This will be a new book, if things align, my money holds out, and we all live so long. Copyright 2026 by me. Pages 1-17 are illustrated by Dan E. Burr and lettered by Debra Freiberg; pages 18-27 are illustrated and lettered by Ian Akin and Brian Garvey.
And the refs:
Page 1: The quote is verified at : https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anne-frank-children-separated/
Page 2: Holy crap. Sorry, these are out of order; search for the one you’re looking for.
DOGE gets keys of government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_federal_agencies_targeted_by_DOGE
Can’t even do math: https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-and-elon-musk-try-to-do-math-again-and-makes-86b-mistake/
Now they have our private SS info: https://larson.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/yes-doge-did-put-our-social-security-data-risk-heres-what-lawmakers-are
A drunk runs the military: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history
Anti-vax killer: Specifically, RFK Jr. killed people in Samoa: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/newly-obtained-emails-undermine-rfk-jr-s-testimony-about-2019-samoa-trip-before-measles-outbreak
Harder to cancel subscriptions: https://pirg.org/edfund/updates/court-blocks-rule-to-make-subscriptions-easier-to-cancel/
FBI shuts down public corruption squad https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-folds-public-corruption-squad-aided-jack-smiths-trump-investigatio-rcna207029
Janary 6th traitors pardoned: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/trump-january-6-pardons-jeremy-brown-daniel-ball-guy-reffitt/
CPFB dead: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292123/the-trump-administration-has-stopped-work-at-the-cfpb-heres-what-the-agency-does. And some of the consequences: https://www.propublica.org/article/credit-report-mistakes-cfpb-experian-transunion
Tax cuts for super-rich: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/7-ways-the-big-beautiful-bill-cuts-taxes-for-the-rich/
Gulf of America: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/gulf-of-america-day-2025/
600 fewer docs: https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-hospital-shortages-trump
Drowning prevention: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/27/nx-s1-5509976/drowning-prevention-program-halt-cdc
USAID: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/
Trump head of Kennedy Center: https://www.kennedy-center.org/news-room/press-release-landing-page/kennedy-center-board-elects–president-donald-j.-trump-as-board-chair/
Medicare: https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/physicians-concerned-ai-increases-prior-authorization-denials
Brain cancer in kids: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/well/pediatric-brain-cancer-trial-group.html
Causes of autism: https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-autism-environment-research-funding
Hospitals closing https://www.gao.gov/blog/why-are-urban-hospitals-closing-and-what-happens-after-they-do
Israeli pedophile set free: https://www.axios.com/2025/08/20/israel-maga-child-sex-ring-alexandrovitch
Tariff up and down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_the_second_Trump_administration
Trump removed from impeachment exhibit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/07/31/trump-impeachment-smithsonian
National Weather Service, floods, FEMA: https://www.meidasplus.com/p/texas-officials-blame-agency-gutted, https://archive.ph/THuev#selection-517.0-517.74, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1208133297350850&set=a.375526243944897
Human trafficking unit gutted: https://people.com/trump-guts-human-trafficking-office-amid-epstein-criticism-11776043
ICE racist shitposter: https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/
Suicide hotline funding: https://gothamist.com/news/lgbtq-suicide-hotline-workers-in-ny-and-nj-face-layoffs-after-federal-funding-cut
DEI plane crashes: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/government-investigating-whether-dei-causes-plane-crashes/683038/
Harder to cancel subs: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/court-click-to-cancel-ruling
Churches can endorse: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/court-click-to-cancel-ruling?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
Trump seizes $7 billion in school funds: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html
Reconsider asbestos ban: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/trumps-epa-to-reconsider-ban-on-cancer-causing-asbestos/
Chemical explosions: https://grist.org/energy/trump-quietly-shutters-the-only-federal-agency-that-investigates-industrial-chemical-explosions/
Deporting innocent people: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-el-salvador-deportees-criminal-convictions-cecot-venezuela
Pardons for cash: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pardons-paul-walczak-mother-fundraiser-1235348794/
DOGE breaks air traffic control: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lovohsejj52l
Mattel tariffs: https://www.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1kiguht/trump_threatens_company_specific_100_tariffs/
Self-driving cars: https://www.jalopnik.com/1796219/elon-musk-guts-nhtsa-department-autonomous-vehicle-safety/
$200 million in ads thanking Trump: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kristi-noem-200-million-dhs-ad-campaign-thanks-president-1235276324/
Black lung screenings: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-virginia-coal-miners-lose-black-lung-screenings-trump-slashes-worker-safety-agency-niosh/
Great Lakes: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/05/07/millions-of-people-depend-on-the-great-lakes-water-supply-trump-decimated-the-lab-protecting-it/
Firing generals: So many examples if you just search on them. https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=trump+fires+generals&tts=st_asaf_macos&sfn=true
Man jailed for quoting Trump: https://join.theintercept.com/go/82625?t=3&utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&akid=11485%2E1778698%2EQ08G21
9/11 health program: https://www.newsday.com/news/health/world-trade-center-health-program-firings-qe9eec5q
