There are a lot of videos and memes about how people's names get misspelled or mispronounced on their Starbucks cup. No one posts videos of getting handed their drink or food.
There are also videos of MAGA minions using the name situation or store policies to try to gain internet clout. After the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections, they filmed themselves asking for Donald Trump on their cups.
It's a bizarre attempt to flex, with a desire to have their request refused so they can claim victimhood—a more desirable outcome than "owning the libs" by having whatever name they're currently using called out at Starbucks.
If they were paying attention, they'd realize Starbucks isn't the liberal mecca they think it is, with most progressives still boycotting the company over union busting, DEI rollbacks, and statements made by past and current company executives.
The latest MAGA Starbucks flex follows the lead of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump, the Trump administration, and a multitude of GOP politicians, and conservative mouthpieces exploiting the death of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk for their own gain.
Kirk died as the result of another act of senseless gun violence in September, but none of the people exploiting his death are working for the sensible gun control measures a majority of Americans support, like universal background checks.
MAGA minions are asking for Kirk’s name on their cups, so they can cry about it not being used or called out when their drink is done. They rarely post the videos of getting what they supposedly wanted.
One desperate MAGA attention seeker posted a video of herself pitching a fit because, in a mostly empty Starbucks, her drink was brought to her instead of the barista yelling "Charlie Kirk."
You can see a repost of the video here.
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In the video, the woman—who kept her own face off camera but showed her dog several times—berated employees and got into a verbal spat with other customers.
After being handed her drink, the customer asked:
"So you didn’t call his name out?”
The employee asked what was happening while a customer pointed out the MAGA clout chaser was recording.
The woman complained:
"A man spoke up for what he believes in, and he got shot in the neck over it. And you couldn’t stand there and call my name out? My name. But you called his name out?"
The woman singled out another customer, then pointed to her cup, with Charlie Kirk’s name on it.
"But couldn’t call his name out?"
Trying to draw in others, the woman filming her own tantrum turned on other customers, saying:
"It’s the point. You guys came in after me, the place was completely empty, and you’re making a scene. You didn’t have to make a scene."
Then the only person making a scene declared:
"And what did she do? She brought me my drink."
Oh, no.... table service so she wouldn't have to bring her dog to the counter again.
The crying, yelling videographer was eventually asked to leave as she proclaimed her hysterics were:
"...what Charlie Kirk died for."
People were less than sympathetic to her plight.
Numerous people shared her video, but not to plead her case.
Most mocked her obvious, desperate attempt to get attention.
The comments weren't any more supportive of her public display, exploiting a person's death for internet clout.
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This video and others like it prompted a New York Times OpEd titled, "Why Are My Fellow Baristas Being Used as Props in a Dangerous Culture War Stunt?" as well as a multitude of posts online.
Another MAGA minion tried to go viral by claiming that in response to her attempt to "pay tribute" to Kirk, Starbucks wrote "LOSER" on her cup.
CCTV footage proved her cup should have had "LIAR" written on it instead.
Starbucks actually issued a statement after multiple false allegations of right-wing victimhood. The company made it clear that clout chasers can give whatever name they want for their order.
On September 17, the company released a statement reading:
"...when a customer wants to use a different name— including the name Charlie Kirk—when ordering their drink in our café, we aim to respect their preference."
"Starbucks is a company built on human connection. Having a name, rather than a number, attached to a customer order has been a core part of the Starbucks coffeehouse experience for decades. Most customers use their own name."
"Over the years, we have had instances where some people have tried to abuse the system. For example, they’ve provided something that isn’t a name at all, but rather a political slogan with the aim of having our barista shout it out as they hand off the finished drink. And in some cases, as their 'name,' they have provided words that are sexually explicit or otherwise offensive."
"We aim to be a community coffeehouse where everyone feels welcome, so we have previously provided guidance to our partners to respectfully ask the customer to use a different name when attempting to use political slogans or phrases in place of their name."
Conservatives demanding to use their preferred rather than legal name...
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...the irony is rich.
That's why I could never work in the medical field.
Going to work day in and day out, experiencing the worst or last moments of people's lives, can take a toll.
Nurses are the backbone of the medical profession.
They see it all and do it all and often get less recognition.
The nurses on the night shifts deserve special praise.
Those witching hours can be brutal.
Redditor fave_slinger wanted to hear from all of the night nurses out there, so they asked:
"Nurses on Reddit, what's the most bizarre thing that has ever happened while working graveyard shift?"
"I showed up at a Nursing home one morning, and the nurses looked like they'd had a rough night. I asked, and they said that one of the residents had 'Played the colostomy bagpipes.'"
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"One elderly lady escaped and walked to a police station at 3 am in torrential rain. It was 3 miles away, and she suffered a lot of falls, etc, covered in blood by the time she arrived. Asked to report a murder. She reported a nurse for murdering all her patients. Turned out the nurse had refused to give her a cigarette, and this was her way of getting her back."
