On the eve of a government shutdown, here’s a memorable quote from tRump in 2013: “A shutdown falls on the president’s lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak.”

Jeff Tiedrich puts tRump’s tweet into focus: “ at the request of the cosplaying lady who perforates puppies for fun, our demented mad king has ordered the butt-dialing Fox News dunk-tank clown to invade an American city, and granted him the use of lethal force.” What can go wrong?🤪😂🤮😫 -Art by LeCocq

“When you order every general and admiral into one room with no agenda…you’re not solving problems…you’re flexing muscle…checking loyalty…and daring anyone to resist.” -Jack Hawkins on Hegseth’s “meeting”

“Free speech rarely vanishes in a single blow. It erodes until silence feels normal. Coming from a dictatorship, people like me are sharply attuned to these things. We can sense how freedoms are chipped away little by little.” -Li Yuan for The New York Times

“This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?” -senior diplomat at the UN texted during tRump’s speech

The date is set for the next big protest. Saturday, October 18th. NoKings.org Comment your events.

A statue of President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein holding hands mysteriously appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, September 23. The anonymous monument, billed as a cheeky tribute to the pair’s chummy alliance in recognition of Friendship Month. 😂

No Kings San Francisco update: New location is: March from Embarcadero Plaza to RALLY at Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco, CA, 94102 time is: Saturday, Oct 18, 2025, 12:00 PM - Saturday, Oct 18, 2025, 3:00 PM Pacific time

Two Water Lilies will be in my show “No Swamp, No Lotus” October 2 at DAG.

And get rid of the quack at the head of HHS:

Yep.

ABC just revealed that Jimmy Kimmel Live! is returning on Tuesday night after “thoughtful conversations” with parent company Disney. I think those “thoughtful conversations” involved all the $$$$$$$$ they were loosing in canceled subscriptions.😂

Today’s giggle: BURBANK (The Borowitz Report)—Hoping to stop the bleeding after millions boycotted its products, Disney announced on Monday that it was launching a new late-night comedy show on ABC starring Kash Patel…who earlier this month was replaced as FBI director by a startled deer…

The New Yorker has done it again; capturing tRump in full dictator mode:

Coming soon!

Today’s giggle:

Love it! I wish I subscribed just so I could cancel.😂

He needs to get Covid, go on a ventilator and fear for his life. It might knock some sense into him regarding vaccines.

"it's not about how long you stay in a place, but what you do while you're there, and, when you go, is that place any better for you having been there?" - Chris Stevens (Northern Exposure)

"Anyway, men have been running things for thousands of years, and what have we got to show for it - war, pollution, the S&L thing. And do they ever put the toilet seat down? NO! So what do we need them for?" - Maggie O'Connell (Northern Exposure)

"Maybe it’s not about the destination, you know? Maybe it’s about the journey. The journey’s where the good stuff happens." - Ed Chigliak (Northern Exposure)

"I think I’ve been living my life like it’s a movie, and I’m the only one who knows what’s going on." - Ed Chigliak (Northern Exposure)

“From internet memes to late-night comedians … Political satire … helps hold those in power accountable…Shutting down this type of political speech - especially at the urging of those targeted by its message - would represent a serious threat to our freedoms.” -Brendon Carr (when he had a brain)

Andy Borowitz on tRump’s War on Laughter: “In July, he applauded CBS’s cancellation of Stephen Colbert. Last night, he crowed about ABC yanking Jimmy Kimmel, and warned Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers that they could be next. Soon, the only comedian left on TV will be Karoline Leavitt.”

“The amount of cowardice being shown by the corporate media is galling If the press won’t fight for the First Amendment, who will?” -Dan Pfeiffer

NIJ research on domestic terrorism: www.scribd.com/document/918...

ABC, Nexstar, Disney and CBS…what weenies. Must boycott. Jimmy Kimmel, Steven Colbert, who’s next? South Park? Probably. This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well.

MEMPHIS (The Borowitz Report)—Abandoning their customary black vests and masks, ICE agents have gone undercover in Memphis, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed on Wednesday. Noem defended her department’s expenditure of $85,000 to outfit the agents in sequined jumpsuits…necessary to blend in. 😂

I cannot believe they allowed that man into power not once but twice. With all the mechanisms in place to stop him - mechanisms that other countries would beg for. And they just let it happen. It is enraging and painful beyond measure and so many more will die before he is done.

"Some men improve the world only by leaving it." -Oscar Wilde Well said, Oscar

If the facts don’t fit your propaganda, just delete them. What a-holes.

😂LONDON (The Borowitz Report)—In an abrupt about-face, King Charles III of the United Kingdom announced on Monday that he was downgrading Donald J. Trump’s upcoming state visit to lunch with Prince Andrew. at a Pizza Express… “Maybe you two can reminisce about your good times with Jeffrey Epstein.”

Here is a chart created by Alex Nowrasteh of the right-wing Cato Institute: blue is left-wing political violence, and red is right-wing political violence, categorized by each decade from 1975 to now. I do see way more red violence…

“There’s this life to lead, why not live it as much as you can as long as you can?” -Robert Redford

“We have noticed that there are no ships in the ocean any more. that there’s like, no ships, when the first one we went— hundreds of boats. now there are no boats. I wonder why…” -bumbling idiot president Every triangle in the pic is a ship:

“The right claims to be concerned with free speech. But as we’ve seen the past week from the Trump regime down, the right will use all its power to silence speech they oppose.” -Dean Obeidallah

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

“Now, at last, we will have a home for the performing arts in our own nation's capital. “ -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, September 8,1971 at the opening of the Kennedy Center for the Arts “For the Arts”! Not vigils for right wing provocative agitators… why was that at the Kennedy Center?

My new show: www.gallery25.org

The incumbent president lost the election, tried to overturn the results, his supporters invaded government buildings in the nation’s capitol. A few months later, he was barred from seeking elective office. Prosecutors filed charges and he was sentenced to 27 years in prison. Brazil, not the US 😫

@dragonsofwales.bsky.social Lovely drawing by Andy Frazer of Wales. www.andyfrazer.com

Alarm: There is a bill, introduced by Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) in the US House of Representatives that could allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech. It is the new “thought police” by republicans.😡😫🤮

Remember that Kirk said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Supreme Court “is what your country looks like on critical race theory,” that former Vice President Kamala Harris was “the jive speaking spokesperson of equity,” and that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “was awful.” He was no saint.

I wonder how that non voter group feels right now… still think voting means nothing? How’s the grocery bill coming? Think perhaps you’ll get off the couch and go to the polls next election?

Coming soon:

My studio in Hyperallergic;

The Banksy mural’s erasure has now seemingly become part of the artwork itself, serving as an apt metaphor for the widespread government crackdowns on protests for Palestine around the world, as users pointed out. You can’t erase genocide.