Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "#EjectIsrael"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, and unedited as always -

"Eject Israel"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3726

So, late last week, I'm hearing all this bullshit bubbling in the news 
about Genocide Joe calling for a "pause" in the Israel-Palestine 
"conflict" so that the hostages can get out safely — god bless their 
exceptional asses — and maybe also so that any Palestinians remaining 
who are actually able to move can also get out, and probably end up 
being bombed on the highway to the refugee camps, or bombed at the 
camp once they get there, or both; thanks so much, Joe.

And as I was starting to work on this piece the night before the big 
mobilization for Palestinian solidarity here in DC this past Saturday, 
I was seeing a lot of chatter on the Web about how Israel should be 
expelled from the United Nations for this horror — an excellent idea, 
though they'd never get it through because Israel's big, fat, rich 
asshole Uncle has veto power at the Security Council. Still, what an 
awesome thought — drum the bastards outta the UN.

But, aaaanyway, yeah; El Presidente wants a "pause". "Pause", my 
goddamn ass. Time to hit "Stop" and "Eject". Israel is the scuffy, 
overplayed, worn-out, hissy old British post-punk mixtape tangled up 
in the Earth's 1989 cassette/CD combo boombox, and no pencil made can 
save it.

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"US President Joe Biden calls for 'pause' in Israel-Gaza conflict", 
BBC 11.02.2023
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67294334

Mike Flugennock fotos of the National Gaza Mobe in Washington DC, 
11.04.2023 on Facebook, 1 of 2:
https://www.facebook.com/flugennock/posts/pfbid02ABDCPv51Y2VwPAcR9m8Ep2bNkGiA4jBwniKudHuseJiZQrgcjswcwvBjuYMW193Ll

Mike Flugennock fotos of the National Gaza Mobe in Washington DC, 
11.04.2023 on Facebook, 2 of 2:
https://www.facebook.com/flugennock/posts/pfbid02mdREQWab3DMHFB73hCDddTrBzBn58D8ScqU4X9kLn7WokQkZosEssv2bjycijUkwl

Mike Flugennock video footage of the National Gaza Mobe in Washington, 
DC, 11.04.2023 on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/flugennock/posts/pfbid02RqqdL7TuZxFx35FJHFVCDwHxDKsvSQ6jFy32q1uZRhAjtgPAuHsinoELAtjXYoUBl
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Magic Kingdom (or, Hope'n'Joy)"

"Magic Kingdom (or, Hope'N'Joy)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3935

My customary Random 15 Seconds Of MSNBC the other morning featured 
some nasal-vocal-frying "guest analyst" from some dime-a-dozen 
downtown think tank babbling to the effect of "...Dick Cheney is 
changing hearts and minds — great!" while discussing ex-VP Dick 
Cheney's announcement that he's voting for Kamala Harris. Hot damn 
diggety, talk about a positively ringing endorsement.

Looks like the DNC is totally hitting the goddamn trifecta this time 
around, too — they've got Liz Cheney denouncing Trump, her old man — a 
known worldwide war criminal — announcing he's voting for Kay Kay, and 
they've already had GEORGE W. BUSH SPEAKING AT THEIR GODDAMN 
CONVENTION, F'CRISSAKE.

So, am I the only one here who remembers when the DNC thought that 
Cheney was the walking, talking, living, breathing earthly embodiment 
of pure evil and that George W. Bush was THE WORST PRESIDENT EVAH? No, 
really, I mean it, 'cos I need to make absolutely 110% sure that I 
didn't totally fucking hallucinate the past quarter century.


