First They Came For The Immigrants…

Emma Vigeland welcomes Ken Klippenstein, an independent journalist covering security and US politics at KlipNews, discussing the 15 anti-ICE activists indicted by the Justice Department.

 

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-22-2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-21-2026

 

 

 

 

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A young man speaks to an older man who is standing in front of an opened gift and holding a mug that reads “DADS BEST MUG.”

“There are limits to my hyperbole.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Joey Weatherford for 6/19/2026

 

 

 

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Joey Weatherford for 6/15/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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#police the police from thefreethoughtproject.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phil Hands for 6/18/2026

 

 

Joey Weatherford for 6/18/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joey Weatherford for 6/16/2026

 

 

 

The Right’s Anti-LGBTQ Hysteria is Now Indistinguishable From Satire

While I detest the end song he plays I love Mark’s take on issues.  He doesn’t pull his punches and lays out the facts.  In this case it is important to watch to the end where he elaborates on the current attempt to genocide trans people by making them illegal as Russia has.  Now requiring that no business, event or medical facility that takes any government money can allow any kind of support or positive affirmation of trans people.  He talks about how important it is to let trans youth socially transition and live as the gender they identify with, and to get puberty blockers to not go through the wrong puberty.  He mentions trans children figure out their gender the same way and ages that cis kids do.   Hugs

Panic over the existence of LGBTQ+ people is becoming so ridiculous it’s almost impossible to tell if it’s satire or not. In this video we’ll look at some of the most ridiculous examples of right-wing hysteria over queer people. Well also talk about how conservatives have successfully weaponized their outrage against queer people and how culture influences politics.

The Humanist Report (THR) is a progressive political podcast that discusses and analyzes current news events and pressing political issues. Our analyses are guided by humanism and political progressivism. Each news story we cover is supplemented with thought-provoking, fact-based commentary that aims for the highest level of objectivity.

 

The Republican Front-Runner for Maine Governor Is Completely Unhinged

 

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles is one of the leading contenders to become Maine’s next governor, and his recent comments should alarm anyone who values evidence, competence, or basic reality.

Charles has suggested he would personally counsel women out of having abortions, claimed transgender identities are impossible because of Noah’s Ark, repeated the debunked “litter box” conspiracy theory about schools, and embraced a culture-war agenda that seems ripped straight from social media misinformation.

Yet despite these bizarre remarks, he’s a serious candidate with a real shot at winning the Republican nomination.

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-20-2026

 

Ah, yes! The three genders : Mr, Ms, Dr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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David Horsey for 6/17/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Britt for 6/17/2026

 

 

 

Mike Smith for 6/18/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#anarchism from Black Bloc Antifa

 

 

 

 

 

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Mike Smith for 6/17/2026

 

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Steve Kelley for 6/15/2026

 

 

 

Mike Smith for 6/16/2026

 

 

Chip Bok for 6/12/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gary Varvel for 6/10/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A sign at Bobs Ice Cream reads “Summer help wanted freeing us from the army of A.I. agents we for some reason thought we...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-19-2026

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Congress and the American people deserve answers about whether the Trump White House is rigging or intervening in Pentagon contracting decisions to benefit the President’s family.

Elizabeth Warren (@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social) 2026-06-08T18:55:48.974Z

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A firm tied to Trump Jr. got a $620M Pentagon-backed loan after the White House reportedly pushed for the deal.Now lawmakers want answers.Funny how "government waste" never seems to include taxpayer-funded favors for the president's family. We need an investigation NOW.

Public Citizen (@publiccitizen.bsky.social) 2026-06-08T14:03:01.389879055Z

 

 

 

Trump starts wandering off in the wrong direction after a G7 photo and world leaders have to step in and redirect him

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-06-16T19:18:45.475Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

The progressive comic about the ruined Reflecting Pool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You bunch of spineless motherfuckers.”“Should be Palm Bitch.”“Please!!! Block this travesty.”@notus.com got copies of fliers’ comments to Palm Beach Airport over its Trumpian name change. Buckle up: it’s a bumpy ride.www.notus.org/donald-trump…

Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal.com) 2026-06-18T11:13:35.281Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEW: The USPS is starting to create a new records system to track mail ballots, laying the groundwork to collect records related to mail-in and absentee ballots.The revelation underscores the Trump administration is taking steps to build out his anti-mail voting order amid legal challenges.

Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2026-06-18T18:21:04.732881794Z

 

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1. The Secretary of Defense is an idiot.2. Disease has killed more soldiers than any enemy ever did.Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional http://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u…

Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T18:48:36.289Z

Hegseth: I haven't washed my hands in 10 years

FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T19:57:16.751Z

 

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashes out at NATO allies for not taking more responsibility for their own security.He announced a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe to ensure NATO moves toward Europe leading its own defense.

The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2026-06-18T08:24:45Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A Russian air defense missile blows up a fuel tank at the Moscow Oil Refinery following a failed attempt to shoot down a Ukrainian drone.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T19:58:09.496Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

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‘You can’t cancel Pride, no matter how hard you try’: GLAAD CEO on some GOP rebranding June

As I have posted before on this subject this is an attempt to push a fundamentalist Christianity on the entire rest of the public.  It is an attempt to enshrine Christian nationalism and the doctrines of one sect into the laws we all must live by.   The people doing these attacks want to make any and all LGBTQ+ content seem dangerous and harmful which would require warning labels.  It is about demonizing the way other people live because the hyper religous don’t like it.  The Christians are free to live as they wish and think as they want but they can not be allowed to oppress and require everyone to live as they do.  They are a minority and the polls show the majority of the public doesn’t share these haters belief that LGBTQ+ people are dangerous or bad.  The majority of people are live the way they want to and let others live the ways they want to.  Republicans keep using attacks on trans and gay marriage to distract from real issues, to enrage their base to excite them to vote, and to demonize a minority group so that the status quo can go back to the 1950s cis straight white male hierarchy.  Hugs 


 

Some GOP lawmakers are attempting to rebrand June, which has been nationally recognized as Pride Month, as “Nuclear Family Month” in some states. GLAAD CEO & President Sarah Kate Ellis joins Laura Barrón-López to share her thoughts on this and a new poll around support for LGBTQIA+ communities.

Sodom & Gomorrah is not about homosexuality

Dan McCellan again goes to great lengths to explain that the bible doesn’t talk about homosexuality.  He first explains that the frame work of same sex attractions did not exist in the people’s worldview.  The social frame work for sex was not desire but power / authority over others with the penetrative man being the top of the hierarchy with the receiving person the woman was lower in status because she received the man as he penetrated her.   If a man penetrates another man the man doing the penatrator is emasculating and feminizing the man receiving the penetration, lowering that man’s status to the level of a woman.  In the culture of the time of the bible status as a man was paramount so to show dominance over another man they would rape them.  Simple.  He explains why they did not do to Lot’s daughters what they did to the Levite’s concubine.   He goes over the reasons that Genesis 19 is about males using dominance over the other.  He explains it a lot better than I can.  But the main thing to understand is it was not same sex orientation that was the issue it was one man dominating another by penetrating him, which caused a loss of status that was what they were trying to say was a sin.  In other words men don’t ruin the good thing we have going by making some men have a lower status or women will see we are not really so much better than them.  Hugs

 

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-18-2026

 

 

 

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The performers for the Obama Presidential Library opening on June 18 have been announced:Stevie WonderJohn LegendJennifer HudsonThe RootsBruce SpringsteenChristina AguileraMarsai MartinCommonU2’s Bono and The EdgeEddie VedderMarc AnthonyTems

Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2026-06-16T20:35:04.613Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Records reveal $600M estimate for Trump’s ballroom project, with half from taxpayers: An internal cost estimate in March by the project’s contractor ran $200m more than Trump has said publicly and counters his claims that no taxpayer money will be spent.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio…

Nolan Hicks (@ndhapple.bsky.social) 2026-06-16T12:43:07.988Z

 

 

 

 

Good, and there needs to be more of this. Put people on notice that they will be held accountable because right now they think they can get away with anything. http://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u… Democrats Warn Trump Officials Not to Pursue Arch Project Without Congress

Zak Williams (@zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T19:02:20.951Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 6 defendants pursue millions in claims through obscure federal processFederal Tort Claims Act, over which DoJ has total discretion, provides workaround to Trump’s $1.8bn slush fundwww.theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Lauren Ashley Davis (@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T11:54:03.985Z

