Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-19-2026

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Congress and the American people deserve answers about whether the Trump White House is rigging or intervening in Pentagon contracting decisions to benefit the President’s family.

Elizabeth Warren (@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social) 2026-06-08T18:55:48.974Z

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A firm tied to Trump Jr. got a $620M Pentagon-backed loan after the White House reportedly pushed for the deal.Now lawmakers want answers.Funny how "government waste" never seems to include taxpayer-funded favors for the president's family. We need an investigation NOW.

Public Citizen (@publiccitizen.bsky.social) 2026-06-08T14:03:01.389879055Z

 

 

 

Trump starts wandering off in the wrong direction after a G7 photo and world leaders have to step in and redirect him

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-06-16T19:18:45.475Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

The progressive comic about the ruined Reflecting Pool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You bunch of spineless motherfuckers.”“Should be Palm Bitch.”“Please!!! Block this travesty.”@notus.com got copies of fliers’ comments to Palm Beach Airport over its Trumpian name change. Buckle up: it’s a bumpy ride.www.notus.org/donald-trump…

Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal.com) 2026-06-18T11:13:35.281Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEW: The USPS is starting to create a new records system to track mail ballots, laying the groundwork to collect records related to mail-in and absentee ballots.The revelation underscores the Trump administration is taking steps to build out his anti-mail voting order amid legal challenges.

Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2026-06-18T18:21:04.732881794Z

 

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1. The Secretary of Defense is an idiot.2. Disease has killed more soldiers than any enemy ever did.Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional http://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u…

Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T18:48:36.289Z

Hegseth: I haven't washed my hands in 10 years

FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T19:57:16.751Z

 

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashes out at NATO allies for not taking more responsibility for their own security.He announced a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe to ensure NATO moves toward Europe leading its own defense.

The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2026-06-18T08:24:45Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A Russian air defense missile blows up a fuel tank at the Moscow Oil Refinery following a failed attempt to shoot down a Ukrainian drone.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T19:58:09.496Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A Replay From Last Year

Open Windows, Clay Jones

Trusting Trump

What else does Donald Trump want us to pay for?

Clay Jones

Part of Donald Trump’s unconditional surrender to Iran is a promise of providing $300 billion in reconstruction funds. Trump has spent years attacking President Barack Obama, and the JCPOA, the nuclear treaty that President Obama and several other countries negotiated with Iran that gave it billions in unfrozen assets, but the deal he signed yesterday, or Sunday, depending on which version of his own stories you want to believe, provides even more funds to Iran.

Yesterday, Trump said, “And you know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama, and they said, ‘He’s a stupid son of a bitch.’” Of course, that’s not true, but they are probably saying it about an American president now. Trust me on this, Donald Trump is a stupid son of a bitch.

Today, Senator Chuck Schumer called Trump a “terrible negotiator,” telling reporters that the agreement with Iran was “one of the worst deals that we’ve ever seen in the United States’ foreign and diplomatic policy.” And the criticism of the deal is bipartisan, as several Republicans, including former Vice President Mike Pence, have criticized it.

So, how bad is the Iran deal? Dick WrightGary Varvel, and Chip Bok, and Chip Bok are criticizing it. You know it sucks when the Kool-Aid drinking MAGAts hate it and can actually summon up enough independence to say something about it. (snip-MORE)


An embarrassing performance at the G7

Trump rambles on about granite

Ann Telnaes

He’s deteriorating.

‘You can’t cancel Pride, no matter how hard you try’: GLAAD CEO on some GOP rebranding June

As I have posted before on this subject this is an attempt to push a fundamentalist Christianity on the entire rest of the public.  It is an attempt to enshrine Christian nationalism and the doctrines of one sect into the laws we all must live by.   The people doing these attacks want to make any and all LGBTQ+ content seem dangerous and harmful which would require warning labels.  It is about demonizing the way other people live because the hyper religous don’t like it.  The Christians are free to live as they wish and think as they want but they can not be allowed to oppress and require everyone to live as they do.  They are a minority and the polls show the majority of the public doesn’t share these haters belief that LGBTQ+ people are dangerous or bad.  The majority of people are live the way they want to and let others live the ways they want to.  Republicans keep using attacks on trans and gay marriage to distract from real issues, to enrage their base to excite them to vote, and to demonize a minority group so that the status quo can go back to the 1950s cis straight white male hierarchy.  Hugs 


