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TIDBITS- AUG. 7 -READERS COMMENTS: NOT JUST TEXAS-VOTING RIGHTS,
DEMOCRACY UNDER ASSAULT; ICE; GOP COVER-UP-ULTRA RICH POWER GRAB AND
CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING; GAZA IS TIME TO REMEMBER HIROSHIMA – WAR IS
NOT HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS;  
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_ Readers Comments: Not Just Texas, It's Voting Rights and Democracy
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Child Sex Trafficking; Gaza is Time to Remember Hiroshima - War is Not
Healthy for Children and Other Living Things; _

Aug 7, 2025 -Reader Comments, Resources, Shorts, xxxxxx

 

* KEEP SMILING OR ELSE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: THE GOP’S NEW CIVIL WAR AGAINST AMERICA ISN’T WITH BULLETS
— IT’S WITH BALLOTS  (MICHAEL KLONSKY; TOM EDMINSTER)
* RE: MAMDANI’S WINNING FORMULA: FUSE THE MESSAGE AND THE MEDIA
 (GAR LIPOW)
* CRISIS ACTORS  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: ZIONIST MCCARTHYISM COMES FOR CUNY  (JUDYTH HOLLUB)
* COWARDS! LOSERS! THUGS!  ICE RECRUITING POSTER  --  MEME AND
COMMENTARY BY LALO ALCARAZ
* ICE BLOCK  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: READ THE BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS ON HIS FEUD WITH
TRUMP  (VELVA SPRIGGS)
* RE: BRITAIN’S NEW LEFT-WING PARTY MAY BE DEVASTATING FOR LABOUR
 (TED PIERCE)
* RE: WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO GET U.S. CITIZENS TO WORK THE FARM —
ACCORDING TO DOLORES HUERTA  (NORA LAPIN)
* FUNHOUSE MIRROR  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: IN A TIME OF PEACE  (NHJ)
* THEN AND NOW  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY JESSE DUQUETTE

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SHORTS:

 

* GERRYMANDERED BALLS  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY CLAY JONES

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* WAR IS NOT HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS

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KEEP SMILING OR ELSE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
August 7, 2025
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: THE GOP’S NEW CIVIL WAR AGAINST AMERICA ISN’T WITH BULLETS —
IT’S WITH BALLOTS
 

Reminds me of Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech from
1964.

Michael Klonsky
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a good article, yet... an important one..
Texas Dem representatives made a a tactical retreat...
to deny Texas RP the ability to further disenfranchise black & brown &
..in Texas..!!
"flee" suggested some avoidance....i.e. not accurate

Tom Edminster
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RE: MAMDANI’S WINNING FORMULA: FUSE THE MESSAGE AND THE MEDIA
 

Don't forget the third leg of the stool. 40,000 volunteers going door
to door

Gar Lipow
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CRISIS ACTORS  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS

 

 

_War criminal Bibi Netanyahu is claiming that all of the images of
starving Palestinians in Gaza are just Hamas-generated propaganda.
Hmm. What about the IDF soldiers who shoot and kill those same
starving people as they line up for food assistance? Are they
propaganda too?_
 

Rob Rogers
August 1, 2025
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RE: ZIONIST MCCARTHYISM COMES FOR CUNY
 

I hope the ones who were fired sue to get their positions back. These
Universities have to stop capitulating. Labeling support of
Palestinians as anti-Semitic is bogus.

Judyth Hollub
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COWARDS! LOSERS! THUGS!  ICE RECRUITING POSTER  --  MEME AND
COMMENTARY BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

_My latest for CALÓ News! The Department of Homeland Security is
heavily recruiting more ICE agents, but are not having as much success
as they hoped. I think an honest recruitment poster, just like ol’
Uncle Sam used to put up around the country to attract young men and
women to save in the Armed Forces might just be the final solution to
their problem._
 

Lalo Alcaraz
July 30, 2025
CALÓ News!
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ICE BLOCK  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

_9th Circuit Judges uphold the block on ICE's racial profiling sweeps
against our Latino immigrant communities and anyone in Los Angeles.
Somehow I haven't heard of any sweeps in Beverly Hills, unless you
count the rumor that nannies were being hounded, which seemed to be
fake. We hope that our residents can stop feeling terrorized by our
own government and its goons._
 

Lalo Alcaraz
August 5, 2025
CALÓ News
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RE: READ THE BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS ON HIS FEUD WITH TRUMP
 

Thank you for this interview.  Right On, President Lula.  I wish our
American institutions, such as our universities, that have folded
under Trump's threats, were as strong as you are. Your stand is
absolutely correct and appropriate for one sovereign nation to another
in international communications.

Velva Spriggs

 

RE: BRITAIN’S NEW LEFT-WING PARTY MAY BE DEVASTATING FOR LABOUR
 

wonderful to have a real Left party in UK! congrats Jeremy and others!
God speed in your work!

Ted Pierce
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RE: WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO GET U.S. CITIZENS TO WORK THE FARM —
ACCORDING TO DOLORES HUERTA

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Absolutely wonderful.  Huerta is a miracle.

