Thursday Political Cartoons: Artemis Too

Screenshot from the NASA Artemis II launch livestream showing the core stage separation from a camera on the rocket.

Isn’t that amazing?

At least that was a positive unifying experience from yesterday.

I want to share a couple more items on the moon mission:

What a lovely rebuke to all the "Government Can Never Do a Better Job than Private Industry" clowns in the GOP, given all of Elon's embarrassing failures and expensive explosions.

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T23:09:46.956Z

This exceeds the number of public toilets available in New York City

Matt Zoller Seitz (@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T23:22:25.081Z

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

Shipwreck (@shipwreck75.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T23:53:31.926Z

Some crazy ass Trump quotes:

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T20:48:23.938460581Z

Trump: "She's moved education back to the states. And you need congressional approval. I said, 'Don't worry about it. Just do it.' She did it."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-01T22:49:59.700Z

Trump: "NATO won't be there if we have the big one…NATO treated us very badly and you have to remember it because they'll be treating us badly again if we ever need them."

The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-04-01T23:04:46.371Z

Trump: “We’re not supposed to be seduced that way, right? But I am. When somebody’s nice to me, I love that person. Even if they’re bad people. I couldn’t care less, I’ll fight to the end for them.”

Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) 2026-04-02T00:32:10.876Z

About the speech last night:

Dow futures down 400 points since The Speech

David Faris (@davidfaris.bsky.social) 2026-04-02T03:21:54.882Z

Cartoons via Cagle website:

And that’s it for today…stay safe out there.


8 Comments on “Thursday Political Cartoons: Artemis Too”

  1. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:

    "The Secretary of Defense is a disgraced major that was kicked out of the DC National Guard."

    Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) 2026-04-02T01:00:40.25429232Z

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:

      Yeah, he’s firing the women first. Notice that?

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:

      https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2026/04/02/bye-bye-bondi-00856117

      BULLETIN: Pam Bondi is out as attorney general, President Donald Trump announced just after 1 p.m.

      Bondi’s dismissal marks the second ouster from Trump’s beleaguered Cabinet ranks in as many months. Todd Blanche will step in to serve as acting AG, Trump said. Blanche thanked Trump and praised Bondi in a statement posted on X.

      “We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future,” Trump said in his post on Truth Social.

      Bondi’s firing follows reporting last night that Trump was considering replacing her with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Bondi had a fraught tenure as the country’s top law enforcement official. She faced bipartisan backlash over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files (for which she’s been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee) and apparent frustration from Trump himself over her failure to successfully prosecute his political enemies. More from POLITICO’s Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein

      Dems remain eager to hold her feet to the fire over the Epstein saga: “She will not escape accountability and remains legally obligated to appear before our Committee under oath,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top House Oversight Democrat, said in a statement. “She must answer for her mishandling of the Epstein files and the special treatment she has given Ghislaine Maxwell. … If they think we are moving on because they were fired, they are gravely mistaken.”

      Not all her Republican colleagues are shedding tears. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), another vocal critic of the administration’s conduct surrounding the Epstein files, said in a statement that Bondi handled the files in a “terrible manner” and “seriously undermined” Trump, adding she welcomes a new AG coming in to pick up the pieces.

  2. Mama Lopez's avatar Mama Lopez says:

    and there it is:

    The president's former personal lawyer taking over in a position he views as his personal lawyer.

    Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) 2026-04-02T17:04:03.692Z

  3. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:

    BB: Thought you might be interested in this from Lafayette, LA.

    https://thecurrentla.com/2026/in-cajun-country-mass-deportation-is-personal/

    In Cajun Country, mass deportation is personal

    “Last weekend, people came out to protest the Trump administration in Lafayettes across the U.S., from Colorado to Indiana. But in Cajun country, the Trump administration’s immigration policy especially has hit a nerve with some who see it as an affront to the region’s deep immigrant roots.

    “The ancestors of people who are Cajun would be rolling over in their graves to think that Cajuns would be supporting mass deportation,” says Claire Dawkins, a Lafayette native who attended Saturday’s No Kings rally at Downtown Lafayette’s Prejean Unity Point with her parents and children. “It goes against our culture, our values.”

    The story of that culture itself begins with an exodus, a scattering. 

    In 1755, Acadian families were driven from their homes in what is now Nova Scotia, dispersed across the globe during Le Grand Dérangement. Many of them made their way to Louisiana, where generations later the memory of displacement still lingers.

    In South Louisiana, the expulsion has lived on as a story: one passed down through family histories, music, folklore and tradition, where themes of identity and belonging appear again and again. In the current political climate, that collective memory is more than just history for some in Acadiana: It’s a lens for what’s happening, and it’s shaping their response today.

    Kara St. Clair, a Lafayette native living in New Orleans, says she’d been looking for a way to represent her heritage in opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration policies. When the Department of Homeland Security announced Operation Catahoula Crunch late last year, she quickly pulled together a design and posted it online.  

    Since then, she says, she’s received close to a thousand orders. Simple in design, T-shirts and buttons read “Cajuns Against Mass Deportation since 1755” with two words in French below it, “réveillez” and “résistez” — wake up and resist.

    “When I was really young, it was kind of embarrassing to embrace your Cajun identity, and I’ve seen that change over the years,” St. Clair says. “


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