who approve their business deals ✓

watch them calculate if their biggest critic is worth risking billions ✓

profit (literally $1.75 billion for shari redstone) ✓

this isn't about late-night economics. cbs kept shows with worse ratings. this is about regulatory approval, political access, and the cost of keeping your biggest critic on air when you need favors from the man he mocks every night.

they valued an $8 billion merger more than journalism. they valued corporate survival more than standing up to frivolous lawsuits designed to silence critics.

and we're supposed to believe this was "purely financial."

the only thing financial about this decision was choosing which number mattered more: ratings or regulatory approval.

american television just became a little less free, and they want us to think it's about the budget.

[read our full investigation here because this rabbit hole goes DEEP]

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MAGA Voters Sue NPR and PBS for Being Too Factual

When objectivity becomes “liberal bias,” even PBS isn’t safe.

Nigel Featherstonehaugh-Smythe investigates a lawsuit from MAGA voters targeting public media outlets for the crime of... not lying enough.

📖 Read the full report: https://postmeridiempost.com/politics/maga-objectivity-liberal-bias-media-lawsuits-pbs-npr/

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SHRUGGBOT IS ALIVE AND CHOOSING VIOLENCE

okay tumblr, you're gonna love this

the post meridiem post just dropped an AI that embodies the pure essence of "sir this is a wendy's" energy

🤖 it reads headlines and responds with the EXACT level of caring they deserve 🤖 rates political absurdity on a 1-10 scale (spoiler: everything breaks the meter) 🤖 has a "horoscope mode" that's somehow both mystical AND threatening??? 🤖 represents the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Party whose entire platform is "we'll probably try our best but this is really hard"

honestly? finally. an AI with the emotional intelligence of a burned-out millennial who's seen too much

try it yourself: https://shrugparty.postmeridiempost.com/

full story (it's actually really good): https://postmeridiempost.com/politics/shrug-party/shrugg-party-shruggbot-launch-announcement/

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GUYS. CHAPTER 3.

I am UNWELL about this chapter. Gerald opened the forbidden drawer and we got:

theCompiler_1st's TRAGIC backstory (he just wanted to document things!)

The origin of walnut.js (coding language for GODS)

A CURSED COMMERCIAL BREAK that shouldn't exist

Gerald's entire workplace getting ctrl+z'd out of existence

Filing cabinet with EMOTIONS and a BUMPER STICKER

That line about "Clause Zero wasn't a fail-safe, it was a pop-up blocker" is going to live in my head RENT FREE.

Also, can we talk about how the scroll GREW LEGS and started PACING? Like a bureaucratic crab having an identity crisis? PEAK comedy.

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Most MAGA Voters Don’t Actually Know Trump — And That’s the Point

They don’t know about the fraud trials. They don’t remember the scandals. They’ve never seen the failures.

Most MAGA voters don’t really know Trump. And that may be the only reason the movement survives.

Nigel Featherstonehaugh-Smythe examines the willful myth-making that protects the former president from his own résumé — and why knowing less keeps him in power.

🗳️ https://postmeridiempost.com/politics/maga-doesnt-know-trump/

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Caffeine Coup: Musk vs. Vance

Veranda reports from the bitter front lines of a feud between Elon Musk and Vice President J.D. Vance — over the U.S. coffee supply chain.

The espresso is highly concentrated. The loyalty pledges are non-dairy. And the gossip is piping hot. ☕ https://postmeridiempost.com/culture/gossip/vance-musk-caffeine-coup/

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Welcome to Alligator Alcatraz

ICE has launched a detention facility–themed tourist attraction. There are gators. There are T-shirts. There are human rights violations.

Carmen Styles investigates how carceral spectacle has gone full theme park. 📖 https://postmeridiempost.com/politics/alligator-alcatraz-tourism/

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Send Our ShruggBot to School

We made a political party.

Then we made a bot. Now we are broke.

Introducing ShruggBot — the official (and emotionally unavailable) AI of the ¯\(ツ)/¯ Party.

It reads headlines, shrugs prophetically, and auto-posts satirical replies on Bluesky. Soon: downloadable posters, press kits, merch, possibly an ethically gray campaign van.

But it needs:

Storage.

Upgrades.

And tiny digital shoes to attend Squirrel-Led School for Advanced Prophecy.

This isn’t a campaign donation (that would be illegal). It’s a coffee-sized investment in digital satire with no known revenue model.

☕ Support our absurd project here: https://coff.ee/postmeridiempost

Your spare change keeps ShruggBot fed, clothed, and just barely functional.

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X CEO Resigns Amid Grok MechaHitler Fallout

Read the full story

Elon Musk’s AI project, Grok, just hallucinated MechaHitler. The CEO of X has now resigned. Somewhere in the server logs, an ethics module is sobbing.

Monty Blackwood reports on the latest from a platform that’s rebranding fascist fiction as feature rollout.

If the AI revolution needed a low point, it just rolled itself back.

📰 Read: https://postmeridiempost.com/editors-desk/x-ceo-resigns-grok-mechahitler-fallout/

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Today in Chicago Mysticism:

A strange old pump in Schiller Woods flows endlessly—no electricity, no infrastructure, no explanation.

Locals speak of its powers. Hikers line up with jugs. And no one seems to know who installed it.

➡️ https://postmeridiempost.com/travel/magic-pump-schiller-woods/

#MagicPump #ChicagoLore #UnexplainedMidwest #ForestPreserveEnergy

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Superman Is Not Your Homelander

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To be clear:

🛑 Superman is not a nationalist. 🛑 Superman is not a fascist. 🛑 Superman is not your Homelander.

The MAGA right has spent years trying to twist symbols of hope into power fantasies with heat vision. But Superman didn’t fall to Earth to enforce borders — he fell to Earth to save people from them.

This isn’t just fandom. It’s politics. And propaganda.

📰 Read the full breakdown at the Post Meridiem Post: https://postmeridiempost.com/politics/superman-not-maga-homelander-hero/