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Responding to Josh Howerton on DEI
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 8-24-2025
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had the state pave over the memorial for the 49 Pulse Nightclub massacre victims.
Members of the community responded
But, I don’t know – it’s hard for me to see any Trump ties to Russia…except for the Flynn thing and the Manafort thing
and the Tillerson thing
and the Sessions thing
and the Kushner thing
and the Carter Page thing
and the Ivanka hanging with the oligarchs thing
and the Roger Stone thing
and the Felix Sater thing
and the Boris Ephsteyn thing
and the Rosneft thing
and the Gazprom thing
and the Sergey Gorkov banker thing
and the Azerbajain thing
and the “I love Putin” thing
and the Donald Trump, Jr. thing
and the Sergey Kislyak thing
and the Russian Affiliated Interests thing
and the Russian Business Interests thing
and the Emoluments Clause thing
and the Alex Schnaider thing
and the hack of the DNC thing
and the Guccifer 2.0 thing
and the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing
and the Russians mysteriously dying thing
and the Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing
and the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king thing
and the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign thing
and the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing
and the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing
and the Cyprus bank thing
and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing
and the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing
and the election hacking thing
and the GOP platform change to the Ukraine thing
and the Steele Dossier thing
and the Leninist Bannon thing
and the Sally Yates can’t testify thing
and the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing
and the Trump reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” thing
and the Spicer’s Russian Dressing “nothing’s wrong” thing
and the Chaffetz not willing to start an investigation thing
and the Chaffetz suddenly deciding to go back to private life in the middle of an investigation thing
and the The Lead DOJ Investigator Mary McCord SUDDENLY in the middle of the investigation decides to resign thing
and the appointment of Pam Bondi who was bribed by trump in the trump university scandal appointed to head the investigation thing
and the The White House going into full-on cover-up mode, refusing to turn over the documents related to the hiring and subsequent firing of Flynn thing
and the Chaffetz and White House blaming the poor vetting of Flynn on Obama thing
and the Poland and British intelligence gave information regarding the hacking back in 2015 to Paul Ryan and he didn’t do anything thing
and the Agent M16 following the money thing
And now the trump team KNEW about Flynn’s involvement but hired him anyway thing
and The Corey Lewendowski thing
and the Preet Bharara firing thing but before he left he transferred evidence against trump to a state level Schneiderman thing
And the Betsy Devos’ Brother thing
And the Sebastian Gorka thing
And the Greg Gianforte from Montana thing
And the pence actually was warned about Flynn before he was hired thing
and the Pence and Manafort connection thing
And the 7 Allies coming forward with audio where trump was picked up in incidental wire tapping thing
and the carter Page defying the Senate’s order to hand over his Russian contact list thing
and the Obama coming forward and sayin he warned trump directly thing
And the trump wants to VETO Sally Yates’ testimony thing
and the trump tweets attacking Yates and defending Flynn thing
and the “no evidence of collusion” attributed to Clapper, who never said such a thing, thing.
and the amnesia epidemic that hit every member of the Inner circle when it comes to remembering meetings with Russians thing.
and the “18” days before Flynn was fired thing
and the witness intimidation through tweets thing
and the McGahn “Why does it matter to the DOJ if one White House official lies to another official?” thing
and firing Comey thing!
and the temporary FBI head, McCabe, being also under investigation thing
and the banning the US press but allowing the Russian press to the Russian ambassador Oval Office meeting thing!
and the Certified Letter thing!
and the threatening Comey thing!
and the firing of Comey thing!
and the I respect the investigation but it is a witch hunt and no president has been so persecuted thing!
and the Kushner back door thing!
and the appointing Christopher Wray, as head of the FBI, whos law firm represented the trump organization and has ties to Rosneft and Gasprom Russian organizations! Yea that thing.
and the blaming Obama for the Russian hacking that a week before he called a hoax and witch hunt!
and the Kushner/ trump jr meeting with Russia’s top propagandist Natalia Veselnitskaya thing.
and Peter Smith who actually colluded with Flynn thing
And trump and Tillerson meeting privately with Putin thing.
