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Capitalism: gouging every last cent out of us so the Robber Barons can live large while we struggle to get by.
Cartoon by First Dog on the Moon @firstdogonthemoon.bluesky.social A cartoon animal is speaking while pointing at a diagram of a rocket labelled 'billionaires' heading into the sun. It reads: 'Remember capitalism is working perfectly. You're supposed to be exhausted and frightened that you will lose your job and die old and homeless: it makes it easier to treat you like garbage and pay you less. If you are worrying about the rent then you are not worrying about firing all the billionaires into the sun where they belong.' In the second frame, below, the animal is saying: 'Regardless of how today turned out you did the best that you could, and you can't do any more than that. Also I love you.'
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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And
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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The cover of 'Right wing women: the politics of domesticated females' by Andrea Dworkin. The picture shows cut and frayed rope bonds in an empty room.
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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And 'national security'.
The rest: sanitized or weaponised and ready to go.
He argued that the DOJ needs time to sift through the information and redact the names of innocent victims and other individuals, which could “destroy their lives.” “That’s what the Justice Department is doing,” he added. “I think they’re doing a deliberate job right now. And our job as the Article I branch is to allow the executive to do that. If it doesn’t come to fruition then we will act. But we have to allow that time to process.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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“A close read of enrollment figures from last year and this fall shows that the pipeline of global talent in the US is in a precarious position,”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Graph showing 17% decline in international enrollments at US universites compared to 2020 (pandemic) and Trumps first term (smaller but significant drop in numbers).
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Enjoy!
Moomintroll reads a book by lamplight
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Sire: the pedants are revolting!
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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American politics today
A white ball breaks the pack on a pool table. Balls everywhere
November 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Politics today
A pool table with a cue. The white ball breaks the pack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Just look at them.
Portrait shots of the 8 Democrat senators who voted with Republicans and enabled cuts to health insurance. Caption reads: Shame on you. Their names: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Where’s the Lie?

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org
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Quote from linked piece "Spoiler alert: That case is unspeakably, breathtakingly devoid of merit. To see it laid out in all its patchwork threadbaredness is to gasp with embarrassment for the prosecutors who have presented this to an American court. It is to understand why no career prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia would work this case and why Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan had to import two sacrificial lambs from North Carolina to litigate the matter. To read it is to spend 48 pages understanding the depth of corruption in the Justice Department in the second Trump administration." https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--where-s-the-lie
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Hope, excitement, turn-out...

Who did this?
headline of the New York Times today, Tuesday 4th November 2025. "New York Mayor's Race Draws Highest Turnout Since 2001" Photograph of candidate Zohran Mamdani at a voting booth.
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Mike Johnson's Halloween House of Horrors
A background of Halloween lanterns, bats and spooky trees text reads: REPUBLICAN TRICK OR TREAT CANCEL SNAP CLOSE THE HOUSE BLAME DEMOCRATS
October 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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This is where I rely on satirists, dank memes, and sick humour to preserve my sanity.

Bring on the Trolls.
Satirical post by John Fugelsang: "NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE" "US House Speaker Mike Johnson"
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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See also: www.theguardian.com/politics/200...
Tory agriculture minister John Selwyn Gummer and his 4 year old daughter Cordelia tucking into a beefburger on a visit to the East Coast Boat Show 1997 to 'reassure the public' that there was no risk of Mad Cow (BSE) from eating British Beef. See also: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/oct/12/uk.bse
October 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Happy #NationalCatDay America.

From Milady de Winter.
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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"Use the Force Luke"
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Damn right the political will to feed people isn't there.
Republicans ran for office on this.
That's what 'The Mandate for Leadership' said they would do.

And the shutdown is part of that plan, to rule through the executive.
They made Congress irrelevant.
https://democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/ Project 2025 Snapshot Proposals from Project 2025, discussed in detail throughout this guide, that they claim could be implemented through executive branch action alone — so without new legislation — include: Cut overtime protections for 4.3 million workers Stop efforts to lower prescription drug prices Limit access to food assistance, which an average of more than 40 million people in 21.6 million households rely on monthly Eliminate the Head Start early education program, which serves over 1 million children annually Cut American Rescue Plan (ARP) programs that have created or saved 220,000 jobs Restrict access to medication abortion Push more of the 33 million people enrolled in Medicare towards Medicare Advantage and other worse, private options Expose the 368,000 children in foster care to risk of increased discrimination Deny students in 25 states and Washington, D.C. access to student loans because their state provides in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants Roll back civil rights protections across multiple fronts, including cutting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related (DEI) programs and LGBTQ+ rights in health care, education, and workplaces.
October 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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And the Republicans that America elected to Congress fight for exactly that.

democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...
Project 2025 Snapshot Proposals from Project 2025, discussed in detail throughout this guide, that they claim could be implemented through executive branch action alone — so without new legislation — include: Cut overtime protections for 4.3 million workers Stop efforts to lower prescription drug prices Limit access to food assistance, which an average of more than 40 million people in 21.6 million households rely on monthly Eliminate the Head Start early education program, which serves over 1 million children annually Cut American Rescue Plan (ARP) programs that have created or saved 220,000 jobs Restrict access to medication abortion Push more of the 33 million people enrolled in Medicare towards Medicare Advantage and other worse, private options Expose the 368,000 children in foster care to risk of increased discrimination Deny students in 25 states and Washington, D.C. access to student loans because their state provides in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants Roll back civil rights protections across multiple fronts, including cutting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related (DEI) programs and LGBTQ+ rights in health care, education, and workplaces https://democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Ahaha
AHAHAHA

The GOP did not read Project 2025.

Reimposing work requirements on SNAP and cutting the Thrifty Food Plan is in pages 299-300 of the 'Mandate for Leadership' democracyforward.org/make-it-hard...
Project 2025 Snapshot Proposals from Project 2025, discussed in detail throughout this guide, that they claim could be implemented through executive branch action alone — so without new legislation — include: Cut overtime protections for 4.3 million workers Stop efforts to lower prescription drug prices Limit access to food assistance, which an average of more than 40 million people in 21.6 million households rely on monthly Eliminate the Head Start early education program, which serves over 1 million children annually Cut American Rescue Plan (ARP) programs that have created or saved 220,000 jobs Restrict access to medication abortion Push more of the 33 million people enrolled in Medicare towards Medicare Advantage and other worse, private options Expose the 368,000 children in foster care to risk of increased discrimination Deny students in 25 states and Washington, D.C. access to student loans because their state provides in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants Roll back civil rights protections across multiple fronts, including cutting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related (DEI) programs and LGBTQ+ rights in health care, education, and workplaces https://democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Exactly as Project 2025 intended.

The shut-down is part of the plan to govern through the executive alone.
Project 2025 Snapshot Proposals from Project 2025, discussed in detail throughout this guide, that they claim could be implemented through executive branch action alone — so without new legislation — include: Cut overtime protections for 4.3 million workers Stop efforts to lower prescription drug prices Limit access to food assistance, which an average of more than 40 million people in 21.6 million households rely on monthly Eliminate the Head Start early education program, which serves over 1 million children annually Cut American Rescue Plan (ARP) programs that have created or saved 220,000 jobs Restrict access to medication abortion Push more of the 33 million people enrolled in Medicare towards Medicare Advantage and other worse, private options Expose the 368,000 children in foster care to risk of increased discrimination Deny students in 25 states and Washington, D.C. access to student loans because their state provides in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants Roll back civil rights protections across multiple fronts, including cutting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related (DEI) programs and LGBTQ+ rights in health care, education, and workplaces From: https://democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/
October 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Project 2025 is working exactly as advertised.

The shut-down is part of the plan.

democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...
Project 2025 Snapshot Proposals from Project 2025, discussed in detail throughout this guide, that they claim could be implemented through executive branch action alone — so without new legislation — include: Cut overtime protections for 4.3 million workers Stop efforts to lower prescription drug prices Limit access to food assistance, which an average of more than 40 million people in 21.6 million households rely on monthly Eliminate the Head Start early education program, which serves over 1 million children annually Cut American Rescue Plan (ARP) programs that have created or saved 220,000 jobs Restrict access to medication abortion Push more of the 33 million people enrolled in Medicare towards Medicare Advantage and other worse, private options Expose the 368,000 children in foster care to risk of increased discrimination Deny students in 25 states and Washington, D.C. access to student loans because their state provides in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants Roll back civil rights protections across multiple fronts, including cutting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related (DEI) programs and LGBTQ+ rights in health care, education, and workplaces https://democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/
October 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Charlie Brown says 'OH GOOD GRIEF'
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Use the Force, Luke...
Mock up of the Whitehouse replacing the East Wing with an image of the Death Star under construction.
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM