Joshua Smithrud

Sign Petition: 'Alligator Alcatraz' Is the Newest Site of Human Rights Abuses Against Immigrants. Demand Its Closur Maggots in their food, sweltering conditions, overflowing toilets, and being locked inside cages in tents: these are the conditions of 'Alligator Alcatraz.' (30876 signatures on petition)

Thank you. Your name here means so much to those of us who have lived through this before and to those who are living through it now.

— Uncle George

www.thepetitionsite.com/983/564/587/...

“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

So psyched to get more character backstory!

WOW! My friend @booker.senate.gov just spoke on the Senate floor for over 24 HOURS, blocking Trump’s dangerous & disastrous agenda, and BREAKING THE RECORD of a man who stood in the way of civil rights!

This is what Democrats must do in this moment: stand up, disrupt, make good trouble!

Cory Booker breaks a 68-year-old Senate record with a 25-hour speech The New Jersey Democrat spent more than 25 hours criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. ET Monday. He ended his marathon speech sh...

The New Jersey Democrat spent more than 25 hours criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. ET Monday. He ended his marathon speech shortly after 8 p.m. on Tuesday.

GO CORY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nearly every Republican in the Senate voted to overturn a Biden Admin rule that limited bank overdraft fees to $5.

This rule, initially established by the now gutted CFPB, was expected to save consumers $5 billion annually.

The GOP is the party of junk fees.

Whatcom County labor activist who was detained by ICE agents transferred to Tacoma facility Hundreds of people protested the arrest of activist and union organizer Alfredo (Lelo) Juarez Zeferino, who is now being held in Tacoma

This is a story I hadn't seen mention of yet... Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, a prominent farming labor activist in WA, was arrested by ICE. This article says he was dragged out of a car through a broken after asking to see a warrant: www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politic...

H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics (Gift Article) Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.

"Angry, disappointed, frustrated"--Scientists were making progress on vaccines and antivirals for the next pandemic--until this week, when the Trump administration abruptly told them to stop. Here's my story with @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Xz77q

Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

Why do I put my 4forty2nd comic up for free? Because of crap like this.

Collaborators with the fascists.

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

The Trump regime will arrest you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind.

And federal agents in plain clothes who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it.

If you think I'm being hyperbolic, watch this clip.

Holy cow. This is VERY well done.

This is what Team Fight looks like.

Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am.

#IncompetentKrasnov

"A screenshot of an NBC News article headline. The headline reads: 'Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail.' Below the headline, a subtext states: 'The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.' The NBC News logo is visible at the top, along with a navigation bar that includes a 'WATCH' button and a user profile icon."

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

“…the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR, 1938

By moving to the so-called “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Watch. The Failures of “Centrism”

It used to be clear that Democrats stood on the side of working people.

Then they started chasing the “center.”

Today’s Democratic establishment leaders have brought the party — and the country — down with them.

"A whole new level of cruelty": Health experts decry "devastating" cuts to HIV treatment programs The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation said the latest cuts will deprive 350,000 people of HIV treatment.

“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action.

www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.

Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.

Funny how that works, huh?

What a different world we could have.

Haha, fair enough. It's an amazing piece!

What are the chances the original is available? 😁

This is amazing! Love it! Definitely going to pick this up!

Have to say, I found this really disappointing. It's tiny and half of it is programming materials / advertising. This feels like maybe a slight upgrade over what might otherwise be a free program handed out to attendees... For $15... Please bring back Monsters and Dames.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

So, just cruelty for cruelty sake?

Cartoon by Nick Anderson