Gah-this one won’t embed, and it’s hilarious!! It’s about POTUS’s failed businesses. Do click; it’s great!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Kcol2OLmmko?si=jbo2a_Rarb8s-rsO
Month: March 2026
A Quick Women’s History Month Post
from Nancy Beiman! It’s about women in animation work. It’s rare to hear of them.
My Ears are Burning
they were already a little floppy
This review appeared on Facebook yesterday. I do not know Mr. Highson, but I read his columns.
My blushes, Watson.
Mr. Highson posts the cover of the first edition of Animated Performance on the Facebook post. The second edition, an essentially โnewโ book, is available from Bloomsbury Press.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/animated-performance-9781501376672/
Itโs nice of him to speak of me during Womenโs History Month. Now letโs hear about the other female animators. One of my students, Ami Thompson, appears on the first page of this site. There are many others.
https://greatwomenanimators.com/
Animation really does let you โplayโ any character; your sex, age, ethnic group do not matter. It allows you to act without anyone staring at you; there are many introverts in this profession!
thatโs all for today, folks.
Note To Scottie re Emails:
I read and responded to the emails. Just so you know. Maybe they won’t be so hard to find if you get there pretty quick?
A #No Kings Report
Jeff Tiedrich uses blue language. It’s easily ignored if you don’t care for blue language; this is some great coverage of yesterday. Also, Bluesky posts don’t embed easily on WP, so really, this is better on the page. Just click on the link directly below. It’s also mostly here, but you’ll have to click on the Bluesky posts to see the excellent photos; they didn’t embed.
No Kings 3, fuck yeah
massive protests coast to coast โ and country to country
letโs start off with a bang, and put the hero of the day right up top. ladies and gents, I give you the Poet Laureate of No Kings Day.
โsee you later, alligator. at your trial, pedophileโ โ now thatโs a message we can all get behind.
we did it again, folks. in fact, We the People outdid ourselves. yesterdayโs No Kings 3 was the largest single-day protest in U.S. history.
over eight million of us gathered peacefully coast to coast, to rise up as one and convey a singular message: fuck you, you fucking fuck โ youโre not our king.
wait, did I say coast to coast? no, it was the entire world telling Donny Convict to fuck straight off.
check outย this ginormous crowd in London.
(just click the link to see the post on Bluesky. How it works, I guess. -A)
HAPPENING NOW: A HUGE crowd has gathered in London, England for a protest against the far right in coordination with the No Kings day protests in the US
[image or embed]โ alexjungle.bsky.social (@alexjungle.bsky.social) March 28, 2026 at 10:07 AM
and atย the Bastille in Paris.
In 1789, furious protesters stormed the Bastille in Paris. This marks the start of the French Revolution that put an end to the highly corrupt, rotten regime of aristocrats and the ultra rich. Yesterday, thousands joined a #NoKings protest at the Bastille.
[image or embed]โ Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #FBR #BanX (@aurorablogspot.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Scotland fuckingย loathes Donny.
Solidarity from #Scotland. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐บ๐ธ #NoKings
[image or embed]โ Dial M for Madeye ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ (@carnaptiousmadeye.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 1:32 AM
so doesย Portugal.
Germanyโs seen this movie before, andย they want no part of its sequel.
two stalwarts showed upย in the town of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
holy shit, there was even one homeyย who parked himself in front of the US embassy in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
this dudeย fucking rules. he heldย the exact same one-person protestย during the previous No Kings Day last October.
meanwhile, back here in the US of A, the crowds were gi-fucking-normous.
over two hundred thousand peopleย showed up in Boston.
(This is a gif on the story page.)
of course, Boston is in the major leagues when it comes to protesting. theyโve been perfecting this shit since 1773.
another two hundred thousand showed upย at the rally in the Twin Cities.
We are estimating more than 200,000 people at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities. #NoKings
[image or embed]โ Indivisible โ๐ (@indivisible.org) March 28, 2026 at 2:37 PM
while weโre in the Twin Cities, you need to hear this chunk fromย comedian Lizz Winsteadโs great speech.
โIโm so proud of you. you chased out of this state pure evil. you chased them out. you chased out the fun-size fascist Greg Bovino. you chased out that evil Kristi Noem. Kristi Noem is so evil, Iโm starting to think that that dog took his own life. just couldnโt take it. โis this my future? I need to get out. Iโm taking the goat with me.โโ
Times Square in New York City was packed to the gills.
(This is a gif, for effect, but those tend to transmit as an image on WP.)
so wasย Chicago.
San Francisco does not screw around. at Ocean Beach,ย protesters formed a human banner telling Donny to get the fuck out.
check outย deeply-red Boise, Idaho, folks. even Republicans are fed up with this shit.
