Clay Jones & Open Windows

(You want to click through to see this first one well. I don’t know why WP miniaturized it, but it’s really good.)

Vulgar and self-aggrandizing

Trump plasters his name everywhere

Ann Telnaes

Orange Chicken

Did Donald Trump sell out Taiwan?

Clay Jones

Donald Trump went to China, and all he got were some seeds.

Donald Trump did not receive any help from China on ending the war in Iran or reopening the Strait of Hormuz, but Chinese President Xi Jinping did give him some rose seeds. The Chinese leader gave Trump a tour of the Zhongnanhai Garden, where he admired the roses. I guess he admired them so much that Xi decided to give him seeds so that he could grow his own roses. He didn’t even give him roses, just the seeds. You know that Donald Trump does not care about growing some damn flowers.

Trump’s trip to China was a total and abject failure and failed to secure any agreements or promises. Trump came home empty-handed. (snip-MORE)

Trumpy Poo

Donald Trump found a new shitty way to grift

Clay Jones

In 2023, a government contractor pleaded guilty to stealing the tax information of Donald Trump and other wealthy Americans and leaking it to media outlets in 2019 and 2020. After he was restored to the presidency in 2025, Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service for “allowing” this leak, along with a $230 million lawsuit against the Department of Justice for the Russia collusion investigation he faced during his first term in office and the 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago.

Since he is the president of the United States and head of the executive branch, and the DOJ and the IRS are agencies under the executive branch, Donald Trump was the plaintiff and defendant. Basically, he was trying to hand himself $10 billion of our money. Even Richard Nixon didn’t try to get away with this kind of corruption. The only kink to Donald Trump’s plan of grifting us out of $10 billion is that it had to be approved by a judge. (snip-MORE)

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 5-19-2026

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 5-18-2026

Dave Granlund PoliticalCartoons.com

Harley Schwadron CagleCartoons.com

Monte Wolverton Battle Ground, WA

Dave Granlund PoliticalCartoons.com

John Cole Tennessee | Lookout

Gary McCoy Shiloh, IL

Bob Englehart PoliticalCartoons.com

Harley Schwadron CagleCartoons.com

Dave Whamond PoliticalCartoons.com

Bill Day FloridaPolitics.com

Harley Schwadron CagleCartoons.com

Christopher Weyant The Boston Globe

John Darkow Columbia Missourian

Dave Whamond PoliticalCartoons.com

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 5-17-2026

Dave Whamond PoliticalCartoons.com

Political/Editorial Cartoon by Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant on MAGA Weakens Slightly

“Keep your eye on the ball—not on the mess the grownups have made of things.”

A rooster and a hen watch TV in a living room.

“When are we gonna get to the other side?”

“The grownup version of ‘mewing’ is called ‘gritting your teeth.’ ”

“Sometimes I wonder if we’ll ever know the truth about anything.”

Bill Bramhall for 5/16/2026

John Deering for 5/16/2026

Bill Bramhall for 5/12/2026

Jeff Danziger for 5/13/2026

Mike Luckovich for 5/14/2026

Steve Breen for 5/12/2026

Chris Britt for 5/14/2026

Joel Pett for 5/14/2026

Dave Granlund PoliticalCartoons.com

Manny Francisco Manila, The Philippines

A woman standing next to her car reads a sign with gas prices “REGULAR 6.50 PLUS 6.70 PREMIUM 6.90 BUNDLED W HULU 16.90.”

Bill Bramhall for 5/17/2026

Drew Sheneman for 5/13/2026

Steve Breen for 5/16/2026

Drew Sheneman for 5/15/2026

Joel Pett for 5/15/2026

Political/editorial cartoon

Political/Editorial Cartoon by Milt Priggee, www.miltpriggee.com on SCOTUS Lynches Voting Rights

