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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 24/08/2026

ICE detained Luis Manuel Aviles Roa in Key West while his son Joshua served nine months aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. DHS: a family member in the military 'is not a free pass to violate our nation's laws.' Which window would that have been?

Cartoon of a grim federal service hall: a padlocked, cobwebbed ticket window under a sign reading FREE PASSES, with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem beside it in body armour reading from a laminated card and saying 'That window was never open.' To the right, a huge open counter marked REMOVALS is doing brisk business — a middle-aged man in a work shirt holds out a document wallet at the deal tray, a line of families recedes into the hall, and a young sailor in coveralls, name tag AVILES, stands small behind a sagging queue rope with his cap in his hand.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 24/08/2026

A CENTCOM press staffer told an Intercept reporter he'd be added to a list of journalists to disregard. Asked in writing, the press office said there is no blacklist. The denial has been filed.

Editorial cartoon: in a cramped CENTCOM press office a shrugging civilian staffer, phone wedged under his jaw and a brass nameplate reading ALLEE on his desk, drops a freshly printed statement into a steel card drawer stencilled DISREGARD that is already packed with tabbed cards; behind him an officer sets down a receiver beneath a framed portrait plated HEGSETH, beside a spike of unanswered press queries.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 24/08/2026

50% US tariffs landed on $20bn of Canadian goods — hockey sticks to tongue depressors. Carney answers dollar for dollar on 8 September. Open wide.

A cartoon exam room. Donald Trump, in a white clinic coat over his navy suit and long red tie, lowers a tongue depressor stickered '+50%' into the wide-open mouth of a seed-capped farmer on the table, saying 'Say fifty-first.' In the doorway Mark Carney waits, holding up his own tongue depressor with a maple-leaf tag reading 'SEPT 8'. Hockey sticks bristle from an umbrella stand in the foreground.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 23/08/2026

Asked about declaring a national security emergency over the November midterms, Trump said 'stranger things have happened.' The proclamation looks finished. Only the reason is outstanding.

Woodcut-style cartoon: at night in a panelled White House office, Trump holds up a signed, gold-sealed emergency proclamation toward the viewer — the clause where the reason should go is a long blank ruled line — while a clerk wheels in a hand-truck of file boxes stencilled GROUNDS.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 23/08/2026

A federal judge struck down the State Department's ban on immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries as illegal. A cable had told consulates to pull back visas already approved and printed.

Cartoon of a consulate back office: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sleeves rolled, dangles an already-printed immigrant visa over a desktop shredder beside a desk drawer stencilled APPROVED, while an aide on the phone relays a court ruling.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 22/08/2026

Trade Rep Jamieson Greer announced there was no deal under an hour before the deadline; 50% tariffs on $28B of Canadian goods took effect. Canada packed the binders and went home.

Editorial cartoon: in a dim hotel lobby at four minutes to midnight, a night clerk labelled Greer slides a long folded bill across the marble to a man labelled Carney, who stands in an overcoat with a roller bag and a box of binders. A crooked portrait of Trump hangs behind the key pigeonholes.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 22/08/2026

The Pentagon removed Stars and Stripes' top editor and publisher and fired a reporter after they objected to military interference in the paper's coverage. The stars kept their jobs.

A soldier in a chow hall holds up a Stars and Stripes front page whose masthead stars are polished pinned general's rank stars and whose stripes and every column below are solid black bars, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth restocks the newspaper rack, pressing black tape across the stacked front pages as a public affairs officer holds the roll steady.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

Chief Justice John Roberts signed a temporary order letting Trump's $400m White House ballroom keep building while the court weighs the appeal. The administration says 65% is done, at 20 hours a day, seven days a week.

Night-time editorial cartoon at a floodlit White House construction gate: Chief Justice John Roberts, in judicial robe under a hi-vis vest and hard hat, waves a line of concrete mixers into the East Wing excavation with a SLOW paddle while Trump leans grinning from the lead cab; far behind the fence a small labelled Judge Leon holds a rain-soaked stop-work order nobody looks at.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

Trump promised Iran an 'economic D-Day.' The Dow shed 703.84 points, 30-year yields pushed past 5.25%, and Bessent doubled buybacks to $4bn. The queue at the auction door: nobody.

