Econ Analytica

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Cartoon by Gary Markstein

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social

Ok, maybe because he *raped* children. That part is probably as decrepit as the rest of him at this point

Cartoon by
Richard Kirkman

They reincorporated in Tennessee shortly later (h/t @aaronschaffer.com)

How a Maryland Farm Became a Federal Detention Warehouse A family land trust, a vacant warehouse, and $215 million in federal contracts trace the twenty-year path of a Maryland field to an ICE detention facility.

Your long read for the week. We reviewed 20 years' worth of property records, permits, county council meeting minutes, assessor data, business records, land plats — and more — to track how a derelict Western Maryland farm became the site of an emerging ICE concentration camp.

Court order ordering work to cease at Williamsport ICE detention warehouse.

JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.

Elon Musk is now worth $845 billion.

Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.

Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.

See the problem here?

LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ?

TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged

LANDERS: It wasn't though

TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know?

LANDERS: Your own AG said it

TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter

LANDERS: Where's the evidence?

Another hush money payment.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Trump's obsession with DEI is like Captain Ahab's personal vendetta against Moby Dick. He said ‘we ended DEI in America’ in his SOTU. His DOJ flunky, Ed Martin, is in hot water now for unethically pressuring Georgetown University's law school on DEI. #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Newsday.com/matt

11 days into this war & we’ve spent at least $11B. The Hill reports nearly $6B on munitions in 1st 2 days. Meanwhile Medicare is cut, hospitals close, the economy buckles, & Americans use buy-now-pay-later for groceries.
#fucktrump #iran #wariniran #warcrimes #politicalart #politicalartist #fuckmaga

Perhaps this explains how he could spend millions in one month just on seafood.

Can o’ worms

Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons on #Starmer #Mandelson #MandelsonFiles #AmbassadorToWashington #EpsteinFiles @Independent – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Christian Adams @Adamstoon1 on #Starmer #Mandelson #MandelsonFiles #AmbassadorToWashington #EpsteinFiles @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Cartoon by Matt Wuerker @mwuerker.bsky.social

Cartoon by Joel Pett @joelpettcartoons.bsky.social

"The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in Netanyahu’s wars." .. (Senator Bernie Sanders)

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert in which a journalist asks Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, " Have you just committed us to a war?" And the PM responds, " No, I've committed us to a (preemptive retaliatory de-escalation action to protect and defend Australians and other citizens in response to a request by our new strategic partner by sending defensive missiles & surveillance equipment to protect the airspace and assist the region with its collective self-defence against reprisal attacks that come as a result of the ongoing operation launched as an anticipatory response to perceived threats by historical allies acting against the established international rule of law who are too powerful for us to in any meaningful way challenge.) There's a very big difference." The words in brackets are arranged in such a way that they completely fill the word WAR written in a huge, hulking, bold khaki font.

A war by any other name.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Four frames. Title: “The rules”. Albo and Penny Wong at a lectern. 1. Albo: “Some of you have asked if rules still apply, so we’d like to clear things up.” Wong: “Obviously we shouldn’t kill!” 2. Albo: “However, if you hurt or kill someone and enough people agree they were bad, then the rules aren’t up to us.” Wong: “It’s a ‘matter for them’” 3. Albo : “Also, if you get someone else to do the killing for you and someone accuses you of it, that’s ‘a conspiracy’” Wong: “Against the rules!” 4. Plus, if thousands of innocent people get killed when you kill the bad person, you must focus on the six people you saved.” Wong: “That’s the rule!”

The rules.
My @smh cartoon.