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(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(Jeff Stahler, gocomics.com)
(Nick Anderson, Raw Story)
(Jack Ohman, Tribune Content Agency)
(David Horsey, The Seattle Times)
(John Branch, King Features)
(John Darkow, Columbia Missourian)
(Michael de Adder, The Contrarian, Canada)
(Jimmy Margulies, King Features)
(Dave Whamond, caglecartoons.com, Canada)
(Ivan Ehlers, @ivan_ehlers; context here)
"... When I look at Donald Trump as a person, I see a failed real estate guy from Queens with a lot of natural showman talent, whose obviously poor physical condition is covered by terrible, ill-fitting suits and a lot of makeup. When I listen to him I hear incoherent bluster and self-absorbed whining. None of this makes me experience him as strong. [snip]
"We are at war now, a war that is transparently one of a series of masculinity contests. Our American strongman is strong because he is stronger than the other strongmen. He can abduct Maduro. He can assassinate Khamenei. He is performing relative strength, at huge cost to others.
"It’s another question, of course, as to whether any of this makes the United States stronger. The use of force in this way is obviously illegal in terms of both international and domestic law. Breaking international and domestic institutions will tend to make the United States as a country weaker rather than stronger.
"But the people who support the war in Iran seem to be those who already believed that the president is strong. They accept the performance of strength, even as it is humiliating to them, because it goes against what the president himself had promised them -- no more wars, nor more wars in the Middle East, no more forever wars..." -- Timothy Snyder, in his "Thinking About..." Substack, before discussing the reasons for his followers' belief that the Malignant Fascist is a strongman and why it's based in "the law of transitivity." There's a hockey analogy involved in Snyder's thesis, but we won't spoil it for you -- please read the entire post.
The disloyal and corrupt Malignant Fascist cut loose one of his own today, just one day after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi "ICE Barbie" Noem's disastrous two days of testimony in front of Senate and House Judiciary committees. Apparently the final straw was her claim the the MF approved her narcissistic video that cost $220 million to promote herself (we're sure her non-response to the question of whether she and sick bastard Corey Lewandowski were spending a lot of sexy time together didn't help). Presumably, Noem's paramour will follow her out the door at DHS. From NPR:
"Noem, who was formerly South Dakota's governor, had been at the forefront of Trump's efforts to carry out mass deportations. Following her confirmation, she quickly became the face of the administration's immigration agenda — making multimillion dollar ads urging people to self deport, conducting press conferences around the country touting deportation numbers and conducting international visits geared at promoting Trump's vision.
She is the highest-profile departure in recent weeks at the agency. Madison Sheehan, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement deputy director, left her post at the start of the year to run for Congress. Top agency spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin left her role last month.
At the start of her second year on the job, Noem faced bipartisan criticism over her leadership of an immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, where she deployed 3,000 officers and two U.S. citizens were killed." (our emphasis)
Rule one in MAGAland: don't outdo the MF in terms of self-promotion. Rule two: don't finger the MF for a costly ad campaign when he (allegedly) had not approved it. Rule three: don't bang your subordinate and lie about it (although that's probably the least of the MF's problems with Noem).
The bad news is that the MF is naming blockhead MAGAt Sen. Markwayne Mullin (OK) to replace her. He's equally incompetent to run the Department of Homeland Security, so this should be a continuing shit show. Fortunately for him, he won't need to undergo multiple surgeries, injections, treatments, etc., to achieve Noem's Mar-a-Lago face, which turned out to be all for naught.
(photo: Sexy time couple Kristi and office husband Corey in happier times)
Operation Epic Epstein Fury's a costly one, but if the diversion works.... --
Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social) March 4, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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While we all watch Iran…
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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High tech murder. But congrats AI tech bros and your clients in the Malignant Fascist's regime --
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) March 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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Whiskey Pete Hegseth's "warriors" sink defenseless Iranian navy ship. USA USA USA! --
A little reported fact is that the Iranian frigate destroyed 2000 miles from the combat zone was carrying ZERO AMMUNITION (a condition of the exercise it was invited to participate in). The ship was, by any definition, defenceless. Much like the 80+ sailors left to drown. Infamy.
— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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The tribulations of corrupt and reckless ICE Barbie. Also, "You're fired!" --
get a load of Kristi Noem's facial expressions as Rep. Kamlager-Dove enters articles in the congressional record with headlines like, "Lewandowski taking out trash at Noem's DC home" and "ICE Barbie's mile high private chamber with alleged lover exposed"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 5, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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NEW: Trump has quietly asked Hill Republicans if he should fire Kristi Noem. Even Mike Johnson speculated about the potential for a change at the top of DHS during a recent Republican leadership retreat.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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Half of Americans back abolishing ICE amid Trump crackdown, poll finds www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
— Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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The scammer-in-chief strikes again. He's keeping Maria Machado's Nobel Peace Prize too --
And yet so many Venezuelan-Americans, especially in South FL, vote Republican because they believed Trump was going to topple the Maduro regime. Like so many other groups, they’ve been scammed by the ultimate con man.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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Our broken Beltway media, bowing to the failing Malignant Fascist. Remember this betrayal --
Wrote about this: www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) March 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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The MF clearly wants to rig the 2026 mid-terms: you're "everything else" --
“At the expense of everything else” means you
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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Warning to corporate, capitulating Dems --
Centrists should brace themselves for Democrats who are fed up with their capitulation, Reagan-lite economics and morality-blind foreign policy. Times up. Corporate Dems failed the country. Time to return to the roots of the party and tap into the energy of young voters who have a different vision.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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A shocking display of catitude! --
NSFW: Station manager shocks commuters by showing up to work in tie but no trousers.
— Cats with Jobs ⚒️ (@catworkers.bsky.social) March 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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The spineless Republican MAGAt- led Senate voted yesterday to let the Malignant Fascist have a free hand in his Operation Epic Epstein Fury war on Iran:
A resolution to require President Trump to seek congressional approval for any further action in Iran failed to advance in the Senate, five days after the U.S. and Israel launched a military campaign against the Iranian regime.
The vote was 47-53, largely along party lines. If passed, the resolution would have blocked further U.S. military action in Iran without congressional approval under the 1973 War Powers Act. That legislation passed during the Vietnam War to give Congress a legal check on executive war authority. The 1973 act also requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying U.S. forces into hostilities and to end the deployment within 60 days unless Congress authorizes or extends it.
The House is expected to vote on a similar measure on Thursday.
Democrats argue that Congress needs to reassert its authority to declare war and rein in President Trump's ability to act unilaterally, with some senators calling the strikes illegal.
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who serves on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, is among the Democrats pushing for Congress to restrain Trump from further action.
"Trump is lying to the American people as he launches an illegal, regime-change war against Iran," Van Hollen said in a statement released ahead of the vote. "This is endangering American lives and has already resulted in mass civilian casualties. This is not making us safer and only damages the U.S. and our interests."...
One Republican, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), voted with Democrats and one nominal Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman (?-PA), voted with Republicans. (We have to wonder again what kompromat is being held over Fetterman and/or his immigrant wife, and/or what damage was done to his brain from the strokes he suffered to turn a Bernie Sanders- endorsed progressive into the party's current Sinemanchin.)
The House vote today is expected to fail in the MAGAt Republican-controlled House.
(Photo: MAGAt Republican Sens. Barrasso (WY), Thune (SD), and Scott (SC) yesterday / Scott Applewhite, AP)
Democrat members of the House Judiciary Committee raked incompetent, cosplaying, malicious, and married Homeland Security Secretary Kristi "ICE Barbie" Noem over the coals yesterday, asking specifically about her (alleged!) sexual relationship with corrupt, violent, and married enforcer Corey Lewandowski, who serves as her "special Government employee." The dramatic moment came when Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) asked Noem the question hovering over the hearing room:
"'At any time during your tenure, as director of Department of Homeland Security, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?' Kamlager-Dove asked Noem.
Noem did not explicitly deny or say 'no' to the question. Instead, she became defensive in her reaction."
