A recent column I wrote as the Stars & Stripes ombudsman began: “Pete Hegseth doesn’t want you to see cartoons in this newspaper anymore.” Apparently the Pentagon also doesn’t want you to hear from me anymore about threats to editorial independence. They fired me. www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...

MEMPHIS — Yasser Lopez Soza, 18, in ICE custody since Feb. 20 when a vehicle he was riding in was pulled over by ICE agents as he was on the way to a soccer game, was finally just released. More: wreg.com/news/local/m...

New photos from the USS Abraham Lincoln show service members receiving minimal food portions as reports grow that some troops have lost significant weight and aren’t receiving care packages—while the Pentagon denies any shortages. (Newsweek)

Lilian May Miller (1895-1943) was a US woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, who was influenced by a Japanese printmaking styles of strong colours and bold design #Womensart

April 24, 2026

To be clear, the eight Iranian women who were allegedly political prisoners set for execution and saved by Trump are nonexistent and generated by AI. The 170 Iranian schoolgirls who were blown to smithereens by Trump's orders were all very real, and all are very dead.

Yes, I was suspended for the "serious" violation of making a joke.

Not just a rapist, but the most vulgar rapist ever, whose tacky taste would make stylish Steve Jobs convulsively vomit.

@sandibachom.bsky.social may be onto something. What stood out to me in Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with Todd Blanche was that she volunteered a 9/11 anecdote to explain the “end” of her relationship with Epstein….something she did not need to explain at all. 🧵

What he says…

WATCH — @tedlieu.bsky.social : “Trump and his family have made over $9 Billion in his presidency.”

After 18 month investigation, the NY times revealed the president of the united states committed hundreds of millions of dollars of tax fraud, possibly one of the biggest scandals in the history of the presidency and 24 hours later no one is talking about it, don't let Trump crimes become normal !!!

Former FBI agent on the Powell case: "Prosecutors don’t usually charge unless they’re ready to go to trial immediately. What we’re seeing now feels like charging—or investigating—just to generate attention. So it’s not surprising when cases like this fall apart.”

The tasteless, classless, orange clown is destroying our capital.

The Lawrence Tree, 1929 by Georgia OKeeffe #WomensArt

Our country is so fucked. Thank Christ we have people like Rep. Stansbury trying to fight her hardest for our nation.

Suozzi: The president’s like a pickpocket. And what do pickpockets do? One guy bumps into you, and when you’re bumped into and you’re distracted, the other guy picks your pocket. We were trying to deal with the cuts to Medicaid. And what did he make the issue? Venezuela and Greenland.

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

had to double check that this wasn't a parody account

35th Book of 2026 In this time of chaos, it is always a great moment of respite to read about people building a community of care and love.

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks What do you think would have happened if Biden had fallen sleep in the Oval Office with his cabinet members looking on? What would the Repubs have done? Yet nobody here will step up and end this insanity! Hypocrites! #ImpeachAndRemoveTrump

Right there on the website. Seems like we can put this debate to bed now

Does this look familiar?

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Hopeless in Seattle…

PEARSON: “We’ve spent $60 billion on this war, and it’s going to be another billion or two before tomorrow because we have a president who’s a wannabe dictator.” (From TN candidate for Congress Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social)

Gígja Einarsdóttir, photographer who was born and raised around Icelandic horses #womensart

Seriously, did anyone ever really doubt felonious Pedolf's assassination attempt was fake? Didn't u see the Secret Service agents let him stand up & expose himself for more gunshots & then lower the flag & their heads in perfect unity? But 2 people died for this stunt

Correct.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

While the administration has simultaneously ramped up approvals for nuclear startups.

Another devastating effect of an illegal, immoral, self-defeating war: Iran war pushing more than 30 million back into poverty, UN development chief says www.reuters.com/world/iran-w...

April 23, 2026

More insanity

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

Do we really have a constitutional republic, with elected representatives making decisions on tax and spend issues, when an imperial president can just take our money and buy an airline? We don’t have a govt functioning with the consent of the governed - we have one man run amok.

Not only is the President’s Budget Proposal COMPLETELY morally bankrupt. It will also bankrupt the American people.

The special services soldier appears not to have understood that insider betting on Polymarket and similar fora is reserved as a privilege for members of the president's family and immediate entourage. abcnews.com/US/doj-arres...

Also, RFK's math equation yesterday in the Senate was a price reduction from $600 to $10, which is a 98% reduction. Morons and liars.

The only mainstream journalists speaking truth to power these days are cartoonists. @adamzyglis.bsky.social

Criminals gonna crime. The most brazenly corrupt administration ever. They are not governing. They are looting - the Treasury, the American people - while most are struggling to just get by, pay rent, buy gas, pay for groceries. It's Us vs. the Epstein Class, and it has reached Critical Mass.

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

Ghislaine Maxwell should not be pardoned. She should be moved back to an appropriate prison to serve the remainder of her term. Survivors have repeatedly said Maxwell not only participated but was often an architect of their abuse.

MADELEINE DEAN: Why did you lie to the New York Post about your relationship with Epstein? LUTNICK: The House Oversight Committee and I agreed-- DEAN: Reclaiming my time. I do not accept that answer. We are our own committee. You're dodging the question. The coverup continues.