Tuesday Cartoons: They Dance Alone

Posted: March 11, 2025 | Author: | Filed under: just because | 7 Comments

So, the dictator Trump is disappearing people now.

That is a move usually done by horrible dictators, like Pinochet. As the image up top illustrates, the women of the disappeared in Chile during the reign of Pinochet could only protest by dancing in silence with the photo of the missing pinned to their clothes. I wonder if this will become a form of protest here, but I get the feeling Trump would not even allow that.

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) 2025-03-09T22:30:05.578Z

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) 2025-03-10T17:10:35.145Z

A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us…

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-03-10T21:11:56.122Z

⚠️ ADL supports the illegal disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil by the Trump administration:

— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social) 2025-03-10T02:50:20.066Z

In other fascist news:

This shit is as mortifying as it is dangerous. And Hasset’s smirk makes it all the more infuriating. Haha! We’re threatening war with a longtime ally and the country with which we share the longest border in the world! These assholes should never, ever be allowed to live this down.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) 2025-03-09T23:11:59.401Z

America apparently now doing the Russia-style "secret [ie totally made up] chemical labs in your country justifies the cross-border menacing we were already doing" move.

— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) 2025-03-09T15:27:13.346Z

There are only two things that stand between Trump and being a dictator — the courts and elections. Trump wants to send a clear message to law firms that he will go after them. It is ok to be afraid, the question is what do you do. Do you hide and cower in fear or stand tall and say it is wrong?

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-03-10T23:00:24.010Z

I’m sick of all this shit.

Stay safe…

They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)’ appears on the 1987 album ‘Nothing Like The Sun’. The track, which was about the Cueca, a dance that the “Mothers of the Disappeared” used to do to remember their missing loved ones was banned in Chile and had the ignominy of being the first Sting solo single not to chart in the UK. Despite this it remains one of Sting’s most enduring and powerful songs and one of his most overtly political. 

They Dance Alone (Gueca Solo)

Why are these women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed like stone?
I can’t see what it is that they despise
They’re dancing with the missing
They’re dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They’re dancing with their fathers
They’re dancing with their sons
They’re dancing with their husbands
They dance alone, they dance alone

It’s the only form of protest they’re allowed
I’ve seen their silent faces they scream so loud
If they were to speak these words they’d go missing too
Another woman on the torture table what else can they do
They’re dancing with the missing
They’re dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They’re dancing with their fathers
They’re dancing with their sons
They’re dancing with their husbands
They dance alone, they dance alone

One day we’ll dance on their graves
One day we’ll sing our freedom
One day we’ll laugh in our joy
And we’ll dance
One day we’ll dance on their graves
One day we’ll sing our freedom
One day we’ll laugh in our joy
And we’ll dance

Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia
Danzan con sus padres
Danzan con sus hijos
Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas

Hey Mr. Pinochet
You’ve sown a bitter crop
It’s foreign money that supports you
One day the money’s going to stop
No wages for your torturers
No budget for your guns
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin’ with her invisible son
They’re dancing with the missing
They’re dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They’re dancing with their fathers
They’re dancing with their sons
They’re dancing with their husbands
They dance alone, they dance alone

Sunday Cartoons: 3 Chiclets

Posted: March 9, 2025 | Author: | Filed under: just because | 8 Comments

Good morning, I spent the day yesterday celebrating International Women Day with my daughter…it was a coochie day! We went to Athens and got some piercings.

I have no clue what the orange turd did, and to be honest, I don’t want to know. So, I’ve just got cartoons and a few nice stories for you…

I remember this from Peanuts:

I would definitely live in Woodstock’s pad…

This last one is funny:

So look for “it” when the video slows down, it is in the background in the woods. It made me think of South Park’s Scuzzlebutt:

Scuzzlebutt is a basket-weaving monster who lives on top of a mountain in South Park. He has a piece of celery as an arm and Patrick Duffy as a leg. He appears prominently in the Season Oneepisode, “Volcano“.

Here’s a few videos to laugh at:

https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/642i3o/south-park-the-legend-of-scuzzlebutt

https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/spp4br/south-park-scuzzlebutt-saved-the-day

Have a good Sunday…by the way, did you all remember?

Stay safe.

