Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share bonus. 7-24-2026

The BBC has issued 47 subpoenas to the elder Trump's inner circle, including Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller. But the Secret Service has blocked the BBC from serving Donald Trump Jr. with a subpoena seeking his Jan. 6 communications, according to a court filing Friday.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-07-17T20:15:12Z

Trump: “I just finished a perfect physical at Walter Reed, I do it every 6 months, and I requested another Cognitive Test, the only President to do so, three times, and I aced them all — Got every question right. Few people in DC could do so, including Maggot and her flunky associate, Jonathan Swan”

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-11T16:27:04.763Z

New: Trump installed a Thomas Jefferson statue in the Rose Garden last week, continuing his statue spree, per ppl familiar.Three of the new Rose Garden statues were provided by HARLAN CROW, conservative collector and donor, we learned.More on Trump’s statue push with @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social.

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond.bsky.social) 2026-07-20T11:15:05.001Z

"So the White House is a Thai restaurant now?"

— Nick "The Media Guy" (@newsman.bsky.social) 2026-07-12T22:27:49.988Z

The Trump administration sought phone records of several Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother — to try unmasking confidential sources who provided information about the security capabilities of Trump’s new Air Force One jet.www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b…

— Tim O’Brien (@timobrien.bsky.social) 2026-07-20T16:42:37.839Z

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court revived USPS’ ability to move forward with Trump’s anti-mail voting rule.The rule would mandate new federal checks before mail ballots are sent to voters

— Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2026-07-17T22:47:56.692Z

Why Save America Act is unworkable. Gift linkwww.wsj.com/opinion/why-…

— @kathykustra.bsky.social 2026-07-18T14:38:11.184Z

MAGA Inc reaches $400M with no spending to boost candidates

— Politico (@politico.com) 2026-07-21T16:36:34Z

Today, I’m introducing MediKids – guaranteed healthcare for every child no matter where they live or how much their parents make.The concept is simple: Every kid deserves to be happy and healthy. Let's invest in our kids and build a stronger, healthier future.

— Senator Andy Kim (@kim.senate.gov) 2026-07-21T11:02:43.921Z

US Health Secretary Kennedy says CMS is pausing Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota reut.rs/4fNQtck

— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2026-07-21T15:10:15Z

DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere. – The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…

— Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2026-07-19T12:44:14.772Z

New Orleans published a document saying its police could put weapons on their drones, deleted it, now says it was a mistake. But it aligns exactly with when the drone manufacturer began musing about allowing police to weaponize their drones:www.404media.co/new-orleans-…

— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) 2026-07-20T14:44:36.554Z

Trump's DOJ brings hundreds of cases against protesters accusing them of "assaulting ICE officers," and these cases turn out, almost uniformly, to be predicated on easily exposed lies. The fact that protesters and bystanders regularly record everything that happens on their smartphones

— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2026-07-18T13:21:12.228Z

In other sports news of the day, a golfer at The Open Championship told officials he wanted to call Trump to ask him for assistance after he was penalized for breaking a ruleSource: http://www.the-daily-drive.com/p/fox-steals…

— Dom Ervolina (@dominicervolina.com) 2026-07-20T01:45:38.211Z

The Chief Justice for the District of Minnesota, Eric C. Tostrud, tossed out a federal lawsuit Monday that aimed to invalidate Minnesota state and local policies that limit collaboration with immigration enforcement.

— Minnesota Reformer (@minnesotareformer.com) 2026-07-20T21:29:34.352Z

Immigration enforcement shouldn’t come at the cost of the public’s safety or trust.38 Senate colleagues joined me to renew the call for commonsense reforms—including body cameras & greater transparency—following the fatal ICE shootings in Maine & Texas.www.pressherald.com/2026/07/20/d…

— Senator Angus King (@senangusking.bsky.social) 2026-07-20T15:30:03.323Z

[Real human costs of Trump's deportation] Senior Living Facility in Distress as Immigrant Caregivers Are Forced Out “Our work force is being drastically disrupted, relationships are being severed and lives are being upended right now” http://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u…

— Health Care Renewal (@healthcarerenew.bsky.social) 2026-07-21T02:13:59.407Z

E Jean Carroll’s lawyers blast Trump’s attempts to claw back money he was ordered to pay her

— The Independent (@the-independent.com) 2026-07-22T13:03:07.553043Z

In court documents, prosecutors revealed details of the sex crime charges against the Tate brothers in the U.K.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2026-07-21T02:00:04.949462Z

Before "the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two U.S. soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan, Iran carried out three other strikes … [that] injured dozens of U.S. service members …But the Pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes, nor the casualties and damage."

— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) 2026-07-20T11:10:52.925Z

Oil prices jumped above $90 per barrel Sunday in the first major trading since the deaths of three U.S. service members and escalating Middle East hostilities.www.axios.com/2026/07/19/o…

— Lauren Ashley Davis (@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social) 2026-07-19T23:57:39.129Z

Q: There are no signs Iran is ready to stop fighting. So what's the plan?TRUMP: How do you know there are no signs? Do you know something I don't?Q: They continue to kill AmericasT: They want to meet desperately. You don't get that when you listen to your fake station. You dont know anything.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-21T15:24:37.721Z

Q: Do you believe Iran has moved nuclear centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain?TRUMP: All we do is read the fake news. Maybe this one they have right. But it's okay. It doesn't mean anything unless they have the material. We'll be hitting that area pretty soon and very heavily.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-21T15:43:05.422Z

Trump on Iran: "Honestly, they haven't seen anything yet. We've been nice. We've been nice."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-21T15:41:01.013Z

Trump: "We took over Venezuela. We went to war with Venezuela. The war ended in one day. We're taking out millions of barrels of oil."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-21T15:39:35.292Z

Q: Do you think Iran is trying to impact the midterm elections by threatening the Strait of Hormuz?TRUMP: Probably. They won't have any impact on me. I'm just going to do the right thing. I don't view it as, 'Gee, we're having an election.' I think people are very impressed.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-21T15:38:40.714Z

Q: Do you think Iran is trying to impact the midterm elections by threatening the Strait of Hormuz?TRUMP: Probably. They won't have any impact on me. I'm just going to do the right thing. I don't view it as, 'Gee, we're having an election.' I think people are very impressed.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-21T15:38:40.714Z

Trump: "The Abraham Accords have been a tremendous success" (They've been so successful that the whole Middle East is in flames!)

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-21T15:20:42.685Z

The largest copyright class action settlement in history was granted final approval Monday, with $1.5 billion awarded to authors and creators whose work was used by the AI company Anthropic to train its large language models. http://www.courthousenews.com/anthropic-to…

— Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) 2026-07-20T23:40:33.060Z

NASA’s nuclear Mars mission to cost over $2 billion

— Politico (@politico.com) 2026-07-21T11:04:31Z

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 7-24-2026

 

 

Image from Nudity and Nerdery

 

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Three small winged fairies hover above a woman holding a baby and one of them speaks.

“I grant her three gifts—the whimsy of Moo Deng the hippo, the sweetness of Punch the monkey, and the resilience of Jimothy the raccoon.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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President Trump Has A Realization About War

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Trump Bulldozer Clears Way for Midterms

 

 

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The progressive comic about Elon Musk giving Greg Abbott $500,000.

 

 

Jimmy Margulies for 7/22/2026

 

News Anchor Reports Lindsey Graham Status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harley Schwadron CagleCartoons.com

 

 

 

 

Bayer/Monsanto Killing People and The Environmment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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#police from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

 

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Jon Russo for 7/17/2026

 

Paranoid Pete Needs More Testosterone

 

Soldiers Chant Hegseth Testosterone Boost

 

 

 

 

Trump Tangled in Spider Web with UNO

 

 

 

 

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#murica from I did not agree to this.

