If you listened closely — amid ongoing reports of Donald Trump’s legal victories, setbacks and increasing wealth — you may have heard that a cease-fire resolution passed a United Nations Security Council vote earlier this week.
It’s a good thing whenever meaningful steps are taken to keep civilians from getting killed.
Read MoreDonald Trump and his lawyers say he’s having a hard time scraping together the $454 million dollars he was ordered to pay after he lost the civil fraud case in New York. (Or $464 or $600-ish million dollars, depending on how you count it.)
Never mind that in a deposition last year, Trump said he had way more than $400 million cash on hand.
For some odd reason, no one wants to lend a guy with a history of lying about property values (and everything else) a half-a-billion dollars.
Read MoreThe horror in Gaza is entering a new phase.
Reports are emerging of children starving, people eating weeds and animal feed to survive — which of course increases panic and chaos.
Even though Israel is still bombing, other nations and aid groups are trying to get humanitarian supplies to the Palestinians.
Read MoreAt this point it’s pretty much a given that Donald Trump has some good pals on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sure, some might be ethically challenged, but that is of course very on-brand.
The Supreme Court rejected a Colorado ruling that the 14th Amendment disqualifies the Insurrectionist-in-Chief from the ballot — which wasn’t much of a surprise.
Read MoreRemember back when doing Russia’s bidding meant extorting Ukraine over the phone?
That seems almost quaint now.
Now the leader of the Republican party says he would welcome a Russian invasion of NATO countries, Trump sycophants in the U.S. Congress want to cut Ukraine loose and top Republicans knowingly spread Russian disinformation in an attempt to smear (and impeach) Joe Biden.
Read MoreAmid all the trials, hearings and court rulings, the Trump grift machine keeps chugging along.
The latest addition to the long line of products, scams and schemes is a $399 pair of Trump-branded sneakers, complete with golden shoelaces.
Read MoreIt’s not looking good for the news biz, which means it’s not looking good for truth, elections and democracy.
In the latest sign (or screaming bullhorn) that Big Tech is distancing itself from news, politics and social commentary, Meta announced it was no longer going to recommend political content and social commentary on Instagram and Threads.
Read MoreIt still feels strange to spend any time or energy investigating crazy right-wing conspiracies.
Unfortunately, when these conspiracies are spread on the nation’s top-rated cable network (Fox News) and among right-wing influencers who hold sway within the Republican Party and Trump cultists, we’ve got to pay attention.
Read MoreAs thousands of migrants fleeing misery and violence continue to head for the US-Mexico border seeking asylum and a better life, Republicans are looking to score political points.
(To be fair, some Democrats are also trying to do their own share of point-scoring.)
President Biden desperately wants the Party of Trump to lose its ability to use the border as a cudgel in the presidential campaign.
Read MoreIt sure is looking like the Republican Party is going to make it official: Donald Trump is the leader of their party and is their choice for president (again).
Yes, things could change — like people turning away from Trump in droves if he gets convicted in one of his multiple criminal trials.
Read MoreIt was a little embarrassing to hear Ron DeSantis (and Nikki Haley for that matter) spin a 30-point loss to Donald Trump in the Iowa caucuses as some sort of victory.
Right now it seems clear that the Defendant-in-Chief will almost certainly be the Republican nominee for president. (Note that I used the journalism wiggle-room term “almost certainly” — because after all, we have to account for the possibility of Trump incarceration and/or fleeing to Belarus.)
Read MoreAs the war in Gaza continues, Israel’s military campaign is looking more and more disproportionate every day.
Let me clarify: I’m using the word “disproportionate” the way it is used among regular humans, where one thing is not equal to another.
In the world of military strategists and experts in the laws of war, “proportionality” doesn’t really take into account the sheer numbers of deaths on either side of a conflict. (It’s pretty chilling, horrible stuff that sounds like it’s taken right out of Dr. Strangelove.)
Read MoreAs we head into a presidential election that may once again put our democracy through a very severe stress test, the leading Republican candidate for president is busy fundraising.
Read MoreBefore he becomes a dictator, Donald Trump has quite few court dates in his future.
Regardless of whether or not he carries out his anti-democratic threats, the Defendant-in-Chief is making the most of his court appearances.
By now you’ve probably seen clips of an unhinged Elon Musk throwing f-bombs at X Corp’s former advertisers.
Scores of big corporations fled what used to be called Twitter when Media Matters revealed that ads were being served up next to pro-Nazi content.
The Supreme Court unveiled its new Code of Conduct in much the same way a surly 9-year-old might say, “Fine! I’ll make my bed!”
In a passive-aggressive statement that sounded an awful lot like Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court essentially blamed all of us for misunderstanding just how ethical they already were.
Right-wing mayhem, party chaos and the high court’s Dobbs decision that hurt Republicans in Tuesday’s election is all personified in Speaker Mike Johnson.
Just how nutty is the new Republican Speaker of the House?
Probably nuttier than we all first thought.
Israeli forces are continuing to pound Gaza in the aftermath of the Hamas terror attack that sparked this latest round of fighting.
The war shows no signs of easing as millions of civilians desperately try to flee the bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip, which measures only 25 miles by 6 miles and is home to over 2 million people, half of who are children.
Well, they have a winner. And it’s not democracy.
House Republicans finally elected a speaker and he’s an election-denying right-winger. (Don’t be fooled by his membership in the very level-headed sounding group, the “Republican Study Committee.)
As you may have guessed, horrific violence in Israel and Gaza calls for decidedly un-funny cartoons.
Mocking Kevin McCarthy is one thing, cartooning about people killing civilians is quite another.
No matter how you slice it, civilians in Israel and Gaza (and likely the West Bank) are bearing the brunt of this war — a war that was brewing long before the terror attackon a rave and various locations near the border with Gaza.
First up, a video of me drawing these cartoons, backed by Republicans acting more cartoonish than the cartoons.
It’s been an action-packed week for Republicans . . . and it’s only half over as I write this.
I guess you keep pretty busy if you have a political party that is led by a criminal not-so-mastermind and made up of extremist sycophants.
Little Suzie Newsykins is back and singing her holiday heart out, this time about AI.
The past year was marked by huge advances in artificial intelligence technology that for me, were incredibly cool and scary at the same time.