Frogressive Politics

[bumblebeebats]

The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "😰 No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!

[frogressive]

Season's Greetings.

Happy Cinco de Mayo to those who celebrate.

NO KINGS!

[frogressive]

The old dictator loves Peace.

Cartoon by Quino.

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This is the world capitalists want to return to.

Instagram

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From Adam Serwer's "Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong" (Gift Link)

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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

Well that's a banger of a line

[frogressive]

Randahl Fink writes:

"I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.

No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.

I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.

The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.

It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten."

I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark. No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilate

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Kristi Noem chant from Minnesota protesters

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.”

Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago

[wilwheaton]

this is america

Never forget and never forgive the people who did this to us. When this is all over, when he is dead and gone, we must hold every one of these terrorist thugs accountable.

[saywhat-politics]

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.

When They're Not Applying Banned Chokeholds, ICE Agents Are Apparently Stealing and Selling Citizens' Phones

[wilwheaton]

“In a lengthy rant on Truth Social Monday, Trump claimed that the U.S. would have to “pay back … Hundreds of Billions of Dollars” to the countries and companies that pledged to invest in American factories and plants in order to avoid his tariffs if the Supreme Court determined his economic action was unlawful. “When these Investments are added, we are talking about Trillions of Dollars!” Trump wrote. “It would be a complete mess, and almost impossible for our country to pay.” He then tried to shift blame for the hastily constructed tariff plan—which was built on bad math—onto the judiciary. He claimed that the nine-justice bench would be at fault for the fallout of the plan rather than his office, which forced it through in April against the advice of at least two dozen Nobel Prize–winning economists.”

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“WE’RE SCREWED”: Trump Panics Over Looming Supreme Court Tariff Ruling

He is so stupid

[cthulhucoffee]

[frogressive]

Recently some people seem to be confused about the meaning of terms like "Illegal" and "Legal". I mistakenly thought these were pretty widely understood standard English language terms, but apparently not. So here's a simple lesson!

"Legal" - conforming to or permitted by law or established rules "Illegal" - not according to or authorized by law : contrary to or in violation of a law : unlawful

For example, things that are legal include: minding your own business in your own home, having no criminal record, and being a US citizen. So the person at the center in the photo is Legal.

For example, things that are illegal include: breaking down the door of a person's home without a judicial warrant, and abducting a person on private property without judicial warrant for that person. So the persons at either side of the photo are Illegal.

Hope this helps!

References: 1) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legal 2) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illegal 3) https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-us-citizen-detained-hmong-d009590a491c0c8243ef21ef24db7182 4) https://legalclarity.org/does-ice-need-a-warrant-to-enter-your-home-or-arrest-you/ 5) https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/ice-entry-private-home-legal-authority-when-judicial-warrant-required-b67448

[wilwheaton]

“Senate Republicans voted to kill a bill on Wednesday that would have limited President Donald Trump’s war powers, according to a new report. Trump had been pressuring Republicans to kill the bill, and Sens. Todd Young (R-IN) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) flipped their votes on Wednesday, Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News reported. Vice President JD Vance was the tie-breaking vote. Young said in a statement that he flipped his vote after securing a promise from Trump that he would ask Congress for permission on a major strike against Venezuela in advance of such an operation.”

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Vance casts tie-breaking vote as GOP caves to Trump’s pressure campaign on war powers

We all know Josh Hawley is a coward.

Big tough guy on his way in, scared for his life when the mob he encouraged stormed the Capitol just hours later.

He’s too weak to stand up to Trump, too weak to stand up for America. What a weak little piss baby.

I don’t even know who Todd Young is, but I know he also sucks. 

And they both protect pedophiles, so.

[saywhat-politics]

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.

When They're Not Applying Banned Chokeholds, ICE Agents Are Apparently Stealing and Selling Citizens' Phones

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.

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Oh! Then I know the EXACT person you should be mad at! Michael O'Rielly! He's the one that gutted the Children's Programming Rules, which covered internet as well as television.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

HELLO?

[aetherograph]

#so the death of the Saturday morning cartoon is THIS motherfuckers fault?????

Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.

If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!

While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).

And a side note: Things like KOSA and SCREEN and all those other censorship bills that use "think of the children" are not going to protect children at all; if you want to protect kids online, there is already a way to do that it's called the Kid Vid Rules and the FCC is the one that can update and change them to keep up with the times! It doesn't need a congress vote, it already got voted on in 1990!

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This 1850s cartoon by John H. Goater caricatures immigrants to the United States - what some at the time considered "inferior races" incapable of becoming real Americans - Irish immigrant depicted with body of a barrel of "Irish Whiskey" and German immigrant depicted with a body of a barrel of "Lager Bier". They are depicted as running away with a "ballot box" which they've stolen.

I remember first seeing this cartoon reproduced in a US school history book from the early 1970s.

Wow, some people sure had ignorant bigoted prejudices rotting in their brains back then.

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Seen online as ICE invades New Orleans.