 

Some GOP lawmakers are attempting to rebrand June, which has been nationally recognized as Pride Month, as “Nuclear Family Month” in some states. GLAAD CEO & President Sarah Kate Ellis joins Laura Barrón-López to share her thoughts on this and a new poll around support for LGBTQIA+ communities.

A Right-Wing Legal Group’s Lawsuit Over a High School Wrestling Match Falls Apart on Video

This is another Riley Gaines  person trying to say she lost only because her opponent was trans.  They claim that the wrestler Kallie Keeler was sexually assaulted.  The issue is that all the wrestlers asked and the experts say the moves were standard wrestling moves.   Even the coach says that fingers often end up in places they don’t belong in normal activities in public.  I was not a wrestler, but I know someone who did wrestle in high school.  I had joked with him I couldn’t have done wrestling with all the hands on the crotch of the wrestlers touching each other’s cocks and balls or fingers in the butt.  He told me it was very common and if you watched many boys got up from the floor during or after a match with hard ons or wet spots on their uniforms where their dicks are.   The law suit is an over the top attempt to get wrestler Kallie Keeler a bunch of rewards that she did not earn and to punish all trans athletes.  It also is so she can repeat Riley Gaines track of using her anti-trans hate to be on TV and make a lot of money she wouldn’t make if she was not pushing bigotry and hate.  Plus if the opponent was a cis girl and accidentally did the same thing she wouldn’t have won either.  This is a Christian family who feels entitled to award seh did not earn.  Athe the end of the video he reads responses and comments from anti-trans people who said it was a commonly used move and sexual touching happens.   Hugs

 

The right-wing legal group Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a sweeping federal lawsuit on behalf of Washington high school wrestler Kallie Keeler, claiming she was sexually assaulted during a match against a transgender opponent.

The problem? There’s video of the match, and according to multiple wrestlers, coaches, and wrestling experts I spoke with, it shows nothing controversial. Just legal, routine wrestling techniques.

The lawsuit goes far beyond the match itself, targeting the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), school officials, coaches, and state authorities while demanding that Keeler’s losses to transgender athletes be erased from the record books and that trans athletes be barred from competing against her in the future.

Despite the dramatic allegations, Pierce County prosecutors declined to pursue criminal charges, and even some conservatives who oppose transgender participation in sports have criticized ADF’s characterization of the match.

Open Secrets Checked Into Congressional Campaign Spending:

Pride Month politics: LGBTQ+ PACs are spending big on key congressional races

Pride Month politics(Photo by Douglas Rissing via Getty Images)

Political action committees focused on LGBTQ+ issues have already spent big in the 2026 election cycle. They have doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars to support congressional candidates who identify as sexual or gender minorities, as they seek to both defend and expand representation.

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Equality PAC, the political arm of the Congressional Equality Caucus, is responsible for 29% of the contributions to candidates from LGBTQ+ PACs ($185,000). It works to elect openly LGBTQ candidates and allies committed to passing the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in areas including housing, employment and lending. 

The Human Rights Campaign, which describes itself as the nation’s largest civil rights and LGBTQ lobbying organization, gave $141,541 to many of the same candidates and accounts for 22% of this total. Equality Project PAC, which has also been associated with the Equality Caucus, has contributed $115,000 (18%). No Vote Left Behind PAC, which describes its mission as developing and funding voter registration and get-out-the-vote programs targeted to the LGBTQ community in battleground states, contributed $84,000. Christopher Street Project, which focuses on electing candidates committed to advancing trans rights, contributed $67,000.

