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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just once — once — I’d like to see Republicans wage war on how shitty they’ve made our country.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.

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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.

One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey guys, you know that interview? The one with James Talarico the corrupt FCC threatened Jimmy Kimmel about? It has more than NINE MILLION views. Help push it over 10 million:

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

History is a ladder and if you climb it, you can get your bearings. You might not like where you are, but you can see it more clearly. How Trump is just like every other failed asshole dictator, and why being “even more extreme” is his self-destruct button:

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This Is Why Humiliated Trump Lives in Fear

Podcast Episode · The Daily Beast Podcast · September 8 · 55m

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hoping that one day this cartoon will be a vaguely amusing distant memory of a poopy age before we dictator-proofed our nation.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hi! I’m unvaccinated and I’ll be your server this evening! Cartoon for @fightthefire.bsky.social

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

On March 19, 1945, as Hitler realized he would lose the war and his 1,000-year Reich, he issued the Nero Decree, ordering the destruction of all of Germany’s infrastructure.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot."

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is just sad, @washingtonpost.com. Republican P.B.S. Pinchback served as 24th governor of Louisiana in 1872 and 1873. He was Black. It’s something a seasoned staff would know, or at least check. Jeff Bezos added $29 *billion* to his net worth in July alone, while continuing to drain your husk.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtle perception of the way things are.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Catch HGTV’s “Flip This Superpower!”

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“And the government's staying on heavy foot And they try to keep us all down No they're never gonna keep us all down” I’ve had this on repeat all morning.

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Mon Rovîa - Heavy Foot (Official Music Video)

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

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David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

MEDIA PSA: When you call it the $1.8 Billion “anti-weaponization fund” you’re helping Trump sane-wash it It’s an “insurrectionist slush fund” A “heist” or “theft” from taxpayers A “scheme” to enrich himself When you use his words you aren’t a journalist, you’re a stenographer

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The CDC is right. Portals, people. Portals can resolve any plot hole.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🗳️We won’t have democracy until we actually ENFORCE antitrust laws. Courts rationalize huge monopolies by using “consumer welfare standard” - they’re illegal only when creating higher prices. Other nasty effects aside, what about a CITIZEN welfare standard? Monopolies control OUR politics and media.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Some good news for the most endangered wolf species on the planet. (Corrupt Republicans and greedy billionaires keep trying to gut the Endangered Species Act. Unlike wolves, those carnivores are invasive, kill for sport and destroy communities.)

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Endangered red wolves rebound in NC with four litters of pups born this year • NC Newsline

North Carolina is home to the only wild population of red wolves in the world. It got a little larger this spring.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I respect the desire to comment on our crisis, and I don’t mean to be a dick, but I’m going to start unfollowing people who use AI to create fake “editorial cartoons.” It’s a slap to a noble art, on life-support since newspapers started collapsing. Support and share the work of actual cartoonists.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“Hard to believe Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA” is one of the best descriptions I’ve heard of the GOP’s vision for America.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some people think it’s funny, but it’s really orange and runny.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called Social Security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. “Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.” — President Harry Truman, 1952

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Our readers say: "Great Substack. Follow wildly!' "Source of some of the best political cartoons capturing this moment in history." "Fight the Fire's writing is top-notch. I've been enjoying it." And: 🤣🤣🤣 Please give us a try, and help us give Trump hell. All links are free. Subscriptions, too.

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For all of its bravado, Trump’s rally on the National Mall last week turned out to be the fireworks equivalent of a Magic Snake that won’t light. The only turd-shaped pile of ash on display was Trump himself. Free links and subscriptions.

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Trump's 'rally to end all rallies' really should end his rallies

Even the pigeons and panhandlers fell asleep

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Remember, we weren’t always this way. American kings will go the way of bell bottoms and pet rocks. #america250

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Federal climate scientists, fired by Trump, saved U.S. climate data and launched their own website, www.climate.us, to provide actual critical data after their NOAA programs were DOGEd. This is why they’re called public servants. www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

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Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Three-quarters of researchers responding to a “Nature” poll said they were considering taking their big brains to countries that don’t hate science. And Canada is putting out $1B in bait to lure scientists north. Stupid kinda spirals, don’t it, MAGA? www.yahoo.com/news/science...

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U.S. scientists are being lured abroad—and they aren't looking back

The organization launched it last April, a few months after the Trump administration began cutting scientific programs in the U.S. The initiative aims to lure foreign researchers to Europe with stable...

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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My latest: In the great oval room There was a useless Trump phone And a red-capped buffoon And an AI picture of — Melania jumping over a ballroom And there were three big fools sitting on chairs And two little bottles of Kash’s booze And a pair of too-big shoes... Free links and subscriptions

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Goodnight buffoon

*With apologies to Margaret Wise Brown (although she'd despise him too)

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

When the Tao is lost, there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is morality. When morality is lost, there is ritual. Ritual is the husk of true faith, the beginning of chaos. ~ Lao Tzu, from Tao te Ching, Chapter 38

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Kim @kim4thebabies.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

‘Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn’t have let Elon Musk and the cargo-shorts militia cut USAID funding in the first place.’ www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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This Deadly Ebola Outbreak Is Almost Entirely Our Fault

Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn’t have let Elon Musk and the cargo-shorts militia cut USAID funding in the first place.

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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Idiocracy called it.

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

SKKKOTUS Six crazy people are burning a cross on the lawn of our democracy. cartoon for @fightthefire.bsky.social

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.” ~ Benjamin Franklin, 1773

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Shields Cartoons @shieldscartoons.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. 1/2

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