The Global Jester 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🦋

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Political cartoons — Drawn from the absurd.
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[The Global Jester 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🦋 @ProgressNow00]

@chrislhayes The Democrats biggest error since Newt Gingrich came to power is treating Republicans like moral actors who play by the rules.

Republicans will do anything to retain power-lie, cheat, steal, kill. Democrats need to stop caving to them. We get burned every single time.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING:

A month ago, NYT columnist David Brooks scolded the media for focusing on Epstein.

Today, House Democrats released new Epstein photos — and Brooks is in them, attending an event with Epstein.

That’s not “fixation.” That’s relevance.

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[Mega-Politics @_MegaPolitics]

Breaking:

New Epstein files show that Muhammad bin Salman visited island 34 times with Jeffrey Epstein.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@PolycomputingAI I have lots to say about the atrocities being committed by Bibi Netanyahu in the name of the Israeli people. It must end. And there must be a two state solution. There must be a way for Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace. The murder of innocents is murder period.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Fair-Is-Fair @MHarrisonW]

Merging the US Armed Force with Israel's will (1) allow every Israeli soldier entry into the US at any time, (2) set them up for dual citizenship, and (3) make them eligible for GI benefits, pensions, low cost loans, etc., all provided by the US taxpayers. This is the most un-American bill possible!

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

Nobody is coming to save your aging parent.

Not Medicare.
Not the hospital.
Not their primary care doctor.

When your mom gets discharged on 14 medications and three specialist referrals…

The person coordinating all of it is usually an exhausted daughter with a full-time job.

We need to talk about that.

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

They bomb 9 countries in a year but still play the victim.

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

TRUMP EPSTEIN PEDO FILES: "I personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was forced to have with Mr. Trump during this period, including the fourth of these encounters where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop." https://t.co/Ib5cGUjAZn

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🔥🚨 MAJOR JUST IN: The SAVE America Act Just Failed In The Senate.

The measure, which would have required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide, was rejected 48-50.

Republican senators Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins voted no.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Nearly 60 people in Idaho have contracted bacterial infections after drinking raw milk.

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

A new Post analysis finds the video showing the Trump administration’s recent Pentagon appointee clambering into the Capitol on Jan. 6

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨 Mohammed Al-Khatib is undergoing his third surgery in less than a week after Israeli shelling in Gaza, leaving him injured, without his foot, and having lost his mother‼️

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The genocide seems unstoppable,
Necrocapitalism seems invincible- but they are not!

All we need is UNITY. COORDINATION. PERSEVERANCE.

Keep Protesting. Striking. Boycotting. Litigating.

Not just once.
All the times needed till the Apartheid ends and the system which fed it too.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Republicans often like to say that government should be run more like a business.

If any CEO fell asleep at multiple board meetings and events, that CEO would be fired.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

We’re all supposed to pretend this isn’t happening a lot?

How does this make us look to the rest of the world?

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Unearthed footage shows Elias Irizarry, who was recently appointed to a top counterterrorism job, climbing through a Capitol window on January 6th

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, this sick old man can't even keep himself upright, seated in the Oval Office.

He's practically sideways. How TF is this not a bigger story?

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

Donald Trump fell asleep multiple times in the Oval Office today. AGAIN.

That’s why I’ve called for the 25th Amendment, and dozens of my colleagues have done the same. Donald Trump is unwell and must be removed from office. It’s a national security crisis.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump is passed out in the Oval Office right now. 25TH AMENDMENT NOW!