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...The New Year -- Cartoon by Crowden Satz
Crowden SatzComics Kingdom
Regime Change Venezuela - Order of Battle -- Cartoon by Bill Bramhall
Bill BramhallDecember 18, 2025New York Daily News
Re: Israel Is Preparing for a Permanent Presence in Gaza, Satellite Images Reveal
And also has killed more Palestinians since the ceasefire
Lucie PaulettePosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Re: Hamas Is Proud of Its 'Achievements' but Hasn't Convinced the Gazans Who Pay the Price
The very title of the article is an affront to the more than 70,000 Palestinians killed in the Israeli genocide. Do not blame Hamas for "the price" paid by the Palestinians. This is owned by Israel.
James Hannley
Drinking Problem -- Cartoon and Commentary by Rob Rogers
Will 2026 finally be the year that the GOP stands up to a corrupt, lying, megalomaniacal wannabe dictator? Don't hold your breath.
Rob RogersDecember 30, 2025TinyView
Re: House Democrats Squander the Opportunity on Trumpian Corruption
You’re surprised? After all these years?
Kathryn Evann WegnerPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Your suggestion that Zoe Lofgren is corrupt or lining her pockets is out of line withthe facts of her voting record. Please do not throw her into the swamp like that.
Cathy Deppeformerly of San Jose, CA
Re: It’s Time for an All-Out Food Fight With Trump
While I can't find any reference to it online, there was a widespread student-led boycott of Coca-Cola during the Vietnam war. The choice to boycott only one brand was made to make it easier to persuade folks to do (you could easily switch to another brand of soda).
Phil Olenick
We live in trying times -- Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz
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Lalo AlcarazDecember 31, 2025https://www.pocho.com
Re: Is a New “New Deal” About To Wipe Out the Old Political Order?
Thank you for this!
Liz Redwing
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I am one of those who, 18 months ago or so, did not believe that NYC Democratic Socialists of America https://www.facebook.com/nycdsa should put its shoulder to the wheel of NYC Mayoral campaign for a very junior Socialist Assembly Member. Boy was I wrong. The election of Democratic Socialists across the US has opened up new possibilities. Here, via xxxxxx, https://xxxxxx.org/2025-12-25/new-new-deal-about-wipe-out-old-politic… Thom Hartmann https://www.facebook.com/ThomHartmannProgram accentuates the positive polling results. People support our programs and policies. Can we win more, important elections in 2026 and 2028? A lot, imo, obviously, depends on whether we can continue our successes in governing and advocacy as we try to expand our organizations and movement. Me? I am heartened by where we stand now. The path ahead looks quite difficult.
Daniel MillstonePost on Facebook
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My father was the Daily Worker's White House correspondent during FDR's reign so I learned a lot about FDR growing up. The most important thing I learned was that FDR saved capitalism by making it tolerable for the working class. Clearly capitalism is no longer tolerable for anyone but the very rich. We need a system that works for everyone but FDR's progressive administration with some exceptions like incarcerating Japanese-Americans is not necessarily the model for what we need now and it wasn't democratic socialism.
Nora Lapin
Re: A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz
I really enjoyed Amy Goodman's interview with E. Y. (Yip) Harburg's son. After "Buddy Can You Spare A Dime" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (from his "Wizard of Oz")my favorite work of Yip's is this ditty:
"God made the world in six days flat On the seventh he said I'll rest So he let the thing Into orbit swing To give it a dry run test A billion years went by And he took a look at this whirling blob His spirits fell as he shrugged Ah well It was only a six day job."
Lewis Grupper
Re: The 60 Minutes Scandal Is What Creeping Authoritarianism Looks Like
(posting on xxxxxx Culture)
A vulgar social-climbing opportunist.
Eleanor RooseveltPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Pam Bondi's Antifa Web -- Cartoon by Dave Whamond
Dave WhamondOctober 10, 2025West Central Tribune (MN)
Re: General President Coleman’s 2025 Holiday Message to SMART Members
Not sure if anyone actually will get this email. But just wondering why you chose to run this? It seems very out of character for xxxxxx.. As a railroad worker for many years, and a former member of the UTU (now SMART), it particularly caught my eye. Just another basic holiday union official's missive. right?
