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Trump is a master of 5D chess. Just listen to him: he's thinking on levels even Elon Musk can't comprehend. Stupidity is just intelligence we don't understand.

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

Today I took warm socks out of the drawer. The woollen ones the Lady with Golden Hands knitted in the last years of her life. Every time I pass the place where she used to sell them, I sigh. Her smile... It's getting colder in Kyiv.

Some of you are probably wondering why a cover will briefly appear, then be deleted. Usually it is one of three things: 1. I realize the scan sucks 2. I realize some unfortunate detail lurks in the bg art 3. A long-ago reader used a pen or pencil to draw a mustache and/or pubic hair on a character

I grew up in a lower income immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster for "special days." But we also understood the White House should not look like the inside of Red Lobster. It's condescending to assuming working ppl are culturally illiterate bc their experience is shaped by their limited means.

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

Absolutely 💯 Agree…..

They say government doesn’t work. I don’t understand why anyone votes for people who don’t believe in government. What do you expect them to do there?

We will settle for the billionaires removing themselves to an airless, uninhabitable rock out in space, of course.

My boyfriend after swimming in cold water

Drone debris falls on Kyiv like steel rain. The mayor keeps us informed about the damage it causes. We pretend we have umbrellas to hide under. Saturday evening. Drone attack again. I look out of the window to check whether it’s raining or not.

They look bored af.

Who is E. J. Thribb? Private Eye is 65. To celebrate, we’re taking a peek behind the curtain to explain where some of the Eye’s lore, columns, and in-jokes originate from.

"Lord, we pray that you lift up Ken Paxton, a serial adulterer who constantly bears false witness, covets material things-- like houses--and disgraces your holy name with his shameless corruption, so that we may continue not to pay taxes and hate all the same people he does. Glory!"

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

The Republican Party has all the values and tactics of a white supremacist prison gang and maybe it's time to stop normalizing them as if they were a modern functioning political party

I hate the clocks going backwards and forwards. When I was young, we didn’t even have clocks. If we got hungry, we ate each other. We were poor, but we were happy. Good times. Not that we had time. It hadn’t been invented. We had to make our own time out of string and cholera.

This is why it's dangerous to give rich people so much power over our lives. Sometimes, they are appallingly ignorant. The Nazis added the word "socialist" to their name purely as propaganda to appeal more to workers. But the party--and Hitler--hated real socialists and communists.

More than third of post offices in TG Jones (formerly WH Smith) stores to shut by early 2027 WH Smith was bought by private equity, shut-down shops. Many towns/districts are without a bank branch or a post office. Cuts footfall, bad news for traders who take cash.

Ancient

People say they’re The Best Crimes. Big Strong Crimes With Tears In Their Eyes.

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

Grey morning in Kyiv. What a joy to learn that metro trains cross the Dnipro River over ‘my’ bridge again. Yesterday, it was quite a challenge for me to get to the right bank of the city. But I met interesting people and brought rainy beauty in the pockets of my phone.

Not many of us are escaping the rain today as Storm Boelo moves in 🌧️⚠️

The Republican Party is giving us cancer. The New York Times doesn't say it that directly, but its investigation proves it.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

In 1990, about 20 million animals a year were euthanized in kill shelters. Today, over half the shelters in the US are designated no-kill and less than 500,000 animals are euthanized.

Happy birthday, Christopher Lloyd. #caricature #art

Free-to-read article about how and why I painted the lost face of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian: tealcartoons.substack.com/p/capturing-... Reposts much appreciated! #art

Here's the J.D. Vance puppet I designed for Spitting Image. #caricature #art

I felt the same Alan, get yourself one of these covers, takes the sting out a tiny bit

This arrived today and has pissed me off hugely. I felt that little pang of grief I had the morning after the referendum. Brexit Bastards.

Who could possibly have predicted this from an organisation founded by Lord Toby “I had my dick up her arse” Young (pictured here doing the big tits gesture)? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Ricky Gervais.

Twonks: Greatest Twits vol 2 is now available for PRE-ORDER! Featuring 52 pages of your favourite comics, including 5 brand-new ones you’ve never seen before! The first 100 copies will be hand-signed. The rest will be foot-signed. Link in the bio 🤠

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Rainy day in Kyiv. But I do love rain. To stand under a tree without an umbrella. To listen to the heavy sound of drops falling from the leaves. You won’t see it in the media or perhaps anywhere else. There is autumn in Kyiv. Autumn.

More details on today's return of 270 Ukrainians: over half were captured in 2022, including during the defense of Mariupol. Five survived the Olenivka attack, 38 are officers, nine are seriously ill, and 86 had been illegally convicted in Russia. #Ukraine

270 Defenders of Ukraine returned home from russian captivity ❤️‍🩹 This is the best news. So very happy for 270 families right now!

Six packets of crisps is not a stockpile, Guardian

(The only mention for Badenoch so far is that too few people recognised her name for them to say which animal she reminds them of, so we appear to be skipping over “Is the Keminaissance actually real” here).