Chicago Dem, bleeding-gums liberal. Worried about what's happening/ what may happen. Trying to occasionally be funny about it. If it weren't for parasocial, I'd have no social at all. Hoping for more interaction here, bc Those Other Platform owners are 🚮
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Andy Bunday @bundaycartoons on #Putin #Trump #Peace #UkraineWar - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Worth the price? #guns
I'm expecting them to restore the draft, and when you get the letter you have to go be in his parade
"...buying girls for sex" is an awfully polite euphemism for rpe, Andrea
ALLEGEDLY THEORETICALLY I'M JUST ASKIN QUESTIONS
The last book I read: Blindness, by José Saramago, which was fantastic but HARROWING. I kept going because the writing was excellent and vivid and because I was hoping things might get better for the characters. But be warned, it is intense.
He's hoping to provoke a violent reaction so they'll have footage for Fox
When Twitter was still a thing, I made a List of "Uncrazy Conservatives" with whom I disagreed on almost everything except their opinion of the current Resident of the Awful Office. Kristol was one of those.
I bet if some dignitary offered him a shiny gold Neville Chamberlain Nobel Appeasement Prize and a photo op he'd be there
I mean Russia is famous for its fair and transparent elections 😒
TOTALY UNFAIR WE ALSO HAV SOYNEANS
Trump’s Truth Social launched an AI chatbot, which doesn’t see eye to eye with him. The Post asked the bot about topics like tariffs, the best president and Jan. 6. Here’s what it said. wapo.st/45vMriv
There would be an immediate cease fire if Russia immediately ceases firing.
And where I thought AI was inaccurate. I stand corrected
govfacts.org/analysis/wha...
If you hadn't heard, now he wants to perform a new, midcycle census, with no "illegals" counted. They're counted in order to allocate resources fairly, but of course he doesn't believe in that. In the first comment I added a great article about the long historical precedent of counting all persons.
Well, YOUR activity just went down by one. I'm sure you don't GAF but, unfollowed
Terminating union contracts at the VA is union-busting, plain and simple. This reckless power grab is a betrayal of the very people who care for our veterans and keep them safe. Our veterans and their caregivers deserve better. The VA must immediately reverse this decision.
In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
*Biden burned their hand, somehow
Do you make Lists? I made a List of all the people I know IRL and pinned it to the top so I can click on it and see all y'all's posts first and interact with them.
There really are.
I'm rereading the book right now
#maxwell #trump #news #DOJ #GOP #sextraffing #sexualpredator
It's one day a month. (Thanks, Chuck, for the correction!)
Oh, wow, thank you for the correction! My mind just couldn't process being upset about one day a MONTH, I guess, and changed it to one day a week. Which also isn't a lot.
Two more followers and I'll finally hit 1,000 here. Damn, this is going so slowly. I really like Bluesky, but people don't interact much (not just with me: I mean, my content might very well suck. But I see this observation from tons of others on here)
In a normal world, this would have been the first story on every newscast, along with his saying he wanted to put nuclear missiles in the roof of the White House. Just watched ABC news, one of the better ones, or it used to be. Nope
Ohhh @jaketapper.bsky.social did you ever even have a soul to lose?
Oh, come on. It'll be a month or two at most. Unless she turns it down for a Fox News hosting position
Oh wait. There's probably an elevator. Never mind
I am utterly shocked, because this means he voluntarily claimed stairs
He broke it. #mitchmcconnell
Did we? Did we lose one? Don't get my hopes up
Cartoon
Las Vegas tourism plummets. #ETTD
Treason doth never prosper? What's the reason? for if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Liar
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Bureau of Labor Statistics has been taken over…
It’s crazy how that keeps happening to him
The one time I miss Facebook is when I need a 😢 react
I appreciate that you're doing this but I don't think I can listen to someone justifying what's been done
I don't know that I have any more alarm in me. I've been at Five Alarm for a while already
The number of accusers of Trump and then Epstein? Those weren't eye opening numbers?
I thought the description of Trump's 90,000 square foot golden ballroom sounded familiar, like some other guy's palaces...hmm, who was that again?
