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

 

 

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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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Trump Bulldozer Clears Way for Midterms

 

 

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

 

 

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News Anchor Reports Lindsey Graham Status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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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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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

 

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

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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…

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


 

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 7-20-2026

I am sorry this is so late getting out.  Now that I can walk again I am helping Ron renovate the house and create my new office by making the meals and doing the dishes and laundry.  But I am exhausted at the end of the day.  I got to bed between 6 and 7 pm and get up between 4 and 5 am.  I am not complaining, just telling the facts of my life.  On Monday the 6th I got a spine shot that let me walk again.  It is slowly wearing off and the pain and neuropathy in my right leg is again increasing.  This morning I made breakfast of fried potatoes, two slices of bacon each, two sausage patties each, and three eggs fried over medium where the whites are fully cooked and the yolk is still yellow and runny.  Ron wanted two whole muffins and I had two slices of toast.  

Then I went out with Ron to the nearby Publix to get our 4 cases of Publix caffeine free diet cola which is 24 two litter bottles and while I waited for the store to bring them out to me Ron got a few snacks I wanted, such as peanuts and almonds, along with a few other things.  Then when we got home I started the laundry of towels and sat down for a bit.  Then got up to make Ron lunch but he saw how tired I was and told me he could get it himself so I started doing dishes.  

Our next goal is to get the meat slicer out and make breakfast steaks and sliced ham for sandwiches out of the two medium hams we bought.   It is far cheaper that way than buying individual ham steaks and sliced ham from the deli.  Then Ron says he will make supper but I think if I can stand I will.   But I am very tired.   So now at 2:20 pm I am trying to finish the morning cartoons / memes / news posts. 

But the real reason for writing this on this post is tomorrow.  I have my spine surgery scheduled for 07:30 in the morning.  Yes I am worried, but I have to have it.   This is the one where they put me almost mostly under (the person who called me told me I wouldn’t be able to remember it happened).   Heard that before.  But I did remember.  So nothing by mouth but my morning pills which they went over with Ron and I.  

I admit I am struggling with the fact that I will be basicly nude and unable to protect myself during this.  I have been drugged for sex in my childhood.   So as I told people here I have to have a colonoscopy, and this is the same issue.   The thing I have to help me is that this surgeon I have known and been getting epidurals from him that required my butt to be exposed.  Therefore, I trust him.   

I never told him but I know he knows of my childhood abuse because Doctor Brenda must have recorded it in my chart.  Anyway the point is if I can get the cartoons /  memes / and news post out tomorrow I will.   I just don’t know how I will feel after the M.I.L.D. surgery to cut and trim the spinal cord in my lower spine.   Oh Ron and I just trimmed up two hams into sandwich meat and ham steaks for breakfast.  I will post that soon.     Hugs

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Ron nad I have library cards.  They let you borrow far more than books.  They also have audio books, movies, TV shows, and games for every platform.  When I want a book to listen to but it is too expensive, as audio books tend to be, we borrow it from the library app.  The cool thing is if our branch doesn’t have it the main system will somewhere and we can still borrow it.   Hugs

 

 

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A Short Biography Of Peter Thiel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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#anarchism from Black Bloc Antifa

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump White House Cabinet Positions

 

 

 

 

 

Rebekah Mercer's Dark Money: A Brief History

 

 

Bio: James O'Keefe and Project Veritas Deceptions

 

Disinformation In Travel and Politics

Trump's Pretzel Logic

 

Laura Loomer: Unelected Influencer Of Trump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joey Weatherford for 7/17/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Ellison: The Man Who Got Colbert Fired

 

 

Bryan Johnson's

Milt Priggee WeAreGettingScrewed.org

 

 

undefined for July 20, 2026

 

 

 

Joey Weatherford for 7/14/2026

 

 

 

#white people twitter from White People Twitter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cyclospora Parasites Target Vegetarians

 

 

 

 

 

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#SCOTUS from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

 