Political/Editorial Cartoon by Dave Granlund on SCOTUS Lynches Voting Rights

Clay Bennett for 5/15/2026

John Deering for 5/13/2026

Chris Britt for 5/12/2026

Harley Schwadron CagleCartoons.com

Lisa Benson 5/15/2026

Dick Wright PoliticalCartoons.com

Clay Bennett for 5/13/2026

Mike Luckovich for 5/15/2026

Margolis & Cox PoliticalCartoons.com

Monte Wolverton Battle Ground, WA

Tom Stiglich for 5/12/2026

Michael Ramirez for 5/15/2026

Drew Sheneman for 5/12/2026

Chris Britt for 5/15/2026

Political/editorial cartoon

Mike Luckovich for 5/17/2026

Jon Russo for 5/15/2026

Mike Luckovich for 5/13/2026

Clay Bennett for 5/16/2026

Michael Ramirez for 5/17/2026

Bill Bramhall for 5/14/2026

Jeff Danziger for 5/15/2026

Bill Bramhall for 5/13/2026

Drew Sheneman for 5/14/2026

John Deering for 5/14/2026

Jon Russo for 5/14/2026

Joel Pett for 5/12/2026

Jon Russo for 5/13/2026

Political cartoon of the day

Gary McCoy Shiloh, IL

Clay Jones

Drunkie and the Blowfish

Why did Kash Patel snorkel around the Arizona?

Clay Jones

When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, he participated in what government officials described as a “VIP snorkel” around the USS Arizona, the battleship that sits at the bottom of Pearl Harbor as a memorial, in an outing coordinated by the military. The battleship sunk at the battle of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Empire entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines.

The swim, revealed in government emails obtained by The Associated Press, comes to light amid criticism of Patel’s use of an FBI plane and his global travels, which have blurred professional responsibilities with leisure activities. Patel has chosen to live in Las Vegas for a reason.

When the Patel made the visit to Hawaii, the FBI took pains to note the director was not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau’s Honolulu field office and meetings with local law enforcement. But what they left out was the swim. If Kash, who prefers to spell his first name as “Ka$h,” wasn’t doing anything wrong or suspicious, then why did they leave it out?

The USS Arizona is considered one of the most hallowed sites in the United States. With few exceptions, snorkeling and diving are off-limits around the battleship. Marine archaeologists and crews from the National Park Service make occasional dives at the memorial to survey the condition of the wreck. Other dives have been conducted to inter the remains of Arizona survivors who wanted to rest eternally with their former shipmates. (snip-MORE)

Clay Jones, Open Windows

Trump returns from China trip

claims “fantastic” deals

Ann Telnaes

From the Guardian: “Trump leaves China without breakthroughs on Iran, Taiwan or AI”

I’m sure the only fantastic deals would have been made for the Trump family’s benefit, not America’s.

Can You Grift Me Now?

Reach out and Grift someone

Clay Jones

I’ve seen countless memes about the Trump phone over the past week or so. You may have seen these yourself. Heck, you may have even shared them. I found them to be very annoying. Why did I find them annoying? Because they weren’t true. Well, they weren’t entirely true. (snip)

But what really annoyed me about these memes is what annoys me with social media in general. People shared them without fact-checking the claims in the memes. People were using the memes as a news source. I even saw a prize-winning colleague of mine share one of these memes. And if I were to go into the comments and point out the falsehoods in the meme, people would accuse me of defending Trump and of being one of his kool-Aid-drinking cultists.

When it comes to spreading bullshit, liberals can be just as bad as MAGAts, just so long as they want to believe the bullshit. How many fake photos have you seen that someone was claiming were from the Epstein files? I rest my case. (snip-MORE)

MAGA Cookies

He’s not the smartest cookie

Clay Jones

Trump is in China, where he is not thinking about our finances, but of the finances of the 17 megarich executives and Eric, who took the trip with him.

Trump landed in China on Wednesday night, where he was greeted at the airport by the vice president, Han Zheng, whose position is a ceremonial role. He was also sent to Trump’s inauguration. He is not a member of the elite Politburo Standing Committee, the apex of power in China’s ruling Communist Party. Zheng has little influence over policymaking.

