Cartoon of the Day (5/1/25)

POLITICAL CARTOONS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/23/25:

Trump Defies Courts

Kidnappings, Detentions in Salvadoran Prisons, to Continue

An Extraordinary Update on Abrego Garcia (LegalEagle - video)

Trump Tries to Get Supreme Court to Reverse Course; Here’s Why It’s Unlikely to Work (Glenn Kirschner - video)

Roberts Owns It All: From Citizens United to Trump’s Coup (The Hartmann Report)

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Vance Visits Pope

Pontiff Loses Will to Live, Dies Hours Later

Remembering Pope Francis on Earth Day: How He Linked Capitalism, Climate & Catholicism (Democracy Now! - video)

Pope Francis's Complicated Legacy with LGBTQ+ Catholics (LA Progressive)

Pope Francis Obits Omit Focus on Palestine (FAIR)

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Trump Tanks Economy

U.S. No Longer Considered Safe for Investment

Trump and Musk Are Running a Disinformation Campaign on Social Security (Mother Jones)

Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back. (In These Times)

The Republican Anti-Tax Coalition Is Beginning to Disintegrate (The Guardian)

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Drunkard Attacks Press

Defense Secretary Hegseth Unhappy With Accurate Reporting: “Unacceptable!”

“Should Have Installed Tampon Machines’: Hegseth Bashes Report of His New Makeup Room in Pentagon (Salon)

‘Incompetent. Irresponsible. Negligent’: Calls Mount for Hegseth’s Ouster or Prosecution (New Civil Rights movement)

The Pete Hegseth Debacle Was Inevitable (Medai Matters for America)

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Harvard Repels Bully

Trump Pulls Billions in Federal Grants

Over 200 Higher Education Institutions Pledge to Resist Trump Attacks (Truthout)

US Lawyers Coalition Says Elite Firms Have Only One Choice: Capitulate to Trump — or Fight Back (Common Dreams)

Rising Up in the Streets: Millions Say “Hands Off” to Trump (Yes! Magazine - video)

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Trump Throws Tantrums

Mental Illness Grows Worse, 25th Amendment Looms

Surprise! Trump's Job Approval Is in the Toilet (Daily Kos)

Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers Planted by Bush and Cheney (TomDispatch)

Fight the Oligarchy With Bernie and AOC: Montanna (Bernie Sanders - video)

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In Other News

How Can We Balance AI’s Potential and Ethical Challenges? (The Observatory)

The New Democratic Divides (The American Prospect)

How Young People Make Change (The Progressive)

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