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Political cartoons / memes / and news articles I felt important to share. Again it was getting long so I decided to share them early. Hugs

NoKings – A Note on Washington D.C. (no protest planned there)
https://www.nokings.org/district

On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

Instead of allowing this birthday parade to be the center of gravity, we will make action everywhere else the story of America that day: people coming together in communities across the country to reject strongman politics and corruption.

For that reason, NO KINGS is not hosting an event in Washington, D.C. We will instead have a major flagship march and rally in Philadelphia to draw a clear contrast between our people-powered movement and the costly, wasteful, and un-American birthday parade in Washington. You can RSVP for the Philadelphia event here.

For participants in the D.C. area, we encourage you to join us in Philadelphia, find a local NO KINGS mobilization in Virginia or Maryland, or join our partners at Free D.C. for DC Joy Day, a community-led event in the District.

 

 

 

 

Political/Editorial Cartoon by Patrick Chappatte, International Herald Tribune on Trump Escalates Harvard War

 

 

 

 

 

 

This political cartoon depicts a typical home, as if you are sanding on the sidewalk next to a white picket fence. A pair of scared eyes are peeking out from behind a curtain. The sign on the house’s lawn reads, “Beware of everything.”

 

 

Town Square Cartoons

Christopher Weyant CagleCartoons.com

Harley Schwadron CagleCartoons.com

Political/Editorial Cartoon by Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Trump’s Earnings Increase

 

Bart van Leeuwen PoliticalCartoons.com

 

Ed Wexler CagleCartoons.com

Political/Editorial Cartoon by Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune on Biden Dead, Trump Says

 

Pat Bagley The Salt Lake Tribune

 

Political/Editorial Cartoon by Patrick Chappatte, International Herald Tribune on In Other News

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https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com/post/3lre6qtew6s2k

ICE is abducting US citizens out in the open to provoke a response. They're doing this on purpose to escalate and then play the victim when people protest.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2025-06-11T18:26:38.619Z

LA is in crisis, requiring thousands of federalized National Guard and 700 Marines, said the man who also said immigrants are eating dogs and cats.

— Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T16:52:32.134Z

The Army unit sent to Los Angeles is the same one that responded to the WTO unrest in Seattle in 1999www.kenklippenstein.com/p/martial-fl…

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T02:24:13.853Z

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-06-11T14:13:15.158Z

 

John Wiseman
@lemonodor

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I believe this is the first mention in the media of the MQ-9 Reaper drones that surveilled the protests in Los Angeles. Nice scoop by 404 Media.
I believe this is the first mention in the media of the MQ-9 Reaper drones that surveilled the protests in Los Angeles. Nice scoop by 404 Media.

DHS Flew Predator Drones Over LA Protests, Audio Shows

From 404media.co

https://www.404media.co/dhs-flew-predator-drones-over-la-protests-audio-shows/

“This is a chilling statement.” An LAPD helicopter claimed cops identified protesters from above and would “come to your house.”

A LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID’ed protesters from above and threatened to “come to your house”

From motherjones.com

emptywheel (check)
@emptywheel

Pete Aguilar: Why did you send the Guard w/o resources. Whiskey

@PeteHegseth

: blah blah blah disingenuous disingenuous disingenuous. Bryn McDonnell: $134M for the deployment to LA. (That may cover just the Guard.)

Dan Przygoda
@dprzygoda
It’s going to cost $134 MILLION for National Guard troops to be here in LA for the next 60 days. That’s a lot of $$$ spent for them to sleep on concrete floors & stand outside Federal buildings (which LAPD could do on its own) while the GOP wants to gut Medicaid and VA benefits

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Open Windows, Clay Jones

Journalists In Crosshairs by Clay Jones

Read on Substack

Press freedom is an issue close to my heart.

Here in America, Journalists have never had to worry so much for their physical safety. That’s one reason why political cartoonist, Cameron Cardow, pissed me off so much when he started working as “Rivers,” an anonymous cartoonist pretending his life was in danger for supporting Donald Trump with lies and conspiracy theories while being a Canadian pretending to be an American.

