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Deportation -- Cartoon by Clay Bennett
Clay BennettDecember 9, 2025Chattanooga Times Free Press
End Family Separation -- Cartoon and Commentary by Lalo Alcaraz
We are all heartbroken when we hear about more and more families being separated by ICE and this rogue Administration. This country has to abide by its claims that it is pro-family, and stop ripping our families apart.
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Lalo AlcarazDecember 9, 2025CALÓ NEWS
Re: The Emancipation Proclamation Offers a Hint on What the Supreme Court Will Do About Birthright Citizenship
Very relevant to the Pedo President’s wanting to end birth right citizenship.
Bill AudettePosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Re: Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now
(posting on xxxxxx Labor)
Very good article on general strike potential.
Let us not forget the massive sliding strikes of (mainly) CIO unions in late 1945 - early 1946. Now we'd want to include a wider range of organizations, of course, some of whom could be knockin' doors and speaking at group meetings, etc., while awaiting their group's scheduled turn. Much thought and preparation needed within a somewhat loose leadership.
Just sayin'
Solidarity,
Jim YoungPresident emeritusPA Labor History SocietySEIU ret; APSCUF/AFT ret; National Writers Union
Re: Starbucks Workers Are Still Without a Labor Deal Four Years After Their First Union Win. Here's Why
(posting on xxxxxx Labor)
I will not patronize a Starbucks store until and unless a contract is signed: perhaps there are others like me who patronize union shops whenever possible - and there are a lot of other "posibles" out there.
Carolyn M BirdenMember, WBAI Local Station Board
Sleepy Don -- Cartoon by Rob Rogers
Rob RogersDecember 5, 2025TinyView
Re: Six Myths About Rural America: How Conventional Wisdom Gets It Wrong
FACT: when the media talks about "America's farmers" and "family farmers", it's bull. As of the 1990 Census, "family farmer" was "no longer a recognized occupation" because it was under 1.5% of the population. Those "farmers" are agribusiness. What's left are what are referred to as "hobby farms" (like the one a couple of friends of mine have in se Indiana). They *all* work outside the farm.
I posted this elsewhere, and one response noted that what happens on top of that is that the kids go to cities for more education; they may come back, but 70% leave permanently. This, along with shuttering of local hospitals and manufacturing means that what's happening is the depopulation of rural America.
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Two Dolls Trump -- Cartoon by Mike Stanfill
Mike StanfillDecember 10, 2025Raging Pencils
Racist Douchenozzle - What did Trump's MRI results reveal? -- Cartoon and Commentary by Clay Jones
We will never truly know what Donald Trump's MRI results revealed because we can't trust anything that comes out of this White House.
Trump's doctor said that the orange one had an MRI imaging of his heart and abdomen in October as part of a preventative screening for men his age. The physical exam included “advanced imaging,” which is “standard for an executive physical” in Trump’s age group. The doctor concluded that the cardiovascular and abdominal imaging was “perfectly normal.”
I call bullshit. There is there is nothing that comes out of this administration that is “perfectly normal.” And you would need advanced imaging to find his heart. You would probably have to put him right in front of the Hubble Telescope to find his brain.
Trump said, “It was just an MRI. What part of the body? It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.” Yeah, it doesn't work like that.
Doctors typically order an MRI to help with diagnosing symptoms or to monitor an ongoing health problem. So-called “preventive” cardiac and abdominal MRIs are not part of routine screening recommendations. This so-called “executive” physical means it was special treatment for Donald Trump. Maybe Snoop Dogg sold him some extended body parts insurance.
You have never had an MRI as some sort of bonus or something extra on an exam. Do you wanna know why? Because an MRI is expensive, and your insurance company is not going to cover it just because the doctor wants to hunt for stuff that isn't giving any signs. Only very wealthy people have MRIs for shits and giggles. This is another example of Donald Trump being out of touch with people being hurt by his inflation and careening economy. I believe they were hunting for something, but they're not gonna tell us what that was.
During Trump's first term, there was a mysterious visit to the hospital, which was explained as a physical being broken up into two parts, which is a lie. You can't trust doctors who claim that Donald Trump only weighs 215 pounds. You can't trust doctors who claim that Donald Trump passed a cognitive test.
This White House cannot explain the weird bruises on Donald Trump's hands that he keeps putting makeup over. You can't trust this White House when they keep telling us that Trump is full of energy while he keeps falling asleep in public.
