The dismantling of USAID is a humanitarian crisis. Only the cartoonists are covering it.

Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Remember when Trump ACCELERATED Covid by closing the borders without having testing & contact tracing in place. His travel bans gave people incentive to rush back to beat the ban. Trump’s ban was an act of xenophobic theater which amounted to flushing the viral toilet all over the US. That was fun.🙄

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is stammering his way through a CNN hit about the hantavirus

I live in Virginia, one of the states a cruise ship passenger potentially exposed to #hantavirus will be returning to. 😬 Good luck this time around everyone.. 😷

The enchanted forests of Finland-based artist Ulla Thynell

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

This 👇 - They have failed both the Judicial Oath and the Constitutional Oath. They are not impartial, neutral arbiters of the law and don't even try to hide that they are influenced by their own personal political preferences.

Americans: I can't afford gas or groceries Bezos' Washington Post:

History will show that when we needed them most, mainstream journalists chose protecting their jobs over democracy, and it was cartoonists who took up the fight. @jackohman.bsky.social

We have truly gone back in time to the McCarthy era. This is such an obvious retaliation against Louise Lucas for her important leadership during Virginia’s redistricting fight. Punish your political enemies, smear dissent, weaponize government power.

In the last 6 months, Amazon laid off 30,000 employees. But Jeff Bezos was able to find an extra $10 MILLION to sponsor the Met Gala. Funny how the employees who make him rich are disposable, but flaunting wealth at fancy parties is a priority.

“Just like all men do.”

Codifying Roe, passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and holding members of this administration criminally accountable are important goals, but none of it sticks without Supreme Court reform.

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

This is worth a few minutes to read. Promise. #storytime

Trump can put his name on whatever he wants, but in the end people will only remember his name was all over the Epstein files.

Hey, who out there is participating in #MayDay today..? No work, no school, no shopping. Asking because I’m not seeing any press about it. Bluesky peeps are the only folks I see talking about it. (Graphic courtesy of Subversive Press on Etsy.)

I stand with workers, with immigrants, and with everyone who calls DC home. On May Day, we’re reminded that our fights are connected. From the picket line to the push for a free DC, this is about us having power over our lives. We show up. We stand together. And we don’t stop.

#MayDay2026 greetings to all workers. "We have the power to make the world anew.". #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay2026 ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊

BREAKING: Two Democratic Reps. are introducing a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hr and eliminate subminimum wages. Reps. Delia Ramirez and Analilia Mejia are introducing the bill, saying it's unacceptable that the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

New Yorker cartoon re: coorespondance dinner threat from prez not shooter.

I have so many questions.

Feels like I’ve watched this show for the Epsteinth time.

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

I often think about the fact that if Star Trek were real, we’d for sure one of those planets that Starfleet never interacts with cuz it’d violate the Prime Directive. would completely fuck up the universe’s vibe if we had intergalactic travel

Don’t usually notice celebrity gossip but if a 👑Queen👑 like @megantheestailion.bsky.social gets cheated on, make it make sense. Stunning, talented & smart; obviously better things than that blaaand piece of clay are in her future. #bodyodyody

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

Taken by Salwan Georges, photojournalist recently fired from the Washington Post.

SCHRODINGER'S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

It's time once again for Bluesky's favorite game, Try Not To Have A Visit From the FBI Tomorrow!

Gooooood question.

Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.

Driving into DC tonight for dinner & was a bit late because of the president’s motorcade. We passed National Guard folks near the restaurant & as we we left, heard about shots fired at the Correspondents Dinner. And that it’s still happening. This is a surreal, tense place - & time! - to live in.

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

The WHCA continuing their glorified meet and greet after an active shooter and a death is really just so spot on for the horrendous sociopathic tendencies of DC political reporters that I can't quite believe it's real.

Congratulations to @stephenking.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!👍 (Novels/Novellas: Approximately 65 to 67 Non-fiction books: 5 books. Short Stories: Over 200 Pseudonyms: 7 novels were published as Richard Bachman. Frequency: He has published at least one book almost every year since 1974)

This is not wrong.

You may have good, even great, friends. But do you have friends that, when visiting your hometown, come back with true NYC treats to share..? 💙 I miss you, NYC..! #NYC #FoodSky #Kossars #bialys #gimmeaslice

10 years ago we lost #Prince. I was driving when I heard & pulled over to yell and cry. From an interview with members of his Super Bowl team: I said, “Is Prince OK?” And then he said, “He wants to know if you can make it rain harder.” www.theringer.com/2020/01/29/m... youtu.be/-WYYlRArn3g?...