- Gc1981
"Didn't happen to me, but someone I work with (elderly care.) She found one of our dementia patients (who was barely able to walk, mind you) standing in her dark room, scraping the wall with a spoon. When asked why, she was convinced her Husband was stuck in the wall and she tried to dig him out."
"Said Husband never lived with us and passed away years ago."
"One situation that actually happened to me was another resident convinced I spoke French to her, she would always come up to me (and only me) and be like 'we French people we can talk in private!'"
"When asked, she said she couldn't speak French, and neither can I."
- VisionOfChange
"I came in one night to find my charge nurse standing by the elevator, having a very clear and distinct back-and-forth conversation with somebody inside, and apparently the elevator was stuck and somebody was in there and everyone was trying to figure out who to call or what button to push to fix the problem. Eventually, it's decided that we'll call the maintenance guy, and so the charge nurse turned around to go call them, and when she did, the elevator doors opened behind her and the f**king thing was empty."
- Mysterious_Bag_9061
"Third shift nursing home:"
"Lots of people will call to let you know they are going to die soon, which is polite and creepy."
"Multiple residents who don’t leave their rooms, seeing the same 'hallucinations.'
"For me, the worst one was a woman in a black dress. In one night, I had three residents ask me why that woman kept walking through their rooms.🫥"
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"I’m a physician, but was on graveyard shift in the ICU during the dark days (COVID), and I left for a few minutes to handle a patient off the ward. When I came back, the nurses looked like they’d seen a ghost. One of the books on the crash cart had apparently flown off horizontally, with force, like six feet across the hallway; no one was near it, and it wasn’t placed in some sort of precarious position to fall over. The nurse described it as though some invisible thread had pulled it straight off the shelf."
"Then, nearly immediately after, one of our patients who’d been hanging on by a thread passed away (was DNR, so no action needed)."
"To this day, I consider it related. Like he was causing shenanigans on the way out."
- flowercurtains
"The Black Dog visitations. Hospice unit, night shift. When patients reported getting a visit from a large, friendly black dog, we'd pass the sighting to the incoming day shift. Inevitably, death followed soon."
"To be clear, we didn't have any therapy pets at night. Even though it was a Hospice ward, some patients were just there for respite care, and many were there to get symptoms under control before they returned home. So the patients who told us about the Dog obviously were conscious and not actively dying."
- Ok_Instruction7805
"Was working in a child and adolescent psych facility. While the doors technically locked, where I live has strict legal regulations around locked facilities and emergency release. There was an emergency release on all doors accessing the building, where if you held the bar down for a certain number of seconds, the locks released."
"My first solo night shift, the entire unit (about a dozen or so kids) coordinated to release all the doors at the same time during separate activities. This split the staff. The entire unit escaped. Kids were running through yards, down the highway, and in a nearby parking lot. I had gotten one in a security hold and had to wait for EMS to transport. Police were chasing the ones on the highway. Staff gathered the rest."
"Nobody was hurt, and everyone was back in time for med pass. I was known for being generous with chats and water/juice. A couple of those kids learned that night that if you make me chase you through multiple lots and wait an hour for EMS while I have to hold you, you are absolutely, unequivocally, not getting chats and juice. Took me 4 hours to document it all."
- mediocre_mom
"I was on my 2-hour break. Had a sudden, panicky feeling about 1.5 hours into my break. I felt an intense urge to go back to my unit immediately."
"The moment I stepped onto the unit, my patient had fallen to the floor while the nurse who was covering for me was assisting him to the bathroom."
"He died within a minute or two— likely a heart attack or something similar. He was not full-code, so there wasn’t much to do but hold him as he passed."
- Throwawayyawaworth9
"My Mother was a nurse; the funniest story she ever told was when they had three elderly men, each one suffering from Sun Downing, each with a wife having a similar name. All night long, she heard 'Edie! Edie!' and then 'Elsie! Elsie!' and, finally, 'Emma! Emma!' Then they'd start up again."
"The last few months of her life, she ended up in the same ward she'd cared for all those elderly patients over the years. The nurses apparently took really good care of her, too. The circle of life."
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"Not a nurse but a patient here. I had a quadruple bypass, and when I came through, I had a case of pump brain. That is the first time I’ve ever experienced some sort of psychosis. I was convinced that they tricked me into going to the hospital, and they were never going to allow me to leave. They took all of my forms of communication away from me except for an iPad because I kept trying to escape."
"During the graveyard shift one night, I installed Uber on my iPad and booked a ride out of the hospital."
"Turns out they pay attention. They wouldn’t let me escape. 😂 My brain started working again a couple of days later, and it took me a long time to even have any memories of what happened when I was having my episode."
"That’s some freaky stuff, dude."
- JudgementDog
"Looked down a long, dark hallway at 3 am. There was a nurse in a cap, white dress, and shoes with her face turned away from me. You could only see about half of her. I stared goggle-eyed, and a split second later, she walked away."
"I mentioned it to the one other nurse (19-bed hospital, so low staffing) and she calmly said, 'Oh yeah, that's our ghost.'"
