Cartoon of the Day (10/2/26)

POLITICAL CARTOONS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/30/26:

US Economy in Crisis

Diesel Hits $7 a Gallon, All Costs Up for Struggling Americans

Trump Economic Approval Hits New Low: Survey (The Hill)

Trump Has Trotted Out the Old Republican “Chicken in Every Pot” Scam Again: Who Will Fall For It This Time? (The Hartmann Report)

Full Sanders Interview: Fed Hikes, Not Democrats' Spending, Hurting Economy (NBC News - video)

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AI to Self Govern

"We Can’t Afford to Lose This Race to China," Despot Says

The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru (Democracy Now! - video)

OpenAI Cancels Its Advanced Model Launch, Then Heads to Lunch With Trump (Mother Jones)

As AI Political Deepfakes Go Viral, Lawmakers Struggle to Keep Up — 2 States’ Laws Show Limits of What They Can Do (The Conversation)

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Despot Welcomes Chinese Leader

Authoritarian Leaders Strike a Deal for Weapons Sales

Will Republicans Divorce Trump Over Xi Embrace? Probably Not (The Daily Show - video)

Trump’s Hypocrisy Compounds His Humiliation in Sucking Up to China’s President Xi (MS NOW - video)

China and the US: Meeting Is Good, Agreement Is Better (LA Progressive)

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Trump Attempts Diplomacy

It Doesn’t Go Well

As Iran War Drags on, Trump Plans to Send Third Aircraft Carrier and Thousands More Troops to Middle East (Common Dreams)

Insiders Are Betting on War: How Prediction Markets Are Becoming a National Security Threat (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

The Sci-Fi Warning That Predicts Trump's Next Alarming Move (AlterNet)

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Attack on Press Continues

Trump Replaces CNN With LindellTV

Trump’s Appearances Go Uncovered as His Fight With the Press Continues (NPR)

Media Responded to Trump’s Press Ban by Withholding the Attention He Craves (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)

Donald Trump’s Insatiable Demand for Fox Propaganda (Media Matters)

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Midterm Strategy Changing

Republican Candidates Now Seen as a Liability

Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November (Truthout)

Rick Wilson on Trump, the Midterms, and if a Blue Tidal Wave Is Coming ( The Back Room With Andy Ostroy - video)

GOP Strategist Says Trump Should Hide Until MidtermsAare Over (Daily Kos)

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Republican Plan to Entrap Former Prosecutor Goes Wonderfully Wrong

Republican Storms Away After “Gotcha” on Jack Smith Backfires (Brian Tyler Cohen - video)

Judge Gagging Jack Smith Report Stuns Experts With New Order 'Claiming She's Illiterate' (Raw Story)

Eric Schmitt’s Failed Jack Smith Gotcha Exposes GOP Propaganda (Salon)

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In Other News

Jeremy Scahill Exposes Shocking Depravity In U.S. Iran School Bombing (Breaking Points and Drop Site News - video)

The Supreme Court Just Took What Will Be the Blockbuster Case of the Term (Slate)

Wife School Can’t Fix MAGA Husbands (Salon)

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