Equality PAC leaders are also its recipients

Reps. Becca Balint (D-Texas) and Julie Johnson (D-Texas) serve as the PAC’s vice chairs and have received $7,500 and $5,000 from the PAC, respectively. Two co-chairs, Reps. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Mark Takano (D-Calif.) each received $10,000 from the committee. 

Balint is the first woman and openly LGBTQ+ person to represent Vermont in Congress and has supported numerous pieces of legislation that protect LGBTQ+ Americans and their access to healthcare. In 2025, she introduced the Transgender Health Care Access Act, which would fund programs to train medical providers in providing gender affirming care.

Balint has received a total of $22,000 from LGBTQ+ PACs, including the $7,500 from Equality PAC, $5,000 from No Vote Left Behind PAC and $4,500 from Equality Project PAC. She also received $2,500 from both the Christopher Street Project and the Human Rights Campaign.

Johnson, who was running for reelection in Texas’ 33rd district, received over $40,000 in donations from various LGBTQ+ PACs, the most of any candidate, yet lost in the Democratic primary runoff on May 26.

In a statement about Johnson’s loss, Equality PAC said, “Texas – and likely the entire South – will lose openly LGBTQ representation in Congress. Many in our community remain deeply hurt by Colin Allred’s decision to challenge one of our own. As he moves forward, he bears a responsibility to help heal those divisions and rebuild trust with the communities impacted by this race.”

Torres, who represents New York’s 15th district, became the first openly LGBTQ+ Afro-Latino person elected to Congress after he defeated Patrick Delices in the 2020 election, receiving 88.7% of the vote compared to Delices’ 11.1%. 

In 2023, he was selected to serve as a co-chair of the Equality PAC. “Congressman Torres is one of Equality PAC’s greatest and proudest success stories. We all know that representation matters – and that is why Equality PAC was the first major national organization to endorse his congressional campaign in 2019,” said fellow co-chair Takano. “As the first LGBTQ Afro-Latino ever elected to Congress, Congressman Torres is a living example of Equality’s PAC mission to make Congress look like America — and that includes LGBTQ America.”

This cycle, Torres received $10,000 from both Equality PAC and Equality Project PAC. He also received $10,000 from No Vote Left Behind PAC and another $2,500 from the Human Rights Campaign.

In 2012, Takano became the first openly LGBTQ+ person of color elected to Congress. Takano serves as the chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus and is the lead sponsor of the Equality Act, the caucus’s flagship bill.

PACs focused on gay and lesbian rights donated $35,000 to Takano, who represents California’s 41st district. Contributions from Equality PAC, Equality Project PAC and No Vote Left Behind PAC compose a majority of this, with each organization donating $10,000 to Takano’s campaign. 

Takano also received $2,500 from the Christopher Street Project and $2,500 from the Human Rights Campaign.

Equality PAC prioritizes additional LGBTQ+ history-making candidates

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) is the first openly LGBTQ+ immigrant elected to Congress and has championed legislation promoting global gender and sexual equality, such as the International Human Rights Defense Act

Garcia, who represents the Golden State’s 42nd district, has received $22,000 from PACs focused on LGBTQ+ issues so far this cycle. Equality PAC, the political arm of the Congressional Equality Caucus (of which he is a co-chair) contributed $7,500 to Garcia’s campaign. 

Equality PAC has maintained its support for Garcia since 2024, having donated $7,500 to his campaign that cycle.

Rep. Emily Randall (D-Wash.) is the first openly LGBTQ+ Latina to serve in Congress and is the first woman to represent the state’s 6th district. Randall has championed the reintroduction of the Equality Act, which ensures nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ Americans, and national LGBTQ+ organizations have continued to support her as she seeks reelection.

Randall, who will not face any challengers in the Aug. 4 primary, has received $11,500 from LGBTQ+-focused PACs this cycle. She received $5,000 from Equality PAC, as well as $3,500 from Human Rights Campaign and $3,000 from Equality Project PAC.

Equality PAC first endorsed Randall’s run for Congress in 2023, stating that she has “worked tirelessly” in the State Senate to make Washington one of the most inclusive and accepting places for LGBTQ Americans.

