Kevin Necessary
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Freelance editorial cartoonist. Illustrator. Cat dad. Aspiring padawan.
That Hondo Ohnaka is not at the top of this list is a crime. He had much better monologues than Luthen, and if he didn't, he'd still say he did.
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Robert Reich
6 days ago
It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
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Derf Backderf
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Mayor Mamdami's cartoonist wife. Good stuff! Nice to see one of "us" sneak into the halls of power.
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ILLUSTRATION | Ramaduwaji
https://www.ramaduwaji.com/illustration
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Goddammit. Editorial cartoonists do everything they can to *avoid* labels, and Mango Mussolini goes and does THIS.
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the Mountain Goats
6 days ago
They broke the republican supermajority in the Mississippi state senate respect to the organizers and power to the people
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Sandeep Bakshi
6 days ago
Let's not allow Mamdani's victory erase Ghazala Hashmi's hard-earned achievement in Virginia.
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Karla Ward
6 days ago
Exactly 👇👇👇
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Ed Markey
6 days ago
This is what happens when you don't agonize, but organize. This is people power.
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Brilliant!
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Ben Templesmith
6 days ago
Love this one.
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Derf Backderf
6 days ago
Evergreen post.
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Hey, JD. We don’t want your brother in Cincinnati. Which means we sure as shit don’t want you. Kick rocks, couchpumper. Stop fucking up our traffic and stay the hell away.
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God
6 days ago
Hi, I’m God. Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Thanks, God
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Matt Wuerker
6 days ago
The new format for presidential interviews....
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pxmolina
6 days ago
#USA
Today's cartoon is ready and available for you to view and share. (Which I hope you will do.) Please also consider subscribing if you haven't already. It helps me continue doing this work.
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People can’t afford healthcare. The orange thing behind the Resolute Desk is defying court orders and letting people starve. Just another day in The Greatest Country on Earth ™.
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This was my go at Peezy. Thanks to
@davewhamond.bsky.social
for suggesting that Clay's friends and fellow cartoonists draw the rascally rodent.
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Patricia Plonsker
7 days ago
VOTE, CINCINNATI!! This election is extremely important locally! We also have the unique national opportunity to tell JD Vance & his ilk to FUCK OFF by voting for re-election of Mayor Aftab Pureval & DEFEAT of Aftab’s opponent, Cory Bowman, JD Vance’s half brother. NAZIS YOU CANNOT HAVE OUR CITY!
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Khashoggi's Ghost
7 days ago
If Norah O'Donnell had wanted to do journalism, she would have asked him why it's OK for Texas but not for California. But, tbf, if she were going to do journalism, Trump wouldn't have agreed to be interviewed.
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Robert Reich
7 days ago
Open enrollment for ACA healthcare plans has started, and enrollees are seeing what their premium costs will be next year. Without subsidies, one couple will see their monthly costs increase from $495 to $2,168 — a 300% increase. This is what Democrats are fighting to prevent.
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paulpro
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@knecessary.bsky.social
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DioCyni
7 days ago
We should prepare a collection of cheap recipes for sick people and different illnesses. That will come handy.
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This may be the most adorable thing I’ve ever drawn. Stuff like this keeps me sane while fighting fascism.
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Millions of Americans now face double the uncertainty, as the Trump regime plays politics with SNAP benefits and health insurance premiums skyrocket. My latest cartoon on Pepperspectives with
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David Pepper
7 days ago
American Dilemma, by
@knecessary.bsky.social
It’s hard to fathom that we have a federal government that’s hell bent on both making people hungry and exploding their health costs, but that’s exactly where we are:
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Mark Hamill
10 days ago
What he said: 💯 🎯
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For every cartoon I draw, I usually draw 3-5 rough sketches. Here are October's roughs.
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October rough sketches
The cartoons that could have been
https://open.substack.com/pub/kevinnecessary/p/october-rough-sketches?r=7yhu6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Mueller, She Wrote
10 days ago
Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.
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David Pepper
10 days ago
How the newly gerrymandered Ohio House map tears apart two major Ohio cities…
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Voter Suppression 101
Ohio’s Horrible Map
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John (repeat1968) Buss
11 days ago
Happy Halloween
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Josh Sternberg
11 days ago
It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,”
@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social
speaking to
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A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail.
The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/31/larry-bushart-charlie-kirk-jail/
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Where two assholes shit:
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Matt Wuerker
11 days ago
New tricks and new treats in this week's Cartoon Carousel ---> Check out our new gallery
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...
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Mueller, She Wrote
11 days ago
FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."
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Alex Harrison
11 days ago
From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago: "He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”
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October is ADHD Awareness Month. I wrote a post about it a few weeks ago on Substack ... and then didn't publish it because I was scared. Because I don't like admitting that I struggle on a daily basis. But being scared is a shit reason to not do something.
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ADHD Awareness Month
I've been scared to post this
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This isn’t a costume. It’s a wardrobe.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Perfect response from
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here. Watch this.
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Always a pleasant surprise to be in Politico’s Cartoon Carousel.
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Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...
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Robert Reich
11 days ago
Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.
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Need some year-round spooky decor? I've got signed prints of Edgar Allen Poe-inspired illustrations in my Etsy store. Net profits will be donated to Cincinnati's Freestore Foodbank.
www.etsy.com/listing/1568...
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I'm donating net profits of all signed print sales to the Freestore Foodbank.
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The Washington Post
11 days ago
A retired police officer in Tennessee was arrested and put in jail after sharing a Facebook post about the killing of Charlie Kirk. After more than five weeks since the incident, he’s planning to sue, his attorney told The Post.
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A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail.
The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.
https://wapo.st/4qGZtUk
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The Tennessee Holler
11 days ago
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
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I'm selling signed prints of my latest cartoon on Etsy. Through this next week I'll donate net profits for this cartoon print and any other signed prints to Cincinnati's Freestore Foodbank.
www.etsy.com/listing/4396...
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Hank Hackensaw
11 days ago
Hey Cincinnati folks. Please show up to VOTE this Tuesday. A poor turnout always means some insufferable twat ends up on council or a judge's bench.
#cincinnati
#election
#vote
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Ann Telnaes
11 days ago
Speaker Mike Johnson's halloween costume: Weenie waiting for the Rapture
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/speaker-jo...
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