 

 

 

US President Donald Trump told a roomful of global leaders 'I'm the boss,' as he and other G7 leaders acknowledged Ukraine's improved battlefield fortunes with a unified pledge of support and fresh sanctions against Russia. Follow our live coverage here: reut.rs/4aAYG0C

Reuters (@reuters.com) 2026-06-17T11:32:14.738Z

G7 day two: Trump enters late, declares he is the boss, then tries to offer photographers to remain in the room during the session.My 2 cents: this is the exact behavior style that then ultimately made him the center of concerns at the G7 last year.. on day two. Let’s see if the agenda stays as is

Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) 2026-06-17T10:51:34.187Z

 

 

 

 

 

Kash Patel ‘jumped the gun’ with announcement of UFC plot arrests, sources saySecret Service officials are angered by the FBI director's early morning social media post that was shared before some suspects were arrested. http://www.ms.now/news/kash-pa…

Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2026-06-16T20:28:25.363Z

 

Justin Smith, who has been representing the president in his E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case, also refused to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

HuffPost (@huffpost.com) 2026-06-16T17:31:23.302Z

 

 

Trump-endorsed MAGA election denier Mike Collins will face Ossoff in November.

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-06-17T00:43:15.914Z

 

 

VoteHub projects Mark Tedford and Jackson Lahmeyer to advance to the Republican primary runoff for Oklahoma U.S. House District 1.

VoteHub (@votehub.com) 2026-06-17T01:57:41.710Z

 

Jackson Lahmeyer, a Trump-endorsed pastor who has five kids and a wife, is accused of sexting a woman on his own campaign payroll.The screenshots are brutal.His white evangelical base probably won't care.His primary is today.www.friendlyatheist.com/p/trump-back…

Hemant Mehta (@friendlyatheist.com) 2026-06-16T13:13:17.744Z

 

U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern has won the Republican nomination in Oklahoma for the Senate seat once held by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2026-06-17T01:09:28Z

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore has won the Republican primary runoff for an open Senate seat in Alabama. Moore defeated political newcomer Jared Hudson on Tuesday to advance to the November general election. bit.ly/4xxNhIH

The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2026-06-17T02:25:37Z

NEWS: Trump suffers a major Republican primary defeat in Georgia.Trump-backed Burt Jones has LOST the Georgia GOP gubernatorial runoff to Rick Jackson, per Decision Desk HQ.Jackson will now face Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms in November.

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-06-17T01:09:37.346Z

 

NEW: A federal court dismissed a far-right group's lawsuit seeking to block Wisconsin from sharing voter data with ERIC, a data-sharing network helping states maintain accurate voter rolls.Red states began withdrawing from ERIC after far-right conspiracy theories about the program spread in 2022.

Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2026-06-15T15:09:26.051742767Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White Christian Nationalists apply only. A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. http://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t…

Carolyn Lyndy D. (@lyndybloomer.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T20:29:29.684Z

 

 

 

 

WOW! Stephen Miller and Trump considered suspending Habeas Corpus last year -that would mean they could arrest and hold you in jail for as long as they want–and you could not challenge it. This is how dangerous Trump is!! He MUST be REMOVED!! (Gift link below)www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u…

Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T11:28:38.624Z

 

 

 

A woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide

WJTV 12 News (@wjtv.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T20:00:06.664Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pete Hegesth, "Obama begged Iran for a deal, we bombed Iran"Journalist, "The JCPOA (Iran deal) did that too"Hegseth, "We devastated their military"Imagine celebrating achieving the thing a previous president achieved without killing the 3,000+ Iranians dead since the US/Israel attacks

Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social) 2026-06-14T16:07:04.899Z

 

 

 

 

 

HEGSETH: We have controlled the straits this entire timeBRENNAN: You're negotiating with them to reopen it

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-06-14T14:42:22.201Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

D.O.J. Seeks to Halt Air Pollution Lawsuit Against Musk xAI Data Center 😡😡😡😡 http://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/c…

Moms Clean Air Force (@momscleanairforce.org) 2026-06-16T20:06:43.110Z