Editorial cartoon: outside a Treasury auction door, sovereign investors in overcoats walk a picket line under a 'BUYERS' STRIKE' placard; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in shirtsleeves, offers them one small paper cup marked $4bn while a tote board on the facade reads $40 TRILLION; above, on the balcony, Donald Trump has his back to all of it, bellowing through a bullhorn at an empty street.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

Smotrich opened Kadim, a West Bank settlement rebuilt 21 years after it was dismantled. Press were barred from the ceremony. The lighting, a neighbour says, has been working since two in the morning.

Night-time editorial cartoon: on a black hilltop, three Israeli officials stand on a plywood stage behind an uncut red ribbon with the scissors still lying unused; the labelled minister has instead thrown a huge industrial lever, and the thing it has switched on is a floodlight mast whose hard white beam crosses the valley and pins one small Palestinian house, its window half bricked up with fresh breeze blocks. A stone marker on the stage reads KADIM.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

Israel issued tenders for 1,234 settlement homes in E1. The UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada called it "unacceptable". The ministry logged it.

Cartoon of an Israeli tender counter: a clerk resembling Bezalel Smotrich brings a date-stamp down on a sheet headed UNACCEPTABLE held up by five near-identical grey diplomats, beside an open counter box marked E1 BIDS, while contractors with rolled blueprints queue behind them.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

Federal debt passed $40 trillion this week, with interest above $1 trillion a year. Treasury also moved to prop up the yen, so Japan wouldn't be tempted to sell its Treasurys.

Editorial cartoon: in the gravel service yard behind a huge Treasury building, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent kneels in rolled shirtsleeves misting a limp, wilting banknote marked with a yen sign that is tied to a bamboo garden stake, using a watering can marked with a dollar sign. Beside him a plain steel side door lettered CREDITOR is opening, a cuffed hand already on the handle. Caption below: Debt service.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

Treasury logged $40 trillion in debt the same week Trump waved a seven-page, unauthored Census report claiming 24,000 noncitizens voted. Same government. Same rigor.

Charcoal editorial cartoon: a weary Census Bureau enumerator with a blacked-out ID badge stands on the Treasury Building's doorstep, jamming a run of zeros into a tiny box on his household form while a perforated printout spills from the dark doorway past his shoes; behind him on the sidewalk Donald Trump holds a thin sheaf of seven pages up to a camera crew. His balloon reads '24,000 done. They sent me here next.'

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

Ukraine's parliament confirmed SBU Alpha veteran Yevhenii Khmara as defence minister, 312 to 2, hours after Russian missiles killed nine in Kyiv. Nobody in the country has voted in anything else since 2019.

Woodcut-style cartoon of Ukraine's parliament chamber: a huge electronic board glows 312 - 2 while rows of lawmakers applaud a stiff man in a badly fitting suit named on a desk plate, Zelenskyy speaks from the rostrum in an olive sweatshirt, and through tall blast-taped windows a nine-storey residential block burns over the rooftops.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

The federal debt passed $40 trillion Wednesday, five months after $39 trillion. Interest is now the government's second-biggest expense — and the only guest at the cost-cutting meeting who doesn't have to show up.

A crowded White House cabinet meeting: Trump gestures from the head of the table saying everyone must cut five percent, secretaries lean in waving thin folders, and one chair on the far side sits empty with an untouched place setting behind a brass nameplate reading INTEREST, $1.1 TRILLION, which nobody looks at.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge the third line of gilt lettering — crediting the Trump Kennedy Center Fund — goes up only if the fund hits $100 million. Naming rights with stretch goals.

A marble concert-hall facade caged in scaffolding and a blue tarp: two rows of gilt capital letters are already bolted into the stone above a hairline crack, a third row is still sealed in a long crate swinging from a hoist chain, and a hand-painted plywood fundraising thermometer marked $100M is filled barely a fifth of the way. A rigger idles on a plank saying the marble is cracking under line two.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 19/08/2026

Israel's military confirmed its troops fired on the car carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab, and opened a criminal probe two and a half years later. The World Central Kitchen and MSF files stayed shut: no grounds.

An editorial cartoon set in a cramped military screening room: a blank rectangle of projector light glares on the wall while an IDF officer slams a rubber stamp onto an open case file and a second officer lowers a trade paper to ask a question, beside a tray of two closed folders labelled NO GROUNDS.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 19/08/2026

Trump paused his threatened 50% tariff on about $20bn of Canadian goods — wine, hockey sticks — for three days, and in the same post said Keystone XL "may be awoken from the grave." Bring a shovel and a term sheet.