Trump was also welcomed by a military band, an honor guard, and hundreds of Chinese youth waving flags. Experts on China believe the communist nation is sending a message to Donald Trump by sending a ceremonial figure to greet him and that they are choosing symbolism over substance. (snip-MORE)

Art & A Mental Health Moment Or 2 With Jenny Lawson

There is still whimsy and warmness in the world and you deserve it.

Jenny Lawson (thebloggess)

Hello, friend!

I am two days late on sending this because I was stuck in a depression and it ate all of my extra energy. I started and stopped several drawings because I’m not sure if I didn’t like them or if I just didn’t like me very much. My dr recommended sun and exercise and other things that sound very easy when you are not depressed and it reminded me of a poem my mom read to me so often I’d almost memorized it. (All of A.A. Milne’s poems are the songs of my childhood.) If you hate poetry, skip this part.

The poem always made me feel both cozy and sad at the same time, which was a confusing thing for a small child but also a combination that my brain would grow to specialize in.

It reminded me that recently I’d read that tiny harvest mice have been found asleep in flower beds and so I decided to draw that:

“Sometimes harvest mice will crawl into flowers to feast on the pollen and stamens and will fall asleep inside.”

The drawing is simple and plain and fairly unimpressive, but it made me feel warm inside my heart and that is a very special sort of magic.

This is all a very long way of saying that whimsy and comfort and coziness and nostalgia and joy are all worth more than we give them credit for…whether in drawing mice or reading poems from childhood or eating nectar and drunkenly falling asleep inside flowers.

Go find comfort, my friend.

I promise that you deserve it.

Hugs,

Clay Jones

Spiked Election

Court overrules the people

Clay Jones

This cartoon was drawn for the Fredericksburg Advance.

Lately, it seems that Democrats cannot win, even when they win.

The Supreme Court has struck down the Voting Rights Act, ruling that race cannot be a factor in drawing congressional districts, which has now set off southern red states to redraw all their districts to guarantee that their entire congressional delegation will be lily white.

And Republicans, who hate fair elections anyway, have redrawn their congressional districts mid-decade in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, and now in Florida, without putting it to a vote by the people, and can gain as many as 14 seats. But in Virginia, where the people did vote on it, four conservative justices have ruled it unconstitutional and thrown out the entire election. (snip-MORE)

Frickin’ Hegseth

MAGAts even make war weird.

Clay Jones

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported about the possibility that Iran could be using “mine-carrying dolphins” to attack U.S. warships. Seriously.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who does not want to acknowledge any strength of the Iranian military, said at one of his He-Man press briefings last week after being asked about kamikaze dolphins, “I cannot confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don’t.”

We cannot confirm or deny whether Hegseth was joking or if he was serious because Republicans do not have a sense of humor. An example to prove this would be Greg Gutfeld. (snip-MORE)

Space Bribe

Who won’t Donald Trump accept a bribe from?

Clay Jones

Donald Trump declassified 162 files and identified flying objects last week. And it landed with a thud.

The files, hosted on a defense department website, include dozens of testimonials from civilians, federal agents, diplomats, and astronauts who reported seeing UFOs. There are also new videos, but they are like the ones that we’ve seen over the past few decades, grainy, squiggly, and usually creating more questions than answers.

It’s almost like it doesn’t matter what they release, as skeptics will see it as proof that there’s nothing out there, while true believers will claim it’s proof that we are being visited, while also claiming that the government is still withholding information.

Personally, I do believe there is life out there, but I don’t believe we are being visited. I also believe that the government is withholding information. For example, they’re withholding information on the Epstein files. And regarding these UFO files, I think the government may be embarrassed by how little it knows. (snip-MORE)

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 5-12-2026

BREAKING: Monroe County funds designated to attract tourists to the Florida Keys will no longer be available for several LGBTQ events in Key West that bring thousands of people to the Southernmost City every year. https://t.co/kS1Qep96n4

— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) May 5, 2026

To be clear: This is a TX Republican running for attorney general who is telling you that, if elected, he will weaponize the power of the state against people whose beliefs arent aligned with Christian nationalism. Don't be numb to it. This is extremism, completely off the rails. https://t.co/Q0SuD73Jgb