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Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 7-23-2026

 

 

 

 

 

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Hard to keep pace with the President’s corrupt profiteering off the presidency, but here’s yet another scheme, this time to save his failing social media business:www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/b…

— Sen. Adam Schiff (@schiff.senate.gov) 2026-07-16T22:52:24.452Z

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Trump Photo Bomb

 

 

 

Lee Judge for 7/20/2026

 

 

 

FT Exclusive: Donald Trump's social media company has discussed charging traders and investors as much as $100,000 a month for faster access to the US president's posts on his Truth Social platform. ft.trib.al/8fn5jhq

— Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) 2026-07-17T16:35:38.455892Z

Man Claims Credit for Insults

 

 

Remember back in 2020 when we found out about Trump's secret bank account in China, and that China's biggest state-controlled bank had rented out three floors in Trump Tower? I sure do. Interesting timing given his lies about China interfering in the 2020 election. http://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/u…

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-07-17T17:45:23.536Z

 

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Trump's Tangled Whoppers Extend

 

 

 

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Fox & Friends Completely Ignores Trump’s Election Speech — Doesn’t Mention It Once in 3-Hour Show

— Mediaite (@mediaite.com) 2026-07-17T13:19:38Z

 

 

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Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections. http://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) 2026-07-17T16:27:45.193Z

 

Kirk Walters for 7/20/2026

 

 

 

Mike Smith for 7/20/2026

 

 

#politics from Cartoon Politics

 

 

 

 

Tuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-16T21:28:56.697Z

 

 

 

 

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Cyclospora Outbreak Tied to Trump CDC

 

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Paxton’s campaign said he plans to debate after Talarico challenged him to do so, though it did not commit to a specific host.

— San Antonio Current (@sacurrent.bsky.social) 2026-07-16T20:26:50.547Z

 

 

Judge rules OMB can’t retroactively nix grants based on new rules

— Politico (@politico.com) 2026-07-17T21:47:45Z

 

 

 

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi…

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2026-07-15T21:39:04.900Z

EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi…

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2026-07-15T21:39:04.900Z

 

 

 

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Trump Accuses Communists Under Bed

 

 

 

 

Democratic socialists top MAGA candidates among voters in CNBC's 'All America' poll

— CNBC (@cnbc.com) 2026-07-17T11:23:05.564Z

 

 

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NEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.

— 404 Media (@404media.co) 2026-07-17T15:37:41.578Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Dershowitz cancels on House Oversight ahead of planned Epstein interview

— Politico (@politico.com) 2026-07-17T16:47:31Z

 

 

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The packaging for a new G.I. Joe action figure announces it as the “HighTestosterone Edition” with “Incoherent Strategy...

 

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Lee Judge for 7/17/2026

 

The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president’s son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it’s exploring some “kinetic things.” http://www.wired.com/story/humano…

— WIRED (@wired.com) 2026-07-17T09:02:29.942Z

 

 

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No-War President Lies on Iran Strike

 

 

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Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young

— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2026-07-17T15:50:49.877Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Library Visitors in Trouble with Books

 

 

 

 

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Parents speak out after their teen died by suicide: Idaho’s anti-trans extremism took a toll

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/parents-speak-out-after-their-teen-died-by-idahos-anti-trans-took-a-toll/

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John Russell (He/Him)July 20, 2026, 1:00 pm EDT

The parents of a transgender teen who died by suicide earlier this year are speaking out about the toll Idaho’s anti-trans laws and the Trump administration’s anti-trans crusade took on their daughter.

“You worry about that hatred being internalized, and that’s what happened to my kid,” Elyse Thorpe told NBC News in a recent profile. “It got inside.”

Thorpe and ex-husband Joseph Pollard describe their late daughter, May Pollard, as an energetic and curious child who loved sloths, video games, and writing poetry. She just wanted to live her life and experience the same things any teen does. But she was also keenly aware of the wave of anti-trans laws and sentiment that have swept Idaho and much of the U.S. in recent years.

According to NBC News, May, who had also been diagnosed with autism, came out as trans when she was in eighth grade. She began receiving gender-affirming medical care in ninth grade. But due to Idaho’s ban on such care for minors, passed in 2022 and upheld by the Supreme Court in 2024, her parents were forced to travel to Portland, Oregon, every six months to get May the care she needed. Following President Donald Trump’s return to office in January 2025, Thorpe began making the 13-hour round trip by car to avoid creating a flight record amid the administration’s relentless crackdown on gender-affirming care for young people.

While the treatment improved things for May, the obstacles placed between her and the care she needed by anti-trans legislators continued to weigh on her.

