As Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.
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They might as well just leave the flags permanently at half mast due to the daily mass shootings we have in this country
aug 27, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Not so kindly...
aug 27, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 6:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Republicans have no time and no money for anything but guns and the guys who shoot guns.
aug 27, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
They wanted that money to go to billionaires.
aug 27, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Reagan shut down mental hospitals. Those places are desperately needed now. Brains are organs of the body and they can get sick and be treated.
aug 29, 2025, 4:26 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 3:07 am • 0 0 • view
trump maga republicans have a goal of destroying America. trump illegally narrowed the definition of “fugitive from justice” that’s used to determine who’s barred from buying a gun.
aug 28, 2025, 1:43 am • 2 0 • view
It is mentally unstable people. Mentally unstable people armed with a semiautomatic weapons. 2A people are dumb and self centered as shit.
aug 27, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, FUCKERS!!!
aug 27, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
maga lawmakers do not care. They simply do not care…
aug 27, 2025, 8:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Anyone check on Fox News, are they suggesting it was Joe Biden’s family dog that committed the senseless shooting?
aug 27, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
thank you for your voice! @jojofromjerz.bsky.social
aug 27, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It's almost as if Republicans in the Congress default to whatever causes the most harm and destruction to America and its citizens. 🤦♀️
aug 28, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Congratulations GOP, on being the NRA's pockets. remember to Vote all GOP members out of the office.
aug 27, 2025, 6:39 pm • 16 1 • view
I really don't get that when you have a known way to prevent so many deaths, your choice is to protect the next person's right to kill.
aug 27, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Those GOP sons of bitches.
aug 27, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I bet the one republican who voted yes has since been primaried into outer space by the maga machine.
aug 27, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
They were praying when they got shot
aug 27, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Didn’t know the shooter was a tranny. Yeah gun control is the problem.
aug 27, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
The bill isn’t passed and it does not school based mental health. Do you schools to make mental assessments on your child? Maybe in your case…. Well
aug 27, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
SMH
aug 27, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course they fkn did!The blood of school shootings is on the hands of every republican & republican voter! #ProLife My Ass! Can’t even Imagine the trauma these school shootings have on the children, families & staff. Can’t even Imagine the damage seein fellow classmates/friends shot & KILLED
aug 28, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
Americans have no idea of the generations of trauma they are creating with their youth.Not only is it unnatural to start school as a child and have to learn how to hide from an active shooter as their first and repeated lesson but they also have to live in fear of being shot, think about it people.
aug 28, 2025, 12:42 am • 1 1 • view
205 aka all but one.
aug 28, 2025, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
Can you imagine if our reaction was the same after 9/11? You know “it’s just their religion or mental health; there’s nothing we can really do in response. Oh well, thoughts & prayers”
aug 30, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course they did. The truth is that they don’t really want to do anything about gun violence *or* mental health. They fall back on mental health to run out the clock til they bust out the same worn-out empty argument when the next mass shooting occurs
aug 30, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 10:29 pm • 2 0 • view
The 'why' guns won't get banned (?)
aug 28, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
To continue perceiving extreme racism as normative and not pathologic is to lend it legitimacy. Clearly, anyone who scapegoats a whole group of people and seeks to eliminate them to resolve his or her internal conflicts meets criteria for a delusional disorder, a major psychiatric illness.
aug 28, 2025, 3:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Hateful & uncaring
aug 27, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
No guns = no gun deaths
aug 27, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I blame the mental health of Republicans that they're such fucking scumbags they refuse to do anything against those who own them.
aug 27, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
How did the Kash Patel Counter Terrorism unit completely miss this threat?
aug 31, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
GOP = Party of Death
aug 27, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
.... It's the Guns .. "Capitalism" ... Where do you suppose the Terrorists in South and Central America get their Guns ?? The good old USA and "Capitalism" ... Money over EVERYTHING ...
aug 27, 2025, 8:57 pm • 3 1 • view
aug 27, 2025, 6:37 pm • 4 1 • view
aug 27, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Sick trans lowlife shoots and kills. Prog Dems First move: Blame others. No wonder DEM approval ratings are at record lows.
aug 27, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
There is no point in reminding them of anything when they will just lie or try and gaslight with their responses. Imo when Trump and Maga are eventually done, those that remain shoukd be tried and executed for treason. They know full well what they are doing.
aug 27, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
This is the fault of republicans. No one else. It is all republican policies. All of it. Every gun death in America is 100% the fault of republicans. Period. Republicans will allow your children your parents your aunts your uncles your grandparents your neighbors EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO BE SLAUGHTERED
aug 27, 2025, 8:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Those heartless MF’ers.
