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

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SORRY HATERS MY SMILE IS ICONIC

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#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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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

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 2-16-2026

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#Buddha from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

 

 

 

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This is why I have a Rolodex with all my passwords and user names. Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Department of Homeland Security has brought on a 21-year-old social media professional from the Department of Labor to help run its communications channels — despite internal concerns about N*zi-coded content he previously posted.

According to The New York Times, Peyton Rollins moved from digital content manager at the Labor Department to a key role in DHS communications this month.

His name is Peyton Rollins. C’mon.

This kid has definitely killed small animals.

Could central casting find a more inbred Nazi looking 21 year old?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wonder when they will attack my blog or me. Hugs  

 

 

 

 

 

There were masks on the walls in a room on Epstein Island what had a dentist chair in the middle. Howard Lutnick [current Sec of Commerce] lived next to Jeffrey Epstein on 71st St and both their homes were owned by Les Wexner. #TheEpsteinClass

 

Republicans love immigrant #PeterThiel and his rampant drug use. Republicans look right past his homosexuality. Republicans love his Big Government Palantir tracking your every move.

This all shows that it’s not about invasive, gay, immigrant, ketamine addicts. All that matters is who serves fascist white nationalism.

Billionaire sex abusers get more than due process, they get Republican protection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Bramhall for 2/15/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘A feature, not a bug’: Trump admin’s pattern of hiring people with extremist views

Ohio Bill Would Overturn Local Ex-Gay Torture Bans

Again it is a fundamentalist / evangelical Christian who wants to force everyone to follow their church doctrines by enshrining them in the civil laws.  Their hate seems to drive them far more than Jesus’s love.   All studies ahve show that not only does conversion therapy not work it is very harmful to those that experience it.  These people don’t care because they want the LGBTQ+ gone, erased from society.  When will they learn it is inherent and can’t be changed by outside forces or because a person wants it to?  I like to ask people who believe in it if they could be converted to gay or trans and the response is always no that would be crazy.  Then why try to convert LGBTQ+ kids / people.  Because they see it as a choice and a sin, and nothing on can say will change their minds.  Horrible people doing horrible things.  Hugs

Ohio Bill Would Overturn Local Ex-Gay Torture Bans

February 13, 2026

The Ohio Capital Journal reports:

Ohio Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation that would punish state agencies and local governments for being too supportive of LGBTQ+ youth. Among a slew of provisions, conversion therapy would be reinstated where it has been banned, teachers may be prevented from using a student’s preferred pronouns, and parents wouldn’t be able to lose custody due to refusing to support their child’s gender identity.

“State institutions, government institutions cannot promote that woke ideology,” state Rep. Gary Click, R-Vickery, said in an interview Tuesday. Click believes government agencies have been overly affirming of LGBTQ+ children, which he claims has hurt parents. “It is not conversion therapy to help children discover their identity and who they are biologically,” Click said. Click has focused significant time in the legislature targeting LGBTQ+ people.

Read the full article.

Click, a former pastor, last appeared here in December 2025 when he introduced the “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act,” which would mandate teaching public school students about “the positive influence of Christianity on American culture.”

He first appeared here in 2018 when he led the invocation at Trump rally by asking Jesus to protect Trump from “wicked jungle journalism.”

In 2023, Click appeared here when he convened a hearing against transgender rights during which his invited guest testified that non-Christian lawmakers are “possessed by demons.”

Click is a regular on Tony Perkins’ podcast.

 

TN Advances Bills To Legalize Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination

TN Advances Bills To Legalize Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination

February 13, 2026

Nashville’s NPR affiliate reports:

Tennessee lawmakers have advanced a host of anti-LGBTQ bills that would run counter to U.S. Supreme Court precedent. Two measures, both proposed by Rep. Gino Bulso, R-Franklin, would challenge landmark cases that legalized same-sex marriage and established protections for discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, questioned the legality to going against Bostock v. Clayton County, which established that LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Tom Lee, member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Pride Chamber, spoke against the bill, arguing that it could allow discrimination against LGBTQ couples.

