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I had another cartoon where Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "I have a dream." and Trump said, "I have a nightmare." Some suggested this version, so I drew it.
Both are true.
This original is pen and coloured pencil.
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It might be wishful thinking, but I'm hoping whatever size the blue wave is, it'll be powerful enough to flatten a grifting dictator.
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Patrick Stewart, 'Star Trek' Captain and 'X-Men' Superhero, Dies at 86 hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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In the Ohio governor's race, Vivek Ramaswamy is running a disgusting attack ad against Amy Acton that exploits a 50-year old sex abuse scandal. Trump and Vance are fine with it. Great, the GOP is now the pro-rapist, pro-pedophile party.
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Overturned elections. Attacks on police. A demolished East Wing. A new war. Trump has already done what no one imagined. Don’t wait to see what’s next.
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BREAKING: LOL! The real reason why Trump is so angry about President Obama's hilarious Cheesecake Factory joke is revealed — and it's TOO perfect.
We should have known...
According to financial disclosures obtained by The Daily Beast, Trump is actually heavily invested in the Cheesecake Factory. Last year, he bought between $35,007 and $175,000 worth of stock in the company, at the same time that his hideous renovations were underway at the White House.
He bought and sold stock in the company over the course of the year and as of December 31, 2025 he still held between $15,001 and $50,000 in stock that we know about and received a dividend of up to $2,000.
It's certainly not a stretch to imagine that Trump invested in the restaurant franchise because he loves its gaudy aesthetic, and then took direct inspiration for his changes to the Oval Office. If so, it makes Obama's joke land even harder. The former President said that Trump has the White House looking like "Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory."
As we've stated before and despite what right-wing media is breathlessly insisting, this is not a classist attack on the Cheesecake Factory. There's nothing inherently wrong with the popular restaurant. What we're saying is that the White House should have a bit more dignity and a little less resemblance to a place where you can order Pigs in a blanket.
Clearly, Trump's apoplectic response to Obama's jab is twofold. He's furious that his absolutely awful taste in aesthetics is being thrown in his face. And then secondly, he's worried that the joke could hurt a brand that he's invested in. He whined that it's a “a very successful company” and accused Obama of being “stupid."
And look, this Cheesecake Factory is an amusing little saga that has nothing to do with the material problems that voters are facing. But at the same time, Trump's insane response shows just how easily baited and derailed he is. Instead of talking about affordability or gas prices, he's ranting about this every time he gets up in front of a mic. Obama played it masterfully.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 MUSK AND TRUMP’S SATELLITE POWER PLAY IS BACKFIRING WORLDWIDE
Elon Musk and Donald Trump wanted to demonstrate just how much power Washington and its technology giants hold over Ukraine’s communications.
Instead, they have given governments around the world another reason to build satellite networks that neither the White House nor a single billionaire can switch off.
The temporary Starshield shutdown and pressure on Ukraine have brought a much bigger issue into focus: technological sovereignty.
And the response is taking shape across several countries.
🇨🇦 CANADA: Ottawa has signed a CAD 2.3 billion agreement with Telesat to expand its Lightspeed satellite constellation, incorporating secure military communications. Canadian manufacturer MDA Space is also receiving additional satellite orders.
🇫🇮 FINLAND: ICEYE and Nokia are working together on sovereign satellite communications infrastructure, allowing European governments to own and control their networks, including encryption, rather than depend entirely on foreign providers.
🇪🇺 EUROPEAN UNION: Brussels is expanding its IRIS² satellite network, with plans for 348 satellites and an additional €4 billion in funding. Airbus and Thales Alenia Space are involved in manufacturing and secure government communications systems.
🇰🇷 SOUTH KOREA: The domestically developed Nuri rocket has deployed 14 payloads, including reconnaissance and military satellites, strengthening Seoul’s independent space capabilities.
