Tidbits-July 2 – Reader Comments: Birthright Citizenship Upheld Just Barely; Democratic Socialist Beliefs – New York City and Denver Elections; Woody Guthrie Keeps Resonating; Iran War Made Rich Even Richer; Chile Sentences Pinochet’s Agents; More…

Reader Comments: Birthright Citizenship Upheld Just Barely; Democratic Socialist Beliefs - New York City and Denver elections; Woody Guthrie Keeps Resonating; Iran War Made Rich Even Richer; Chile Sentences Pinochet’s Agents; Trump's Capitol Offenses

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Rob Rogers
June 30, 2026
TinyView
 



 

Birthright - Upheld  --  Cartoon by Bill Bramhall




Bill Bramhall
July 12, 2026
New York Daily News
 



 

Re: The Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship
 

Excellent article on the Supreme Court's dangerously narrow decision to uphold birthright citizenship.  Clearly, this is an issue demanding widespread lobbying and support.

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Noel Kent




 

Democratic Socialist Beliefs - In Simple Terms  --  Meme

 





 

Re: Another Blow to Democratic Establishment As Melat Kiros Unseats 30-Year Incumbent in Colorado
 

Mamdani has unleashed a movement that seems unstoppable with every win that he achieves in NYC.

Robert Politzer
Posted on Portside's Facebook page
 

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Robert Politzer:  As with Mamdani's win this is a big blue city win. This Denver cemnered district was already the bluest, most progressive in the state, hadn't elected a GOP rep since 1970. Let's remember it's not one size fits all. And a large part of the enthusiasm for 29 year old Kiros was frustration with the establishment as embodied by the incumbent DeGette, holding office for going on 30 years now and perceived as a DC figure, phoning it in for her constituents back home. Good shake up but not indicative of a far-left Colorado wave. It's an anti-establishment, anti-aging complacent pol wave.

Felice Sage
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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Felice Sage:  There are other Mamdani inspired candidates such as Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. But I agree that we don't know yet how independents will respond to the "Democratic Socialism" messaging. I am in favor of 95% of the DSA Agenda but I am concerned that using "Socialism" for their branding could end up backfiring. It certainly gives the right wing fuel for their propaganda.

Robert Politzer
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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Robert Politzer:   I'm just saying we need to remember that different districts and states require different types of candidates. Back when Colorado was just beginning to turn blue we had to run candidates more moderate/centrist than the base would have preferred in order to win. Over time we were able to win in more places with the center left candidates that are the most common winners in the state now. Having a Social Democrat represent Denver fits Denver and I don't believe will harm us in the general either in Denver or elsewhere in the state or in statewide elections. All of our primary winners for statewide office are broadly in the center left comfort zone for the Colorado majorities that have been electing them for many years now.

Felice Sage
Posted on Portside's Facebook page



 

Re: The Socialist Future Is Being Written in New York
 

It's not socialism; it's reform politics; free bus fare is not socialism, or rent-control. For the record, socialism is one thing and one thing only: the workers in any enterprise own and have control over their place of work, and no one else. They are not being used by others for their (the "bosses", i.e.) profit. WHen the bus drivers own the buses and make the rules and share the profit, that's the beginning of socialism. It's just democracy at work, nothing more and nothing less. Like the Cheese Board for local Berkeleians; that's a co-op, or "workers' paradise!" Mamdani never mentioned anything like that far as I know. Just democracy, that's all.

Ted Pierce
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Re: Corporate Democrats Mobilize
 

The pushback by corporate Democrats against the  victorious progressive Democrats will only serve to showcase their class-collaborationist tendencies. People are sick and tired of having a choice of Tweedledee or Tweedledum.

When progressives show they can win general elections consistently because voters want an end to war and oligarchy, the Democratic Party will have to decide if it wants to keep winning with Democratic Socialists and the like or concede the country to MAGA.

Jim Hannley
Posted on Portside's Facebook page



 

Re: A Voice for Change: How Woody Guthrie Keeps Resonating With New Generations
 

the story that never grows old.

Paul Buhle
Posted on Portside's Facebook page



 

Re: The War on Iran Has Made the Rich Even Richer
 

"I am shocked, SHOCKED..." "Your winnings, sir."

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on Portside's Facebook page



 

Re: Chile Sentences Pinochet’s Agents for Ronnie Moffitt Assassination
 

48 years later..

Good.book -  "Assassination on Embassy Row"

Car blew up in DC

Tom Edminster
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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Finally.

