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* ECONOMIC BOOM: TRUMP SCREAMS AT THE NATION  --  CARTOON BY
MICHAEL DE ADDER
* TDS  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON
* WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE  --  MEME
* RE: ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS WHEN LAWLESS US OFFICIALS GO ON A
MURDER SPREE  (RON SICCHITANO)
* RE: TIDBITS-DEC. 11- READER COMMENTS  (VICKI ROVERE)
* THE NARRATOR  --  CARTOON BY MORTEN MORLAND
* RE: LABOR LEADERS CHEER HOUSE VOTE TO UNDO ‘SINGLE-LARGEST ACT
OF UNION BUSTING IN AMERICAN HISTORY’  (PETER KNOWLTON)
* DEATH TO SANTA  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: SVEN BECKERT’S CHRONICLE OF CAPITALISM’S LONG RISE  (TIM
SHEARD)
* RE: THE DOWNFALL OF LARRY SUMMERS WAS LONG OVERDUE  (JIM YOUNG)
* RE: ABREGO GARCIA LEAVES ICE CUSTODY, AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION VOWS
TO FIGHT RELEASE  (ROBERT LAITE)
* SUSIE BIG MOUTH  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY CLAY JONES

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.ECONOMIC BOOM: TRUMP SCREAMS AT THE NATION  --  CARTOON BY MICHAEL
DE ADDER

 

 

Michael de AdderDecember 18, 2025THE deEP STATE
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TDS  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON 

 

 

Even by the low, moldy-basement standards of Trump-era discourse, the
president’s reaction to the shocking murder of filmmaker Rob Reiner
and his wife was grotesque. Within hours of police announcing the
couple’s deaths—and the arrest of their son—Trump took to his
social media platform to imply
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that Reiner died because he suffered from “TRUMP DERANGEMENT
SYNDROME,” turning a family tragedy into yet another self-obsessed
grievance performance.

This wasn’t just tasteless. It was indecent, dehumanizing, and
symptomatic of a political movement that long ago lost the ability to
distinguish political disagreement from personal cruelty. Reiner, a
celebrated director of some of America’s most beloved films, was
murdered. His wife was murdered. Their family is in shock. But to
Trump, these deaths were simply another opportunity to portray himself
as the universe’s central victim; the man so persecuted that even
homicides must orbit around him.

The backlash was immediate
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and unusually bipartisan. Even conservatives who typically contort
themselves into pretzels to defend Trump balked. Rep. Thomas Massie
asked how anyone could “defend this.” Marjorie Taylor Greene,
hardly a beacon of temperance, called for empathy. Right-wing
commentators who usually revel in Trump’s insults suddenly pleaded
for him to delete the post. When MTG and Jenna Ellis are begging the
president to show basic human decency, you know the rot has gone deep.

Reiner spent his career making films that celebrated humanity,
compassion, and moral courage. Trump responded to his death by
diagnosing him with a fake condition and suggesting he somehow
deserved what happened because he criticized the president. This
wasn’t politics. It was cruelty as entertainment; a reminder that
Trump’s default setting is spite, even in the face of unimaginable
grief.

And let’s be clear: Trump’s defenders who now insist this was
justified because Reiner once criticized the president are simply
proving how warped the MAGA worldview has become. In their minds,
political disagreement isn’t just disagreement. It’s treason,
punishable by humiliation, cruelty, or worse. It’s the same logic
that fueled Trump allies’ performative outrage when Charlie Kirk was
tragically assassinated. Outrage they said was about demanding
civility. Now that Trump himself is the one spitting on the concept of
basic humanity, the silence from many of those same voices is
screaming.

Rob Reiner said in one of his final interviews that the United States
was sliding toward autocracy, that the political atmosphere had grown
“beyond McCarthy era-esque.” Watching the president turn a double
homicide into a personal victory lap feels like proof of exactly what
he feared.

There are moments when we can see, with brutal clarity, the dividing
line between leaders and bullies, between public servants and
narcissists, between those who grieve with families and those who
exploit grief for applause. Trump just showed the country which side
he’s on. It wasn’t subtle.

Rob Reiner deserved far better in life, and unquestionably in death,
than to be reduced to a punchline for a man who cannot stand to share
the spotlight, even with tragedy.

Nick AndersonDecember 15, 2025Pen Strokes
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WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE  --  MEME

 

 

 

RE: ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS WHEN LAWLESS US OFFICIALS GO ON A
MURDER SPREE 

The trouble is that the rump Supreme Court will twist the checks and
balances established to circumvent a rogue president from becoming a
dictator. We are now a nation with the murderous distinction that
Russia, North Korea and Iran follow. This orange demigod MUST be
stopped by the awakening congress!!!