I don't wish bad health on anyone, even a douchenozzle like Donald Trump. I did not do that previously, but I am especially not going to do it after the experience of suffering a stroke. I'm not going to make any predictions about what will happen to Donald Trump healthwise, because I think it’s bad karma that can bounce back onto you. I'm also not going to engage in any conspiracy theories about his health. But it's obvious this White House is hiding something about Donald Trump's health.
Clay JonesDecember 6, 2025Claytoonz
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Zohran Mamdani’s victory is a breakthrough moment for the socialist movement in the United States. It still feels unbelievable: America’s largest city is about to be led by a young socialist, a Jacobin subscriber, and a committed member of Democratic Socialists of America. The Left will be occupying the municipal executive office in one of the world’s biggest cities.
But the contradictions we face are sharp, and the limits of executive office are real: hostile state government; pressure from capital; the political and economic challenges of raising revenue to fund essential programs.
These are not new problems. They are the same challenges faced by progressive and socialist parties here and abroad when they first entered municipal office.
In this issue, we examine the history of municipal socialism, from “Red Vienna” to French and Italian Communist mayors after World War II to Milwaukee’s sewer socialists, La Guardia’s New Deal metropolis, and Ken Livingstone in London. How has the Left used local power to expand housing, welfare, and cultural institutions? And why did they so often run aground on fiscal constraints and central state hostility?
The socialist left often won legitimacy in office, but also faced demobilization or the risk of being reduced to managers of austerity. The task for this issue is to draw out important lessons while staying optimistic about this truly transformational moment in power.
Zohran’s election is the most exciting moment for American socialists in generations. But to take advantage of it, we must clarify what municipal power can realistically achieve under capitalism and how it might serve as a stepping stone toward building working-class institutions and winning state and national breakthroughs both in New York and beyond.
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Forum - Fighting Goliath: Inside the Amazon Labor Union's Organizing at the World's Largest Online Retail Company - New York - December 16 (CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies)
Tuesday, December 16
9:30am – 11:00am
Free and open to all. Breakfast will be served.
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CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
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Guest Speaker:
Sultana Hossain - Recording Secretary, Amazon Labor Union - IBT Local 1 (ALU)
Moderator:
Sarah Watson - Director, Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU)
Join us to learn from Sultana Hossain, a key leader in the Amazon Labor Union - IBT Local 1 (ALU), in conversation with Sarah Watson, director of the Murphy Institute at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.
What is ALU fighting for? How have ALU's major wins–from health & safety improvements to reversing illegal firings–helped to grow the union? What were the immediate and far-reaching impacts of the 2024 strike? How is ALU adapting its organizing in response to Amazon's retaliatory attacks? What are the major lessons to take away from ALU's groundbreaking fight thus far?
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Building Working Class Solidarity with Ukraine: Provide Material Aid for Nurses, Hospitals, and Harm Reduction - Webinar - December 17 (Haymarket Books and Ukraine Solidarity Network)
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 -- 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST
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The Trump Administration and Vladimir Putin’s regime want to impose an imperialist peace on Ukraine, a partition of its sovereign territory that rewards Russian colonial aggression. Against all odds, Ukraine’s working class has sustained the popular and military struggle for self-determination, sacrificing life and limb and putting extreme strain on its healthcare system, alleviated to an extent by the heroic work of harm reduction activists in limiting the spread of infectious diseases.
Nurses and healthcare workers have had to face excruciating working conditions and long hours. To address this emergency, the Ukraine Solidarity Network has launched a campaign to raise funds for the independent Ukrainian nurses’ union, Be Like We Are, to pay for essential life-saving equipment for hospitals. Now is the time for solidarity and material support for Ukraine.
Fund Drive for Be Like We Are: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-krylas-lifechanging-mission
***Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided.***
Speakers:
Denys Bondar is a native of Ukraine and an associate professor of physics at Tulane University as well as a member of the Ukraine Solidarity Network and Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction.
Oksana Slobodyna has been working for 28 years a nurse in a children’s hospital. Since 2022, she have led the Medical Movement “Be Like Us,” as well as the Lviv Regional Trade Union of Healthcare Workers. The mother of two adopted sons and two daughters. Ukraine is the most important thing, and its people are the most precious we have.
Pavlo (Pasha) Smyrnov is the Deputy Executive Director of the Ukrainian Alliance for Public Health and has led innovative nationwide HIV and public health programs as well as mobile clinics to provide health services in frontline and hard-to-reach areas during the war.
Tricia Ryshkus, RN, is a pediatric union nurse in Minneapolis, MN and a leader in her in union, the Minnesota Nurses Association.
This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Ukraine Solidarity Network. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
