Lake Pumpkin Spice
A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Trump’s ‘Lake America’ ploy gets savaged by the public… Source Powered by WPeMatico
Republicans make dumb excuses to avoid Dear Leader’s midterm convention
President Donald Trump will host a midterm convention this upcoming Wednesday and Thursday, which he absurdly says will help Republicans hold onto their House and Senate majorities this fall. But even many Republicans admit the production is a shambolic affair that won’t help the GOP with voters and may even hurt their electoral prospects since Trump cannot stay on a palatable message. Source Powered by WPeMatico
Climate ‘overshoot’ is coming—are we ready?
If global warming remains above 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new U.N. report says “there are no good outcomes.” By Bob Berwyn for Inside Climate News Fossil fuel emissions are pushing Earth’s climate toward a dangerous new phase of climate “overshoot,” scientists warned Wednesday in a new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme. The report, Limiting Overshoot… Source Powered by WPeMatico
Trump’s midterms strategy
A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | Republicans are bailing on Trump’s midterm convention… Source Powered by WPeMatico
The NFL and politicians team up to exploit the vulnerable
Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. The first game of the NFL’s regular season kicks off on Wednesday, which means that America’s betting addiction is about to get even worse—just like the league wants. Days ahead of the new season… Source Powered by WPeMatico
Tag team
A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | ICE seeks terrible new toy for its sci-fi hellscape… Source Powered by WPeMatico
Why the right can’t handle charismatic liberals
Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. The Democratic Party has too many candidates and elected officials with charisma, and this is a big problem for the Republican Party and the conservative movement. Over the past week, the right took to Fox News to discuss the… Source Powered by WPeMatico
Bad credit
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Trump betrays South Korea for his pen pal Kim Jong Un… Source Powered by WPeMatico
What if we threw a constitutional amendment party—and no one came?
This week, the GOP is scrambling to lock down the size of the Supreme Court at nine members forever, one of the scuzziest attorneys has departed the DOJ, and Trump continues to learn that while filing lawsuits is super fun, actually doing lawsuits kinda sucks. Like, absolutely terrified. They know that the conservative lock on the Supreme Court is the only way that President Donald… Source Powered by WPeMatico
A decades-long friendship, tested by Trumpism
I dreaded talking politics with a longtime friend whose conservative beliefs are at odds with mine. But I had to. By Erin Aubry Kaplan for Capital & Main In 1973, I was in sewing class in seventh grade and having a miserable time. I couldn’t sew and wasn’t interested in learning. For the first time in my life, I was failing a subject in school, a fact that dragged on my frail sense… Source Powered by WPeMatico