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Subject Tidbits- Aug.14 -Readers Comments: Police State Take-Over of Washington, DC; Israel Continues To Murder Gaza Journalists; NYC Mayor’s Race – Call for Universal Childcare; Chick-fil-A Fined for Child Labor; New Resource – Social Security FAQ; and More
Date August 15, 2025 12:00 AM
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TIDBITS- AUG.14 -READERS COMMENTS: POLICE STATE TAKE-OVER OF
WASHINGTON, DC; ISRAEL CONTINUES TO MURDER GAZA JOURNALISTS; NYC
MAYOR’S RACE – CALL FOR UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE; CHICK-FIL-A FINED FOR
CHILD LABOR; NEW RESOURCE – SOCIAL SECURITY FAQ; AND MORE  
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_ Readers Comments: Police State Take-Over of Washington, DC; Israel
Continues to Murder Gaza Journalists; NYC Mayor’s Race - Call for
Universal Childcare; Chick-fil-A Fined for Child Labor; New Resource -
Social Security FAQ; Cartoons and lots more; _

idbits - Reader Comments, Resources, AND cartoons - Aug 14, 2025,
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* WHAT? ANOTHER ONE???  --  CARTOON BY JACK OHMAN
* RE: THE BIG LIES ABOUT ISRAEL, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND TRUMP  (TED
PIERCE; RONALD REOSTI)
* RE: GAZA CITY’S ICONIC SHUJA’IYYA NEIGHBORHOOD NO LONGER
EXISTS  (FRANCISCO JAVIER GONZALEZ SOSA)
* RE: AWDAH HATHALEEN SHOWED ME HOW TO IMAGINE FREEDOM  (NORA
LAPIN)
* GAZA JOURNALISTS  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: CONFERENCE REPORT: INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR PEACE 2025  (ETHAN
YOUNG; TOM EDMINSTER)
* MAGA TROOPS AVOID TOP D.C. CRIME ZONE  --  CARTOON BY LALO
ALCARAZ
* MAGA - MAKE AMERICA GERMANY AGAIN  --  CARTOON BY BENJAMIN
SLYNGSTAD
* RE: NYC MAYOR’S RACE: ELIZABETH WARREN CAMPAIGNS WITH MAMDANI IN
NYC, CALLING FOR UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE AT DC37 UNION HEADQUARTERS  (TED
PIERCE)
* RE: CORPORATIONS WANT TO PREVENT WORKERS FROM LEAVING THEIR JOBS
 (C DON JONES)
* PEDOPHILE APOLOGIST  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: WE DON’T NEED NUCLEAR REACTORS ON THE MOON  (DEBORAH R
KINGERY)
* RE: THE LIBERAL WHO HATES LEFTISTS  (LITA KURTH)
* LIKE THE GESTAPO, BUT FOR COWARDS  --  CARTOON BY JESSE DUQUETTE

* RE: MAR-JAC POULTRY, CHICK-FIL-A’S CHICKEN PROVIDER, FINED FOR
CHILD LABOR  (KAREN GEORGE; MEL BLAKELY; KT MARIE; WILLIAM DOYLE;
LORRIE STEPHENS; ROBERT LORENZ; MELISSA GINGERICH; CHUCK THEILE;
GRACIE MOTO; PANDORA TADEFA-EVERETT; BETTY COLE PROPER)
* THE SMELL TEST  --  CARTOON BY PAT BAGLEY

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* SOCIAL SECURITY FAQ  (ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE)

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WHAT? ANOTHER ONE???  --  CARTOON BY JACK OHMAN

 

Jack Ohman
August 13, 2025
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RE: THE BIG LIES ABOUT ISRAEL, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND TRUMP
 

Wow--the dynamic duo of evil-- two monsters in one photo! Like Hitler
and Mussolini meeting in 1937. Shouldn't we expect to see them embrace
each other? No one else on earth would touch these two examples of
extreme human depravity. And the story is not over, guys-- we are
living in this era of evil, and it is our human and moral
responsibility to fight them, to call out evil, to combat the insane
policies they both champion. Time to move against them my friends--
the world, the elders, our parents, our grandchildren are watching.
Will we be known as the generation of moral cowards? Do we have less
courage than our warriors in the Revolutionary War, or the heroes who
gave their lives in WW2? Now is our testing time and only those who
fight the good fight can die with a clear conscience that they gave
their all. Which side are you on? Justice? peace? or cowardice and
despair? We all must answer-- and now.

Ted Pierce
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does his test for hamas apply to likud

Ronald Reosti

 

RE: GAZA CITY’S ICONIC SHUJA’IYYA NEIGHBORHOOD NO LONGER EXISTS
 

Zionism is a cancer in need of aggressive chemotherapy

Francisco Javier Gonzalez Sosa
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RE: AWDAH HATHALEEN SHOWED ME HOW TO IMAGINE FREEDOM
 

Wonderful article but I don't quite understand why the author moved to
Israel.  The time I visited about 20 years ago, I didn't like it at
all.  As an Israeli journalist once wrote, even then there was an air
of pervasive rudeness.