Chip Bok for 7/17/2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erik Prince: Blackwater and his Mercenary Armies

 

Trump's Iran War and Lies, Continue

 

 

 

Alex Karp CEO Of Palantir

Joey Weatherford for 7/16/2026

 

 

 

 

Trump's War In Iran Without A Plan

 

 

 

Larry Ellison And Oracle's Surveillance State

Human Finger Meets AI Hand

 

OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman's Existential Race

 

Bio: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Zeldin EPA Head Destroyer

 

 

Trump's Push To Bring Back Polluting Coal

 

 

 

 

Bio Of Koch Industries CEO vs Planet Earth

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Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 7-19-2026

Yesterday, I stumbled on a forum dedicated to hate me, where people basically spend their lives spewing transphobic bs, obsessing over my body, making up stuff about me, sharing awful parodies of my work, etc. It really got to me, as I’ve been living with the knowledge that these people are constantly there, stalking each of my movements, for several years now.
I will never understand this kind of hate. I cried a good deal of tears. It was important. I need to feel in order to find the will and energy to create. I remembered who I do all this work for : us. The ones I call my family. My trans siblings. That’s why my new book starts with “we”. That’s why I’m announcing it in the urgency, as a memorandum for these troubled times and a reminder that we are stronger together, and that we need to be there for each other.

We won’t be erased.  Pre-order it on my Etsy store

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

Mullin says that election officials in states that don’t cooperate with the Trump administration may face jail time

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-17T15:24:58.584Z

NEW: Billionaire Republican megadonor Harlan Crow maxed out a donation to Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., in June theintercept.com/2026/07/15/h…

— Akela Lacy (@akelalacy.bsky.social) 2026-07-16T00:12:23.380Z

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

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

ICE agent David Brouillette murdered Joan Sebastian Guerrero

— Jeff Tischauser (@jtischauser.bsky.social) 2026-07-15T20:52:11.666Z

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character."She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors.He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

— Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social) 2026-07-16T18:55:05.446Z

Currently driving what I'm sure will be my last stick shift car. Even in 2010 we had to special order it. I admit this makes me sad even as I acknowledge the anachronism.

— Amy Scott (@amyscott.bsky.social) 2026-07-17T16:48:58.213Z
Odysseus crew ties him to a ships mast.

West Bank Pogroms Intensify | Jasper Nathaniel | TMR

I watched this the day it aired on the show.  My gods how horrific and horrifying.   The out of control settlers try to kill these people because they are recording the stealing of Palestinian lands and murdering Palestinians.  If the driver had been any slower these people in the cars would have been killed.  And the IDF supported the attacks on helpless people.  US citizens.   The Israeli government takes our taxpayer money and supports the killing of US citizens and reporters.   If there is anything that says the Israelis know they are committing war crimes it is the killing of the reporters for showing their crimes.   The place these attacks took place is in a zone that no Israeli is supposed to be even allowed in.   Israeli is out of control and they use our taxpayer money to do it.  The reason the reporter wanted to go to that spot was because a palestinian man’s son was killed and those with him hunted for 2 hours by settlers.  The settlers live in the homes that the Palestinians built for themselves.  Israeli settlers are nothing more than thieving thugs, and the population of Israel supports  them which makes all those in Israel supporting this nothing more than thieving thugs.  The people in these cars were terrified.  You can hear it in the cries of the people in the car.  The US ambassador supports Israel in this killing of US people.  Please watch and do what you can to stop these lawless attacks against innocent people by Israeli settlers.   Hugs


 

 

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 7-18-2026

Yesterday, I stumbled on a forum dedicated to hate me, where people basically spend their lives spewing transphobic bs, obsessing over my body, making up stuff about me, sharing awful parodies of my work, etc. It really got to me, as I’ve been living...

 

Yesterday, I stumbled on a forum dedicated to hate me, where people basically spend their lives spewing transphobic bs, obsessing over my body, making up stuff about me, sharing awful parodies of my work, etc. It really got to me, as I’ve been living with the knowledge that these people are constantly there, stalking each of my movements, for several years now.

