Ted Rall

Ted Rall

@tedrall.bsky.social

Leftist political cartoonist, columnist, and graphic novelist. Pulitzer finalist and RFK Journalism Award winner. Fierce takes on justice, politics, and culture. "What's Left?" New Book Out May 1st! Subscribe/Support: tedrall.substack.com

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Democrats are poised to win the midterms. But it’s only because voters want to send a message: they’re angry at the Republicans for not using their majority to improve their quality of life. Democrats are just as likely to ignore the anger of the voters—and face their wrath in the future.

When confronted with an outrageous act of violence by their government, many Americans complain by saying that it’s “un-American” and “not who we are.” By definition, however, whatever we actually let our government do is exactly who we are.

Eager to add to his administration’s reputation as bloodthirsty even by American standards, Donald Trump initially signed off on the livestreaming of the execution by firing squad of Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter. Hasan killed 13 people—a tiny fraction of those killed by each president.

For the price of a single Hellfire missile, you can send an American through a public four-year college. Yet we keep making the wrong choice.

The Cornell University alleged gang-rape case, and the online controversy around it, is the latest example of fear between the sexes: women afraid of men, and men afraid of women. No wonder young people aren’t dating, or having sex, at the same rates as in the past.

Customer service has never been worse or more irritating to American consumers, who must suffer countless indignities like A.I. phonemail trees that don’t recognize their voices. The only way out, for those who are willing to publicize their plight, is to go public on social media.

On Oct. 8, 2023, Israel decided that its land grab and genocidal priorities outweighed the lives of the hostages and the international goodwill it, as a welfare state, depended upon. Whether or not it ever had a right to exist, it will cease to exist because of that decision.

The U.S. war against Iran, and the resulting closing of the Strait of Hormuz, exposes America’s Achilles’ heel—its dependence on foreign oil and gas—more starkly than ever before.

Tennessee execution fiasco, French students riots, Trump’s disastrous new poll. Today at 9 am ET LIVE and streaming all day 24-7 on the ‘DeProgram Show’ with tedrall.bsky.social and Jamarl Thomas #News #Live #Politics

tedrall.bsky.socialTed Rall (@tedrall.bsky.social)Leftist political cartoonist, columnist, and graphic novelist. Pulitzer finalist and RFK Journalism Award winner. Fierce takes on justice, politics, and culture. "What's Left?" New Book Out May 1st! S...

Trump is famous for his lies, but increasingly he is not only lying about matters of little or no importance; he is lying when telling the truth would be more personally and politically advantageous.