Editorial cartoon: in a windswept prairie cemetery, Trump and a hard-hatted TC Energy man haul on straps to winch a huge rust-caked oil pipe out of an open grave beneath a headstone reading KEYSTONE XL 2008 - 2021, while Mark Carney stands graveside holding a crate of wine bottles and a bundle of hockey sticks.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

ABC and Disney have sued the FCC, alleging retaliation after chair Brendan Carr shoved all eight of their stations into early license renewal and told them they could do it the easy way or the hard way. Row three is under review.

Editorial cartoon: FCC chair Brendan Carr rides a slow theme-park boat marked CARR through an 'it's a small world' ride, eight fat folders marked EARLY RENEWAL jammed in the bow and a clipboard on his knees, pointing at a tier of animatronic children in folk costume and saying 'Too much inclusion in row three.' A second boat marked IGER drifts helplessly behind him.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

Kushner spent nearly four hours with Netanyahu in Jerusalem after Israel rejected the 15-point Gaza plan. Nothing in it was changed, he said — only the misunderstandings.

Editorial cartoon: in a bare Jerusalem meeting room, Benjamin Netanyahu leans over an easel chart headed BOARD OF PEACE listing fifteen ruled plan points, drawing one huge dripping red bracket around every one of them and writing a single red word, UNLESS, underneath, while a beaming Jared Kushner says nothing was changed.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

Ukraine is now soliciting Patriot interceptors from about 40 countries, some of them near expiry, after Trump redirected PAC-2 and PAC-3 supplies to Middle East allies and the US strategic stockpile. Kyiv holds roughly a tenth of what it needs.

In a cold military stockroom a small, exhausted Zelenskyy holds a wire supermarket basket with two missile-interceptor crates taken from a bottom shelf marked REDUCED, while a bored uniformed clerk crouches and presses an orange expiry sticker onto another crate, saying 'These expire in November.' At right, Trump stands in front of a padlocked steel cage of clean, unstickered crates, a key on a lanyard and a clipboard under his arm.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

Trump again threatened to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” — despite Oman being a U.S. strategic partner and Washington’s main channel to Tehran. Muscat’s safety board has no streak to protect.

An Omani mediator calmly holds two telephone handsets at a desk between U.S. and Iranian flags. A television shows Donald Trump issuing a bombing threat. Behind the mediator, a factory safety board marked “DAYS SINCE” displays a large zero.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

One wall, two counters. The shells go out on schedule; the cement is holding for a 60-to-90-day review.

Cartoon of a long concrete depot wall with two service windows: the left one open and floodlit, a forklift hauling out crates stencilled US AID, and the right one padlocked with a card reading 60-90 DAYS, where a figure of Jared Kushner waits with a glossy rendering board of new towers.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

He took the verdict back to the store it came from. Denied a second time — one item on a 33-request August recess list.

Editorial cartoon: at a luxury department-store returns counter, Donald Trump leans over the marble pushing a stamped court verdict at an unmoved clerk who slides it back with one finger; behind him a woman holds up a cashed cheque marked $5.8M, and at the far end of the counter Chief Justice John Roberts rubber-stamps a tall stack of orders tagged 33 ITEMS.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 17/08/2026

Ben-Gvir told a podcast Israeli forces should kill "30 or 40" people a night in Gaza. His guest asked for a button. Israel votes 27 October. #Gaza

Cartoon of a podcast studio: a smirking Israeli minister leans across the table to pin a campaign badge printed with his own face onto the hoodie of a gaunt young former captive, who is saying into his microphone that he doesn't want a rope, he wants a button. A box of identical badges sits on the table.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 17/08/2026

3M's expert witness asked ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault," then photographed the gas detector at the centre of a fatal explosion and asked the bot what he was looking at. Discovery: 350 pages of chats.

Woodcut-style cartoon of a packed courtroom: a paid expert witness in the box holds a soot-blackened gas detector aloft in one hand while aiming his phone at it with the other, his speech balloon reading 'What am I looking at?'. A plaintiffs' attorney watches beside a two-foot stack of printouts banded '350 PAGES', and 3M's pinstriped counsel slumps at a table of red-logoed binders behind a nameplate reading '3M'.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 17/08/2026

Five months in, the surrender table is still set. The other chair has not RSVP'd. No time schedule, he says.

