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August 26, 2026

Dolly, Lake America and the AI jobs math

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August 25, 2026

Five new cartoons today.

Took You Long Enough.

Dolly finishes a few things on Earth before heading home to Carl.

Tribute cartoon showing a younger Dolly Parton walking toward Carl at sunset as she says, “I had a few things left to do,” and he replies, “Took you long enough.”

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Wouldn’t It Be Cheaper?

Third-country deportations meet the one question taxpayers were eventually going to ask.

Editorial cartoon showing Agent Anderson questioning an ICE officer about paying Rwanda to take a Cuban deportee before asking whether it would be cheaper to buy him a first-class ticket to Havana.

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Lake America

The list of things America doesn’t own apparently needed one more line.

Editorial cartoon showing Donald Trump beside a Great Lakes map where Lake Ontario has been crossed out and replaced with “Lake America,” while Susie Wiles asks, “Sir… how far are we taking this?”

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Read Between the Lines.

A temporary election assignment leaves the fraud investigators wondering what happens after the midterms.

Editorial cartoon showing four USCIS fraud investigators holding navy shirts labeled “Noncitizen Voter Integrity Task Force” as one says they will return to immigration fraud work after the midterms.

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How Many Permanent Jobs?

A $2.3 billion AI data center arrives with a very large investment number and a much smaller permanent-job number.

Editorial cartoon showing a $2.3 billion AI data center announcement where a reporter asks how many permanent jobs it will create and the speaker answers, “Uh… maybe 50?”

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Political cartoons by M. Soares.

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