This is Scout Finch, one of our outside cats. She used to be very skittish, but now she'll walk right up to me for pets and scratches. She enjoys them so much she drools all over the pavement. She's a sweetheart. 🩶🖤 #cats #caturday
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This is Scout Finch, one of our outside cats. She used to be very skittish, but now she'll walk right up to me for pets and scratches. She enjoys them so much she drools all over the pavement. She's a sweetheart. 🩶🖤 #cats #caturday
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
Remembering the day when Carson told me, "No, you can't have these jeans. As you can plainly see, I'm using them. Wear something else." I wore something else. #cats #caturday
Trump doesn't just want to remove museum exhibits relating to slavery. He wants to shutter the entire museum. During the next year, Trump and his rubber-stamp Congress will defund the National Museum of African American History and Culture. #blackhistorymatters #nmaahc #smithsonian
Our new boy Freddie looking oh so cute (and a little sleepy) in the cat bed. How could anyone not love this little guy? 🩶🖤 #cats #caturday
The lead story on CBS Sunday Morning was about Woody Guthrie and his song "This Land Is Your Land." It ended with Bruce Springsteen singing the song in front of the Lincoln Memorial, two days before Obama's inauguration. How far we've fallen since those heady days of 2009. 🥺 #thislandisyourland
Freddie's daily schedule: After our breakfasts, it's fight time on the living room rug. We play-fight until either Freddie runs away (which rarely happens) or until I'm bleeding profusely from his bites and scratches (which often happens). Fun times. #cats #caturday
Under the fascist redistricting plan, my neighborhood would shift from CD-7 (where we are repped by Lizzie Fletcher, a Democrat) to CD-8, which stretches northward into Montgomery and Walker counties (Redneck country repped by a Redneck Republican). Makes me want to vomit. #gerrymandering #txpol
If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.
Last night's South Park episode was hilarious and spot-on. It showed Kristi Noem as the cosplay queen she is. And it reminded us that she's a dog killer. She once shot one of her pups because it wasn't becoming the "huntin' dog" she wanted it to be. She's a fucking monster. #fuckICE #southpark
This is Flaca. At age 20, she's the undisputed Queen of the Castle. The other cats give her a wide berth. When she sees me sit down on the sofa, she'll jump onto the cushion next to me, lie down, and demand at least an hour of pets and scratches. Long live the Queen. 👑 #cats #caturday
Our new boy Freddie still has a kitten's manic energy. But when his batteries run low, it's nap time. I love how cats appear to get so much pleasure out of the simple act of sleeping. #cats #caturday
One year ago today, Vice President Kamala Harris started her campaign for President of the United States and I’ll never believe that she lost nor will I ever regret voting for her or Hillary Clinton. My conscience is clear. 💙👊
On this date in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. Below: Armstrong's famous photo of Aldrin saluting the American flag they had planted in the lunar dust. Back in the days when America embraced exploration and science... #Apollo11 #TDIH
Our new boy Freddie likes to play with toys and show off his length. He's about three inches wide and almost three feet long. He'll be jumping over our fences in no time. #cats #caturday
Comedians are a comfort and he can’t silence all of us. The ridicule must go deeper. Bruise and swell him from the inside. Thicken those ankles until they burst.
Stephen Colbert clearly is a thorn in Trump's thin skin. Colbert mocks his orange makeup, his rambling speeches, his vacuous wife. The result? CBS/Paramount agrees to cancel Colbert's show as part of its shameful settlement with the orange tyrant. Time for a boycott.
Look at the Chelsea players' faces. They're like, "Why are you still here, guv?" They don't know him like we do: he's a malignant narcissist. It's all about him. He doesn't know, and doesn't care, that he should present the trophy, then leave the stage. #chelseafc #cwc #fucktrump #trump
Trump booed loudly as he takes the stage for the Club World Cup trophy presentation via @henrybushnell.bsky.social Turn the volume all the way up. The sound is so soothing.
Infantino: "OK, Don, how about this? I say you only weigh 235 pounds. And you say I look like a young Andre Agassi. Agreed?" #cwc #infantino #trump
To determine the circumference of this cat bed, simply multiply the mathematical constant pi by Freddie's outstretched length. The formula is C=🥧🐈⬛. #cats #caturday
This is our new boy, Freddie, about ten months old and all legs. When he struts around the house, he looks like an AT-AT Walker from the Star Wars movies. #cats #caturday
Wishing all of my friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. Only took you 249 years to go back to having a King... 🇺🇸
Don't blame me, I voted for the nice black lady. #Kamala
Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.
One of the figures in today's Oval Office squabble is a brave and honorable man, loved and trusted by the vast majority of his countrymen. The other guy is Trump. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine
Just so we are clear - the reason why JD Vance has constantly refused to go to Ukraine is because he is a coward. He would NEVER go there and meet with their soldiers or talk with their leaders. Because their courage and integrity would show him for what he is - a sniveling jerk.
