Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "What About The –"

 

"What About The..."
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4229

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"Now Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political
strategy, even though there's little consensus on how to press forward
on issues where the party has recently struggled to earn voters' trust."
– Matt Brown reporting at AP, 01.21.2026

"Scrambling to figure out..." says the AP headline, and that pretty much
sums up what the Democratic Party is all about. Once again, as in
Palestine – in a situation where the moral and ethical choices are clear
to anyone, Democrats are "scrambling" to figure out what the hell they
stand for – and if the DNC has to "scramble" to figure out what the
proper choices are here, then it's obvious at this point that the
Democratic Party is a garbage institution which stands for absolutely
jack. Whenever you hear these crawlers talking about translating outrage
into "strategy", or "harnessing" popular energy, it's all about sucking
the blood of the People's popular movements, co-opting and shipping them
off to the Movement Graveyard.

Anyone who actually follows my work here regularly will know about my
personal "tradition" of the "Random 15" – that is, 15-30 seconds of
whatever is being vomited out over MSNOW when I come upstairs with our
first cups of the morning... and this week on "Morning Joe", my Random
15 been one dime-a-dozen DNC "strategiest" after another, one
Contributing Guest Analyst after another, clutching pearls and wailing
"Oh, won't somebody think of the MIDTERMS?" in the wake of the uprising
breaking out in the face of fascist thuggery in Minnesota.

That's really pretty much what it's all about with these clods – not
liberty, justice, prosperity, fascism vanquished, any of that cool shit
– nahh, just winning another pointless-ass midterm election, hustling
the People into giving their symbolic consent to rule by charlatans,
defusing the power of the People and diverting it into empty useless
rituals like "democracy". The Democrats are all about defanging the
People, beating back a much-needed revolution – a much-needed civil war,
even – because as history teaches us, at the end of the day, Liberals
are really OK with fascism.

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"Minneapolis turmoil has Democrats scrambling to figure out political
strategy on immigration", Matt Brown at Associated Press, 01.21.2026
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-democrats-immigration-minneapolis-1108b6228c0f088aa85d4c6d8ce744ba

"For a general strike against ICE violence and Trump's dictatorship!"
Socialist Equity Party release, 01.22.2026
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/23/lhma-j23.html

"It's Going To Be A New Day!", poster series by Mike Flugennock,
11.05.2006 https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=407

"Yer Liberals", editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock, 09.26.2012
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1167

"Democratic Party: Graveyard of Movements", editorial cartoon by Mike
Flugennock, 04.27.2015 https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1707

"Garbage no.2 (…garbage out)", editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock,
11.04.2024 https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4024

"The Democrats Find Their 'Clear Message'", editorial cartoon by Mike
Flugennock, 08.06.2025 https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4142
 
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Another 'No Kings' Weekend"!

Inspired by a Bluesky thread about all the DNC astroturf front outfits
hogging all the public protest space, and how they plan on exploiting
the situation in Minnesota. I've seen where the Fifty Fifty One dipshits
and their pals are already making some moves.

     "SCRising has a strong commitment to nonviolent action. We expect
all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with
those who disagree with our values…"

– even if Those Who Disagree are armed, lawless fascist thugs hell-bent
on oppressing, mass-murdering, disappearing and imprisoning us all, and
coming after your own personal posh Liberal ass, right out there in the
street?

"Good Trouble"? Oh, get the hell outta my face. Would it be safe at this
point to discount any opinions from anyone throwing around the phrase
"good trouble"? We're long past that; we need some people with the
cojones to start some bad trouble.

And I gotta love their almost pathological clinging to Nonviolence™
dogma even as the State and Capital literally beat them down in the
streets. It makes me puke. Yeah – it'll be "peaceful" until the pigs
start clobbering their stupid Liberal asses with tear gas, beanbags and
flash-bangers, and anyone who fights back will be labeled an "agitator"
and ratted out.

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Resistance Solidarity"

"Resistance Solidarity"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4220

"Washington – the gangster-in-chief posing as global policeman – refuses
to accept any limitations on its actions. If legal authorities, whether
domestic or international, try to stand in its way, they are either
punished or pushed aside.

