It’s been a week since Dolly Parton tragically passed away, and I have loved watching Americans of all stripes mourn and celebrate her amazing life. But peel back just a little bit, and those comments of celebration and praise from those on the right ring hollow and performative at best. Dolly Parton was a leftist, and she used her time on this planet to fight for the poor, the downtrodden, and disregarded minorities. She never forgot where she came from, and she sang songs that had leftist lyrics like, “It’s a rich man’s game, no matter what they call it, and you spend your life putting money in his wallet.” She unapologetically supported everyone in the LGBT+ community decades before it became socially acceptable to do that. Dolly never became a billionaire because she chose to give away hundreds of millions of dollars to a variety of charities rather than hoard her wealth like the cesspool that is the billionaire class. So I find it rich whenever I hear anyone in the red hat brigade talk about how much they loved Dolly Parton when they vote for and support people who actively work against everything she was.

Dolly Parton was an amazing singer and a true American icon, but it was the way she lived her life that overshadowed even her spectacular career. I’m not saying those on the right cannot mourn her, but I am asking them to reflect on that and take a moment to think about whether, if they revere her, maybe they should reflect on how they think politically.

Be more like Dolly Parton.

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Cartoon is based on the Francisco Goya painting Saturn Devouring His Son

The other day, Trump decided to wage another illegal tariff war against our closest ally, Canada. Why? Because trade negotiations aren’t going the way he wants them to. There are reports that Trump wants Canada to agree to terms like giving the U.S. veto power over who Canada trades with, and he also wants French to no longer be an official language of Canada. Take away the fact that this is knuckle-dragging-type stupidity, and to make things worse, Canada is one of, if not the largest, exporters of energy to the United States. These tariffs will go into effect at a time when the United States is in the middle of an energy crisis, thanks to the war in Iran and data centers, and Trump’s dementia brain decided that it was a good idea to start a trade war against the people who can cut off a major source of energy for us.

This is devastating for economic reasons, but it’s also devastating because I and everyone I love will have to grow up in a world in which all of our greatest allies are imagining a future without the U.S. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said something the other day that has stuck with me. When talking about negotiating with the United States, he said that “sometimes its signature was written in pencil.” This is devastating because it tells me that even if another politician gets into office and works tirelessly on restoring our relationships with our allies, it won’t be enough. They know that another insane MAGA politician can come in, rip up any agreement, and throw the world back into chaos. Our greatest allies cannot trust the word of the United States, and they will run into the arms of China because they know that we simply can no longer be a leader in the world.

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It always blows me away how much attention gets spent on voter fraud when studies (from both neutral and far right think tanks) have found it occurs at rates measured in thousandths, or even ten-thousandths, of a percent. We have so many bigger fish to fry, yet Republicans and Trump keep using this virtually nonexistent problem to take up time we could spend talking about issues actually affecting Americans and to push the idea that our elections are rigged. To make things worse, now the Supreme Court has temporarily cleared the way for parts of Trump’s sweeping mail-voting executive order because it concluded that the suing them about this was premature and speculative… meaning we have to wait until the GOP and this executive order does what everyone is MAGA is saying it will do. And somehow, while Trump keeps attacking voting by mail and using election fraud to justify more federal control over how elections are run, he fucking voted by mail himself. What a joke.

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There has never been any doubt that, outside of some tomfoolery with the elections, these midterms are going to get biblical. What has been a huge surprise for many is the ascendancy of the left’s Tea Party movement, the DSA, which is winning so many races. Last Tuesday, DSA-backed U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon obliterated her Democratic challenger, 56% to 43%. She did this while spending a fraction of what Vindman spent. And in the Miami-Dade race, an open socialist received 36.5% of the vote. While he lost, this still shows the clear trajectory of where the Democratic Party is going.

Moving on from the DSA’s ascendancy, the Dems as a whole are absolutely cleaning up. I would be very interested to see how many districts theDems have flipped since the last election, and how they are doing compared to Kamala Harris’s numbers.

