A message just posted on Twitter from political cartoonist Mike Luckovich

[Pluvious]

Last edited Sun Feb 16, 2025, 09:39 PM - Edit history (2)

Just...

Too too funny

I received this email. This was the last cartoon I posted on twitter

Thread link:

Link to tweet

Edit to add: George Takei had his own take this morning...

Captures it perfectly.

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-02-16T13:19:47.637Z

Edit 2 to update: Mike was pranked, see reply 41 (thx Randy)

[BoRaGard]

1. Wow, the bitter truth about the Repube BastardMen - Thanks for posting

[spanone]

2. Snowflakes.

[dem4decades]

3. It's times like this i wish there would be a day of reckoning but I've given up on that.

[bluboid]

7. its coming - study the dynamics of yin & yang... no one escapes

[Shipwack]

4. What? I thought Twitter was an "Absolute Free Speech" zone?

[eShirl]

22. as surely as Fox News is fair and balanced

[Irish_Dem]

5. Speaking truth to money and power is forbidden.

[MiHale]

6. Thin-skinned billionaire assholes...

Think the entire world belongs to them.

[rubbersole]

9. The "six feet deep state" awaits them.

We'll all meet equally in time.

[COL Mustard]

16. At the moment

It appears that it does.

[johnnyplankton]

8. So much for Free Speech, eh?

[jeffreyi]

10. Heard a saying yesterday, not a new one, apparently:

Supposedly Ukrainian, describing oligarchs:

"The people are the shit we grow our money in."

[NewEnglandAutumn]

11. I was flagged on Twitter

Back in September I was given the same 'options' from the site and I decided to request a more formal review and never heard back. I would occasionally log in and make another request. They say they will give it another look but clearly don't they just want you to 'willingly remove' your post. I left the site and requested my account be closed/removed. The will not do that either. Leading me to the very obvious conclusions that there is no free speech on twitter only censorship and that the number of active users is inflated. Probably by a LOT.

[dickthegrouch]

20. Some States have "Forget me" laws

I’d check if yours does and then invoke it.
Especially if fb has no mechanism to invoke it. Then you get to complain about them to your AG for failing to adhere to the statute.

[KentuckyWoman]

26. I have 157 followers on Twitter.

150 of them look to be those $5 drinky girls who want you to follow their only fans or some swill. And I don't even mess with Politics on Twitter for a long time now. I can't imagine how bad it is for those who are. I tried to keep up with it by blocking but eventually gave up.

Political twitter is a waste of time IMHO. It's basically a few people with a following and maybe 100 Thousand tops of actual people who are engaged of which no one really listens. The vast majority seem to be several million accounts that are all duplicates or farms or whatever you want to call them looking to drive ad money or push an agenda.

[aggiesal]

12. If this was Biden, it would have been allowed. ...

Everyone should move to BlueSky.

[mwooldri]

24. Agreed about BlueSky.

But for different reasons. If BlueSky got taken over by someone like Musk, you can take all your data and put your own version of BlueSky up. Or join a BlueSky competitor that runs on the underlying codebase.

[Oliver Bolliver Butt]

27. The alternative to social media is real life.

[aggiesal]

29. In real life, I would not come across this cartoon. I found it on social media (i.e. DU) n/t

[Oliver Bolliver Butt]

49. maybe

Or maybe you would have found it in your high-quality local paper, which might still exist in a world without social media. Or perhaps you would have found something even more enriching.

[aggiesal]

50. Maybe, but our high-quality local paper is a RW rag, owned by the same person that owns the RW TV & Radio stations n/t

[3auld6phart]

31. Fogged

And gaoled on face book, don’t even bother going there and screw titter. On Bluesky now, but holding my thoughts close. Got flagged on YouTube, also. Can live with that, tho.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Behind the children should be a bunch of gravestones for all of the children Musk will kill.

[surfered]

14. And Musk goes on and on about free speech.

[Ohioboy]

15. The cartoon needs to have Musk's kid all healthy hanging on Musk picking his nose

[rubbersole]

19. And donnie's head firmly up his ass.

[JoseBalow]

17. And yet some here continue to rationalize linking to the Nazi's site

Shameful

[multigraincracker]

18. I'm serious. If we start a huge EAT The RICH

Movement him and his buddy will move to Moscow.

[Happygram]

21. Musk wants free speech

……….Unless it’s against him.

[isitreal]

40. He wants HIS speech free

And he wants to make money off your speech .. but you can only have your speech if he approves of it

[ShazzieB]

43. He also wants to be sble to decide whose speech is free and whose isn't.

That why he bought Twitter - so he could personally control what people can say there.

[Turbineguy]

23. I think Brezhnev or somebody in his crew figured out

that trying to sell communism to the West was a waste of time, and that they should make capitalism intolerable. Reagan came along and did it for them. Ironically, the Soviets did not benefit by it.

[dalton99a]

25. Kick

[FakeNoose]

28. If I were on Xwitter (and I'm not) I would repost this daily - to embarrass the shit out of them

I'm on Imgur and Reddit and I will share it to them.

[sinkingfeeling]

30. And it was dead on.

[Pas-de-Calais]

32. I posted & said things FAR worse

Trying to get kicked off

Screw it
I
Left

[Jeebo]

33. I want to know three things.

1. Which "community guidelines" does this violate?

2. Exactly HOW does this cartoon violate those guidelines?

3. What kind of guidelines would make this cartoon unacceptable? Those "guidelines" are themselves unacceptable, I am sure.

I would make them explain their answers to all of those questions.

I am not on X and never was when it was Twitter. But I like the suggestion of another poster in this thread, that you should re-post this same cartoon every day, along with an explanation of this event and your comments about their "guidelines". If they kick you off X, I would say, good riddance.

Also, they say they "received a complaint" about your cartoon. You could complain about postings that promote similar but comparable right-wing points of view. Not that right-wing blatherings are in any way comparable to the concerns of people here on DU, but you know what I mean. Use their own tactics against them.

-- Ron

[Norrrm]

34. That tweet describing the deleted tweet is also on xtwitter so it will probably disappear too.

[moonshinegnomie]

35. its called xitter now

pronounced the chinese way

shitter........

[eppur_se_muova]

45. And "tweets" are now "Xits". nt

[Godot51]

36. Yeah ...

... that brave, masculine, fighter of freedom, and fiscal responsibility vs. those sub-human parasites!

[More_Cowbell]

37. A few hours ago he said the email was fake

I'm not sure what the status is now

Link to tweet

[Iris]

38. What? I thought Twitter was about free speech????

[malaise]

39. Love him

Ne nailed it

These fucking fascists only want free fascist speech

[RandySF]

41. He confirmed it was a fake email.

mike luckovich
@mluckovichajc
UPDATE: I have confirmed this is a fake email. Keep an eye out!
11:35 AM · Feb 16, 2025

·

[electric_blue68]

42. E-loon in that pipe plumbing cartoon doesn't even remotely look like him!...

...if it did; you wouldn't even need the ID text.

There he looks like a beige-ish Arab; which would be OK if he actually looked like that compared to the pale skinned White South African he is!

[flvegan]

44. So it was fake? 264 recs right now, and it's fake?

Ok then.

[Scrivener7]

46. Doesn't matter that it was a prank. The cartoon is true.

It's really time to stop supporting that guy who's overtly proud to be a Nazi, among other things.

[Kid Berwyn]

47. Oh, a prank.

Right.

[poozwah]

48. number 8

sinsorship: the 8th deadly sin and the biggest threat to democracy.
in X world, only the wealthy can afford “free” speech.