aug 27, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
It's never right to kill anyone & I know this will be unpopular but I can almost guarantee that Robin was tormented, tortured at the school by priests, faculty and students. Trauma is real, it last forever. Stop hating people because they are different. Catholic Church teaches hate.
aug 28, 2025, 11:18 am • 0 0 • view
Another shooting Kids praying in church this time They die for 2A
aug 27, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
It is a mental health problem in a way: INSANITY in Congress.
aug 27, 2025, 8:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Republicans only understand money and power, nothing else. The Gun lobby provides both. At the end of the day, guns shooting is just another tool to win the war against kids, health and decency.
aug 27, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump’s republicans are not going to act on any gun control efforts until it’s beneficial to him. It has to affect him personally or his billionaire donors, their private schools, or his own children. This is the country we’re living in now.
aug 27, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah, they are already just going to blame trans people. Funny how every shooter is magically a member of their second-favorite marginalized group to denigrate and dehumanize... I'm sure it's just a coincidence & not total bullshit meant to get the public to condone systematically killing trans ppl.
aug 27, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 0 • view
As usual, the NRA approved Republican policy is "thoughts and prayers" . . . that and an assault rifle on the streets will get us the next mass shooting!
aug 27, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
The GOP's willful inability to see hypocrisy is nauseating. Inconsistency in one of their only consistencies.
aug 27, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolutely- or maybe remind them not so kindly too - as well as often as possible
aug 27, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
they aim low. i blame the people who promised to save the post office but couldnt fire dejoy and then tolerated garland going after the president's son but ignoring the nazis
aug 27, 2025, 7:20 pm • 3 0 • view
I want to say every time GOP says it’s about mental health to point out that anger & hatred come from them and these are not specific mental health diagnoses. And, saying it is mental illness doesn’t make it so. Homicidal ideation is about the only thing that mental health providers can act on.
aug 28, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
Let's be clear: America is akin to one depressed individual with suicidal thoughts.
aug 28, 2025, 6:28 am • 0 0 • view
When this happens I think of Ukraine and Gaza, except we are attacking and killing ourselves. 😠
aug 27, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Okay, I’ll bite. Yes the USA has a mental health problem. Stop putting guns in the hands of people who are mentally unstable. Problem solved.
aug 27, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
MAGA has wet dreams about the apocalypse, and in ways large and small are working towards spawning it. It's all God, guns, and country and the exclusion of anything outside their narrow view. It's a bomb shelter mentality, pull the lid close after entering. They've given up already and surrendered.
aug 28, 2025, 3:23 am • 1 0 • view
They want us to have guns. They want us to have problems. Then they can step in and take what's left behind.
aug 28, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Every country has people with mental health issues. Difference is we let them have all the guns they want.
aug 27, 2025, 6:38 pm • 13 1 • view
Republicans know the answer, they just do not care. Most of them have zero compassion.
aug 27, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I must be wrong then. They must have interviewed all those homeless they kicked off DC streets to see if any needed care.
aug 27, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I didn’t know the shooter was a school kid who was denied mental health screening.
aug 27, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Would be valuable information to find out what medication, mental health, and transitioning services this child was already on.
aug 27, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 0 • view
"Thoughts and Prayers" is Murrikkkan for "Tough Shit"
aug 28, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
They have the house, the senate, White House and courts…the so called majority. And they still can’t bring this country together. Always poking. Never compassion. Never solutions. Never acceptance or love. Not hard to do. This isn’t leadership.
aug 28, 2025, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for this.
aug 27, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump sent the guy to do this
aug 27, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans are the absolute worst of humanity.
aug 27, 2025, 7:34 pm • 3 0 • view
They can’t remember shit. They think voters have advanced dementia/Alzheimer’s. For example, mace is taking credit for federal funding for south carolina that she voted against. They assume voters have the attention span of toddlers.
aug 28, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 0 • view
Hypocrite much???
sep 1, 2025, 10:53 am • 0 0 • view
First day of school here this week; three hours in, my kids' high school was on a lockdown due to shooting in the neighborhood. We do not have to live like this.
aug 28, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not either-or. It’s both-and.
aug 27, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
No one has ever accused the Republicans of self consistency.
aug 27, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Also remind them that the FIRST thing Donald Trump did in his 1st term is end a ban on people adjudicated as mentally ill from purchasing guns They're all lying hypocrites who profit, fundraise, and campaign on deadly weapons that are the leading cause of death for children in America
aug 27, 2025, 6:50 pm • 6 3 • view
They also passed the Laken Riley Act within a year of her death. Yet they've done nothing except defend 2A following all the school, church, theater, night clubs, etc. shootings. Just thought, prayers and crickets.