🇯🇵 JAPAN: Tokyo is investing approximately $1 billion in direct-to-device satellite communications, designed to keep ordinary smartphones connected during disasters and military emergencies.
🇩🇪 GERMANY: Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket has reached orbit, marking another step toward independent European access to space.
And perhaps the most important developments concern Ukraine itself.
🇺🇦 UKRAINE: The UASAT project has completed its registration with the International Telecommunication Union. Preparations for the UASAT-NANO test satellite are underway, laying the groundwork for a Ukrainian-controlled constellation.
🇨🇿 CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague and Kyiv are advancing cooperation on Suziria, a proposed optical reconnaissance satellite constellation. Ukraine is also expected to receive backup communications capacity through Europe’s GOVSATCOM system.
These projects are at different stages, and not all are direct replacements for Starlink. Some provide broadband, others military communications, reconnaissance or independent launch capabilities.
But they point in the same direction.
Governments increasingly recognize that critical communications cannot depend on the political decisions of another country or the personal discretion of a private technology executive.
Musk and Trump wanted to demonstrate who controls the switch.
They may have helped convince much of the world that nobody should have that much control in the first place.
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In 1902, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, after her husband was gored by a bull elk, Scottish immigrant Elspeth MacLeod took his Sharps rifle and hunted to pay the doctor. She’d never fired it before. Her neighbor, a Shoshone elder named Washakie, taught her to track in snow and to wait for the heart-lung shot. All winter she left her 3 children with Washakie’s wife and went into the Tetons alone.
She brought back 2 elk. She sold the meat, kept the hides, and gave both ivory teeth to Dr. Nelson. He hung them on his watch chain and forgave the rest of the debt. He said: “You paid in courage. That’s rare currency.” Elspeth later outfitted dudes as the valley’s first female guide. Her daughter wrote: “Mother said the mountains tried to widow her. She widowed them instead.”
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Trump tells an entire crowd of people that they can’t afford to go to his golf club Mar-a-Lago… then tells them to not go there, it’s not a good place.
He’s even detrimental to his own brand and marketing now!
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She didn't monetize her sacrifice—she answered the call.
The Senate hearing room went cold when the insult landed.
Tammy Duckworth sat across from J.D. Vance, waiting for him to answer her question. She'd come prepared with policy, with specifics, with the kind of detailed inquiry that veterans' issues demand. But instead of engaging, Vance chose a different route. He compared her to Forrest Gump.
Let that sink in for a moment. A sitting senator, facing a decorated combat veteran who'd left parts of herself on an Iraqi battlefield, thought a fictional character was the appropriate reference.
Duckworth's response was surgical. She didn't raise her voice. She didn't need to. When you've piloted a Black Hawk helicopter through hostile fire, when you've felt the explosion that tears through metal and bone, when you've woken up in a hospital missing both legs and part of an arm, petty insults from small men barely register.
November 12, 2004. That's the day her helicopter was hit by an RPG over Iraq. She was co-piloting, focused on her mission, when the world turned to fire and shrapnel. The rocket-propelled grenade destroyed her aircraft and nearly destroyed her. Most people would have let that be the end of their service story.
Duckworth spent a year in recovery at Walter Reed. She learned to walk again on prosthetic legs. Then she went back to work.
No book tour about resilience. No cable news circuit trading on sacrifice. She didn't monetize her Purple Heart or turn her injuries into a personal brand. She served in the Illinois National Guard, then ran for office to continue serving in a different capacity.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel. Combat veteran. Purple Heart recipient. The first disabled woman elected to Congress, then to the Senate. The first senator to give birth while in office, bringing her newborn onto the Senate floor because the rules hadn't contemplated a working mother who'd also taken shrapnel for her country.
When Vance tried his cheap shot, she treated it exactly like what it was: noise from someone who'd never answered a question he found uncomfortable. She'd faced real danger. She knew the difference between actual courage and performance art patriotism.
That's who Tammy Duckworth is. Remember it.
