On Thurs. October 16 from 5:30-6:30pm HST, I will be holding a district-wide Tele-Town Hall. I will answer questions & address concerns about the federal government shutdown (if still ongoing), the impacts of federal funding cuts & other issues impacting Hawai‘i residents.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.

Ah - the Kavanaugh stops continue. (h/t @akalhan.bsky.social for the name!)

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

For all the wealthy comedians who are performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival:

As I was saying…

this seems like sensible advice if you live in the US and want to do effective protest about Kimmel:

If you're bored, DOGE Libs is the gift that keeps on giving. dogelibs.vercel.app/

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Sept. 21, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Saturday morning cartoons...

Dutch late night TV has its take

ABC, what a Mickey Mouse operation

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Excited to be a part of this amazing event on Thursday! It’s @capitalandmain.bsky.social’s annual EXPOSÉS honoring outstanding work in social impact journalism, publishing, and media.

This week's comic now up on @contrariannews.org - RFK Jr.'s BRAIN WORM presents The History of Medical Science - contrarian.substack.com/p/tom-the-da...

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Why does Trump want to control the Federal Reserve? He operates on such a different plane of policymaking that it’s often hard to understand what he’s doing and why. Let me try to put it together for you. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-art-of-extortion

THIS is the way 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

This week's comic now up on @dailykos.com , Hollingsworth Hound, in "The Devil Went Down to HoundCo." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Wait, what. You mean the story about Sean Duffy building a nuclear reactor on the Moon isn’t an Onion piece?

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Really Costco, really?

1. Trump says that the letter to Epstein is fake because the letter is "not the way I talk." Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the letter is "not at all how he speaks or writes." JD Vance said the same thing. Does the letter sound like Trump? I investigated.

Remember: The internet is written in indelible ink.

Trump “blah, blah, blah, Russia, Russia, Russia,…” Journalist “You claim that Russia, Russia, Russia is a hoax. Does that mean you’d be willing to release the unredacted Mueller report?” Trump *audibly shits his pants*

🔴 Brand new comic now up on @dailykos.com - TRUMP SCIENCE! - www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Definitely slavery

THIS ⬇️

It's $162 million stolen from New Jersey.

@lizdye.bsky.social @andrewtorrez.bsky.social Listening to Ep 146. “…38¢ to mail a letter…” 🤣 it’s been a while since you bought stamps. Almost double that, 73¢ Love the podcast but had to point that out.

Hey Dems! I got an idea. Instead of “Project 2029,” how about you just run on this… like WHEN THE DEMOCRATS WERE OVERWHELMINGLY POPULAR FOR DECADES

News from one of our very best cartoonists. Enjoy Portugal, Pat. And keep drawing — We need your cartoons!! ✍️ 🇵🇹

🔴 Brand new comic now up on @boingboing.net - Elon and His Doge Pals, in "School of Grok!" Can you solve the thrilling A.I. whodunnit?? - boingboing.net/2025/06/24/t...

Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

I'll take "Professional Nightmares" for $1000

This is one of the most unintentional @nytpitchbot.bsky.social passages ever.

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Excited to see that black people performing country music are only eligible for 3/5ths of a Grammy

This week’s comic on @dailykos.com - www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

From 2018 "ICE Training Day"

a cartoon from trump 1 about distractions

Elon just figured out the key that Trump presented to him in the White House is actually the key to the custodian’s closet at Union Station #elon #trump #whenbillionairesfight

If you haven't seen it yet, you can make up a completely fake proverb and as long as it SOUNDS like a proverb, Google will now create an origin for it. bsky.app/profile/salg...

This week's comic now up on @dailykos.com - SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX: "Comedy is back!" - www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

She believes that the Library of Congress lends books to young children!