History's Skid Mark by Daniel Boris

 

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Tap The Brakes"

"Tap The Brakes"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4268

Trump taps the brakes...? "Taps the brakes"? JEEzus, they're really
breaking the Goofy Meter over at the Washington Times these days.

F'crissake, that bloated-ass smashmouth sonofabitch probably hasn't done
his own driving for a single day of his goddamn life.

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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

Trade Talks by Daniel Boris

 

US/China Trade Talks: A Series of Three by Daniel Boris

New Hundred Dollar Bill Design by Daniel Boris

 

Grift Mobile by Daniel Boris

Another Trump scam?? Shocking!

Monument Makeover by Daniel Boris

 

Benched by Daniel Boris

 

Marco! Polo! by Daniel Boris

Under the Sea! by Daniel Boris

 

SCOTUS Time Machine by Daniel Boris

Up! by Daniel Boris

The King's Gambit by Daniel Boris

The Last Sleepover by Daniel Boris

 

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Big Bidness Babble"

"Big Bidness Babble"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4251

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Starring in order of appearance: Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of
"Some Crap You Bought To Read On The Plane"; some wild-ass up-all-night,
Monster Energy-guzzling, stock-market playing Wall Street geek, author
of "Some Crap You Bought To Read On The Plane"; and some shallow,
glitzed-up ex-Chamber Of Commerce honcho who's now the executive
director of some big-ass retailers' association, author of "Some Crap
You Bought To Read On The Plane".

Inspired by a lively, witty exchange between some pals on Bluesky a
couple of weeks ago, riffing on business media pundit shartage.

(At this point, has there ever been a panelist or Guest Contributing
Analyst on The Network Formerly Known As MSNBC who HASN'T been pushing a book on the air lately?)

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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

The Booze Twins by Daniel Boris

 

Pulp Fiction Prayers by Daniel Boris

Brouhaha by Daniel Boris

 

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Capitalism: 404"

"Capitalism: 404"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4245

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When I first got the word going around that the Citibank building in
Dubai had been bombed, my first thought was "will I still have to pay my
bill next month?" Then, one after the other, like Santa Claus dropping
goodies on nearly every company involved in surveilling the Palestinians
and supplying military intel to Israel – data centers for Amazon, Apple,
Microsoft, Palantir, Oracle, Citibank... I couldn't pretend to enjoy
capitalism's reaction when the only thing it truly values gets the
living shit blasted out of it.

"We're sorry, but 'Capitalism' is 404 at this time..."

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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

Is Ann Telnaes making far more money now than she did at WaPo?

by Mike Rhode

(Corrected 5/9 with the notice that she still has a free tier)

(Updated 11/4/25) 

I don't know, I haven't asked her.** But while the Post continues to claim her, insofar as the Pulitzers are concerned (with full page ads run at least for 2 days), she may be far better off without them. Here's her initial newsletter about quitting the paper over a squashed cartoon, and there's plenty more coverage spread throughout this blog.

In her Substack newsletter about winning the award, she wrote, "Due to you all, my Substack Open Windows has reached 100,000 subscribers!!" I don't believe she has a free tier anymore, just She still has a free tier, but if everyone paid for a subscription at $80/year or $8/month she would gross perhaps $8,000,000 to a maximum of $9,600,000.

Substack fees are described on their website.

From Substack: 10% of each transaction

From Stripe: Credit cards

A credit card fee (2.9% + $0.30 per transaction fee) and a Billing fee for recurring subscriptions (0.7% for recurring payments as of July 2024).

Their example shows the bite at about 20% on a $5 dollar payment.

If we use that back of the envelope, Ann might be netting $6,400,000 before taxes.* I find this stunningly hard to believe, but I hope it's true. A dish best served cold after all...

*I'm not an accountant or businessman so feel free to correct my thinking. 5/9: Thanks to Wim Lockefeer for pointing out she still has a free tier; my paid subscription version wouldn't show that to me.

 

**The answer is 'no' she told me at SPX this year.