Today's editorial cartoon and daily Candorville comics!

Zuckerberg's META goes full MAGA

Darrin Bell’s Disobey in Advance
The nightly consistency checker for my comics aggregator (https://comics.kamens.us/) notified me about a week ago that #DarrinBell's editorial cartoon and "Candorville" strip had disappeared from #ComicsKingdom.
I looked into it today to see if they had moved to another syndicate I could point the aggregator at, and found this: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonist-arrested-alleged-possession-child-se-rcna188014
I think this may be the first time a syndicated strip has stopped being published because its author was arrested for #CSAM. 🤔
#comics

Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated child sex abuse images

"The creation of CSAM using AI is inherently harmful to children because the machine-learning models utilized by AI have been trained on datasets containing thousands of depictions of known CSAM victims"

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenAI #machinelearning #CSAM #DarrinBell #technology #tech

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/under-new-law-cops-bust-famous-cartoonist-for-ai-generated-child-sex-abuse-images/

Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated child sex abuse images

Darrin Bell won a major cartooning award in 2019.

Ars Technica
В США за дитяче порно заарештували Дарріна Белла, відомого художника — Пулітцерівського лауреата, творця сатиричних коміксів і затятого анти-Трампіста. Уявіть, скільки такої порнографії і педофілії в членів "команди" наступного президента? #comics #trump #darrinbell #childporn

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I am flabbergasted on who the American pulblic will accept as a legimate candidate for our highest offices. Both #Trump and JD Vance have zero regard for even a modicum of truth

It would be easier for the fact checkers to just tell us their truthful statements 🤔 rather than all the lies.

How can anyone support candidates who make up fantastical stories about #Haitians eating pets and schools doing sex change surgery?

“Simply put: JDVance lied his ass off during the debate about both his and Trump’s plans for the USA.”
— Comment and Cartoon by #DarrinBell for #Counterpoint
#Haiti #trans #transgender #lies

How the H does a person like this get where he is today?

“CNN reported that as a private citizen, #NorthCarolina Lt. Governor #MarkRobinson posted disgusting statements online 20 years ago, which are just about as disgusting as the stuff he says in his official capacity today.”-DB

Cartoon by #DarrinBell for #Counterpoint
#blacknazi #nazi #trans #kkk #trans #guns #politics

“Republicans seem as giddy as children blowing their first dog whistle when they use the phrase ‘DEI Hire’ to describe Vice President Harris.”
— Darrin Bell for Counterpoint

PS: I’m really excited about the Kamala Harris candidacy. Good podcast on the phenomenon here:

#DEI #kamalaharris #DarrinBell #counterpoint #republicans #racism #characterassasination #nword

https://overcast.fm/+AAoIe_SphTo

The Harris Campaign Is Born — The Daily

Over the past 48 hours, as the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris went from theoretical to inevitable, she has delivered the first glimpses of how her campaign will run. Reid J. Epstein, who covers politics for The Times, discusses what we’ve learned from her debut. Guest: Reid J. Epstein, who covers politics for The New York Times.

Friday Cartoons II

““Donald #Trump supposedly influenced the RNC to ‘soften’ its draconian platform to be more appealing to voters, while at the same time influencing his associates and the #HeritageFoundation to write a #fascist manifesto that'll be the actual blueprint for a second Trump term.”-DB

Cartoon by #DarrinBell for #Counterpoint
#project2025 #fascism #ChristianNationalism

https://counterpoint.substack.com/p/its-nice-up-here-edition

🤔"'It's Nice Up Here" Edition

“Donald Trump supposedly influenced the RNC to ‘soften’ its draconian platform to be more appealing to voters, while at the same time influencing his associates and the Heritage Foundation to write a fascist manifesto that'll be the actual blueprint for a second Trump term.”-DB

Counterpoint

‘Chump Change' Edition - Thursday Cartoons
(some good ones today!)

Thanks, #DarrinBell, #isaBenson and #ChrisBritt for #Counterpoint
https://counterpoint.substack.com/p/chump-change-edition

👛"Chump Change" Edition

“On the same day he admitted he’s unable to secure the nearly half-billion dollar bond he’s been ordered to pay, Donald Trump brought into his campaign Paul Manafort, the felon and alleged Kremlin crony who pleaded guilty to money laundering.”-DB Cartoon by Darrin Bell for Counterpoint

Counterpoint
Editorial & Political Cartoons @EandPCartoons #DarrinBell,
@newcounterpoint @DarrinBellArt #cartoon: #alttext