Let's face it, the deluge of dark money that has poured into the election system since the U.S. Supreme Court's disastrous Citizens United decision in 2010 is the reason why it's "We the Oligarchs," and not "We the People," in these United States of America.

Trump is pouring $45 billion into expansion of immigrant detention facilities, while his administration is illegally withholding over $6 billion appropriated by Congress for after-school programs, English language instruction, summer programs and adult literacy. #Trump #Resist

#TBThursday The San Jose Mercury News totally integrated this simple cartoon about the Bell Curve into the design of its Wednesday Commentary page on Oct. 26, 1994. Opinion piece is by Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr.

The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein, who the president once called a "terrific guy," continues to haunt Trump. It's not going to go away. #EpsteinCoverUp #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClientList #Trump #Resist #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #ImpeachTrumpNOW #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpCorruption

A federal judge ordered the LAPD to stop shooting journalists with rubber bullets, the Los Angeles Times reports. It's a recurring problem. “The press weren’t accidentally hurt at the immigration protests; they were deliberately hurt,” said attorney Carol Sobel. #LosAngelesProtests

By stoking MAGA Epstein conspiracy theorists' expectations, Trump and his bunch have built a little Alligator Alcatraz on the Potomac for themselves. #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinCoverup #Epstein #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #ImpeachTrumpNOW #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #magamoron

A whistleblower reported that Trump's judicial nominee, Emil Bove, told subordinates at the DOJ to tell the courts, "F*** you!" Trump's sentiments exactly — and not the kind of guy America wants on the federal bench. #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #ImpeachTrumpNOW

Trump's Jeffrey Epstein scandal just keeps going. #EpsteinCoverUp #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClientList #Trump #Resist #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #ImpeachTrumpNOW #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpCorruption

#TBThursday This ran in the L.A. Times in August 1997 with an opinion piece by Claude Steele, a professor at Stanford. The Citadel, in Charleston, S.C., was in the forefront of sexual politics in America that year. Prop. 209, which passed in 1996, banned affirmative action.

Who's your daddy? NATO's Mark Rutte called Trump “Daddy,” and so do the MAGA conspiracy theorists. Trump nurtured the monster that has latched onto the Epstein case. #EpsteinCoverUp #EpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

The U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling in Trump's favor and enabling his vile agenda without a bit of explanation, using its emergency or "shadow" docket. #Trump #Resist #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #ImpeachTrumpNOW #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #SCOTUS

#TBThursday Long before Trump advisor Stephen Miller appeared on the scene, there was California's Prop. 187, a.k.a. the "Save Our State" (SOS) initiative. This cartoon ran in the Fresno Bee on Sept. 2, 1994. Miller was 9 years old at the time.

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House home early for the summer to spare his idol, the Tangerine Tyrant, the embarrassment of votes on the Jeffrey Epstein files. #EpsteinCoverUp #EpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

"Ahh, but the strawberries! That's - that's where I had them." Pete Hegseth's paralyzing paranoia at the Pentagon sounds a lot like Captain Queeg. Everyone can see that Hegseth is utterly incompetent. Pete Hegseth #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

Trump, who is easily the most brazenly corrupt president in U.S. history, campaigned on promises to "drain the swamp." #EpsteinCoverUp #EpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpCorruption #GriftInChief #griftersgonnagrift

Lewis Carroll, author of "Through the Looking-Glass," described Tweedledum and Tweedledee as “looking ... exactly like a couple of great [big] schoolboys.” Or maybe like leering frat boys. #EpsteinCoverUp #EpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

“This is Trump’s famine,” said a representative of an NGO in the Mideast region, according to Mother Jones. #GazaStarving #Gaza #GazaHolocaust #Gaza_is_dying_of_hunger #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

I did tsunami graphics a few years ago at the Los Angeles Times . A tsunami advisory was issued for the entire California coast after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean about 78 miles east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. latimes.com/california/sto…

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, long a champion of whistleblowers, knuckled under to Trump and spurned the whistleblowers on the Emil Bove nomination. #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #ImpeachTrumpNow #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpCorruption

#TBThursday Another postcard from the past: This was drawn in late 1993 and appeared in the Fresno Bee on Feb. 5, 1994. At that time, in California, it probably seemed a bit hyperbolic, but isn't so far-fetched now, under the current Trump/Stephen Miller authoritarian regime.