And trump allowing VISAs to 150 known Russian spys thing.
And trump offering to work with Putin on a cyber security thing.
And the Natalia Veselnitskaya having dinner with a republican congressman after “the meeting” thing.
SO yeah, there’s probably nothing there,
– Michael Jochum
Political cartoons / memes / and news I wish to share. 8-23-2025
Lawfare is using the justice system to attack your enemies or opposites.
Mahatma Gandhi, Baltic Hands, in Peace & Justice History for 8/23
| August 23, 1933 Mahatma Gandhi, weighing only 90 pounds, was released unconditionally from Sassoon Hospital in Poona because, after 5 days of his latest “fast unto death,” the doctors feared that his body could no longer stand the strain of fasting. He had been taken to the hospital from Yeravda jail, which he had described as his “permanent address,” when he started his fast. He was protesting official refusal to allow him to continue his work with the Untouchables (he had called them harijan, or “children of God”) while in prison.  Gandhi leaving hospital, 1933 He had deliberately courted arrest, rejecting an order permitting him to reside only within the limits of Poona, and had been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. Gandhi and his fasts |
| August 23, 1945 In a letter to his friend Anne Marie Petersen shortly before the end of British colonial rule in India, Mahatma Gandhi wrote, “When there is independence, why should you fear the majority? If you have God with you and the majority have not, should you still fear? And if both have God between them who should fear whom? Is there then any question of majority and minority? Let us pray. Love. Bapu” |
| August 23, 1989 Over one million joined hands across the three Baltic republics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) in a 400-mile-long chain of resistance against control by the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). It was the 60th anniversary of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany who had negotiated it. Generally called the Hitler-Stalin Pact, it secretly agreed to Soviet control of Latvia and Estonia, and German influence over Poland and Lithuania. Germany, again secretly, later ceded control over Lithuania to the Soviets for 7.5 million dollars in gold ($115 in 2008 dollars).  Baltic hands The Baltic Way (with pictures of the action) |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryaugust.htm#august23
Let’s talk about Trump, tripwire troops, talks about Ukraine, and air power….
Sorry for the lack of posting and no cartoon meme post tomorrow morning. I have been very sick all day with vomiting and diarrhea. From the morphines and muscle relaxers I was impacted, which was a harder constipation. I had taken fiber and it did not help, so I took 2 laxatives. They did not work so the next day I took 2 more. I have been diagnosed with a sensitive stomach meaning it can’t take pressure so it was refusing to let me eat / swallow anything and the bile and acids needed to be vomited up. By noon the dam broke and I have spent most of the day near or on the toilet or in bed. At 1 pm Ron made me some chicken noodle soup. It helped calm my stomach but did not help the other end. I am trying to eat something now due to my blood sugar but I can only do a chicken strip and a few french fries. Tomorrow we go out for our big shopping day, glad it was not today which we had planned. By the way I was stationed in West Berlin in the 1980s. Hugs.