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"Liz Cheney: Dick Cheney is voting for Kamala Harris, too" Steve Benen 
at MSNBC, 09.06.2024 
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/liz-cheney-dick-cheney-voting-kamala-harris-rcna170000

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"Was George W. Bush Really That Bad?", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 04.29.2013
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1297

"Never Forget", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 08.04.2011
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=959

"Mission Accomplished!", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 12.17.2008
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=465

"No Child Left Behind, no.1", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 03.25.2003
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=312

"Let's Roll!" cartoon by Mike Flugennock 02.10.2003
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=305
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "'White Paper' Revolution"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist

"'White Paper' Revolution"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3554

Welp... (siggghhh) another day, another US-cheered and instigated  protest "movement" for "freedom" in China, slavishly "reported" by the 
US boss' media. Hell, they've even got a cute gimmick and a cute  nickname to go with it already. The "White Paper" Revolution, the wags 
are calling it at the State Department, NED, USAID, New York Times, 
Washington Post, and every goddamn cable news network on Earth, and it's supposedly all about some Ayn Rand concept of "freedom" from the testing and quarantine requirements of China's largely successful 
public health response, which is aimed at getting as close to 
completely eradicating the virus as they can get — as opposed to the 
US, which abandoned the population to its own devices to sicken and 
die of COVID19 to the tune of just over a million people last year.

Freedom, my ass — the freedom of ignorant, Ayn Rand brutalists whose 
twisted ideas of "bodily autonomy" include no concept 
whatsogoddamnever of acting conscientiously or making small sacrifices 
for the public good. It's the freedom of selfish chuds who want 
haircuts and ice cream, who want to be "served" no matter what the 
actual human cost.

This astroturf circus isn't about freedom, it's about the likes of 
Tesla, Intel, Apple and others who are impatient to literally work 
people to death in China the way they have in the US for the past two 
years.

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"China Protests and Covid: Myths and Facts" Brian Becker and Tings 
Chak on Breakthrough News, 12.06.2022 
https://breakthroughnews.org/china-protests-and-covid-myths-and-facts/

"China pushes lifting of Zero-COVID after anti-lockdown protests", 
Peter Symonds at the World Socialist Site, 11.30.2022 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/30/chin-n30.html

"'White paper' protests: China's top stationery supplier says it's 
still selling A4 sheets", Laura He at CNN Business 11.29.2022 
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/economy/china-white-paper-protests-stock-run-intl-hnk/index.html

"Memes, Puns and Blank Sheets of Paper: China's Creative Acts of 
Protest", Chang Che and Amy Chang Chien at the New York Times 
11.28.2022 
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/world/asia/china-protests-blank-sheets.html

"Umbrella Revolution", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 10.03.2014 
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1582

"Sorry About The Airport", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 08.16.2019 
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2781

"Tough Decisions at Tesla", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 05.13.2020 
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2993

"Freedom Isn't Free", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 07.17.2020 
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3034

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Ode To Joy"

from DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -

***** LATE-ISH NEWS *****

By this point, you all have figured out that I've been bounced from 
Twitter for good. A few weeks ago, I was served with a "permanent 
suspension" with no reason given, no "offending" tweets cited, no 
nothing, just gone. They gave me an opportunity to appeal, but with no  1actual reason given...? Bah, screw it.

So... if any of you have the spare moments and are up to it, it'd be 
really sweet if you could post the links/titles/images out of your 
accounts when I drop a new piece... something just, like...

"Latest'n'Greatest from Mike Flugennock: 'the Title'
#HastagThis #HashtagThat
http://whatever the blog link is..."

...that I can toss in at the end of the 'press release'.

Meanwhile, you can find me on Mastodon (Twitter, but far better) at:
https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

...on Pixelfed (like Instagram/Facebook-ish, but far better) at:
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/390704233319834702

...and I've begun regularly using my Instagram at:
https://www.instagram.com/flugennock/

Thanks again in advance, and now — after a few weeks' break to master some fresh new media tools, let's get back to the mayhem...!

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"Ode To Joy"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3397

Y'know that stupid game you play with fortune cookies in which you 
read the fortune out loud and add the phrase "in bed" at the end...? 
Well, that's apparently the favorite little fun game with the 
brain-rotted US media with regard to China, especially at the Olympics  this past week — find any news of any positive achievement of or any news that reflects well on China, and the US Boss Media will be right  on top of it with their shallow bitching and moaning about "human  rights", trot out their victims of the week, fling some over-hyped apocryphal stories around and wail "but at what cost"?