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Six sailors have tried to kill themselves while serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln during its nearly nine month deployment, raising serious concerns about the mental health of sailors who’ve been forced to endure an extraordinarily long stretch at sea. The carrier has now spent over 260 days at sea, 200 without a port call, while fighting Trump’s idiotic war against Iran, the longest stretch in U.S. history. There are food and supply shortages, plumbing problems and broken toilets so severe that multiple bathrooms have had to be closed, mold, and shortages of basic hygiene products.

The Pentagon has downplayed and lied to the public about the severity of the conditions these sailors are enduring so it doesn’t look bad. I genuinely wonder if that’s why they don’t want to bring this ship home. They know that once they do, the media will talk to the sailors and find out just how bad it was on there.

Again, things are so bad that U.S. sailors are trying to end their lives just so their time on the USS Abraham Lincoln will come to an end. Don’t let the White House and Pentagon continue to downplay the severity of the situation. Heads must roll for this. Hearings need to be held, and multiple people must be impeached, including Secretary Hegseth and President Trump. I swear, everything these people do goes to shit.

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Corporate Democrats and Republicans spend none of their time doing anything to help the American people, yet somehow they’ve found endless time to prop up a shared hysteria over Hasan Piker. A comment here or there would be no big deal, but their nonstop coverage is lunacy. The panic has turned into an embarrassing obsession. It reminds me of when we were kids, and we would scare ourselves by looking into a mirror and chanting “Bloody Mary” three times. They’ve chanted Hasan’s name so many times that I believe they’ve genuinely become scared of a Twitch streamer. All of the segments and time they spend on this nonsense take time away from talking about the substantive issues actually facing our country. They’re carrying out this smear campaign against Piker on purpose for their corporate owners, AIPAC, and the billionaire class. These people are scared of the rise of the left flank of the Democratic Party, and they’ll do anything to fight it. Going after this Twitch streamer is their agreed upon strategy.

Honestly, there are waaaay too many James Carville videos on this topic. He has made it his whole personality.

The ogre also has made this his whole personality. That at being Isreal’s biggest cheerleader.

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We must move away from fossil fuels because their use is heating the planet at record levels, damaging our health, and draining our wallets as Trump’s idiotic war with Iran disrupts oil supplies and keeps the Strait of Hormuz largely closed. There are reports that Iran will keep the strait closed until the United States meets its conditions. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization links air pollution to 7 million premature deaths each year. We must invest in solar and wind power, along with nuclear energy. While drawing this, I remembered a story about how successfully Australia has implemented solar power. They produce so much free energy that they allow their citizens to use electricity for free for three hours a day!

With Super El Niño coming later this year, 2026 is on pace to become the hottest year on record. This situation could worsen because El Niño has arrived and is expected to strengthen⁠. I feel like I’m rambling at this point. For crying out loud, we must move away from fossil fuels!

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Yesterday, a SpaceX rocket smashed into the side of the moon, leaving a massive crater. This gives us yet another reminder that even the richest people in the world make massive, costly mistakes while facing no accountability. SpaceX is the hobby of a ketamine-addicted billionaire, and rather than paying taxes on his wealth, he leeches off our tax dollars. Billionaires like him should not exist in a society where millions of people can’t afford the basics. A handful of people have enough wealth to shape politics, influence governments, and have you and me pay for their failures. Billionaires don’t care about our society. They don’t care about you or me, and they don’t care about any damage they might cause to the Earth or now even the moon. They only care about themselves because they’re narcissistic animals. There are no ethical billionaires in existence and they never will be. All of this is not a sign of a healthy economy or society. It’s a sign that wealth and power have become far too concentrated and must be broken up.

Note: this image is based on the incredibly iconic scene from the 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune). Directed by Georges Méliès.

A SpaceX rocket collided with the moon. Here’s what to know

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We are living through 1 of the largest financial scams in American history, if not the world. Walmart, the company that pays its workers so poorly that many, if not most, rely on federal welfare and public assistance programs, just received a $10.2 billion tariff refund check. Target and Apple each received $2 billion tariff refund checks. Nike and Ford each received $1 billion, and General Motors, Home Depot, and Amazon each received more than $500 million in tariff refund checks. This means these corporations made money hand over fist by charging us more while Trump’s tariffs were in place. Then, when nobody was looking, the government gave those same corporations even more taxpayer money because it implemented the illegal tariffs. These corporations profited twice while American taxpayers were left behind. Where are our reimbursement checks?

