My life with pain.

I will be having surgery soon.  I had a long visit with my pain doctor.  She had studied my last set of MRIs.  She also confered with the pain surgeon who I also see.  Seems I have all the bad things a back can have.  I have ruptured discs, herniated discs, and torn discs, but they hope that will heal, I have protruding discs, bulging discs.  I have arthritis in the length of the spine.  I also have a thickening ligament cord.  If I want to walk again I have to have a procedure called MILD.  The will put me under and then my current pain surgeon will make a 1-inch incision in my back and “shred” the ligament down to the proper size.  I simply have no choice, it is this or the wheelchair and ever larger amounts of pain.  They are not decreasing my pain medication my MRIs back them up, I have a limited quality of life now and would have none with less pain medication.  Ron asked me to ask her the prognosis of where she saw me in the future with my issues.  Because of the way my bones are thickening, thinning, and growing wrong, and the trauma of my childhood it will get worse.  I will some day lose the ability to stand and walk.  Unless things change even surgery to fuse the vertebra will not give me much relief and will cause me more issues.  But I still have my computers and the grand people it lets me stay in touch with.   Best wishes to all and hugs to those that want them.   Scottie

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-25-2026

 

 

 

#transgender from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

 

#anarchism from Anarchists United

 

 

 

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Lee Judge for 6/22/2026

 

 

 

 

The progressive comic about the reflecting pool and why it's green.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Branch for 6/9/2026

 

John Branch for 6/4/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#anarchism from Anarchists United

 

 

 

#anarchism from No-gods-no-masters.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Judge for 6/17/2026

John Branch for 6/22/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A man speaks to a woman under a shared umbrella as they cross a street in the rain.

“What confuses me most about all the parabolic advances with A.I. is that umbrellas are still the same.”

 

Mike Smith for 6/22/2026

 

John Branch for 6/12/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds

To me and hopefully to everyone this is horrific.  But something I have been highlighting here that Israeli is a rouge terrorist government drying to genocide the Palestinian people.  It is horrific that a people who experienced such actions would inflict them on others.   But this show what can happen when right-wing movements turn into religious domination of the government.   The Israel government is now filled with extreme Jewish religious extremists who feel their holy book grants them all the territory around then that is the sovereign territory of other countries.   They feel their god gave it to them thousands of years ago so they have the right to take it.   Regardless of laws or norms between countries.  They want it so it should be theirs.  Just like Putin in Ukraine.  Israel talked our demented leader into going into war against their enemy which had no benefit for us but we took all the cost and risks.  The military equipment and weapons used in the genocide of the Palestinians was paid for by the US taxpayer.  Some quotes below.   Hugs

The ​UN commission said in its report, released on Tuesday, that Palestinian children were deliberately targeted and killed during the ‌war, including after a ceasefire came into effect ‌in October 2025.

“The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, the commission’s chair, in a statement accompanying the report.

“This indicates that ‌such attacks, which killed children in such high numbers, were intentional,” it said. It added that it believed children were targeted collectively because the Israeli security forces considered the civilian population as a whole to be associated with Hamas and other armed groups.

Muralidhar said that by targeting children, Israel was undermining the capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future.

The inquiry also found that attacks ⁠on healthcare and reproductive facilities affected newborns’ survival and the reported increase in miscarriages, and that nearly all children in Gaza ​were reported to be in need of psychological support.

It said Palestinian children, especially boys, were subjected to systemic mistreatment in detention, including forced stripping, beatings and food deprivation.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/israel-deliberately-targeting-gaza-children-to-commit-genocide-un-inquiry-finds

Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist

A man tosses a child in the air amid rubble in Gaza, with several children watchingA man plays with a baby as Palestinian children look on amid the rubble in Khan Younis, Gaza, in March.

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Women with black headscarves holding a tiny shroud.Women mourn a baby killed in an Israeli strike on Khan Younis last year.

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Worried looking children in crowd with hands outstretchedChildren jostle for food at an aid point in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on Monday.

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Rubble, a Palestinian flag and children

 

Hitler Fan Stars In TN Gov Candidate’s Ads [VIDEO]

Hitler Fan Stars In TN Gov Candidate’s Ads [VIDEO]

June 23, 2026

Nashville’s CBS affiliate reports:

He calls Jews “a malevolent force throughout history,” praises Adolf Hitler as “a great man,” and urges Black Americans to “return to Africa.” Despite that history of hateful comments, he has now become the star of a pair of social-media videos for Tennessee Republican candidate for governor Monty Fritts [photo].