Then, in July 2023, Idaho’s law banning trans students from accessing single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity took effect. Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit challenging the law on behalf of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance, and in July 2025, May joined the lawsuit under the pseudonym Jane Doe. In court filings, May described feeling stigmatized by being forced to use her campus’s two single-occupancy restrooms, which came to be referred to as the “trans bathrooms.”

“It is scary having to look around before to see if anyone will see me going into the single-user restroom, as I worry about people gossiping and speculating about me being transgender,” she said. “I don’t want people to know I am transgender without my consent — even students who might be friendly. For me, it is not a part of myself I talk about or that I feel is the most important part of my identity.”

Her parents told NBC News that May would avoid eating and drinking during the school day, hoping to not have to use the school’s bathrooms. “I just want to fit in,” she wrote in her affidavit in the Lambda Legal case. “It is upsetting to think that I may have to go through the rest of high school without access to something as basic as the ability to use the same restroom as everyone else.”

May’s parents say she became more troubled last fall and winter, according to NBC News. She attempted to run away to Oregon, and at least one of her poems seemed to reference self-harm. Then on the morning of January 27, Thorpe woke to find May missing from her bedroom. She later found her daughter’s body in a downstairs bedroom. May was just 16 years old.

When a detective asked her parents whether anyone might have wanted to harm May, Thorpe responded that “A lot of America” did.

“There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids,” an angry and grieving Pollard told the detective. “The whole f**king country. The whole f**king administration, every single f**king day.”

As NBC News notes, over the last few years, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) has signed 15 anti-LGBTQ+ laws. In April, Little signed a pair of bills, one of which made it a criminal offense for trans people to use the bathroom associated with their gender, while the other banned Pride flags on government buildings.

As for Lambda Legal’s challenge to the state’s school bathroom ban, at the time of May’s death, she was one of just two plaintiffs left in the case, as all the others had graduated high school and no longer held standing. Earlier this spring, Lambda Legal moved to dismiss the case after the final plaintiff graduated.

But Thorpe has continued to protest Idaho’s anti-trans laws. According to NBC News, she stood outside Gov. Little’s office during a March 31 protest holding a photo of her daughter.

“I wanted to support the protesters and remind everyone, including the governor,” Thorpe told the outlet, “that the stakes are real.”

“The parents go and testify, and we say, ‘Children are going to die,’” she said. “We tell the legislators that, and they dismiss it. I guess they think it’s hyperbole, or they think it’s hysteria, or they think it’s an acceptable outcome, probably some mix of those things. So I don’t understand why there is an unwillingness to connect these laws to these outcomes. It was right there from the start.”

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John Russell is a writer and editor based in New York City. In addition to covering politics and entertainment for LGBTQ Nation, he has written for Vanity Fair, Slate, People, Billboard, and Out. He also writes about film, TV, and pop culture in his free newsletter Johnny Writes…

Tom Homan Plays The Victim In Disastrous White House Presser

 

The progressive Democratic socialist are driving the establishment corporate democrats and billionaires crazy because they are working. Some clips from The Majority Report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 7-22-2026

 

 

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“When did you decide to be female/male?" #questionscisfolksneverhear

 

 

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Israeli Lawmakers March On Gaza Vowing Settlements

For those who think it is just the government of Israel that is pro-genocide of the Palestinians.  In fact due to media and training in jewish schools the drum has long been pushing that Palestinians are evil sub humans.  Sound familiar?  It is what happened to the very people now doing it to others.  Seems they learned the wrong lessons from Germany in the 1930s to 1945.  The public is mostly fully OK with what the government is doing and the media has pushed it hard like our own billionaire bought media is trying to do.   The media is hiding the truth and wants to push a narrative that supports / makes Israel the poor agreevied party when they are in fact the ones pushing the hostility and threats onto others.  Israel retuniely killed journalists and banned all others from entering Gaza and the West Bank trying to keep video of the crimes being committed by the Jewish public and Israeli government from being seen by the world.  They know what they are doing is wrong and if people knew the truth they would force their government to stop Israel. 

