T. W. Amburgey · Illustrations & Fiction

Novelist & satirist. I go after the powerful in words and pictures, and I don't pull punches. Married, space nerd, dog dad. New most days.

[T. W. Amburgey · Illustrations & Fiction @twamburgey]

Gone fishin'. Not literally — but it's more honest than whatever the polished version of this would say. Back on the 17th.

#EditorialCartoon #Cartoonist

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Butch Lewis was a Cincinnati Teamster who led the fight on pension cuts. He died in 2015, before it passed. @sherrodbrown put his name on the bill. 100,000 Ohio pensions came through whole.

This is why I'm with him.

#AmburgeyEndorses #PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon

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Congress funded the government through December 11th. The same bill pushed the federal hemp THC ban to — December 11th.

One date. Everything on it. Safely past the midterms.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #Congress #Hemp

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Five seats decide what you pay for power, and the governor appoints all five. Acton would fill them with people who work for ratepayers, and put the consumers' counsel back at the table.

And this is why I'm with her!

@amyactonoh

#AmburgeyEndorses #EditorialCartoon #Ohio

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Ohio Issue 3 is on the ballot November 3rd. It puts the voter photo ID rule into the state constitution. Ohio's had that rule since 2023. Nothing changes. It just stops being something you can undo.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #Ohio #Issue3

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They sat in the room and said out loud it could block ballots for millions. The rule went out anyway.

One bad barcode kills the whole batch — and Maricopa mails two million at a time.

Zero-percent failure policy.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #USPS #VotingRights

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Krista Magaw spent twenty years running a land trust that put 33,000 acres under permanent protection. Levi Dean's bills this term: a fluoride ban, a raw milk act, a highway naming. Ohio House 71 — November 3.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #AmburgeyEndorses #Ohio

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Asked where his line is on whose show he'll go on, Vance named two disqualifiers: attacked my wife, said Hitler was a good guy.

That's not a principle. It's a list of two.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #AuditionForTheThrone #JDVance

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Receipts.

ORC 127.12 — seven members. Six lawmakers, one from the budget office. The minority gets one per chamber.

127.13 — "no fewer than four members" for any action.

127.17 — must carry out legislative intent. In 2013 the Ohio Supreme Court found no clear duty, 4-3.

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How Ohio moves your money after the budget passes.

The legislature writes the line item. Then two years happen. So seven people can move it — six lawmakers, one from the governor.

Four votes carry anything.

#RealCivics #PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #Ohio

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OBM's own manual: requests nobody holds for questions get approved "in a block."

The minority is guaranteed two of the seven seats. Four votes carry any action.

So two can never stop anything, and the stack goes through unopened.

None of this is illegal. That's the point.

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Brian Deer coached the kids in these towns. Knows the bus drivers and the cooks by name.

Last fall the Ohio Senate voted to keep substitute emergency and replacement levies off your ballot. Shane Wilkin voted yes.

Deer's got mine.

#AmburgeyEndorses #EditorialCartoon #Ohio

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They let in the Times' Berlin bureau chief. They kept out its Treasury correspondent — plus Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.

Asheville. @SecScottBessent says it "has nothing to do with point of view."

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #G20

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Eleven days after Ohioans passed Issue 1, @GovMikeDeWine said he accepts the results — "as well as Issue 2." Then he signed the bill rewriting Issue 2 and told them to quit whining.

He never struck the set.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #TheHonorableCriminal #Ohio

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I don't know why anyone supports the Republican Party, because... this isn't new. In 1970 a Reagan adviser called an educated public "dynamite." It's on the record. They just did the work quietly.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #ThisIsTheParty #Education

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I don't know why anyone supports the Republican Party, because... they faked a sex scandal about two congresswomen to purge one of their own. The disclaimer is right there. Bring a magnifying glass.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #ThisIsTheParty #Deepfakes

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I don't know why anyone supports the Republican Party, because... one of their own voted no once. Billionaires bought his seat, Trump blessed it, the party cheered. That's not a primary. That's a purchase.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #ThisIsTheParty #Kentucky

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I don't know why anyone supports the Republican Party, because... they cut the Medicaid money rural hospitals run on, then told them to apply for a grant. The building stays open. Labor and delivery doesn't.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #ThisIsTheParty #Medicaid

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Six years of "hand count every ballot." Minnesota priced it: $825,000, due Monday. He stopped payment and sued the Secretary of State instead.

Turns out the bill was the one thing he didn't want counted.

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #MikeLindell #Minnesota

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There were two injunctions. The Supreme Court lifted one on Aug. 24. The other — League of Women Voters, nationwide — still stands. USPS finalized the rule anyway. The judge called it "feigned compliance."

#PoliticalCartoon #Satire #EditorialCartoon #SCOTUS #VotingRights