New work by Dimitra Rizou up on Small Print: smallprintmagazine.com/cartoons/ #cartoons

My cartoon for @smallprint.bsky.social

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but in the end truth will out.

"The best advice on writing I’ve ever received was, 'Rewrite it!' A lot of editors said that. They were all right. Writing is really rewriting--making the story better, clearer, truer." ~ Robert Lipsyte

What does Donald Trump’s ugly bill mean for Massachusetts? 30,000 clean energy jobs gone. $3 billion in lost wages. $6 billion ripped from the local economy. It’s a lose-lose-lose for working-class families.

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

What a time for CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” and blame it on a “purely financial decision”: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy?

Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness

Defunding PBS and NPR is an act to silence the truth, which is the enemy of a wannabe dictator.

Make your voice louder. Call 202-224-3121 or 5calls.org to tell your Senators: vote NO on the Rescission package.

This isn’t just budget trimming. It’s part of a broader effort by the Trump regime to undermine independent institutions and silence public voices.

The Senate is about to vote on a sweeping cuts package that would gut funding for public broadcasting, global health, and foreign aid. That means local NPR and PBS stations are once again on the chopping block.

Another miner has been added as a plaintiff in a class action suit pending against the federal Department of Health and Human Services over its prior shutdown of an agency crucial to helping coal miners protect themselves against dangerous black lung disease, reports @caitycoyne.bsky.social.

"After Meta broke ground on a $750 million data center on the edge of Newton County, Ga., the water taps in Beverly and Jeff Morris’s home went dry. The couple’s house, which uses well water, is 1,000 feet from Meta’s new data center." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

This is a great find on the essential archive.org: an MTV special broadcast in 1996 dedicated to Vic Chesnutt and the tribute album "Sweet Relief II". Catch @kristinhersh.bsky.social around the 23:10 mark playing 'Gravity of the Situation' with Vic and other musician pals.

A reporter went to the big ICE job fair in Dulles VA and talked to people asking them why they were looking to work for CBP and ICE. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Do not talk of him

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

When covering the federal workforce has never been more important, the Washington Post pushes out Joe Davidson, who writes the Federal Insider column: "I’m leaving because of a policy restricting the level of opinion and commentary in news section articles" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

[Exit Clown.]

In a 6-3 ruling, Supreme Court finds Constitution to be unconstitutional.

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

New Evidence Suggests Ancient Egyptians Only Ever Visited Pyramids When Friends Were In From Out Of Town theonion.com/new-evi...

It is extremely doubtful I will make back the money that I am owed from my former publisher via the publication of this book. I have come to a kind of peace with that. What I *do* hope is that enough people pre-order it to give it a fighting chance to survive & repair some of the wrongs done to it.

Donald is currently laser-focused on the flooding deaths in Texas and taking care of the survivors.

His prayers are full of false hypocrisy

free my country from calamity.

"You think this is a game.... but it's real. It just hasn't happened yet."

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

You could be on Medicaid right now, and not even know it — that's because it's called something different in every state. So when House Republicans talk Medicaid cuts, they could be going after YOUR care. Call your representative today. youtube.com/shorts/NzWim...

Banish me? Banish your dotage, banish usury, That makes the Senate ugly!

This is wild. “Republican senators insist they don't know how or why the tax was inserted into the bill they're rushing to pass. No senator is taking credit for or defending it. "It's a secret, I guess," said Lindsey Graham, the BUDGET COMMITTEE CHARIMAN. “I don't know where it came from."

The GOP is on the verge of destroying renewable energy, which will result in much higher prices, and many more blackouts, for everybody. By @hencarnell.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Our veterans have sacrificed so much to keep us safe. How has Trump thanked them? By carrying out mass firings that disproportionately hurt veterans. The Senate is voting on my amendment to the Republican megabill to crack down on those terminations.

We’ll forth and fight, Do deeds worth praise, and tell you them at night.

Republicans, before you vote to close 1 of 4 nursing homes, can you update us on where those people will go? Maybe call a few seniors in your state and go over plans for where they go next? Or call the son whose dad has dementia and tell him how he can be a full-time caregiver?

They plan to roll back green energy investments. That will spike our utility bills while warming our planet. A double hit only the GOP could conjure.

310,000 Tennesseans

If the GOP bill passes, a lot of folks who have grandma in a nursing home will need to take her back home. Do voters across the rural states this will impact the most understand that?

Senate Republicans are trying to jam through their “Big Beautiful Bill" that would kick 17 MILLION people off of their health care. I’m on the Senate floor to say NO. youtube.com/live/6RL1Aj8...

and here's the thing, friends, it's crazy to imagine it but we all grow elderly and infirm eventually. wouldn't it be fucking wild if we, collectively, as a society, through some form of "government", dealt with that reality with compassion and empathy.