Israel doesn’t want coexistence with others; it wants to rule over them.  They want to take land they claim a 2,500 year old document gives to them that the rest of the world doesn’t recognize as the borderlines.  Here is the public supported by the majority of the government, saying no Arabs in Gaza anymore. While the IDF destroyed water for the Gazans, they passed it out to the illegal settlers.  If Palitisinans were doing this on their side of the fence the IDF would shoot them no questions asked.  The MR crew is doing an impressive job laying out the difference in rules and privileges for the Palestinians and the settlers.  As Matt says, Israel is now South Africa apartheid on steroids.  Hugs


 

Trump Crashes Spain’s World Cup Moment & Jon Examines Team Trump’s “Meritocracy” | The Daily Show

An update on my procedure to shave the spinal cord in my lower spine.  The people at the surgical center were grand.  I can’t describe them any other way.  One nurse even joked with Ron and me that she would love to spend time with us off work hours because she loved our sexual innuendo banter with each other, stuff like we can’t even think straight after 36 years together and that we don’t say move straight forward we say move gayly forward.  But work required her to only join us around the fringes but we had her laughing so hard.   All of the staff were wornder and one even walked me to the bathroom when I felt I needed to pee.  It was relatively embarrassing, but as I had worked in  ICUs before I realized it was totally every day normal for the nurses to see my butt.  She did hang the IVs and give me privacy which was more than we were able to do for the ICU patients.  

When they took me into the procedure room, I was worried that I might not be out enough and would feel pain.  The anesthesiologist asked me if I had ever had a colonoscopy.  I repiled yes.  He said do you remember it?  No I replied.  Same here he said, once we get you positioned, you won’t remember anything.  They got me positioned, and then he told me that once they got me an arm rest for my right hand he would administer the aniestha.  I was gone even before the arm rest was set up.  Totally out.  Woke up in the recovery room, and once I was awake they went and got Ron.  

I have a list of do and don’ts.  But on the way home we stopped to eat, I had a large breakfast for me.  Then we got home, and I went to bed until 12:30.  Got up, ate again, and locked the Majority Report into the fun half so I can watch it free, and went back to bed.  Then I slept until nearly 5 PM.  Got up and started working on the cartoon / meme / news post that was to go out today.  I will go out tomorrow.  Sorry about that, the spirit is willing, but the body is very weak right now.  On the plus side the pain in my right leg I have been living with seems to have diminished greatly and in some cases gone away.   

The video below is very funny and points out how tRump is now just a befuddled grandpa who thinks everything must be about him and how he is the greatest even when he is clueless about what he is talking about.  The host points out the mistakes and money interests of the entire cabinet.  Hope you enjoy.  Hugs


 

 

On of my female abusers died

OK this won’t be a full post on my abuse because Ron is terrified of my being emotionally upset before my surgery tomorrow.  This female sibling was pregnant at 13 and married at 14.  But while she was in the house she was the defacto caregiver to me.  She was the one who tied me to a stair banister and let her boyfriends and other boys rape me.   Her soon to be husband wanted more so she arranged for him to force me to give him blow jobs and rape me in other places / context.  He had a fascination with buttholes so you can guess what that meant for the 3, and 4 and 5 and 6 year old me. 

She was the one who farmed me out to the guy across the street at age 3 who was a real little boy lover so while he used my body he never made me hurt like I was being hurt at home.  He often got upset at my bruised body.  He often gave me the only real affection I felt at that time.  I just had to let him use my body to gain it.  

She tried to get me removed from the will due to the fact I was adopted.   In her own writings she said I was never a part of the family so shouldn’t have a share of the inheritance.  She failed to mention how badly I was treated by the family for some reason.   The courts disagreed with her.   Her husband was the executor of the estate and he was informed and needed to be ordered by the court to change the legal paperwork to reflect my new legal name, but in her obituary she used the family name of my abusers.   She knew better at this point, as did her husband who once was said to be a corrupt cop.  

I am going to try to keep my mind from it.  But what Ron doesn’t know is my mind went there last night.  Just not bad enough for me to yell / scream out.  I will have to deal with it soon.  But not hopefully tonight the night before my spine surgery.    Hugs