Cartoon of the Day (10/10/26)

POLITICAL CARTOONS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 10/7/26:

Republicans Fear Midterm Massacre

Trump Now Seen as Liability, Election Onslaught Expected

Senate GOP Declares ‘Emergency’ Over Obama 'Takeover': 'We Will Lose Big' (Crooks & Liars)

The Midterm Spending Bonanza Is Threatening Democracy Like Never Before (Mother Jones)

Buckle Up: The Final 3 Weeks of the Campaign Are Gonna Be Some Kind of Uglu (Talking Points Memo)

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President Glitches Out

Likely Won’t Make It to End of Year

Trump”s Absolutely BONKERS Interview With Time Affirms That His Brain Has Turned to Mush (News Corpse)

Trump’s Political Persona as ‘Populist Billionaire’ Is Dead (The National Memo)

Trump Fumes Over Nobel Peace Prize Snub and Criticizes Norway (The Guardian)

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AI Warnings Ignored

“I’m All the Safeguard You Need,” Despot Asserts

Jon Stewart Unpacks AI’s Dubious Promise of a “Better Future” (The Daily Show - video)

Skip Navigation Create Avatar Image the Real Story Behind What Happened at OpenAI (Looking Glass Universe - video)

‘Corrupt, Probably Senile & a Felon’: Nobel Laureate Hinton’s Brutal Trump Roast Cracks Up the Crowd (Hook Global - video)

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Economy Wobbles

Everyone but the Rich Are Struggling to Pay Bills

Axios Looks for Silver Lining in Trump’s Tinfoil Economy (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)

The Democrats Who Let Trump’s Oligarchs Buy Hollywood (The American Prodpect)

Trump Tries — Yet Again — to Fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook (Mother Jones)

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Iran War Not Over

But Reporting on US Losses Nowhere to Be Found

The Geopolitical Earthquake of the Iran War (Foreign Policy in Focus)

Iran War Pushes Diesel — the Economy’s Lifeblood — to Record High Prices, With No Relief on the Horizon (The Conversation)

US Embassy Aide Suppressed Report on Israeli Killings of Americans in West Bank (Truthout)

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Tennessee Botches Execution

Tortured Woman Still Alive, Will Be Put to Death as Soon as She Recovers

Botched Execution Reignites Debate Surrounding Death Penalty (PBS)

Christa Pike Is Walking With Help And Eating After Failed Execution Attempt, Her Attorneys Say (HuffPost)

Trump’s Own Inner Circle Shocked by Public Execution Plan: Report (AlterNet)

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Cornell Fails

Rape Case Reopened

“Entire System of Cornell University Failed Her”: Jane Doe Gang Rape Case Enrages Campus Community (Democracy Now! = video)

What Cornell Says About Universities’ MAGA Complicity (Salon)

Judge Rebukes AG Blanche Over Noncompliance in My Epstein Lawsuit!!! (Katie Phang - video)

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In Other News

How School Choice Opens the Door for Private Equity (The Progressive)

How ‘Never Again’ Lost Meaning in Gaza (Common Dreams)

Dictators Do Not Want You to See This (ft. Annie Leonard) (Robert Reich and Inequality Media - video)

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