Gene Hackman fully earned his two Oscar wins. But his career included so many memorable performances. I'll always love his cameo in "Young Frankenstein." He was the blind hermit who unwittingly tortured the monster. One word that always makes me laugh: "Cigars!" #RIPGeneHackman
So sad to learn that Gene Hackman has passed. He was an actor's actor, earning Oscars for playing a cop in William Friedkin's "The French Connection," and for playing a sadistic sheriff in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven." #RIPGeneHackman
On this date in 1951, Minnesota became the 36th state (of 48 at the time) to ratify a proposed amendment to the Constitution. The new 22nd Amendment flatly stated, "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." This means you, orange-faced man-child. #TDIH #ThirdTerm
Reminder: An oligarch is taking a chainsaw to the federal government, firing thousands of civil servants every day, shutting down agencies, blocking funds for cancer research, stealing your medicaid and social security... ...because a few hundred billionaires don't want to pay their share in taxes.
"Pardonne-moi, Monsieur Président, mais vous êtes un menteur et un sac à merde." #Macron 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...
I stand with Ukraine. I stand with its strong leader, its resilient people, and its brave soldiers, for as long as it takes to defeat the evil invaders. Fuck Russia. Glory to Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine
On this date in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an attempt to install a puppet regime. The invasion soon turned into a war of attrition, marked by Russian atrocities and Ukrainian resilience. Below: the embodiment of Ukraine's iron will, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. #StandWithUkraine #TDIH #Ukraine 🇺🇦
On this date in 1920, Adolf Hitler and others founded the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) at a beer hall in Munich. To celebrate the anniversary, there will be a big party at Elon's place tonight. Dress is semi-formal: brown shirts and red armbands are preferred. #TDIH
My human likes to tell other bipeds that I'm 1/16 raccoon because of the colors on my tail. I like to respond that he's 1/2 baboon for saying such things. I am a cat. Don't forget that. #Caturday
Trump is a goddamn traitor to America. Any congressional Republican who supports him — or is afraid to stand up to him — is just as much of a traitor as Trump.
On this date in 1980, the USA upset the Soviet Union 4-3 in an Olympic medal-round hockey game. In the final seconds, ABC's Al Michaels famously said, "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" Two days later, we beat Finland 4-2 to claim the gold medal. #MiracleOnIce #TDIH
Happy Birthday John Lewis! Born on this date in 1940. Pick a moment in the civil rights struggle and he was there: the sit-ins, Freedom Rides, March on Washington, Bloody Sunday. Then he took his moral authority to Congress, where he served for more than 30 years. RIP you giant. #BlackHistoryMonth
FINAL SCORE: Canada 3, USA 2 #ETTD #4Nations 🏒 www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...
BREAKING NEWS: Senate confirms Kash Patel as Trump's FBI director. The vote was 51-49. Sens. Collins and Murkowski were the only Republicans to vote nay. A drunk at the Pentagon. A vaccine skeptic at HHS. Now a conspiracy theorist at the FBI. We're so fucked. #koyaanisqatsi
Happy Birthday Ansel Adams! Born on this date in 1902. His photos of the American West helped establish photography as a respected art form. They also led to an increased appreciation of our natural world. RIP you genius. #photography
How did the average American view those of Japanese descent? Here's an example. This 1942 cartoon by Dr. Seuss shows Japanese Americans lining up to receive explosives, to commit acts of sabotage, when the signal came from the homeland. Yeah. That Dr. Seuss. #dayofremembrance #neverforget #TDIH
On this date in 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed for the forced removal of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans, from the West Coast to internment camps farther inland. Below: a Japanese American family awaits evacuation in Hayward, CA. #dayofremembrance #neverforget #TDIH
In September 1938, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, and the UK met in Munich to discuss the partition of a fifth nation, which was not invited to the conference. Does this remind anyone of something that happened this week? Below (L-R): Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini. #Appeasement
A dictatorship that kills people from democracies if they say something inconvenient hosting another dictatorship that does the same and a country run by a wannabe dictator who wants people jailed for saying anything inconvenient gathered to decide the fate of a democracy that wasn’t even invited?
On this Presidents Day, a reminder that the current occupant of the White House is, in fact, Satan. Photo by Samuel Corum (2020) #PresidentsDay
I’m so embarrassed by what our country is doing and the impact it’s having on the world right now. We have not had a President of the United States since January 20th. We have a “Donald Trump Looting and Pillaging the World.”
