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💧#HeresPlanB on X: "@DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK @tweeter_anita @BarnabyRogerson Thanks for this William, beautiful imagery, my dabble in imagery captured on a visit to #Hagiasophia #postorientalism at the turn of the millennium https://t.co/qoFeZ8blmj" / X @DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK @tweeter_anita @BarnabyRogerson Thanks for this William, beautiful imagery, my dabble in imagery captured on a visit to #Hagiasophia #postorientalism at the turn of the millennium https://t.co/qoFeZ8blmj

My note to William Dalrymple on X x.com/steveirons/s...

Australia’s claim that Israel has a right to defend itself against Iran is inconsistent with our rules-based order | Ben Saul While Australia rightly urges de-escalation, it also fails to condemn Israel’s attack on Iran

Important to know www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Four panel editorial cartoon titled Self-Predefence. Panel 1, a bearded person and a person in a red cap are checking out baseball bats at a market, in the distance a man is walking by whistling with a baseball bat under his arm. Panel 2, the person with the red cap is trying to drag the bearded person away, the man in the background is closer and has now noticed the bearded man. Panel 3, the man with the baseball bat has swung mightily and knocked the bearded person’s head off, their collars are person with the red cap looks surprised. Panel 4, baseball bat man is walking off and waves to red hat person, who is wandering off unbothered with a coffee.

Legal Defence #auspol #Israel #Iran t.co/pwQVDLYzH2

Single frame. Title The Wild West. Sundown in barren town with tumbleweed and a saloon in the background with a horse tied up. Foreground Trump on left in cowboy get-up, hands poised over pistols, says “Only way to fix a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” Netanyahu on right also in cowboy get-up, holding two small nuclear missiles, says “Same, but nuclear.”

Wild West.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Gaza. Destruction zone including distant Palestinian flag on a heap of rubble, a distant fire. A few wanderers. Foreground, two skinny kids sitting, one with phone, one with bag and pot. First scary: “Wow. Israelis able to take out specific targets in Iran with incredible accuracy…” other kid says “Just like here.”

Target.
My @smh cartoon.

Scene is a room with a table set up for Trump (name tag, burgers, diet coke in a gold ice bucket). A staffer is opening the door with a sign saying "Trump/ Albanese meeting- CANCELLED" and is looking at Albanese who is standing next to a noticeboard he'd prepared earlier saying "WE give YOU BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. YOU - most probably- give US NOTHING in return!" Albanese is saying to the staffer " I WAS hoping an honest assessment of AUKUS would convince him that we put America First"

ICYMI- the Art of the AUKUS deal- yesterday's cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

An editorial cartoon split into two panels. The first panel shows Tammy Bruce from the U.S. State Department saying in a press conference, "President Trump is the singular guiding hand about what will be occurring from this point forward." The second panel shows an over-the-shoulder view of President Trump, alone and posting up a storm on social media. Several of his most inflammatory Truth Social posts of the last 24 hours relating to the escalating situation in world affairs, particularly the conflict between Iran and Israel, appear in overlapping text bubbles. Fast food litters the desk in front of him with both a can of Diet Coke and an open hamburger container resting perilously close to a large red button on his desk (notionally to deploy large scale weaponry such as bunker buster bombs), which could easily be pressed by accident given where his focus lies.

A bad hand.
My cartoon for tomorrow's The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.

In case you need a vibe check on the Nationals post-election, to see if they've learned anything, or listened:

Yes, his hand held ski poles have a label <GYM] so seems you got it right MGA 😂👍💯

Are those Jim Chalmers feet and skis in the air?

Whale Dream canvas unwrapped

Got the plastic off.

AUKUS is not going to happen. By the time the US returns to democratic rule (if ever) it will be too late. Apply for a refund now.
John Bye, Elwood
@theage letters

Charlie (Albo) Brown in his yellow black waved t-shirt and sneakers is seen standing before his buddy Peppermint Patty who has dressed as her Trumpet wearing like his blue suit and red tie who has kneeled before him clutching her white peanut AUKUS ball shaped as a little subby waiting for him to kick it into play. He thinks GOOD GRIEF

@goldingcartoons.bsky.social's #cartoon #AUKUS is not going to happen. By the time the US returns to democratic rule (if ever) it will be too late. Apply for a refund now. John Bye, Elwood @theage letters #alttext

Mostly finished wombats painting.

Time to close up. I’ll see how it looks after a bit of fixative.

Editorial cartoon titled Stream of Semi-consciousness. Trump in various poses muttering “Why are we using rubber bullets?” We have to get rubber from places nobody has ever heard of!” “We should be using good old American lead” “Executive order time” “How do you spell Trump?” “We need to make bullets great again!” “Putin wouldn’t use a rubber” “Bibi wouldn’t even waste one on a journalist” “Woke gone mad” “A tariff on all rubbers”.

Stream of semi-consciousness #USPolitics #auspol t.co/pwQVDLYzH2

Best looked at while listening to the performance.

