Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Today's News: The comedians will save us; Canada Good News; Epstein Scandal-Gate; Trans Day of Visibility

The comedians will save us all!

Anyone else notice this? Mainstream journalists have forgotten their duty to speak truth to power. It is why it is one of the rights written into the Constitution. Political cartoonists are the real and true heroes of the moment.

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— Mark T. Sneed (@marktsneed.bsky.social) March 30, 2026 at 4:01 AM






Cartoon by David Horsey

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— Xela Hart (@xelahart.bsky.social) March 30, 2026 at 2:18 PM

Corporate cowardice and greed will be the end of us. #cowardice #greed

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— bluevoter24.bsky.social (@bluevoter24.bsky.social) March 30, 2026 at 2:01 PM



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— Ellsworth Green (@greenellsworth.bsky.social) March 30, 2026 at 7:36 PM

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 6:24 PM

I nominate this cartoon by Steve Cousineau for a Pulitzer!

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— Oldfatuglynbroke (@oldfatuglynbroke.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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And in Canada:

Avi-mania, my cartoon in the Tuesday Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...

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— Graeme MacKay (@mackaycartoons.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 5:56 AM
From Greg Perry in The Tyee:


Canada Good News 
I am thinking of making this a regular feature, because it seems like we don't see enough of these positive stories. 
Here's what I read today:

Making Canadian history: Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen is ready for his epic moon mission www.space.com/space-explor...

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— Space.com (@space.com) March 29, 2026 at 4:31 AM

Jeremy Hansen is about to fly to the moon. In this Ontario town, his parents are ready for the risk — and wonder — of Artemis II

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— Unofficial TorontoStar (All News) (@torontostar-rss.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 5:15 AM

A patch designed by an Anishinaabe artist from Manitoba is set to travel into deep space during the upcoming Artemis II mission as astronaut Jeremy Hansen prepares to become the first Canadian to orbit the moon. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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— Karen Pauls (@karenpaulscbc.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM

The crew members of the Artemis II mission are, counterclockwise from left NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. NASA theconversation.com/nasas-artemi...

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— Gerhard kreuz (@gerhardelboricua.bsky.social) March 30, 2026 at 3:58 PM

#ProtectNature #ProtectCanadianWoodlands 🇨🇦 www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/0...

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— Karen J Watson 🇨🇦 (@watsonkaren.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 8:30 PM

PM Mark Carney: "It's a good day to be a polar bear in Canada."

- Scott Robertson

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Epstein Scandal-Gate Update
As the Iran War becomes a tedious bloody slog and the American economy slows too, I think the media will turn back to the Epstein files - the story that keeps on giving.

Let's focus on something we ALL agree on: #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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— Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) March 30, 2026 at 1:46 PM

That's an awful lot of money for a “hoax.” Press charges against all those involved.

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— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) March 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM

It’s disgusting to think the signature from Epstein’s birthday card would be on our currency.

— Rick Paisano (@sicilianrick.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Transgender Day of Visibility is March 31.
On a side note, this was a sad and awful story in the news today:

I honestly had no idea she was still married lol, I just kinda assumed she was with Lewandowski full time

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— Secretary of Defense Rock (@sodrock.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 8:51 PM

Here is what Charlotte Clymer had to say about it, and how it connects to the Trans Day of Visibility:

I've been reluctant to say this all day, but the schadenfreude I'm seeing over Kristi Noem's husband spending thousands of dollars on his cross-dressing kink... I'm struggling to understand it. Maybe I even question the intent. I don't feel schadenfreude. I don't feel amused. I don't feel the least bit satisfied. I just feel angry. Angry at everything, really. Most of that anger is directed at the Noems and people like them who have built careers and fortunes off ostracizing and demonizing and dehumanizing trans people, seeking to obliterate us while they do what they've been doing in private. They've made attacking trans people a core element of their political brand. They have shamelessly and ruthlessly sexualized our existence. They have declared us the canary in the coal mine for the fall of Western Civilization. They have framed us as humanity's furthest point in distance from God. I'm sitting here, on Trans Day of Visibility, in a country I served which does not recognize my service, from which I cannot leave with an accurate passport that will keep me safe abroad, upon whose roads I cannot drive in a growing number of states with an accurate driver's license, to workplaces that will not hire people like me or hospitals that will not treat people like me or businesses that will not serve people like me. I wake up every day wondering if there's going to be a horrific and entirely preventable mass shooting that will be blamed on a trans person even if no one trans is within a hundred miles of that tragedy and what that may spur against us. I go to sleep every night wondering if tomorrow will be the day that steps are taken to formally criminalize my existence. While this is all happening, I am constantly challenged, asked, cajoled, implicitly demanded to ignore the devastating and resounding silence of so many millions upon millions of Americans who certainly know better but have tacitly decided that the rights of trans people--which is to say the existence of trans people because how are we supposed to live without rights--are a worth bargaining chip in the fight to save democracy. I will not know the benefits of fully unencumbered citizenship and an equal stake in this nation in my lifetime. I am in my late 30s, and I know, deep down, that whatever progress is to be made, it will never be fully realized for trans Americans my age. But I'm supposed to look at the humiliation of these terrible human beings, ugly in spirit and self-repressed and hateful and disgustingly narcissistic as they are, and feel a measure of, what, solace? Justice? Some brief, fleeting victory? This doesn't feel like any of that. I wake up tomorrow in a country that is exactly the same as it was yesterday, the small change being one or two fewer rightwing extremists with enough clout to inflict pain on people like me. But nothing beyond that has changed. There is still a Republican Party that wants us to be wiped off the face of the earth, a legacy media that treats us as disposable, a Democratic Party that primarily views us as inconvenient, and an American public that is largely wishing they didn't have to deal with us. I'm supposed to laugh at this situation regarding the Noems? Feel gleeful? Why? I don't know how it's possible for trans people in this country to be so visible in the national discourse and yet simultaneously unseen. What a paradoxical hell this all is.

