Cold truth. Cartoon by Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire.

New from Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire. Click for the full view. All links and subscriptions are free at Fight the Fire.

New: "The insurrection failed. But it did succeed in one regard: Control of the Republican Party has been effectively turned over to the rioters, including the 33 accused or adjudicated child abusers, child pornographers, rapists and other criminals among them." Links and subscriptions are free.

A new cartoon by Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire. All links and subscriptions are free at our Substack site. See more of his great cartoons in our archive! fightthefire.substack.com/p/get-in-lin...

New. All links/subscriptions are free. "Not even a letter from his mom is going to save Pete Hegseth in his escalating battle with Sen. Mark Kelly." As always, please read before commenting.

Free read* "We find Katie Miller, her hellhound husband Stephen and the imperialist imbecile squatting in our Oval Office every bit as loathsome as you do." *All links/subscriptions are free at Fight the Fire's Substack site. Please read the column before commenting here on Bluesky.

Free at Fight the Fire: Trump achieves the lowest ratings ever for Kennedy Center Honors. But, really, who – aside from MAGA cultists and, I dunno, federal prison guards – needs to see more of Donald Trump? All links/subscriptions are free. Please: Read before commenting.

New at Fight the Fire: "Maybe opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gets the presidency, despite her obvious failing (being female), if she offers to give Trump her Nobel Peace Prize to put next to his shiny new FIFA trophy?" All links/subscriptions are free. Please read before commenting.

Free read* "Boebert is not, to put it nicely, an intellectual powerhouse. Her wattage requires a decimal point and multiple zeros. But I have to wonder what’s on the minds of Republicans with higher IQs these days?" *All links/subscriptions are free at Fight the Fire. Please read before commenting

Free read. (All links/subscriptions free.) In a battle of the wits between House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and former special counsel Jack Smith, it’s pretty clear that in 10 out of 10 bouts the wrestling coach-turned-congressman from Ohio ends up pinned to the mat. Don't comment w/o reading.

A cartoon from Christopher Shields on Trump and Putin negotiating with Zelensky. Only at Fight the Fire. All links and subscriptions are free.

Free at Fight the Fire: "JD Vance did not disappoint. Right off, he let it be known that cretins like Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens should not be cast out, that MAGA needs every cretin it can get." All links and subscriptions are free at Fight the Fire. Give us a try!

New: "Surprisingly, the elaborate illustrations of Donald Trump’s latest vanity project – a class of battleships bearing his name – do not indicate the vessels will have an extra wiiiide stern, a bulging midship and a spacious but empty bow painted orange." All links and subscriptions are free.

Cold truth. Cartoon by Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire.

New from Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire. Click for the full view. All links and subscriptions are free at Fight the Fire.

New: "The insurrection failed. But it did succeed in one regard: Control of the Republican Party has been effectively turned over to the rioters, including the 33 accused or adjudicated child abusers, child pornographers, rapists and other criminals among them." Links and subscriptions are free.

New at Fight the Fire: "It defies reason and credibility that Trump was mentioned and shown so infrequently in Friday’s release by DOJ when he was all over documents and photos from the Epstein estate recently released by Democrats." All links and subscriptions are free.

New at Fight the Fire: Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite would not be proud. CBS caves (again) to Trump, this time over a story about a notoriously brutal Salvadoran prison used by the U.S. Please read before commenting. All links and subscriptions are free at Fight the Fire. Give us a look!

A look back to a February cartoon by Shields about our abandonment of Ukraine - "Democracy ya later." Nothing's changed.

New: "When I watched the video clip below for the first time, I hoped against hope I’d see a Saturday Night Live cast member step from the wings to signal it is satire. Alas, no, it’s just another day in the most surreal nightmare any of us have ever experienced." Free links/subscriptions.

New at Fight the Fire "No one of good intentions – and even, I suspect, many MAGA cultists – needs to be told Stephen Miller is a hateful little bastard. But it’s still important to pause and note what a hateful little bastard he is." All links/subscriptions are free. Please read before commenting

New. All links/subscriptions are free. "Not even a letter from his mom is going to save Pete Hegseth in his escalating battle with Sen. Mark Kelly." As always, please read before commenting.

Free read* "We find Katie Miller, her hellhound husband Stephen and the imperialist imbecile squatting in our Oval Office every bit as loathsome as you do." *All links/subscriptions are free at Fight the Fire's Substack site. Please read the column before commenting here on Bluesky.