— Jen Rice (@jen_rice_) May 10, 2026

He was blinking, you absolute moron https://t.co/7gw3n7l8R3

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 11, 2026

Image from Liberals Are Cool

Democrats vow to fight $1 billion Senate security proposal for White House ballroom (Associated Press)#Trump

— TrumpWatch (@trumpwatch.skyfleet.blue) 2026-05-11T10:43:50.861Z

#national embarrassment from Liberals Are Cool

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‘Actually a Disease’: Trump Goes Off on TDS During Maternal Healthcare Event

— Mediaite (@mediaite.com) 2026-05-11T16:01:11Z

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Hassett lies his ass off: "Almost all of the job creation that happened under President Biden was the employment of illegal aliens"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-10T14:32:58.493Z

Hassett preemptively blames blue states for sluggish national GDP growth: "If we disappoint at all, it'll be because of, like, what happens to New York and California because of these misguided policies"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-10T14:35:21.265Z

Republicans who denied 2020 election results could be governors next year http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…

— Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2026-05-10T09:22:27.153Z

The illegal use of voter information by rightwing separatists in the province of Alberta has raised fresh fears over Canada’s electoral integrity by making valuable and “incredibly confidential” personal data easily accessible to malicious actors.https://t.co/Ds39LZGSLM

— Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ Lauren Ashley Davis -OG Meidas Mighty 🦅 (@Meidas_LaurenA) May 11, 2026

President Donald Trump is dragging the US Postal Service deeper into his war on mail-in voting. https://t.co/t7qshqhZrg pic.twitter.com/XQ4n7DLYYS

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 11, 2026

What Disney is facing is not a series of coincidental regulatory actions but a sustained, coordinated campaign of censorship and control.

As I told their new CEO, the fight ahead may not be easy, but the law, the facts, and the public are on their side. pic.twitter.com/yR7x94QHBx

— Anna M. Gomez (@AGomezFCC) May 11, 2026

#medicare for all from Liberals Are Cool

Trump: "I look at these beautiful little babies and they get a vat, like a big glass, of stuff pumped into their bodies. I think it's a very negative thing to do. I would love to see much smaller shots, like four visits to the doctor. And I think you would have a much better… pic.twitter.com/M142koLS8z

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 10, 2026

In related news, RFK Jr. announced that tanning bed regulations will be rolled back to permit children to get fake tans, which, when combined with hydroxychloroquine or bleach, are proven to cure childhood illnesses. RFK Jr. noted that working out in blue jeans is fun for kids. pic.twitter.com/pmF1lYlbE5

— CPC (@CPComm) May 10, 2026

People are already peddling ivermectin for Hantavirus. The same people had never heard of Hantavirus 3 days ago. We live in the dumbest possible timeline.

— Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) 2026-05-07T01:28:15.240Z

Call your SC Senator & ask them to pass the OTC Ivermectin bill.https://t.co/Yd2yCf2ax9 https://t.co/EEURSQsalv

— April Cromer (@AprilCromerSC) May 5, 2026

Everybody stay calm, the top virologists, medical research scientists, clinical researchers and clinical pharmacologists on Twitter have been working around the clock for two minutes and already discovered that Ivermectin cures the hantavirus.

— Covie (@covie93.bsky.social) 2026-05-07T14:19:20.506Z

Right on cue. A new outbreak and immediate misinformation about “miracle cures.”Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug, not a proven treatment for #hantavirus. Being an RNA virus does not mean ivermectin works against it.Promoting unsupported therapies during an outbreak causes real harm.

— Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA (@krutikakuppalli.bsky.social) 2026-05-07T10:59:14.860Z

Those who cheered ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment are now making unsubstantiated claims about its use against hantavirus.