Marni von Wilpert, an LGBTQ+ member of the San Diego City Council and a former civil rights attorney, is running for California’s 48th district. She has raised $1.2 million so far, with $32,500 coming from LGBTQ+ PAC contributions.

Equality PAC donated $10,000 to von Wilpert’s campaign and stated in its endorsement that she “represents one of our best chances to elect a new LGBTQ woman to Congress this year.” Wilpert also received $10,000 from both Equality Project PAC and No Vote Left Behind.

Von Wilpert has also been added to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue program, which provides Democratic candidates in particularly competitive races with organizational and fundraising support.

Rep. Chris Pappas (D) became New Hampshire’s first openly gay member of Congress when he was elected in 2018 to represent the 1st district. Now, as he runs for Senate, Pappas has become a focus for LGBTQ+ PACs looking to support increased representation in a chamber that has had very few openly LGBTQ+ members in its history.

If elected, Pappas would become the first openly gay man elected to the Senate, making the race particularly significant for PACs seeking to expand representation.

In its endorsement of Pappas, Equality PAC said New Hampshire “needs a fighter in the Senate who will put the Granite Staters first, and Chris Pappas has proven time and time again that he is that leader.”

LGBTQ+-focused PACs have contributed $11,050 to Pappas in 2025-26, including funding from LGBTQ Victory Fund, the Human Rights Campaign, No Vote Left Behind PAC and Equality Project PAC.

This article was originally published by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that tracks money in politics. View the original article.

FED UP Graham Platner FINALLY SNAPS And COMPLETELY TORCHES Trump!!

Kyle kulinski breaks down the attacks on Platner on main stream media and the people pushing the attacks.  Such as the woman who was on CNN claiming it was a shame for the party that Platner’s transgressions were being over looked and that it was a gender problem.  Kyle points out that same woman was on the Edwards for president team and stayed on after it broke he was having an affair with another woman as his wife battled cancer.  Edwards committed 8 felonies to cover it up.   Womanizing did not seem to bother her then.  Maines House Minority Leader described Platner as having deep and disturbing personal issues.  That is the same person who threw a bucket of human feces (shit) at someone, sunk three boats, nearly killed his sternman with his fooling around on the water and claimed Jesus saved him when he capsized his boat.  Kulinski goes on to explain that the reason so many horrible people are attacking Platner is his stance against the oligarchy, his anti Israeli genocide, and his antiiwar stance, and he is a threat to the established order.   The worst thing is the DNC has removed Platner’s campaign from their list of candidates to run adverts supporting.  He is against their continuing the status quo so they would rather have a republican take the seat to maintain the support for Israel, the establishment, and more  money for the wealthy at the expense of the lower incomes.   Worth a watch.  Hugs

 

Sodom & Gomorrah is not about homosexuality

Dan McCellan again goes to great lengths to explain that the bible doesn’t talk about homosexuality.  He first explains that the frame work of same sex attractions did not exist in the people’s worldview.  The social frame work for sex was not desire but power / authority over others with the penetrative man being the top of the hierarchy with the receiving person the woman was lower in status because she received the man as he penetrated her.   If a man penetrates another man the man doing the penatrator is emasculating and feminizing the man receiving the penetration, lowering that man’s status to the level of a woman.  In the culture of the time of the bible status as a man was paramount so to show dominance over another man they would rape them.  Simple.  He explains why they did not do to Lot’s daughters what they did to the Levite’s concubine.   He goes over the reasons that Genesis 19 is about males using dominance over the other.  He explains it a lot better than I can.  But the main thing to understand is it was not same sex orientation that was the issue it was one man dominating another by penetrating him, which caused a loss of status that was what they were trying to say was a sin.  In other words men don’t ruin the good thing we have going by making some men have a lower status or women will see we are not really so much better than them.  Hugs

 

Today and tonight. And I am sorry

It is 6:15 my time and I am in a lot of pain and struggling.  I had my allergy shots this morning then when I got home, I started to work on the laptop Ron’s sister gave him.  It is a cheap incerolron windows 11 with 6 GB of RAM.  It was so frustrating to deal with.  I spent nearly five hours on it before I gave up, put his old Windows 10 laptop back on his desk and hooked it to his monitor along with his USB devices.  By this time my pain levels were hitting maximum.  