In this topsy-turvy world, Trump's naked exercise of colonial violence
is feted as peace-making. As he was massing troops off Venezuela's coast
last month, FIFA, the international football federation, awarded him its
inaugural peace prize – an honour created specifically to stroke his
ego..."

–Jonathan Cook on Substack, 01.06.2026

Know your enemy.
Choose your fighter.
#GlobalizeIntifada

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"From Gaza to Venezuela, the US has been unmasked as the serial
villain", Jonathan Cook at Substack, Jan 06 2026
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/from-gaza-to-venezuela-the-us-has

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "TrumpGas"

 
"They can still see his headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun!"
– Warren Zevon,
   "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner", 1978


This old chestnut from my crazed student daze wasn't really historically
apropos to this cartoon, but it was stuck in my head the whole time I
was working on it. It was in our Dorm Top Forty in senior year, when I
was drawing in the Yipster Times and my buds and I were getting ready to
pie the Dean. I couldn't begin to explain it; the sonofabitch just kinda
leaped out of my memory, cranked to 11.

But, let's just put those old giggles aside for now, and take ourselves
a zesty, steamy gawk at the front page of Pravda On The Potomac from
last Thursday (as I write this) – or, as I called it, the "Venezuela
Special". JEEEEzus CHRIST, willya LOOK at that goddamn mess. The main
head on the front-page lead piece on the Donster's latest yo-ho-ho'ing
looks as if they're in on the Cheer For Bullying, Piracy And Thievery
Without Actually Cheering For Bullying, Piracy And Thievery Challenge –
nothing if not the internal agonizing and mental pretzel-twisting of my
imperialist Liberal friends'n'fam made publicly visible. They're
actually in favor of something the Donster is doing, and so they're just
going all splungy. So, what's he gonna do with the goddamn tanker, now –
open his own gas-station chain? "TrumpGas"? He's already started up his
own social-media site and plastered his name all over all kinds of shit,
why not gas stations? "You can trust your car to the man who..."

...but, enough of that; let's move on to the featured foto on the left,
where the true hilarity ensues – in which The Courageous Venezuelan
Opposition Leader* Who Looks Like The Villainess In A Telenovela And Who
Begged Trump To Invade Her Country And Who Can't Come Out Of Hiding To
Accept Her Cracker Jack Peace Prize Sends Her Daughter Instead.

*Note that here, as in all cases, the phrase "opposition leader" in the
US press is a stand-in for the phrase "USAID, NED and
multiple-corporate-backed right-wing US stooge".

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"Boosting Pressure on Venezuela, U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker", Washington
Post Dec 11 2025
https://sinkers.org/posters/trumpgas/wapoA1Dec1125boosting_pressure.jpg

"Venezuelan Nobel Peace Laureate Machado Misses Ceremony", Washington
Post Dec 11 2025
https://sinkers.org/posters/trumpgas/wapoA1Dec1125machado_misses_ceremony.jpg

Warren Zevon, "Roland, The Headless Thompson Gunner", 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRWCK9zGynA
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "All I Want For Christmas"

"All I Want For Christmas"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4213



"...history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who
spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not
as the powerful narrated it, but as the oppressed lived it."
      – Peter McLaren at Orinico Tribune, 11.29.2025


What really amuses me about all this – besides the fact that the Defense
Secretary sounds as if he got lost on the way to ComicCon – is that all
the imperialist Liberals out there are strangely silent. I mean, c'mon,
peeps – isn't this what you wanted? Wreck and occupy the place and nab
all of our oil that Venezuela had under their country? I mean, that has
to be the real mission, after watching the Donster pardon some
crooked-ass coke-dealing Honduran politician who was said to have
claimed he would shove the cocaine up Americans' noses personally, or
some whacked shit.

Perhaps I don't watch enough MSNBC – oh, sorry, MSNOW – but all the
imperialist Liberals in my life have been real, real, real goddamn
quiet. I mean, y'all wanted to get rid of that popularly-elected
socialist government which has actually been working to give the People
what they want and refuses to suck Uncle Sam's dick – oh, I'm sorry;
that corrupt, brutal dictator, huh? They're always "brutal dictators"
with these Liberals ...and you just know the People love Maduro when a
rank, fashy rag like the New York Times says that he's "clinging to
power".

