Thursday Cartoons: Peace on Earth

And that was a crazy 24 hours.

And also…

BREAKING: Justice Department fires Maurene Comey, the prosecutor who worked on the Epstein case and daughter of ex-FBI director.

The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2025-07-16T23:25:09.739Z

Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired Wednesday from her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan US Attorney’s office.

Politico (@politico.com) 2025-07-16T22:43:35.979Z

I never thought America would be taken down by a malignant, rapey clown

Pat Bagley (@bagleycartoons.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T17:52:20.045Z

He’s so desperate to change the subject off Epstein that he even lied about Coca-Cola.

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-07-16T23:20:14.754Z

I JUST DON'T WANT YOU LOOKING INTO THE FILES OF MY OLD BEST PAL, THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST AND CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER IN HISTORY, WHO I LET DIE IN MY CUSTODY. WHAT'S SO SUSPICIOUS ABOUT THAT?

LOLGOP (@thefarce.org) 2025-07-16T19:30:22.396Z

Protecting the right to offendanntelnaes.substack.com/p/protecting…

Ann Telnaes (@anntelnaes.bsky.social) 2025-07-16T23:12:16.462Z

Cartoons via Cagle:

Now pay close attention to this video:

If you can’t see that Instagram post watch the video here:

I never knew they were ushering the photographers into place and lowering the flag…all the while supposedly scrambling to protect Trump from an assassin! I call bullshit! It is fucking obvious the whole thing is a set up.

Y’all stay safe.


Tuesday Cartoons: Thief!

So…did you see the latest?

Trump kept FIFA Club World Cup trophy for himself – leaving champions Chelsea to lift a replicawww.independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

JJ Lopez (@jjlopez1970.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T00:11:08.667Z

What an asshole…

Cartoons via Cagle:

This is horrible…six months?

At a press conference Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott said that 97 people were missing from the Kerrville area. Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said the search for missing people could take up to six months, but setting a time estimate is difficult. bit.ly/4kFtsHZ

Texas Tribune (@texastribune.org) 2025-07-15T00:25:05.071Z

This:

Quick question. There are still almost as many troops in LA right now as there were at the end of Afghanistan.Why exactly? Also where are the mass deportations of white illegals, like from Russia?

Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) 2025-07-15T00:23:28.336Z

And it never ends:

Exclusive: The Trump administration has declared that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court, according to documents reviewed by The Post.

The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2025-07-15T00:19:53.843Z

Why do we even bother:

I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.

Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) 2025-07-14T20:10:39.984Z

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25…From Sotomayor's dissent:

Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-07-14T19:20:47.303Z

Stay safe out there in hell.


Sunday Cartoons: STFUDJT

So that dipshit sent this out yesterday:

Donald Trump now claims Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden created the Epstein Files and says we should stop asking questions and just trust Pam Bondi. He calls the Epstein documents “Radical Left inspired” and says his DOJ should focus on other things.

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-07-12T21:38:19.313Z

More from the cunt waffle in chief:

Long new post from Trump defending Pam Bondi and calling on his MAGA followers to stop going after her. He tells them to “not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”

Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T21:44:55.125Z

A few things are clear from this:1. Trump has lost control of the narrative.2. Trump is panicked about what is in the Epstein files.3. When the files get released, Trump will say they are forgeries.4. Trump is going to target Democrats with political prosecutions.

Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T21:34:01.063Z

He’s giving the go ahead to kill citizens standing up to ICE…

Nash Is Here for It (@nashishereforit.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T00:23:47.636Z

Ah, remember the good old days.

Today I am overwhelmed with the news, the horrible news from Trump and his tyrannical regime.

If you’re not white, or you have friends or loved ones who aren’t white, or you’re not a total sociopath and therefore care about fellow humans who aren’t white, you need to understand this regime thinks not being white is inherently suspect, and lots of your fellow Americans are fine with that.

