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Cartoon

Donald Trump Counts on Republicans To Excuse His Bad Behavior

DonkeyHotey 07/28/25

Trump has learned that his fellow Republicans are eager to accept and excuse his most vile conduct directed at the most vulnerable members of our society.

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Culture

Poems: Doom Scroll

Gerald Jonas 07/27/25
Jared Moskowitz, holds, Trump Epstein Poster
US Politics

By Tripping Up Trump, Jeffrey Epstein’s Miserable Life Could Serve a Purpose

Klaus Marre 07/27/25
First Amendment, free speech; employment rights, school discipline; social media censorship;
Cartoon Rights & Liberties

Speak Your Mind

Ted Rall 07/27/25
Painting, assassination, Julius Caesar, George Clint, 1822
US Politics

Speak, Words, for Me: The Fall of Caesar and the Tyranny of Trump

Jonathan D. Simon 07/26/25

Justice

Ghislaine Maxwell mug shot
Criminal Justice

Trump Refuses to Rule Out Pardoning Epstein Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell

Klaus Marre 07/25/25

In the context of Donald Trump not being worried about being implicated in the Epstein files, what he said today would be bizarre. In any other context, it makes a whole lot of sense.

Stephen Miller, State Dining Room, White House
Courts Immigration

Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Indiscriminate Arrests of Brown People in LA

Klaus Marre 07/12/25
US Supreme Court, rejects, ExxonMobil, request, end citizen lawsuits
Courts Environment

Supreme Court Denies Exxon Request to Get Rid of Citizen Lawsuits

Emily Sanders 07/08/25

International

Ishmael Toroama, funeral march, Bougainville
International

Bougainville’s Long Goodbye to Colonialism

Theophile Simon
Drone, training exercise, Kyiv, Ukraine
Technology

Technological Warfare: Introducing AI to Killer Drones in Ukraine

Stefan Weichert
Lesia Goffman, drone operator, Ukraine
Ukraine

From Prison to the Front: Ukrainian Women Prisoners Join the Fight

Joseph Roche
Jair Bolsonaro
International

Trump Goes Full Mobster on Brazil

Klaus Marre

Environment

Exhausted dairy calf
Environment

Extreme Heat Has Animals Trapped in a Climate Doom Loop

Gaea Cabico 07/24/25

Nearly all farm animals in the US are confined in industrial operations that lack adequate space, ventilation, or cooling systems.

Palisades Fire, Los Angeles
Economy Environment

US Socked With 15 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters During the 1st Half of 2025

Jeff Masters 07/22/25
Protestors, Doug Burgum, Santa Fe
Environment US Politics

Nature Is ‘Not for Sale’

Priyanka Kumar 07/17/25

Elections

Fight for $15, demonstration, Milwaukee, 2016
Elections

The GOP Is Working Overtime to Take the People Out of Democracy

Klaus Marre
Jaynie Parrish, Executive Director of Arizona Native Vote, Our Vote is Our Power, Natives Vote
Elections

Embrace the Suck: Words of Wisdom From the Front Line of the Fight for Democracy

Lulu Friesdat
Brian P. Kemp, Jerusalem
Elections

Forget the Polls and the Looming Recession — Here Is a Sign Trump Is in Trouble

Klaus Marre
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Fight Oligarchy
Elections

Democrats Who Aren’t Fighting Trump Now Need Not Apply in 2028

Klaus Marre

One Small Thing

Workers, install, Alligator Alcatraz, sign

One Small Thing: No One Is Alone

Darlena Cunha
Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, Law Library stacks

One Small Thing: Remember, People Matter

Darlena Cunha
Ron DeSantis, Fruitless Efforts, HB 1205

One Small Thing: Use Your Efforts to Help People

Darlena Cunha
Old Colorado City Library

One Small Thing: Stand Up for Our Institutions

Darlena Cunha

Immigration

Stephen Miller, State Dining Room, White House
Courts

Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Indiscriminate Arrests of Brown People in LA

Klaus Marre 07/12/25

A federal judge ruled on Friday night that the Trump administration has to stop its practice of indiscriminately rounding up Hispanic people in Los Angeles. 

Deportation, Immigrants, Plane
Immigration

After Sowing Fear, Trump Pitches Self-Deportation Plan Based on Trust

Klaus Marre 05/10/25
Terrorism Confinement Center Tecoluca, CECOT, Tecoluca, El Salvador
Immigration Rights & Liberties

Trump Administration Escalates Campaign Against ‘Maryland Man’

Klaus Marre 04/17/25

Economy

Palisades Fire, Los Angeles
Economy

US Socked With 15 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters During the 1st Half of 2025

Jeff Masters
Jerome Powell, FOMC, Washington, DC
Economy

Trump’s Plan to Fire Federal Reserve Chairman Powell Comes Into Focus

Klaus Marre
Donald Trump, signs, executive orders, Oval Office
Economy

The Trump Tariff Circus Is Back

Klaus Marre
bloody, butcher’s knife
Economy

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill: Where It Came From, What It Does

William Dowell

Health & Medicine

Medicaid, SoonerCare, TennCare, CardinalCare, MassHealth, BadgerCare+, Apple Health,
Health & Medicine US Politics

Medicaid: Millions Have It, and Don’t Even Know It

Sean Ogden

What will they do when they find out? Turns out “socialized medicine” was keeping them alive — until the GOP cut it.

COVID-19, pandemic, September 11, Donald Trump, George Bush
Health & Medicine US Politics

A Tale of Two Crises: What We Learned and Didn’t Learn From 9/11 and COVID

Doug Ecks 06/12/25
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sworn in, HHS Secretary
Health & Medicine US Politics

RFK Jr. Isn’t Bothered by Measles

Paul Offit 05/14/25
medicaid, protester
Health & Medicine US Politics

GOP’s Reconciliation Bill Would Boot 8.6 Million Americans Off Medicaid

WhoWhatWhy Staff 05/12/25
Microplastics
Environment Health & Medicine

What Are the Health Impacts of Plastic?

Neha Pathak 05/09/25

Podcast

Ronald Reagan, William F Buckley, 1986

The Ghost in the Machine: How William F. Buckley Birthed Today’s Extreme Right

Jeff Schechtman
Politics, arguing, discussion

Debate Doesn’t Matter

Jeff Schechtman
Protest march in Tehran, Iran.

Iran’s Final Gambit

Jeff Schechtman
William Dowell, Greg Dobbs, James M. Dorsey.

When The World Was Their Beat

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

Donald Trump, 5th Avenue, rape girl

Donald Trump Counts on Republicans To Excuse His Bad Behavior

DonkeyHotey
First Amendment, free speech; employment rights, school discipline; social media censorship;

Speak Your Mind

Ted Rall
Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, 5th Avenue

Wisdom From Beyond

Jon Richards

Editors' Picks

climate crisis, global warming, greenhouse gases, carbon, forests

Forests Are Sucking Up Much Less Carbon Today

Whowhatwhy Editors
Donald Trump, hacked, digital skull

Saturday Hashtag: #TrumpCyberSabotage

Sean Ogden
tech, Google, AI, publishers, traffic, doomsday clock

Publishers Race Against Google Zero Doomsday Clock

Whowhatwhy Editors
science, nature, songbirds, plumage, vibrancy, optical trick

Songbirds Play Optical Tricks to Make Their Plumage ‘Pop’

Whowhatwhy Editors
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