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(Monte Wolverton, caglecartoons.com)
(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
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(Joe Heller, hellertoon.com)
(Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Canada)
(Christopher Weyant, Boston Globe)
(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)
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(Steve Sack, stevesack.substack.com)
The Guardian's Moira Donegan looks at what lies ahead for the Department of Homeland Security, now that Kristi "ICE Barbie" Noem was canned (apparently along with her alleged paramour Corey Lewandowski) and has moved on to a made-up job in the regime. Her orders came from the sick bigot Stephen Miller, and her replacement is a muscle-headed goon who can be expected to carry out orders from the White House, too:
"Noem was incompetent, corrupt, and seemingly indifferent to both the law and to human suffering. But in this, she was not so much a liability for the Trump administration as a perfect embodiment of Maga governance. Her rule over DHS was marked by an aggressive pursuit of the mass deportation and ethnic cleansing campaign that Trump campaigned on heavily in 2024; she seems to have been heavily influenced in her decision-making by the advice of Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who is known for his hardline views on immigration and racial supremacy. “'Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen,' she is said to have told one interlocutor.
Noem’s departure, then, seems unlikely to ring in a new era of responsibility, legality or professionalism at the department. In his post firing her, Trump said that Markwayne Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma and a former MMA fighter, would be the next DHS secretary; technically, such an appointment requires Senate approval, but Mullin’s nomination seems unlikely to face much meaningful resistance in the Republican-controlled upper chamber. Mullin, a close Trump ally and immigration maximalist, is unlikely to mark much of a departure from Noem, either in policy substance or managerial savvy. The mass deportations, self-dealing and aggressive, even seemingly contemptuous approach to citizens and their rights seems likely to continue for as long as Trump, Miller and their allies control the vast apparatus of the DHS." (our emphasis)
Mullin won't undo the damage done by the Malignant Fascist's cruel and illegal campaign of terror against immigrants; he'll continue it, perhaps only with some greater attention than his predecessor to the bad publicity it generates. The bad times will continue.
BONUS: Here's Markwaynesworld. Feel safe?
Meet the new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin:
— Home of the Brave (@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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(photos: Out with the old, in with the old/ Getty Images)
The Epstein-Trump files coverup / blackmail / the Moscow connection --
The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape emptywheel.net/the-alleged-...
— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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‘Moscow has girls’: Inside Epstein’s network from Palm Beach to the Kremlin Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
— carpenter22.bsky.social (@carpenter22.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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You can take the Ayatollah out of Iran but you can't take Trump out of the Epstein files
— No To Racism (@notoracism.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Operation Epic Epstein Fury --
"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?" "How do you like the performance?" An illegal war for the sake of spectacle and the amusement of POTUS.
— Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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The New York Times reports that its analysis indicates the United States struck the school in Iran while carrying out attacks on an Iranian naval base www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
— OSINTRadar (@osintradar.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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The U.S. bombed an elementary school killing 175+ children and then torpedoed an unarmed Iranian ship. Those are not the actions of an honorable Nation. Those are the actions of terrorists.
— The Sgt Joker (@thesgtjoker.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Trump's MMA meathead DHS nominee --
Trump announced he would nominate Mullin, widely regarded as one of the dimmer bulbs in the Senate and lacking any college education, to replace her. Knowing the R senators’ utter spinelessness and disinclination to exercise any quality control he lwill get through open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
— Jen Rubin (@jenrubin.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Markwayne Mullin, set to run Homeland Security >>
— Jon Passantino (@passantino.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Senator Mullin on January 6th
— Harry Dunn (@libradunn1.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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For the last time: You can pick your friends. And you can pick your nose. But you can't....
— Lawprofblawg (@lawprofblawg.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Trump's economy --
Donald Trump is taking a hammer to the job market and making life more expensive for you.
— Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) March 6, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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The US economy LOST 92,000 jobs last month. Under Donald Trump, we've now lost jobs in 5 of the last 9 months. The only people winning in Trump's economy are the billionaires getting massive tax breaks. Trump and his followers in Congress just don't care about working Americans.
