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Octavia Spencer has resurrected a famous scene from her 2011 film The Help in honor of DOGE. The actress took to Instagram to criticize Elon Musk‘s government department, offering to bake the iconic chocolate piefrom the film (which, for the record, contained poop).
Spencer posted a photo of herself as Minny in the movie, writing, “Bake sale for Washington to ALL DOGE employees and supporters. I need good vanilla from MEXICO and some CANADIAN maple syrup.#limitedEditionpies. Corn and chocolate. Need lots of donations for the special ingredient. Eat looooooooots of corn. one time sale fill out The cards below. Who would you send a pie To?”
The Help, based on Kathryn Stockett’s nove, was set in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, during the civil rights movement. It focused on Black maids working for white families. After Minny is fired by her boss, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, she gets revenge by baking her famous pie with an extra ingredient: poop. Spencer won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the role.
Since Donald Trump took office last month’s DOGE, led but not led by Musk, has been gutting government departments, firing workers en masse, and shuttering entire agencies. On Friday, the duo fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration workers amid a startling series of plane crashes and other air-related incidents in recent weeks.
At the same time, Trump’s Department ofHomeland Securityhas budgetedas much as $200 millionon anti-immigrant ads — and thefirst round of themmake clear his administration intends to use this immense amount of public money to very specifically promote Trump, both in America and around the globe.
Last week, 14 state attorneys general filed anaudacious lawsuitseeking to haveMusk’s activities with DOGE declared unconstitutional and reverse them as null and void, because, they assert, the billionaire should have been confirmed by the Senate, and becauseDOGEis acting far beyond any congressional mandate. On Tuesday, federal District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan made herfirst rulingin the case — one that should be viewed as a split decision. It rejects the states’ request for a temporary restraining order, but underscores both the seriousness and “strong merits argument” behind their constitutional claims.