Nora Lapin

 

GAZA JOURNALISTS  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON

 

 

_There are few sights more chilling than the funeral procession of
truth itself—its pallbearers carrying not caskets, but the silenced
voices of those who dared to bear witness. On Sunday night in Gaza,
the Israeli military turned a tent full of reporters into a funeral
home, killing five journalists in an airstrike. Among them was Anas
al-Sharif, one of Gaza’s most recognizable journalists, whose work
for Al Jazeera chronicled the war’s atrocities with unflinching
clarity..._

Nick Anderson
August 13, 2025
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RE: CONFERENCE REPORT: INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR PEACE 2025 (BRUSSELS,
23–24 JUNE 2025)
 

The lack of a call for Russia to withdraw from Ukraine is striking. I
assume enough supporters of Putin were in the mix to make a deal that
leaves the Russian boss off the hook. Now the best of the European
peace movement have put themselves on their own hook.

Ethan Young
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Ethan Young negotiated efforts at peace

Tom Edminster
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that's kind of overlooking that one country is invading another.

Ethan Young
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Ethan Young "the national question" especially in context of post
USSR...is quite "problematic"...

Tom Edminster
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MAGA TROOPS AVOID TOP D.C. CRIME ZONE  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

 

Lalo Alcaraz
August 13, 2025
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MAGA - MAKE AMERICA GERMANY AGAIN  --  CARTOON BY BENJAMIN SLYNGSTAD

 

Benjamin Slyngstad
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RE: NYC MAYOR’S RACE: ELIZABETH WARREN CAMPAIGNS WITH MAMDANI IN
NYC, CALLING FOR UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE AT DC37 UNION HEADQUARTERS

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Yea! more and more real Dems (in their traditional FDR mode) need to
join with Zohran to show support and solidarity with the only
progressive NY politician (I know of) in the last 50 years at least.
Help bring the Mamdani movement to victory and overthrow the elites
ruling NYer's lives and making them so hard and unjust. Cuomo and his
allies are the bottom of a very dirty, morally filthy barrel. Well
said!

Ted Pierce
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RE: CORPORATIONS WANT TO PREVENT WORKERS FROM LEAVING THEIR JOBS
 

Indentured servitude returns

C Don Jones
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PEDOPHILE APOLOGIST  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS

 

 

_"Trump is finally taking "action" on the Epstein scandal. He has
moved Epstein's partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted
pedophile and sex trafficker, from a federal prison in Florida to a
luxury prison camp in Texas. Not exactly the "action" people are
demanding."_

Rob Rogers
August 8. 2025
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RE: WE DON’T NEED NUCLEAR REACTORS ON THE MOON
 

These people are nuts

Deborah R Kingery
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RE: THE LIBERAL WHO HATES LEFTISTS

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Amen and thank you.

I'm wondering (forward to the author) if Britain still considers
Pakistanis and Indians to be "black" because that possibly could skew
statistics about black and white?

I thought it was a great article.

Lita Kurth

 

LIKE THE GESTAPO, BUT FOR COWARDS  --  CARTOON BY JESSE DUQUETTE

 

 

_I keep seeing those creepy “Defend the Homeland” placards about
joining ICE and it made me think they could use a more honest and
direct upgrade._

_I’d also like to clarify - since there were a number of comments
about this - that, yes of course, the Gestapo were cowards. All
bullies are. My point was that the Gestapo, unlike ICE, didn’t
require masks to hide their identity while being evil shits. A
distinction with minor difference, and mainly just taking shots at the
fascists we’re contending with right now._

Jesse Duquette
Week of Aug. 4 - 11, 2025
Weekly Cartoon Round-up #21
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RE: MAR-JAC POULTRY, CHICK-FIL-A’S CHICKEN PROVIDER, FINED FOR CHILD
LABOR

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I Have NEVER eaten their food and never will.

Karen George
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Oh look, yet another reason to continue my boycott of chick fil a

Mel Blakely
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Their stance on lgbtq rights is enough reason for me to drive by
without stopping, but this doesn’t seem surprising.

Kt Marie
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Chick-fil-A is one of the WORST companies in America

William Doyle
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I think Alabama has changed their work requirements like Governor
Sarah Huckabee Sanders did in Arkansas. The working age is now 14 and
they don't need a work permit.

Lorrie Stephens
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Any law punishable by fine is legal for a fee.

Robert Lorenz
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Oh my I’m surprised that this administration did anything about this
since they are trying to relabel children of 14 as adults.

Melissa Gingerich
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All these years, I never realized what it really meant to be
Christian.

Chuck Theile
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Trumps AmeriKKKa. What are you complaining about. Yall voted for this.

Gracie Moto
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plus its trash “ food”
salty crap sold by racist evangelicals

Pandora Tadefa-Everett
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What else would you expect out of an Evangelical joint?

Betty Cole Proper
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THE SMELL TEST  --  CARTOON BY PAT BAGLEY

 

Pat Bagley
August 4, 2025
The Salt Lake Tribune
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SOCIAL SECURITY FAQ  (ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE)

 

Report • By Monique Morrissey and Josh Bivens • August 11, 2025

Economic Policy Institute
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Social Security turns 90 this year. Despite its popularity and
exemplary record of never having missed a payment—even after the
9/11 terror attacks and Hurricane Katrina
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persist about many fundamental aspects of this universal program.

This FAQ provides essential background and facts, as well as answers
to some of the most frequently asked questions. It confirms that
Social Security is an extraordinarily valuable public program that is
well run, strategically designed, eminently sustainable, and popular
with the public. It will of course need some policy tweaking in coming
years to ensure that it continues to provide the same (or even
greater) level of economic security it provides today, but these
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