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(Kevin Siers, Charlotte Observer)
(Benjamin Slyngstad, @EandPCartoons)
(Ann Telnaes, Washington Post)
(Andy Marlette, Pensacola News-Journal)
(Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier-Journal, KY)
(Steve Breen, San Diego Union-Tribune)
Let's get political, dammit! --
The guys who politicize every pregnancy in America insist that you not politicize the senseless slaughter of 19 children.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 25, 2022
“Protecting” kids from masks, from LGBTQ people, from history, from getting health care but not from getting shot and killed at school.
— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) May 25, 2022
Got it.
"The filibuster is the only thing that prevents us from total insanity," Manchin said.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 25, 2022
How would he describe 18 dead children?
Yes, of course, be heartbroken. But then ask what you are going to do protect children in the future.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) May 25, 2022
By all means, be angry. But then calculate how much time, money, effort you can give to vote out the Senators and Congressman whose votes and corruption are killing our children.
You can vote it out. https://t.co/oqjBDYMZsm
— John (repeat1968) Buss (@repeat1968) May 25, 2022
Blood on his hands --
In 2021, Gov. Abbott signed 2 laws allowing Texans 21+ to carry handguns without licenses or gun training, and to allow certain 18-20 year olds to carry handguns too.
— Abby Vesoulis (@abbyvesoulis) May 24, 2022
Today, he says the shooting—which killed at least 14 children and one teacher—is "incomprehensible."
The youngest kids at Robb Elementary today were born the year he tweeted this https://t.co/KFU0TnB1bM
— Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) May 25, 2022
Who matters and who doesn't --
Ten days ago it took the Senate about twenty minutes to unanimously pass a bill extending security protection to the family members of Supreme Court justices when it looked like a house might be picketed.
— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) May 25, 2022
It's all a matter of whose families are worth protecting, and for what. They get extensive security, you get thoughts, prayers, and the idea that aw shucks it's just impossible to stop bad people from doing bad things.
— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) May 25, 2022
Released a few days ago, British singer James Bay has a sweet love song to his wife and infant of seven months. It's a brief, but melancholy, respite from the news of the day.
You may have seen this viral video of Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr deliver impassioned remarks yesterday before their game in San Antonio. No basketball talk, no basketball questions, just laying it on the line about the violence that day in Uvalde, a 90 minute drive away.
It'll hit you as the pictures of the children from yesterday's horror in Uvalde, Texas, start being broadcast. Second, third and fourth graders, their small faces full of innocence and wonder, some smiling some not. Their photos will shatter you and tear you up, like the photos from Sandy Hook Elementary did almost 10 years ago. At some point, their pictures will be small squares neatly displayed on your screen, nineteen of them and counting.
Our own children have little ones of elementary school age, and we shudder to think what parents and children are imagining this morning as they go off to school. We know what we're imagining and fearing, not only in schools but in grocery stores, parks, malls, and everywhere kids gather. What needs to happen is for all parents, grandparents and their families to imagine the worst, and to channel that fear into a continuing, angry resolve to act, to demand action on gun safety, because that may be the only thing that saves us from this continuing darkness.
The vile and bloody gun makers lobby's strategy after such massacres is to lay low and instruct their lackeys in politics (and by that we mean the Republican / Shooters / Great Replacement Party) to accuse those that want strong gun control legislation of "playing politics." They know that this is the EXACT time to discuss those measures before the country drifts back into its fog of memory and everyday life. We can't let that strategy work again, we can't be deterred or demoralized lest the future be like the past but worse. Look at the faces of the children from Uvalde, Newtown, and Parkland, and say you can't do anything.
"There was this reaction to Barack's election. There were things released by the Trump election. And now it all came together on Jan. 6. All these people with these so-called grievances and this sense of mistreatment were there attacking the greatest symbol of our democracy.
Seeing a Confederate flag inside the halls of Congress? All of it was hard to believe. It was unbelievably enlightening yet frightening at the same time. It should be a wake-up call for everybody in this country. There is an illness among us. There is an illness in the body politic of this nation. It's like a cancer. If you leave it untreated, it will metastasize and it will consume us. We've got to take firm steps that begin with holding people accountable. Then we have to look at the country's institutions to make sure that what happened on Jan. 6 doesn't happen again." (our emphasis) -- Former Attorney General Eric Holder, on the Trumpist insurrection at the Capitol, speaking to Salon.com's Chauncey Devega.