Thursday Cartoons: Transgenic

Posted: March 6, 2025 | Author: | Filed under: just because | 16 Comments

Hey, was that a shitfest the other day or what?

I’m too exhausted for commentary, so here’s some news updates and cartoons.

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Exclusive from @reuters.com "Donald Trump is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation"www.reuters.com/world/us/tru…

— Eduardo Suárez (@eduardosuarez.bsky.social) 2025-03-06T12:22:13.231Z

Basically the United States is on a path to kicking out a quarter-million refugees from a war and allowing oligarchs from the aggressor country to buy citizenship.

— Ilya Lozovsky (@ichbinilya.bsky.social) 2025-03-06T12:10:04.998Z

I don’t know what to say…FDT.

Jasmine is awesome.

This next clip shows you just how crazy these Trump maga fuckers are:

US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine

— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2025-03-05T17:49:14Z

Now the cartoons, via Cagle:

And lastly, a new song from Randy Rainbow 🌈!

Stay safe…

Tuesday Cartoons: Russian Flag Flying From MAGAt Trucks

Posted: March 4, 2025 | Author: | Filed under: just because | 12 Comments

From my friend, she lives in Houston. Yes, it’s disgusting…but I don’t doubt it is true. If MAGA assholes ride around with Nazi flags on their pickups…it isn’t too far of a stretch for them to fly Russian flags. They would only be following Trumps lead:

BREAKING: Trump has just paused all aid to Ukraine. Russia is getting everything it hoped for and more. Disgusting.

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T00:14:07.521Z

BREAKING: President Donald Trump ordered a pause to all military aid to Ukraine.

— Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) 2025-03-04T00:02:30.950Z

unreal — Fox News brought in a journalist from Russia as part of a panel, but he's being too hard on Putin and Trump, so host Will Cain has to step in and toe the Kremlin/MAGA line

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-03-03T21:09:36.858Z

1/ Musk below is confessing to beginning to blame Ukraine for a war Putin started—thus working to aid Putin—at exactly the moment he began having clandestine business and geopolitical negotiations with Putin.

— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T00:18:37.467Z

I shared this in the comments yesterday…but I think it deserves to be in a post:

Tuberville: "Zelenskyy's gonna play hardball, but you know what? He's not even in the game. It's gonna be Putin and President Trump and the people on our side that will end up making this decision for the future of Ukraine."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-03-03T18:17:25.403Z

It makes me physically ill.

More news:

BREAKING: The head of the FBI's New York Field Office was forced out of the bureau, a month after he urged employees to "dig in" after the Trump admin. removed senior FBI leaders and requested the names of all agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases, five sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

— MSNBC (@msnbc.com) 2025-03-03T22:47:09.128Z

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee…

— Sam Stein (@samsteindc.bsky.social) 2025-03-03T14:57:39.492Z

“Clients have the right to access their lawyer without interference by the government. Lawyers must be free to represent clients and perform their ethical duty without fear of retribution.”www.americanbar.org/news/abanews…

— Laurence H. Tribe (@tribelaw.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T00:18:35.085Z

An important statement from the American Bar Association. http://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews…

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-03-03T23:35:49.419Z

I don't really know how to shout this from the rooftops any louder: If this actually happens, it would spell the end of U.S. numerical weather prediction–the scientific models, run on supercomputers, used to create virtually all weather forecasts. http://www.axios.com/2025/0…

— Daniel Swain (@weatherwest.bsky.social) 2025-03-03T22:51:51.000Z

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.Here is a portion:

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T00:04:47.313Z

Now cartoons via Cagle:

Lastly, this video via:

Repost: @noliewithbtc Perfect representation.

Source: Led by Donkeys

Take it easy…stay safe.

Sunday Cartoons: Loch Ness Exorcist

Posted: March 2, 2025 | Author: | Filed under: just because | 6 Comments

All day yesterday I relaxed, and did not watch a bit of news…do you want to know what I did? I watched true crime series on serial killers…

Yup, I took a break from the hell that is Trump to spend time with murderers. And it was not stressful at all!

So, today enjoy some cartoons, via Cagle:

If only some priest could work their magic on Trump…personally I’d prefer a bit of the old last rites myself, but we can’t always get what we want.

Stay safe…btw:

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