Sometimes, I think it might almost be worth the risk of annihilation to
watch Amerika get its ass sucked into another quagmire in Latin America
against Russia and China. A ringside seat for the collapse of the Empire
would be really sweet.

Hooray for Santy Claus.

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"Will US Attack Venezuela?", Roger D. Harris in the L.A. Progressive,
Oct 13, 2025
https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/will-us-attack-venezuela

"The Spirit of Chavismo: Why Trump Must Not Invade Venezuela", Peter
McLaren at Orinico Tribune, Nov 29 2025
https://orinocotribune.com/the-spirit-of-chavismo-why-trump-must-not-invade-venezuela/

"Why the US War Secretary doesn't want Venezuela 'cartel' strikes
investigated", Rachel Marsden at RT, Dec 05 2025
https://www.rt.com/news/629082-hegseth-venezuela-drug-strikes/

"Trump Pardons Convicted Narco-Trafficking Pol Amid Plot to Rig Honduran
Election", Wyatt Reed at Orinico Tribune, Nov 29 2025
https://orinocotribune.com/trump-pardons-convicted-narco-trafficking-pol-amid-plot-to-rig-honduran-election/

The Fleshtones, "Hooray For Santa Claus (Theme from 'Santa Claus
Conquers The Martians')"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKgD4Zua-F8
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Lord Of The Files"

"Lord Of The Files"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4208

With a big ol' School Book Depository Anniversary Day salute to all you
poor-ass marks who showed out for this shit show. For me, personally, it
just wasn't worth a whole goddamn day of hanging out listing to bitter
Democrats and fauxgressives shitting all over the Left in the drizzling
goddamn damp for maybe a half-hour set of Dropkick Murphys at the end of
it all.

Doubtless, aforementioned marks' nipples are certainly exploding with
delight at the prospect of the DNC apparatchiks on Occupied Capitol Hill
finally getting their damp, stanky little mitts on ZOMG TEH FILES... and
meanwhile, I keep wondering how many Palestinians were murdered today
while the Democratic Party and the New York Times and MSNOW keep yelling
their goddamn faces off about Jeffrey Goddamn Epstein.

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"Democrats plan full-court press on DOJ to release Epstein files" Mike
Lillis and Rebecca Beitsch at The Hill, Nov 22 2025
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5618228-democrats-doj-epstein-files/

"Trump signs Epstein bill into law, releasing files from DOJ", Julia
Manchester at The Hill, Nov 19 2025
https://thehill.com/homenews/5614156-trump-signs-epstein-transparency-act/

"DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC", political cartoon by Mike Flugennock, Aug
29 2025 https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4176

"Live Gaza casualty count" https://gazacasualties.org/

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Potemkin Revolution"

"Potemkin Revolution"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4202

We've just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed
"No Kings" shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are
rolling into town on the 22nd of November — a quite apropos date for
this shindig as I've often found myself wishing for a cheap Italian
rifle and a school book depository lately.

This is from the same blast of inspiration which coughed up the "No
Kings" flyer parody, and my disgust/amusement at the continuous parade
of half-assed Democratic astroturf "Potemkin Revolutions" through my
city, such as the latest partisan bitchfest headed our way next week.

Caitlin Johnstone published an excellent Substack piece recently about
the flood of fake movements – mostly Democratic Party front groups –
hitting us one after the other this year. It's not just the shallow
fakery that's got me pondering, but how this strikes me as some kind of
"domestic 'color revolution'" blitz by the Democrats. Like US-backed
"color revolutions" in Hong Kong or Ukraine, the DNC's domestic version
functions much the same way — divert and waste attention, time and
energy and promote US capitalist interests.

It's not enough for the DNC to suppress our voices in their media and
their phony "democracy"; they have to add insult to injury by flooding
the public protest space with these inane fake "movements" which cause
no trouble, make no demands and constitute no threat to the State or to
Capital – and so are ultimately useless.

