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He’s just this guy, you know? * Friend to all cats — every Molly and Tom * No kings — only the Mighty Monarch! * I just want you to be happy * And another thing! Read the (non-political) zine at https://bindlezine.com

From Wikipedia: Government trifecta Political situation in some democratic governments In the politics of the United States, a government trifecta is a political situation in which the same political party controls the presidency and both chambers of Congress. The term is primarily used in the United States, where it originated, and is borrowed from horse race betting.
Bronze bust of Cristiano Ronaldo. It’s kinda silly looking and has a passing resemblance to Charlie Kirk and his incredible shrinking face.
An old long-haired hippie wears a light grey-ish blue shirt, with a monochromatic blue and white image of three classic patriots marching with drums and fife. The background is a crest with 13 stripes and five white stars. A bald eagle is spreading its wings in front and and top of the crest. In red and white ornate calligraphy, there are the words “No More Kings!”
Image shows that the item is out of stock on the Walmart page
In the midst of an AI nightmare, there are two spools of wire. One looks like normal soldering wire, and the other is copper wiring, not known for use in plumbing repair. The guy making this post thought it was kind of funny to refer to the copper wiring as “stereo wiring” because it kind of looks like that.
A still from Bob's Burgers of Gayle Genarro, who has limp, long brown hair with bangs and oversized blue glasses.
A painted brick wall showing 3 Irish Republican Army soldiers in camouflage clothing and black balaclavas over their faces. They each hold up a rifle above their head. Behind them is the flag of Ireland. There is writing above them that says "Our Day Will Come." picture circa 1985
Poster with the text: "Hey Kids! What do you get when you add a Treasonous Rapist with an Unaccountable Manipulating Pissant? This Moron." Most of the lettering is in blue, except for "Treasonous Rapist" and "Unaccountable Manipulating Pissant," which are in red. "This Moron" is black text in a yellow arrow that points to a caricature of Donald Trump with his little hands giving thumbs up. There is a No Kings logo in the lower left of the poster. It's not obvious, but the first letters of the red colored words spell "TRUMP"
A graph from Google Finance of Crude Oil Continuous Contract futures dropping down $4 per barrel at 4:12pm (EDT) and then rising $3.50 by 5pm.
Headline from AP News, with a picture of Chuck Norris: Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lee Majors and more react to the death of Chuck Norris
A screenshot of RapidResponse47 on X dot com, saying, ".@SecRubio: 'The president made the very wise decision—we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them beforethey launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.'" The image that follows is from Fox News "The Story with Martha MacCallum." It shows Marco Rubio at a lectern with several microphones. Behind and to the left of him is a man who is looking up. The man appears to be looking up at a graphic that says "LIVE," but the graphic is from the Fox broadcast, not actually floating where ever this is taking place.
Thirteen, the black cat that decided this was his house on a Friday the 13th 14 years ago, sleeps on a white sheet over the back of a couch. He looks content.
NY Times headline "Trump Nominates an Apostle of 'White Erasure' for the State Department" Subhead "Jeremy Carl, President Trump's nominee to lead the State Department's outreach to international organizations, had a rough confirmation hearing, but he stood by his views on 'whiteness.'" Picture of unknown man sitting next to Jeremey Carl sitting in front of a microphone looking slightly above and to the left of the camera. Tweet by Barbara Comstock replying to Molly Jong-Fast: "Trump State Dept nominee Jeremy Carl: 'I made some comments in interviews about minimizing the effect of the Holocaust that were absolutely wrong,' he said. 'And I'm not going to sit here and defend them.'" "Why is someone who 'minimized' the Holocaust even being nominated? (And lots of other garbage he's said). Why is anyone voting for him?" Original Tweet by Molly Jong-Fast: "This might have been lost in the news cycle but Its really really really bad"
NY Times headline "Trump Nominates an Apostle of 'White Erasure' for the State Department" Subhead "Jeremy Carl, President Trump's nominee to lead the State Department's outreach to international organizations, had a rough confirmation hearing, but he stood by his views on 'whiteness.'" Picture of unknown man sitting next to Jeremey Carl sitting in front of a microphone looking slightly above and to the left of the camera. Tweet by Barbara Comstock replying to Molly Jong-Fast: "Trump State Dept nominee Jeremy Carl: 'I made some comments in interviews about minimizing the effect of the Holocaust that were absolutely wrong,' he said. 'And I'm not going to sit here and defend them.'" "Why is someone who 'minimized' the Holocaust even being nominated? (And lots of other garbage he's said). Why is anyone voting for him?" Original Tweet by Molly Jong-Fast: "This might have been lost in the news cycle but Its really really really bad"
A screenshot showing an example of Bluesky automatically creating a bogus link's preview when there is a misplaced period and space in a post. It will keep the preview even if the typo is fixed before posting. There is an "x" in a circle on the right, allowing you to delete this fake preview from posting .