ICE Barbie proceeded to attack Kamlager-Dove for bringing what she called "tabloid garbage" into the hearing, yet she neither replied "yes" or "no" to the question. Perhaps she dodged knowing that there could be evidence of a sexual relationship with her and her "special Government employee" and she didn't want to risk perjuring herself. We posted on their relationship back in 2021. In any event, Kamlager-Dove continued:
"It is OK for you to be offended by the question... but it is also a real question, and you should be able to answer the question, clearly, and without any hesitation if someone is asking if you or any federal official is sleeping with their subordinate," Kamlager-Dove said. "That should be the easiest... You should be wanting to answer that question because it is not about your sex life, it is about your judgment." (our emphasis)
The "tabloid garbage" was reported on extensively by the Wall Street Journal in a well-sourced article that also revealed the incident in which a senior Coast Guard pilot was illegally fired by Lewandowski after takeoff for forgetting a blanket (subsequently revealed to be a bag that apparently contained embarrassing items), only to be re-hired after no other pilot was available. Rep. Jared Moscowitz (D-FL) later "gifted" a Coast Guard blanket to Noem as a reminder of the incident.
(photo: Coming down from those stairs behind you, or going up?)
The cover of British satirical magazine Private Eye:
He's a joke -- an evil, dangerous, unstable one -- to much of the rest of the world, something this country will never live down.
But there's plenty more to deride about the clown clusterf*ck that the Malignant Fascist, "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth, Li'l Marco Rubio, and the rest of his brain trust have bumbled us into. For instance, America's own satirical website Wonkette takes on another aspect of the unfolding catastrophe in "FIFA Peace President Would Evacuate Americans From War Zone But Has Ballroom To Plan."
Sic transit gloria, America.
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(Robert Ariail, Spartanburg Herald-Journal, SC)
(David Rowe, Financial Review, Australia)
(Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News)
(Michael de Adder, caglecartoons.com, Canada)
(Lalo Alcaraz, gocomics.com)
(Phil Hands, Wisconsin State Journal)
(Drew Sheneman, Tribune Content Agency)
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(Bill Day, caglecartoons.com)
(John Darkow, Columbia Missourian)
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Last night, national treasure Stephen Colbert looked at the sick Malignant Fascist's war of choice on Iran, and gives him a classic takedown (e.g., comparing the regime change in Iran to the MF's return after trying to overthrow the 2020 election). So much great satire and truth. A must see.
"Operation Epic Epstein Fury: The Deadly Incompetence" cont. --
The first confirmed fatalities in Trump's illegal War on Iran: Captain Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, FA Sergeant First Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, NE Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, MN Sergeant Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, IA
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) March 3, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Most telling part of this rant: That the war will go on until "we decide it is over," not until the aims of the war are achieved - because there are no stated aims; and Trump prefers having none, so any result will allow him to try to claim a "win."
— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) March 4, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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Remember when George W. Bush blurted out that Saddam tried to kill his dad and the war in Iraq was justified on those grounds? Too soon to say who'll have the last laugh, dimwit.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) March 4, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@explaintrade.com) March 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM
It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei
— Thor Benson (@thorbenson.bsky.social) March 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Bravo, Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez! --
Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat
— Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) March 4, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Texas voter suppression by felon Ken Paxton --
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*. In March. Imagine November. I broke it down here: open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
— Eliza Orlins (@elizaorlins.bsky.social) March 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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I worked at my polling precinct helping republicans and democrats vote for 14 hours. To see how Ken Paxton screwed up elections in Dallas and Williamson counties, as well as other Republican counties, is an insult to all the party precinct chairs trying to help their neighbors vote. FU, Ken Paxton!!
— charlottepringlet.bsky.social (@charlottepringlet.bsky.social) March 3, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Most. Corrupt. American. Regime. Ever. --
WATCH — @senpeterwelch walks through a no-bid $143,000,000 contract that went to @KristiNoem’s spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin’s husband’s company that had just been formed. She should be impeached for this outrageous scandal alone. Yet it’s barely a blip in this corrupt regime.