Nora Lapin



 

Capitol Offenses  --  Cartoon by DC Cartoonist

 



DC Cartoonist
June 25, 2026
r/PoliticalHumor
 



 

Re: Alan Greenspan: Homewrecker
 

So true. How do certain wonks gain such power and credibility? I read a book about Robert Moses (the NYC highway planning, neighborhood busting one, not Robert P. Moses, the civil rights leader and educator). "The Power Broker" describes the rise to power by an egomaniac who destroyed communities. His rise to power depended a lot on behind the scenes collaboration with moneyed interests and assumed that the public was unaware of the underlying issues, which is often the case. For this and so many other issues, the antidote is an informed, engaged and organized public. Economics is portrayed as rocket science, that regular people cannot possibly understand. How convenient for those who benefit big time!

Sonia Cobbins
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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I've actually been compiling a villains list in my head.

Bill Clinton, Milton Friedman.... The list goes on.

Carter would be on it. A courtly Southern gentleman, a conservative, and a neoliberal who involved us in Afghanistan and in a brutal repression in Central America.

It's a long list.

John Emerson
Posted on Portside's Facebook page



 

Spirit of 2026 - The most corrupt U.S. president in history  --  Cartoon by Ann Telnaes
 

 

The Trump family continues to exploit the presidency for their own benefit.

Ann Telnaes
July 1, 2026
Open Windows- Ann Telnaes
 



 

Re: The Founders Never Meant the US To Be a Democracy
 

🫩so are you saying they meant U$ to be a plutocracy for the oligarchy??? 🤔🤔🤔

Luna Here
Posted on Portside's Facebook page




 

Idiot Left  --  Cartoon by Dave Whamond

 



Dave Whamond
May 30, 2026
Yakima Herald-Republic
 



 

Mail Fraud  --  Cartoon and Commentary by Clay Jones
 


Isn't it a crime to tamper with the mail?

Now Donald Trump is f**king with the mail.

Now Donald Trump is fucking with the mail.

Neither Donald Trump nor the US Post Office has the authority to refuse to deliver mail and ballots, yet that is what Donald Trump ordered the postal service to do, and the goon installed as Postmaster General agreed.

Trump demanded that every state send him a list of all its eligible voters. States that are not led by goosestepping sycophants refused. Then Trump ordered the Postal Service not to deliver ballots from those states.

Elections are administered and controlled by the states, not the federal government. Donald Trump has zero authority to demand voter rolls. Trump doesn't have a good reason to possess the names and addresses of every voter in the country. His motives are clearly sinister.

Trump and Republicans have been pushing a big lie for several years that there's massive voter fraud in this country, but the only voting fraud that's been ongoing in the United States has been committed by Donald Trump and Republicans.

Thankfully, a federal judge blocked this move by the Trump regime. U. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, stated in her decision that the Postal Service neither possesses the constitutional authority to administer elections (a responsibility delegated to the states) nor has it been granted power by Congress to create binding regulations on voting by mail.

Postmaster General David Steiner dismissed Senate Democrats’ concerns that the regulations are an attempt to seize control of elections, instead characterizing the plan as a means to ensure that the right ballots are being sent to the right people during a Wednesday committee hearing.

Asked whether the Postal Service has the authority to implement those rules, Steiner said he’d “have to defer back to the courts.” It's time to defer, motherfucker.

This is a victory for the 23 states and Washington, DC, which sued the Trump regime over Trump’s executive order that demanded the Post Office restrict ballots from being delivered. This would be like every voter in America giving their ballots to Cliff Clavin to be delivered. They would all be lost in a Boston bar or chewed up on Rottweiler Hill. We could give them to Newman, but they would probably be stored in Jerry's forgotten storage closet.

The judge also ruled that the executive order’s timing made it impossible for the Postal Service to propose the rule through the proper bureaucratic channels, providing “no allowance for Congress’ mandated procedure regarding USPS rulemaking.”

The decision also blocks another part of the executive order directing the federal government to compile a list of American citizens residing in states. I thought Republicans were supposed to be against this big government shit? I thought Republicans wanted states to control most things? Donald Trump is trying to implement fascism.

This is another case that should be rejected by the Supreme Court when the appeal lands on its desk, but if history is any indication, the corrupt majority on the nation's highest court will hear this case and rule in favor of Trump, and allow him to steal ballots and block them from being counted.

Donald Trump has tried to steal elections, and now he is trying to steal the mail. Donald Trump deserves to go to prison.

Creative note: the Post Office does not have an official motto, and if it did, it wouldn't be this. It would probably be the creed that it has been associated with for decades, which is, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” The reason I did not use it for this cartoon is that it doesn't rhyme, and it's just way too dry. So I used a little artistic license.

Clay Jones
June 26, 2026
Claytoonz