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The choice.

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Always.

Just once — once — I’d like to see Republicans wage war on how shitty they’ve made our country.

When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.

Monumental.

History is a ladder and if you climb it, you can get your bearings. You might not like where you are, but you can see it more clearly. How Trump is just like every other failed asshole dictator, and why being “even more extreme” is his self-destruct button:

Hoping that one day this cartoon will be a vaguely amusing distant memory of a poopy age before we dictator-proofed our nation.

Hi! I’m unvaccinated and I’ll be your server this evening! Cartoon for @fightthefire.bsky.social

On March 19, 1945, as Hitler realized he would lose the war and his 1,000-year Reich, he issued the Nero Decree, ordering the destruction of all of Germany’s infrastructure.

“Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot."

This is just sad, @washingtonpost.com. Republican P.B.S. Pinchback served as 24th governor of Louisiana in 1872 and 1873. He was Black. It’s something a seasoned staff would know, or at least check. Jeff Bezos added $29 *billion* to his net worth in July alone, while continuing to drain your husk.

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

“And the government's staying on heavy foot And they try to keep us all down No they're never gonna keep us all down” I’ve had this on repeat all morning.

This. ThisThisThisThisThisThis. This.

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

MEDIA PSA: When you call it the $1.8 Billion “anti-weaponization fund” you’re helping Trump sane-wash it It’s an “insurrectionist slush fund” A “heist” or “theft” from taxpayers A “scheme” to enrich himself When you use his words you aren’t a journalist, you’re a stenographer

The CDC is right. Portals, people. Portals can resolve any plot hole.

🗳️We won’t have democracy until we actually ENFORCE antitrust laws. Courts rationalize huge monopolies by using “consumer welfare standard” - they’re illegal only when creating higher prices. Other nasty effects aside, what about a CITIZEN welfare standard? Monopolies control OUR politics and media.

Some good news for the most endangered wolf species on the planet. (Corrupt Republicans and greedy billionaires keep trying to gut the Endangered Species Act. Unlike wolves, those carnivores are invasive, kill for sport and destroy communities.)

I respect the desire to comment on our crisis, and I don’t mean to be a dick, but I’m going to start unfollowing people who use AI to create fake “editorial cartoons.” It’s a slap to a noble art, on life-support since newspapers started collapsing. Support and share the work of actual cartoonists.

“Hard to believe Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA” is one of the best descriptions I’ve heard of the GOP’s vision for America.

“Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called Social Security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. “Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.” — President Harry Truman, 1952

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For all of its bravado, Trump’s rally on the National Mall last week turned out to be the fireworks equivalent of a Magic Snake that won’t light. The only turd-shaped pile of ash on display was Trump himself. Free links and subscriptions.

Remember, we weren’t always this way. American kings will go the way of bell bottoms and pet rocks. #america250

Federal climate scientists, fired by Trump, saved U.S. climate data and launched their own website, www.climate.us, to provide actual critical data after their NOAA programs were DOGEd. This is why they’re called public servants. www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

Three-quarters of researchers responding to a “Nature” poll said they were considering taking their big brains to countries that don’t hate science. And Canada is putting out $1B in bait to lure scientists north. Stupid kinda spirals, don’t it, MAGA? www.yahoo.com/news/science...

The Eternal Methane Flame (Cartoon for @fightthefire.bsky.social)

My latest: In the great oval room There was a useless Trump phone And a red-capped buffoon And an AI picture of — Melania jumping over a ballroom And there were three big fools sitting on chairs And two little bottles of Kash’s booze And a pair of too-big shoes... Free links and subscriptions

Freedom 250, Fairness 0 (Cartoon for @fightthefire.bsky.social)

When the Tao is lost, there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is morality. When morality is lost, there is ritual. Ritual is the husk of true faith, the beginning of chaos. ~ Lao Tzu, from Tao te Ching, Chapter 38