Ron SicchitanoPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: TIDBITS-DEC. 11- READER COMMENTS 

I find "douchenozzle" misogynist and offensive. Anyone else?

Peace,Vicki Rovere

 

THE NARRATOR  --  CARTOON BY MORTEN MORLAND 

 

Morten MorlandDecember 17, 2025The Times
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RE: LABOR LEADERS CHEER HOUSE VOTE TO UNDO ‘SINGLE-LARGEST ACT OF
UNION BUSTING IN AMERICAN HISTORY’

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Good to see some bipartisan support for this bill but, like many
incomplete articles, it would be nice to know what the bill actually
does, alongside the generous platitudes supporting workers rights to
organize and speak out. Maybe include an editor's note for incomplete
articles like this. Thanks.

Peter Knowlton

 

DEATH TO SANTA  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS| 

 

Trump continues to ignore the fact that his policies are causing a
real financial burden for average Americans. It's beginning to look a
lot like inflation.

Rob RogersDecember 11, 2025TinyView
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RE: SVEN BECKERT’S CHRONICLE OF CAPITALISM’S LONG RISE 

Thank you for posting about the book on Capitalism history, going to
make good bedtime reading...might give me nightmares, though.

Tim Sheard

 

RE: THE DOWNFALL OF LARRY SUMMERS WAS LONG OVERDUE 

Andy Storey has written a very good piece that's been overdue for a
very long time. Thanks to him.

Solidarity,

Jim YoungPresident emeritusPA Labor History Society

 

RE: ABREGO GARCIA LEAVES ICE CUSTODY, AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION VOWS TO
FIGHT RELEASE 

What else can they put this man through?

Robert LaitePosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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SUSIE BIG MOUTH  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY CLAY JONES 

 

White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, gave an interview to Vanity
Fair, and it turned into one of those interviews with the
administration has to assure us that they're standing behind her,
which means it was a horrible interview. And if you think this
administration is standing behind you, you've got another thing
coming. Remember, Donald Trump demands loyalty, but gives none. Donald
Trump will only stand behind you to stab you in the back.

Trump told the New York Post that Wiles has “done a fantastic
job,” which means she's screwed.

When this administration began, they promised that they wouldn't have
people who would offer resistance as they had in the first
administration, such as Attorney General William Barr, Defense
Secretary Mark Esper, and Chief of Staff John Kelly. Not that those
people gave a lot of resistance to Trump, but they gave some,
especially in his attempts to steal the 2020 election. So this time,
Trump hired people like Susie Wiles, who is more of an observer than a
White House chief of staff.

Politico described the interview as “jaw-dropping and wondered why
she was allowed to even participate. One anonymous source close to the
White House said the interview was “extremely demoralizing.”
Another said, “So far … WTF.”

Wiles called the story a “disingenuously framed hit piece,” though
it used her exact quotes.

In the interview, Wiles said that Trump has the personality of an
alcoholic and that JD Vance is a conspiracy theorist. Both men took
ownership of those descriptions, with Vance saying that he only
believes “in the conspiracy theories that are true,” like Haitians
eating cats and dogs in Springfield. I only believe in conspiracy
theories that are true, as well, JD, like you being a dolphin porn
searching couch fucker.

Wiles also admitted that the prosecution of Letitia James was
political retribution and the strikes on boats from Venezuela are
being done to force regime change, something the administration has
denied.

Wiles said that Pam Bondi “whiffed” on her handling of the Epstein
files, called Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Voughan a
“right-wing absolute zealot,” and said Elon Musk was an “avowed
ketamine” user. How does she have any friends left?

Spokesgoon Karoline Levitt said, “This is unfortunately another
example of disingenuous reporting, where you have a reporter who took
the chief of staff’s words widely out of context, did not include
the context those conversations were had within, and further, I think
the most egregious part of this article was the bias of omission,
which was clearly present,” she told reporters. “Many people in
this building spoke with that reporter, and those comments were never
included in the story, probably because it didn’t push this
narrative of chaos and confusion that the reporter was clearly trying
to push.”

But you can't blame the media for the shit that comes out of your
mouth.

Clay JonesDecember 17, 2025Claytoonz
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‘DON’T PANDER TO THE TECH GIANTS!’ HOW A YOUTH MOVEMENT FOR
DIGITAL JUSTICE IS SPREADING ACROSS EUROPEGen Z are the first
generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest
adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are
fighting back

 

Steve RoseDecember 9, 2025The Guardian
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Questioning the digital realm in which she grew up … Adele Zeynep
Walton.  (Composite: Guardian Design; MR.Cole_Photographer; J
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“Across Europe, a generation is suffering through a silent
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