The front page of the Washington Post — where Democracy died long ago  and is now beginning to smell really pungent in darkness — put on  quite a show this past Saturday, pissing and moaning about the job the  Chinese did of keeping covid under control during the Olympics,  claiming that it "kept the joy out of the Games" and at "great mental  and financial costs". It was a headline so galling that I had to just  kind of stand there in the front hall, slack-jawed, sputtering and  giggling as I read and re-read it.

I was almost in awe of it, somehow — a gaggle of hacks from a 
corporate mouthpiece in the seat of the US Empire, which had twice as  many covid-19 deaths last week than China had all of last year, is 
having a tantrum about China taking the steps any responsible 
government should do during a public health emergency, filling its 
pants about how it took the joy out of the Olympics. Myself, I think 
any "joy" issues our friends here had came more from the shock of 
being shown up by a Chinese-American who chose to ski for China, and  by a government which treats healthcare as a public good rather than a  commodity.

Yeah, shame those horrid, awful Chinese commies took appropriate 
action to mitigate the spread of an infectious pathogen and took a 
little bit of the "joy" out of it for you — not nearly as awesome as 
here in the good old USA, where we're joyful and free and lost nearly 
a million people to covid19 last year.


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China, total covid deaths 2021: 4636
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

United States, total covid deaths 2021: 959,412
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/#graph-cases-daily


"China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with claims by  US-backed NGO and far-right researcher 'led by God' against Beijing",  the Grayzone 12.21.2019
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/

"'Independent' report claiming Uyghur genocide brought to you by sham  university, neocon ideologues lobbying to 'punish' China", the 
Grayzone 03.17.2021
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/17/report-uyghur-genocide-sham-university-neocon-punish-china/

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Flugennock;s Latest'n'Greatest: "Sweethearts"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Sweethearts"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3147
Mastodon link: https://mastodon.social/@flugennock/105730347492271674


I can't pretend I'm not enjoying this. Don't ask me to explain why, but watching the Democrats faceplanting has been a guilty pleasure of mine for some years now.

The Democrats have built a stellar reputation on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and this week's impeachment circus didn't disappoint. Caught Trump dead to rights instigating mob violence and an attempted putsch, and the Senate GOP told the Democrats to pound sand as per usual, leaving the Democrats once again stomping their little feet, blustering and whining like Joe Besser.

Well, I just hope the Dems have finally gotten this shit out of their system. Maybe now that this shitshow is over, they can get to work getting us some decent COVID relief... and maybe some friggin' healthcare...?

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"Trump Found 'Not Guilty' At Impeachment Trial", Al Jazeera 02.13.2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/13/senate-readies-to-vote-on-trump-impeachment-live

"Read the Article Of Impeachment", New York Times 01.11.2021
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/11/us/articles-impeachment-trump.html

"Joe Besser" bio at Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Besser



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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Impeachment II: The Reheated"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"Impeachment II: The Reheated"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3137

"We have the unusual circumstance where on the very first day of the trial, when those managers walk on the floor of the Senate, there will already be over 100 witnesses present"
—Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), 02.08.2021

Well, hot damn diggety; nothing fills me with confidence quite like the poetic, sage pronouncements of Mr. Russiagate, himself. Meanwhile, Jamie Raskin is cementing his role as the Tired-Ass Cliché User In-Chief:

"...Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became 
inciter in chief."

This hot mess isn't exactly going to be last night's lasagna, that's for goddamn sure — and those of you who love leftover lasagna like I do know what I'm talking about, and I'm the goddamn Leftover Lasagna Lover In-Chief.


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Mastodon link:
https://mastodon.social/@flugennock/105710229253560559

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"Lead house manager Raskin: Trump 'inciter in chief'," Al Jazeera 02.10.2021
"...Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became 
inciter in chief."
—Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/10/arguments-to-begin-in-trump-senate-impeachment-trial-live

"Trump's lawyers blast impeachment trial as 'political theater'," PBS News Hour, 02.08.2021
"We have the unusual circumstance where on the very first day of the trial, when those managers walk on the floor of the Senate, there will already be over 100 witnesses present"
—Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-lawyers-blast-impeachment-trial-as-political-theater




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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Auditioning for QAnon"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -

"Auditioning for QAnon"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3237

This time last year, it was Tom Cotton, Steve Bannon and those 
doorknobs at the Epoch Fail — uh, sorry, Epoch Times — pushing the 
100% evidence-free "Wuhan Lab Leak" conspiracy batshittery, and the 
Washington Post — along with anyone else with two synapses to rub 
together — were laughing that shit right outta the room.

