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Too many people with formal authority are intimidated by Trump or sucking up to him. That leaves you and me and everyone else without official power to resist his tyranny

January 6, 2026 at 11:11 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

US INTERVENTIONISM -Vote on today’s sketches

One of these drafts will appear in a media I work for. Which one would YOU pick?

open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

January 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

It's been 5 years since the attack on the U.S. Capitol

and Trump hasn't faced justice for his sedition

open.substack.com/pub/wkamaube...

January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

I Can Accept That You Are Happy Trump Took Out Maduro. Can You Accept That Everything Trump Has Done Since Then Sucks?

The enemy of my enemy is usually still a jerk.

open.substack.com/pub/stevesac...

January 6, 2026 at 4:31 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Foreign Policy Fool and Alien Mache

Sack Classic —-Foreign Policy by Bombast

January 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

This is the Real Danger Posed by Trump

A direct line connects Trump’s attempted coup five years ago with his incursion into Venezuela last weekend — and his current threats to Colombia, Cuba, and Greenland.

January 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.

January 5, 2026 (Monday)

January 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the administration’s message about its strikes on Venezuela to the Sunday talk shows this morning.

January 4, 2026

January 5, 2026 at 3:53 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

The most shameful day in American history

We will never forget, and we will not let the nation or the world forget.

January 5, 2026 at 1:33 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

The Quagmire of Trump’s Venezuela

Friends,

January 5, 2026 at 2:26 AM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Sunday caption contest: World Order

And last week’s winner

open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

January 4, 2026 at 11:46 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

The wife of Stephen Miller posts a prediction

Katie Miller posts a map of Greenland with an American flag superimposed and the caption "SOON"

January 4, 2026 at 4:18 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Today was the legal deadline for the Department of Justice to submit to Congress a written justification for any documents from the Epstein files that the department had redacted or withheld.

January 3, 2026

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

January 4, 2026 at 3:42 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

The Borowitz Report Turns 25

A quarter century of making up the news.

January 4, 2026 at 3:09 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Trump and Maduro : You voted - The results are in

Yesterday’s sketch poll results

January 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Sunday thought: Even worse

Friends,

open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

January 4, 2026 at 10:20 AM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Oil and distraction

Trump attacks Venezuela

January 3, 2026 at 9:59 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Thug World

A new world order?

January 3, 2026 at 9:50 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

One of these will appear in a Sunday newspaper. Which one would YOU pick?

Vote on today’s sketches

January 3, 2026 at 5:25 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Trump and Maduro

A cartoon from 2019...

January 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

What Will Happen in 2026? The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, January 3, 2026

With Heather Lofthouse and yours truly, Robert Reich

Live Updates: U.S. Captures Venezuelan Leader, Trump Says

January 3, 2026 at 3:31 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Live Updates: U.S. Captures Venezuelan Leader, Trump Says www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

www.nytimes.com

January 3, 2026 at 3:17 PM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

Just after midnight on January 1, in a private ceremony in the long-closed former City Hall subway station in Manhattan, New York Attorney General Letitia James swore Zohran Mamdani into office as may...

January 2, 2026

January 3, 2026 at 8:34 AM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

A poem by Alison Luterman

Between Storms

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

January 3, 2026 at 12:36 AM

Gregory Kahn

@gregory55.bsky.social

How to Survive 2026

Try this. It works.