The Wall Street Journal, 9 hours ago Hotels Are Getting Rid of Proper Bathroom Doors and Guests Are Revolting
From The New Republic article titled “Kennedy Center Forced to Cancel Major Concert Due to Trump”: > The Cookers’ withdrawal comes just days after the Kennedy Center was forced to cancel its annual Christmas Eve Jazz Jam due to what Grenell described as “dismal ticket sales.” The concert was free.
Anil Dash: I'm not an apologist for Big Al; burn them down & salt the earth. But a bunch of algorithms aren't the problem — they have their uses. (Far narrower than are being asserted, obviously.) The issue is venture-backed companies run by fascists, as always. Facebook enabled a genocide without needing Al. Dan K Lark: "I'm not an apologist for Big Al, I'm just defending it." Make up your mind.
An ad for San Jose, California, with a photo of 3 people sitting around a table in a coffee shop. One of them, a man with a backwards baseball cap that has a very odd brim, eats a baked bread item that is about twice the size of his head. The bread has interconnected circles on the crust, for some reason—they're not pretty, just chaotic. He is eating the bread over a giant tea cup. I mean it's big, about the size of the huge honkin' bread that the guy is trying to eat. The other two people are smiling. There is text on the ad that says "Building the future never stops. Just like next level experiences." Wow, that's some ad-copy right there. Then there is a call-to-action button to click that says "Shape Tomorrow >" Overall, from photo to ad-copy, this thing looks like a parody of an AI-created ad. But it's a real ad for San Jose.
A still from the BBC TV series, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Arthur Dent at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe feeling sick after meeting the meat (a live, sentient, talking cow-like animal that was bred to want to be slaughtered and eaten).
A map of the United States showing the 100-mile border zone of the US Border Patrol. From the source of the map: “The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which includes the Border Patrol, is the largest law enforcement agency in the country. Their jurisdiction they claim spans 100 miles into the interior of the United States from any land or maritime border. Two-thirds of the U.S. population lives within this 100-mile border enforcement zone, including cities like Washington D.C., San Francisco CA, Chicago IL, New Orleans LA, Boston MA, & more.” https://www.southernborder.org/100_mile_border_enforcement_zone
Trump in 1,670 out of 2,324 email threads
Twitter post from Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg: Your health insurance premium just shot up. Your groceries cost more than ever. Your electric bill too. And what is your President's focus today? Lobbying Congress... to keep suppressing the Epstein files.
Piebald tabby with a bug-bitten face, looking like he is going to sneeze, laying on the corner of a brown couch. The cat and couch are framed by a light greenish wall.
stevehofstetter Day 26 of celebrating straight people! Like anti-choice Texas GOP rep Giovanni Capriglione, accused of a 17-year affair with an exotic dancer including paying for multiple abortions. Capriglione denied it. He now admits to the affair but denies the abortion claims. And yet, he's suddenly not running for re-election. Happy Straight Month!