So, this past week, it was with more than a little begrudging awe that 
I watched the Democratic Party, the Washington Post, CNN, Wall Street 
Journal and friends slam on the brakes, jerk the wheel around, kick in 
the afterburners and execute a full 180° Emergency Bat-Turn on the 
Wuhan Lab Leak zaniness. China's the new Enemy Of The Month, and 
Gropin' Joe needs some dirt on China, so they're dragging Steve 
Bannon's dirty hot mess out of the dumpster.

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"The Wuhan lab conspiracy theory: American capitalism's 'big lie'", 
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial 
Board 05.28.2021 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/29/pers-m29.html

"How the US media declared the "Wuhan lab" lie "credible'", Andre 
Damon at the World Socialist Web Site, 05.30.2021 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/31/wuha-m31.html

"How Steve Bannon and a Chinese Billionaire Created a Right-Wing 
Coronavirus Media Sensation", Amy Qin, Vivian Wang and Danny Hakim in 
the New York Times, 01.26.2021 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/business/media/steve-bannon-china.html



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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "What's Happy About It?"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"What's Happy About It?"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3365

As seen from the POV of Old Father Time.

Happy New Year? Huh, what's happy about it?
No, really; I know it's only January 1st, but what the hell's happy about it?


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Panic Buying"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Panic Buying"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3220

The Colonial Pipeline hack attack caused gas shortages all around the US, sparking massive amounts of mindless — and straight-up stupid — panic buying, and Israel was no exception — and the US, of course, was happy to sell them all the shit they could burn in Gaza this week.

12x14 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb

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"More than 100 killed as Israel intensifies Gaza onslaught", Maureen Clare Murphy at Electronic Intifada, 05.14.2021 
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/more-100-killed-israel-intensifies-gaza-onslaught

"Government Warns Not To Fill Plastic Bags With Gasoline Because People Are Idiots", Aaron Ryan at Whiskey Riffs, 05.13.2021 
https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2021/05/13/government-warns-not-to-fill-plastic-bags-with-gasoline-because-people-are-idiots/

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "For All Pigkind"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

Y'know, it says it right there in my social media profiles, so it's time for a little space geekery:


"For All Pigkind"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3241

In the space of about two weeks, I'm hit with the news that 
trillionaire serial worker abuser Jeff Bezos has found someone willing 
to throw down $28 mil for a suborbital joyride with him — and that 
Elon Musk will refuse to recognize Earth laws in his gated suburbs on 
Mars. Doubtless Musk will have some Space Force grunts on-call to keep 
a lid on things out there.

I'm especially bugged that Bezos has chosen July 20 as his launch 
date; I'm sure he thinks he's making some deep statement or something, 
but instead I'm just insulted somehow. Christ, 28 million dollars to 
go suborbital with Jeff Friggin' Bezos. Bah, I'd rather be a stowaway 
on Apollo 13.

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"Elon Musk's firm says they will not recognize Earth laws in planned 
Mars colony" Stacy Liberatore at London Daily Mail, 10.30.2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8897601/Elon-Musks-SpaceX-says-not-recognize-Earth-laws-planned-Mars-colony.html

"Blue Origin auctions New Shepard ride with Jeff Bezos for $28 
million", Joey Roulette at The Verge, 06.12.2021
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/12/22530907/blue-origin-auction-new-shepard-jeff-bezos-space-28-million

"The Battle For Mars: How Elon Musk, Blue Origin and the US Could Set 
Up The First Extraterrestrial Government" Adam Smith at The London 
Independent, 06.19.2021
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elon-musk-mars-spacex-nasa-b1777746.html


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Apropos Of Nothing (Cliff? What Cliff? no.2)"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -

"Apropos Of Nothing (Cliff? What Cliff? no.2)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3629

Apropos of entirely nothing, really... just stumped for a gag, smoking 
and doodling at an ungodly hour the other night, vaguely inspired by 
this alarmist headline in the Washington Post, though this cartoon was 
not at all intentionally related to the whole debt ceiling pissing 
contest on the Hill this week... and while I'm at it — is it a cliff, 
or the ceiling? Quit jerking us around, Washington Post.

