Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 2-20-2026

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“Femme boys shouldn’t have to hide to feel safe.”
I have an anecdote about the second frame. After I ran away from my dad’s house, I found myself in a very harsh neighborhood in Montreal, where I finished high school. I was pretty much out and proud...

I was an abused boy trying to deal with his budding sexuality being gay.  I did not think I gave off signs but the bullies sensed my vulnerability because I did not form friends and stayed to myself.  So they attacked me.  What shocked me was not that the bullies attacked me but that the teachers in the 1970s joined in, giving the bullies full permission to do so while restricting my grades.  Remember, I was not an out gay kid, I was an abused boy trying to keep his head down and get by each day.  But the future maga sinced my vunerablebiltey and attacked me.  Once it went around the school my entire teen school years became agony.  That is what the republican Christian nationalists are trying to drive us back to.  It changed in the 2000s with anti bulling and anti-discrimination programs.  tRump’s amdin has desperately attempted to remove all those programs and protections.  Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The progressive comic about how girls being buried on Epstein golf courses.

 

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Plenty of gay men took their husbands name or they both hyphenated both their names.  So these gay couples would not have a matching birth certificate.  I am one of those.  I took Ron’s last name deperatly wanting to leave my abusive adoptive parents last name very far behind.  Hugs

 

 

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About these letters.  Allison Gill on the Daily Beans news podcast gave sourced reports that ICE detention agents raided the children’s rooms at this detention concentration camp for children / families and took all their letters with the intent to destroy their reports of what was happening to them.  Allison Gill has sued the government in court to save them and get them published.  I fear it will be too late.  Hugs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It started with Mary Ellen.

As many here can imagine this was hard for me to post.  I am shaking and crying but the post is important to get out.  Children as property was how I was seen.  I was going to put it on the roundup page, but it just doesn’t belong there; it does belong here.  Thank you. Hugs

 

Right-wing media hacks use two recent shootings to label trans people as mass shooters.

It is a fact that most mass shooters are males, mostly white males.   But right wing media are so desperate to slander and smear trans people the same way it was tried to before the internet with other media against gay people.  The know what they are creating is false but they don’t care because they know that others will believe it and repeat it everywhere.   It is a sickness and curse to want to create that much hate and chaos against the most vulnerable communities in society.  Hugs

MS Now clips about ICE

ICE nearly kills another child by mistreatment and ignoring their worsening health and healthcare needs.  This is so familiar if you remember history.  Lack of food, no healthcare, no humanity.  Hugs

 

Children cry, thinking their parents will be taken if ICE follows them home.  All because they are brown skinned.  Is this the USA?  Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

Muddying the waters? DOJ lists 300+ famous names in Epstein files but some have never met him

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 2-17-2026

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SORRY HATERS MY SMILE IS ICONIC

SORRY HATERS MY SMILE IS ICONIC

 

 

#MAGA from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An advertisement showing a moviegoer sitting among people sneezing and coughing says the 4D Immersive Cold Flu...

Michael Ramirez for 2/16/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tom Stiglich for 2/16/2026

 

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Students say man threatened to shoot them during anti-ICE protest in Santa Clarita

There is a video of the confrontation at the link below.   Adults threating young people for using their constitutional right is horrifying and shows the republican party is entirely demanding a one party rule that only supports maga views.  Anything else must be destroyed.  Hugs

https://www.foxla.com/news/santa-clarita-saugus-anti-ice-protest-man-threatens-students

An anti-ICE protest turned scary for students as a man pulled up and allegedly threatened to shoot them. 

Saugus High School students can be seen on video running away from a black truck during an anti-ICE protest at Central Park on Tuesday afternoon. 

What they’re saying:

Witness Rebecca Hindman, who runs the social media group “Rise Up SCV”, was stopped at a nearby light and approached the students.

“That’s when I found out there was a young man in a red sweatshirt who is a senior at Saugus and that the gentleman in the car had threatened to shoot him in the face,” Hindman told FOX 11.

No gun can be seen in the videos, but students insisted the man threatened them.  After initially running away, they went back to the truck to confront the man.

“I’m like what are you doing, why are you doing this, you shouldn’t be threatening children that’s not ok. He just was abstinent and seemed to be getting a kick that he threatened children. That he threatened a Hispanic child with potential death,” Hindman added. 

