Thursday Cartoons: Hold The Line
Posted: May 22, 2025 Filed under: just because 15 Comments
Good morning…now, this past Sunday, John Oliver had a good segment on Trump and the Press. Please take the time and watch this in its entirety:
Obviously…we sound like a broken record here on the blog. But shit is going down, and you need to get yourselves ready. I’m working on my passport now. I even sent away for a new certified copy of my birth certificate. I have my original one from 1970…but the powers that be may give me problems because it is just a small slip of paper. I just don’t want to chance it.
Anyway, cartoons via Cagle:
Up next…in connection to the video up top…
What an asshole. I will also add this bit of conversation. Old Yam Tits talking to South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the Oval Office:
Now that is two video clips of the same conversation. But with a slight difference. I just wanted to make sure you saw all the attitude of the orange turd.
And by the way, what happens when a rich white dude talks?
Just a few more items:
Yup…
Fucking assholes.
Ok…now to explain that last image. If you are Italian…you know.
Have a safe day, please take care. This is an open thread.
Man…fuck this shit:
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Please read this by Robert Reich. The big ugly bill has a provision that would prevent judges from enforcing contempt citations. That would remove the last thing keeping Trump from being a dictator. He could do anything he wants.
Fuck
Okay. Renewing my Passports. I have all of them from the time I was a teen so hopefully, I can get out of here quick.
Thanks for the post, yes, it is a broken record, and it is wearisome, but it’s completely necessary as the John Oliver segment explains.
Thanks for keeping this going, I really appreciate it, even if it can be tough to read most of the time these days.
It’s even tougher to write them, if you’d like to try some time let me know my sweet baby brother.
You’re not really selling it to me Kat. 😉
I think it would go against the blog’s ethic to have a middle aged white bloke writing for it.
You don’t need me mansplaining all over the place.
xoxo
You’re the father of a trans daughter and you’re in immigrant. You have a voice .
Maybe I should street preach economics and finance in the quarter. People are so damn gullible and stupid. BB, I keep having this ad showing on my games about taking an IQ test and saying that the average US IQ is like 98. Is that real? It shows all these dancing happy people with IQS in the 80s and the joke screen at the end is this girl has a 105 IQ and her boyfriend’s is 83. I guess I continue to live my life way out there in the right hand tail. How could I take psychology classes and not know that? Is that even meaningful?
WTAF … and what about Qataris? Good Question.
Trump administration blocks Harvard’s ability to enroll international students
By Nate Raymond and Ted Hesson
May 22, 20251:58 PM CDTUpdated a few seconds ago
“Homeland secretary orders termination of Harvard student visa program
Cites alleged antisemitism and coordination with Chinese Communist Party
Harvard calls move unlawful, pledges support for foreign students
BOSTON, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students on Thursday, and is forcing existing students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered the department to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, the department said in a statement. Noem accused the university of “fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party.”
Harvard said the Trump administration move – which affects thousands of students – was illegal and amounted to retaliation.
The clampdown on foreign students marks a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against the elite Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has emerged as one of Trump’s most prominent institutional targets. The move comes after Harvard refused to provide information that Noem had previously demanded about some foreign student visa holders who attend the university, the department said.
“It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments,” Noem said in a statement.
Harvard rejected the allegations and pledged to support foreign students.
“The government’s action is unlawful,” the university said in a statement. “This retaliatory action threatens serious harm to the Harvard community and our country, and undermines Harvard’s academic and research mission.”
The university said it was “fully committed” to educating foreign students and was working on producing guidance for affected students.
Harvard enrolled nearly 6,800 international students in the 2024-2025 school year, amounting to 27% of its total enrollment, according to university statistics.
Trump, a Republican, has undertaken an extraordinary effort to revamp private colleges and schools across the U.S. that he says foster anti-American, Marxist and “radical left” ideologies. He has criticized Harvard in particular for hiring prominent Democrats to teaching or leadership positions.”
My family experienced apartheid. I know Afrikaners aren’t refugees.
If the Episcopal Church had agreed to resettle South African Boers, then it would have elevated a lie that will affect refugee resettlement for years to come.
By The Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu, Priest Associate at All Saints’ Church Atlanta
The combination of the Trump administration granting expedited refugee status to white South Africans and the Episcopal Church ending a 40-year partnership with the federal government rather than help resettle fake refugees leaves me with contradictory feelings.
As an Episcopal priest and a dual citizen of the United States and South Africa, I am proud of the Episcopal Church for standing up and speaking out about the U.S. government’s lies of a white “genocide” in South Africa. In equal measure, I am devastated that the work our church has done for decades, giving hope and care to people forced to leave their homelands, is ending because of white supremacy and Christian nationalism.
Our parish, All Saints’ Atlanta, has a vibrant refugee ministry, and this year, in response to the end of government funding for refugee resettlement, the parish committed to continue to support the refugee families the government had abandoned and to actually increase the number of families it’s supporting. The mission of showing “hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels” (Hebrews 13:2) or treating “the stranger who sojourns with you as a native among you … for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Leviticus 19:33-34), is central to our faith community.
The denomination’s decision to end a decadeslong partnership with the U.S. government that offered support to people fleeing oppression and war was not taken lightly. But I applaud the Episcopal Church answering the call and standing up to powers and principalities that oppress and call it freedom and lie as they call it truth.
If the Episcopal Church had agreed to resettle South African Boers, then it would have elevated a lie that will affect refugee resettlement for years to come. If white South Africans are experiencing genocide, then it is truly an enviable genocide. White South Africans, who are about 7% of the country’s population, own about 75% of South Africa’s farmland and control a great majority of senior corporate positions. Our Palestinian brothers and sisters experiencing a true genocide would likely be happy if they had control over 30% of their ancestral land.