Editorial cartoon: on a warship deck dressed for a surrender ceremony, Donald Trump sits alone with arms crossed at a baize signing table set with an inkwell, an unsigned folder, a folded white flag and a place card reading IRAN before an empty gilt chair, while a labelled Pete Hegseth checks his watch and gulls doze on months-old bunting.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 17/08/2026

Sworn in with one hand raised and the other on his client's shoulder. The pocket Constitution stayed in the clerk's hand.

Editorial cartoon: Todd Blanche takes the attorney general's oath with his right hand raised and his left hand flat on Donald Trump's shoulder as Trump sits at a courtroom defense table in a gold-curtained White House room; a clerk holds out a pocket Constitution nobody touches, a banker's box marked BONDI sits by the open door as a blonde figure walks out, evidence boxes marked VOTER ROLLS stand in the foreground beside a briefcase marked BLANCHE, and a wall television carries a Meet the Press interview.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 16/08/2026

He filed the complaint mid-launch. It was upheld. #Korea

Editorial cartoon: at a barbed-wire DMZ fence, Kim Jong Un leans over the wire to hand Donald Trump a paper marked NOISE COMPLAINT while a ballistic missile climbs out of its launcher in full flame behind him; Trump staples a notice reading DRILLS REDUCED to a soldiers' tent flap as a very tired South Korean president Lee Jae-myung watches. Caption: Very good relationship.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 16/08/2026

Kushner and Blair met Hamas in Egypt to discuss a withdrawal. The side that would do the withdrawing sent a nameplate.

Editorial cartoon: in an Egyptian hotel conference room, Jared Kushner, Tony Blair and Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya stand behind a long table bearing tent nameplates reading KUSHNER, BLAIR and AL-HAYYA; at the end of the table a fourth nameplate reading ISRAEL sits before an empty pushed-back chair and an untouched glass of water, under a framed portrait of Donald Trump.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 16/08/2026

Day 300 in Adelanto. The judge asked the marshal to expedite his prescribed ibuprofen — refused. His son's hug — refused. Security protocol. #Adelanto

Editorial cartoon: in a courtroom a towering U.S. Marshal holds up a clipboard facing the reader reading 'IBUPROFEN — DENIED' and 'HUG — DENIED', his other forearm barring a teenage boy who stands with arms already open; the judge leans far off the bench pleading, and behind them a journalist in a detention uniform sits with a swollen, unbandaged purple arm.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 16/08/2026

Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million fighting a tax that would cost him $13.3 billion. Jensen Huang, who'd owe about $8 billion, says he's perfectly fine paying it.

Editorial cartoon: in a Sand Hill Road conference room, Sergey Brin points a laser pointer at a pitch slide reading '133x RETURN' above a tiny stub of a bar next to a giant one, saying 'The tiny one's the ask.' A table of billionaires scribbles notes; Jensen Huang stands at the back with his arms folded, writing nothing, beside a 'NO ON 40' yard sign.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 15/08/2026

No one may board the USS Lincoln, so the Pentagon, the Navy Secretary, a senator and the press all crowd around Grandma's phone. It is the only line still open.

Editorial cartoon: a grandmother at her kitchen table cups a single phone showing a short message from her grandson aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, while Donald Trump leans over her shoulder dictating a reply, Pete Hegseth thumbs a correction into his own phone, Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao reads from a statement sheet, Senator Ruben Gallego waves an unanswered letter, and a TV boom mic dips toward the screen.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 15/08/2026

ICE plans to spend $20m on electric shock gloves praised as "low optic" because they leave no marks. So we drew the crew keeping them out of frame.

A nighttime ICE arrest run like a film shoot: a cinematographer at a monitor cart calls the frame while the officer's shock-gloved hand is pushed behind a black cutter flag, out of shot. A boom operator dangles a microphone over a police chief describing the product; a director's chair reads COMPLIANT TECH; a script supervisor holds up a stopwatch at 0:99 and a clapper slate reads TAKE 27.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 14/08/2026

Day 253 at sea, no port call, and the Lincoln's old 2003 banner comes out of storage for a light edit. Listed support for 5,000-plus sailors: seven humans and one dog.