Popehat’s Interests First (@kenwhite.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T15:47:56.633Z

🚨🚨🚨 Rep. Wasserman Schultz just toured “Alligator Alcatraz” and came out shaking: “It’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.”We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.

Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T21:34:12.113Z

We intentionally did not put Rosie in the headline because this is not about Rosie O’Donnell it’s about everyone

Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T16:41:13.380Z

"I don’t care if Clinton is in the Epstein files. I don’t care if any Democrats are on the client list. I don’t care if any progressives are on the client list… You know why? Because I'm not in a cult."charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/i-dont-car…

Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T02:33:27.973Z

WaPo: purchased and gutted to pump propaganda by an oligarch.LA Times: purchased and gutted to pump propaganda by an oligarch. CNN: gutted and pushing propagandaMSNBC: being actively gutted and spun offCBS News: being purchased by an oligarch's failson and set up to push propaganda.

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2025-07-11T19:48:21.607Z

More cartoons on Tuesday…take care of yourselves and be safe.


Wednesday Reads: The Big Beautiful Obituary

So this cartoon just seemed to tickle my fancy…I thought it was hilarious.

Boston Boomer and I switched days, so you will get a double dose of cartoons today.

In fact let’s get down to it, via Cagle:

Now for a few news items:

Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-08T14:06:46.629Z

That is outrageous…what a huge cuntwaffle!

The panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" was shocked when they learned that President Donald Trump's Department of Defense kept him in the dark when they halted a shipment of weapons destined for Ukraine last week.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2025-07-09T10:11:01Z

This is the ballgame, folks. A majority of the Supreme Court are Trump's eager henchmen. He has free rein. "In a brief unsigned order on Tuesday, it said Trump's administration was "likely to succeed on its argument that the executive order" and a memorandum implementing his order were lawful."

digby (@digby56.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T21:33:42.166Z

New: Texas officials estimate 161 people are missing after floods as death toll rises to 109

Texas Tribune (@texastribune.org) 2025-07-08T21:37:43.282Z

Grok says Elon Musk tweaked the AI to "dial down the woke filters" and now it is apparently a full-blown Nazi

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-07-08T21:26:48.045Z

CBP SECTOR CHIEF GREG BOVINO TO LA RESIDENTS: “We don’t work for Karen Bass… better get used to us now, this is going to be normal very soon.”🤔If it quacks like Martial Law… How long til Cali folks move to stop funding this with their tax dollars?

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T16:00:56.903Z

This is one of the first dramatic "rubber meets the road" demonstrations of what anyone who knows the *mechanics of modern governance* has been warning about.—A fed agency that *exists* to measure, forecast, and warn about unsafe water levels.—Roster of that agency shows mass purges via DOGE

James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T20:42:36.816Z

Trump is mentally unfit to be president. He shows us that every day.

Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T21:32:08.174Z

ok lmao which one of you did this mamdanitimes.com

molly taft (@mollytaft.com) 2025-07-08T17:16:03.664Z

That is all I can take…stay safe.


Tuesday Cartoons: Enough of these assholes.

Damn, all this shit is just too much for me…I can’t watch the news anymore, even Maddow on Mondays. So I will just share some BlueSky post and a few cartoons…

See, this is -why- you hire meteorologists, sir.

Josh Mankiewicz (@joshmankiewicz.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T19:49:01.047Z

Trump is so full of shit.

Death toll from flash floods in central Texas rises to at least 94; several people still unaccounted for

BNO News (@bnonews.com) 2025-07-07T19:51:13.221Z

This disaster in Texas is nothing new, it has happened before…and at a church campground no less.

