A Month of Signals, Stories, and Turning Points November was a month that refused to move quietly.Every headline came with a shadow. Every political gesture had a double meaning. And every day, it felt like new information surfaced from the underground currents of American power — those subtle, silent shifts that only reveal themselves if…
https://open.substack.com/pub/mariagrasmick/p/the-game-they-never-told-you-about?r=1o361g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Audio Description is HERE but its the wrong substack. https://suvine.substack.com/p/some-nations-melt-others-overflow This piece came to me more like a remote view than a sketch a path unfolding in front of me. It began with that beautiful photograph: Jair Bolsonaro, seated at a quiet table, lush Brazilian green behind him. Regal, serene but heavy with unspoken…
I thought, Elissa Slotkin, looks JUST LIKE A PIGGY. There’s a reason libraries used to be silent. This week, I found myself reflecting on two moments that collided in the cartoon I share today. The first: Donald Trump’s now viral rebuke, “Quiet, piggy,” spoken during a media scuffle, quickly spun into memes, headlines, and even…
“The Weight of the Room” ⭐ WHAT THIS WORK MEANS There are moments in politics when the present collides with the past in a way so sharp, so symbolic, that the room itself delivers a verdict.This cartoon was born out of that moment. When President Trump introduced Zohran Mamdani a loud, eager newcomer to national…
🎨 Political Cartoon Feature: “§ 2387 – Live and Wriggling” On November 21st, I released a cartoon satirizing the viral video in which six Democrat lawmakers urge U.S. military members to “refuse illegal orders.” Former President Donald Trump responded by invoking 18 U.S. Code § 2387 — a law criminalizing interference with military loyalty and…
Most beautiful face. He exudes Kindness. And the ABC reporter was so rude accusing a WORLD LEADER of killing a journalist. To his face. After his GIFT OF THE MAGI gift to us Americans, and all this investment.. I mean, the fake news.. how is it they are still allowed around the president>but for a…
What has been happening is I have been drawing my political cartoons all throughout the night that I cannot finish and have time to write a blog. And I wake up the next morning trying to draw a new one.. SO I am catching up with the posting. I will let you enjoy. I am…
The Magnet and the Mockery: Scott Bessent, Xi Jinping, and the Return of American Leverage By Maria Grasmick In the glare of geopolitical theater, one image now etches itself into the memory of 2025: Scott Bessent, America’s Secretary of the Treasury, standing poised with a silver platter — not bearing food, but a magnet. A…
🍺 $13 Beers and the Price of Progressivism By Maria Grasmick When Zohran Mamdani won the NYC mayoral race on a wave of socialist rhetoric pledging “affordability,” “free access,” and “power to the people” his supporters thought they were signing up for a revolution. What they got instead was a cash bar. Last week, Mamdani…
🎨 “Statue Denied” November 6, 2025 (Jay Clayton, President Trump, and the power of a single blue slip) 🔍 What This Work Means This piece is about presidential authority vs senatorial obstruction gilded merit meeting bureaucratic vanity. President Trump, in a classical temple of American justice, unveils Jay Clayton: a statue not just of gold,…
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