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August 27, 2026

Mail Ballots Are Back, Meta Gets Grounded & Texas Gets Told “Just Don’t Go”

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August 26, 2026

Five new cartoons today.

I Know. That’s the Problem.

Legal immigration runs into a policy problem nobody bothered to hide.

Editorial cartoon showing Donald Trump boarding shut a doorway labeled “Legal Immigration” while visa applicants wait and an aide says, “Sir, they’re doing it legally,” and Trump replies, “I know. That’s the problem.”

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We’re Not Everybody Else’s Parents, Mark.

A $17 billion settlement turns Meta’s parental-controls problem into an actual parenting problem.

Editorial cartoon showing Mark Zuckerberg at Meta headquarters being scolded by state attorneys general beside a giant Meta Parental Controls screen and a $17 billion settlement check.

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Then We’ll Start With the Demolition.

If the renovation gets blocked, the administration has apparently found a more dramatic first step.

Editorial cartoon showing Todd Blanche warning Donald Trump that a judge may block the Kennedy Center renovation while Trump grips a demolition plunger wired to TNT around the building and replies, “Then we’ll start with the demolition.”

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Told You We Could Pull It Off.

The block on Trump’s mail-voting order is lifted, and Todd Blanche sounds remarkably unsurprised.

Editorial cartoon showing Donald Trump smiling on the phone after hearing Judge Talwani lifted the block on his mail-voting order while Todd Blanche reads an open Washington Post and says, “Told you we could pull it off.”

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Just Don’t Go.

A federal judge offers Texas a remarkably simple solution to performances it doesn’t like.

Editorial cartoon showing Judge David Hittner ruling against Texas’s performance law as a drag performer, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley and Miley Cyrus stand nearby and the judge says, “The solution is relatively simple, just don’t go.”

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Political cartoons by M. Soares.

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