Cartoon of the Day (8/16/26)

POLITICAL CARTOONS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/12/26:

Trump Escapes

President Secretly Switched Planes to Avoid Possible Iranian Attack

Trump’s Secret Plane Switch: An Israeli Tip, CIA Doubts & Reporters Put at Risk (Democracy Now! - video)

Kaitlan Collins Exposes Sinister Truth About Trump’s Catering Truck Escape (Daily Beast)

Trump Hilariously Struggles to Explain His Secret Plane Switch (The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder - video)

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Iran Increases Demands

President Unsure of Path Forward

Paper Tiger: The Failure of America’s Trillion-Dollar War Machine (The SMirking Chimp)

Israeli Military Plans to Transfer Law Enforcement in Occupied West Bank to Police (The Guardian)

Has Sean Hannity Given Up on the Iran War? (Media Matters)

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Hitman Blanche Begins Tenure

“I Love You, Mr. President,” New Attorney General Says

DOJ Defies 2nd Court Order. Judge: ‘Do You Want Me to Issue Another Order Saying I Really Mean It This Time?’ (Daily Kos)

Judge Rebukes DOJ and Issues Major Warning During Hearing in My Epstein Lawsuit!! (Katie Phang - video)

Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters (ProPublica)

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ICE Arrests Increasing

Quota Set by Stephen Miller Still Not Being Met

A Young Immigrant’s Deportation Nightmare (Mother Jones)

DHS Spied on ICE Protest Groups in Minnesota Surge (The Week)

It’s Not Just Delaney. Immigration Jails Have Had Hundreds of Hunger Strikes. (Truthout)

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Progressives Win Big

Republicans Play Communist Card

Bernie Sanders Issues Nightmare Blow to Trump (Brian Tyler Cohen and Bernie Sanders - video)

CNN Paints El Sayed as Unelectable. History Paints Another Picture. (The Young Turks - video)

Corporate Media Portray DSA’s Grassroots Organizing as a Sinister Conspiracy (FAIR)

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Rich Doing Exceptionally Well

Money and Power Grow by the Minute

The World’s Worst Billionaire, Revealed (Robert Reich and Inequality Media)

Trump Is Making Money Laundering Great Again (The Hartmann Report)

GOP House Goon Says Congress Isn’t ‘Looking Out for the Rich’ (Daily Kos)

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Despot Grabs More Power

Trump Considers Calling National Emergency to Cancel Midterms

GOP Strategists 'Tearing Their Hair Out' as Trump Insiders Feed Him Bad Data (AlterNet)

The Trump Administration Is Interfering in the 2026 Midterm Elections to Entrench the Imperial Presidency (Center for American Progress)

Some Establishment Democrats Want to Ban Ranked Choice Voting (Truthdig)

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Pool Charges Dropped

Pirro Now Pressured to Bring Charges Again

Scooby-Doo: The Mystery of the Reflecting Pool | Donald Trump Parody (Midnight Oil Productions - video)

Trump & the DOJ (Last Week Tonight With John Oliver - video)

Trump Runs His Bus Over Jeanine Pirro for Revealing His Lies About the Botched Reflecting Pool (News Corpse)

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Privacy Eroding

Surveillance Escalates, No End in Sight

America’s Mass Surveillance State: How AI and Flock Cameras Are Tracking Us (LA Progressive)

The Flock Uprising Is Just the Beginning (Salon)

ACLU Says New Flock Camera Guardrails Nothing But a ‘Thinly Veiled PR Attempt’ (Common Dreams)

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AI Races On

Rogue Computers Not a Worry, Experts Say

AI Helped Me (Almost) Build a Killer Drone (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

The Data Center Industry’s PR Blitz Is Backfiring (Inside Climate News)

Pennsylvania AI Data Center Developer Asked Trump Administration Official to Help Loosen Toxic Emissions Limits (DeSmog)

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Health Risks Increase

RFK Jr. Says It’s a Good Thing

Executive Order on Vaccines Bypasses an Evidence‑Based Process That Has Kept Kids Safe (The Conversation)

Congress Face-Plants on Surprise Health Care Bills (The American Prospect)

Physician Senator Avoids Answering if He Regrets Voting for RFK Jr. (HuffPost)

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Fauci Avoids Perjury Trap

Republicans Charge Him With Contempt

The Fauci Hearings Were Brain Rot for Conservatives Who Need to Touch Grass (Takes by Jamelle Bouie - video)

MAGA Has Pandemic Nostalgia (Salon)

Why Was Fauci Held in Contempt for Pleading the 5th, and What Happens Next? (PBS News)

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Earth Sizzles

July the Hottest Month in Human History

State of the Climate: A Dimming, Overheated Planet, With Degraded Oceans (Inside Climate News)

Smoke, Heat, Storms: How Climate Change is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse (In These Times)

Tracking Extreme Heat by the Hour Makes Climate Change Seem Even Worse (Ars Technica)

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In Other News

House Dems Threaten Bombshell Subpoena of Melania Trump!?! (Katie Phang - video)

Making & Breaking Points: Populism, New Media & More (The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart - video)

Two Arrested at Lockheed Martin (The Nuclear Resister)

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