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Something Light for Late Evening Open Thread

by WaterGirl|  April 25, 202510:37 pm| 30 Comments

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I am heading for bed, but it looks like we could use something light.  Maybe TaMara will pop in with something, but in the meantime, BlueGuitarist sent me some fun protest signs he found online, so I’ll just load them here for your perusal.

Open thread.

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    zeecube

    April 25, 2025 at 10:39 pm

    thanks.  I needed that.

  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    April 25, 2025 at 10:39 pm

    Hard to pick a favorite.

    (And he shits in a box.) is for sure a runner up.

    They are all so good, each in their own way.

  3. 3.

    Scout211

    April 25, 2025 at 10:48 pm

    My favorite is:

    SUPER CALLOUS

    FASCIST

    RACIST

    SEXIST

    NAZI

    POTUS

    It says it all, plus it has a lovely melody 🎶

    Thank for this post, WaterGirl.

  4. 4.

    Mathguy

    April 25, 2025 at 10:51 pm

    The IQ sign is awesome. Thanks for the laugh.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    April 25, 2025 at 11:01 pm

    @Scout211: excellent choices, all of them, and the perfect number of syllables!!

    same with the first sign they really got the syncopation just right.  Extra points for that.

  6. 6.

    Joy in FL

    April 25, 2025 at 11:03 pm

    These are clever and accurate. Very Balloon Juice : )

  7. 7.

    Queen of Lurkers

    April 25, 2025 at 11:03 pm

    All funny. I saw the neologism “moronacracy.” I quite like that. Or “Confederacy of Dunces.”

  8. 8.

    Gloria DryGarden

    April 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

    But, jeez,

    oops, Geez

  9. 9.

    Jay

    April 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

    MUSK, (noun),
    A noxious substance emitted from the anal glands of a weasel.

  10. 10.

    Gloria DryGarden

    April 25, 2025 at 11:05 pm

    @Jay: a comment for you on the last thread

    #140, #127

  11. 11.

    Jay

    April 25, 2025 at 11:10 pm

    @Gloria DryGarden:

    Thank you.

  12. 12.

    No One of Consequence

    April 25, 2025 at 11:10 pm

    These are great. Thank you for these. If it helps anyone else, I like to listen to John Flannery, and he has a bit of a rundown of the judge arresting stuff. I’m listening now, but here’s the link:

    youtube.com/watch?v=I6oxcEMltog

    If it helps. This judge arrest is ominous in my mind, but I’d like to understand the situation.

    Alternately, here is a Franklin’s Tower take I had never heard before. Part of this one, Jerry is really on a lovely tear.

    youtube.com/watch?v=wwaLHp8_fY8

    -NOoC

  13. 13.

    Gloria DryGarden

    April 25, 2025 at 11:18 pm

    @Jay: yes

    You’re welcome.

  14. 14.

    zhena gogolia

    April 25, 2025 at 11:19 pm

    @Gloria DryGarden: I like that one

  15. 15.

    Gloria DryGarden

    April 25, 2025 at 11:19 pm

    The rotating tag is brilliant tonight.

    it says

    “we still have time to mess this up.”

    just wishing the clock would run out for some of those people.

  16. 16.

    Gloria DryGarden

    April 25, 2025 at 11:20 pm

    @zhena gogolia: smiling back at you

  17. 17.

    prostratedragon

    April 25, 2025 at 11:25 pm

    Just ran across this year’s International Jazz Day concett from Tangier, on PBS. Nice, relaxing. Each performer so far does about 5 minutes. Various moods, some quite reflective.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    April 25, 2025 at 11:28 pm

    I think the tropical paradise in the sidebar today is calming.

    BlueGuitarist calls them the serenity photos. I love that!

  19. 19.

    Kristine

    April 25, 2025 at 11:36 pm

    @WaterGirl: That tropics photo is lovely, and so very restful.

    So many good signs.

  20. 20.

    Urza

    April 25, 2025 at 11:40 pm

    There is apparently an executive order against ActBlue.  I’m sure its not legal but its definitely a way to interfere with fund raising.

  21. 21.

    Jay

    April 25, 2025 at 11:54 pm

    @Urza:

    emptywheel.net/2025/04/25/the-actblue-targeting-is-a-perfect-opportunity-to-flip-trumps-eos-on-his-h…

  22. 22.

    Gloria DryGarden

    April 26, 2025 at 12:24 am

    @Urza: WTF!

    guy grifts off his fundraising, but he gets to stop everyone else? JFC!

    Geez

  23. 23.

    Gloria DryGarden

    April 26, 2025 at 12:25 am

    @Jay: may it be so.

  24. 24.

    frosty

    April 26, 2025 at 12:29 am

    @WaterGirl: Yes they all scanned beautifully. Good enough that Subaru Diane could have written them. She’s our resident expert on syncopation.

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    April 26, 2025 at 12:41 am

    @Jay

    Different topic.

    Just curious, is searching Vancouver for the supposed hidden treasure of Brother XII still a thing?

  26. 26.

    Jay

    April 26, 2025 at 1:48 am

    @NotMax:

    Not really.

    It was moved offshore.

  27. 27.

    cckids

    April 26, 2025 at 1:49 am

    I wasn’t able to get a pic, but my favorite protest sign so far is:

    We are all the couch now

    :)

  28. 28.

    Ruckus

    April 26, 2025 at 1:51 am

    @WaterGirl:

    Her cat shits in her cat box. Where she is supposed to.

    Shitforbrains shits everywhere. In his pants, and likely everywhere he’s not supposed to, because he thinks he can do nothing wrong. But wrong is the basis of everything he does. It’s like he tried to teach himself humanity. But he has zero idea what humanity really is supposed to be, so he learned nothing in any way positive.

  29. 29.

    TS

    April 26, 2025 at 3:05 am

    Let them eat teslas – is my winner

  30. 30.

    Mo MacArbie

    April 26, 2025 at 9:51 am

    Heh, “Onion article” can be inserted gracefully into the B-52’s song.

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