Mike Westphal

Bela & Basil

His invincible ignorance.

I thought that movie was a remake of SHOWGIRLS & then it turned into a remake of FROM BEYOND

Can highly recommend.

But the public attitude towards the president, any president, should just be a shrug & “He had his shot.” The country isn’t in danger from anything. There’s no emergency. There’s nothing here that calls for a constitutional crisis. We shouldn’t want a president who is so afraid of losing power. 2/2

In all this talk about what Trump might do to interfere with the election, I wish more people were asking the simple question “Why does Trump want this so badly? So what if the Democrats win the Congress?” If the answer is that he’s afraid of going to jail, then more questions need to be asked. 1/2

In all this talk about what Trump might do to interfere with the election, I wish more people were asking the simple question “Why does Trump want this so badly? So what if the Democrats win the Congress?” If the answer is that he’s afraid of going to jail, then more questions need to be asked. 1/2

Be the candy corn you want to see in the world

RIP Walter Koenig!!!

Well, here’s my Hunter’s Moon picture, FWIW

I would *maybe* consider an anchovy for a Bloody Mary

Agreed. Anchovies do not swim in gin.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

the number of “yes on 42, no on 40” ads I’m seeing here in LA is depressing remember: yes on the billionaire tax (40), no on the ones canceling the billionaire tax (41 and 42)

Huh, 100 gorillas. That sounds like fun, but it would be over too fast. Cofnas is into evolution, I’m sure he feels he superior to chimpanzees. Let’s see him approach five unfettered starving adult male chimps, show them a ripe banana, then hide it in his pants.

don't vote for me or my son ever again

And yes, I have nuanced and what I would claim are fairly well-informed political opinions that are 99% summed up by FUCK TRUMP

I am so happy for Brazil, but I’m selfishly shouting FUCK TRUMP to no one in particular. Enjoying imagining him reading the headlines & wondering if he’s feeling a goose walking over his grave.

omg Lula won!?!?

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

I thought they were derivative crap and it was maddening to see them become so popular 

In addition to this being a repugnantly low blow to Acton, this is also the Ramaswamy campaign exploiting a person who appears to be mentally unwell and who has been reported to be living out of her car in a parking lot. Could be good to direct more attention to this

Trump has made the presidential pardon a loadbearing pillar of his authoritarian project.

One of my earliest memories. Dad telling me not to touch oil on the beach. In 1969 an offshore rig operated by Union Oil off Santa Barbara created a 4.2-million gallon spill. This disaster is considered to have been a catalyst for the modern environmental movement. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

No I don’t want to read a dystopian story. I live in one.

The best and simplest and most truthful way to talk about a billionaire’s billions is that it’s money he has borrowed from us, and one day he is going to have to pay it back. They all know this.

You’ll miss it if you blink, but Pinker is in the list of bad guys

Megan Rapinoe, a gawddang winner w/ a word: "I have won everything at every level, basically, and played, you know, at sort of every competition. I'm the one who could speak to it." 🫡🏳️‍⚧️💕 #transpeoplebelong #womenssports #transrights

Obvious solution: let me do a Pinky and the Brain comic and I'll do a parody, following the Animaniacs tradition of parodying things the target audience could not know or care about

It's unsettling seeing a picture of Klaus Kinski where he's not screaming and/or trying to murder someone.

If you're in San Francisco, there are many signed copies of A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social -- and some of them have special character cards hidden inside!

I could be wrong, but I can’t remember a single J6r being treated like this when they were taken into custody. Everybody involving this from Trump on down should be sued *and* prosecuted, right down to the cops who beat on his door.

A good follow-up question would have been to ask him if his father ever sexually abused him

My prediction is that the question 'can the Ramaswamy campaign sink any lower?' is being treated as a brainstorming prompt by GOP strategists right now. Where's lower, can they get there in time?

PUMPKIN CITY

Also, Colossal Biosciences is full of it (and they did not actually make “dire wolves”): www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Not to mention that movies and literature and art in general universally excoriate greedy wealthy people. They’re almost always the villain. For millennia this has been true.

My @jamestalarico.bsky.social merch just arrived. Get out and vote, Texas!

I can only respect the elegance of this reference

With the DCCC going full Transphobia, it's worth noting that not all Democrats are selling out. Some are calling the sell-outs for what they are. Remember that come 2028 if the brave run for higher office.

Good morning. It's nine days 'til Halloween. art by Juliana Oakley

TBH I don’t think critics are baffled at all by the noise Trump made. It’s his fans who look baffled in the clip.

OMG you’re right about the “critics” thing, I’m seeing it everywhere.