Ron KaminkowRWU Trustee
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Thanks for writing -- I'm the xxxxxx Moderator who posted the article by Coleman. Since I was posting on Christmas Day I wanted to chose something from the labor movement that acknowledge the holidays. What follows are the reasons I choose Coleman's letter.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a SMART member as a union apprentice -- the union has stood with him throughout his entire ordeal which is still far from over. We live in an adjacent community and not far from the Courthouse in Maryland where the case is tried, SMART members and banners are at virtually every action.
Organized sheet metal workers have been overwhelming white and often conservative, SMART (at least in our area) has been making a concerted effort to bring people into the trades who have long been excluded -- in particular reaching out at job fairs and other venues within the black community to encourage people to attend classes at the union training center, after which they work with contractors who hire folks new to the industry. This outreach extends to women as well. SMART has also been providing opportunities for formerly incarcerated people on the same basis -- take part in union apprentice trainings after which a union job at union pay is available. And -- in my experience, he existing membership has accepted this attempt to make the sheetmetal workforce more reflective of the local population and has been generally supportive.
And all this has had the support of union leadership. The reason I decided to post Coleman's statement over so others is that it was concrete and related to the work SMART is doing (at least in Maryland). This paragraph was key to me:
"Bothers and sisters, we faced some huge challenges in 2025. We had to fight back against attacks on our jobs, on our collective bargaining rights, even on our basic freedoms. Above all, we had to face constant attempts to divide us. To make us afraid of each other — of our own SMART brothers and sisters."
That rhetoric doesn't always match policy. And there are unique problems in unions that grow through mergers. The rail industry is particularly subject to such contradictions, multiple unions within one industry, with the rail division of many of those unions being only a small part of an organization whose core is elsewhere.
But that doesn't mean that positive steps shouldn't be acknowledged and promoted as these strengthen every effort to build unity and solidarity. I should add that xxxxxx always welcomes differing opinions on the left and in the labor movement as something necessary to overcome the attacks on working people.
Agree or disagree that was my logic for using this holiday message as compared to others from within the labor movement. Finally, as a xxxxxx reader, you know we have covered the rail industry and its labor struggles as with the three posts below:
In solidarity,
Kurt Stand
Re: United Farm Workers Has Unionized Eight Farms Under 2023 CA Law. Here’s Where
(posting on xxxxxx Labor)
The UFW has been around since the mid sixties. There’s still no law protecting the rights of farm workers in Texas, Florida, or any other state!
It’s evident that the Democrats have no intention of passing legislation that would give farm workers the same protections as does California.
I along with others feel that we need our own political party committed to the welfare of working people. Our brothers and sisters in France, Italy and Portugal all have their own political parties and we cannot depend on a political party that takes money from the very capitalists that exploit us, bribe our government and poison our Mother Earth!
En Solidarism,
Pancho Valdez, Retired Union Activist
Not enough Sharpies in the world... -- Cartoon by Jack Ohman
Jack OhmanDecember 29, 2025Jack Ohman's You Betcha!
Re: The Real Reason We’re All Annoyed With Quentin Tarantino
(posting on xxxxxx Culture)
If he has nothing new and creative to offer, I respect him stepping away rather than releasing something that would tarnish his legacy, but there's no reason to shift on others the way he does.
Robert LaitePosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Resist in 2026 - Poster of the Week
Resist 2026Chez Marianne-DaviesDigital, 2025Cambridge, MA
“Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.”—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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When Social Movements Win: Mayor Mamdani, the People, and the Politics of Cogovernance -In-person course - New York - January 29-May 14, 2026 (The Community Change Studies program at City College of New York)
When Social Movements Win: Mayor Mamdani, the People, and the Politics of Cogovernance
Thursdays 5-7:30, January 29-May 14, 2026
The City College of New York, 138th and Amsterdam Ave., in-person
What is co-governance? And what is it *not*? In this course we will explore case studies from New York, around the country, and around the world in which progressive movements have tried to build power-sharing arrangements with governments and elected officials. We will identify common structures, strategies, lessons, and pitfalls. Students will wrestle with the questions that the Mamdani administration and NYC's progressive movement are facing in real-time, gaining practice with power-mapping, persuasive writing, and strategic planning.
Instructor: Alicia Singham Goodwin is a NYC-based organizer who leads the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)'s Socialists in Office co-governance project. She is also the Political Director of Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ).
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