This has happened before: in 1987… The 1987 Guadalupe Flood is unfortunately known for the tragic loss of 10 teenagers lives and 33 other injuries when a bus and van leaving a church camp encountered the flood waterswww.weather.gov/ewx/wxevent-…

JJ Lopez (@jjlopez1970.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T19:49:14.439Z

It has happened before: In 1987…at a church camp…Thirty-three people were plucked from the river and lived, but 10 teenagers diedwww.kvue.com/article/news…

JJ Lopez (@jjlopez1970.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T19:39:22.820Z

Texas Hill Country is often colloquially referred to as "Flash Flood Alley" because the weather and landscape in the south-central Texas region work together to produce rapid flood eventsabcnews.go.com/US/history-f…

JJ Lopez (@jjlopez1970.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T23:45:30.232Z

And even with all this past flash flooding history, these people refused to implement a warning system.

Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System

From this gift link via the New York Times:

Kerr County had discussed buying such things as water gauges and sirens after previous flood disasters. But as with many rural Texas counties, cost was an issue.

Eight years ago, in the aftermath of yet another river flood in the Texas Hill Country, officials in Kerr County debated whether more needed to be done to build a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River.

A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way.

But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications tools. “We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this whole thing is not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County commissioner at the time.

In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some residents and were dismissed or unseen by others.

The rural county of a little over 50,000 people, in a part of Texas known as Flash Flood Alley, contemplated installing a flood warning system in 2017, but it was rejected as too expensive. The county, which has an annual budget of around $67 million, lost out on a bid at the time to secure a $1 million grant to fund the project, county commission meeting minutes show.

As recently as a May budget meeting, county commissioners were discussing a flood warning system being developed by a regional agency as something that they might be able to make use of.

But in a recent interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said that local residents had been resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” he said, adding that he didn’t know if people might reconsider now.

If they didn’t make any changes in the situation before, do you think they will now? Remember after Newtown, they said all those children killed, surely they will make changes to gun laws now…

According to a transcript from a Kerr County Commissioners’ Court meeting in 2017, officials discussed how even with additional water level sensors along the Guadalupe River, the county would still need a way to alert residents if water levels were rising dangerously fast.

Sirens, which are used across Texas to alert residents about tornadoes, were considered by county officials as a way to alert people who live along the river about any flooding.

“With all the hills and all, cell coverage is not that great in some areas in Hill Country,” Mr. Moser said, adding that a series of sirens might have provided people in vulnerable areas sufficient time to flee.

Mr. Moser retired as a commissioner of Kerr County in 2021. But he said this week’s flooding there should be taken as a warning.

“I think there’s going to be a lot of places in the United States that will look at this event that happened in Kerr County and determine what could be done,” Mr. Moser said. “I think things should come out of this. It should be a lesson learned.”

It is always, a lesson learned…what a load of shit. Fuck these assholes. None of these dick whistle fuck wads give a shit.

Read the rest at the link.

Meanwhile in California:

Border patrol now sweeping the park

Mel Buer (@melbuer.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T17:48:27.909Z

MacArthur Park has had its problems over the years, but it's undeniably a safe space for immigrant communities. Targeting it is a clear message. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u…

Ryan Mac 🙃 (@rmac.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T02:35:46.653Z

Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government.After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T23:00:59.188Z

Frankly this feels like a show of force in many ways. CBP has their own press guys here, lots of their own folks taking photos of bystanders

Mel Buer (@melbuer.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T17:58:24.801Z

Making Gestapo videos I’m sure.

Karoli (@karoli.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T00:15:44.152Z

CBP horses now walking up to Wilshire at MacArthur Park and staging on the corner of Wilshire and Alvarado here in Los Angeles

Mel Buer (@melbuer.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T17:53:09.356Z

Mayor Bass has arrived to the sweep

Mel Buer (@melbuer.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T18:07:29.316Z

After Bass spoke with what I assume is a DHS rep, they packed shit up and headed out. The whole neighborhood turned out to chase them out of the park. Some fruit was thrown, alot of yelling

Mel Buer (@melbuer.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T18:29:14.414Z

This is all fucking disturbing.

More cartoons tomorrow…please be safe. This is an open thread.