If anything, Cam working anonymously, with the aid of syndicate boss Daryl Cagle, was threatening journalism by telling editors that it wouldn’t violate their ethics policies because political cartoonists are not journalists. Rivers has since quit, but Cagle is still doing his best to undermine political cartoonists as journalists.

Just in case they’re reading this, Daryl, you’re a huge disappointment who fails to exercise responsibility or even quality control when distributing misinformation powered by racism. Next time we meet, we’re gonna have a talk.
Cam, you’re just a lying piece of shit, but I’m thankful for your career change and hope you’re doing well, at least well enough not to come back to cartooning.

There are other places outside the United States where being a journalist can be very dangerous. Mexico can be a very bad place for journalists, not so much from the government but from drug cartels. Murderers of journalists in Haiti are likely to go unpunished. Pakistan is considered extremely dangerous for a reporter. The wars in Myanmar and Sudan are also killing journalists.

No deaths of journalists from White Genocide in South Africa have been reported, maybe because there’s no White Genocide in South Africa.

Since 2014, at least 17 journalists have been killed in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, at least 184 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza.

12 people were killed in Paris, which is not a war zone, in 2015 at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by terrorists angered by cartoons of Muhammad in 2012. Five of the 12 killed were cartoonists.

Here in the United States, despite Rivers’ cowardice, a political cartoonist has never been assassinated. The biggest threat to our press freedom here comes from the owners of news outlets, as they all bow in fear before Tiny TACO. But that might be changing. (snip-MORE)

The one who should be going to prison by Ann Telnaes

Trump calls for jailing people who burn the U.S. flag Read on Substack

More proof Trump doesn’t respect the First Amendment and isn’t familiar with the Supreme Court decision protecting flag-burning.

Freedom To Marry, and More, in Peace & Justice History for 6/12

June 12, 1963

In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot to death by white supremacist Byron De la Beckwith, who was not convicted until 1994 after an extensive investigation by Jackson, Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger newspaper. He was tried and acquitted twice by with all-white juries, members of which had been influenced by the Ku Klux Klan. Following one of the trials, then-Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett stood by Beckwith’s side and shook his hand.
The whole sad story
The role of the Clarion-Ledger 
June 12, 1964
Nelson Mandela, a 46-year-old lawyer and a leader of the opposition to South Africa’s racially separatist apartheid system, was convicted of sabotage in the Rivonia Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Nelson Mandela, 1963
From Mandela’s statement to the court prior to sentencing:
“ I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
The trial of Mandela and seven other African National Congress compatriots 
June 12, 1967
The U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia struck down state miscegenation laws, those that prohibited interracial marriage, as violations of a person’s right to equal protection under the law, as guaranteed under the 14th amendment.

Mildred and Richard Loving
In June of 1958, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, a white man and an African-American woman, had married in Washington, D.C. Upon return to their home state of Virginia, the couple was arrested, convicted of a felony, and sentenced to a year in prison. The appeal of their conviction led to the decision.
Contemporary thoughts on the case 
“The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the
vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.”
From Chief Justice Earl Warren’s majority opinion in Loving v. Virginia
Watch trailer for the movie “Loving” (recommended)
June 12, 1982

In the world’s largest-ever peace demonstration (until the U.S. invasion of Iraq), one million rallied in New York City’s Central Park to support the newly formed Nuclear Freeze Campaign which called for a halt to all nuclear weapons testing worldwide.

The biggest demonstration on earth (until the global anti-Iraq war march of Feb 15 2003)
took place in New York on June 12, 1982, when one million people gathered in support of the second UN Special Session on Disarmament and to protest nuclear weapons.
The origins of the Nuclear Freeze Campaign 
The demonstration 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjune.htm#june12

Letters From An American video feed with Sec. Buttigieg

Conversation with Secretary Buttigieg by Heather Cox Richardson

A recording from Heather Cox Richardson’s live video Read on Substack

(There is also a transcript, available on the page.)