“From the videos I’ve seen, something was definitely used to threaten him. I don’t know what because the initial reaction of the students that were there was definitely fear.”

Dig deeper:

The LA County Sheriff’s Department said no gun was found.

They also issued the following statement, “Responding deputies canvassed the area but were unable to locate the male adult. The Deputies contacted the involved parties at the scene, and the incident was documented. Investigators are continuing to pursue leads and are contacting additional witnesses as part of the ongoing investigation.”

Local perspective:

Hindman said a threat to shoot students near a campus that experienced a mass shooting on November 14th, 2019 is especially disturbing.

tRump accused of raping woman age 13 -15 and a second girl 14 years old that the FBI knew about it.

Trump says he’s been exonerated after release of Epstein files; House Dem says opposite is true

The gaslighting and the lying are getting so over the top it has become mind numbing.  Does tRump really think people believe what he claims just because he says it?  Do people really deny what they see and hear just because tRump says the opposite?  Hugs

Don’t be worried or afraid, I am just expressing the thoughts in my head

I went out shopping early this morning.  Then I came home and after putting the stuff away I did all the dishes.  It was not a lot but three days worth and last night I cooked a good meal.  I am washing all the bed linens and all the towels in the chairs / places that Tupac lays on.  So as I try to do they cartoon  / meme post for tomorrow …. My mind is fractured.   So these songs are in my mind.  Sorry if this hurts anyone.  Also remember I am not in danger of self-harm.  I won’t do that to all of you who I respect so much. Hugs or best wishes to all as you appreciate the gesture.   The songs below are shattering my thoughts.   I walk alone, and I wish for the sound of silence.  Oh, to have the thoughts in my mind stop! I desperately wish for it. I have not eaten yet today, nor did I after breakfast yesterday and Ron has called me 3 times asking me to eat.  Even telling me to order something if it is more pleasing to me.  I just can’t.  I bought salad stuff today so maybe a salad later.  I am so confused. I had four more ready to post and suddenly realized it was useless.   Is my life useless?  I do good things.  My husband loves me.  His cat sleeps pressed up against me at night, yet even last night as I struggled to sleep and he moved up onto my pillow I took no comfort from him.  I am feeling so numb inside when I let myself feel anything at all because the government is forcing my pain doctors to reduce my medications despite the new MRI showing severe and increased damage to my spine.  My doctors say it my be necessary for me to do surgery to get relief because RFK Jr. has determined that all pain clinics lower their clients morphine equviancy to less than 100.  Those who do not feel chronic pain or live in long pain because they dont hve to suffer … well illegal drugs all of a sudden get a hollier than though about drugs.  Seriously, this former drug adic is restricting needed medication from people like me with seriously damaged spines and no contributions to his campaigns.   But drugs from a qualified pain doctor can mean the difference between living a quality life and suffering in even more agony. Hugs

I am sorry.  I do not not want to worry anyone or cause fear.  But I feel so… out of sync with the world.  I just hurt.  It is part physical and a lot emotional.   The MRI  I had just had showed many parts of my lower spine are showing far more damage than my doctors had thought.   They thought I had a few more years before surgery. I cannot afford surgery.   The MRI moved many of my lower vertebrae from the moderate to severe to extremely severe zone.  One the report said was in civilian terms destroyed.  The bone matrrial decaded, the inside soft stuff pushed out and the nerves were caught by the edges of the jagged edges of the bones both being forced out and being pinched and being pinced inside as I moved.  It is why I cannot sit in my chair very long.  Ron is going to get me an air seat when he gets home but I doubt it will help. I am sitting here thinking of why when my spine shows ever more damage the government is requiring that my pain doctors reduce everyone’s pain medications.  Just because the former coke addict RFK Jr dosent feel the crippling pain that people like me do doesn’t mean he gets to stop our pain medication or at least shouldn’t.  All that does is force us on to illegal drugs to get relief.  I wonder if that is the point all along.  Think of it, all the  friends in pain suddenly not able to vote would change the election in plenty of ways.  Hugs

Sorry, but I keep repeating the songs over and over.  Hugs

Every body hurts.  But today I hurt terribly. Sorry.   Now I have to go struggle to make the bed because I washed the bed sheets.  More pain. Hugs