Nora Lapin

 

FUNHOUSE MIRROR  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON
 

 

_In a turn of events that would make Orwell blush and your high school
math teacher weep, President Trump has fired the head
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the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Erika McEntarfer, because the
latest jobs report didn’t flatter him enough. According to Trump,
the report—which showed weaker-than-expected job growth—was not
simply bad news, but part of a deep-state conspiracy “CONCOCTED”
to tarnish what he called “a great Republican success.”_

Nick Anderson
August 5, 2025
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RE: IN A TIME OF PEACE

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Thank you for introducing me to this poet who, I'm embarrassed to
admit, I did not know.

nhj

THEN AND NOW  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY JESSE DUQUETTE

 

_There’s nothing quite making a central element of your political
existence the pursuit of pedophiles, and one pedophile in particular,
only to end up doing your level-best to treat those closest to them
with kid gloves and obfuscation. We all know the most likely outcome
of this whole Ghislaine mess is that she will lie and exonerate Trump
in exchange for a pardon, because…well, why wouldn’t she? Anyone
expecting Maxwell to be this year’s Mueller is in for rough
surprise._

Jesse Duquette
Week of July 28 - August 4, 2025
Weekly Cartoon Round-up #20
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GERRYMANDERED BALLS  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY CLAY JONES

Republicans are cheating again

 

 

What do Republicans cheat at more, golf or elections? It’s a tough
call. But cheating at one of those things means that they’ll cheat
at the other.

Republicans in Texas are trying to reshape their congressional
districts, even though it’s not the time redistricting is normally
done. Usually, that’s shortly after the results of the census are
published (which is once a decade), and states redistrict according to
the new population size, and to fit with possible changes, such as new
districts or losing them.

During the last census, Texas picked up two congressional seats
because its population grew during the 2010s. Since the Texas
legislature is controlled by Republicans, they were able to draw up
the district maps. Naturally, they redraw them to favor Republicans.
It’s not like they would do it honestly. They’re Republicans.

This is called gerrymandering, and Texas is one of the most
gerrymandered states in the nation. Wisconsin is number one.

Texas now has 38 congressional districts, with 25 of them going to
Republicans, 12 going to Democrats, and one is currently vacant. But
even after winning a huge majority after gerrymandering, 25
congressional seats are not enough for Texas Republicans, so they want
to redraw the lines again in their favor.

Texas will be blue someday, or at least a swing state. The best way to
keep people from sending Democrats to Congress is to take away
Democratic candidates. After gerrymandering, voters are not choosing
the candidate. The candidates are choosing the voters. It’s
horrible, rotten, unfair, and neither party should do it. But
Republicans don’t care if they cheat.

After Joe Biden won the presidency in 2020 in what experts say was the
most secure election in American history, Republicans cried foul and
set out to change election laws in every state. In Georgia, for
example, where Biden won in 2020, and Blue areas are growing,
Republicans changed voting laws, and Trump won over Kamala Harris in
2024 by just 2.20 percent. In Texas, they focused on changing the
laws, not for every district, just the districts that had a majority
of Black voters. They tried to make it as hard as hell to vote in
Houston.

Republicans said all these changes were for election “integrity.”
But how much integrity do you have when you make it illegal to give an
old lady a bottle of water while she’s waiting in line for nine
hours in the Georgia heat? It’s a fact that when fewer people vote,
Republicans win.

The 2024 election, which Trump “won,” had fewer voters than in
2020, when Biden won.

Republicans are afraid they’ll lose the House next year because they
only have a two-seat majority at this time, and Donald Trump is the
worst president in history, which will be a drag on the party.
Currently, Trump’s approval is below 40 percent. I know. That high?
In 2018, just two years into Trump’s first term, the Blue Wave hit
and Republicans lost 40 House seats. Republicans know that it can
happen again.

Now, Republicans are trying to fix the game. They don’t care how
they win, just so long as they win. They don’t care if their
elections are as fixed as a golf tournament in MAGA-Lardo.

Texas Democratic legislators don’t have the votes to defeat the
GOP’s evil plan, so they’ve fled the state so the legislature
won’t have a quorum. Without a quorum, the legislature can’t vote
for it. I’m shocked they haven’t changed that law yet.

This is a delay tactic by the Democrats, but they may be able to push
it off until the next session, as the current session is a special one
called by Governor Greg Abbott. This session was called to address the
recent floods that killed at least 135 people, but Abbott and
Republicans are using it to cheat at elections. That’s despicable,
using Texans’ deaths to play sleazy politics. Republicans are the
worst.

So where did the Democrats go? Most went to blue states where they
have support, like New York and Illinois. MAGA cartoonist DANA
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the Democrats would flee to Illinois, because he thinks that’s the
most gerrymandered state in the nation. Dana is a moron. He doesn’t
even fact-check unless he fact-checked his ass, because that’s where
he pulled the “data” from. When it comes to the most gerrymandered
states, Illinois ISN’T EVEN ON THE LIST
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Go Cubs!

Another lie, like the one being used by the racist cartooning
dunderheads, MARGOLIS & COX
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is that Democrats gerrymander more. But when you look at the states
that gerrymander the most, they’re all Republican states except for
Maryland. The map shows the tops for gerrymandering are Wisconsin,
Utah, Arkansas, Louisiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, North
Carolina, and, of course, Texas. The only blue state on the list is
Maryland.

I hate liars. I don’t bash the MAGA cartoonists for being bad
cartoonists, and they are. I hit them for being liars, and in
MargoCox’s case, also for being racists.

Abbott wants the Democrats arrested and brought back to Texas, as
though they all fled the state to get abortions. But Abbott can’t
order the New York or Illinois state police to arrest anyone. Donald
Trump, who is a huge supporter of Texas’s cheating, is talking about
using the FBI to go after the fled Democrats.

Senator John Cornyn, the governor, and corrupt Texas attorney general
Ken Paxton are accusing Democrats of breaking the law. Calling in the
FBI, headed by Kash Patel, will be using the department politically.
Paxton is talking about throwing all the Democrats out of office.

While some blue states like California are pondering the idea of doing
their own redistricting to cancel out Texas’ steal attempt, other
Republican states like Missouri are talking about doing the same
thing.

With these cheats, Congress will be less credible than the Supreme
Court.

Clay Jones
August 5, 2025
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