Quietly deletes: https://people.com/department-of-justice-quietly-deletes-study-after-charlie-kirk-death-that-says-right-wing-extremists-engage-in-far-more-political-violence-11811580
Murders for being in a boat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_strikes_on_alleged_drug_traffickers_during_Operation_Southern_Spear
National parks sold off: https://www.npca.org/articles/11271-sen-lee-wants-to-pave-the-way-to-sell-national-parks-we-must-stop-him
National Guard occupying cities because a pedophile Trumper got his ass kicked: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/the-national-guard-is-coming-to-dc/; https://truthout.org/articles/a-third-doge-staffers-racist-and-misogynistic-online-footprint-comes-to-light/
Birthright citizenship: https://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/know-your-rights-birthright-citizenship/
Medicaid cuts: https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/medicaid-cuts-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-leave-3-10-young-adults-vulnerable-losing
January 6th reparations: https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/the-january-6th-insurrectionists-demanding-reparations
Invading Canada? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/trump-canada-us-war-plan
Invading Mexico? https://www.tpr.org/news/2026-01-14/mexico-weighs-its-options-as-trumps-intervention-rhetoric-escalates
Invading Greenland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_crisis
Page 3, panel 1: Tarriffs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Day_tariffs
BLS head: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/trump-fires-erika-mcentarfer-labor-statistics
Maxwell: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/g-s1-80655/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-prison-transfer
RFK Jr demands retraction: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02682-9
CPB announces it’s closing: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shutting-down-1236335890/
Hunger strike continues https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/alligator-alcatraz-hunger-strike-detainees-protest-conditions-rcna222554
Page 3, panel 3: Controls what schools and unis can teach; https://president.columbia.edu/content/our-resolution-federal-government; https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/curriculum/2026/02/20/florida-hands-down-sociology-curriculum-state-colleges.
Secret police take people away without due process: https://www.nilc.org/articles/ice-is-detaining-indiscriminately-and-releasing-almost-no-one/
Science becomes “whatever the leader wants”: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/rfk-jr-is-systematically-undermining-vaccine-science-and-endangering-health/
Minorities demonized: See, e.g., https://www.courthousenews.com/trumps-racist-hate-speech-fueling-rights-abuses-un-watchdog/
Books banned: E.g., https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/book-bans-are-common-and-rampant-so-are-educators-and-parents-fighting-them
Page 3, panel 5: Schumer quote: https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/04/leading-democrat-sent-trump-a-very-strong-letter-and-everyone-laughed-this-is-embarrassing.html
Bipartisanship: https://www.reddit.com/r/newyorkcity/comments/1lt3039/jeffries_should_stop_with_this_bipartisanship_bs/ (I have Schumer saying it rather than Jeffries because it flows better in the panel).
Page 3, panel 6: Great Salt Lake: https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2025/11/26/great-salt-lake-dust-full-toxins/
Wildlife: For example, penguins: https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/penguins-starved-to-death-en-masse-as-food-supply-collapsed/, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5
Whales silent: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ocean-heat-wave-blob-whale-songs
Floods in Sahara specifically: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/11/dramatic-images-show-the-first-floods-in-the-sahara-in-half-a-century
Toxic air: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5
Seas turning neurotoxic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394026933_Meta-Omics_Analysis_Reveals_Global_Distribution_of_Toxic_Pseudo-nitzschia_and_Enhanced_Neurotoxin_Production_Under_Climate_Warming
Drought: Everydamnwhere these days.
Page 4, panel 1: EnergyStar: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/climate/epa-energy-star-eliminated.html
Everything else: https://www.actonclimate.com/trumptracker/
Page 4, panel 2: Heat kills cows: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105482394/cattle-kansas-heat-wave
Targeting weather radar: https://www.newsweek.com/anti-government-militia-targets-weather-radars-2097670
Page 4, last panel: Trump quote: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62579071/trump-rambling-circles-grocery/
RFK Jr. quote: RFK: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-rfk-jr-says-heroin-helped-him-reach-top-his-class-1991956
Page 5, panel 2: https://x.com/sarahlazare/status/1980970139194450147. I changed her all-caps “toward” to bold because ICE is all caps and it looked a little weird.
Page 5, last panel: I was in New York. What a big old drunken party that was.
Page 6, first panel; that twitter user is gone now, but here’s a screenshot:
Page 6, panel 2: Quote is here: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2029%3A18&version=KJV
Page 6, panels 3,4: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/06/governor-newsom-issues-executive-order-expanding-protections-for-survivors-and-support-for-businesses/
Page 7, panel 4: https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/moderna-flu-vaccine-development-cancelled-by-hhs-mrna-platform-offers-speedy-pandemic-response/
Page 7, last panel: https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/moderna-flu-vaccine-development-cancelled-by-hhs-mrna-platform-offers-speedy-pandemic-response/
Page 8, panel 1: See, e.g., here: https://peoplesmedicines.org/resources/media-releases/moderna-vaccine-price-hike-would-be-4000-mark-up-above-cost/
Page 8, panel 2: We actually work more hours per capita than we did in the mid-20th century, https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2018/october/how-hours-americans-work-compare-rest-world.
