Category: Economics / Economy / Income / Financial

Memes, cartoons, and more information for Wednesday. I couldn’t sleep so I got up and kept adding to the page. It got long.

 

#mash from Nostalgic Gifs

 

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-02-26T07:00:26.621Z

Remember when Republicans wanted to impeach Bill Clinton because big donors got to stay a night in the Lincoln bedroom? Seems quaint now.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-02-26T02:38:44.397Z

If DOGE wants to root out "waste, fraud and abuse" in the healthcare area re: Medicaid, how about they cut out the wasteful, price gouging mafia middlemen in between us and our doctors, the insurance companies, and make Americans' healthcare entirely self funding with one payer?

— Emma Vigeland (@emmavigeland.bsky.social) 2025-02-25T23:12:48.995Z

NEW: Fully leaked diplomatic cable directing the implementation of this policy at all US diplomatic and consular posts.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2025-02-25T20:24:18.312Z

Guess who’s getting a new FAA contract to help privatize air safety?Elon Musk. He’s cutting the FAA and everything else in government — and carving it off for himself.THE WHOLE THING IS A MONEY GRAB

— Tristan Snell (@tristansnell.bsky.social) 2025-02-25T22:23:12.908Z

We need more… everywhere! Especially in red states.

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-02-25T17:31:45.900Z

Medicaid covers:- 21% of Americans nationally- 83 million low-income Americans- 4 in 10 children- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs- 41% of births nationwide- 5 in 8 nursing home residents- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state

— Emma Vigeland (@emmavigeland.bsky.social) 2025-02-25T16:29:37.906Z

Pedro is the best ❤️

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-02-25T21:57:40.616Z

Queens NY

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-02-25T13:23:43.836Z

BREAKING — 21 "DOGE" staffers RESIGN in protest1/3 of "DOGE" technical team quit — experts who came to the government from companies like Amazon and GoogleRemember, Elon Musk (and most of his minions) don't actually have ANY technical expertise!"DOGE" in disarray

— Tristan Snell (@tristansnell.bsky.social) 2025-02-25T20:59:21.211Z

This is how the Terran empire began in fact.

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-02-25T20:30:05.317Z

Our immigration carceral system is designed to create a permanent underclass of subminimum wage workers who can't speak up about workplace abuse or unionize for fear of deportation. Corporations like DoorDash prefer immigrants to be under threat, and that's who Trump represents.

— Emma Vigeland (@emmavigeland.bsky.social) 2025-02-26T03:03:07.895Z

Ok now vote is back on. To be clear this is basically a purely symbolic vote on a framework that won’t pass the senate and should be an absolute lay up

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-02-26T00:46:13.652Z

 

Folks, I just broke this story for @gbhnews State Department erases LGBTQ victims from human trafficking reportwww.wgbh.org/news/news-pr…

— Phillip Wd Martin (@phillipgbhnews.bsky.social) 2025-02-07T22:21:17.987Z

 

 

https://x.com/franklinleonard/status/1888007249215545770

This is "The Boardroom" from Donald Trump’s “reality” show “The Apprentice.” Look at the top and you can see where the wall ends because it wasn’t a real boardroom. It was a set built on a soundstage because Trump’s real offices were small and shoddy. The show created an *illusion* of Trump success.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-02-07T19:31:21.594Z

Of these two, the one bigot above or the classy lady below.  Hate is not good for anyone.  

"Trump Signs Executive Order to ‘Promote the Resettlement of White Afrikaner Refugees’ in the U.S." Trump finally finds refugees he will accept: WHITE ones from South Africa. This is real. Musk trying to help his fellow white apartheid lovers http://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-…

— Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) 2025-02-08T12:25:52.169Z

 

 

https://x.com/JBPritzker/status/1887949566525186554

 

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨Trump stripping the security clearances of numerous antagonists, including NY AG Letitia James, DA Alvin BraggAnthony Blinken’s security clearances will also be revoked, following the same presidential directive aimed at Biden.nypost.com/2025/02/08/u…

— Lauren Ashley Davis (@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social) 2025-02-08T22:29:24.659Z

 

Felon Bans Antony Blinken, New York AG Letitia James, DA Alvin Bragg, And Five Others From Federal Facilities

 

 

 

Our new border patrol

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This man, who might be high on Ketamine at any given moment, talks privately with Putin. He is not elected, nor is he appointed by Congress. He’s ‘outside’ of government.

He has hired a crew of young rightwing nerds and they are now inside every fucking computer system in the government. They work for a Russian agent.

Don’t be surprised when, sometime soon, every system shuts down or worse, every dime of US money is flying into Russian accounts.

It is painful to see that it would be so easy to destroy a big country like America.

Horribly hateful people / person the above.

“This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.” of course it is they’re just using DEI as a cover.

https://x.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1887181299103744025

 

More clips from the Majority Report

Let’s talk about Trump’s DOGE being dogged by issues….

Let’s talk about finding out Trump is adding trillions in debt again….

