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Memes in the Time of Trump 2.0: August. 2025 edition

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Not a meme, but a nice chalk drawing of Elmo at the Houston Good Trouble/remembrance day of Senator John Lewis. Photo: John Barrett  Okay, we're now in the eighth month of an antidemocratic, fascist Regime. The masks are almost completely off except for ICE agents, but if there has been any doubt that we're in the grip of a despotic Reich, that should be expunged now. Memes are not unlike graffitti. They convey popular sentiment through pithy phrasing and very often, weighty insight in economic to terse language, very often bound with imagery conveying the urgency of the text. As usual, what follows is a collection of memes I've saved up since the last post and the problem for me is that so much news happens and so many people respond that those monthly collections grow ever more quickly.  This may mean for a lot of scrolling, but I think you'll find a lot of thought-provoking memecraft among the scroll. I don't own any of the memes, their imagery, or content, and t...