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) March 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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Dirtbag Dolezal hoping to capitalize on Islamophobia with his dimbulb base... --
Greg Dolezal taking some broad swings in his ad for Lt. Gov. of Georgia. Holy shit… www.facebook.com/share/v/18TM... (Only including the link for people who even after watching it can’t believe this is real.)
— Will Harris (@willharrisinva.bsky.social) March 4, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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... while an "ICE Democrat" gets a well- deserved rebuke --
JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal." She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%! Context:
— Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) March 3, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Quiz: Does your country need regime change? --
Is your country ruled by an aging megalomaniac whose supporters worship him with an almost cult-like zeal? Has your leader eroded trust in elections by attempting to bring them under his direct control and/or stoking false claims of voter fraud?
— McSweeney's (@mcsweeneys.net) March 3, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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British singer / songwriter Olivia Dean cleaned up at this year's BRIT awards ceremony -- their prestigious equivalent of the Grammys -- by winning four of their top awards: Artist of the Year, Best Pop Act, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. That's on top of her Grammy win this year for Best New Artist. Her second studio album, "The Art of Loving," released last year, produced several top ten hits in the UK, and reached number 3 on U.S. charts, going double platinum.
Two videos we're featuring today are songs from that album: her sultry and smooth "Man I Need," and her playful, upbeat "So Easy (To Fall in Love)". Enjoy.
"...The difference between him and the neocons of the Bush era is that they had grandiose ambitions of spreading democracy across the Middle East and beyond, and they convinced themselves that they were acting for the good of those populations and the whole world. Trump couldn’t give a rat’s ass about democracy or the people of the Middle East. But that doesn’t mean he has any qualms about launching a vigorous bombing campaign every month or two. In the first year of his second term, Trump bombed seven different countries (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, Somalia, and Nigeria).
"The Trumpian view isn’t that the U.S. shouldn’t intervene militarily around the world, it’s that there are good reasons and bad reasons to do so, and we should only do so for the right reasons. In his view, bad reasons include: fostering democracy, protecting human rights, discouraging imperialist aggression, and supporting allies. Good reasons include: plunder, culture wars, revenge, pique, and because war is cool..." -- Paul Waldman, in his "Cross Section" Substack on "What Both Journalists and MAGA Voters Misunderstood About Trump and War." He's been a narcissistic sociopath all his life. It takes some powerful self-delusion to think of him and what he would do with enormous power any other way.Meanwhile,
Texas State Rep. James Talarico defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Dem nomination for Senate, aa seat currently held by MAGA Sen. John Cornyn. The vote was close, and it's a shame that both couldn't have won with their individual charisma and appealing messages. Some voting glitches in Dallas are prompting Crockett to sue the jurisdiction, so there may be new developments depending on the impact of the problems. Subsequent to that report, Crockett conceded and pledged to unite behind Talarico to win Texas.
On the MAGA side, Cornyn will face a runoff election with runner up corrupt adulterer Ken Paxton, ironically Texas' Attorney General. Should Paxton win, it will set up an interesting contrast between him and Talarico, who has a divinity degree in addition to degrees from Harvard and the University of Texas, so we're hoping he's the MAGAt candidate. Either way, it will be a nasty general election campaign, as Dems haven't won statewide since 1994, and the MAGAts are looking at close margins for control of the Senate in the mid-terms.
BONUS: Meanwhile in North Carolina, former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will face former RNC Chairchode Michael Whatley in the general election. The popular former governor has a great chance to flip this seat, currently held by Republican Thom Tillis.
BONUS II: Big money Texas Cornyn donors are blaming the token black MAGAt candidate Rep. Wesley Hunt for splitting the vote and forcing a runoff between Cornyn and Paxton. Because scapegoating black people is what MAGAts do. FAFO, Rep. Hunt.
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(Michael de Adder, The Contrarian, Canada)
(Peter Kuper, gocomics.com)
(Joe Heller, hellettoon.com)
(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)
(Morten Morland, The Times, UK)
(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
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This brilliant, clever vid from the Norwegian Consumer Council shows how to resist "enshittification" of digital products and services (but it also applies to our enshittified country and its regime under the Supreme Enshittifier). H/t Silver Spring Bureau Chief Brian.
