Midwestphoto - Troy Freund

a man wearing a tuxedo and bow tie is adjusting his jacket . ALT: a man wearing a tuxedo and bow tie is adjusting his jacket .

#ShittyCameraChallenge Black & White Tie Winter Wonder Challenge!

December 1st through January 31st, a B&W themed #ShittyCameraChallenge

Dress up cause it’s gonna be classy as fuck.

FAFO, ya know?

Some might say, hacking billboards is noble work. 😉

One of my favorite movies as a kid

Over my dead body will I let those fuckers Pepe Franklin.

@PeteHegseth on X: Let’s make one thing crystal clear: Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since. America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors — we mean it. 01 Dec 25

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

The day after right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk's assassination, Patel reportedly refused to disembark from the FBI jet in Utah without an FBI raid jacket. Agents working on the Kirk case were sent scrambling to find one, and when they did, it was a female jacket. He reportedly threw a fit when he saw the sleeves were missing Velcro patches. Patel refused to leave the plane until he got the missing patches, which ended up being taken off the jackets of actual SWAT team members.

Armando Iannucci eat your heart out.

Remember that fun "implied nudity" photoshoot I did for Renaissance Theaterworks? Well, here's the final result, a trifold brochure! I made the pics and Nathaniel Schardin did the Photoshop/retouching work!
Now if YOU want to help support the Renaissance, go HERE: rtwmke.org/home/costume/

pronouncing pirates like pilates

One of the best Odd Lots in episodes is the one where they interview the Arizona farmer who defends the necessity of growing water-intensive crops in the desert, and midway through the interview, they ask him what crops his farm grows and the answer is "alfalfa for racehorses"

Here's an idea for an article. Randomly select 500 public school teachers who have decades of experience dealing with 5th through 9th grade boys. Get their perspective on Hegseth, Patel, the whole starting lineup.

It’s amazing how often the progressive party seems more like the party of disappointment to so many of us. If I wanted a party led by old cranky white men, I’d vote Republican. @democrats.org @wisdems.org

6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.

FACT CHECK: TRUE

“The American Spirit - the honest, openhanded driving force of solidarity – has been castrated. Betrayed by the banks… by big business… by slimy fat cats who use patriotism like a tart uses cheap perfume.” - Reuben Flagg

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Run on *that*

LISTEN UP, @democrats.org @wisdems.org, there is only one peace plan for Ukraine: russia, go the f*ck home.

One of my first journalism professors would give you a zero if you had even one error of fact. It happened to me. Sucked so much. He was one of the best professors I ever had, I took three more classes from him, and we’re still in touch

I know we’ve moved on 781 times by now, but…

I still can’t believe he tore down half the White House

Starting //// going

If you like #comicbooks, and are in SE-WI, you should check out this fun group! :) #comicbook #MarvelComics #DCComics #Milwaukee #Wisconsin

Heater, a perfect and tiny orange cat with a white chest, sulks behind my pink and purple tackle box that contains my sewing supplies.

tfw mother won’t give you a second dinner

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

Hahahaha
Gotta tell God to start doing some pushups!
c @manruss.bsky.social

As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this.

Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.

"...disguised as commercial flights or private flights..."

This is them teeing up shooting down one of those and using the same justification. God help us.

Who could have suspected that there would be a downside to making an incompetent sexually-assaulting drunkard the U.S. Secretary of Defense?