The system failed her so she handled that shit herself

Jimmy Kimmel Tells the Truth About What’s REALLY Happening in LA

From The Smart Ones:

No Kings, Yas Queens

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“There is a free printable PDF or PNG at their KoFi, along with a pre-order for stickers and tshirts, which will ship later in June.

More than 1800 NO KINGS rallies are planned for this Saturday, June 14, as counter programming to the most embarrassing example of fascist onanism ever.

And, since June is Pride month, there are a lot of Pride activities going on that date, too. Perhaps yours also overlap, and this sign will work for you, too!

Thanks to Chris for permission to share – this design is so great, I had to share it.

Stay safe out there, and wherever you are, please know that you are loved exactly as you are. Whether you can live your life openly or keep parts of yourself hidden, you’re seen and welcomed and loved.”

police acting like brown shirt thugs. Sniping at peaceful protestors

They are firing into the crowd now. The freedom to protest in the constitution is no longer allowed in the tRump dictatorship.

The Port Huron Statement & More in Peace & Justice History for 6/11

June 11, 1962

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held its founding convention in Michigan and issued The Port Huron Statement, laying out its principles and program.
“In social change or interchange, we find violence to be abhorrent because it requires generally the transformation of the target, be it a human being or a community of people, into a depersonalized object of hate. It is imperative that the means of violence be abolished and the institutions—local, national, international—that encourage non-violence as a condition of conflict be developed.”
Complete text of the Port Huron Statement  (it’s a .pdf, in case you’re on a phone)
Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History: Paul Buhle, Editor 
June 11, 1963
Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from the Linh-Mu Pagoda in Hue, Vietnam, burned himself to death (self-immolation) in front of the U.S. embassy in downtown Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City) to protest the the South Vietnamese regime the U.S. supported, and the war the Americans were waging.

A painting of the scene on the street as Thich Quang Duc self-immolates in protest of the government and war in Vietnam
June 11, 1963

Vivian Malone (later Jones) preparing to enroll at Alabama with Deputy Attorney Gen, Nicholas Katzenbach (L) at her side.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama in order to prevent the admission of two negro students in a failed attempt to maintain segregation in educational opportunities.
He was forced to step aside later in the day when Vivian Malone and James Hood were registered as students.
June 11, 1968
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, known as Danny the Red, arrived in Britain, stirring up fears of campus unrest. The 23-year-old Paris law student had been given permission to remain in the U.K. just 24 hours, but immediately threatened to defy the authorities and out-stay his official welcome [his visit was later legally extended to 14 days]. Cohn-Bendit, a German citizen, had been expelled from France in May for being an organizer of the French student and worker demonstrations which almost brought that country to a standstill the previous month.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit and a Paris policeman in 1968.
“I don’t know how long I will stay. I think it’s a free country” -Daniel Cohn-Bendit
He currently sits as a Green Party deputy in the European Parliament.
The news at the time 
Daniel Cohn-Bendit today 
June 11, 1970
Representative Martha Griffiths (D-Michigan) filed a discharge petition signed by a majority of all members of the U.S. House of Representatives, a seldom used parliamentary move, to bring the Equal Rights amendment to the House floor for consideration.
She saw this as the only way to get the constitutional amendment out of the Judiciary Committee where it had been held by its chairman, Emmanuel Cellar (D-New York), who had refused to even hold hearings on the matter. Representative Griffiths had introduced the amendment every year since 1948.

Representative Martha Griffiths from Detroit’s west side
June 11, 1988
100,000 marched from United Nations headquarters in New York City to Central Park during the 3rd U.N. Special Session on Disarmament. Though there had been progress in recent years on disarmament, the U.N. meeting yielded nothing but stalemate.
Read more 
June 11, 2010
Scientists studying the scale of the then-ongoing BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico doubled the previous estimate of the scale of the flow of oil into the Gulf. Initially, BP and the government had said that no more than 1000 barrels (42 U.S. gallons per barrel) per day were leaking, later raised to 5000.
The fine for oil spills was $4300 per barrel.

The new estimate was between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels per day.
If the spill had been stopped that day (the well was not capped until early August), it would have exceeded the Exxon Valdez spill by a factor of eight.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjune.htm#june11