This is a direct wealth transfer from the 99% to the 1%. Tariffs were a scam to take your money and give it to major corporations. This is yet another reason why billionaires should not exist. People with this much excess wealth can corrupt and buy politicians so they’ll pass policies that benefit only the wealthy and their bottom line.

Tariff refunds begin on Monday. These retailers are due big paydays

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On Saturday, 24-year-old Chad Williams opened fire and killed 3 people while injuring 7 others at an In N Out in Twin Falls, Idaho. At first, I was shocked and horrified by the news. Then, before I knew it, I stopped thinking about it and moved on. Then I thought about the other mass shooting that made it onto my newsfeed in Seattle a few days earlier. Since then, there have been 14 additional mass shootings, including the one at In-N-Out. The other 13 are nothing more than background noise. Only a few incidents like these ever make it into your newsfeed because this has become normal in the United States, and that is terrifying.

Coming from someone who is pro-gun and pro 2nd Amendment, more has to be done. We have to approach gun violence as a social and cultural issue, not just a gun control issue. The more our essential needs are met, the lower gun violence will be. The more we teach men to care for one another instead of trying to dominate one another, the lower gun violence will be. And once everyone has free access to Medicare, gun violence will also decline. Obviously this won’t eliminate gun violence entirely, but it would make a massive dent in the problem, and I believe it would do more to reduce gun violence than any assault rifle ban.

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Since big tech AI companies are no longer allowed to train their AI models on stolen copyrighted material online, they’ve moved on to compiling massive amounts of written text to train their systems. To do this, they’re buying massive collections of printed books, including rare and antique texts, to train their AI. They ruin the books by cutting off their spines, scanning them, and then literally destroying the original copies. While the idea of destroying millions of books terrifies me, a Clinton appointed federal judge, William Alsup, ruled that this practice qualifies as fair use under copyright law.

It’s impossible not to see the parallels between this and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. While in our world AI companies destroy physical books to only train their models, Guy Montag and his fellow firemen in Fahrenheit 451 destroy books to erase knowledge. We are doing the same thing but with extra steps. These people are sick, and we must break them up and wage a Butlerian Jihad on them before it’s too late.

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Ever since George W. Bush used the country’s fears, after 9/11, against itself to push through the Patriot Act, the country has been on an ever steeper decline into a police state. Today Flock “safety” cameras are used by police and other government agencies to track millions of Americans every second of every day without warrants or investigations. Flock cameras have been used to track abortion patients, surveil protesters, target immigrants, and even stalk loved ones, exes, and even strangers who caught someone’s attention.

• You can check to see if you’ve been tracked by going to the website HavelBeenFlocked.com.

• You can also find Flock cameras in your area with the Deflock.me map, and you can even plan your routes with the Deflock.me app.Don’t let the police gaslight you into thinking their keeping us safe when they are

Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking these cameras are only hear for your safety.

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The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and it looks like it’s going to stat that way until Iran (Poseidon) says so. Hopefully we won’t have to wait as long as Odysseus had to leave Ogygia (7 years) in The Odyssey. Unfortunately, our Odysseus is an egomaniac with dementia, so things aren’t looking good.

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Yesterday our president paid E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million for sexually assaulting her. The federal judge assigned to the case clarified that what he did was rape. This is nuts. We have a man in the most powerful position in the world who is a literal rapist. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. How is this not the top story until the end of time, and how has he not been impeached over this? Madness. Utter madness.

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I’m getting sick and tired of living through a new once in a lifetime weather event every year. Record shattering heat waves throughout the world, historic and deadly floods, massive long lasting wildfires, stronger hurricanes seasons, and now the upcoming super El Niño… These weather events have become so common that they barely weren’t coverage. Climate change is real and we need to stop treating these disasters like they’re just bad luck and start doing something about it!

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Yesterday Lindsey Graham died, and I haven’t spent a second since I found out mourning, and neither should you. Lindsey Graham spent his entire life in Congress making life worse for everyone. His evil not only affected his constituents, but also the country and the world.