Nat Turner, Prague Spring, Benigno Aquino, & More, In Peace & Justice History for 8/21
August 21, 1831 Nat Turner, a 30-year-old man legally owned by a child, and six other slaves began a violent insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia.They began by killing the child’s stepfather, Joseph Travis, and his family. Within the next 24 hours, Turner and, ultimately, about 40 followers killed the families who owned adjacent slaveholding properties, nearly 60 whites, while freeing and inciting other slaves to join them.Militia and federal troops were called out, and the uprising was suppressed with 55 African Americans including Turner executed by hanging in Jerusalem, Virginia, and hundreds more killed by white mobs and vigilantes in revenge. More about Nat Turner Nat Turner’s confession |
| August 21, 1968 The Czechoslovakian people spontaneously and nonviolently resisted invasion of their country of 14 million by hundreds of thousands of troops and 5000+ tanks from the Soviet Union and four other Warsaw Pact countries.The troops were enforcing the overthrow and arrest of Alexander Dubcek and his government. They had been implementing significant democratic reforms known collectively as “socialism with a human face,” or the Prague Spring.  Cover of the magazine Kvety, with a photograph of the statue of St. Wenceslas in Wenceslas Square in the center of Prague. Graffiti on the statue reads “Soldiers go home” in Russian and “Dubcek – Svoboda” in Czech.  Hundreds attempted to obstruct invading tanks. Both Czechs and Slovaks argued with the soldiers and refused all cooperation with the occupying armies while showing broad support for the deposed government and its reform program. Moscow relented and returned Dubcek to office, at least temporarily. Prague Spring in retrospect Czech perspective |
| August 21, 1971 Two grenades killed and wounded members of the leadership of the Philippines’ Liberal Party during a rally in Manila’s Plaza Miranda. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos accused a leader of the party, Benigno Aquino, of the bombing and arrested him, labeling him a communist. Liberal Party Secretary-General Aquino, an effective young leader and Marcos opponent, was imprisoned, mostly in solitary confinement, for seven years until allowed exile to the U.S., ostensibly for medical treatment. |
| August 21, 1976 Approximately 20,000 people, mainly women, from both Protestant and Catholic areas of Belfast, Northern Ireland, attended a Peace People’s rally at Ormeau Park. |
| August 21, 1983 Exiled popular Philippine political leader Benigno Aquino was assassinated by soldiers of the Aviation Security Command as he crossed the tarmac at Manila International Airport.  Benigno Aquino He had spent three years of asylum in the U.S. Upon his return, he intended to lead the political opposition to President Ferdinand Marcos and the martial law he had imposed. During the plane trip across the Pacific, he had commented to reporters, “I suppose there’s a physical danger because you know assassination’s part of public service . . . My feeling is we all have to die sometime and if it’s my fate to die by an assassin’s bullet, so be it.”  Hundreds of thousands demonstrated against Marcos.  Ferdinand Marcos The Aquino funeral drew millions and gave impetus to the broad-based People’s Power movement which eventually forced Marcos from power. Read more about Aquino |
| August 21, 1991 A coup against Soviet Union President Mikhail S. Gorbachev by hard-line Communist Party members (State Emergency Committee), collapsed in the face of popular opposition. Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin, having quit the Party the previous year, had called for a general strike.  Mikhail S. Gorbachev | Boris N.Yelsin |
| August 21, 1998 Samuel Bowers, the 73-year-old former Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was convicted in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, of ordering a firebombing that killed civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer 32 years before. Bowers had also been instrumental in the killing of three other civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi for which he was never charged. On Vernon Dahmer’s tombstone are the words, “If you don’t vote, you don’t count.”  Samuel Bowers 32 years to justice  Dahmer’s home after the bombing |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryaugust.htm#august21
And From Lit Hub, “This Week In Literary History”
(It’s a newsletter I receive, and I don’t have a link for what I’ve copied and am pasting, but there are links within the piece. Enjoy.)
