I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Someone must stop these low-wage servants from buying all the houses!

It's easy to get inured to the crazy, but this is Trump referring to the main exterior window of the East Room, a part of the White House that has been there since 1800, as "a knock-out panel," a construction term for a temporary part of a wall designed to be easily demolished to allow for expansion

Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?

"taking jobs from Americans" really gives away the game. This guy just hates immigrants and thinks they don't belong here, and can be treated as sub-humans.

Even if it were true, "taking jobs from Americans" is not a criminal offense that calls for committing human right abuses against said person and potentially renditioning them to third countries with poor human rights records "This person is undocumented" does not mean "this person has ZERO rights"

Moral vacuity aside, I don’t see how you could properly phrase a question for survey research along the lines of “do you approve of how the president and his team been concealing his personal involvement with the notorious child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his victims?”

The White House: There is no inflation and anyone who claims otherwise is pushing a "con job." Also the White House: There's plenty of inflation, but we're blaming the president who left office nearly a year ago.

There were literally congressional hearings where whistleblowers in the insurance industry cried while discussing being forced by superiors to repeatedly illegally deny payment for lifesaving care in the run up to the passage of the ACA. That’s what republicans want us to return to.

Wait, is Pete Hegseth for some reason so against beards that it even polarizes him against some expressions of white nationalism???

Very cool MCU Echo artwork from @uzuriart.bsky.social ! www.uzuriart.com

It's really incredible how the norm against the deployment of the military against Americans at home has completely degraded. What this man is describing is a flagrant violation of Posse Comitatus.

Insulating Republicans from consequences is never the answer

Mo Morrison, Lightyear I was pleasantly surprised with Lightyear, and it was fun to discover some pretty decent figures from it (only fitting, I suppose, since the origins of the movie trace back to Toy Story!) Mo is my favorite--'cause Taika, of course 😄

The press lost its shit for weeks at the mere thought of referring to Trump and his political movement as "fascist." Republicans meanwhile use every -ist epithet they can muster against Democrats of any stripe and the press doesn't say a word.

Let them eat ballroom

Joe the Postman, Paddington Hey, I'd already watched two Paddington movies for Peter Capaldi, and now I revisited one and watched a third for Joel Fry. Both are very cute, although neither film has much in the way of screentime for Joel 1/ #JoelFry-days

Ted Cruz: "I think right now the 2 frontrunners for the Democratic nomination in 2028 are AOC and Mamdani. Now, he's not even eligible, but what do they care? Law doesn't mean anything to them. That's where their party is."

I loved the design aesthetic for Namor and Talokan in Wakanda Forever. This awesome Namor art is from @morguedesign.bsky.social www.etsy.com/shop/morgued...

Captain Rex, The Clone Wars The Clone Wars is a little daunting to me because of its length. I've been making my way through it in spurts, in between other things, but I've definitely gotten into it. I really enjoy getting to know some of the clones, and Rex is my favorite!

Democrats are expected to provide think tank level policy proposals for every societal ill under the sun (fully paid for too, natch!!) while Republicans are just like "we'll figure something out" and the media nods along.🙃

The GOP campaigned on "We are better at government than the Democrats" Enough voters believed them and gave them the keys to the government. And now its "Its all Democrats' fault that we suck at governing"

Creature, Stitch Head This is my second time seeing Joel Fry on the big screen (well, it’s an animated film, so “seeing” is relative)—the first was Yesterday, back in the pre-OFMD days. The film is a bit flimsy, feeling long even at 90 minutes, but I still had a good time 1/ #JoelFry-days

Pritzker makes a direct appeal to Greg Bovino to not terrorize kids over the Halloween weekend

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

Reporters must stop accepting this. Options: -Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others) -"It's your job to be informed" -"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?" -"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often" -"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"

In 2025, MN Dem State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed, PA Dem Gov Josh Shapiro’s home was set on fire, and a pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested for threatening to kill House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries. Condemning all political violence shouldn’t be hard.

That's right, more OFMD artwork--I'm a patron of the arts, what can I say? 😉 I'm obsessed with this *amazing* Gentlebeard piece from @andreacwhite.bsky.social, the light and color is just beautiful! www.redbubble.com/people/andyc...

It bears repeating that he literally only calls people of color "low IQ" it's just straight up gutter racism

My big takeaway from Trump's lengthy Air Force One gaggle is that he's talking about shredding the Constitution by being in office for a third term increasingly openly. If you don't think he try it, you're in denial.

Wade Wilson, Deadpool I'm a fight choreography girlie at heart. I love a bit of the old ultraviolence in Kingsman and Kick-Ass, and I love it in Deadpool too. Give me all the guns and blades and Adamantium-skeletons-as-weapons!

Yes, typically asbestos filled structures are demolished in a few days with no mitigation measures and dumped by a golf course under a mesothelioma cloud.

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

Griffin, Diggers This is an odd little short, more about mood/notion than tangible story. It’s also the shortest one I’ve watched so far, clocking in around six-and-a-half-minutes. Basically, two men walk into the woods to dig a hole, discussing their lives as they work 1/ #JoelFry-days

i will never understand how 77 million Americans thought empowering this was a good idea. our country was so lucky to survive his first term and he's much worse now.

Mike Johnson is now pretending that it's Rep-Elect Grijalva who is not doing her job, when he's the one shirking his duties. And even *he* knows this is bullshit. He corrects himself to call her "Rep-Elect" not "Rep" because he actually understands there's a very important difference.

See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue

Most of my Our Flag Means Death fanart collection is Ed and Stede, separately or together, but more recently, I've been getting more crew stuff. Especially Frenchie, obviously! This very cute print is from ylissebian--happy Ace Week! 🖤🤍💜 www.inprnt.com/gallery/ylis...

Yelena Belova, Black Widow Celebrating Ace Week with my girl Yelena! I loved her as soon as we met her in Black Widow, and I've adored her in every MCU appearance since then. She has my shield and my heart, always 🖤🤍💜

I know we've gotten jaded to this, but his utter lack of empathy still shocks. 50,000 people is mentioned only in comparison to 1,200 and is written off because they will be replaced with younger people? He talks about people they way a beef processor talks about cattle.

Oh my god, his gross little laugh when he says Gaza is “nothing but rubble, so it’s not too hard to top that”

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Martin Lowery, In the Earth This science-meets-religion folklore horror film is wild, and I still don’t know what to make of it. It’s interesting, brutal, and trippy. But I found myself with oodles of affection for the two main characters, and Joel Fry is fantastic in it! 1/ #JoelFry-days

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

Somehow it's only "demonizing half of the country" when Democrats mildly criticize Trump supporters. This just doesn't count

I too don't want anyone taking medical advice from RFK, but guess who voted to confirm him as the person people should take medical advice from.

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

He really said "skill issue" at charlie's memorial