Ann Marie

Always, always, ALWAYS my kid’s favorite. Even more than Christmas😊

😳 Let’s not talk about Gracie then… how many years have I been following your writing? DON’T ANSWER THAT!

I get it Dandy, I get it😉

Where is the unified Democratic messaging? Why are many allowing Republicans to saddle them with the blame over this shutdown? The House isn’t even WORKING to help end this. Sorry, when you control all the levers of government, a shutdown is on -you- GOP.

When you REALLY know your friend and don’t disagree…

A nice moment in my side career. I wrote a @thebeaverton.com article about the end of @marcmaron.bsky.social 's podcast, and he posted a screengrab to his Instagram with the caption "hilarious" - which is as gratifying as it gets in the satire/humour business.

Special Baby. At 55, I’ll take it! 😉

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Me too #USDemocracy

Hey Kristie Noem I found the founders of ANTIFA. I don’t know if any of their girlfriends are still alive but I would suggest you look in nursing homes or cemeteries.

#ProudBlue

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

We’re all saved! 🙄

If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.

Come on now, ya gotta link to the song too! (Not sure I can do that here…)

Gotta love living in a red state… My mom is here (Ohio) & my kid is here so moving is not an option right now now. This is infuriating especially considering there are real problems at hand to solve.

It’s a fact. Data from three decades of political violence reveals that right-wing terror attacks outnumber attacks from the left.

And it’s not even close!

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.

The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

These people are so angry.

Headline from UK politics section of The Guardian: "‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live Medical experts concerned alarms after US president warned pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol in move contradicted by research"

When you're commanding the respect of the world. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Thank you Ronan, keep at it!

Why I have my doubts: a timeline

Ruby Bridges, age 6

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We All Live With," depicting the event originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964, issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridge talking to President Obama as they look at Rockwell's painting when it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.

She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.

The past isn’t past.

Underrated comment, right here 😀

Oh this is lovely, thanks for sharing. Read about it, just hadn’t seen it❤️