aug 27, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 5:59 am • 0 0 • view
It’s both. And MAGA indoctrination ( mental illness)
aug 27, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans are the worst thing that can be happening to this Country. Wake up people
aug 27, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok. The blame mental health but don't do shit about it. Yes. We need more and affordable mental health hospitals, where are they Republicans? Why are you not building any? All talk. No action. Full of shit!
aug 27, 2025, 7:19 pm • 6 1 • view
Remember Reagan, a republican shut down most of the mental health institutions.
aug 28, 2025, 1:47 am • 3 0 • view
Yes, I do. They ruined it. They never fixed it. Then again, neither did Democrats.
aug 28, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
You remember them shutting down, but you don't remember places like Allegheny or Willowbrook.
aug 28, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I remember those horrible health care facilities. We still need places for mental health care facilities that actually treat patients with respect and dignity.
aug 28, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
I never said that I forgot how horrible these places are. Also, the solution is not closing them. Fixing them! I believe I said that.
aug 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Willowbrook was awful. I remember that one.
aug 28, 2025, 4:00 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Not the feds job to fund local schools. I suggest reading the Constitution.
aug 27, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Horse shit party.
aug 27, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I question the mental health of anyone who claims that the shooting of these children somehow fits into the masterplan of their all-knowing, all-loving, imaginary friend.
aug 27, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Believing that God is permitting children to be slaughtered by guns in their homes, schools, streets & churches as a precious teaching moment for humanity while loosening gun laws is not only insane, it's blasphemous to the idea of a loving God while showing that you refuse to learn the lesson.
aug 27, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Can we get CSPAN to add a date & time to the display at broadcast? Sharing screenshots of a final vote is great, but if they carried a built in date and time stamp it would be even better. Simple change, huge impact for historical records.
aug 27, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 0 • view
The biggest mental health issue is in the Republican party.
aug 27, 2025, 6:56 pm • 3 0 • view
NOVEMBER (3,) 2026 Y’All. We Are Passed Ready. We Are Passed Set. IT IS GO TIME America.
aug 27, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for this graphic I’ll be using it a lot.
aug 27, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Go ahead and say, "I voted for this." I dare you.
aug 28, 2025, 12:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe Trump should worry more about mass shootings in our country instead of street crime! We are #1 in the world for this nightmare!!
aug 27, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
they would have for sure supported private health services, owned by Trump family and paid by the taxpayer.
aug 27, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Here in the UK... Plenty of mental health problems, zero school shootings. Now if only we could figure out why...
aug 27, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Displays a cartoon satire exhibiting the definition of Nihilistic Sycophants
aug 27, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
100% of mass shooters= White. 68% of all White voters= tRumpsters. But the military in Black cities. Got it.
aug 30, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe it’s not mental health, so much as rotten culture. Or poor mental health due to rotten culture.
aug 27, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Soldiers are picking up trash in D.C. while two children lose their lives in Minnesota because of senseless violence. Tell me again, Mr. President, how are you making America great again?
aug 27, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Schools are easy targets they must be hardened now !! Spend the damn money . Your children are worth more than your preferred budgets !
aug 27, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Do we harden the church where this mass shooting occurred?
aug 27, 2025, 7:04 pm • 1 1 • view
Republicans think you should protect yourself i guess
aug 27, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
In maga America seems so
aug 27, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 5:50 am • 0 0 • view
OK, say it’s mental health……. what’s being done about that problem?????? Or, maybe it’s a mental health AND a gun problem. Two things can be true at the same time.
aug 27, 2025, 7:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Not kindly. They are a bunch of ignorant, incompetent pricks.
aug 27, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
What’s so crazy is I don’t see anyone in the Democratic Party pointing this out - that their GOP counterparts are directly trying to kill Americans
aug 27, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Mass shootings for years, leads me to believe that our GOP Congress and conservative majority Supreme Court does not care about collateral outcomes when it comes to pleasing the right wing NRA and the Heritage Foundation. Innocent lives lost and traumatized, they send their prayers,nothing changes.
aug 27, 2025, 11:35 pm • 1 2 • view
ProLifers & Right-wing SCOTUS want more babies born just to be mass murdered by guns scotus made available.
aug 29, 2025, 5:30 am • 1 0 • view
Probably because they said it was "woke."
aug 27, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Blood on your hands to protect the cult.
aug 27, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
F Nay
aug 27, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Also they're taking away funding for schools because they support lgbtq+ youth etc.
aug 27, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 12:15 pm • 4 2 • view
How can anybody kill innocent children is beyond me. My condolences go out to the parents.
