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Reflecting Pool Party

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The Reflecting Pool Saga has been an amusing synecdoche for this administration’s incompetence. Unlike everything else they’ve touched, no actual people have been killed (yet, and sorry to diminish the lives of those poor ducks), although several have been arrested for touching the paint that JJ Carafo was paid $1.7 million to slap on there before it immediately started peeling.

Somehow people manage to maintain large pools throughout the world, even in Florida, without them becoming toxic sludge within a week. But every contractor who knows what they’re doing knows Trump doesn’t honor contracts, so only grifters were left to do the grifter-in-chief’s work for his tacky 250th July 4th celebrations in DC.

Our country stinks, but I’ll be celebrating anyway, eating lobster rolls somewhere away from all the tourists in Boston for the holiday, and watching illegal fireworks neighbors smuggled south from New Hampshire. I hope you’ll be having some fun over the long weekend too.

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New Cards for 2026

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The World Cup is underway in North America, and these cards should only be applied for games played in the United States. There’s no way Canada and Mexico can fuck things up at the same level as our rapidly declining empire.

I’ve been watching some of the group stage matches, and running into wonderful crowds of Scots, Haitians, and Norwegians in Boston while they party and wait to be herded onto our slapped together commuter rail route to Foxboro. This is normally a line that only functions for NFL, MLS, and concerts, since not a lot of people live out there for regular commuting purposes.

A month of matches has put strain on that system, so the MBTA has diverted trains from other routes to support the increased volume. Getting people to Foxboro has gone rather smoothly, since they can stagger the trains, but everyone at the stadium obviously wants to leave as soon as the games end and that’s led to some clusterfucks, but everyone’s having fun.

Except for Iran’s team, who’ve been forced to hop on planes immediately after their US games since we’re being dicks and not allowing them to stay overnight. It’s pettiness like this that makes Trump’s surrendering to Iran to end the war he started utterly humiliating for him and everyone stupid enough to think that war was gonna turn out any other way.

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America’s Pest Threats

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Once eradicated in the United States, screwworms are back thanks to this administration. I only knew about botflies previously, and apparently they’re nicer than screwworms, since they typically don’t kill their host.

I was already squicked out by bugs thanks to my blister beetle encounter (May’s exclusive comic for $5/mo patrons), and this screwworm news will be keeping me far away from any county fair livestock this summer.

Does this cartoon have any nuance or satire beyond “These guys are gross and they literally suck?” No, but I had fun drawing it and I think I captured RFK Jr.’s true form.

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Insurrectionist Slush Fund Sweepstakes

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche put together quite the sweetheart deal for every January 6th C.H.U.D. and set aside nearly $2 billion to compensate them for the pain of facing mild consequences after attempting to overthrow the government. Also in this blatantly corrupt deal was blanket immunity for Trump, and anyone he’s related to, for financial crimes, and probably every other type of crime as well. (I’m not reading all of it.)

This entire century has been ruined by people favoring “looking forward” rather than make anyone responsible of its horrors face a single consequence, and things keep ratcheting for the worse every time. At least Jay Johnston gets a fat check after his Bob’s Burgers ones ran out.

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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Menu

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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is still happening next weekend, despite Trump constantly wiping his doo-doo ass with the First Amendment, threatening to jail real journalists, and in some cases having his goons actually follow through. The preening bozos who will be attending and hosting this thing are more gossip columnists and state propagandists than the journalists Trump is targeting, and none of them are even good at the job like Leni Riefenstahl.

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Fast Feud

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This is an exclusive for $5+ monthly patrons. Reader support is essential and I’m beefing up my Patreon output to reflect that. Not just for the $5+ tier, either. For only $1 a month, you can see my weekly cartoons before anyone else, as well as posts and livestreams that I don’t make available anywhere else.

And if you’re already a subscriber, THANK YOU!

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Congressional Crisis Kit

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The week started with the President threatening to annihilate Iran in a deranged post on his vanity website. That didn’t happen, which is a pleasant surprise! Despite claims of a ceasefire, we’re exactly where we’ve been for over a month now: Lots of people are dead in Iran and lots of boats are stuck in the Strait of Hormuz.

While we were all contemplating our mortality Tuesday, Congress was away on vacation, doing nothing to exercise any constraints on this madman. Of course Republicans are largely to blame, but Democrats also overwhelmingly approved of this stupid war in a retroactive vote that occurred after the bombs were already falling on schools and hospitals.

The plan since January 2025 was to give Trump enough rope to hang himself in the midterms. That’s a lot of rope, and a lot of people are being hanged while we wait for them to actually be seated.

While in the minority, they could gum up this idiot fascist machine by refusing to fund it, or confirm Trump’s unqualified and dangerous flunky nominees. I know this is possible because I remember Mitch McConnell. He practically single-handedly ruined the last quarter century by wielding every bit of power available to the Senate minority.

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Exit Strategies

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After starting a war without a plan, the United States may be about to end it without one, while leaving Iran with more leverage that it had before it began now that it’s collecting tolls from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The administration’s attempts to spin this as a victory aren’t landing with the MAGA crowd, who usually will eat whatever Trump serves them, but apparently even they have a limit and it’s $4+ gas.

Thousands of innocents killed, billions wasted, and turning the United States into a pariah state all because a sundowning pedophile got bored and thought some explosions would liven up his TV time. Now he’s bored again, and we all have to sit helplessly and wait for him to pick his next target. Unless you’re in Congress. There’s a lot of things you could be doing to put an end to this, but none of them read my comics.

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