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"U.S. Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now", Caitlin Johnstone
at Substack, 10.19.2025
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-politics-is-just-nonstop-fake
 
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "'No Threat' Weekend"

"'No Threat' Weekend"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4199


"Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn't
disrupted in the slightest. People held up some signs saying the
president is orange and that if Kamala were president they would be at
brunch, and then went home.

The whole thing was just one big pep rally for the Democratic Party,
designed to accomplish nothing beyond getting American liberals excited
about the prospect of someday voting for Gavin Newsom..."

–Caitlin Johnstone on Substack, 10.19.2025


For real, Ms. J. I almost feel personally insulted every time these
flyers hit the streets in my neighborhood for their goddamn fake-ass
astroturf "movement" which seems to roll into town at least once per
quarter, as if trying to make a fundraising goal. My first thought was
"Christ, weren't these assholes just in town this summer?" – and we've
got a whole fresh load of astroturf being rolled out next week, and we
haven't even had a chance to wash the stink off the Mall from the last
"No Kings" flag-kissing festival.

Hell, there's a whole freakin' raft of these phony-ass outfits that have
suddenly sprung up like mushrooms after a summer downpour bouncing
around now, and they're all fronting for the DNC – No Kings,
FiftyFiftyOne, local clowns like the Free DC Project – and obstructing
real revolutionary change.

LOOK THE HELL OUT for these time wasters.


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"Refuse Fascism"
https://refusefascism.org

"Fifty-Fifty One"
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

"No Kings"
https://www.nokings.org/

"Free DC Project"
https://freedcproject.org/

"US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now", Caitlin Johnstone at
Substack, 10.19.2025
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-politics-is-just-nonstop-fake

 
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Globalize Intifada"

"Globalize Intifada"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4197


C'mon, folks. It says what it says, right there in the Declaration,
second paragraph: "throw off". Yeah, that's right — Intifada.
When the clampdown comes down, you throw it off by any means necessary.
And if you think popular uprising against oppression is "terrorism",
maybe it's because you're the terrorist.

It's time to globalize the throwing off.
It's time to Globalize Intifada.



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Broadside printed by John Dunlap on the night of July 4, 1776
https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/declaration/files/dunlap_broadside_copy_of_the_united_states_declaration_of_independence_loc-2.jpg
(https://tinyurl.com/2f38p89b)

"Text of the Declaration Of Independence", Harvard Graduate School of
Education
https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/resources/text

"I Covered the Intifada. It's Wrong to Say It Means Violence Against
Jews." Daoud Kuttab at FAIRblog, 07.07.2025
https://fair.org/home/i-covered-the-intifada-its-wrong-to-say-it-means-violence-against-jews/

"The Word 'Intifada' Meaning in Arabic With Examples" at
meaninginarabic.com
https://meaninginarabic.com/intifada-meaning-in-arabic/
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Voter Enthusiasm"

"Voter Enthusiasm"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4191

I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these
days comes from the five minutes or so I spend scoping out the front
pages of the Washington Post, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, New
York Times – and the New York Post, if I think I can stand it – in
search of inspiration at the newsstands of my local bodegas while out on
my morning walk.

Isn't it adorable how all the DNC can think about is getting their
goddamn vote out while our neighbors are being snatched and disappeared
by gangs of masked thugs, the regime is spitting in our faces on live TV
and trying to provoke a civil war, and pretty much every goddamn
American institution we were taught to venerate in school has turned out
to be total garbage? But yeah, sure, Donkeycrats; let's get that
mid-term vote out.

And what's with the "voter enthusiasm" thing? Goddamn Democrats can't
shut the hell up with that crap. What, are they bugged that the voters
are so goddamn beat down, desperate and indoctrinated that they're just
kind of reflexively dragging their glum, dejected asses out to punch a
chad, tap a screen, pull a lever, then back home for "The Price Is
Right" instead of eagerly, happily, proudly – dare I say "joyfully" –
skipping and singing on their way to the polls?