“Imagine if under this bill a private employer said, ‘Well, you can’t take family leave because I, as a private citizen, don’t recognize — using the language of the bill — your purported marriage,’” Lee said. “Or a bank says, ‘You’ll pay the higher rate (for unmarried couples). We’re not bound by the 14th Amendment. You’re not married in our eyes.’”

From my January 2025 report:

The Banning Bostock Act would codify that laws prohibiting sex discrimination would not prohibit discrimination against a person for being homosexual or transgender, nor would it prohibit discrimination because of sexual orientation, sexual behavior, gender identity, or gender non-conforming behavior.

Meanwhile, the next bill would allow private citizens, businesses, and organizations to refuse to recognize same-sex marriage, and protect attorneys from being punished for refusing to celebrate or perform a same sex marriage.

Bulso first appeared here in February 2024 for his ultimately failed bid to ban Pride flags, which he is now attempting again. In April 2024, we heard from Bulso when he objected to a ban on marriages between first cousins because gays can’t make babies. Last year Bulso launched a failed bid to fill the US House seat left open by the abrupt resignation of Rep. Mark Green.

 

Kansas Gov Vetoes Anti-Trans Bathroom Bounty Bill

Why is the most intense bigotry always seem to be pushed by Christians?  I don’t understand the hate because no one is walking around nude in bathrooms, and women’s bathrooms do not have urinals just enclosed stalls.   No one can see in the stalls.  All the talk of protecting little girls is BS because if a man ws going to hurt a child he wouldn’t have to pretend to be trans, he would just walk in and do it.  Nope this is all about making trans lives miserable and keeping them out of the public / society.  This is all about forcing their religious views on everyone else.  There church doctrines don’t accept trans people so no one can accept trans people or be trans in public according to them.  They see no problem forcing their religious views on everyone else but scream to their highest heaven when they are told they have to respect other people’s views. Hugs

Kansas Gov Vetoes Anti-Trans Bathroom Bounty Bill

February 13, 2026

First, the backstory about the bill:

Just last week, the Kansas legislature passed some of the most far-reaching measures to push trans and gender-nonconforming people out of public life to date. Bathroom bans that bar trans people from restrooms aligned with their gender identity have become grimly common; over 20 states have such a law on the books. But Kansas’s new anti-trans bathroom bill adds a dangerous twist: a bounty hunter provision.

The law would permit private citizens to sue and seek monetary reward based on claiming to encounter a trans person in the bathroom. That’s on top of some of the harshest punishments of any existing bathroom bans, such as criminal charges, steep fines and even jail time.

The language of the bill, while vague, says that any person who alleges to be “aggrieved” by the presence of a trans person they encounter in a restroom facility can file a civil suit against that individual for “damages” of at least $1,000. Kansas Republicans rushed through the bathroom ban, skirting public comment by essentially sneaking the bill into another piece of legislation aimed at denying trans people correct government IDs.

Just in via press release:

The following veto message is from Governor Kelly regarding her veto of House Substitute for Senate Bill 244:

“This poorly drafted bill will have numerous and significant consequences far beyond the intent to limit the right for trans people to use the appropriate bathroom. Under this bill: If your grandfather is in a nursing home in a shared room, as a granddaughter, you would not be able to visit him. If your wife is in a shared hospital room, as a husband, you would not be able to visit her.

“If your sister is living in a dorm at K-State, as a brother, you would not be able to visit her in her room. If you feel you have to accompany your nine-year-old daughter to the restroom at a sporting event, as a father, you would have to either enter the women’s restroom with her or let her use the restroom alone.

“I believe the Legislature should stay out of the business of telling Kansans how to go to the bathroom and instead stay focused on how to make life more affordable for Kansans. “Therefore, under Article 2, Section 14(a) of the Constitution, I hereby veto House Substitute for Senate Bill 244.”

The bill passed with a veto-proof majority in both chambers, so an override is probably likely. The bill’s author is GOP Rep. Susan Humphries, whose bio notes that she is a graduate of Texas Christian University. Humphries last appeared here in 2024 for her bill that would somehow ban minors from visiting any website that mentions LGBTQs.

