Nonprofit organizations under threat in US

Bill H.R. 9495  will hand the President powers to instruct the Secretary of the Treasury to revoke the 501(c)(3) nonprofit status of any organization found to "support terrorism", absent of any substantive investigation or evidence, and without oversight. 

Despite a narrow defeat last week, the bill will return before the House of Representatives this week, with a vote expected on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Congresspeople need to hear from voters in their districts today, telling them to reject the bill. 

This cartoon sums it up.

Cartoon by Morten Morland

The CBC Inteviews Michael de Adder

From The Daily Cartoonist.

Editorial cartoons are being seen by more people than ever, but the income that supports them is drying up. 

Fresh after being let go from his 30-year newspaper job, renowned editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder talks to The National’s Ian Hanomansing about the perils of his profession in the age of social media.

Darkness at News

Mike Peterson in The Daily Cartoonist.

There have been a number of cartoons responding to Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos having spiked an endorsement for Kamala Harris, many of them playing on the Post’s motto “Democracy Dies in the Dark.”

Ann Telnaes gets the top spot in part because she works there and her cartoon joins with 16 Washington Post columnists who signed an outraged statement protesting the move, which is reason enough, but also because while she is perennially one of the most inventive political cartoonists, she knows when it’s time to be plainspoken.

And her fans recognize her outrage, as the comments on her page indicate.

The fact that the Post has published protests over the topic — from both staff and readers — is encouraging, because it indicates a chasm between the people who make the paper and the man who owns it, and that there is a difference between doing what you’ve been ordered to do and behaving like a lickspittle.

Riber Hansson 1939-2024

From Marco de Angelis' Facebook page.

Swedish cartoonist Riber Hansson has passed away. 

Born in 1939, he lived and worked in Stockholm and was cartoonist and illustrator at the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet from 1990 to 2000.

Russia Fakes Charlie Hebdo Cover To Smear Ukrainian Peace Plan

From The Daily Cartoonist. 

Pro-Kremlin media outlets are circulating a fake cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an effort to smear Ukrainian President Zelenskyy peace plan.

The story was posted last week on Pravda depicting a October 11 edition of Charlie Hebdo. 

There is no October 11 edition for sale on the Charlie Hebdo website.

Melki Melgarejo makes his debut at "L’Eau vive"

  

Paraguayan-born cartoonist Melki Melgarejo is making his debut this week as a contributor to L’Eau vive in Regina.

L’Eau vive, a bi-monthly francophone newspaper in Saskatchewan founded in 1971, is the only francophone newspaper in the province.

It is a member of Réseau Presse, a network of newspapers serving the francophone minority population since 1976.