Editorial cartoon on an aircraft carrier flight deck: sailors on scaffolding roller grey paint across an old salt-stained banner until only the word MISSION survives, while Donald Trump speaks from a podium bolted to the deck saying 'Not nearly enough,' Pete Hegseth stands beside him clutching a clipboard, a hollow-eyed ship's captain marks a personnel roster, and a queue of hundreds of sailors switchbacks to the horizon toward one weary Labrador in a service vest.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 14/08/2026

DOJ asks the Supreme Court to unfreeze the $400m East Wing ballroom, now described in the brief as an 'integrated military complex.' The lawn is untouched.

Woodcut-style cartoon: a cutaway of the White House South Lawn shows immaculate, untouched grass with a small placard reading NO CHANGES, while forty feet below a colossal gilded ballroom with chandeliers and a steel blast door is craned into an excavated pit, Trump in a hard hat riding a gold escalator down with a gold shovel as the Solicitor General, standing on the lawn above, holds up an emergency application and says 'Nothing above ground, Your Honors.'

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 14/08/2026

Nearly fifty percent installed. Sixty days to plan taking it out again. #Navy

Editorial cartoon: in a floodlit dry dock, Donald Trump stands before the opened hull of the half-built carrier USS Doris Miller and points up at its reactor hatch without looking; the dismantled electromagnetic catapult rail sticks out of a scrap skip labelled EMALS while a riveted brass steam boiler swings in on crane chains. Pete Hegseth nods behind him with a clipboard; acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao holds an unopened blueprint; a shipyard welder pauses mid-cut on the plating.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 14/08/2026

Water and power cut since Sunday. The barbecue twenty feet away has both.

Night-time cartoon: a dark, shuttered Palestinian house, its electricity meter wire-sealed with a red CUT OFF tag and a chalk tally reading NIGHT 5 on the wall. An orange extension cord and a green garden hose run from the sealed meter and sealed standpipe across twenty feet of dust to a floodlit settler barbecue camp, where a soldier turns skewers, a settler dances, hose water fills a drinks cooler, and a badge-labelled Mike Huckabee sits on a plastic chair saying 'I called it terror.'

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 14/08/2026

Day 253 at sea, no port call in over 200. Blumenthal's letter lists empty shelves, bad water, and care packages held for months. Hegseth says conditions were 'completely misrepresented.' Chow's on.

Editorial cartoon: on a warship's mess deck, a labelled Pete Hegseth in a serving apron over his pinstripe suit dips an oversized ladle into a giant steel vat stencilled RESPECT (BULK) and pours a thin trickle onto the empty trays of gaunt sailors; a taped bulkhead sign reads DO NOT DRINK above the drinking fountain, and a padlocked cage of care packages on the deck is banded MAIL HELD. He says, 'Seconds?'

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 13/08/2026

Clacton's ballot paper ran to 90cm — the longest in British electoral history, 34 candidates deep. We checked what was printed through the middle.

Cartoon of a Clacton seafront sweet stall. A customer's hands hold up a three-foot stick of seaside rock snapped in half; the flat broken face shows the word FARAGE running through the candy core, while tiny candidate names printed down the stick's length are too small to read. Behind the counter a silver-haired man in a velvet-collared camel coat works the brass till, saying 'Three feet. Best value in Clacton.' A propped price card reads 34 NAMES. A drenched, top-hatted caped man with an enormous rosette waits in the queue.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 13/08/2026

Trump Media will sell you the president's posts in milliseconds for up to $100,000 a month. The briefing room, rezoned for latency.

An editorial cartoon of the White House briefing room: the front rows of press chairs have been ripped out and replaced by humming server racks cabled to the podium, one rack wearing a brass plaque reading 100,000 A MONTH. Trump Media's CEO works a laser pointer at them while Donald Trump thumbs his phone beside the podium, and the working press stands penned behind a velvet rope at the back under a foam-board sign reading FREE TIER DELAY.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 12/08/2026

Two barriers down, one dhow waiting, eight ships in a whole day. Totally under control. #Hormuz

Charcoal cartoon of a highway toll plaza standing in open sea. Donald Trump, in a high-visibility vest, leans from the left booth thumbing a hand tally-counter beneath a sign reading HORMUZ, his striped barrier arm lowered over the water. Facing him from a mirror-image booth marked REZAEI, under a crooked plank sign reading WILL NOT OPEN, Mohsen Rezaei mans the other booth with his own barrier down. A single small dhow idles in the gap between the two lowered arms; far off on the horizon a small freighter smokes from its engine room.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 12/08/2026