aug 27, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Also: Good Times are ending, MAGAts return to Washington 26 is coming vote them all out
aug 27, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Get em JoJo!
aug 28, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
Or remind them “not so kindly”…. I am so sick of their BS
aug 27, 2025, 6:34 pm • 21 0 • view
Yep they pay lip service to the mental health equation. Thoughts and prayers won't help, it did not here as the kids and others were shot in a church. Can't wait to hear Mike Johnson's BS as he probably quotes something out of scripture.
aug 28, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
They don't care about mental health. If they did, the obviously sunsetting pedophile rapist wouldn't be their guy in the White House right now, they'd 25th him and let Vance take over (not that he'd be any better).
aug 27, 2025, 6:35 pm • 9 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Fucking Jesus H Christ will you fucking yankess DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR GOD DAM GUN EPIDEMIC!!!!!!!!!! Enough is enough the rest of the world looks at you in horror!!!
aug 27, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans love child rapers (trump among others) and child murderers that have machine guns. But they also hate abortions so I guess Jesus is ok with them.
aug 27, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Sick and tired of hearing how it could’ve been worse! No. It couldn’t! It IS the worst! Children gunned down in schools is the worst! Does it matter if it’s two or twenty? One is too many! Stop this madness!
aug 27, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Also remind them that countries like Australia actually did something after a mass shooting & don't have gun violence like the U.S. They have guns, but they actually regulate the guns. So, yes, IT IS THE GUNS! Fuck the 2A, Fuck the NRA, Fuck the gun lobby, Fuck the people who value guns above all!
aug 27, 2025, 6:44 pm • 9 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm in NORCAL, today, P.O. box was packed with all kinds of GOP funded large,high gloss mailings that urge voters to vote no on redistricting.Say Dems want to take over and gerrymander. If blue CAL wanted that,we would not have passed prop 11. There are a lot of non-patron voters in California.
aug 28, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view
GOP has set up front companies, for mailings and advertisements. Ads profess their goal is to protect our voting system in California. They're posing as neutral parties. We do need help with vols and funds. Best help is ask your state to redistrict fairly like CA. STOP TRUMP/GOP IN '26 & '28!
aug 28, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 1 • view
Redistricting temporarily in CA, in order to overcome GOP GERRYMANDERING,is the only way to have fair and equal elections ever again in US.IMO, It's one of our last chances for nonviolent actions to save democracy.Its either fair and equal elections,or is Revolution. Constitution obligates US to.
aug 28, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 2 • view
Too bad Gavin is doing a half-assed job of it. His proposed gerrymandering only grabs five seats instead of the possible 9. What happens if, I dunno...another red state follows Texas' lead?
aug 31, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I actually contacted his office and wrote him on bluesky,to take as many as possible.i think strategy is take 5 seats outright and then position good highly electable, carefully selected Dem.candidates in the other four and heavily fund them in '26, hope is they'll win without need for redistrict.
aug 31, 2025, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view
"strategy is take 5 seats outright and then position good highly electable, carefully selected Dem.candidates in the other four and heavily fund them in '26, " That's bringing a spoon to a gunfight. Centrist Democrats honestly do not know how to fight back and they will not be the ones to save us.
aug 31, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you tripping? CA rates #4 as most liberal voting state. Indie voters trend liberal /tend to vote with Dems. How Cal votes, like every state, depends on the issues. Prop. 50/defeat Trump,brings out the libs like red meat to sharks. worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-liberal-states
aug 31, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
If Newsom was really fighting he wouldn't take such an incremental approach, he'd grab all 9 possible seats. All he's doing is countering Texas; what if another red state redistricts?
aug 31, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, maybe you don't know that it's not up to Newsom? We vote on prop.50 11/4. Map was drawn up according to voting rights laws, by a redistricting expert, then approved to be on ballot by state legislature for special election. Cal doesn't have authoritarian govt. like there is in Texas.
sep 1, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
We need the other Dem Governors(w/dem majorities) to freaken gerrymander for more blue districts . EYE FOR AN EYE Fukkers.
aug 29, 2025, 5:39 am • 1 0 • view
Don't forget rap music and video games.
aug 27, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Kindly remind yourself that Joe Biden circumvented congress over 100 times to help facilitate a genocide. He wouldn’t have used any deferments if the settler-colonial project would have drafted him. Stop thinking one of the two parties are the hero. They’re both hellbound.
aug 31, 2025, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Democrats facilitated a genocide. Maybe chill out?
aug 27, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Wonder what the opinion is since it was an adult man who shot them from outside the church through the window? they can’t blame CRT or liberal teachings
aug 27, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Repugnant republicans are lying slimeballs at their core!
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