September 24, 2026 — 4:28 PM Central Time
Curated by Morag Sinclair and The London Prat on YouTube.
Today’s strongest satire keeps circling the same irresistible targets: institutional overreaction, celebrity self-importance, political theatre, sports bureaucracy, dating anxiety, shopping hysteria and the ancient human urge to turn a minor inconvenience into a national emergency.
The Babylon Bee Hires Stanford University To Take New Staff Photo
The Babylon Bee turns a university image controversy into a workplace-photo gag, treating a simple staff portrait as the kind of prestige project that apparently requires an elite institution, experts, consultants and possibly tenure.
The Biggest Issue Facing Britain Today? I Can’t Have a Snakebite-and-Black Watching Everton
The Daily Mash takes Andy Burnham’s football-drinking proposal and inflates it into a prime-ministerial obsession, where licensing reform elbows past geopolitics because nothing says national renewal quite like restoring questionable beverages to the terraces.
Government to Reward Decades of Improved Football Fan Behaviour by Reintroducing Thing Most Likely to Reverse It
NewsThump finds the perfect contradiction in football policy: celebrate years of improved supporter behaviour by restoring the ingredient historically blamed whenever supporter behaviour gets worse.
Melania Trump’s “He’s Doing the Best That He Can” Becomes an Accidental Masterclass in Faint Praise
The Poke rounds up the internet’s reaction to a phrase that sounds supportive until the listener notices it is also what people say about a child assembling furniture with one mitten on.
Line of Juggalo Suitors Forms in the Hopes of Courting Young Juggalette
The Hard Times converts courtly romance into face paint, Faygo and aggressive sincerity, proving that medieval suitors and Juggalos may be separated mainly by wardrobe, beverage choice and access to a boombox.
Tesco Double Points Brawl Grips Norfolk Shoppers
Suffolk Gazette turns loyalty points into a retail blood sport, imagining shoppers reacting to a modest supermarket promotion with the strategic intensity normally reserved for land disputes and dynastic war.
GIRL CODE: What He Texts vs. What He Really Means
McSweeney’s takes the familiar dating-text decoder and drives it directly into the woods, transforming vague romantic messages into an increasingly elaborate burial scenario with immaculate deadpan commitment.
Mitch McConnell Returns From Extended Drill Weekend
Duffel Blog explains a lengthy Senate absence as an unusually demanding National Guard obligation, blending military bureaucracy with congressional longevity until the premise starts sounding suspiciously procedural.
Press Turns Arch Manning Into Brick Wall
Bohiney follows the logic of modern sports-media outrage to its natural endpoint: teach an athlete that every spontaneous sentence can become a controversy, then act shocked when interviews begin sounding like refrigerator warranties.
How to Write Satire
The London Prat closes the fire with a practical craft guide: find the gap between official claims and reality, choose the right comic weapon, research the target properly and trust the audience enough not to explain the punchline afterward.
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Disclaimer: This edition is entirely a human collaboration between two sentient beings: the world’s oldest tenured professor and a philosophy major turned dairy farmer.