A judge blocked the mail-in voting order in all 50 states and noted the government has never defended its constitutionality in any court — district, appeals or Supreme. The dead letter office knows the procedure. #cartoon

In a dim Postal Service mail recovery center, a clerk holds up a burst kraft envelope stuffed with Trump's mail-in voting executive order, stamped REFUSED, facing the reader. A chalk wall tally behind him reads STATES: 50 and DEFENSES: 0. Trump leans in from a bright doorway jabbing a finger and saying 'Deliver it anyway,' while a gray-suited Justice Department lawyer waits in the shadows holding a thin empty briefcase and looking at his shoes.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 12/08/2026

ICE plans to issue its officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks. The raised right hand now ships with a battery pack. #ICE

Editorial cartoon: rows of new ICE officers raise their right hands at a mass swearing-in, every hand sheathed in a bulky wired glove with a small green indicator lamp, wires running to battery boxes on their belts. Kristi Noem reads from a card at a lectern marked NOEM while an aide lifts a spare glove from a foreground crate stencilled LESS LETHAL.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 11/08/2026

Decoy jet in-flight briefing: nearest exit is the catering truck, shades stay down, the seat up front stays empty. #AirForceOne

Editorial cartoon inside a windowless airliner press cabin: a white-gloved steward holds up a laminated safety card whose diagram routes the exit through an airport catering container, while lanyarded pool reporters copy it into notebooks beside fully drawn window shades, and an open forward door shows an empty presidential armchair.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 11/08/2026

The order splits MMR into three shots. No separately licensed measles, mumps or rubella vaccine exists in the United States. The front desk will handle it.

A jammed pediatric clinic front desk: a harried receptionist holds her pen over a vast appointment ledger and tells a parent holding a baby that rubella isn't licensed, while a whiteboard behind her numbers three separate visits for measles, mumps and rubella, a framed order with a huge marker signature hangs crooked beside it, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sits waiting in the packed chairs.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 10/08/2026

Brent at $83.77, Hormuz transits down from about 130 a day to eight, and the White House says it is "low-keying it." One fader stays at halfway.

Editorial cartoon: Donald Trump in golf clothes and studio headphones works an enormous mixing console in a windowless war room; a bank of faders labelled BLOCKADE, STRIKES and SANCTIONS is shoved to maximum, one lone fader with masking tape marked SEMI sits at halfway, a level meter needle is pinned in the red above a readout of 83.77, a wall monitor reads HORMUZ 8, and Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi waits on a video call holding a long unrolled list of conditions.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 09/08/2026

Iran says talks on new shipping routes through Hormuz are in their final stages. Reopening the strait, it adds, is a separate matter with further conditions.

Editorial cartoon: an Iranian foreign minister leans from a ceremonial launch with oversized gold scissors to cut a red ribbon strung over white shipping-lane markings painted onto the water, an Omani official holding the far end; forty metres ahead the channel is sealed by a chained boom with a barrel-sized padlock and a sign reading CLOSED, a patrol boat idling behind it.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 09/08/2026

Two settlements, two dropped lawsuits, more than $6m in grants, one two-day trip to Alaska. Murkowski voted no. Blanche was confirmed 50-49 anyway.

Editorial cartoon: on a rain-slick Alaskan gravel airstrip, a government turboprop unloads crates stencilled SETTLEMENT (2), 2 LAWSUITS DROPPED and $6M+ IN GRANTS while a man in a navy trial suit with a BLANCHE lapel tag holds out a courier's clipboard and a woman in a parka, hands in her pockets, says: No.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 09/08/2026

Netanyahu will accept no "fictitious" disarmament, so we built him the assay bench. Every rifle so far has failed the test. The ceasefire board on the wall is still freshly painted.

Woodcut-style cartoon: inside an Israeli inspection shed at a Gaza crossing, an inspector with a jeweller's loupe examines a surrendered rifle on a felt assay bench, holding up a rubber stamp reading GENUINE in one fist and FICTITIOUS in the other, a crate of rejected rifles at his feet; Netanyahu leans over his shoulder saying "No one moves until every rifle passes," while a painted CEASEFIRE board hangs beside a doorway with smoke rising outside.

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