Thursday Cartoons:Dis-em-BARKING

Barking is right! Seriously, doesn’t Trump look like a rabid animal in that picture above?

Order came down around 2 am

A lot of shit has gone down…here’s a bunch of BlueSky post to catch you up:

Starting with a round-up by Heather.

Kings grant privileges. Constitutions grant rights. The difference is stark. And un-American. Today, a Judge held a hearing on whether the press can still criticize the president. Here’s what happened: joycevance.substack.com/p/king-trump…

Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) 2026-09-24T04:34:29.913Z

Republican senator calls bribery allegation ‘categorically false’ as ProPublica reports Trump derailed FBI inquiry

Guardian US (@us.theguardian.com) 2026-09-23T22:07:41.610Z

Embattled Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins isn't happy that Vice President JD Vance announced the Trump administration is booting close to 760,000 Americans off Obamacare exchanges about 40 days before this fall's midterm elections.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-09-23T22:20:47Z

#181/2026U.S. Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME] allegedly steered $32M in Navy contracts to a defense contractor after he secretly funneled $150k through a shell company to a super PAC supporting her 2020 reelection bid.She was spared only because Trump came in and conveniently made the probe disappear.

Republican Crimes Tracker (@gopcrimes.bsky.social) 2026-09-23T19:51:54.875Z

Trump winces in pain during the loud military flyover as Xi shows no reaction

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-09-23T22:24:52.384Z

Both WaPo and @oliverdarcy.bsky.social are reporting that one of the stories the WH claims they banned Politico for was based off a background briefing (that is, they're complaining Politico reported what WH told them to). Darcy makes it clear JD was the background briefer in this case.

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) 2026-09-23T21:51:30.510Z

NEWS @status.news: The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance.The full story:www.status.news/p/white-hous…

Jon Passantino (@passantino.bsky.social) 2026-09-23T21:38:56.623Z

So Vance was the anonymous source on this ?

JJ Lopez (@jjlopez1970.bsky.social) 2026-09-23T23:39:31.559Z

Trump has now got the US economy on the same track as his Atlantic City casinos.

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-09-23T19:18:34.899Z

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration will start using passport records as it hunts for noncitizens on the voter registration rolls, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a filing Tuesday evening. http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…

Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2026-09-23T17:06:01.418Z

BREAKING: In a loss for Ohio voters, the 6th Circuit greenlit a state law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.Ohioans must now show proof of citizenship when registering to vote at the BMV before the midterms.

Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2026-09-23T21:57:55.780650287Z

In a country with no single, standardized system to prove citizenship, the new requirement could prevent thousands of voters who register at the BMV while applying for a driver's license from doing so and ultimately voting.Read the full story:

Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2026-09-23T22:26:14.713Z

BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".

The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2026-09-23T20:02:19.866Z

Administration is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one US territory

Guardian US (@us.theguardian.com) 2026-09-23T22:31:05.229Z

EIon Musk’s Wealth2009: $.6B2026: $984BJeff Bezos’s Wealth2009: $6B2026: $370BMark Zuckerberg’s Wealth2009: $.6B2026: $256BFederal Minimum Wage2009: $7.252023: $7.25Billionaire tax rate: 8.2%Worker tax rate: 13%Pay workers.Tax & Abolish Billionaires.Save our economy & country.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) 2026-09-23T19:50:15.728Z

Cartoons via Cagle:

Look what happens to Dershowitz, post Epstein files:

The DOJ attorney who's defending Trump's media ban in court is a big fan of Adolf Hitler.

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2026-09-23T22:30:25.682Z

NEW: 8 sailors aboard the Lincoln attempted suicide per a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Congress. That is “incredibly high”. http://www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p…

Allison Gill (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-09-23T21:55:23.035Z

Republican Minnesota state auditor candidate (and quack doctor) Scott Jensen: "We almost have to go back to, what did medicine look like to the pioneer days in America?"

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-09-23T21:55:18.042Z

So Peter Byrne, lead singer of Naked Eyes died. Their music meant so much to me, especially the songs below. I never had cable in my house when I was growing up. (Well, even as an adult.) So that meant I never saw MTV and the videos. But these are really cool.

This one hurts:Peter Byrne, the singer and songwriter for the band Naked Eyes who scored 1980s hits with “Always Something There to Remind Me” and “Promises, Promises,” died peacefully in Los Angeles, California, on Monday, September 14, after a brief illness. He was 74.deadline.com/2026/09/pete…

JJ Lopez (@jjlopez1970.bsky.social) 2026-09-23T22:20:37.052Z

Take care and be safe…

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