I will never understand this kind of hate. I cried a good deal of tears. It was important. I need to feel in order to find the will and energy to create. I remembered who I do all this work for : us. The ones I call my family. My trans siblings. That’s why my new book starts with “we”. That’s why I’m announcing it in the urgency, as a memorandum for these troubled times and a reminder that we are stronger together, and that we need to be there for each other.

We won’t be erased.  Pre-order it on my Etsy store

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

watt a terrifying view

three sides

vacuum cleaner starts crying

ignoring you in ultra hd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Image from A sudden, violent jerk....

 

 

 

#politics from watch the angel, not the wire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image from Quaker Joe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conversation Starter: Is the very beauty of what is to come ruined by man?

I recently had a somewhat uncomfortable conversation with my Dad. At 88-years old, he is understandably considering what comes next, and knowing that I’m a ‘blowhard democrat and therefore think I know everything‘, lol, he made it part of my own considerations – at least out loud. But, as we talked, I began to realize that how we look at “what comes next” truly inspires how we view this thing called life, what we value and hold dear.

When I was much younger, I had the opportunity to read Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. I think I’d like to read it again. It was a story that had a great impact on a young troubled life, and while I am sure I didn’t get nearly as much from the book as was offered, I still carry some of that book within my thoughts nearly 35 years later. Chief among those ringing ideas was the consideration that we are on this world to be excellent, to fly free and powerfully, to be our best selves. It is an idea that gives me hope and conviction on the same blade, for I’ve not made much of myself. What I have done, perhaps better late than never, is I’ve begun to understand what is important to me and I’ve tried to adjust my life accordingly.

During my studies of different religions, I found a great deal of beauty. It is probably shocking to some, but Muslims have a beautiful religion filled with dedication to their God, peace and humility. I recently heard a person of influence, a politician, say publicly that he “hated the Muslim religion”. I thought that was tragic. He has painted a billion people with a the same brush and feels fully justified in his self-righteous hate. His words did not influence me to hate Muslims, they only brought me sadness. Here is a man who hopes to profit by hate, and I can only imagine what those wages bring.

Over the years, I’ve come to find a lot of hope in the Christian Faith, but I don’t find myself deluded into thinking that the Bible is definitive or that the Pulpit is infallible. Clearly humans have left their mark on both, and both have gained their insecurities and foibles. Unfortunately, most religions are marked by the greedy and deluded powerful who are sure that they know what is best for everyone and damned be those who disagree. As a result, parishioners lose their search for what is beautiful and magnificent in whatever may come next. They instead follow a set of rules, a kind of club, a group identity. They have given up on God and hope only to please the pastor and Sister Bertha Betterthanyou. They have forsaken courage to seek for the safety of the flock.

Perhaps this is just what we are. How many of us are caught in this idea that by hating someone else, we are somehow doing as God would want? I would be very curious to ask them what they value, and then would I be so brave to ask how their spoken values reflect their current words. Do they value freedom, or just their own freedom? Do they value love, or only for those like them? Do they value hope, but do performative acts some man told them would get them into Heaven? Do they seek or are they comfortable in being told what to think, what to feel, what to do? Do they look for what comes next or are they seeking identity and safety in a church, a political movement, in the acceptance of someone seeking to control them?

I don’t know what I would tell Dad if he asked me again. I don’t think the answer is in religion, any religion. I do think there is something that comes next, what I would loosely if respectfully refer to as God, and if I could quote Ghandi I’d say that God is not restricted by any single religion. I want to believe that this beautiful thing called life doesn’t end. I want to believe in Love. I want to rest in Hope. I want to live a life absolutely riddled with awe at how fabulous humanity can be, rather than live a life of judgement and insecurity. And, when I regard my final days I hope I am looking forward with eager anticipation for all the wonders I will experience.

-Randy