Cartoon of the Day (7/24/26)

POLITICAL CARTOONS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/22/26:

Trump Plots Election Steal

“Nothing Is More Important to Trump Than Keeping Control of House and Senate,” Vance Says

Trump Official Issues Bombshell Threat in Shock Escalation (Brian Tyler Cohen and Democracy Docket - video)

Political Scientist Predicts Deal That Could Throw November Midterms Into Chaos (New Civil Rights Movement)

Proportional Representation Gets a New Look (The American Prospect)

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Blanche Disses Epstein Victims

“All I Care About Is President Trump,” Acting Attorney General Says

AG Blanche Files Shocking Response in My Epstein Lawsuit!! (Katie Phang - video)

Todd Blanche Is “Not Fit” to Be AG, from Epstein Files to Trump’s $1.8B Slush Fund: Rep. Jayapal (Democracy Now! - video)

Ex-Trump White House Lawyer Says Todd Blanche ‘Disqualified’ Himself (AlterNet)

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War Escalates

Trump Calls the War That Is Not a War a “Skirmish”

A Key House Dem Breaks Down the White House’s ‘Unfathomable’ Iran War Funding Requests (Talking Points Memo)

‘This War Was Illegal, Period, Full Stop’: CounterSpin Interview With Phyllis Bennis on Costs of War (FAIR)

The Leader We Need: Mamdani Calls on Trump to Arrest Netanyahu (The Rational National - video)

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Hegseth Demands BDE

Secretary of War Says Soldiers Need to Be More Manly

Hegseth Lies to Congress (The Young Turks - video)

Ossoff Grills Hegseth on Past Iran War Statements Touting Success (C-SPAN - video)

The Rise of the Military-Technology Complex (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

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ICE Kills Again

Trump Applauds

People Keep Dying in ICE Custody. 13 Dems Back a Bill to Abolish the Agency. (Truthout)

ICE Is Conducting a Reign of Terror (in These Times)

‘ICE Is Her Running Mate’: Maine Democrats Spotlight Collins’ Support for Rogue Trump Agency (Common Dreams)

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Trump Delivers Speech

Says Nothing New

Trump’s Election Integrity Speech Lays Groundwork for Midterm Interference: Ari Berman (Democracy Now! - video)

Republicans Opened the New Poll and Saw Their Obituary | Behind the Numbers (Lincoln Square and the Lincoln Project - video)

Mitch McConnell Rocked as MAGA Senator Drops Reality Check Over Health Secrecy (The Damage Report - video)

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Cyclospora Spreading Fast

RFK Jr. Says It’s Not a Problem

What to Know About ‘Explosive Diarrhoea’ Parasite Outbreak in US (BBC)

They Didn’t Just Buy Politicians: They Bought Your Food, Your Health, Your Future, and They’re Coming for What’s Left (The Hartmann Report)

New Trump Administration Rules on Federal Science Funding Could Make American Research Slower, Costlier and Harder to Share (The Conversation)

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Temperature Records Broken

Trump Attacks Alternative Energy Development

Trump Calls Climate Change a Hoax. Americans Aren’t Buying It. (Mother Jones)

Global Warming Unmakes Winter in the US West (Inside Climate News)

A Slow-Motion Atomic Bomb in the White House (LA Progressive)

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In Other News

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jaron Lanier on the AI Illusion (StarTalk Plus - video)

The Ceasefire That Redrew Gaza (The Progressive)

How Private Equity Destroyed an American Pastime (Salon)

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