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"Under Pressure From The Left, Democrats Rejoin The Fight; Divided party
hopes shutdown will help reignite voter enthusiasm", Wall Street
Journal, Page A1 10.03.2025
https://www.sinkers.org/posters/enthusiasm/WSJ_A1_Oct0325-01voterenthusiasm.jpg
  
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC"

"DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4176


A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the
stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few
weeks ago, has gone viral and a huge hit with folks in neighborhoods
like Capitol Hill. All I could think of, though, was just how toothless
and ineffectual my fellow Washingtonians have apparently been in the
face of a hostile military occupation; basically, the only response we
can muster is to throw sandwiches. No general strikes, student walkouts
being proposed or organized anywhere around here? Any disobedience –
civil or otherwise – being called around town? Any organizations forming
anywhere around here working on plans to make this city ungovernable?
Anything at all beyond throwing sandwiches, creating celebratory t-shirt
art and posting stupid jokes about it on Facebook? Nope, not seeing
anything.

Well, what the hell, then; while I wait for someone to drop an action
call who isn't a freshly minted Democratic Party front – like the "Free
DC Project" or those "No Kings" dipshits – here's something which might
be at least a cut or two more provocative than tossing a foot-long for
all my "flypasters" out there.
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Really, Really, Really"

"Really, Really, Really"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4146

Oh, f'crissake, you goddamn fashy tools. You heard the sonofabitch
yelling all over the goddamn place about what he was going to do if he
got back into office, you heard all the big plans, right...? But you
still supported the bastard because THE PRICE OF EGGS...? ...like you
all were actually TOTALLY OK with all the other shit as long as the
price of your goddamn carton of eggs came down? C'mon; y'all didn't
actually think he was going to get that price of eggs thing done, did
you?

Like the Liberals suddenly running from the Gaza genocide as if it were
a house on fire, collaborationist motherfuckers like YOU aren't getting
away this easy. If you supported Trump, you support "this".

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"'I voted for Trump, but I didn't vote for this': Rep. Scholten shares
stories from her constituents", Alex Witt at MSNBC 04.06.2025
https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/watch/-i-voted-for-trump-but-i-didn-t-vote-for-this-rep-scholten-shares-stories-from-her-constituents-236665413566

"Not all Trump voters 'voted for this'" G. Elliott Morris at Substack
06.02.2025
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-trump-supporters-did-not-vote

Kevin Buist on Twitter, 06.2025, 'Yes, you did vote to deport moms.'
https://tinyurl.com/t8mfse42

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "The Democrats Find Their Clear Message"

"The Democrats Find Their Clear Message"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4142

I'm almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the
"Democrats need a clear message" horseshit for this long before some
kind of metaphorical anvil fell on my head from the top of a
metaphorical skyscraper and I suddenly realized that oh, f'crissake, the
Democratic Party has been giving me a great big loud-ass and clear
message since at least 1996, when Ralph Nader first ran on the Green
Party ticket, and that clear message is —

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"The Democratic Party is still trying to figure out its message after
2024's defeat", Stephen Fowler & Steve Inskeep at NPR 07.31.2025
https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-07-31/the-democratic-party-is-still-trying-to-figure-out-its-message-after-2024s-defeat

"How About a Daily Democratic Message?", Robert Kuttner at The American
Prospect 02.19.2025
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-02-19-how-about-a-daily-democratic-message/

"Lawmakers pressure Trump on Gaza aid, as support for Israel craters
among Democrats", Michael Arria at Mondoweiss, 07.30.2025
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/lawmakers-pressure-trump-on-gaza-aid-as-support-for-israel-craters-among-democrats/
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "ICE Unmasked!"

 
"ICE Unmasked"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4137

"I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that
area."
— US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025

If candy-assed, non-committal hemming'n'hawing were an Olympic event —
if namby-pamby mealy-mouthing around were an NCAA Division I sport — New
York Rep. Hakeem "AIPAC Shakur" Jeffries would be a multiple gold
medalist, AND in the top brackets for the Final Four.

Really, brah? You're the goddamn Minority Leader in the goddamn House,
the goddamn head of the goddamn Democratic Caucus, you represent New
York on Capitol Goddamn Hill — but somehow didn't get involved in the
primary, and you didn't know Zohran Mamdani well? What, you never once
during the whole NYC mayoral campaign peeped the New York papers, the
Roll Call, the Hill, none of that shit, like you've been in a goddamn
cave and honestly never heard of the sonofabitch?

