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Shutting Down Government Agencies

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Ted Rall

Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative is the latest conservative push to eliminate federal departments and agencies deemed inefficient. However, the criticism of inefficiency implies these agencies serve vital functions. If an agency struggles to perform effectively, isn’t the solution to improve its efficiency rather than dismantle it?

Hey Mexicans!

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Ted Rall

For decades, both U.S. political parties have maintained an open or porous U.S.-Mexico border. Republicans supported this due to their big business allies’ preference for cheap labor, which suppressed wages. Democrats assumed, incorrectly, that migrants’ U.S.-born children would reliably vote Democratic. Although illegal immigrants violated the law, enforcement was lax. Now, millions who were implicitly encouraged to enter are abruptly being treated as if they were terrorists who infiltrated the country.

Give It Up, Israel

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Ted Rall

Supporters of Israel rely on numerous questionable assumptions to justify their support for the genocide that has slaughtered 200,000 innocent Palestinians. They assert Israel has an inherent right to exist (no country does), acts solely in self-defense (obviously untrue), ought not to face limits on what it calls retaliation (absurd), commits no war crimes (the ICJ disagrees), and that anti-Zionism is the same as anti-Semitism (there are many anti-Zionist Jews). As the gruesome war against Gaza continues, these once persuasive claims appear increasingly fragile, collapsing like a house of cards. A UN report accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza, citing 8,000 civilian deaths just since the conflict recently escalated after Israel broke the ceasefire. Protests in London recently drew 500,000 people condemning Israeli actions, showing that support for the Jewish state is declining amid growing global scrutiny and shifting public opinion on Israel. The blank check given to Israel in 1948 has been overdrawn.

Are You Entertained?

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Ted Rall

As part of a deliberate strategy to keep adversaries off-balance, the Trump Administration floods the news cycle with wild and controversial policy decisions and public statements, like mass deportations, expelling foreign students, and imposing travel bans—often harsh and cruel. The blizzard of state violence is entertaining. But it also causes widespread stress. These moves will only intensify, making us even crazier. The constant barrage leaves the public grappling with uncertainty, fear, and division, with no relief in sight..and any of us could be next.

Le Slap

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Ted Rall

Emmanuel Macron was the victim of a physical assault by his wife Brigitte on international TV. She slapped and shoved the French president’s face on a plane in Hanoi, prompting countless jokes but little discussion of male victims of domestic violence and gender. Sad, since men are abused by their wives and girlfriends at similar rates to the other way around. Is Macron a battered husband? Maybe, even if Elysee Palace brushed off the violence as playful fun between a loving couple. But even if he were to look for support, there are very few resources for straight male victims. Society overlooks such cases or worse, makes fun of them. A French gym even used an AI image of a bruised Macron to promote self-defense classes for men, for example. Family courts grant custody to accused abusers 70% of the time, and male survivors get little sympathy. If a woman can beat up the president on France on TV without consequence, there is little hope.

A.G.I. Does Not Approve of This Cartoon

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Ted Rall

Artificial Intelligence—especially Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), an AI system capable of understanding, learning, and making decisions with human-like awareness and autonomy—poses an existential threat to humanity, not only in terms of replacing humans on the job but in a possible SkyNet-like scenario in which robots choose their own targets and decide to start killing us. That’s not sci-fi paranoia. A Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer warned of a 10-20% chance of human extinction from AI within decades. Tech leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Wozniak, have sounded the alarm, estimating a 20% chance of AI-driven “annihilation” and asked Congress to regulate the industry. If the history of disruptive innovations like cigarettes, automatic weapons, automobiles, nuclear weapons, and drones serves as any guide, however, we probably won’t act until it’s too late.

Poor? Homeless? Get with the Program

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Ted Rall

The “Big Beautiful Bill” federal budget bill passed by House Republicans, which calls for huge increases in defense spending at a time when the U.S. is not at war, reemphasizes the American capitalist system’s flawed priorities. Trump’s BBB bill allocates $144 billion for defense, while slashing $1.6 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP while imposing work requirements and funding cuts. These cuts would deny health coverage to 14 million Americans by 2034 and leave 3 million households without food. Meanwhile, Trump and the GOP plan to gut social safety net programs, which are already suboptimal, at a time when poverty and homelessness are surging. Military expansion always trumps domestic needs, as inequality keeps growing. In 2024, the U.S. poverty rate rose to 12.9%, afflicting 42 million people, while homelessness hit a record 771,000 people, an 18% increase from 2023, including 150,000 children. Why are billions funneled into defense when so many ordinary Americans face economic hardship?

A Lame GOP Putsch vs. a Successful Democratic Coup

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Ted Rall

Democrats were understandably furious at the Jan. 6th Capitol rioters who tried to subvert the result of the 2020 presidential election. Now, however, we know that Biden and the coterie of Democrats around him undermined democracy themselves, by misrepresenting Biden as being of sound mind and body, when they knew he was anything but. Recent revelations confirm this silent coup d’état, including a former aide’s admission that White House staff hid Biden’s cognitive decline. and a new book that details how senior Democrats and media allies lied to remain in power. If the Jan. 6th rioters were guilty of treason and deserved long prison sentences for attempting to disrupt democracy, what should happen to the Democratic politicians and journalists who, unlike the Republicans, succeeded in executing a coup by deceiving the public about Biden’s fitness to lead? They subverted the democratic process more than the Capitol riot.

Looking For the Real Democracy Killer

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Ted Rall

Ted Rall’s cartoon calls out the media for covering up and deflecting Biden’s mental decline— hilariously and absurdly while promising to investigate who was responsible. Outlets like The Washington Post—whose reporters and editors had to have known the truth the whole time—are vowing to find who concealed Biden’s condition, as our trust in institutions continues to erode. 
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