Holder is now fighting the good fight as the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee working to counter the Republican / Great Replacement Party's gerrymandering efforts to rig future elections by literally letting politicians (i.e., Republicans) choose who votes for them, rather than the other way around.
An 18-year-old identified as Salvador Ramos has killed 14 elementary school children and a teacher* at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX, earlier this afternoon:
Fourteen students and a teacher are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, according to Gov. Greg Abbott.
The 18-year-old suspect, a student at Uvalde High School, is also dead, he said.
"He shot and killed horrifically and incomprehensibly 14 students and killed a teacher," Abbott said during an unrelated press briefing.
The suspect also allegedly shot his grandmother before entering the school and again opening fire, Abbott said. He did not say anything further about her condition.
Abbott said the shooter had a handgun and also possibly a rifle.
The killer is dead, and the investigation into his motives is underway. Texas is a "constitutional carry" state.
Fourteen children and a teacher. *
Not counting today's massacre, there have been 26 school shootings in this country so far this year, with 46 people killed or injured.
There is so much vile sickness in this country. Vile and sick.
*UPDATE: The death toll has risen to 19 children and 2 teachers.
BONUS: Sen. Chris Murphy's (D-CT) remarks on the Senate floor moments ago --
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(Kevin Siers, Charlotte Observer)
(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)
(Rob Rogers, Tinyview.com)
(Mike Smith, Las Vegas Sun)
(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
(Dave Granlund, politicalcartoons.com)
(Ann Telnaes, Washington Post)
(Joe Heller, hellertoon.com)
(Jake Goldwasser, @WeeklyHumorist)
No Russian caviar, hor d'oeuvres or vodka this year in Davos --
this used to be a "Russian house" in Davos. Now it is the "Russian WAR CRIMES house" in Davos. Testimonies about Russian war crimes in Ukraine are inside.
— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) May 23, 2022
📷: Vadym Karpiak pic.twitter.com/8UrxiKfFlr
"She's the loser, she wasn't important" the Malignant Loser hasn't said yet --
Kellyanne Conway in new book acknowledges Trump 2020 loss https://t.co/Xc5gMwPEJa pic.twitter.com/qpkK8p2dUQ
— The Hill (@thehill) May 24, 2022
"I saw later that I got some tuna stuck in my Moustache of Understanding....." --
Beyond parody pic.twitter.com/EiCcVOzB7Y
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) May 23, 2022
Another one bites the dust. Do svidaniya! --
CONFIRMED: Retired Russian Major General Kanamat Botashev was shot down by Ukrainian defense forces, possibly by a Stinger MANPADS, in a Su-25 aircraft on Sunday and killed. It appears he was flying for the Wagner Group, a shadowy Russian mercenary organization.
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) May 24, 2022
One old war criminal washes the hands of a newer one --
Henry Kissinger tells global elite gathered at Davos that Ukraine should give Russia territory https://t.co/b1kBB9ckS2
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) May 24, 2022
Roger Stone, a "picky" clothes shopper --
Roger Stone shopping at a thrift shop today. pic.twitter.com/SzRFJQ6pOb
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 24, 2022
This is really par for the course for a party/ cult whose idol is King Rat, the felonious Malignant Loser:
Biden tops list of Americans banned from traveling to Russia, but Trump is not on it
"Over the years, Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and criticized investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election that ended with Trump's victory over Democratic rival Clinton.Trump was impeached in 2019 for withholding congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine while pressuring that country's then-newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to announce investigations into Joe Biden, who at the time was the leading Democratic candidate for the White House."
Trump is all about himself and money, so one can safely bet that his primary interest in keeping thug and war criminal Putin happy with him was all about commercial deals in Russia (Trump Tower Moscow, a Trump Tower St. Petersburg, a Trump Golf Club Sochi, etc.). Trump saw his future fortunes in Russia, where a strongman ruler like Putin could reward him for undermining NATO and Americans' faith in their own government to the point of insurrection. With unlimited resources from fossil fuel sales and no land use or building regulations / rules to stand in the way, Putin could offer (and likely did) the Malignant Loser billions in "deals" in Mother Russia for his post-Presidency if he just did his bidding on the international stage. It almost worked.