Peace & Justice History for 2/25

February 25, 1941
A general strike was called in Amsterdam to protest Nazi persecution of Jews under the German Nazi occupation. The previous weekend 425 Jewish men and boys had been imprisoned (only two survived the war). Truck drivers, dock and metal workers, civil servants and factory employees — Christians, Liberals, Social Democrats and Communists — answered the call and brought the city to a standstill. The work stoppages spread to Zaanstreek, Kennemerland and Utrecht.
Two days later the strike was called off: nine people were dead, 50 injured and another 200 arrested, some of whom were to die in the concentration camps.
“The Dokwerker” is a statue by sculptor Mari Andriessen in Amsterdam’s Jonas Daniel Meyer Square commemorating the February 1941 strike. It is frequently the rallying point for demonstrations against racism.
Read more   (pdf)
February 25, 1968
Discussing the war capacity of North Vietnam, a country that had been fighting for its independence for 23 years and had just staged the massive, successful Tet Offensive, U.S. General William C. Westmoreland stated, “I do not believe Hanoi can hold up under a long war.”
He was replaced as commander in Vietnam less than four months later.
Vietnam commander General William Westmoreland meeting with President Lyndon Johnson
Westmoreland’s life and career  (It’s NYT’s obit.)
February 25, 1971
Legislation was introduced in both houses of Congress to forbid U.S. military support of any South Vietnamese invasion of North Vietnam without prior congressional approval. This bill was a result of the controversy that arose following the invasion of Laos by South Vietnamese forces.
On February 8, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam had launched a major cross-border operation into Laos to interdict activity along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and destroy the North Vietnamese supply dumps in the area. The Ho Chi Minh Trail, named for the leader of North Vietnam, was an informal network of jungle trails down which supplies came from the north, supplying insurgents and troops in the south.
February 25, 1986
The newly elected Philippine president, Corazón Aquino, was sworn in, bringing to an end years of dictatorship under Ferdinand Marcos. In the face of massive demonstrations against his rule, President Ferdinand Marcos and his entourage had been airlifted from the presidential palace in Manila by U.S. helicopters.
February 25, 2011
A Day of Rage saw demonstrations across the Middle East. Protesters in Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Bahrain showed their support variously for an end to corruption and income inequality, political reform and better public services, and the replacement of long-running dictatorships with democratic regimes.

Day of Rage in Taiz, Yemen
Reports from throughout the region 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryfebruary.htm#february25

A Hero of Our Age: The Man Who Refused to Run Away

A Hero of Our Age: The Man Who Refused to Run Away

Work To Do, Indeed, And A Great Week In Which To Do It!

The Week Ahead (Activism)

Peace & Justice History for 2/24

February 24, 1895
José Martí, a Cuban revolutionary, poet, journalist and teacher, began the liberation struggle against Spanish control. He had been forced out of Cuba repeatedly (to Spain) for his opposition to colonial rule, and spent 15 years in the U.S. organizing the revolution just before returning home.

José Martí

Cultivate a White Rose
By José Martí
I cultivate a white rose
In July as in January
For the sincere friend
Who gives me his hand frankly.
And for the cruel person who tears out
the heart with which I live,
I cultivate neither nettles nor thorns:
I cultivate a white rose.
read about José Martí 
February 24, 1965

District 1199 of the health care workers’ union (now Service Employees International Union) in New York City became the first U.S. labor union to officially oppose the war in Vietnam.
February 24, 1966

Father and son, Tom and Barry Bondhus, united in their opposition to the draft.
Photo: Pete Hohn, Minneapolis Tribune
Barry Bondhus, classified 1-A (fully eligible) for the draft during the Vietnam War, dumped two buckets of manure in file drawers at the Elk River, Minnesota, draft board. A farmer’s son (one of ten brothers) from Big Lake who acted with the full support of his parents, he was charged with destruction of government property.
His father, Tom, wrote a declaration of war on the government over their insistence on forcing his boys into the army. He said he was prepared to die to protect his sons but eager to negotiate. “My opinion is that since our constitution guarantees: Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness; and because the army denies all three; the draft is not lawful.”
Barry, sometimes referred to as “the Big Lake One,” who listed his race as “human” on the draft forms, served 14 months in jail and prison for his action.
Perspective on the case and the Bondhus family more than 50 years later 
February 24, 1972
Daniel Berrigan (one of the “Catonsville 9”) was released after 18 months of a three-year term. He went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where his brother Phil Berrigan was on trial, also for anti-Vietnam War activities [see February 21, 1972].
Investigation of a Flame, a film about the Berrigan brothers and the Catonsville 9 
February 24, 1983
A congressional commission released a report condemning the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, calling it a “grave injustice.”
Read more 
February 24, 2012
Syndicated talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh began a three-broadcast-day-long campaign attacking Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke (rhymes with book) for her testimony before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.


The previous week she had been invited to testify on the subject of federal requirements for contraceptive coverage in health insurance policies before the Republican-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Instead, Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) declared her testimony inappropriate (she is past president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice), instead hearing from five men. Committee member Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked, “Where are the women?”
Fluke talked about the high cost of contraception and the non-pregnancy-related importance of such medications for some women.
Limbaugh spent six hours on air demeaning her personally and derided her as a “slut” and a “prostitute.”
Watch Sandra Fluke’s testimony: 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryfebruary.htm#february24

Some great clips, some long from the Majority Report.

Short clips from TizzyEnt

 

This  videos are hard to watch, I had to fast forward over the part showing the man harassing these people and acting like a deranged gang thug, which maga is.  It is going to get worse as more of these vigilantes think they have a right to be enforcers of their own opinions.  We need to make sure that every event is punished and made public to stop these people from acting this way.   Hugs

A south Carolina man is in jail for illegally detaining people he thought were “illegals”

 

Canceling any non white male centric holiday in the name of DEI? Sounds about Project 2025 of them.

Wanting lower grocery prices is good; believing a liar is not.

Deporting his supporters: They got your vote, they don’t need you anymore.

Looks like DOGE is coming for the Department of Labor next.