December 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM EST
Cartoon: More schmaltzmark channel holiday specials

A cartoon by Brian McFadden. Support my Patreon for early access and exclusives.

December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST
Trump gets sued for ruining the White House

A prominent preservationist group is suing President Donald Trump over his construction of a massive ballroom, arguing that he sidestepped legally required reviews. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to protect historic buildings and neighborhoods, filed the lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 

December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM EST
Your tax dollars are funding Trump's election lies

The Department of Justice announced Friday it's suing Georgia as part of President Donald Trump's crusade to pursue long-debunked 2020 election conspiracies. The suit demands that the state turn over "all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County." 

December 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST
Epstein kept photos of Trump, young women, and sex toys

Heads up, besties""new photos of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein dropped. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Friday released a second set of photos found on the late convicted sex offender's computer, and some of the images are quite disturbing. 

December 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM EST
Cartoon: Elf on the""oh, sh-t

A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | Trump's economic approval hits all-time low

December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM EST
Trump grants fake pardon to infamous election denier

President Donald Trump has issued a "symbolic" pardon of Tina Peters, once the clerk for Mesa County, Colorado, but now a convicted felon for a little light election security breach to try to overturn the 2020 election results. It turns out that when you do an actual crime, such as using your position as county clerk to give a random, unauthorized fellow election denier access to secure election equipment, you actually get convicted. 

December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM EST
DOJ withholding Epstein files would be a 'crime,' says Republican

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky spoke with reporters Friday, where he was asked what would happen if the Department of Justice fails to release the long-promised Epstein files by its Dec. 19 deadline.  YouTube Video  

December 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM EST
Kilmar Abrego Garcia released as key ICE case collapses

A federal judge ordered Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released from custody on Thursday night, making for the latest major setback in the Trump administration's bigoted immigration agenda. Abrego Garcia's release was ordered after U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled that the administration could not detain the Maryland resident any longer.

December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM EST
Indiana spurns Trump's attempt to rig 2026 elections

Republicans in the Indiana state Senate on Thursday defied President Donald Trump's orders to gerrymander their congressional map in order to help rig the 2026 midterms for the GOP, a major rebuke of their party's leader. The new congressional map""which would have rigged the districts so that Republicans would hold all nine of the state's U.S. House seats""failed, with 31 lawmakers voting against it and 19 voting in the affirmative. That means a majority of the Republicans in the state Senate voted against it, a massive F-U to Trump.

December 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM EST
Farewell, financial stability. Hello, AI controlling your money.

Scott Bessent, secretary of the U.S. Treasury and pretend soybean farmer, is here to shake things up in the financial regulation space, and by "shake things up" I mean "get rid of all the regulations." Bessent's latest bold proposal is to kneecap the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Created after the 2008 financial crisis to help prevent a recurrence, the FSOC is intended to serve as an oversight and regulatory body. 

December 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST
Sen. Ron Johnson endorses book touting chlorine dioxide's unproven health benefits

Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. "It is all lunacy," one expert said. By Megan O'Matz for ProPublica For years, Sen. Ron Johnson has been spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of vaccines.

December 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM EST
Cartoon: Clinging to the wreckage

A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | Trump slapped with new low approval rating