Thanks to chaos among House Republicans, we’re headed for a government shutdown.
Because Kevin McCarthy doesn’t want to lose his speakership, we’re headed for a shutdown.
Because the House of Representatives is being held hostage by the far-right “Freedom Caucus,” we’re headed for a shutdown — and active-duty military service-members will have to work without pay.
Read MoreWhile Republicans have been demanding to know why Attorney General Merrick Garland has not devoted his entire career to seeing that Hunter Biden is locked up, a few other things have been going on.
Namely, the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York and huge climate protests around the world after a summer of record-breaking climate calamity.
Read MoreMaybe it’s just an incredible coincidence that right-wing Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz was scheduled to give a speech on the floor of the House outlining reasons why they should dump Kevin McCarthy as leader — on the same day McCarthy announced the impeachment inquiry against President Biden.
Read MoreAs you probably know, the day or two right before a holiday weekend like we just experienced are when people like to release awkward news.
Like that time you “inadvertently failed to realize” that you should have reported that a billionaire and Republican mega-donor is housing your mom, rent-free.
Read MoreIt is hard to imagine what Donald Trump’s daily planner looks like, but I thought I’d take a shot. Between indictments, arrests, campaign rallies, trials and new crimes, Trump is one busy defendant and head of the Republican Party.
Read MoreAmid record-breaking wildfires in Canada, it’s important to get potentially life-saving information out as quickly as possible, right?
Not if you’re Meta, the technology giant behind Facebook and Instagram.
In Canada, Meta blocked local and national news instead of compensate media outlets whose content appears on its social media platforms.
Read MoreNow that Donald Trump has been indicted a fourth (4th!) time, his legal strategy is becoming more apparent: Delay, distract and do everything he can to win back the presidency so he can pardon himself.
Read MoreAs Ron DeSantis drops further in the polls, he is more desperate to get noticed. With Donald Trump’s greater charisma and attention-grabbing indictments, it’s becoming more clear the Defendant-in-Chief will be the Republican nominee for president . . . so DeSantis acts out in an endless attempt to position himself as the candidate to the right of Trump.
Read MoreWith extreme heat waves across the globe, wildfires, flooding, oceans warming to hot tub levels and some effects of climate change surpassing even the worst predictions, it can seem like we missed our chance to do anything about the gravest threat humanity has ever faced.
Read MoreRon DeSantis and the Florida Board of Education are trying to put a positive spin on slavery.
I mean, was it really that bad? (Spoiler alert: yes it was.)
DeSantis and his educational experts found time (amid a full schedule of book-banning and decreeing who can use what bathroom) to rework the state’s African American studies curriculum so it was a little more chipper.
Read MoreWhoda’ thunk right-wing Supreme Court rulings could look even more hypocritical?
The Court finished its term with a distinctly pull-up-your-bootstraps message. Affirmative action in higher education? Nope. Student loan forgiveness? Nope. After all, America is all about being a self-made success story, just ask Justice Clarence Thomas and his pals in the Horatio Alger Association.
Judging by the lives of right-wing Supreme Court justices like Thomas and Samuel Alito, being successful and living life to the fullest is a lot easier if you have a billionaire patron.
Read MoreIs it any surprise that Republicans are targeting academics who study disinformation as the campaign for the 2024 election gets under way?
House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jim Jordan (and his now-weaponized subcommittee on the “weaponization of government”) are going after university professors, researchers and students who investigate disinformation online.
Donald Trump has been booked and fingerprinted (again!) thanks to special counsel Jack Smith’s 38-count indictment of the Defendant-in-Chief.
The indictment details the path taken by the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and later at Trump’s Bedminster Golf Club.
In yet another right-wing consumer freak out, some conservative Republicans are outraged (outraged, I say!) at Target for being woke. The big box retailer was selling merchandise that was geared towards the LGBTQ community, which caused right-wingers to of course roll out the old Satanism and child “grooming” tropes.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he was running for president in a Twitter live stream event hosted by eccentric billionaire and rising right-wing star, Elon Musk.
According to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, we’ll pass the debt ceiling deadline on June 1. Once the U.S. stops paying its bills and is in default, economic calamity will ensue. Yes, something must be done to avoid cratering stock and financial markets and certain recession.
From free private jet travel to access to a free luxury superyacht, Clarence Thomas has redefined what it means to be a public servant. Sure, a salary of $285,000 isn’t bad, but why stop there?
Since it is becoming a little difficult to keep track of all the perks showered on Justice Thomas by Harlan Crow (and another guy who bought him tires a while back), I thought gift cards may be a better way to go.
For some reason, Republicans like Texas Governor Greg Abbott seem to focus exclusively on the “mental health” angle of mass shootings and gun violence. If you’re a gun rights advocate, you are apparently incapable of pushing for better mental health care AND sensible restrictions on guns. What’s wrong with doing both?
The beautiful state of Montana isn’t usually featured very prominently in the news (or in my cartoons, for that matter). Unfortunately, it should be getting much more attention now given the outrageous, anti-democratic moves of the Republican-controlled legislature.
Led by speaker Kevin McCarthy, House Republicans passed a bill that would chop spending while agreeing to raise the debt ceiling. Keep in mind that the “debt ceiling” is not authorizing any new spending, it is just paying for spending that was already approved by Congress. In other words, should we pay our bills or not?
The Biden administration recently approved a major oil project for the Alaskan Arctic that would include hundreds of oil wells and release 300 million tons of carbon over the next 30 years.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas likes to bill himself as a regular guy who spends time in Walmart parking lots in his RV.
In truth, it appears that he actually prefers private jet travel and spending time on a luxury super yacht with a Republican billionaire, surrounded by corporate executives, political operatives, Federalist Society lawyers.
Of course I would love it if the days of giving Donald Trump any attention were over, but it is kind of a big deal when an ex-president is arrested.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was quick to put his own spin on the recent ProPublica story about his unethical behavior — so quick, in fact, he began his spinning before the story was actually published.