a couple memes to get back into the grove. Well that was a fun 3 hours. Already starting on a batch for Sunday.

 

 

 

 

Elon musk doing nazi salute with meme "aww you're sweet" Khalif saying "Free Palestine" with "hello ICE?!"

 

 

This. THIS. You guys… THIS.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.bsky.social) 2025-03-12T23:19:12.616Z

BREAKING: Senate Democrats have the votes to block the Republican Continuing Resolution, which was loaded with poison pills. Sen. Schumer says the Democratic caucus is unified on a clean short term resolution that would keep current funding through April 11.

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-03-12T20:24:37.568Z

 

You know what the real scam of Social Security is?If you make above $168,800/year, the government STOPS taxing you on every dollar above that.Billionaires like Musk and Trump NEVER pay their fair share — and now they want to take OUR money away!!?!

— Tristan Snell (@tristansnell.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T02:47:37.034Z

Ouch. Republican Representative Tom Barrett held a tele-town hall with his constituents in his swing district in Michigan on Monday and ran a survey asking if they support DOGE.70% of the participants said they do not.

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-03-12T17:14:49.713Z

Bernie’s rallies must be going well.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T01:28:04.322Z

NEW: ICE has returned all migrants sent to Guantanamo Back back to stateside facilities

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-03-13T00:41:38.191Z

 

It does not matter at all what Mahmoud Khalil has said. The government does not get to black bag a legal permanent resident for their speech. We have a 1st Amendment right to free speech that forbids the government from punishing people for it. That's a solid red line that should never be crossed.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2025-03-12T14:40:50.787Z

We’re in a dystopian hell.

We're in a dystopian hell. gizmodo.com/yale-suspend…

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2025-03-13T00:18:05.588Z

The School Nutrition Association said the USDA cut the Local Food for Schools program for 2025.

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T06:26:30.760Z

Here ya go. These are State programs that cuts in Medicaid will affect.

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T06:07:30.901Z

 

California's Highway Patrol’s investigation into a November Cybertruck crash in Piedmont where three college kids died is finding two very Tesla problems: the vehicle immediately caught fire, and its doors would not open.

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T00:14:38.684Z

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BREAKING — Elon Musk is donating another $100 MILLION to TrumpTHAT is why Trump did the Tesla publicity stunt for MuskThe whole thing is a CORRUPT quid pro quoTrump is 100% for sale to the highest bidder — and right now that bidder is Musk

— Tristan Snell (@tristansnell.bsky.social) 2025-03-12T14:38:38.490Z

Donold is now classifying protests at Tesla dealerships as ‘domestic terrorism.’Protest at a Tesla dealership and you get arrested as a terrorist.But attack the Capitol and you get a pardon.

— God (@godpod.bsky.social) 2025-03-11T21:46:10.770Z

 

Social Security wants to end our phone services program & close our SS FIELD offices + letting go 7k SSI 40% of the claims are maid via phones by elderly & disabled citizens THEY WANT TO BREAK THE SYSTEM TO JUSTIFY PRIVATIZING IT FOR THEIR OWN PONZEE SCHEME INSURANCE PLANS!

— Guardrails of Democracy (@demguardrails.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T01:11:12.094Z

We are facing a government shutdown in two days and Republicans sent House members home AGAIN after working just TWO DAYS this week. Why are they at home tweeting instead of working?

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T00:29:55.608Z

Democrats won a key special election yesterday and massively over performed in another, potentially indicating a shift in voter sentiment amid the chaos of the Trump administration.

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-03-12T14:34:18.648Z

"… If your status in the community was based on character and reputation, then a farmer could earn dignity as readily as a banker. This ethos came down hard on self-centeredness and narcissistic display. It offered practical guidance on how to be a good neighbor, a good friend.”

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-03-11T17:08:51.587Z

"I think his way has to be the model for us: not to eliminate universities, but to give them a choice between survival or taking a much less biased approach to teaching. [The government should be] aggressively reforming institutions … in a way to where they’re much more open to conservative ideas.”

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-03-11T10:17:26.385Z

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lol I’m sure if a federal worker did this it would be fine right?