I also fully confess to an equally boneheaded literal interpretation 
of the whole beat-ass "cliff" metaphor. Hell, I'm old enough to 
remember the FIRST time around with that "cliff" horseshit.

...and besides, if you really take a good, close, hot steamy gawk at 
Biden's real priorities — and the current attitude of the American 
general public towards more unemployment, inflation and austerity — 
you couldn't exactly say we were "drifting".

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"Cliff? WHAT Cliff?" cartoon by Mike Flugennock, 11.18.2012 
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1224

"The GOP wonks trying to get their party not to detonate the debt 
limit bomb", Jeff Stein in the Washington Post, 04.27.2023 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/27/debt-limit-gop-policy-wonks/

"Failing to raise the debt ceiling will create financial chaos", 
Edward Correia in the Washington Post, 04.28.2023 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/28/failing-raise-debt-ceiling-will-create-financial-chaos/

"US jobs massacre accelerates, as ruling class confronts growing 
upsurge of class struggle", Marcus Day at the World Socialist Web 
Site, 04.28.2023
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/29/jobs-a29.html

"Corporations lay off thousands as US economy heads toward recession", 
Jerry White at the World Socialist Web Site, 04.28.2023 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/28/mpod-a28.html

"NATO to surge troops to Russian border", André Damon at the World 
Socialist Web Site, 04.17.2023 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/18/tzhv-a18.html

"Republican House bill on debt ceiling sets stage for bipartisan 
assault on social programs", Barry Grey at the World Socialist Web 
Site, 04.27.2023 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/28/dtuv-a28.html

"Biden seeks reelection amid war, COVID and inflation", Patrick Martin 
at the World Socialist Web Site, 04.25.2023 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/26/ckws-a26.html


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Low-Priority File"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Low-Priority File"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3245

...and apparently, for the Washington Post and the Democratic Party, holding their President to account for unfulfilled campaign promises is lodged in a low-priority file somewhere between "Can't Be Bothered" and "Tough Shit".



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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: #BringBackOurBoys

From: Mike Flugennock
"#BringBackOurBoys"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1507

Here's one for our friends in Israel, just to let them know I'm thinking of them as they search diligently for their precious missing teens.


Israelis Kill Palestinian During House Searches In West Bank, Al Jazeera English, 06.17.14
http://tinyurl.com/oygckav

Israel Teens Search Aims To "Break" Hamas, Al Jazeera English, 06.18.14
http://tinyurl.com/orkhcc2

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "What's In A Name?"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"What's In A Name?"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3154

"Meet the new boss, you'll be amazed at the similarities between him and the old boss."
—Eoin Higgins on Twitter, 02.23.2021

What's in a name? I mean, what really is a "detention facility", anyway? Apparently, anything Gropin' Joe and his flunkies say it is, or isn't.

No matter what the answer, I have to admit that it was deee-lish reading about how White House mouthpiece Jen Psaki faceplanted and Liberals twisted themselves into pretzels trying to convince us that kids in cages are not, in fact, kids in goddamn cages.

"We CaN pUsH hIm LeFt...!"
BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

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"Biden administration claims reopening controversial Texas facility is not the same as putting 'kids in cages'", Al Jazeera 02.24.2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/24/us-to-allow-migrants-from-mexico-as-critics-slam-kids-in-cages

"It's not 'kids in cages,' Biden White House insists, saying it uses 'facilities' with 'Covid-safe' standards to lock up children", RT.com 
02.23.2021
https://www.rt.com/usa/516404-psaki-defends-migrant-camp-hypocrisy/

"'The containers offer privacy!' Biden under fire for opening child detainment center, but some liberals jump to defend him", RT.com 
02.23.2021
https://www.rt.com/usa/516364-biden-opens-child-immigration-containers/

"Meet the new boss, you'll be amazed at the similarities between him and the old boss."
—Eoin Higgins on Twitter, 02.23.2021
https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1364083327020519426



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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Season's Greetings"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Season's Greetings"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3360

For the workers who died at a candle factory in Kentucky, and an
Amazon warehouse in Illinois, for every worker forced to risk their
life without proper protective gear or healthcare, in the middle of a
pandemic and a tornado, to keep the profits coming in and the supply
chain stocked so we can buy our daughters a Fighter Pilot Barbie for
Christmas... Season's Greetings from Capitalism.

