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NO KINGS DAY!!!!! When people tell the king what they think of him and he pretends they really hate their own country.

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

At least 14 people who’ve written books critical of Donald Trump have been threatened, investigated, or prosecuted by him. This is just a coincidence, right? Surely it has nothing to do with our criticisms.

Trump pardoned George Santos and said it was because he was a “loyal Republican.” This is a message to every Republican in the party that if they cross Trump they cannot depend on his having their back or pardoning them. It’s his way of solidifying absolute control over the Party.

New Column: The people who actually love this country will be out protesting tomorrow. James Madison would wholeheartedly agree. newrepublic.com/post/201921/... via @newrepublic.com

NEW SOLUTIONS TO THE TROLLEY CAR PROBLEM By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! #PoliCartoon Help us make more! patreon.com/barry

Drunk or sober, the dickish, FU persona represents the force well. Likely a pretty random sample. We see it in videos daily.

There was no saving the Orioles. There may well be no saving the Ravens. But there is still time and reason to save America. Show up, Baltimore!

Pat Byrnes

I remember when people called 40-plus year old father of FIVE Donald Trump Jr. a "kid"

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

A message and a Lesson from Norway 🇳🇴 💙💙

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been telling us that for more than a decade

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

i thought Ezra Levin, one of the organizers of the No Kings gatherings, made such an important profound point yesterday. He said, "Our enemy here is not Trump, our enemy is fatalism and nihilism and cynicism." Once you give up your power, the authoritarian wins.

I mean, to Mike Johnson and the modern GOP, the values of the United States are totalitarianism, an all-powerful strongman leader, ignorance, bigotry, bullying, and sneering cruelty. I do hate those things, and I hate the people who embrace them, so I guess I hate their America.

I wrote this, about how this administration is trying to undo history on multiple fronts. And I must credit @jamellebouie.net, @adamserwer.bsky.social and many others for their work that inspired my own small contribution.

Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee

Left: Father Coughlin's anti-communist club, September 1935 Right: Donald Trump's anti-communist club, October 2025

Cmon everybody they’re just kooky 30-year-old kids, give em a break

10/17/2025- No Kings www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

A hand-drawn cartoon by me, picturing Trump’s handlers placating and delighting him by murdering fishermen in Venezuela.

Boys will be boys! www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

Vance on "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes." You know, "young boys" in their 20s & 30s. Like those crazy kids in Munich.

Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35. Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:

Remember how we just went through a multi-week newscycle where Democrats and liberals were lambasted for their "violent" political rhetoric, which included Fox hosts claiming that only one political party was demonizing their political opponents as evil? And how libs needs to lower the temperature?

After seven rapid-fire lies about what the GOP supposedly still stands for, Johnson's unconscious leaks a truth. Just like Ted Cruz's "stop attacking pedophiles". When you tell brazen, easily disproved lies every time there's a microphone, the unconscious will occasionally issue an objection.

Absolutely nothing this WH says should be believed. They lie brazenly as performative fascism, w/ impunity. But nothing--NOTHING--should be considered true... Unless verified by independent sources.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

A heartrending story (gift link): "Some members see their mission as weeding out society’s weakest, which they deem to include mentally ill, gay or transgender youths." Convergence of online predatory psychopaths w/ the GOP, as exemplified by Young Republicans & too many elected officials, is vile.

JD Vance: Trump is America’s Hitler MAGA: Let’s make you VP!🥳 Young Republicans: H*tler was great, gas them all, rape is epic MAGA: Boys will be boys!🤷 Americans: Charlie Kirk was not a good person MAGA: Such vileness has never before been uttered in this land. This means war!🤬

An emotional minute as the word Democracy melts away in front of the US Capitol Building.

Michael DeAdder

Putin decriminalized domestic violence in Russia yrs ago. It's a required step in the fascist playbook; @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social documented this over a century of fascism. This regime of state-sanctioned gender terrorism serves the same purpose in oppressing women as Jim Crow did toward PoC.

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."

All duly noted. But when I call myself an “antifa terrorist” it is to mock this administration’s labeling of any dissent as just this. It is verbal frog suit or tuba-playing, not precise word choice.

"Yes, for now, we're hoping Stephen sticks with Sturmabteilung & c1933 Dachau, but given his truest feelings, like those of our great Young Republicans, he seems to have some really innovative plans like no one has seen before. Actually, I guess some have. But these will be the best."

Take time to read Giuffre's posthumous excerpt. Understand how apex predators leveraged poverty, trauma history, dissociation, threats & drug use to control, rape & pimp underage girls. No pardon for Maxwell. Release all Epstein-related files. Vile people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The "don't call us Nazis" crowd sure has a lot of swastikas

BMW, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Porsche, Siemens, Bayer, Deutsche Bank, Lufthansa, IG Farben, Krupp, Merck & many others also decided that it was their "moral imperative" to be nice & "good for business." www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

Like ordinary Nazis who did horrific things, not because they were psychopaths lacking conscience like some, but w/ conscience so warped they could convince themselves they were doing something righteous, patriotic, even Christian. (Jim Jordan: Lord's work) 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...