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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 12h

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"Every day is Festivus to Donald Trump.
Unlike Frank Constanza on Seinfeld – 'I got a lotta problems with you people, and now you’re gonna hear about it!' – our very stable genius doesn’t wait until Dec. 23 of each year to air his many grievances."

His Excellency gets an early start on Festivus

Trump, master of grievances, is dismayed at how he looks on new Time magazine cover

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 12h

Free link (and subscriptions) at Fight the Fire:

"Every day is Festivus to Donald Trump.
Unlike Frank Constanza on Seinfeld – 'I got a lotta problems with you people, and now you’re gonna hear about it!' – our very stable genius doesn’t wait until Dec. 23 of each year to air his many grievances."

His Excellency gets an early start on Festivus

Trump, master of grievances, is dismayed at how he looks on new Time magazine cover

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 2d

New at Fight the Fire: Former surgeons general warn that RFK Jr. is very bad for our health. (All links and subscriptions are free. Join us!)

Don't tell Secretary Worminnoggin: Trump got two vaccines last week. Then again, RFK Jr. is fully vaccinated too, isn't he?

Don't tell Secretary Worminnoggin

Trump got two vaccines last week. Then again, RFK Jr. is fully vaccinated too, isn't he?

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 6d

A new cartoon from Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire. (Click to see the full cartoon.) All links and subscriptions are absolutely free. Please join us.

The unholy Trump trinity

Cartoon by Shields

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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 1d

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‘ICE agents are doing the Lord’s work.’
Yet 71.5% of arrested immigrants have no criminal record whatsoever.

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‘ICE agents are doing the Lord’s work’

Yet 71.5% of arrested immigrants have no criminal record whatsoever

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 4d

New at Fight the Fire: Peter Thiel and the Antichrist, Trump's horns and more. All links and subscriptions are free. Join us!

Republicans are just having a devil of a time.
This obsession with demons is just downright gaudy, isn't it, Donald?

Republicans are just having a devil of a time

This obsession with demons is just downright gaudy, isn't it, Donald?

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 5d

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Arrest that man! Remove him from my sight!
Cadet Bone Spurs wants to silence Blumenthal and jail Pritzker and many others. And, by the way, dodging VD in nightclubs was Trump's "personal Vietnam." So there.

Arrest that man! Remove him from my sight!

Cadet Bone Spurs wants to silence Blumenthal and jail Pritzker and many others

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 7d

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Attorney General Bondi will NOT be taking your questions now.
Look, she doesn’t need anyone’s stinkin’ oversight, and damn you for asking.

Attorney General Bondi will NOT be taking your questions now

Look, she doesn’t need anyone’s stinkin’ oversight, and damn you for asking

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 14d

How are the grocery prices going for you, MAGA?

fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · Jul 23

One of the most-viewed cartoons by Christopher Shields at the Fight the Fire. Grab a free subscription on Substack to see them all.
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This year’s model

Cartoon by Shields

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 3d

Fight the Fire's Substack site now has subscribers in 50 states and 27 countries.
If you're not already a subscriber - everything's free - please check out our homepage and archives.
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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 3d

New at Fight the Fire. All links and subscriptions are free.

The Trump era is about to end, part 867,412.
Rep. Swalwell says Republicans have told him that there’s an Epstein 'bomb' about to drop and that no one wants to 'defend a pedo-protector."
Let it be true.

The Trump era is about to end, part 867,412

Rep. Swalwell says Republicans have told him there’s an Epstein 'bomb' about to drop

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 2d

Find your nearest No Kings protest.
www.nokings.org

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 8d

New column at Fight the Fire. (All links and subscriptions are free. No catches, no fine print.)

Donald's Office of Justice is all about 'punishing the president's perceived enemies.'
Fired prosecutor sounds a familiar alarm that Trump is destroying the rule of law.

Donald's Office of Justice is all about 'punishing the president's perceived enemies'

Fired prosecutor sounds a familiar alarm that Trump is destroying the rule of law

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 10h

It's in the column.

fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 12h

Free link (and subscriptions) at Fight the Fire:

"Every day is Festivus to Donald Trump.
Unlike Frank Constanza on Seinfeld – 'I got a lotta problems with you people, and now you’re gonna hear about it!' – our very stable genius doesn’t wait until Dec. 23 of each year to air his many grievances."

His Excellency gets an early start on Festivus

Trump, master of grievances, is dismayed at how he looks on new Time magazine cover

fightthefire.substack.com

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 1d

Free* link at Fight the Fire:

‘ICE agents are doing the Lord’s work.’
Yet 71.5% of arrested immigrants have no criminal record whatsoever.

*All Fight the Fire links and subscriptions are free.

fightthefire.substack.com/p/ice-agents...

‘ICE agents are doing the Lord’s work’

Yet 71.5% of arrested immigrants have no criminal record whatsoever

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 4d

From Mon Rovîa, a Liberian immigrant who came to America when he was five years old as a refugee from civil war.

... the government
Staying on heavy foot
And they tried to keep us all down

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXc...

Mon Rovîa - Heavy Foot (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Mon Rovîa

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 13d

A new toon from Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire. (Click for the full view.)

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The GOP's big, beautiful shutdown

Cartoon by ShieldsThanks for reading!

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 16d

A powerful song.

"You sold country for a grifter/Sold your soul to keep his grace."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RWv...

History Will Judge the Complicit – Powerful Anti-Trump Folk Protest Song

YouTube video by The Resistance

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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 9d

If you're still on Facebook and post about politics, please consider sharing our Substack links there.
We're growing at a good clip (subscribers in 50 states and 22 countries now), but we'd love to spread the word further about the worst of the Trumpster fire.
All links/subscriptions are free.

fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 1d

Free* link at Fight the Fire:

‘ICE agents are doing the Lord’s work.’
Yet 71.5% of arrested immigrants have no criminal record whatsoever.

*All Fight the Fire links and subscriptions are free.

fightthefire.substack.com/p/ice-agents...

‘ICE agents are doing the Lord’s work’

Yet 71.5% of arrested immigrants have no criminal record whatsoever

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · Sep 5

From Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire:

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He really shouldn't worry so much about his legacy. It's all set.

Cartoon by Shields

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 9d

New at Fight the Fire. (All links and subscriptions are free.)

A medbed can't cure what ails Trump.
Cabinet and Republicans endanger us by ignoring the unhinged man in the Oval Office.

A medbed can't cure what ails Trump

Cabinet and Republicans endanger us by ignoring the unhinged man in the Oval Office

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 2d

Find your nearest No Kings protest.
www.nokings.org

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 10d

New at Fight the Fire, where all links and subscriptions are free.

"Quite a few Republican men appear to suffer from a severe case of L-O-L-A Syndrome, typified by an irrational fear they’re going to be attracted to a woman who was born a dude or, conversely, befriend a dude who was born a woman."

The Republican epidemic of 'L-O-L-A Syndrome'

Elon Musk leads a boycott of Netflix to protect us all from transgender cartoon characters

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fightthefire.bsky.social @fightthefire.bsky.social · 2d

New at Fight the Fire: Former surgeons general warn that RFK Jr. is very bad for our health. (All links and subscriptions are free. Join us!)

Don't tell Secretary Worminnoggin: Trump got two vaccines last week. Then again, RFK Jr. is fully vaccinated too, isn't he?

Don't tell Secretary Worminnoggin

Trump got two vaccines last week. Then again, RFK Jr. is fully vaccinated too, isn't he?

fightthefire.substack.com