Archive - Terrible Swift Sword

We Could Have Nice Things

But greedy billionaires are why we don't

May 13 •

April 2025

Medicaid is at Risk, But a Lot of People Still Don't Know that

Here's an explainer cartoon to print and share with them

Apr 30 •

Look at Those Cavemen Go!

Drawing a Bowie song as a diversion for dark days

Apr 18 •

The S[L]AVE Act

Congress votes for adult female non-personhood. A cartoon explainer for the politically disengaged.

Apr 11 •

Medicaid Loss Explainer

Medicaid goes by so many names that a lot of the people in danger of losing it don't know they're on it. This printable explainer can help raise…

Apr 8 •

March 2025

Wisconsin Election EXTRA

Something's cheesy in the dairy state

Mar 30 •

Signalgate Explainer

...because not everybody knows what 'everybody knows'

Mar 27 •

It's the Billionaires

A Postcard Explainer about Oligarchy

Mar 22 •

February 2025

Postcard explainer for the GOP

If it's OK for Musk to do your job, what does Trump need YOU for?

Feb 19 •

November 2024

My election eve polling review

You've heard predictions from the well-informed and even-handed experts; now it's my turn

Nov 5, 2024 •

October 2024

Unfit and Unready

An idiot king in the Middle Ages, and his passel of venal advisors shat history's bed. Can we please not let this happen again?

Oct 31, 2024 •

Sanewashing is the Corporate Political Press Grasping at Relevance

The mainstream press is in denial about its fate under a second Trump administration

Oct 17, 2024 •

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