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T01:16:54.649Z

@organizermemes.bsky.social can you amplify this town hall happening tomorrow. MA08 Dem Rep Lynch threw a tantrum and yelled at constituents Friday who asked him to stop voting with the GOP. ushr.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi…Video of him yelling belowFull video on mass live#bospoli #masspoli

— Tonya Tedesco (@bookworm23.bsky.social) 2025-02-24T18:46:41.153Z

 

Let’s talk about Trump’s EU defense plans backfiring….

Peace & Justice History for 3/13

March 13, 1830
The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays the interests of fellow workers, first appeared in print. The New York Daily Sentinel reported on replacement workers who had agreed to work for two-thirds of the going rate.
“ . . . [many printers are out of work, others are being paid about 2/3 the regular pay; they should join in cooperative associations, ‘as we have done’]
“ [While] the master printers [fill] their offices with boys and two-thirds men, alias ‘rats,’ it will be difficult to find a remedy.”
March 13, 1864
The first contingent of 14,030 Navajo reached Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Men, women and children had been forced to march almost 400 miles from northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico to Bosque Redondo, a desolate tract on the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico. Traveling in harsh winter conditions for almost two months, about 200 Navajo died of cold and starvation along the way.  More died after they arrived at the barren reservation.  The forced march, led by Kit Carson, an Indian agent and military leader in both the Mexican and Civil Wars, became known by the Navajos as the “Long Walk.” 
A grueling 400-mile march to imprisonment in a sterile land.
More on The Long Walk 
March 13, 1945
Pax Christi, an international Catholic peace organization, was founded in France. From their website: “Pax Christi is a ground up organization – it began with a few committed people who spoke out, prayed and worked for reconciliation at the end of the second world war, and is now active in more than 60 countries and five continents, with more than 60,000 members worldwide.”
Pax Christi history

March 13, 1968
Clouds of nerve gas drifted outside the Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, poisoning 6,400 sheep in nearby Skull Valley.

Sign near Dugway: Warning Hazardous Area: This area may contain Chemical, Biological and Radiological contaminated material and explosives . . .
Read more about Dugway – the home of Amerian WMD

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm#march13

TIME: In Shutdown Standoff, Republicans Bank on Democrats Caving

In Shutdown Standoff, Republicans Bank on Democrats Caving
Democrats remain divided on the best strategy here.

Read in TIME: https://apple.news/AmyCY8J_pSFCkRITyreAF2g

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

This is what I call woke, and I love it

Can’t we go back to being nice like this?

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-03-12T09:45:47.418Z

ABC NEWS: Sen. Schumer says Democrats will block GOP funding bill, raising shutdown alert

Sen. Schumer says Democrats will block GOP funding bill, raising shutdown alert
If a deal isn’t made, the government will shut down at the end of Friday.

Read in ABC News: https://apple.news/AWLrovfCWQYC0aFfnARPlCA

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Musk And Trump Are Trying To Break The Government So Billionaires Can Take It Over – Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein, the bestselling author and host of “The Ezra Klein Show” podcast, offers analysis of the DOGE chaos and says President Trump ultimately intends to privatize many government services. “Abundance” is available March 18th.

THE HILL: Senate Democrats appear ready to back down in government shutdown fight

Senate Democrats appear ready to back down in government shutdown fight
Senate Democrats say the six-month government funding resolution that passed the House Tuesday is a “horrible” bill, but there’s growing sentiment within the Senate Democratic conference that it would be too risky to block the legislation and risk a government shutdown that could drag on for weeks.

Read in The Hill: https://apple.news/A8p_MN49zR1qUKyFv5JaEog

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2 More From Clay Jones

MAGA Fire In The Sky by Clay Jones

Oops, there goes another one of Elon’s rockets Read on Substack

A second SpaceX rocket has blown up this year. And remember, the year is less than three months old. Debris from the explosion shut down air traffic in the state of Florida, or it was because they found a trans flight attendant in Orlando.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had some snark about the explosion, using a metaphor for Elon Musk’s and DOGE’s dismantling of federal government agencies, Maddow said, “Rapid unscheduled disassembly is kind of Elon Musk’s specialty these days, especially in a way that really messes with other people through no fault of their own.”