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 2-15-2026

 

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Bill Bramhall for 2/11/2026

#equality from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

 

 

#positive from Meme Uplift

 

#Florida from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

 

 

 

#insomnia from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

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A man and a woman are talking at a bar as Cupid shoots an arrow toward them—but an older woman dives in front of the...

“Mom!”

 

 

A man talks to a clerk inside a chocolate shop.

“I like milk chocolate and my partner likes dark chocolate, so what percentage of cacao will leave us both unsatisfied?”

 

 

 

Joey Weatherford for 2/13/2026

 

Tom Stiglich for 2/13/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bill Bramhall for 2/14/2026

 

 

Joel Pett for 2/12/2026

 

 

 

 

Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche sit at a bar.

“You ever have one of those days you wish you could just redact?”

 

 

Anti-vaxxers NEVER APOLOGIZE OR ATONE for the utter bullshit they say while trying to get everyone killed by their ignorance.
#Captain America from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

 

 

 

 

 

#republican assholes from Rejecting Republicans

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bill Bramhall for 2/13/2026

Joel Pett for 2/13/2026

 

Joey Weatherford for 2/12/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jon Russo for 2/14/2026

 

 

Steve Breen for 2/13/2026

 

 

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 2-14-2026

An anecdote a participant of LGBT Youth Scotlands hared yesterday during a workshop. It was a delight to meet this awesome bunch of teenagers! More to come soon! Sophie Labelle

I just cannot understand why they hate so.  They refuse to understand or accept that some kids are born LGBTQ+ just as some kids are born cis and straight.  They seem to think that children see LGBTQ+ people in society, in public, and in books / TV / movies then become LGBTQ+.  It doesn’t work that way.  They reallyhope all LGBTQ+ stay hidden either in fake loveless opposite gender marriages or stay single and celibate for life.   They are not happy or content to live their lives as they wish, they demand the right to force everyone else must live as they do or by their church doctrines.   Hugs

 

 

 

 

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The progressive comic about pam bondi on crack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The video below shows a tRump administration nominee spews white supremacy crap, claiming the white people suffer the most discrimination in the US.  Claims the white culture is being erased.  But he can’t explain what white culture is except to claim that white Christians worship differently than black christians.  Food and music are different and white churches  and white food are being erased.  Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 2-13-2026

 

 

“Help! Everything in my life is turning GAY”
I hope you relate. This is the cover of a special Halloween comic I’m preparing for next month (You can pre-order it here : https://goo.gl/a1tzML).

Yesterday, I facilitated a comic making workshop at the University of Edinburgh with the people from BLOGS - Edinburgh University LGBT+ Society and the Scottish Transgender Alliance and here’s what we came up with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have to ask why the republicans are against counting every vote of people entitled to vote by law.  Why do they work so hard to restrict voter options and confine voting to a time and place where only their majority supporters tend to vote?  Because they are not interested in representing the will of the people, they demand the right to rule over the public.  The country better wake up because think of the right wing head explosions if the left was trying to restrict right wing voting areas.   The right wants a single party rule like in China onely with them in charge.  Hugs

If this goes through I will not be able to vote.  I was adopted and my birth certificate has my adoptive parents names on it.   In 2015 when the state of Florida allowed same sex marriages to become law Ron and I were the first ones in our county to get married.  It was a wonderful event.  But then I went to the Social Security office and had my last name legally changed to Ron’s, I am proudly Scottie Miller.   I think everyone here can understand why I hated the last name I had which was the name of my abusers.  So I was so happy to be able to change that and the forms that I was handed showing that came with a handwritten note of support and a heart emoji. Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understand none of these kids in that car did anything wrong… Other than being black.  This is blatant racism being allowed to terrorize the nonwhite communities / people in the hopes of racially purifying and cementing the white people as the dominitate race while everyone else is a less than.  This is an attempt by white supremacists in the US government / employed by the US government to create and inforce an US Apartide system. Horrific. Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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