At a NY Young Republican gala before Xmas: white nationalist leader Jared Taylor; an influencer who went viral recently for wearing blackface on Halloween; Markus Frohnmaier, a far-right German politician, and Vish Burra, fired at One America News for posting a video depicting Jews as cockroaches.

MISSING: One heavily fondled trophy, some light Cheeto-like stains. (202) 456-7041. Ask for Marco.

"Why any member of the military supports him is beyond comprehension. Donald Trump clearly thinks little of service members – despite his public chest-beating and flag-hugging." All links and subscriptions are free. If you're not familiar with us, please check us out.

"In an administration filled with people lacking self-awareness and any regard for individuals unlike themselves, ICE Barbie Kristi Noem still manages to distinguish herself. And her roving bands of masked people-bandits – well, they’re in a class all their own." All links/subscriptions are free.

New at Fight the Fire: Did he mention yet how wonderful he is? Our very stable genius is trying to slap his name and image everywhere. "Calling Donald Trump 'childish' really isn’t appropriate anymore. It’s an insult to children." All links/subscriptions are free.

The latest from Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire -- "Lonely Johnson." All links and subscriptions are free. Our payment is your company and your support as we all fight to end this nightmare.

New from Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire: Trump's next big renovation. All links and subscriptions are free at Fight the Fire. Check out more of Christopher's great work in our archives. And join us! We'd love the company.

New at Fight the Fire: Awww. Love, or something, is in the air in MAGA land. "This week, Donald Trump Jr. and Marjorie Taylor Greene announced they’re engaged, although – alas – not to each other. (Wouldn’t they be a fun couple? Coke and Bitters, table for two.)" A links/subscriptions are free.

New column at Fight the Fire: "If you were looking to rehabilitate your reputation, would you turn to the Steve Bannon, the human unmade bed, for assistance?" All links/subscriptions are free. (And, please, read before commenting.)

New: While being honored last week by the members of the Kennedy family who haven't lose their minds, Stephen Colbert urged us all to keep the faith that we'll emerge from this darkness. All links and subscriptions are free at Fight the Fire.

The latest from Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire: "You may kneel and approach the throne." All links and subscriptions are free at Fight the Fire.

Free link at Fight the Fire: "That’s right – the new civil rights cause is protecting the very group of folks whose most morally depraved members spent generations upon generations denying the civil rights of others." All links/subscriptions at our Substack site are free.

Free at Fight the Fire on Substack: The GOP health plan: Have you considered cremation? Or maybe just a rolled-up carpet in a ditch on a scenic rural road? A bid to extend ACA subsidies has failed. And the Republican alternative was ... Crapocare. All links/subscriptions free.

New at Fight the Fire: The moron-avirus pandemic. (All links/subscriptions free.) " ’Tis a pity that when we were distributing chips for Bill Gates through our covid vaccines, we didn’t add something to de-assholify participating MAGA while we were at it."

A new cartoon by Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire. All links and subscriptions are free at our Substack site. See more of his great cartoons in our archive! fightthefire.substack.com/p/get-in-lin...

New at Fight the Fire: "Maybe opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gets the presidency, despite her obvious failing (being female), if she offers to give Trump her Nobel Peace Prize to put next to his shiny new FIFA trophy?" All links/subscriptions are free. Please read before commenting.

A new song from the prolific and talented Jesse Welles: "All the masks are off and they don't even try they know that you know that they know and they don't even mind it all the masks are off and they're getting lazy they think yer so damn stupid they think yer so damn crazy."

Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social Caolan confronted Nick Shirley about his lies in Ukraine. He pretended there was no war.

Oooh, oooh! We're less than two months away from the Jan. 30 release of MELANIA, the elaborate Jeff Bezos bribe to the Trump family. Here's a look back at the joyous beginnings of a life story rarely told, mostly because no one cares. (Or believes will be honest.) All links/subscriptions are free.

Another new column at Fight the Fire: "I do hope an enterprising attorney somewhere is rallying the alcoholics around office to file a class-action defamation suit against Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles for saying her boss has 'an alcoholic’s personality.' " All links/subscriptions are free.

New from Jesse Welles, "The Department of War." "Well, there's a bloated inefficient bureaucratic mass Run by a mediocre soldier quasi-general ass. A diabolical office of death and waste run by a weekend anchor with a desperate rage."

I love this one from Billy Simon Jr., another unfamiliar name: "And when that grifter steps in shit, They lick his boots from heel to tip Or feel wrath of all of it. Praise Jesus Christ, amen, Cause now we’re great again."