"The bosses won't keep us safe; they only care about profit. Workers
are the only ones who know what is safe and what is not. We should
decide whether to continue working or not. For that purpose, we need
to fight for Health and Safety Commissions to be set up in all
workplaces that will function independent of the bosses, that are
democratically elected, and that can organize to impose protocols and
shut down production when necessary.

Not one more dead worker at the hands of the bosses! Our lives are
worth more than their profits!"

Left Voice, 12.14.2021
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"Our Lives Are Worth More Than Their Profits", Luigi Morris in Left
Voice, 12.14.2021
https://www.leftvoice.org/our-lives-are-worth-more-than-their-profits/


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Brain Freeze"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Brain Freeze"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3229

If you're old enough to recall Gropin' Joe's role in the Drug War, and him firing a bunch of White House staffers earlier this year for 
having once smoked marijuana, then you aren't the least bit surprised to see him screwing over DC by siding with fascists... oh, I'm sorry, 
the GOP... against the citizens of DC — who, I might remind you, voted 70% to legalize cannabis.

...which somehow brings us around to Gropin' Joe's love of ice cream — 
and his new favorite flavor, the "Brain Freeze"...

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"Biden's Shameful, Conservative Stance Against Legal Pot in D.C." Matt Ford in The New Republic, 06.03.2021 
https://newrepublic.com/article/162594/marijuana-legalization-dc-biden-harris-rider

"Congresswoman Blasts Biden Decision To Block Marijuana Sales In D.C."  Kyle Jaeger in Marijuana Moment, 05.31.2021 
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/congresswoman-blasts-biden-decision-to-block-marijuana-sales-in-d-c/


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Boop Boop Bee Doop"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Boop Boop Bee Doop"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3166

Ever since the 1988 Dukakis tank-driving campaign ad ushered in the 
modern era of media fuckery, all the way through to Nancy Pelosi's 
fridge, the Democrats have been the Party Of Just Not Fucking Getting 
It. F'crissake, the woman who sang the Anthem at CPAC wasn't as 
tone-deaf as the goddamn Democrats.

And so it was that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) gave us her own Marie 
Antoinette moment, live on C-SPAN, as she cast her "no" vote on the 
minimum wage raise in the current toothless COVID Relief Bill.

Have this woman's staff and media people just once taken her aside and 
reminded her that C-SPAN telecasts live from the floor of the Senate, 
where the whole goddamn planet and their cats can see her feckless 
hijinks?

My guess is that people like Sen. Sinema are fully aware, but just 
don't care — and that this moment is not just indicative of her own 
attitude, but that of the entire Democratic Party.

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"Senator Sinema a little too happy for poverty wages to remain" 
@Roots_Action on Twitter, 03.05.2021 
https://twitter.com/Roots_Action/status/1367906192626831363

"After Voting No On The $15 Minimum Wage, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Had Her 
Marie Antoinette Moment", Elly Belle at Refinery29, 03.05.2021
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/03/10349169/krysten-sinema-marie-antoinette-cake-twitter-backlash

"The $15 Minimum Wage Is Officially Dead In Democrats' COVID-19 Relief 
Bill", Tara Golshan at the Huffington Post, 03.05.2021 
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minimum-wage-15-dead-covid-relief-bill_n_604256cdc5b613cec15d4c8a?hxi

"Manchin Wins Cuts to Unemployment Benefits as COVID Relief Bill 
Passes Senate", Andrea Germanos at Truthout, 03.06.2021
https://truthout.org/articles/manchin-wins-cuts-to-unemployment-benefits-as-covid-relief-bill-passes-senate/