Amazon sent me a chubby eleven-year- old Siamese today. Not what I ordered, but I think I'll keep her. 💙💙💙 #Caturday
Remember the Maine! The warship exploded and sank in Havana Harbor on this date in 1898. The cause of the blast remains unclear, but the "yellow press" of the day blamed it on a Spanish mine. This was one factor that led to a declaration of war against Spain two months later. #TDIH
Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I hope you can spend the day with the one(s) you love, and I urge you to express that love early and often. To those who voted for Trump: I wish you impotence and vaginal dryness. #HappyValentinesDay
BREAKING NEWS: Senate confirms RFK Jr. as Trump's HHS secretary. I'm amazed at how anti-science and backward and illiterate our nation has become. We are the laughingstock of the civilized world. Bird flu, do your thing. #RFKJr #Vaccines
Mitch McConnell said Trump was "practically and morally responsible for provoking the events" of January 6. Even so, Moscow Mitch voted to acquit Trump and allow for his return to the White House in 2025. As Voltaire said, "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." #TDIH #Trump
On this date in 2021, the Senate failed to convict Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection. The vote was 57-43, ten votes shy of the required two-thirds majority. A Senate conviction would have prevented Trump from ever again holding federal office. #TDIH #Trump
Happy Birthday Abe! Sorry your party's gone to the dogs. Painting by G.P.A. Healy (1860) National Gallery of Art Washington, DC #Lincoln
Dear Sens. Collins and Murkowski and your fellow Senate Republicans: FUCK YOU. By confirming Tulsi Gabbard to be Trump's DNI, you have put a Russian asset in charge of our nation's intelligence. I'm sure Putin will send all of you a bottle of vodka as a show of thanks. #fucktrump #putinspuppet
On this date in 1861, Jefferson Davis received word that he had been elected president of the Confederate States of America. His wife Varina later wrote, "reading that telegram he looked so grieved that I feared some evil had befallen our family." #CivilWar #TDIH
Happy Birthday Danny Blanchflower! Northern Ireland and Spurs legend born on this date in 1926. "The game is about glory," he said. "It is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom." #COYS #THFC
On this date in 1964, the Beatles kicked off their first American tour with two sets on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The boys played "All My Loving," "She Loves You," and three other songs. More than 70 million people, nearly forty percent of the US population at the time, tuned in. #TDIH #TheBeatles
Yes, I'm boycotting today's super sporting event. Instead, I'll watch "Black Sunday" and "Two-Minute Warning," two thrillers about people who... um... disrupt the Big Game. Also, "Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?" which makes Donald Trump look like a dick. #fucktrump #SuperBowlLIX
Hmmm... getting a bit warm here on the windowsill. Human, be a dear and fetch me a small glass of water. Pellegrino, room temperature, you know how I like it. #Caturday
Part of me wants to boycott the Super Bowl because Trump will be there. But another part of me wants to see how the First Felon reacts to the singing of "Lift Every Voice and Sing." It's a wonderful gauge of a person's racism. #BlackNationalAnthem #fucktrump #Trump #SuperBowlLIX
Trayvon Martin should have turned 30 today. Instead, at age 17, he was killed by a racist neighborhood-watch gun nut. For what? Being black and wearing a hoodie. #RIPTrayvon
Every nominee hearing in the Senate: The Senate: Will you promise not to do cruel, crazy and illegal shit to appease the dictator in the White House? Nominee: Maybe. Not sure. Probably not. The Senate: Good enough.
Happy Birthday Rosa Parks! Born on this date in 1913. By refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, she showed that small acts of resistance can have huge consequences. RIP you brave and righteous woman! #BlackHistoryMonth #RosaParks #TDIH
On this date in 1959, musicians Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson and Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash in northern Iowa. They were in the midst of a "Winter Dance Party" tour of the Upper Midwest. In his 1971 song "American Pie," Don McLean famously called this #TheDayTheMusicDied. #TDIH
Surely there are four GOP senators who believe, as we do, that these three wingnuts are too creepy, kooky and/or treasonous to hold cabinet-level positions. Of course, I thought the same thing with respect to Pete "Pour Me Another" Hegseth, and we all know how that turned out. #Gabbard #RFKJr
Cowgirl Barbie sure is enjoying her fifteen minutes of fame, isn't she? #CowgirlBarbie #KristiNoem
A little-known fact: Any time ICE apprehends migrants traveling with a pet dog or cat, Kristi Noem hops on a plane, flies to the border, and executes the animal in front of the horrified family. The cruelty is the point. #KristiNoem #DogKiller
Don't drive angry! Don't drive angry! #GroundhogDayMovie
I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get THAT day over and over and over? #GroundhogDayMovie
Well, it's Groundhog Day... again... #GroundhogDayMovie
BREAKING NEWS: This morning, the groundhog shit all over one of his handlers. It was a foul-smelling orange paste that ruined everything it touched. Experts say this portends at least four years of economic collapse, fascism, mass arrests, and pandemics. #ETTD #Tariffs #GroundhogDay
If you think you're going on a road trip without me, you are mistaken, human. Sadly mistaken. #Caturday
...Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed-- Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above... Langston Hughes "Let America Be America Again" (first published 1936) #BlackHistoryMonth
Happy Birthday Ernie Banks! Chicago Cubs legend and MLB Hall of Famer. I only caught the end of his career. But I still admired him because he was so classy, and his love of the game so infectious. RIP, Mr. Cub! #Cubs #MLB
About the presidency, Harry Truman famously said “the buck stops here.” Trump is trying to pass the buck and blame everybody but his administration for the DC plane crash. This is a time for consoling the families and investigating the cause of this tragedy, not shameful finger pointing.
