Cartoon of the Day (9/5/26)

POLITICAL CARTOONS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/2/26:

Trump Attacks Canada

Trade War Escalates, Lake Ontario Under Siege

Trump’s Bonkers Bullying of Canada Is Backfiring (Robert Reich)

Trump Slips Up With Revealing Mistake as Damning Canada Threat Truth Surfaces (The Damage Report - video)

Decoding Trump’s Chaos: What Science Tells Us About How Canada — and the World — Should Respond (The Conversation)

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Deficit Soars

Inflation Rising, Americans Stressed

Why the Rise in Government Debt Is Freaking Out the Bond Market (The Conversation)

‘Starve the Beast’? The $40tn Cost of Republicans’ False Promises to Cut Spending (The Guardian)

Bessent Finds Someone Else to Blame for Rising Fuel Prices: Ukraine (Crooks & Liars)

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SCOTUS Kisses the Ring

Ballroom Construction to Continue

Supreme Court to Trump: Let the Emperor Build His Unconstitutional Ballroom! (Glenn Kirschner - video)

Trump’s Ballroom Construction Can Resume at White House, Supreme Court Rules — as It Happened (The Guardian)

AG Blanche Scrambles as Scathing New Filing In My Epstein Lawsuit Blows Up His Defense!! (Katie Phang - video)

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Alcoholic Hegseth Crashes Out

US Military Is in Disarray

Pete Hegseth Suffers Ultimate Humiliation After Shock Announcement (Brian Tyler Cohen - video)

Hegseth Must Go (Robert Reich)

Pete Hegseth Hasn't Been on Fox News in 11 Months (Media Matters)

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Excursion Celebrates Six Months

President Says He Couldn’t Be More Pleased

Vance Says Iran Fight Isn’t a ‘War’ as Trump Tries to Navigate Unpopular Conflict as Election Nears (HuffPost)

Trump Says US May Attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain ‘Very Soon’ (Al Jazeera)

Trump’s War Implodes as Troops Start Escaping (David Pakman Show - video)

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Oil Deal Struck

Venezuela Surrenders to US Company

The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves (Democracy Now! - video)

Trump Brags About His “Brilliant” Venezuela Scheme While History Screams a Warning (The Hartmann Report)

The Trump EPA Is a Toothless Friend of Polluting Industries, Analysis Shows (Inside Climate News)

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Despot Claims Wide Support

“Everybody Loves Me”

What if the Polls Are Wrong? (CNN - video)

Apparently Trump Forgot What He Looks Like in Bonkers Rant About 'Very Obese' Friend (Crooks & Liars)

Musk Spends His Dirty Money in Key Midterm Races (Daily Kos)

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Midterm Fix Attempted

USPS to Play Key Role

“Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election (Democracy Now! - video)

New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement (ProPublica)

Despite President Trump’s Claims of Foreign Election Interference, He Has No Legal Authority to Declare a National Emergency and Unilaterally Nationalize Elections (Center for American Progress)

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Midterm Battles Heat Up

Texas Turns Purple

Democratic Voters Say They Want Change, But the Party Just Elevated More Hawks (Truthout)

Is He a Jihadist? A Commie? Cartoonists Can’t Decide How to Smear El-Sayed (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)

The Big Idea: Winning (In These Times)

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Measles Cases Rise

RFK Jr. Says That’s a Good Thing

Vaccine Disinformation Is Hampering the U.S. Response to Control the Deadly Measles Outbreak (American Public Health Association)

Tracking Measles Cases in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

How Dangerous Is a Measles Outbreak? (University of Chicago Medicine(

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Meta Settles

Pays $17 Billion, but Denies Wrong Doing

Meta Agrees to Pay Up to $18bn to Settle Claims Its Platforms Harm Children (BBC)

Elon Musk & America’s Tech Oligarchy (The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart - video)

Geoffrey Hinton Just Said AI Is Already Conscious (Big Technology and Alex Kantrowitz - video)

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Piece of Yosemite Sold

Cherry Trees Slaughtered in DC

Yosemite, Again in Corporate Crosshairs, Embodies the Long War Over US National Park Privatization (The Conversation)

Trump Doesn’t Walk in Our Parks, He Strip Mines Them (Truthdig)

Hiking Canyons Can Quickly Turn Deadly When Storms Hit — What You Should Know Before Going In (The Conversation)

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In Other News

33 Dems Help Pass House Bill That Would Strip Funds From Colleges That Boycott Israel (Common Dreams)

How Drones Reinvented the Proxy War (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

Caught: Trump’s Secret Gets Exposed in Shock Update (Brian Tyler Cohen and Democracy Docket - video)

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