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Black-and-white portraits of three Confederate generals with full beards: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and J.E.B. Stuart. The caption contrasts Pete Hegseth’s claim that “facial hair is incompatible with the warrior ethos” with these historic figures, highlighting the irony.

Lee, Jackson, Stuart. Beards.

Without these “beardos,” the Confederacy would have been down quite a few warriors.

#Confederacy #MAGA #Beardos

A meme split into three sections. Top right: an illustration of Martin Luther King Jr. with the quote, “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.” Bottom left: a cartoon illustration of Charlie Kirk with MLK’s real quote, “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Across the middle, bold white text on a black banner reads: “Match the quote to the man. One preached equality. The other peddled racism. MAGA says they’re the same.”

One of these things is not like the other.

#satire
#MLKJr
#Antifa

Cartoon of a rainbow-painted VW bus covered in protest flags and bumper stickers. Flags on the roof say “ANTIFA,” “Black Lives Matter,” and “Climate Justice Now.” The sides are plastered with stickers like “Tax the Rich,” “My Other Car Runs on Tofu,” and “Free the Bees.” A peace sign decorates the front. On the roof are yoga mats, crates, and a compost bin. A dog in a bandana rides shotgun, while a passenger plays a ukulele in the back. The license plate reads “ANT1FA.” Caption below: “ANTI-FASCIST EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.”

The First Armored Division of Antifa has rolled on to Portland’s streets.

These are the terrorists Dear Leader warned us about…

#portland
#satire
#antifa

Make MiddleEarth Great Again! I bet he’ll do something about those dwarves taking all those mining jobs, too.

#Satire
#gollum
#MakeMiddleEarthGreatAgain

Fake Donald Trump post parody. At the top, a tweet-style message from @realDonaldTrump reads: “I never liked Mickey. Used to be FUNNY, not anymore. TOTAL has-been. Thinks he’s got the BIGGEST HANDS — WRONG. I have the BIGGEST HANDS. He’s got tiny hands, tiny ears. He better not PROTECT that late-night hack!!!! PATHETIC! TOTAL DISASTER. People are saying MICKEY IS FINISHED. Should have his citizenship revoked. Believe me! Thank you for your attention to this matter DJT.” It shows 65M views, dated Feb 22, 2025. Below, a graphic compares Mickey Mouse’s gloved cartoon hands labeled “BIG HANDS” versus a pair of tiny baby hands labeled “tiny hands.”

BREAKING: Mickey meltdown on Truth Social

President attacks Mouse.

#Satire #TinyHands #MakeDisneyGreatAgain

An angry Donald Duck: Donald Resigns. I didn’t fight Nazis so Disney could sell out to corporate fat cats. Get your ears out of your butt, Mickey—viewers deserve honesty, not consolidation. —Donald Duck, storming off with feathers flying

Donald Duck says: QUACK OFF, FASCISTS.

I QUIT. 🦆

#FreeSpeech #WeAreKimmel #QUACKOFF

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

I can't get over how weird this photo is. I love that someone in England captioned it: "Darling, be a dear and DO click on the floor lamp."

Cartoon of Wile E. Coyote grinning while holding a stick of TNT and standing next to a TV showing Colbert, Fallon, Meyers, and John Oliver. Above him, bold text reads: “Come on boys, if we’re going out, let’s go out with a BANG!” The word “BANG!” is in red comic letters inside a yellow explosion.

Colbert’s got nothing to lose.
Stewart could give a fuck less.
Meyers and Fallon — just a matter of time.

So what do you do?
You open the ACME app (now with one-day delivery), order a crate of TNT, maybe throw in a couple of anvils…

…and go out Wile E. Coyote style. 💥

Black-and-white cartoon parody of Donald Duck at a desk in a grim Nazi-style setting. A framed portrait of Donald Trump hangs on the wall in place of Hitler. On the desk sits a book labeled Mein Kampf, a bottle marked “Nazi Swastika Sauce & Bugs,” and a saw. A cuckoo clock with a swastika is in the background. The image references the 1943 Disney short Der Fuehrer’s Face, reimagining Donald Duck under Trump’s authoritarian shadow.