Still, Dane Chisholm, 28, of Rogersville, Tenn., is completely unapologetic about his controversial views. “For the soft and fake ‘Conservatives’ who worry about being called homophobic, racist or Nazi … go sit quietly in a corner,” Chisholm wrote in a June 20 post on X. “The real Christian men – who will save this world – are going to start handling things.”

Fritts, who is running an unapologetically Christian nationalist campaign, did not respond to a text from NewsChannel 5 Investigates about the star of his social-media posts.

Read the full article. Watch the unreal video below.

State Rep. Monty Fritts appeared here in January 2026 when he called for executing supporters of trans healthcare, saying that “such killings align with scripture.”

Fritts appeared here in March 2025 when the Tennessee House advanced his bill declaring July 2025 a “month of fasting and prayer for the physically able and spiritually inclined.”

Last year Fritts sponsored a “chemtrails” bill that would criminalize weather control with fines of “$100,000 per violation.”

Fritts appeared here in January 2025 for his bill making it a felony for state officials to adopt pro-migrant policies.

Fritts first appeared here in 2023 when the Tennessee House approved his bill allowing officiants to refuse to conduct same-sex, interfaith, and interracial marriages.

 

 

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-24-2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

hrafnsvaengr:
“Lasagna is a fractal
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Gramps was deported to America after dodging the draft in Germany. Trump likes to lie and say gramps fought in WWI and killed hundreds of American, British, and French soldiers. Truth is Gramps was already running brothels in the US and Canada about ten years before that war even began.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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#submission from Radical Graffiti

 

whatareyoureallyafraidof:
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Now, I’ll admit, when I served in the Army, I wasn’t a Tanker; just a simple ground-pounder. But, this doesn’t seem right.
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Schot De Volkskrant

 

 

 

 

 

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-23-2026

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motala499: “weantuniverse: “(via Facebook) ” ”

 

maximum efficiency

stealing the show 2

 

 

 

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A Holistic Plan for a White Christian Ethnostate

https://lucid.substack.com/p/a-holistic-plan-for-a-white-christian

This will backfire: no one can take away our identities and histories

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

marco polo

 

the salad phase hasnt kicked in

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#donald trumps from Things of Interest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not qualified for the job and already looking for the perks and privileges instead of responsibilities.   

 

 

 

 

 

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#politics from Cartoon Politics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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New records show ICE investigators gaining access to voter files in two counties

The host points out that despite the rhetoric coming from the White House and tRump there have been only 100 cases of non-citizen voting in 43 years.  That is an incredibly small number.  But the tRump administration wants to decide which citezens can vote and who can not.  It is minority rule over the majority, it is single party rule like in dictatorships such as China.  It is the end of democracy.  All so tRump and republicans can stay in charge so the wealthy can raid the treasury and the entire wealth of the country leaving the people as slave labor to the upper class.  Hugs

New reporting from Axios offers a window into just how far the White House is willing to go to pursue baseless claims made by President Trump for years. The group Democracy Forward obtained new records showing ICE agents went directly to local officials in Texas and North Carolina to obtain voter files. “We need to be very vigilant and we also need to be outraged,” says Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward. “It’s going to be incumbent upon every single American to make up their mind that we’re not going to have our voices silenced.”

A bunch of clips from The Majority Report on a verity of subjects

In this on Sam and crew show clips of tRump talking sexually about other world male leaders and make jokes about tRump’s sexuality.   They also mention how he rambles disjointedly and his dementia seems worse.  Hugs

 

 

 

Emma and Ken discuss the new memorandum on terrorism that targets activist, protestors, and people who post online.  It is an attempt to stop people from expressing a negative opinion of the tRump administration and the horrific actions they are doing.  They talk about how the administration really believes that just talking badly about ICE actions is doxing them and any doxing is terrorism.  The administration feels that no one has 1st amendment rights and that anything done to protest the administration is terrorism.  The fear it inspires is discussed along with the cost incurred by the defendants.   Hugs

 

Sam and Emma are talking about how the tRump administration is using the FBI to attack and interfere with democratic voting groups who work to get voters to the polls, raise funds for democratic candidates, investigating civil rights some times with out warrants showing up on the doorsteps of volunteers implying they had committed a crime.  The agents are demanding publicly sometimes in front of family members that people answer questions, give them communications, the agents are on fishing missions and intimidation.  As Brian says telling people about an election is fraud.   Hugs

 

I post this last one by Matt Binder filling in for Emma and Sam showing how Riley Gaines will say anything for money and just how stupid she really is.   She has made money hand over fist using her hatred for trans people get right wing contracts and show deals talking about any talking point the right wing wants to push and emphasize.  Hugs