— Rep. Brendan Boyle (@congressmanboyle.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Bidding farewell to Border Barbie and hello to Meathead Mullin (Happy Friday!) --
Kristi Noem gets fired by Trump youtu.be/PFtaVdLfKSI?...
— J-L Cauvin (@jlcauvin.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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San Diego, California alt/ indie band Moondaddy was founded in 2020 by singer/ songwriter / producer/ multi-instrumentalist Cara Potiker. They have a new, melodic single out, "Passenger" with a black-and-white official video. We're giving them the ol' Hackwhackers bump today.
Sixty (60!) years ago today, at RCA Studios in Los Angeles, The Rolling Stones recorded what would be their third #1 single in the U.S.: "Paint It, Black." With Brian Jones' sitar, Keith Richards' acoustic and electric guitars, Bill Wyman's heavy bass, Charlie Watts' driving drums, and Mick Jagger's dark drone, it is one of the most iconic of the Stones' recordings, consistently listed among the greatest rock recordings (and an inductee into the Grammy Hall of Fame). Hope you enjoy in black and white, or color.
Congressional MAGAts are bracing for a hefty bill for their unhinged cult leader's adventure in Iran, at a time when family budgets are tighter than ever and the 2026 mid-term elections are approaching and not looking good for them. From Politico:
"Republicans on Capitol Hill are preparing to confront a staggering price tag for the war in the Middle East after closed-door briefings this week detailed the rapid consumption of expensive munitions and the lack of any firm deadline for the end of the military campaign.
Asked how much the Iran offensive would cost, House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) didn’t sugarcoat it.
'A lot,' he replied.
Senior Republicans privately expect President Donald Trump’s administration to request tens of billions of dollars for the Middle East conflict and other military needs from Congress in the coming days, with some GOP lawmakers hearing estimates that the Pentagon is spending as much as $2 billion a day on the war. [snip]
The prospect of a growing new spending measure has GOP leaders bracing for a messy internal fight, with fiscal hawks who have long decried 'forever wars' and bloated Pentagon budgets deeply unsettled by some of the cost estimates flying around on Capitol Hill. At the very least, some are planning to demand offsetting spending cuts." (our emphasis)
Dems should reject helping the MAGAts to get out of the mess their cult leader initiated with his (and Netanyahu's) war of choice and diversion. They'll have to likely suggest more budget cuts aimed at working families, etc., to offset the additional costs of Operation Epic Epstein Fury, again in an election year.
Just this morning, the delusional Malignant Fascist announced on his idiotic "Truth" Social that his war would go on until Iran surrenders unconditionally, and he's allowed to select their new ruler, so that price tag will balloon until voters tell him they've had enough.
The Malignant Fascist's pedo protectors at his "Justice" Department, having tried the limited hangout stonewalling strategy, are now trying the modified limited hangout strategy by publishing Epstein file records previously withheld that involve the adjudicated sexual abuser. From NPR:
The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
They include 16 new pages that cover three additional FBI interview summaries with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor. Also included are two pages of an intake form documenting the initial call to the FBI from a friend who relayed the claims.
NPR's investigation previously found 53 pages that appeared to be missing from the public database.
Now that these documents are published, there are still 37 pages of records missing from the public database, including notes from the interviews, a law enforcement report and license records.
The Justice Department has repeatedly told NPR that any documents withheld were "privileged, are duplicates or relate to an ongoing federal investigation."
Last week, after NPR's initial story, the Justice Department said it was determining if records had been mistakenly tagged as duplicates and if any were found, "the Department will of course publish it, consistent with the law." (our emphasis)
NPR has embedded 18 pages of FBI Crisis Intake reports at the link above, but just to give you an example of the content, here's the first page of 18 (click to enlarge):
As the NPR report notes, the Malignant Fascist's pedo protectors are still withholding 37 pages of records that were in the public database, a situation that cries out for a whistleblower to step up since there seems to be no penalty so far for flouting the law.
(Gif: pedo to pedo -- "She's hot!")
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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 that 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)
(Brendan Loper, @b_loper)
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.
