As you’ve no doubt heard, a nurse who worked at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga., has charged that an unusually high number of hysterectomies have been performed on immigrant women who are being held there after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The center is run by a private company […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here at The Shinbone Star, we take pride in our mission of “being no longer encumbered by any sense of fair play,” and we take that mission seriously. But when you have a joke as your president, the need to laugh in the face of foolishness is cathartic and many times necessary. In […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: During the run-up to the 2020 presidential sweepstakes The Shinbone Star will highlight Big Lies uttered and promoted by the current occupant of the White House, lies that hurt our country. Today we tackle The Donald’s ongoing lie that President Obama initiated a policy of separating children from parents seeking asylum in the United States. Let’s be […]
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, from ‘The House of the Dead’ President Donald Trump is the fountainhead for many favors dispensed to the menagerie of powerful people willing to pay for them. One of the most despicable and profitable opportunities his regime provides […]
Don’t know much about history Don’t know much biology Don’t know much about a science book . . . — From “What a Wonderful World” by Herb Alpert, Lou Adler, Sam Cooke History whiz Donald Trump wants new immigrants to pass a civics test before they can become U.S. citizens. According to — himself — Donald […]
“Trump may be trying to ‘make everybody crazy’ by threatening to place immigrants in sanctuary cities,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. “But what I do know is I’ve been up there — I’ve been in the Senate for 90 days, we’re not securing our border. We’re not enforcing our laws,” he […]
Ostriches don’t bury their heads in the sand like Trump often does — they wouldn’t be able to breathe! That exonerates Donald Trump from being an ostrich. Greater flamingos however do. They bury their bills and often their entire heads in wet sand to suck up muddy water looking for bottom feeders they thrive on. […]
Donald Trump didn’t just stomp on democracy Friday by using the power of the veto to suppress a proposed bipartisan resolution to keep him from declaring a national emergency by decree, he took a crap on it. The irony here is that Trump was first to tell everyone his so-called emergency was more about expediency […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: When Shinbone Star artist and contributor Skye Hunter (not her real name) woke up last week to news of the massacre in New Zealand, she set down her thoughts on Facebook. It is reprinted here with her permission. By SKYE HUNTER I woke up this morning and after my shower I went downstairs to get […]
No matter how The Donald slices it, The Wall is a failed campaign promise. He can pull money — American taxpayer dollars — from departments or agencies in the federal government to cover construction costs, but Mexico will not pay for the concrete “white elephant” as he promised on the 2016 presidential campaign trail. The […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: What follows is satire. While we seriously doubt that Trump has ever spit into a saliva collection tube to have his DNA analyzed, here is what we imagine might happen. Dear Donald J. Trump: We’re writing from National Geographic’s Genographic Project to share the exciting news: You are African! Now, this might come […]
Last week The Shinbone Star reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had bitch-slapped ol’ Mr. Trump for being rude and condescending. She pretended to use his paunchy face for a speed bag, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer holding her spit bucket. Makes for good copy, even if it didn’t settle anything. On a brighter note, […]
Like any red-blooded American I want to help our president. Because he’s the president he deserves everything he wants. This is, after all, not a democracy and hasn’t been for some time. Right now Beloved Ruler is having a hard time convincing anyone that a border wall is needed. He hasn’t helped the cause with […]
Donald Trump, the 45th Oval Office Occupant, in nine minutes from his tiny, lying mouth, tried to sell the nation this week on his phony war on immigrants. He billed his hype as “a humanitarian crisis on the southern border.” The major television news purveyors had a handwringing time trying to decide whether to even […]
President Donald Trump opened his first Oval Office address by going right back to the folks he asked back in 2016, “What the hell do you have to lose?” I was surprised he didn’t mention criminal justice reform and black unemployment since they have become part of his greatest-hits list. Criminal records? Last night he […]
Sometime in the early years of the Common Era, when Egypt was under Roman rule, a desperate young family petitioned for asylum. Their fate hinged on the whim of Prefect Donaldus, who had been appointed by the emperor to govern Egypt. Recently, a scroll has come to light that contains a transcript of the prefect’s […]
Like many Americans, I don’t know a lot about Guatemala. Of course there’s this fine cup of coffee I’m sipping, freshly ground beans from Guatemala that had less trouble crossing the border than some 7-year-old girl who had to die to get my attention. Fact is, I don’t know a lot about Honduras, El Salvador, […]
Today is Halloween and Americans eat it up, with up to $9 billion in retail sales forecast for this year’s festival of fear. The holiday as celebrated in the United States is a bastardization of other festivals, many of them ancient in origin. The seeming focus in the United States is a strange amalgam of […]
Get over feeling sorry for Melania. First ladies are our homemade royalty. We admire their pillbox hats, their red dresses, their toned biceps. We shower them with approval, imbue them with laudable qualities they may or may not possess. First ladies are sometimes much more than show dogs. The Wilson, Roosevelt, and Reagan first ladies […]
On Sunday, Delusional Dotard Donald Trump twitted: “I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall!” Trump tweeted. “Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great […]
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