Both Trump and Stephen Miller, the chief architect of the administration's immigration policies, might have imagined that their crackdown would isolate a relatively small group of people and be met with indifference by most Americans, giving Trump and Miller free rein to do as they pleased. In actuality, there is no way to execute an immigration crackdown in a way that spares ordinary citizens - that shields their families and keeps their communities intact. And so with each ICE arrest comes a new story: an immigrant parent torn from his citizen child, an undocumented business owner whose arrest threatens the livelihoods of his employees, lawmakers detained for the apparent offense of asking questions of ICE agents.
I N MAY 1995, Pat Buchanan appeared at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to announce an immigration policy that would become the centerpiece of his presidential campaign. "We have an illegal invasion of this country," Buchanan warned. To resist it, he called for a "Buchanan Fence" patrolled by the military along the southern border, a five-year moratorium on legal immigration, and a constitutional amendment that would deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents. The platform was designed to stave off something Buchanan had long dreaded: "If present trends hold," he noted a few years earlier, "white Americans will be a minority by 2050." Buchanan was the first major politician to transform white anxiety about that prospect-which the Census Bureau first predicted in 1990—into an organizing principle for the conservative movement. (Never mind that the idea of a majority-minority tipping point is contested by social scientists, who argue that ever-changing norms about racial self-identification are blurring the numbers.) "The question we Americans need to address, before it is answered for all of us, is: Does this First World nation wish to become a Third World country?" he wrote in 1990.
A pint glad with straw colored beer and a 12oz can of Kirkland helles-style lager.
Excerpt from AP News story, reporting that firefighters in Idaho are under sniper fire while fighting a brush fire: “The FBl has responded to the scene with technical teams and tactical support, Deputy Director Dan Bongino said.”
A black cat, named Thirteen, licks and paws at a yellow banana toy that is filled with catnip.
I honestly don’t know what these are. They’re 2 burgundy-colored, likely plastic, sorta gun-shaped things, and are hanging on a pegboard.
Long line of protestors in Patchogue, Long Island.
A bogus account, blueskyshoppli.bsky.social (cmon Blueksky?) hawking inferior quality shirts that say “mundus sine caesaribus” There’s a lot of these accounts that are popping up trying to pretend they are an official bsky account
Spammed post from marcus984irl8.bsky.social reposting spammed post from william843uu8.bsky.social
Grey long-haired tabby with a big floofy tail, looking towards the camera, pauses cleaning her crotch, with her right front paw in between her spread open back legs as if to hide her privates.
Donald J. Trump & @realDonaldTrump Why doesn't Chairman Bob Iger do something about ABC Fake News, especially since I just won $16,000,000 based on the Fake and Defamatory reporting of Liddle' George Slopadopolus. He was given warnings, but just couldn't be restrained by "management." Now I see they are at it again, and I again give these SleazeBags fair warning! The wonderful country of Qatar, after agreeing to invest more than 1.4 Trillion Dollars in the United States of America, deserves much better than Misleading (Fake!) News. Everyone, including their lawyers, has been told that ABC must not say that Qatar is giving ME a FREE Boeing 747 Airplane, because they are not. Instead, and as Fake News ABC fully knows and understands, this highly respected country is donating the plane to the United States Air Force/ Defense Department, AND NOT TO ME. By so doing, they are saving our country, and the American Taxpayer, hundreds of millions of dollars. ABC Fake News is one of the WORST 1.23k ReTruths 4k Likes May 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
From Penzeys Spices email: The 80th Anniversary of Defeating the Nazis is only One Week Away! We did it before. We will do it again. Spread the word.
Rapid Response 47 reposted Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi I can confirm that our @FBI agents just arrested Hannah Dugan - a county judge in Milwaukee- for allegedly helping an illegal alien avoid an arrest by @ICEgov. No one is above the law. 11:05 AM • 4/25/25 • 189K Views
Rapid Response 47 reposted Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi I can confirm that our @FBI agents just arrested Hannah Dugan - a county judge in Milwaukee- for allegedly helping an illegal alien avoid an arrest by @ICEgov. No one is above the law. 11:05 AM • 4/25/25 • 189K Views
The specific "reciprocal" tariff rate was half of the current trade imbalance because "the president is lenient and he wants to be kind to the world," a Trump aide told reporters. "The numbers [for tariffs by country] have been calculated by the Council of Economic Advisers ... based on the concept that the trade deficit that we have with any given country is the sum of all trade practices, the sum of all cheating," a White House official said, calling it "the most fair thing in the world."
Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum tweets: NEW: In a court filing this evening, the Trump administration said that it had mistakenly deported a Maryland father to a notorious Salvadoran prison due to an "administrative error." Snippet of article follows: "But in Monday's court filing, attorneys for the government admitted that the Salvadoran man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deported accidentally. "Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error," the government told the court. Trump lawyers said the court has no ability to bring him back now that Abrego Garcia is in Salvadoran custody."
A shitty AI illustrated post above Laika's post about how "it does warm my heart to see so many people look at AI and go 'fuck off with that shit'"
A decent logo created by AI using OpenAI's 4o Image Generation model in ChatGPT. The logo is a circle with the text Moonshark Moon Pies, with a shark and a wheel of something that looks more like Swiss cheese rather than a moon pie.
Logo for the site called Open. The type is set like this: O p e n My brain is melting.
Image from 30 Rock Jack: The television audience doesn't want your elitist, east coast, alternative, intellectual, left wing… Liz, interrupting: Jack, just say Jewish, this is taking forever.
Richard Nixon
Quote by Donald Trump on Feb 6, 2025 at the National Prayer Breakfast: "But the odds, even if you had nothing, if you had nobody, the odds of that happening- extremely small. It's like, did you ever see, you go to a driving range in golf and you're hitting balls, hundreds of balls, thousands of hours." "I never see a ball hit another ball? Balls going up all over the place. You never see 'em hit. It was amazing that that could happen."
HIM from Powerpuff Girls, a weird red devil creature in leg length leather high heeled boots. They have mechanical lobster claws for hands, and frilly pink fabric around their neck and waist. They wear a santa-claus-like belt around their waist. They have yellow eyes. I swear to God they have yellow eyes!
An open sign on a business that has mistakes that I found funny. The text of the sign is in the post itself.
a screenshot from eschaton.com that says (verbatim): Kids generally have two physical parents, but not all of them bother to appear for⁰ the birth certificate.⁰⁰0⁰⁰⁰pp0p0p0⁰00⁰000p0p0p0p0p0p0p0p0p0p0p0p0p0pp0p0p0
Smokey, a long haired grey tabby, interrupted while cleaning herself, is sitting and slightly facing away from camera, with her tongue sticking out her mouth. She looks silly. She sits on a pale blue, fuzzy blanket.
Screen shot of today's Daring Fireball that shows an HTML strikethrough tag wasn't closed.
Trump votes in Palm Beach with Melania's body double. At no point did she take off her glasses.
A black cat sitting on a ratty sheet. He is half in the frame from the right side. He’s got greenish eyes with large pupils. He’s looking slightly beyond the photographer and honestly looks kind of goofy.
A black cat that is sitting on a table, facing the camera, and looks like a bust of Batman with squared off shoulders and glowy eyes.
Article link from BBC News. Picture shows a sheriff directing traffic in front of the driver's side of a sheriff's car. The text underneath reads: "What we know about the Trump attack so far. The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh remains in custody and has been charged with firearm offences. 7 hrs ago | US & Canada"
AP News article headline: The Titan's former lead engineer says he felt pressured to get the submersible ready. Above the text is a photo of Titan Submersible photographed in deep water.
A wizard casing a spell from a spell book, saying "Begone you foul demon / Cotton Eyed Joe, thy grasp / on this plane faded long ago / From whence you came, / there you shall go, I seal / thee away, Cotton Eyed Joe."
Text: this cat looks like a cartoon bomb went off in its face. Image: a long haired cat with blue eyes, surrounded by dark fur. The rest of the cat’s fur is lit by the sun so it is very bright, making the contrast between the cat’s face and the rest of the fur very dramatic. The cat’s ears are flattened as if blown back and the cat’s nose is flat. It all comes together to look like the cat had something explode by its face. (It did not. No cats were harmed in this meme.)