"Seven facts about tipped workers and the tipped minimum wage", Elise 
Gould and David Cooper at the Economic Policy Institute
https://www.epi.org/blog/seven-facts-about-tipped-workers-and-the-tipped-minimum-wage/



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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: 'A Frightening Situation'

DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock's latest -

"A Frightening Situation"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3412

Inspired by the rip-roaring coverage of atrocities, war crimes, and 
miscellaneous ruthlessness by America's Official Enemy against the 
Ukraine in the very same corporate-owned Western media who worked 
itself to death to cover up atrocities, war crimes, and miscellaneous 
ruthlessness by the Earth's enemy against Iraq and Afghanistan — not 
to mention pushing the most insane-ass kind of comic-book lies about 
(ahem) Weapons Of Mass Destruction — about 18, 20 years or so ago. 
But, now...? Cripes, man, the Boss Media in the US and its 
"international community" are all about war crimes and atrocities and 
bombed civilians and the Hague n'shit. Wotta goddamn joke.

I shit you not, kiddies — if this were a foto of a similar scene in 
Gaza, of Palestinian women getting ready to resist the terrorism of 
the IDF and Israeli colonists, do you honestly think Reuters — and 
MSNBC, CNN, the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, all the 
usual suspects — would run some noble, heart-wrenching piece on 
ordinary women rushing to the defense of their country against invaders?

Naaaaahhhhhhhhhh. It'd be some horseshit about defenseless, peaceful 
little Israelis just minding their own while the mean, evil terrorist 
Palestinians try to resist the defenseless, peaceful little Israelis' 
attempts to drive them out of their homes and murder them.

The likes of Reuters didn't give a shit about civilians during the US 
invasion of Iraq, and they don't really give a shit now. They didn't 
give a shit about war crimes during the US occupation of Iraq and 
Afghanistan, and they don't really give a shit now.

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"Living In A Frightening Situation – Estonian Women Learn To Fight", 
Janis Laizans via Reuters, 03.22.2022 
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/living-frightening-situation-estonian-women-learn-fight-2022-03-22/

"Were Julian Assange to be extradited or subjected to any other 
transfer to the USA, Britain would be in breach of its obligations 
under international human rights law"
— @Wikileaks on Twitter
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1512531728430080004

Working Class History Podcast, E17-18: Anti-Zionism in Israel
https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/16/e17-anti-zionism-in-israel-part-1/


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "My Heart Will Go On"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist...

"My Heart Will Go On"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3807
http://flugennock.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-heart-will-go-on.html

I hate to break it to the kiddies at the Dyin' In Darkness Daily, but 
misidentifying the President of Egypt as the President of Mexico is 
NOT a "false caricature that could jell" — and neither is being 
nicknamed "Genocide Joe" and helping to instigate racist violence in 
his own country, for that matter.

All together, boys'n'girls...
"🎵 Nearer my God to thee... 🎵"

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"Dearborn residents denounce Wall Street Journal slander of city as 
'jihad capital'", Kathleen Martin at the World Socialist Site, 
02.09.2024 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/09/hhmv-f09.html

"Abandon Biden" protesters part of national Palestinian solidarity 
mobilization, Washington DC 01.13.2024, foto by Mike Flugennock
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361936359788603&set=pb.100079167253678.-2207520000&type=3


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Live With It"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -

"Live With It"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3345

And, there we have it — we've gone from "we're all in this together" 
to "live with it". Like, screw you — just shaddup and live with it; 
they're through even pretending to care.

So, what else will we be expected to "live with" — labor exploitation? 
Fascist thugs ruling the streets? The end of the goddamn Earth?

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"CBS Stars Vow 'We're All in This Together' in PSA to Calm Coronavirus  Fears", Jason Lynch at AdWeek, 03.17.2020 
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/cbs-stars-vow-were-all-in-this-together-in-psa-to-calm-coronavirus-fears/

"Doctors warn that Covid will become endemic and people need to learn  to live with it", CNBC 02.12.2021 
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/12/doctors-warn-covid-will-become-endemic-and-people-need-to-learn-to-live-with-it.html


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