During WWII, Disney put their art to work against fascism. Donald Duck starred in Der Fuehrer’s Face, a wild cartoon where he dreams he’s trapped in “Nutzi-land.”

80 later, Donald is on the wrong side of history.

#Disney #WWII #DerFuehrersFace #Satire #HistoryRepeats

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Black-and-white photo of American soldiers landing on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. They wade through the surf toward enemy fire. Overlaid text at the top reads: “ANTIFA ‘Terrorists’ Land in Normandy, June 6, 1944.” At the bottom: “They weren’t called terrorists then. They were called heroes.”

They weren’t called terrorists then. They were called heroes.

On June 6, 1944, antifascists stormed Normandy. Fascism didn’t fall on its own — it was resisted.

It was fought. It was defeated.

Resist. Persist.

#NeverForget #DDay #Resist #Antifa

Trans rights are human rights.

We've now distributed $2.1B+ in voter-approved Prop. 1 funding for local governments to build out supportive housing and mental health programs for homeless Californians.

After decades of inaction, we're making progress tackling each component part of the homelessness crisis.

A single dandelion pushes up through a crack in the sidewalk. White seed head against blurred background. Text on the image reads: “Democracy requires stubborn persistence.” The image symbolizes resilience and endurance in difficult conditions.

The Constitution was exclusionary by design. Yet Enlightenment ideals slipped through the cracks. Abolition, suffrage, civil rights grew like dandelions in the sidewalk. The experiment isn’t finished. Democracy requires stubborn persistence. 🌼

YouTube video by Alex Forsythe Fred Rogers: Look for the Helpers

I get asked constantly -- from friends, family, random people I meet, from separate friends' parents in the last 24 hours -- how I report on politics, especially now, without giving in to despair and cynicism.

I credit Mr. Rogers.

"Always look for the helpers." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LGH...

Illustration of children lined up at a bright ice cream truck with the words Ice Cream / Helados painted on the side. A smiling vendor hands a popsicle to a child reaching up. The bottom text reads: “Ice Cream Trucks not ICE Trucks.” The image contrasts childhood innocence with the cruelty of immigration raids.

Kids deserve ice cream trucks, not ICE trucks.

Joy, not fear. Community, not raids. 🍦

#IceCreamNotICE #CommunityNotRaids #RightsAndReason #HeladosForAll

Europe & Asia are investing for the future & getting ready for the 22nd century. The US, on the other hand is going backwards to the 19th century. They want to go back to just fossil fuels.

Gray concrete wall with bold black stencil text: “I HEAR MIGRANT CHILDREN HAVE HEARTBEATS, TOO.” Beneath the words is a graffiti-style broken heart symbol, dripping like paint.

Different places, but the story’s the same.

Migrant children. Gaza’s children.

They all have heartbeats.

Georgia Sen. Ossoff Investigates ICE: Probe Reveals Hundreds of Credible Reports Of Abuses In Immigration Detention In one instance, a mother begged for medical help after her child, a U.S citizen, began to vomit blood while in CBP custody. “Just give the girl a cracker,” a guard replied.

new from @tusk81.bsky.social:

@ossoff.senate.gov’s investigation has uncovered 500+ credible human rights abuses in immigration detention, ranging from sexual assault and denial of medical care to the mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii form West Coast Health Alliance for vaccines guidelines Sept 3, 2025 Reuters California, Oregon and Washington form health alliance amid federal vaccine tensions U.S. states of California, Oregon and Washington said on Wednesday they have launched a new he...

Now we just need Alaska to come on board.

@dailykos.com

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

Offshore wind could have saved New England ratepayers millions last winter A recent report found that projects off Massachusetts and Rhode Island could have driven down wholesale electricity costs throughout the region if they had not been delayed.

A report published last week found that if projects off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island had been online by the winter, they could have produced enough energy to power more than 560,000 homes for a year while reducing wholesale costs across the region by roughly $400 million.

#ANewHope 🙏

Gray concrete-textured background with bold black stencil text reading: “I HEAR MIGRANT CHILDREN HAVE HEARTBEATS, TOO.” Below the words is a graffiti-style cracked heart graphic. Bottom corner shows the Rights & Reason logo.

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Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in