So then I went to my office and started to make tomorrow’s cartoons / memes / news post I just wore out.  I started too late and am in too much pain.  So Ron made supper so I could go to bed.  We had originally planned for a hamburger and salad each.  But as he went to make supper I told him I just wanted the salad.  After I ate I was glad I did I barely ate the entire salad he made for me.  

But when I thanked him and said it was good he had not cooked the hamburgers he told me he had cooked them after I told him that as he figured I wouldn’t be able to eat a salad and a hamburger so he had always planned to eat both burgers himself, which he did.  I guess good that it worked out for both of us but bad that he already knew I wouldn’t be able to eat.  

By the way even though this bit of information is not needed or necessary the salad was the only thing I have eaten today.  I don’t know what changed.  I was making great improvement in staying up and in eating.  I was up to eating two rather decent meals a day.  Then suddenly I couldn’t, and I suddenly needed to go back to bed in the morning and to bed before 6 or 7 pm.  Ron is again worried.  I told him it probably was my pain levels as the pain clinic needed to cancel my in person visit to get my trigger point injections.  But I am not sure if he is buying it.   Anyway.  I will try to get up by 4 or 5 to get the mentioned post out in the morning.  But no guarantees on that.  I can only say I enjoy doing them, I really love that people want and enjoy them, but my idea of doing them one day to post the next has not worked out since my relapse.   Best wishes for all and hugs for those that want them.  I am off to bed.  

Interior Dept Declares Reflecting Pool Is “Crystal Clear” As Huge Chunks Of $14M Paint Job Float To Its Surface

The gaslighting is telling the public to disbelieve anything that doesn’t make the dear leader good is on max.  The below post will show how badly tRump is at picking contractors, selecting the desired result, and that everything he does is a grift to gain him money.  This last few years it has been at the expense of every person who pays any kind of taxes to the US government.  All while cutting every social safety net to the people of the country to give even more wealth to the most wealthy that tRump desperatly wants him and his family to be a member of.  Hugs


Interior Dept Declares Reflecting Pool Is “Crystal Clear” As Huge Chunks Of $14M Paint Job Float To Its Surface

The Huffington Post reports:

President Donald Trump positioned himself as a swimming pool expert as he touted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations he ordered this year, having put in “more than 100” over his career. But after spending $14 million, the reflecting pool now looks arguably worse than it did before. Aside from the green hue of the water, the product of what is reportedly one of the largest algae blooms in recent years, the “industrial-grade swimming pool topping” that Trump chose is already peeling off in sheets.

A man who gave his name as Sean told HuffPost that he had experience working on swimming pool coatings in the past, and did not seem surprised to see the peeling. “This is an epoxy,” he said of the coating. “This is something you would do on a concrete — on a shot concrete sort of pool where you have leaking. And then you spray this out. But in a pool, you’re dealing with a whole lot less square feet. So you can do special treatments on it … so it isn’t going to come back up.”

The Interior Department writes on X:

The advanced nanobubbler technology very effectively killed the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening—most infamously Obama’s reopening—since 1922.

The Reflecting Pool water is crystal clear, and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the dead algae resting on the bottom of some parts of the Reflecting Pool—just like the destroyed Iranian Navy resting on the bottom of the Persian Gulf.

The vacuuming is the final maintenance step after refilling the pool, and it will be complete in a few days. Already, the section of the Reflecting Pool closest to the Lincoln Memorial has been vacuumed up, and the beautiful American Flag Blue coating on the bottom of the pool can be seen clearly.

Previous administrations—most notably under Obama—failed to maintain the Reflecting Pool, and after refilling the pool, the water would quickly become murky and thick with massive clumps of algae floating on the surface.

Video below already has over 4.3 million views.

The videos I can’t post because they are on the horror experience are called X.  But below are a few comments from site viewers.