On this date in 1969, the Beatles, with "fifth Beatle" Billy Preston on keyboards, played an impromptu concert on the roof of the Apple building in London. Police broke it up after forty minutes. It was the band's last public performance. #TheBeatles #TDIH
On this date in 1661, the exhumed body of king-killer Oliver Cromwell was dragged through the streets of London, hanged, then beheaded. The severed head was put on a spike atop Westminster Hall, where it stayed for more than 20 years, as a warning to other potential regicides. #TDIH
On this date in 2021, Kevin McCarthy visited disgraced former president Donald Trump in Florida. Trump's exile had lasted all of eight days. The meeting with McCarthy revived his political fortunes. This was the awful first step toward Trump's re-election in 2024. So fuck you, Kevin. #TDIH
On #HolocaustRemembranceDay and every day, we must be active, not passive, in our remembrance. We must challenge those who deny the Holocaust. We must shame those who make the Nazi salute. Small acts, left unpunished, embolden those who would do evil. #NeverAgain
I look forward to the day when we revoke this asshole's US citizenship and refuse him entry to our country. Imagine: four years from now, he arrives at an American airport, a line of CBP agents blocks his path, and one says, "Sorry, Nazi boy, you're not welcome here anymore." #fuckelon
Congrats to #USWNT star Naomi Girma for her $1.1 million transfer to Chelsea! It's the first million dollar transfer in the women's game, and she's worth every penny. Girma is one of the best defenders in the world; she'll only get better playing in the WSL. #ChelseaWomen
BREAKING NEWS: Senate confirms dog killer as next Secretary of Homeland Security. Is there anything that would disqualify these abominable cabinet nominees? Or is it a case of whatever Der Fuhrer wants, Der Fuhrer gets? There's a word for that: AUTOCRACY. #KristiNoem #fucktrump
Two Siamese kittens. Born affectionate... playful... and talkative. Very talkative. #Caturday
Mitch McConnell wouldn’t have to vote no on dangerous cabinet picks if he’d done his damn job in 2021.
BREAKING NEWS: Senate confirms chronic drunk as next Secretary of Defense. How long before he shows up for work looking like this? #fuckhegseth #fucktrump
This week's winter weather allowed me to (finally) watch "Bad Sisters" on Apple TV. It's so good! Beautiful Irish scenery. Beautiful Irish women. LOL Irish humor. And surely the most loathsome, murder-worthy villain ever created for TV. Highly recommended! #BadSisters
As if today wasn't shitty enough... I've heard Cecile Richards died this morning. She was an advocate for women's reproductive rights, and a defender of the fragile wall separating church and state. Cecile is one reason the U.S. has not (yet) turned into the Republic of Gilead. #RIPCecileRichards
I wonder how my MAGA neighbors would react if I flew my flag like this, starting at 11:00 CST. I say, fuck 'em. Several still have Trump/Vance signs in their front yards, in defiance of our deed restrictions, so I say, fuck their feelings. #InaugurationDay
Happy #MLKDay everyone! If you're not a MAGA racist (I know, that's redundant), visit the King Memorial next time you're in D.C. It's really quite stunning. There's a 30 foot tall statue of MLK, and his most famous quotes are inscribed on the surrounding walls. Worth a visit.
Am I the only person who feels like this as he/she goes to bed tonight? #fucktrump #Trump #InaugurationDay
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis It Can't Happen Here (published 1935) #InaugurationDay #ItCantHappenHere
Top donors get a face-to-face meeting with Trump at today's victory rally in Washington. But no touching is allowed. The Leader does not like to be touched. Alles: Ein Volk, ein Fuhrer! #fucktrump #Trump #InaugurationDay
A very good turnout at Trump's pre- inaugural victory rally in Washington. Alles: Sieg heil! Sieg heil! #fucktrump #Trump #InaugurationDay
Happy Birthday Dolly Parton! Songwriter, singer, philanthropist. Truly an angel sent from heaven. #DollyParton
I'm genuinely saddened that Detroit, having gone 15-2, could not get past their first playoff game, much less reach their first Super Bowl. Kudos to Washington for going on the road, playing the NFC's best team, and showing no fear. More football tomorrow, folks! #Commanders #Lions #NFL