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2025 has been a long, strange trip. The year provided plenty of reasons to yell, “What the fuck?!” into the void, but this trip around the sun also featured a handful of opportunities to celebrate as well. Here’s a look back at some wins and the heroes behind them—and some reasons to smile. No Kings protests In June, millions of people around the globe took to the streets to remind the rest of th…

Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York City as the clock ticks over into 2026 — but the celebrations are set to last through New Year’s Day. President Donald Trump talks after meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 21 in Washington. The Democrat’s team is planning two separate swearing-in ceremonies Thursday — a small, private one…

Attorney General Pam Bondi is the latest of Trump goons who has reminded us why reading comprehension is so, so important. On Tuesday, she reposted a graph on X illustrating the changes in overdose deaths following the early years after the introduction of fentanyl to mainstream drug use in 2013. “Since day one, the Trump administration and this Department of Justice have been fighting to end the…

Enjoy these cartoons highlighting the many ways that FBI Director Kash Patel is the worst. And feel free to share more of your favorites in the comments. Cartoon: Kash Patel’s FBI list, by Mike Luckovich Originally published Dec. 8, 2024. Cartoon: Aiding and abetting, by Clay Jones Originally published May 1. Cartoon: Paul Blart, FBI agent, by Jack Ohman Originally published Sept. 1. Cartoon: Jok…

President Donald Trump is being criticized for more corruption after he issued the first vetoes of his second term on Monday. Among them is a bipartisan bill that would have allocated funds to finish construction on Colorado’s Arkansas Valley Conduit. Upon completion, the project would have provided drinking water to 50,000 people across 39 communities. Former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters But Tr…

Like many Republicans, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina initially began going off the rails during President Donald Trump’s ascension to power. During the 2024 election, Mace was willing to say anything in Trump’s favor, and things only got uglier in 2025. And it was all caught on video! Nancy Mace threatens Jasmine Crockett during House proceeding YouTube Video During a hearing of the House Ove…

A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Trump-defiled Kennedy Center will premiere cringy 'Melania' documentary

Why let New York City have all the fun with its Times Square ball drop on New Year’s Eve? Dozens of places across the U.S. will ring in 2026 by dropping a quirky assortment of fruits, vegetables, sea creatures and balls of all shapes and sizes. Many have a hometown flair. The “2026” numerals above New York’s Times Square on Dec. 27. There's the giant cheese wedge in Plymouth, Wisconsin, a chile p…

The Trump administration is planning to spend a reported $100 million in taxpayer funds to recruit people to execute Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda at ICE, and much of that money will be spent on bigoted right-wing media outlets. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that an internal ICE memo refers to a “wartime recruitment” strategy meant to bring in new recruits to act as mass deport…

The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems. by Renee Dudley , with research by Doris Burke , for ProPublica President Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that prohibits anyone based in China and other adversarial countries from access…