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New from Christopher Shields: The most ingesting man in the world Free links. Click for the full toon. And subscribe (for free) to see more of his great cartoons.
The most ingesting man in the world
Cartoon by Christopher Shields
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New at Fight the Fire: "Kennedy is not, as he portrays himself, an independent thinker positing theories as part of the scientific method. He’s more like a man who claims a medical degree after he reads a few back issues of the National Enquirer and Weekly World News." Free links/subscriptions.
That boy's a worm short of a full bait box
RFK Jr. dazzles us once more with the medical degree he doesn't have
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Given Trump’s demented pastime of turning the Oval Office into an amusement park replica of the Palace of Versailles crossed with a French whorehouse, it wouldn’t be surprising to hear the buffoon float the idea of invading France any day now. The likelihood might have nudged up a bit this week.
We see London, we see France, we see Trump's sycophants
U.S. delegation walks out on the French in UN, which can only mean, 'Viva la France!'
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Our batshit secretary of health and human services has launched a new online venture. Best headline so far on this development: "Hope You Like Raccoon Penis, Because RFK Jr. Has a New Cooking Show."
New: "From the Trump administration’s burgeoning What Could Go Wrong? Department comes news that U.S. hospital emergency rooms and clinics are seeing as many as 20% more uninsured patients because of last year’s courageous cuts to HusseinObamacare." Free link. Don't comment unless you read column.
ERs see a surge in patients after GOP cuts ACA
Gee, who could have seen that coming? Well, other than everyone with a heart
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🎶One of these things is not like the others One of these things doesn't belong Can you tell which thing is not like the other By the time we finish our song?🎵
New: Self-righteous Senate Republicans, led by self-certified ophthalmologist Rand Paul, subjected Dr. Anthony Fauci to an old-school bare-bulb interrogation this week. It didn’t turn out so well for them. New at Fight the Fire. Free links. Free subscriptions. Read the column before commenting.
Fauci takes the Fifth once every 97 seconds
Impressive, Doc, but still short of Trump and Epstein's average of once every 33 seconds
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New: Trump's battle against the news media - and Obama Derangement Syndrome. "Only the Trump administration would bill a speech by the president as 'unifying but vicious.' " All links and subscriptions are free. Please read the column before commenting here.
Trump’s battle against the news media – and OBS
Only working part of his brain appears to be occupied by Obama
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New at Fight the Fire: "Kennedy is not, as he portrays himself, an independent thinker positing theories as part of the scientific method. He’s more like a man who claims a medical degree after he reads a few back issues of the National Enquirer and Weekly World News." Free links/subscriptions.
That boy's a worm short of a full bait box
RFK Jr. dazzles us once more with the medical degree he doesn't have
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New: Self-righteous Senate Republicans, led by self-certified ophthalmologist Rand Paul, subjected Dr. Anthony Fauci to an old-school bare-bulb interrogation this week. It didn’t turn out so well for them. New at Fight the Fire. Free links. Free subscriptions. Read the column before commenting.
Fauci takes the Fifth once every 97 seconds
Impressive, Doc, but still short of Trump and Epstein's average of once every 33 seconds
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Class act: Jesse Welles cancels a concert because workers at the venue are on strike. His post on Threads: "To the fans: we would not want to put you in a position to cross the picket line, we are sorry. To the garden: pay a living wage or get lost.”
Updated: Jesse Welles Cancels Lewis Ginter Concert in Solidarity With Striking Workers
Sold-out concert has been rescheduled for Sept. 25 at The National.
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Well-done NPR interview with Heidi Blake, who wrote an excellent story in The New Yorker recently that brought new evidence of the depravity and brutality of the Tate brothers.
The cases against Andrew and Tristan Tate : Consider This from NPR
The crimes the Tate brothers are charged with are the foundation of a lucrative business believed to exploit women and young girls. We talk to a reporter who's dug into a similar investigation.The Ta...
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"Solve the mystery, find the pawns," a great new cartoon from Fight the Fire's Christopher Shields. Click on the toon for a full view -- it's free, as are our subscriptions. Give us a try! We'd love the company. #Substackers #SubstackWriters
Solve the mystery, find the pawns
Cartoon by Shields
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State Department officials are apologizing for a map of Africa they took to an AIDS summit because the map mislabeled six out of six countries. Gee, I wonder what racist joke Trump is telling about this one.
Headline at Fox wannabe Newsmax -- "Sen. Ron Johnson to Newsmax: Fauci Wanted Vaccines." Ohhhhh, FFS. Do better, Wisconsin. FFS.
"Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation’s history." Other than indigenous peoples, enslaved black Americans (and their descendants), immigrants (especially today), interned Japanese-Americans during WWII, gay Americans, women, all of us under his regime ...
Rep. Josh Hawley, July 29, 2026: “You became a narcissist and a megalomaniac and a liar. You’ve lied to the American people." No, not Trump. Hawley, the man who saluted the Jan. 6 rioters before they stormed the Capitol, was referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci. Do better, Missouri.
Rep. Abe Hamadeh, vying for the rectal apartment left vacant by Lindsey Graham. (Must be rent controlled.) Do better, Arizona's 8th District.
Oooh, oooh! I can top that. I reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of nuclear weapons EVERYWHERE. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL, BUT MOSTLY ME, ON THIS AMAZING DEVELOPMENT, THAT EVERYBODY SAID COULD NEVER BE ACHIEVED! Well, no, no one's signed it. Or agreed to it. BUT I DID THIS.
In supporting Trump's voter suppression SAVE America bill, Rep. John McGuire tells Newsmax you can't even get medicine or enter the Obama Museum without a photo ID - neither of which is true. Trust us, pal. No one is trying to impersonate you. Do better, Virginia's 5th District.
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Some people think it’s funny, but it’s really orange and runny
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Tim Burchett, a MAGA Republican who made it easier for his constituents to legally eat roadkill and thinks space aliens have underwater bases on Earth, takes on the Museum of American History. Kweisi Mfume lets him - and others trying to revise black history - have it. Free links/subscriptions.
'If you erase it, we will replace it'
Rep. Kweisi Mfume and others defend the Smithsonian against MAGA know-nothings
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In honor of Trump "resting his eyes" at Lindsey Graham's funeral, a flashback to that sleepytime favorite, "Goodnight Buffoon." (All links are free. Subscriptions, too. <--That's a hint.) fightthefire.substack.com/p/goodnight-...
Goodnight buffoon
*With apologies to Margaret Wise Brown (although she'd despise him too)
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All rightie, dipshit. How about this headline? Trump: Pfft. Eighteen Senseless War Deaths Is Hardly Any.
Apparently JD Vance’s beloved Mamaw would want him to avoid becoming what he calls “an entitled asshole” now that he’s only a cholestorol-oozing heartbeat away from the presidency. Too late, goober. Too, too late. Read before commenting. Free links and subscriptions.
It's tee time for the boy. Do get the whirly thing ready, Jeeves.
Our faux hillbilly in the vice presidency is living the high life, at our expense
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