Recurring🧵of cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Read 1 more reply. If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle. Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile. Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Recurring🧵of cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Read 1 more reply. If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle. Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile. Bill Bramhall @billbramhall.bsky.social

This great and kind man would have been 101 today. Rest in peace, President Carter. Right now it's hard to believe that we once had such a decent human being as our President. My portrait.

👇🏽

President Donald Trump doubled down on his AI smear campaign against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday with a second doctored video cut over the Democrat’s MSNBC interview.

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

Swear her in.

It’s a bad look.

JD Vance Promises Hakeem Jeffries the ‘Sombrero Memes Will Stop’ if He Ends Shutdown

The Trump Administration is using the government shutdown as a pretext to speedrun their planned purges of nonpartisan federal workers. This is a key goal of Project 2025, which Russell Vought helped craft.

Cartoon by Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social Support Clay at open.substack.com/pub/claytoonz/

I was upset by how little coverage JD Vance’s “blood libel” comments last week are attracting - so I wrote about it myself. religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-tri...

Ted Cruz makes an impassioned plea in favor of pedophiles, and observers ask if it was a gaffe or not.

Q: “Is it helpful to post pictures of Leader Jeffries in a sombrero if you're trying to have good faith talks with him?” Vance: “Oh, I think it's funny. The president is joking and we're having a good time.”

Hegseth announced the administration's intention to commit war crimes: "We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.

Narrator: Vance well knows just how repulsively racist Trump's tweet was, which makes his effort to excuse it all the more nauseating.

What an absolute legend. An immeasurable loss. Thank you for everything, Jane. 🥹

J.D. Vance is now on TV saying you can tell who is illegal in America by looking at them. Caroline Leavitt is saying that if Dems agreed to a continuing resolution six months ago—which they did *to give Republicans six months to fix the healthcare horrors they created*—they should agree again. Huh?

Benjamin Slyngstad @slyngstad.bsky.social

Priorities.

As Americans face the pain of the shutdown, JD Vance went on Fox and reminded the country how unserious this administration really is. Vance: “That’s the most important part. There were the Trump 2028 hats, which I think made them very uncomfortable”

It’s pretty clear that Donald Trump and Russell Vought plan to exploit the shutdown to accelerate the Project 2025 goal of purging federal workers and replacing them with loyalists

It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

JD Vance: "On the sombrero thing, Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist. And I don't even honestly know what that means. Like, is he a Mexican-American that is offended?"

WH confirms that the construction of the ballroom will continue despite the shutdown.

Recurring🧵of cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Read 1 more reply. If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle. Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile. Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov This opportunity must be taken. It’s the only way to end the shutdown in favor of the people.

2/ "A government shutdown is never Plan A,” their letter reads. “Federal workers & the communities we serve will face severe hardship. But federal workers will willingly forego paychecks in the hopes of preserving the programs we have devoted our lives to administering.”

1/ The Federal Unionists Network—plus 35 national, state & local unions—have written a letter to the Democratic congressional leadership These workers are showing remarkable solidarity with each other. They're willing to stage the closest thing to a general strike since the 1940s.

PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social

Paul Fell @paulfellcartoons.bsky.social

Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social

toadscroak.bsky.social @toadscroak.bsky.social

Barry Blitt, The New Yorker

Matt Wuerker @mwuerker.bsky.social

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social

Chelo

WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.socialn

Jon Ostrove @jonostrove.bsky.social

Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social

Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social

Pedro X. Molina @pxmolina.bsky.social Support Pedro at pxmolina.substack.com

Theo Moudakis @TheoMoudakis.bsky.social