Just think of all those inconvenienced by Elon’s rocket explosion delaying flights. Florida alligators are waiting to eat those people, Elon!

MSNBC’s Michael Steele said, “For Elon, his response to all of this was, ‘Rockets are hard.’ And Mr. Musk, if they’re so hard, why don’t you go back to your day job and work that out and leave those of us who do government to do government because you can’t do both. Clearly, you’re failing right now at both. Your rockets are blowing up, and the government is blowing up.”

Poor Kayleigh Menaney flipped her blonde wig over at Fox News, saying to the liberal media, “Don’t you dare root against SpaceX.” You would think they had put a shit-covered flag into a blender to serve as smoothies to World War II veterans, but then again…Elon’s making cuts at the Veteran’s Administration. It’s getting harder and harder to use analogies with these bastards.

There was a lot of wig flipping over on Trump TV. (snip-MORE)

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BRAAAAAAINS by Clay Jones

Where are the brains in the Trump/Elon Administration? Read on Substack

During Trump’s address to Congress last week, he repeated Elon Musk’s lie that 150-year-olds are collecting Social Security. The lie is even more malicious than originally thought because Trump repeated and enhanced it after it’s been debunked.

It’s a lie.

Elon previously posted on X in February, when it was working, that DOGE found beneficiaries in their 100s, 200s, and even 300s who were still receiving Social Security payments.

Nobody’s actually against the government rooting out waste and fraud. What we’re against is the lack of transparency by a Trump-appointed, corrupt, lying unelected bureaucrat with huge conflicts of interest and a lack of any qualifications to make decisions on government spending without any input from the three branches of government. Why is this so hard to understand?

We know there’s waste and fraud in government, but you don’t elect lying swamp creatures to drain the swamp.

In his address, Trump said, “We are also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors and that our seniors and people that we love rely on. He then went on to list the number of people who are past the age of 100. “Money is being paid to many of them, and we are searching right now,” King Grifter said.

At one point during the speech, he criticized “unelected bureaucrats,” which made the Democrats laugh. (snip-MORE)

Peace & Justice History for 3/12

The very first execution of a Conscientious Objector, and more in today’s items.

March 12, 295
Maximilian of Thebeste (near Carthage in North Africa) was beheaded by Romans after refusing military service because he said his Christian beliefs did not permit him to become a soldier.
March 12, 1912
Workers led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) won the Lawrence, Massachusetts, “Bread & Roses” textile strike after 32,000 workers (mostly young female immigrants who spoke 25 different languages, half between the ages of 14 and 18) stayed out for nine weeks. They were striking for a wage increase, double time for overtime and safer working conditions: the equipment was dangerous and the air quality caused lung disease in about one-third of the workers before the age of twenty-five.

IWW organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn addresses a strike rally
Background 
“Bread and Roses” became the strikers slogan and inspired a poem by by the same name.
 
Bread & Roses victory parade
March 12, 1930
Gandhi’s Salt March began from Ahmadabad, India, with 76 followers to protest the salt tax. Great Britain’s Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple of the Indian diet.

Gandhi leading the Salt March
Citizens were forced to buy it from the British, who, in addition to exercising a monopoly over the manufacture and sale of salt, also exerted a heavy salt tax. Defying the Salt Acts, Gandhi reasoned, would be a simple way for many Indians to break an unjust law nonviolently (civil disobedience), increasing the pressure for independence from the British Empire.
By the time Gandhi had covered the 241 miles to the coastal city of Dandi on the Arabian Sea, the number of marchers had grown into the thousands.
More on the Salt March 
March 12, 1978
150,000 demonstrated against construction of a nuclear power plant in Lemoniz, Spain, part of the Basque region. No fewer than a dozen plants were planned in a relatively small, densely populated area, Lemoniz being only 12 km (5 miles) from Bilbao, a city of a million.
The opposition was concerned about the possibility of accidents.
Lemoniz protest
March 12, 1990
Sixteen disability-rights activists from ADAPT (American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit)were arrested at the U.S. Capitol demanding passage of what would become the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The Capitol Crawl

More on the status of the disabled: 
The Capitol Crawl Zinn project

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm#march12