— The Intercept (@theintercept.com) 2026-05-08T16:11:44.698Z

New vein of Maga Moron stupid discovered in Texas. Dr Mary Talley Bowden who was reprimanded for treating COVID-19 without permission in Texas,now says the Hantavirus can be treated with ivermectin and that she will be selling it to Texans only without prescriptions.www.rawstory.com/mary-bowden-…

— Sylvaners (@sylvaners.bsky.social) 2026-05-07T22:22:14.307Z

Ivermectin is not a proven treatment for hantavirus. Read more: u.afp.com/SRou

— AFP Fact Check (@factcheck.afp.com) 2026-05-08T21:17:46.206Z

RFK Jr: "In 1970, men had twice the sperm count as our teenagers do today"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-11T15:38:29.578Z

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#SCOTUS from Liberals Are Cool

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This is not a photo from the civil rights era. This is Tennessee yesterday May 7, 2026.

This is the vision of America the GOP and Republicans want.

Was the Voting Rights Act created because Democrats established racist gerrymanders, as Rep. Byron Donalds said? No. The law targeted a range of discriminatory practices for voting such as literacy tests, poll taxes and violence.

— PolitiFact (@politifact.bsky.social) 2026-05-10T16:06:00.717Z

NEWS: According to the New York Times, some Democrats are proposing a plan to overturn the state’s Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the referendum:

1) Invoke the circuit court ruling that invalidated the referendum due to county officials not posting notice of it at…

— Judicial Hub (@judicialhub) May 10, 2026

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Tuesday we will head into the belly of the beast for an Oversight hearing in Palm Beach to hear from Epstein Survivors in FL. We won’t stop until there’s justice.

— Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) (@repstansbury.bsky.social) 2026-05-08T00:34:07.809Z

We had this conversation in a public hearing a week ago and you said it would take “years” to replenish some of these stockpiles. That’s not classified, it’s a quote from you. This war is coming at a serious cost and you and the president still haven’t explained to the American… https://t.co/q3wX9AjRzO pic.twitter.com/5q7Gg81Xtg

— Senator Mark Kelly (@SenMarkKelly) May 11, 2026

Trump is really crashing out on social media today. Mother’s Day must be tough for him. His latest screed: “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-10T20:14:11.590Z

Virtually every gram of highly enriched uranium Iran now has in its possession–enough to make 10 nuclear weapons–was produced after Trump withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2017…without any effort to replace it.

Trump tore up the deal, so Iran got back to work. https://t.co/IjVKdRGv2b

— Terry Moran 🇺🇸 (@TerryMoran) May 10, 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells 60 Minutes he wants Israel to eventually stop relying on U.S. military aid: “It's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.” 60Minutes.com

— 60 Minutes (@60minutes.bsky.social) 2026-05-10T18:53:40.420Z

BREAKING: antifa thugs erect obscenely suggestive Benjamin Netanyahu statue right next to the 15 foot tall Donald Trump statue, at his golf course at Trump National Doral in Florida.#DonaldTrump #GoldenStatue

— Paulley Ticks (@tomadelsbach.bsky.social) 2026-05-10T17:50:09.518Z

Exclusive: Israel built a secret military post in Iraq to support its campaign against Iran and launched strikes on Iraqi troops who almost found it early in the war https://t.co/f9FISMgdNs

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 9, 2026

Netanyahu hints at upcoming war on social media."I think there's been a concerted effort by several states to basically vilify Israel in the social, primarily in the social media … We've not fought back yet; so we'll have to do that."

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) 2026-05-11T00:34:08.648Z

Netanyahu Blames Social Media for Israel’s Crumbling Support in USA. As opposed to that slaughter and ethnic cleansing of both Christian and Muslim Palestinians and Lebanese. Netanyahu is making it clear Christian and Muslim lives do NOT matter! http://www.mediaite.com/media/news/n…

— Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) 2026-05-11T00:43:19.876Z

Russia Has Lost More Than 350,000 Soldiers, New Estimate FindsNYT gift articleAbout half a million soldiers have died on Russian and Ukrainian sidesDoesn't include those who have died on the front this year and deaths of foreigners who have fought for RussiaWhile Trump sleepsbit.ly/4eVTckj

— Frank D. Russo (@fdrtoday.bsky.social) 2026-05-09T18:34:49.068Z