Like, are we for real, seriously expected to buy that shit? F'crissake,
ya' pasted-on smiling, empty-eyed mumbling suit; stop insulting our
intelligence and just admit that you're a goddamn useless-assed racist,
fascist-collaborating tool. Everybody else seems to be cutting it loose
these days with no consequences; what the hell, man.

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Karmageddon"

"Karmageddon"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4133


I'll be absolutely 100% honest with y'all — I couldn't pretend I didn't
enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their
foot down, rise up and hit the bully back. And after a year and a half
of relentless US-backed oppression and genocide, Israel — like your
standard-issue bully — instantly starts screaming victim and runs crying
to the teacher.

I couldn't pretend not to enjoy the footage of Israelis nervously lined
up at airports, scrambling aboard buses and boats, running all over each
other to get out of "their" country. What'sa matter, gang? That land was
promised to you by god. What are you running for?

Trump's remarks were real class, too — the more he bragged, the more you
knew Israel was getting a first-class ass-paddling. So goddamn MUCH
winning, there, Donster.

Hats off to Iran for having the strength and courage to teach Israel
that actions have consequences.

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"Trump: 'Very hard' to ask Israel to cease Iran airstrikes" NewsBytes,
06.21.2025
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/trump-very-hard-to-ask-israel-to-halt-iran-airstrikes/story

"Iran Missile Attacks Shake Israel", Jon Elmer at Electronic Intifada,
06.20.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77w9LPtzpYc

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "'Iron' Dome"

"'Iron' Dome"

Almost as if somebody threw a switch someplace, Western media were
suddenly awash in fotos and video of bombed-out buildings and people
weeping for lost and missing loved ones and agonizing over the trauma of
having to hole up in basements all night in... Tel Aviv.

Yes, that's right, the capitol of the most reviled nation on Earth, led
by a skeezy cabal of psychotic genocidal fascist murderers, trained and
funded by an equally skeezy cabal of psychotic genocidal fascist
murderers — is begging us to "not remain silent" and stand with Israel
as they get some well-deserved payback  at last.

All my pals and I are hashtagging this happy fun time #Karmageddon.

Cry me a goddamn river, motherfuckers. Iran's got yer number.

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"Tel Aviv blocks evacuation flights as tens of thousands of Israelis
stranded abroad", The Cradle, 06.16.2025
https://thecradle.co/articles/tel-aviv-blocks-evacuation-flights-as-tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-stranded-abroad

"Iran's ballistic missiles cause extensive destruction across Israel"
The Cradle, 06.16.2025
https://thecradle.co/articles/irans-ballistic-missiles-cause-extensive-destruction-across-israel

"Netanyahu says Israel 'in control' of Teheran skies" China Daily,
06.18.2025
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202506/16/WS68503024a310a04af22c696a.html

"Tel Aviv miscalculates: Why Israel's shock strategy failed against
Iran" Ali Salehian at The Cradle, 06.16.2025
https://thecradle.co/articles/tel-aviv-miscalculates-why-israels-shock-strategy-failed-against-iran

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Resistencia California"

"Resistencia California"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4127


In solidarity with our freedom fighters in the Battle Of Los Angeles.
Time to support OUR troops.

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"Protests continue in Los Angeles in response to fascist immigration
raids" Jacob Cross and contributors at World Socialist Site 07.06.2025
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/07/tebb-j07.html#903286324

"Nationwide protests multiply against fascist ICE raids and military
deployment in Los Angeles", Jacob Crosse at World Socialist Site
07.10.2025
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/10/fxqc-j10.html


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Making Life Interplanetary"

"Making Life Interplanetary"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4112


"Some may focus on the lows, but behind the efforts of Starship – and
other programs like New Glenn, Neutron, Vulcan, Terran, Stoke, etc – is
a massive space economy taking shape: tens of thousands of jobs,
billions in private investment, all aimed at truly opening the last
great frontier.

When these capabilities arrive, they will spearhead a new era of
exploration and discovery – and the lows will become a chapter in a much
longer story."

