Notices by Brian Jopek (brianjopek@mastodon.world), page 2

Remember how Trump moved classified documents from Mar-a-lago before it could be searched? It turns out Iran did exactly the same thing with the enriched uranium at Fordow.

Mission not accomplished. - Andy Borowitz

Three hardened nuclear sites, bombed without debate, without warning, without congressional consent.The B-2s safely home.The commander-in-chief posting triumphantly on Truth Social while the world held its breath.And then my daughter, Sarah, 30 years old, began to cry.
“I was raised to believe America fought against the Nazis,” she said softly.
“Now we are the Nazis.”
There it was.The collapse of an entire national mythology condensed into one painful truth.- Mary Geddry
https://marygeddry.substack.com/p/the-day-the-mask-fell

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This week’s Social Security Trustees Report confirmed what many feared but few will address with any honesty: the projected insolvency date for Social Security’s trust funds has moved up to 2034, one year earlier than previously estimated. That means that unless Congress acts, every single Social Security beneficiary, retirees, disabled workers, widows, and survivors, will face an automatic 19% cut to their monthly checks. - Mary Geddry
https://marygeddry.substack.com/p/the-rich-dont-pay-so-you-will?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLCKdBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvPU_pDqnbiMMl9uJxrgYNrLuGgCibCz6nU0P1Hc4HCNT2znqSHRS9MQLpxa_aem_J8MqtvA3wCiOGzbZBBk0hQ

I did notice consternation among some of my fellow white folk.

Well, yanno, Republicans ARE the only ones who ever served in the U.S. military (he said sarcastically).

“Trump’s VA just allowed doctors to deny care to Democrats, unmarried Veterans, among other groups.

This isn’t healthcare. It’s political purity tests for people who risked their lives for this country.

It’s unethical, authoritarian, and every one of us should be outraged.” - Vote Vets
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

BAM, this is an epic response!

I’m getting strong notes of shenanigans. - In Otter News
#SteveTheOtter

As if the cold blooded murder of the Hortmans wasn’t fucking evil enough the fucking asshole shot their dog, too.

“The bullets didn’t only silence Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark—they took their gentle Golden Retriever, Gilbert, too. The couple spent weekends helping train service dogs for vets who needed a steady paw to lean on.
This was cruelty, pure and simple—aimed at people whose life’s work was giving wounded veterans a reason to smile again.” - Brent Molnar

I am a veteran who works with veterans every day.  
I’m closely connected with a large network of service organizations (both federal and nonprofit) whose missions are to help veterans with their benefits, with homelessness, with emergency assistance, with employment. There is not a single one of these organizations that is not currently suffering from funding cuts. Some of them, like the program I work for, are on cusp of being eliminated altogether. - Katie Bauer

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/veterans-trump-protest-capitol_n_684ee6c8e4b07f75743a2e9f/amp

The suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, fled on foot after opening fire on police. Authorities say he impersonated an officer, left behind a manifesto and a hit list of seventy names, Democrats, abortion providers, public figures like Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison. The FBI has labeled it what it clearly is: political terrorism.

And yet, not a word of condemnation from Donald Trump. - Mary Geddry

https://marygeddry.substack.com/p/blood-red-lines

Indeed.

We have an opponent to Marjorie TG in Georgia District 14: Shawn Harris. Spread the word! - Alt Library Resource Center

https://www.shawnforgeorgia.com/

Cartoon by Michael de Adder.

Cartoon by Mike Ramirez.

I actually live within that red circle. I am safe and I don’t need or want the National Guard or the Marines here. Their presence is the only thing that makes me feel unsafe. - Christopher Yin

It’s like this asshole thinks there’s no video of what happened at the nation’s capitol on 6 January, 2021. 😳

his tariff scheme went tits-up. everyone’s laughing at Taco Donny. Putin’s ignoring him. no one’s impressed with his vulgar flying bordello. his ‘big beautiful bill’ is a big beautiful clusterfuck. DOGE is a bust. his bromance with the Space Nazi has gone fuckity-bye.
the Mad King had to come up with something, anything, to make him feel better about his own worthless, failing self — and so he decided to go full fascist. - Jeff Tiedrich

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/what-the-fuck-is-this-03f

How did it come to this? After all, it wasn’t so long ago that these two were basically roommates and/or father and son. They held rallies together. They performed infomercials in front of the White House. Musk bought Trump a second term, while Trump threatened jail sentences for people doing harm to Teslas. Sure, Trump was using Musk for his money and Musk was using Trump for power, but still! - Bess Levin
https://apple.news/ATs1rTafzRvikcMRm1kJBbQ

This tweet aged well lol - Jay Kuo