Esteemed Guests
“Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it.”
— Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams, as mentioned on Ann Telnaes’s substack anntelnaes.substack.com/p. Actor Burl Ives played the role of Big Daddy in the movie.
Who Invited You?
Generational Change
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Important Note: Now that Markos has recently enabled image embeds on DK from Bluesky, I’ll use it to post as many editorial cartoons from Bluesky in this diary. Most editorial cartoonists are still on Twitter; several on both platforms. Until such time, all editorial cartoonists move to Bluesky, I’ll use both sources for the diary.
A Dream Deferred
Felonious Trump and His Followers
Attribution: Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social
Passing the Torch
He Has a Dream
Manual Updates Posted Here
Ready for Another Drink
Well Said
The Fiddling Emperor
From Russia With Love
Needed: Divine Intervention
Hang In There, Abe
Entirely Predictable
Worst. President. Ever.
The Arsonist
Incendiary
How Long Can He Lie About Everything?
Cartoon Movement Collection of Cartoons
Yes, Fast Forward It
The Truth
Who’s the Boss?
Compassion, Not Commercialism
On Their Way to Help...
… Not!
The Return of Il Duce
Donald Trump’s inauguration marks a dark day for our country. The president’s surrogates are already boasting about their plans to implement the mass deportation of immigrants, cut public jobs and vital social services, and even annex Canada, Greenland, and Panama.
— The Nation on Trump’s second term agenda.
The Long March
Progress?
A Mountain Not Worth Climbing
MAGA on Steroids
Trump’s Toadies, Et al.
Today, we begin a new era in American politics. We will likely encounter historic corruption, massive conflicts of interest, degradation of critical regulations, and further extreme judicial rulings.
At the same time, corporate and social media are losing whatever trust they once commanded, with oligarchs exercising control over the largest outlets and platforms.
— David Sirota, The Lever, on what to expect from Trump and his ilk.
Best Friends Forever
The Ugly Truth
Priorities
Fake News
Two Delusional Dudes
Animal Farm
Our opposition to Trump is based not only on our profound disagreement with him on most of the important issues facing our country but, even more importantly, the lies, fear mongering, bigotry and xenophobia which underlay those policies. Democracy flourishes where differences of opinion are respected and debated. Democracy is severely undermined under the barrage of bigotry, hate and disinformation that Trump and many of his acolytes propagate...
We can do better. We must do better. But, in order to effectively move forward, we need to explain to the American people the role that Oligarchy and corporate greed have played in destroying working class lives in this country.
We need a progressive agenda that addresses the many crises that working families face and points us forward to a better life for all.
— Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
The New Oligarchs
Everything is For Sale?
Having Them for Lunch
The New President of the United States
As Donald Trump and his party prepare to take full command of American policy-making, we can be certain that his second term will be run for and by the billionaire class.
Another Trump term will exacerbate some of the worst trends of contemporary capitalism: the tremendous concentration of wealth into a few hands; the further privatization of critical public programs that working-class people depend on; the ever-expanding corruption of our institutions by corporate interests; and more billionaire money in politics than ever before.
We are entering a critical moment. Not only the American but the global working-class cannot afford for this concentration of political and economic power to continue.
Trump’s second term also means that an already corporate-controlled news and media ecosystem will turn away from critical stories in labor, climate, and the global economy to devote more airtime to Trump.
— JACOBIN
Felonious Trump
Quite An Accomplishment
His Privilege
Speak Up
Diary Poll
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