- Charlotte Clymer

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The IOC is trying to pander to Trump by banning trans athletes at the 2028 Olympics. Sigh. They should just leave it up to the individual sports federations who understand their own athletes and can establish rules for competition fairness. This is going to be awful.

"The rarity of transgender athletes in elite competition suggests their exclusion is a solution in search of a problem." theconversation.com/sex-test-use...

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— Alastair Lawrie (@alastairlawrie.bsky.social) March 30, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I liked this one

Love this. It’s true.

- Lilith Helstrom

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And I thought this was hilarious - "Can it!"
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11 comments:

  1. Cap5:05 am

    It's interesting how liberal media outlets refer to Kristi Noem's husband as a man with a cross-ḍressing fetish, but don't apply the same description to Rep Sarah McBride. Why is that? Why do the late night comedians make fun of Bryan Noem, but took Rachel Levine seriously? How do they distinguish a man with a cross-dressing fetish from a transwoman?

    The Olympics barring men from women's competitions is a good first step. Now, will they put asterisks beside past male cheaters and award medals to past deserving female athletes? I'm thinking especially of Canadian runner Melissa Bishop who was cheated of a gold medal in the women's 800 m race at the Rio Olympics by three male runners with DSD conditions. When Bishop's coach wanted to protest, Canadian Olympic officials told him if he did he would never coach at that level again. The fact that men winning women's medals is relatively rare is not an argument for including men in women's competitions. We would never say that the relatively rare doping violations are an argument for not testing. Cheating is bad, whether it takes the form of doping or competing in the wrong weight, ability or sex category.

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    1. Anonymous6:22 am

      Sex variations are not that simplistic Cap, this isn't grade 10 biology class from 25 years ago. As a woman athlete I've only ever been interested in fair competition, which for me means letting everyone compete. The IOC is wrong and so is anyone denying trans athletes a place in sport. - Barb (it won't let me sign in here)

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    2. Purple library guy11:57 am

      I presume they don't refer to Noem as a trans woman because he says he's a man. Try to keep up.

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    3. Cathie from Canada12:04 pm

      Thanks Barb. The IOC did so-called sex testing 30 years ago and all it did was ruin the careers of several female athletes who tested "wrong" because gender isn't a single biologic marker. Anyway, it should be up to each sport to figure out if anything gives advantages that are unfair

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  2. Anonymous7:50 am

    If one thinks that men claiming to be women in women's sport isn't a problem for women, maybe take a look at what is really going on instead of waiting for the mainstream media to pick up on it: https://www.shewon.org/ Categories in sport are exclusions. That's what a category is. Men are not women. Any male can participate in sport in the male category. It shows an amazing and profound disrespect for women for standing by to watch their sex-based rights be trampled. Funny how this trampling of women's rights coincides with the now-massive preponderance of the violence and degradation of women in readily available porn. The Noem story and the IOC story are joined at the hip -- a society that now regards misogyny as "social progress".

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  3. Cap8:33 am

    "The inclusion of male people in female sporting categories may not be the most important feminist battle, but it could be the most instructive. It exposes the degree to which people will bend, twist and outright deny everything we know about human biology to ensure that the same half of the human race gets what it wants." -- Victoria Smith.

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    1. Purple library guy12:07 pm

      Instructive, yes perhaps. The history of feminism is largely about men telling women they can't be who and what they want to be. The history of racial struggle is about whites telling racial underclasses they can't be who and what they want to be. And now, a few feminists have decided to turn feminism on its head and make it about kicking down instead of struggling up, so now it's going to be about these feminists telling a tiny minority they can't be who and what they want to be. Luckily, not very many.

      Victoria Smith can pretend that trans people are somehow just privileged men ("the same half of the human race") but the statistics make it very clear that trans people are far from privileged and in fact have it very tough indeed, so yeah, just kicking down. So are you. You should be ashamed.

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    2. Cap3:22 pm

      Care to name any other tiny minority that has within a decade so thoroughly rewritten social and legal rules to its advantage across the western world? If that's not privilege, I don't know what would qualify.

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  4. Purple library guy12:12 pm

    So in general, aside from the reality of gender vs physical sex not being what anti-trans types think it is . . . who cares? If a man wants to be a woman, or a woman wants to be a man, what the fuck do I care? Why does it matter if they're "really" a man, or a woman, or androgynous, or whatever? Everyone should be equal anyway, so who gives a shit which they are?

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  5. Bill Longstaff1:53 pm

    Apparently the International Olympic Committee is basing its determination of athletes' eligibility for women's events on a test for the SRY gene. The test was discovered by geneticist Andrew Sinclair, a leading researcher of differences in sex development.

    Regarding the committee’s decision, Sinclair said, “This policy is based on the overly simplistic idea that the presence of the SRY gene alone is equivalent to being male. Male sex is much more complex, involving multiple genes other than SRY in developmental pathways as well as hormones.”

    So who to believe, the Olympics or a leading geneticist?

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  6. Cathie from Canada2:48 am

    Trans people haven't actually "rewritten the rules" - it was never against the rules to change your name, and we have always accepted self-identified gender. As our medical options have increased, people are able to make better choices for themselves - again, that was never against "the rules". The only group that has actually rewritten the rules are billionaires.

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