Bill Kristol, who used to be the biggest neocon in the world and is now an actual goddamned social progressive,ย was in Waltham, MA.
huge crowds were everywhere โ except for one place: the CPAC conference in Texas.
while millions of people were protesting the fucked-up reign of Mad King Donny, CPAC couldnโt even fill one small room. look at this clownfuckingly pathetic display.
itโs as if Sad Trombone became a real political party.
now letโs check out some heroes โย like this dude in Seattle.
we definitely need to gif this hilarious shit for posterityโs sake.
(See it on the story page; it’s excellent!)
it wasย raining frogs in the District of Columbia.
weโre going to need to gifย thatย shit, too.
(You know what to do.)
handmaidens bearing the names of Jeffrey Epsteinโs degenerate BFFsย showed up in Nashville.
thereโs no way weโre not giffingย thatย shit.
(Go.)
hey, do you know who can go fuck themselves all the way to Mars? the Los Angeles Police Department, thatโs who. these goons couldnโt make it through the day withoutย arresting a protester who was dressed up as the Statue of Liberty.
A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com http://www.latimes.com/california/l…
[image or embed]โ samยณโฐโฐโฐ (@samgavin.com) March 28, 2026 at 9:09 PM
great optics, you guys. bravo. ten out of ten โ no notes.
fuck those fucking fucks. letโs go out with a bang. here are some of the best protest signs from around the country.
(Just go see it all. You’ll be sorry if you don’t!) Snip
and finally, once again, our unknown poet laureate from Ellsworth, Maine.
as for Sundowning Grandpa Bugfuck, he was unusually silent โ and nowhere to be seen. there were none of his usual protest-day batshit meltdowns on the feed of his crappy app. he couldnโt even be bothered to post AI slop of himself shitting on protesters, as he did last October.
he just spent the day holed up in Motel-a-Lago. according to his official schedule, the lazy fuck didnโt even bother to cheat at golf.
Iโve got a news flash for you, Donny: America is sick of you. aside from your brain-dead cultists who are too fucking stupid to understand whatโs going on, nobody voted for this shit.
nobody voted for the historic and stately East Wing to be demolished so that you can replace it with some vulgar Epstein Dance Hallโข โ and speaking of your dead pedo bestie, nobody voted for the continuing cover-up of a massive pedophile ring.
nobody voted for off-the-charts corruption and greed.
nobody voted for masked ICE thugs teargassing children, and murdering anyone who looks at them funny. nobody voted for innocent immigrants to be disappeared off the streets and shipped off to far-away slave-labor gulags.
nobody voted for the price of everything continuing to skyrocket โ especially when you promised bring all that shit down on Day One.
nobody voted for our allies to be insulted and ignored, or for Ukraine to be thrown to the wolves, or for Greenland to be perpetually harassed, or for Venezuela to become a vassal state.
and nobody voted for an unwinnable clusterfuck of a donโt-you-dare-call-it-a-war in Iran โ certainly not one that shut down the Strait of Hormuz, destabilized the entire Middle East, and sent the price crude through the roof.
guess what, Donny: youโre such a loathsome piece of shit that over eight million people took to the streets yesterday to deliver this singular message: fuck you, you fucking fuck โ youโre not our king, and you never will be.
boo fucking hoo, bro. sucks to be you.
have a great Sunday, everyone. you earned it.
Republican Vampire Can’t Sell This
Enjoy Some Clay Jones This Morning!
Mr. Johnson No Johnson
Gonads are gone-gone
(Clay Jones publishes with his toons; his writing is always spot on. Click the title above to go to the page.)
Grifting With The Aliens
Those aliens are going to starve
Just Some Stuff
A Couple Of The Bloggess’s Substacks
Leave room for yourself
Dear friend,
This week Iโve been struggling a little with the fact that I canโt do all of the things that I want to. My book comes out next week (youโre in it!) and I feel so excited and lucky but also terrified and filled with dread. I worry people wonโt like itโฆthat no one will show up to the book tourโฆthat Iโm failing my publisher because I canโt do some of the things that most authors would jump at because I just donโt have the energy or mental strength to say yes to everything without making myself sick. I even felt a little bad about drawing this week when I probably should be doing author stuff.
But then I reminded myself that I need this quiet drawing time (is it considered โquietโ when Iโm doing it while binging Dexter? I say yes.) to keep myself sane and to replenish my energy and to remind myself that I am more than just my work, and that itโs okay to not work yourself to exhaustion even if itโs for something you love.
I suspect we all struggle with this. Perhaps as parents or partners or in our careerโฆthe urge to try to be more than our bodies and minds allow, but not being able to because you areโฆhuman. Itโs so easy to put ourselves last when itโs for something else that you care about.
โThere is a fine line between beautiful and suffocating. Donโt forget to leave room for yourself.โ
So this is a reminder from me to you to make time for yourself if you can. To rest. To create. To refill your cup. There is so much beauty in what we do for others, for our work and for our passionsโฆbut there is also a necessary beauty in what we do for ourselvesโฆa beauty we often forget.
