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Tuesday Cartoons: Sleepy Trump

Posted: July 7, 2026 | Author: | Filed under: just because |Leave a comment

Hello, before we get to some news, check this out:

These colorful chromolithograph postcards by the Spanish cartoonist Pedro de Rojas reimagine the adventures of Don Quixote for the twentieth century. publicdomainreview.org/collection/p…

— JJ Lopez (@jjlopez1970.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T14:51:12.031Z

Here are a few postcards:

Now for some news:

To start off with,

If Mitch McConnell is dead, how will we be able to tell?

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T19:57:53.353Z

For what it's worth-Is someone keeping him on life support to run out the clock for a special election so repubs can keep the majority? That's what it looks like to me.

— ✨𝕊𝕒𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕒 – Teh-REDACT-all✨📎 (@samiamnurnot.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T21:37:23.808Z

I truly believe Mitch McConnell would be thrilled to know that his corpse is being used to try to screw the country one last time

— Jodaha (@jodaha225.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T22:25:37.208Z

It is INSANE that Senator Mitch McConnell is virtually brain dead in the hospital, and Republicans are content to leave it that way indefinitely.His wife is in China, just DAYS after he received CPR, so nobody with power of attorney?Something ain't right here

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T22:49:31.605Z

And out of Maine, I don’t understand why they didn’t demand this guy withdraw months ago…

Rep. Ro Khanna, who has campaigned for Platner in Maine, withdraws his endorsement and tells him to drop out:

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T21:30:08.593Z

Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have called on Graham Platner to "immediately withdraw"

— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T22:54:11.098Z

A woman who previously dated Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said he drunkenly forced her to have sex after she told him to stop, according to a Politico report released Monday. https://to.pbs.org/4aFVocC

— PBS News (@pbsnews.org) 2026-07-06T22:51:02.659498498Z

Next up:

Caving to MAGA hardliners, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the U.S. House will pass the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s massive voter suppression bill, “one more time” through a budget reconciliation process. http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T16:53:07.336Z

A federal appeals court declined Monday to put three DOJ voter roll appeals on the emergency timeline the department requested, slowing its push for sensitive voter data from Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island before a key federal deadline. http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T19:13:42.767Z

I'm not at all confident that we're killing actual drug dealers on these boats, in large part because I know that Trump doesn't care who he kills, he just wants something brag about.

— Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T22:26:42.128Z

This is a good summary of how the recent World Cup Trump scandal illustrates the nature of Trump’s thought process towards the rule of law in America.

July 6, 2026

— Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) 2026-07-07T06:55:27.807Z

The president of the United States pressuring the president of FIFA to change the rules for his favored player perfectly represents the way Trump thinks about the rule of law in the United States. And the rejection of a level playing field shows in the way Trump and the Republicans have skewed the U.S economy so only their team can win.

Read the entire article, she backs up her claim with receipts.

Cartoons via Cagle:

Enjoy the day, and stay safe.

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