"By every objective measure, and according to the judgment of numerous
former federal prosecutors, and now a sitting federal judge, former
President Donald Trump committed crimes when he – unlike any U.S.
president before him – refused to accept the results of a free and fair
election and attempted to overturn it. Many regular citizens who acted
on Trump’s false claims and exhortations have been convicted of the same
charge that Trump would likely face if indicted. And far from being
weak, the evidence that Trump knew he could not obstruct an official
proceeding to maintain himself in office is, as a legal matter,
overwhelming and of a kind used to convict ordinary and high-profile
Americans every day. Attorney General Garland has repeatedly said that
the DOJ will seek accountability for anyone, at any level,
who is legally responsible for the insurrection that culminated on Jan.
6, and that the Department’s charging decisions would be governed by
the facts and the law, not politics. For all these reasons, we have
cause to expect that the DOJ’s investigation will result in charges
against Trump if the admissible evidence matches what we have seen in
the public record. And when and if that happens, justice has far more
than a fighting chance to prevail." -- Kristy Parker in Just Security, concluding an article on the case for optimism that the Malignant Loser will, indeed, face justice for his role in the January 6 insurrection. It makes us more optimistic, so good read.
Why we can't have nice things, part infinity --
In just 60 seconds, I listed the dozens of common-sense, hugely-popular Democratic bills that House Republicans have voted against: from baby formula money to free hearing aids to background checks to $1400 checks to many more.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 23, 2022
Watch/share my #minuterant:pic.twitter.com/9SonMCGPvf
Christofascists' "social order" of abuse and violent domination --
NEW: Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, lied about secret database, it says.
— Sarah Pulliam Bailey 🖋️🖋️🖋️ (@spulliam) May 22, 2022
Among the findings was a previously unknown case of pastor Johnny Hunt, credibly accused of assaulting a woman a month after leaving the presidency of the SBChttps://t.co/CJk2kw8a4L
Survivor Tiffany Thigpen said SBC leaders hold ordinary church members in contempt.
— Bob Smietana (@bobsmietana) May 22, 2022
“They don’t really see you as in charge,” she said. “They see you as the dumb sheep that they can just tell what to do.”https://t.co/wZxZC6GXms via @RNS
Our latest in @washingtonpost. We show white #ChristianNationalism ties together the flood of radical anti-choice legislation proposed in recent weeks w/the #BuffaloMassacre. It's about enforcing a certain social order by any means necessary. @GorskiPhiliphttps://t.co/sAo8gnqMV3
— Samuel Perry (@profsamperry) May 20, 2022
What's that Musk-y smell? --
“However, Musk waived his right to perform due diligence on Twitter before signing the deal, as outlined in Twitter’s SEC filing detailing the run-up to the acquisition that was filed Tuesday morning.”https://t.co/ZArbjG4a6D https://t.co/W3zCP7VSeI
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 23, 2022
Tesla is going to be the next WeWork.
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) May 22, 2022
If you look at the history of Tesla's stock price, it was never based on car sales. It's always been based on hype from Musk and a vision for a future.
That vision was appealing to many, including liberal environmentally-conscious nerds.
Is victory for glorious Russian army and for supreme leader Putin! --
On day 88 of the war, Russian tanks have finally entered Kyiv. pic.twitter.com/Cfxyc7cPV8
— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) May 22, 2022
Russia's Counsellor to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, has abruptly resigned over Putin's war of aggression and territorial expansion. Boris Bondarev delivered his resignation statement to his superiors this morning, and released it to fellow diplomats and others in an effort to start an exodus from the Russian Foreign Ministry. Here's an image of the statement (click to enlarge):
The courage it took to have made such a public move is huge, as he'll undoubtedly face severe penalties for his honesty ("aggressive war unleashed by Putin," "serious crime against the people of Russia," the Russian Foreign Ministry is "all about warmongering, lies and hatred," etc.). We hope he can find safety somewhere in the aftermath of his resignation.
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"The Lib Owners" are trying to shift the conversation from the racist Buffalo massacre and the availability of military-style weapons to the old standbys to distract. They know they have blood on their hands, and that this will happen again.
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