| Angela Davis debuts on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. In 1969, the legendary author and activist Angela Davis was a newly minted assistant philosophy processor at UCLA. But she was also an avowed Communist, and as a result, then-Governor Ronald Regan tried to have her fired before she’d begun any actual teaching. No luck: Davis’s dismissal didn’t hold up in court, and her first class had to be moved to a bigger classroom to accommodate the 2,000 students who had signed up for it—but she would finally be fired again nine months later, for “inflammatory rhetoric” in public speeches. Davis was an outspoken supporter of the Black Panthers and was fervently against the Vietnam War, but arguably her most scandalous activist activities at the time were in defense of the Soledad Brothers, three Black inmates imprisoned in Soledad, CA, who were accused of killing a white guard. In 1970, guns registered to Davis were used in an attack on the nearby Marin County Civic Center; the perpetrators hoped to take hostages to bargain for the inmates’ release, but instead left four casualties. Davis, despite not being at the scene, was charged with murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy charges. She couldn’t be found, and so on August 18, 1970, by order of J. Edgar Hoover, Davis became the third woman ever to be included on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. Eight weeks later, Davis was finally arrested in a New York motel; the trial that followed catapulted her to international fame—and turned her into a revolutionary icon—as her supporters, who viewed her as a political prisoner, chanted “Free Angela!” across the globe.In 1972, after 16 months in prison, she was acquitted of all charges by an all-white jury. “It took a worldwide movement of people to acquit Miss Davis,” noted one of her attorneys, Howard Moore Jr., but it shouldn’t have. “Justice should be the routine of the system,” he added. |
| THIS IS WHY THEY BAN IT: “Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. ” –Angela Davis |
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 8-21-2025
Ok I have to admit these cartoon posts are becoming like the old cartoon posts I made on Scottiestoybox. What stared out as 50 cartoon sites became over 150 before I had to end doing it. It would take 8 to 10 hours to post and people need to understand I only get about 12 hours awake and now less time to be online. So again what started as a small post taking 2 hours has now become a 6 hour project. I got up at 7 after a wonderful … with my husband. Took care of our remaining cat and made myself coffee. About an hour later when my husband got up I made him coffee.
I then spent a bit of time watching videos, listening to my husband and having a second cup of coffee. The entire time I was adding to this post. Then I went to take my shower which due to the skin condition I have I must shower every day even though I rarely get dirty / sweaty enough to need it.
The point I am making is there is no shortage of memes / cartoons to post on all the evils of what is happening is endless. Every website I have saved in this group for opening, which is now up to 70 pages plus every cartoon takes me to ten more. So if people want these I will keep doing them, but I think I need to shorten how long these get.
The truth is I went back to cartoons and memes because my eyesight is so bad that it is hard for me to read an article and post it. It is far easier to click copy and then post for a cartoon or meme. But unless people want this feed I don’t want to keep doing it. I will soon go back to doing videos again which I like a lot more. But again it is what people who come here want to see. Please let me know. The truth is I have an issue with being on the computer right now which I will share in a different post. Hugs
“I can’t believe that the summer, and civilization, are almost over.”At least A. I. ain’t comin’ for our jobs.”
At least A. I. ain’t comin’ for our jobs.”
This Is Perfection.
Clay Jones, Open Windows
Eat Mor Bulshirt by Clay Jones
Trump takes advice from Putin Read on Substack
Taking advice about how to run free, fair, and democratic elections from Vladimir Putin would be like taking advice from Donald Trump on how to make a steak.
“What you want to do is purchase the most beautiful cut of meat possible, preferably from Walmart, but with a “Trump Steak” sticker on it. Then, you’re gonna put that steak on the stove and cook it for about 45 minutes until it’s nice and charred. Then you will want to bury it in ketchup to the point that you can’t even see the steak. Then, have someone else cut it for you, but make sure it’s in tiny pieces so you don’t have to chew so hard. You gotta eat your ketchup steak in tiny bites if you’re like me, and your dentures keep popping out.”
I read that when he had meetings with his campaign people during the 2016 race, he’d serve hot dogs. The anonymous source said that Trump eats like an 8-year-old. He will serve his guests a scoop of ice cream while he gets two, so they know who the big boy is. I bet that bastard puts ketchup on his hot dogs, that sonofabitch.
Trump is taking Putin’s side again. Not just in the war that Putin started against Ukraine, but in the war he started against American democracy. On Monday morning, Trump posted on ShitSocial that he’s getting rid of mail-in voting and voting machines. Disclaimer: I haven’t read his entire post because…damn. (snip-MORE. Seriously, go see it, it’s worth the click!)
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The wannabe Dictator by Ann Telnaes
It’s a Trump show Read on Substack
Trump sees himself as an emperor summoning his kingdoms to flatter him and bring gifts.