– Jared Isaacman, Trump NASA Administrator Nominee,
   05.28.2025


I saw the news of the latest SpaceX Starship explosion with a complete
lack of surprise a few days ago, and it had me somehow flashing back to
Musk's performance at that post-Inaugural shindig, and his bluster about
putting boots on Mars... and a joyful, iconic moment on the Moon,
waaayyyy back when I was an awestruck kid of 15.

...and given Isaacman's background in — what, some kind of Internet
payment system or some shit — I'm also not surprised at the complete
lack of any mention of science, exploration, the expansion of humanity
into the solar system in his remarks... nahh, fuck that noise; there's
money to be made — once Elon can stop blowing those goddamn things up.

Speaking of blowing up giant rocket-powered dildos, apparently Elon was
supposed to have delivered a company-sponsored TED-ish talk entitled
"The Road To Making Life Interplanetary", but his plans kinda... shall
we say, "blew up in his face":

"...Ahead of the Starship Flight 9 mission, Musk said he would host a
company talk, which was dubbed "The Road to Making Life Multplanetary,"
which he said would be live-streamed. However, that was originally
scheduled before the launch, then shifted to after and now appears to be
off the table for the time being..."
– Will Robinson-Smith, reporting at Spaceflight Now, 05.28.2025

...so, I guess Making Greed Interplanetary will just have to wait, for
now.

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Isaacman quoted in Spaceflight Now, 05.28.2025
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/05/28/spacex-launches-first-flight-proven-super-heavy-booster-loses-control-of-starship-mid-flight/

"Starship tumbles back to Ocean after reaching a nominal orbit", Moises
Avila, with Issam Ahmed in Washington
South Padre Island, United States (AFP) May 28, 2025
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Starship_megarocket_blows_up_over_Indian_Ocean_in_latest_bumpy_test_999.html

"How did Jared Isaacman, billionaire behind first-ever private
spacewalk, make his money?" Tom Sanders at Metro UK, 09.12.2024
https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/12/jared-isaacman-billionaire-behind-first-ever-private-spacewalk-21591723/

"No, Elon Musk Did Not Perform a Roman Salute at Trump's Inauguration"
George Liapis at Roman Empire Times, 01.20.2025
https://romanempiretimes.com/no-elon-musk-did-not-perform-a-roman-salute-at-trumps-inauguration/
https://romanempiretimes.com/content/images/size/w2000/format/avif/2025/01/Elon-Musk-using-a-Salute-towards-the-crowd-of-Donald-Trump-s-inauguration--a-move-some-called-Nazi-salute--and-others-Roman-salute.jpg

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Donald's Drive-Thru"

"Donald's Drive-Thru"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4107

Though actually quite grim and cringe as hell, I found this news
sickeningly funny somehow, in ways reminiscent of the big-ups drum
beating Sept 2005 BLS jobs report the month after Hurricane Katrina.
Y'think Microsoft was hoping Mickey D's would pick up some of that
layoff headcount?

Then, of course, is the cringingly upbeat economic hard-sell in the
Mickey D's announcement featuring the new Labor Secretary, and the
obvious clumsy-ass tap-dancing they're going to have to do around our
new quack-ass Health & Human Services Secretary – especially seeing as
Big Mac's is one of El Presidente's favorite brands.

You deserve a break today!

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"McDonald's announces plans to hire 375,000 workers with Trump Labor
secretary", Amelia Lucas at CNBC, 05.12.2025
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/mcdonalds-to-hire-375000-workers-trump-labor-secretary.html

"Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce",
Jordan Novet at CNBC, 05.13.2025
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html

"169,000 New Jobs!", editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock, 10.19.2005
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=381

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Retro Kitsch"

"Retro Kitsch"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4101

Many of my readers of a certain age may have had Dads or uncles who were
enthusiasts of a certain style of rec room bar lighting. Here's my
backhanded tribute to classic Mid 20th American cheese.

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"Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu", Owen Jones at
Substack, 05.07.2025
https://www.owenjones.news/p/gaza-will-be-concentration-camp-declares

"Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire
efforts", Mitchell Plitnick at Mondoweiss, 05.02.2025
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

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