Even IF Virginia and other girls were not...mookers...what the hell was Trump doing hiring underage girls to work with adult men in "spa"
So....then how did it happen in all the other countries? WTF
Aww not Meemaw!! He'd keep her at A.A. in Florida so he could visit her in the camp
This is important, useful, and depressing. But seriously, read it, pin it, check back
It does help to know we're not alone. Outnumbered, but not alone
Made and pinned my own list of editorial cartoonists I liked. Cartoonists are speaking more truth than almost anyone else these days,in a way that gets through to people. Didn't realize someone had already done that. Posting so I can see who I've missed. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...
Shocked that someone spoke up, since they can't imagine doing it themselves?
I mean, sadly, it might. We have zero attention span nowadays
Flooding the zone, again..... www.politico.com/cartoons/202...
You can have one little Coldplay cartoon as a treat
Yesterday we posted about the Trump administration shutting down the LGBTQ+ youth crisis line, the “press 3” option on 988 is officially gone. The Trevor Project is stepping up to help fill the gap, and they could really use some support right now. If you’re able, please consider donating! 🏳️🌈 💛
When I was four I saw Caesar Romero at the High-Low in Beverly buying potato chips and I yelled IT'S THE JOKER and he smiled kind of painfully which is honestly on-brand for the Joker
It just gets pettier and pettier. Trump wants to be the only coyote people pay to come here
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” —George Orwell
This free online event is next Wednesday! Register your spot to hear me talk about all things political cartooning in the midst of *gestures to everything going on right now*
Someone doesn't know much about the range of newer electric cars
You know what ain't changed at all? His ear.
It was in Pam Bondi's desk for awhile but now it never existed
The White House out there tryna be Wendy's
That was my first thought when he decided they were allowed to get political. They could still be tax exempt for actual charity work that they do. But we all know some churches barely do any.
I have tried to live my life according to the teachings of Jesus, which is definitely not what Trump does. Matthew 25:40
I WISH Bluesky allowed editing
I'm sure this is an excellent article. The first few paragraphs before the paywall were good
Since DHS asserts that its officers wear badges and identify themselves, doesn't it follow that people who do not do those things are just kidnappers and should be reported, resisted, and arrested?
I just worry that makes them feel like martyrs for their crappy cause and will harden their resolve. I mean...I absolutely hate them but I don't think that I'll affect them
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Right? I'd even take "dependently wealthy" at this point but I'm not cute enough to make that happen
To be fair, that's more "False Eyelashes On a Pig" if you look at her mouth 😉
That was first impression. The third panel made me think it's a woman, so I really could be any gender or sex
90s boyband haircut dude
Goodnight Fellas, Donald Trump put a 50% tariff on Brazil because Trump is sad that his BFF got caught committing a crime. So now Americans will have to pay more for a cup of coffee! Sweet Dreams, Fella Historian Fun Fact: the US imports about 20% of our coffee from Brazil.
It is.
This is @mermaidmamamaggie.bsky.social playing Kristi Noem. But those are Noem's actual, hypocritical words
Good lord, no his is not her. This is Maggie Reed playing her.🤦🏻♀️
Definitely worth a read.
I always really believed that account was pure parody. I mean, it still is, but maybe he doesn't know that
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Buy local whenever possible. Or, @bookshop.org is having a sale and that gives money back to your favorite local independent bookstore
Trump DEFINITELY doesn't
He never bothered with the ears or hairline. It's just that for some reason he's using a darker color now so it's even more obvious
You know those heartwarming stories about a teacher going through chemo who drags herself back to work "because she misses her students?" She's trying to keep her insurance. How does that make America great, again?
They don't wear patches, or any identification. That's the danger. You could actually get arrested if you DID wear a "police" patch, for impersonating an officer. No patch? You could be ice
Clearly, he isn't, not always. It's hard to resist going for the cheap shot. I've sunk to it myself before, and been ashamed that I did. One would hope, though, that when he gave in to temptation it would have been better written, at least
Nothing wrong with makeup. You've been on TV so many times, and I know they put it on you for that. It's not "unmanly," whatever that means. I'm not defending that man. His personal choice to wear it so very very badly calls his judgement into question
Use @resist.bot to send a message to Congress to Reinstate NOAA and NWS (weather forecast tools)
I loved Tim Walz and I thought he was a great choice. That Balance The Ticket With a Southerner would be the only reason to have picked someone else
Felons can be president; however, insurrectionists, supposedly, can't