Later on I asked Dave if I could have a recording of the performance and I had it playing in my very small shed in the backyard most of the time while I was painting this.

Single frame. Californian street scene with, on right, angry protesters marching towards us with signs “ICE GET OUT” “NO TO TRUMP” “NO TO ICE ARRESTS” “DUE PROCESS” “THOS OS FASCISM” and a Mexican flag. On right, angry Trump throwing a Molotov cocktail marked “NATIONAL GUARD”.

Inflammatory.
My @smh cartoon.

David Pope in Canberra Times

"I SPY WITH FOUR OF MY FIVE LITTLE EYES..." We see s vicious dog Netanyahu in his military jacket with the Israeli flag with a sharp pointed collar salivating over his protection of the only food in his bowl labelled GAZA AID protecting the tiny amount from the thousands of tiny crowds seeking to get some, the dog have shat his shit in the form of tiny WEST BANK SETTLE MEANTS shit houses et al, we see four weak frightened dog owners led by Penny Wong looking up his arse coming as they are with their dog licence to be attached which they might maybe attach to his collar, his tail with two heads labelled ULTRA NATIONALISTS, the dog: 'WHO DARES SANCTION THE TAIL THAT WAGS THE DOG??"

@agnessmack.bsky.social #DavidPope's #cartoon in Canberra Times #alttext

EN ROUTE TO THE PRODUCTIVITY SUMMIT Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong have reached the mountain top in their snow gear and we see a ski lift system from afar with hundreds of seats with two mad skiers with their skis coming at them on their ski lift seats, an empty red single lift seat having gone past them which has dropped a SCHWIING grenade about to hit the snow behind them and take them out and a crazy naked abominable snowman with the smallest dick in the world some way off still wearing his queen elizabeth the second crown is going bizzerk. Albo: "I'LL HANDLE THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN ON THE LEFT, YOU TAKE THE EXTREMISTS ON THE RIGHT..." Penny: "THANKS ALBO". Before them are the skis labelled [TAX] [REFORM] by a skier who has died and is upside down in the snow.

@rowecartoon.bsky.social's #cartoon #alttext

Cartoon for the Melbourne Observer #auspol #USA #Trump

We see asn astounded feared old bloke watching his [NEWS FROM THE USA]. The red flames have emerged from his screen and his lounge room is filling with black smoke.

@mbjcartoonist.bsky.social's #Cartoon for the Melbourne Observer #auspol #USA #Trump #altttext

I wonder will Donald Trump pardon those arrested ″⁣unlawful demonstrators″⁣ in Los Angeles as he did the unlawful rioters at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Rosie Elsass, Brighton East
@theage letters

A single US army officer standing in full gear including face protecting helmet and a tank on his back in a huge downtown major double line street with the street light and green palm trees suggesting it's los angeles uses his portabe flame thrower giving us a huge flame with the suggestion of some massive machinery in the background suggesting he may have tank mounted flame throwers to back him up.

goldingcartoons.bsky.social's #cartoon: I wonder will Donald Trump pardon those arrested ″⁣unlawful demonstrators″⁣ in Los Angeles as he did the unlawful rioters at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Rosie Elsass, Brighton East @theage letters #alttext

In today’s NZ Herald #Israel #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories #Netanyahu

We see a crazy-eyed Netanyahu sitting on the house of a poor Palestinian family out in the desert as his seat, reading his paper [NZ, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NORWAY PLACE TRAVEL BAN ON 2 EXTREMIST ISRAELI MINISTERS]. He comments: "THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! MY MINISTERS HAVE ALWAYS ADVOCATED FOR A TWO-STATE SOLUTION..." "...THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE ANNEXED STATE OF ISRAEL..."

@rodemmerson.bsky.social's #cartoon In today’s NZ Herald #Israel #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories #Netanyahu #alttext

Illustrated poster by Nordacious. A young woman with light brown hair wearing a red shirt and black-and-white keffiyeh stands on the deck of a ship, facing massive, ominous, dark blue waves. Her hair and scarf blow in the wind. At the bottom is a quote from Greta Thunberg: “We are doing this because no matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying. Because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity.” The words “lose our humanity” are highlighted in red.

“I think the world needs a lot more young angry women, to be honest - especially with everything going on right now.” - Greta Thunberg.

Anyone who isn’t angry about this genocide, forced starvation and continual breach of international law has lost their humanity.

Title: VILLAINS AND HEROES. Left, small yacht named Madleen, Greta Thunberg wearing keffiyeh beside crate marked AID. Label above: “Bleeding hearted activist seeking to highlight the plight of Palestinians”. Right, larger ship marked IDF with Israeli flag. Several soldiers aboard. Label above: “World’s Most Moral Army of a Modern Democracy, actively bombing, starving and displacing the Palestinian people.” One soldier pointing at Thunberg saying “YOU’RE just doing it for the attention!”

Villains and heroes.
My @smh @theage cartoon.