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I’m so glad we got to celebrate Donald Trump’s birthday with tanks rolling through the nation’s capital. Nothing says “healthy democracy” quite like armored vehicles rumbling past monuments meant to honor freedom. History offers plenty of examples of governments that…
Read MoreI’m no mask wearing germaphobe, but why do people wait to be locked inside a plane together to begin coughing? Safe holiday travels everyone.
Read MoreSuch a shame that the world’s richest man, and the world’s most incompetent leader are no longer getting along. Sometimes its best to just let them fight it out.
Read MoreTrump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is destroying everyone and everything in its path.
Read MoreDonald Trump briefly paused his Middle East trip to feud with Taylor Swift on social media. “Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?’” he wrote on Truth Social. Leaving aside how astonishingly…
Read MoreRecently, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was spotted swimming in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek Park. As every Washingtonian knows, Rock Creek is not a recreational swimming hole, it’s where storm runoff, sewage overflow, and every imaginable urban contaminant end up (the…
Read MorePresident Trump’s grift is so deep and so flagrant we scarcely know how to handle it. Reading that he plans to accept a 400 million plane from the government of Qatar, feels like a headline more suitable for The Onion…
Read MoreA version of this editorial appeared in The Albany Times Union One of the more quietly devastating moves from the Trump administration is the effort to slash federal funding for public media, including NPR and PBS, and potentially even claw…
Read MoreIts hard for cartoonists to lampoon a man who is already a clown… Depicting him as the Pope is not the brainchild of a comedian or cartoonist, Trump did that himself. Its all about him, always
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