He was such a war hawk that I believe a new word should be used to describe him. There was never a war he didn’t gush to support. He spent decades trying to drag the United States into a hot war with Iran, and when he finally got his wish, his bloodthirsty dreams destabilized the United States, the Middle East, and the world.

He enriched himself during the past two Trump administrations through investments in defense contractors, along with normal congressional insider trading. He was a liar, a cheat, and an all-around piece of shit. The world is better today than it was yesterday because he’s dead.

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Three weeks ago, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell suffered a heart attack and was found unconscious at his home. He was rushed to the hospital, and since then, we’ve learned that he’s still there. But beyond that, there have been almost no updates. No one’s seen him or heard from him, and the little information that’s been released has left a lot of people scratching their heads and wondering if he may have actually died.

There are machiavellian political reasons why there might be so much secrecy. If McConnell were to die and his Senate seat became vacant before August 3, Kentucky’s governor would have to call a special election. That could give recently ousted Representative Thomas Massie a chance to run, and he’d be one of the strongest candidates. If the seat became vacant after August 3, a new Kentucky law could make the process more complicated because it may overlap with the November election.

Whatever is happening, we deserve answers. We shouldn’t have to let his death become his last middle finger to the people of the United States.

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While I hated the red card that Balogun received in our last game vs Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trump’s self admitted interference in FIFA is not only beneath the office of the White House, but it’s also against FIFA’s own rules, and the United States Men’s National Team should be suspended, if not disqualified. According to FIFA Articles 2 and 15, this is clearly illegal. But nothing will happen because when an unbelievably corrupt institution like FIFA meets an unstoppably corrupt political administration like Trump’s, plain old corruption happens.

While I’m a slightly more than casual fan of the beautiful game, read this for a better understanding of what this cartoon is trying to say.

Andy Muirhead | Celtic FC & Scottish Football Blogger

FIFA’s Rules on Political Interference and Why the USA Must be Disqualified & Infantino stripped of the Presidency

FIFA’s core statutes explicitly forbid any form of political or governmental interference in the affairs of its member associations. The USA, through President Donald Trump’s direct lobbying of FIFA …

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Happy 4th of July! I hope everyone has a great day that ends with all 10 of your fingers still attached. I also hope we can bring our troops home and begin this new chapter of American history by focusing on, and fighting for, the people here at home. The United States has rarely gone very long without military forces taking part somewhere in the world. With our tax dollars the United States has been at war for 224 of its 250 years, leaving only 26 years of peace.

With our corrupt system so intertwined with the military-industrial complex, and the current administration personally profiting off this war, my hope for peace is very small.

Here’s a timeline of U.S. military conflicts:

• 1775 - 1783: Revolutionary War

• 1785 - 1795: Northwest Indian War

• 1798 - 1800: Quasi-War with France

• 1801 - 1805: First Barbary War

• 1812 - 1815: War of 1812

• 1815: Second Barbary War

• 1816 - 1858: Seminole Wars and other frontier conflicts

• 1846 - 1848: Mexican-American War

• 1861 - 1865: Civil War

• 1866 - 1898: Plains Indian Wars and Apache Wars

• 1898: Spanish-American War

• 1899 - 1902: Philippine-American War

• 1910 - 1919: Mexican Border War

• 1917 -1918: World War I

• 1941 - 1945: World War II

• 1950 - 1953: Korean War

• 1955 - 1975: Vietnam War

• 1982 - 1984: Lebanon

• 1983: Grenada

• 1989 - 1990: Panama

• 1990 - 1991: The Gulf War

• 1992 - 1995: Somalia

• 1995 - 2004: Bosnia (NATO Missons)

• 1998 - 1999: Kosovo

• 2001 - 2021: Afghanistan

• 2003 - 2011: Iraq

• 2014 - Today: Anti-ISIS operations and related counterterrorism campaigns

• 2026 - present: War in Iran

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Just a reminder that Trump is a predator, and he’s in the Epstein files more than anyone else. I know this hasn’t been the top story for a while, but that doesn’t change anything. His victims deserve justice, and we all deserve transparency.

ps. I know nothing about the couple that did this, but they are way too cool lol

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