Sending love (and quiet moments of calm repose even when watching serial killer shows)
~me
From the road
This morning I was in New York filming the Today Show where I managed to talk about explosive diarrhea, fears of my foot falling off, apologized for using my hands too much, sat on them, promptly pulled my hands back out bc I canโt talk without them and then made all the anchors put pencils in their mouthsโฆall within about 4 minutes. By this afternoon I was in Amish country in Pennsylvania where I met some very nice โfancy Amishโ people (this is a real thing) and did not pet a horse even though I really wanted to. Tomorrow afternoon Iโll be in Lancaster for my first tour stop and signing even though technically my book doesnโt officially come out until Tuesday. Then itโs back to NYC, and then a stop in New Hampshire for another reading and signing and then I get to go home for a week to rest for the next round. Iโm feeling tired, happy, lucky, scared, excited, embarrassedโฆall of the things. Oh, and did I mention my first book got banned from a Texas high school after a senate bill deemed it obscene and profane? Itโs been a busy week. I would link to everything but I canโt figure out how to do this with my phone
I should have written all this before I left but i was overwhelmed with packing all the wrong things and so instead Iโm writing this tonight, on the eve of my first new book event in over half a decade, to distract myself from the fear and from the incredibly loud but very happy drunken wedding taking place two rooms down from mine. It feels like youโre here, in a weird way. I know thatโs strange, but itโs comforting.
Iโve drawn in planes and cars and green rooms to keep my hands and mind busy but itโs a jerky mess so instead Iโm sharing a drawing from my new book, because it seems fitting while Iโm traveling so much in spite of the fact that I never know where I am. Itโs an adventure, after all, if I look at it with the right kind of eyes.
I super crazy love you,
Jenny
Republican National Purity Dream | David Bier | TMR
This person Same is interviewing is from the Cato Institute.ย Sam and David talk about the bigotry and attempt to purify the country of non-white people.ย tRump and his racist administration claim to want to remove 100 million from the US.ย ย There is no where near that number of undocumented people in the country.ย That number is almost 1/3 of the US population.ย Undocumented immigrants were estimated at 14 million in 2023 at the highest.ย So where are the rest of these people coming from?ย Legal documented immigrants and non-white citizens born in the US.ย That is why they are rounding up brown people who immigrated here legally and why they are trying so hard to end birth right citizenship.ย The goal has become clear and it is scary to me.ย To cement the white majority for as long as possible and stop the slow decline of the white majority / rize of minority demographics.ย ย Stephen Miller and the other racists in tRump administration want an apartheid state like the former South African one was.ย They want no rights for non-whites.ย They want no non-whites in positions of authority. The administration is going after businesses and higher education for not prioritizing whites over any other group.ย They feel no white male is less qualified than any non-white.ย If a non-white person scored 95 and the white person scored 75, these racists feel the white person is still more qualified because of their skin color.ย The racists feel the only DEI that should be allowed is the promotion of white males over everyone else. Hugs
Boise To Face $2000/Day Fine For Flying Pride Flag
The game plan is clear and was used to accomplish the genocide of the LGBTQ+ from society in Russia.ย Attack the most vulnerable and smallest members of the LGBTQ+ trans people in the name of saving the most vulnerable, who are the little children espcailly little girlsย / daughters.ย Every study proves that the ones in real danger or under threat are not the kids but the trans people.ย ย Then use the momentum and rising bigotry to remove all rights and equality from the rest of the LGBQ+ based on the same lies.ย End goal is to create a straight cis country where the Christian white male is making the country safe / regressive enough for their bigoted view of Jesus to feel comfortable enough to return and pat them on their heads.ย Hugs
Theย Idaho Capital Sunย reports:
The Idaho Senate has widely passed a bill that would fine local and state governments for flying flags that arenโt on the Legislatureโs pre-approved list.
The billโs House sponsor, Rep. Ted Hill, an Eagle Republican, has said House Bill 561 is meant to target the city of Boise for flying an LGBTQ+ pride flag. Boiseโs City Council voted to declare the pride flag and the organ donor flag as official flags, in an apparent move to work around the Legislatureโs flag ban law passed last year.
The bill would add a $2,000 daily fine, per offending flag, to the flag ban law from last year, which lacked an enforcement process. The bill widely passed the House earlier this month. But since the Senate amended the bill, it must return to the House before it would go to Gov. Brad Little for final consideration.
Read theย full article.
Rep. Ted Hill [photo] appeared here yesterday for his successful bill that criminalizes using the โwrongโ bathroom. Violating that law would be a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison. A second offense within five years would be a felony, carrying up to a five-year prison sentence.
Hill appeared here in 2024 for his successful bill banning teachers from referring to students with their preferred pronouns.
Earlier this month, the Idaho House passed a resolution to petition the US Supreme Court on overturning Obergefell.
In February, the Idaho House advanced a bill to overturn all local LGBTQ rights ordinances statewide. Thirteen Idaho cities and counties, including Boise and its home county, have such laws on the books.
Scottie's Playtime 