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It’s open enrollment season for those who rely on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, and people are being confronted with extreme sticker shock as premiums skyrocket because of Republican insistence on eliminating the subsidies that made the whole thing nominally “affordable” in the first place. Was it good even with the subsidies? Nope, but it was better than what came before, which was tens of millions opting to forgo health insurance entirely.

As a freelancer, I spent years relying on these plans. First when it was Romneycare in Massachusetts, then when it was implemented nationally and called Obamacare. The subsidies are what propped up this rickety system and stifled demands we finally join the rest of the modern world with single-payer health care.

Millions will get sick and die prematurely without health care, and (for once) the Democrats aren’t caving on the shutdown to protect the minimal coverage we do have. Still, any Democrat who’s not forcefully demanding Medicare for All should be primaried and have their own generous congressional coverage revoked.

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Mike Johnson’s Food Bank

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The federal government’s been shutdown for a month and SNAP funding is about to be denied to tens of millions of hungry families. Republicans are threatening to starve people in order to deny them medical care. Real cartoon villain shit, yet somehow there’s a good chance Democrats will blink and throw their constituents under one evil bus to avoid another.

Mike Johnson is a vile little worm, and he’s not even fun to draw. Just your basic Heritage Foundation nerd who’d eat his own grandmother if it gave him a sliver of power. Johnson’s refusing to seat Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election months ago. She’d be the deciding vote to release the Epstein files, so Speaker Worm is refusing to swear her into Congress.

The House has barely been in session this year, so Johnson and his son have had a lot of time to monitor each other’s porn habits while the country burns.

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Behind the Scenes at No Kings

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This month’s exclusive for $5+ Patreon members is about my experience at the most recent No Kings protest in Boston.

Reader support is what keeps the comics coming, and for just $1 a month, you can see my weekly comics as soon as I finish them, before they’re posted anywhere else. Even becoming a free member is an easy way to follow my work and get notified when I publish something for free.

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White House Renovations

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After a fun and inspiring weekend of No Kings protests (which I’ll be posting about later as this month’s Patreon exclusive), it was back to the Trump’s Demented Fascism Show. In the midst of the shutdown, drone-striking innocent people in international waters, and ICE continuing to terrorize cities, this administration demolished the East Wing of the White House to build their Bribery Ballroom, brought to you by corporate sponsors and the failure to enforce the Emoluments Clause the first time around.

Destroying an historic building is obviously minor compared to the daily horrors Trump’s inflicting on actual living human beings, but the symbolism to what he’s doing to the country is so blatant even the media is starting to notice the big ol’ binch ain’t right in the head. Maybe the Democratic leadership will be next to notice.

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Young Republicans Trading Cards

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This week Politico published leaked chats from “young” (in quotes because most are in their thirties) Republicans that reveal they’re racist, fascist, and anti-Semitic creeps. It’s not surprising to anyone who’s been online for the past quarter century, but if Politico, which is owned by a billionaire Trump supporter, is finding these groypers to be outside the bounds of normal politics, perhaps shame can regain a foothold in this country.

But someone who grew up in these chats is now the Vice President, so I wouldn’t hold out too much hope for that happening. It’s probably best to just pull the plug on the internet and keep these freaks isolated in their gross little lives.

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Protest Costumes

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The regime is desperate to make antifascism, or “antifa” to make it sound scary, the pretext for its authoritarian crackdown on cities. Protestors in Portland, Oregon have subverted this with ridiculous costumes that highlight the absurdity of the current moment. Portland Frog has become the face of this movement.

Turns out an effective way to fight evil weirdos is having good weirdos show up.

Public opinion is already vastly against this administration. The media loves a riot to try to turn public around, so making the administration’s goons the only violent ones providing violent footage is a savvy move. Silly costumes aren’t the only way, though. Mutual aid, sabotage, and other organizing are essential to stopping the fascist tide washing over the country. But the costumes are much more fun to draw.

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Pariah State Comedy Festival

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Today’s the anniversary of the killing of Jamal Kashoggi while the Riyadh Comedy Festival is currently going on featuring some of the most shameless cash grabbers in the business. Many of them have made their careers decrying “cancel culture” but eagerly signed a contract that literally restricts their speech.

None are real surprises, and neither will their unwillingness to accept any criticism about taking the gig. When they get back, they can all whine about the “woke” public’s reaction during a performance at Trump’s Kennedy Center.

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