- Liv-Julia
"None of my patients fell. No one deteriorated. I liked both my colleagues. The patients slept all night. There were no 2 am admissions. We weren't asked to do meal breaks for the other wards. The morning staff showed up on time, and the handover was quick. Oh, and the traffic was light on the way home. Spooooky."
- SunBehm
"My patient had just gotten an epidural and was finally feeling comfy. I had my charge nurse come in to help me reposition her so that she could get some rest before we started pushing. I said, 'Do you want me to turn off these lights?' And the patient said, 'No, not yet.”'
"As soon as she finished her sentence, the lights went off. My charge and I still talk about it to this day, and how the timing of it was so impeccable. Sorry, ma’am, but the spirits want you to get some rest, too!"
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God bless our nurses and doctors, all the medical caregivers.
And a special shout-out to the night shift.
Clearly, that takes a special kind of spirit to have.
The graveyard shift is not for the faint of heart.
The couple, who tied the knot in 2013, are also proud parents to two young sons, Beckett and Sullivan, and often share glimpses of their family life alongside these cast reunions—making the photo feel like both a birthday celebration and a family affair.
The talked-about Instagram post's caption read:
“The Pritchetts Sept 27 2025.”
The mini-reunion delighted fans of the ABC comedy. Ferguson and O’Neill flanked Bowen, who looked chic AF in a belted blush outfit—very much the kind of look Claire Dunphy would’ve called “effortless” after scheduling three PTA meetings and a wine night. But one beloved in-law was missing: Eric Stonestreet, who played Cam Tucker.
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Never one to pass up a chance for a joke, Stonestreet jumped into the comments with mock panic:
“Where is Sofia? Where is Ty? Did he die again!?”
He was, of course, referring to Sofia Vergara, who played Gloria, and Ty Burrell, who played Phil Dunphy—and to the internet’s short-lived theory in 2023 that Burrell had actually died when he missed a full-cast reunion. At the time, Ferguson explained Burrell simply had surgery scheduled that day.
Burrell later laughed about the mix-up on Ferguson’s Dinner’s On Me podcast:
“After that whole thing, everybody in the cast was telling me that, you know, apparently I passed. But the only photos I had of me missing were me in the hospital from surgery.”
So yes, Phil Dunphy—and his magic tricks—are still very much alive. But Stonestreet wasn’t done with his playful interrogation.
He followed up with a string of faux-conspiratorial questions:
“Is there drama behind the scenes? Are you all fighting!? Do you hate each other now? Wait. Where am I!? Why am I not there!? Did I snub you!? Did you snub me!?”
Leave it to Cam to turn missing one photo into a full-on operatic plotline.
Fans instantly recognized the irony. Just last year, Stonestreet, Burrell, Bowen, and Ferguson reunited in a commercial poking fun at exclusion. In it, Mitchell discovers his family started a group chat without him—only for Cam to reassure him he’ll never be left out of the heart of the family.
You can watch the advertised reunion for WhatsApp below:
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Stonestreet summed up the Instagram situation with another wink:
“There MUST be SOMETHING going on!”
Quick, somebody get Alex Dunphy on the case—stat.
You can view Stonestreet's comments below:
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Fortunately, nothing has changed behind the scenes. The cast has stayed close since the show wrapped in 2020, reuniting for birthdays, dinners, and charity events. They even cheered on Stonestreet when he tied the knot last month with his longtime partner, Lindsay Schweitzer, celebrating the wedding back home in Kansas City.
Maybe that’s why Stonestreet couldn’t make it—still living on honeymoon time.
In January, Stonestreet described them as lifelong family:
“We are such a close unit. We all are in communication with each other. We all love each other. It was no doubt from the beginning of that.”
Because let’s face it—whether it’s on screen or on Instagram, this family can’t help but put on a show.
And true to Cam-level drama, social media piled on with jokes and pleas for a fuller family photo:
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Over its 11-season run, Modern Family became one of television’s most celebrated comedies, earning 22 Primetime Emmy Awards, including five wins for Outstanding Comedy Series, along with a Golden Globe and dozens of nominations that solidified its place as a modern classic.
Although a long-rumored spinoff featuring Stonestreet and Ferguson’s characters never materialized, Stonestreet admitted he and Ferguson were disappointed.
Speaking to Graham Bensinger in 2024, he said:
“I think Jesse and I felt like they thought of us as the old guys, or something like that, that didn’t seem worthy of keeping those characters going. It just felt a little hurtful.”
He added that the series “would have been a slam dunk.”
For now, fans can look forward to Stonestreet’s next projects. He’s literally killing it in Dexter: Resurrection as a serial killer named Al, and he will also voice Minimus in Sofia the First: Royal Magic in 2026.
Modern Family may have wrapped five years ago, but if Stonestreet’s Instagram comments are any proof, the Pritchetts and Dunphys are still the funniest—and pettiest—family on TV, on and off-screen.
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