Page 8, panel 3: Interview with KMO, Conversations on Collapse, p114.
Page 9 panel 2: The quote is on page 12 of my edition, but I’m not near it now.
Page 9 last panel: Eviction moratoriums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_eviction_moratoriums_in_the_United_States
Debt moratoriums: e.g., https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46356
Unemployment payments: https://www.pandemicoversight.gov/news/articles/how-much-money-did-pandemic-unemployment-programs-pay-out
Money for businesses: The Paycheck Protection Program “loans,” https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program
Straight-up sending checks: https://clsphila.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/COVID-19-Stimulus-Check-Simple-FAQ.pdf
Health care: At least vaccines and at-home tests.
Page 10, panel 1: Cancel rent: e.g., https://www.righttocounselnyc.org/faq_about_cancel_rent
Cancel mortgage payments: we did that in fact, e.g., https://www.rd.usda.gov/sites/default/files/Interagency_COVID19_Housing_Forbearance_FS_Lenders.pdf
Page 11, panel 1: This isn’t everyone, just representative people. Phil Knight: https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/25/phil-knight-oregon-republicans-3-million-dollar-donation/
Mellon family, Scaife family: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/heir-to-andrew-mellons-fortune-spends-over-165-million-to-support-trumps-reelection/, A Richly Conservative Life, by Richard Mellon Scaife; cited in: Mayer, Jane (2016). Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Doubleday. pp. 60–1. Really that should be the Mellon-Scaife family maybe.
H.L. Hunt: Detailed in Theodore White’s “Texas, Land of Wealth and Fear” The Reporter, 1954. I’m gonna finish this up later because the rest are pretty obvious. XX
Page 11, panel 2: Nancy Maclean’s Democracy in Chains and Jane Meyer’s Dark Money give a lot of info on this.
Page 11, panel 3: Hoftadter quote: His The Paranoid Style in American Politics, p65 of my edition.
Page 13, last panel: From Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, you can also see it here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/pikettys-inequality-story-in-six-charts
Page 14, panel 5: Friedman quote: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, p6.
Page 16, last panel: Again, that user is gone now, so I don’t know who they were. See p6 first panel for the screenshot.
Page 18, panel 1: A decent description of the exchange between ICE agents and Renee Good is here: https://www.wired.com/story/the-campaign-to-destroy-renee-good/
Page 18, panel 2: The data are from https://americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaires-buying-elections-theyve-come-to-collect/.
Page 18, panel 3 and page 2, panel 1: https://pcfb.ny.gov/candidate-committee-services; https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/01/pcfb-handbook-revised-2025-final_5.pdf
Page 19, panel 2: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/new-york-states-public-campaign-financing-program-empowers-constituent
Page 19, panel 3: Crazy money: more than $40 million according to this: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/mamdani-cuomo-nyc-mayor-bid-billionaire-spending.html. Toady: In the sense of “lickspittle”: For instance, see here: “Meanwhile, his administration created liability protections for hospitals and nursing homes that would become a corporate immunity model for Mitch McConnell at the federal level. Those protections were drafted by a hospital lobbying group that had donated over a million dollars to the New York State Democratic Committee which was funding Cuomo’s 2018 reelection campaign.” https://rebeccatraister.substack.com/p/this-fucking-guy. In the sense of being a toad: just look at the guy. 8 to 1: https://www.nyccfb.info/program/how-it-works
Page 20, panel 1: The more money would be for training, as if that would help; see, e.g., here: https://therealnews.com/renee-good-killing-dems-ice-reforms
Page 20, panel 3: https://pcfb.ny.gov/program-overview
Page 20, panel 4: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/mayor-mamdani—governor-hochul-to-launch-free-child-care-for-tw; includes the phrase “The Governor is committing to fully fund the first two years of the city’s implementation.”
Page 22, panel 1: https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/state-comptroller-dinapoli-faces-rare-primary-challengers/
Page 22, panel 3: Source: https://www.osc.ny.gov/about/about-comptrollers-office
Page 23, panel 1: $280 billion: Drew Warshaw. An Analysis of the Investment Performance of the New York State & Local Retirement System’s Common Retirement Fund from 2007-2025 Versus an Alternative Approach, and the Resulting Impact on New York Property Taxes & State Income Taxes. p16 (p17 of pdf). Third largest fund manager: https://bsky.app/profile/drewforny.bsky.social/post/3maltazqrz22a
Page 23 panel 2: Drew Warshaw. Ibid., p4
Page 23, panel 4: Warshaw, ibid. p18.
Page 24, panel 1: Warshaw, ibid, p3
Page 24, panel 2: $59.1 billion: Warshaw, ibid. p29. New York State population: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/NY/PST045224
Page 24 panel 3: Unopposed: https://www.cityandstateny.com/personality/2025/09/drew-warshaw-wants-cut-out-wall-street-middlemen-managing-state-pensions/408294/
Page 24 last panel: DiNapoli has $1.4 million in his war chest as of late January, https://nypost.com/2026/01/25/us-news/long-shot-comptroller-candidate-puzzlingly-blames-letitia-james-for-late-campaign-filings/; and Republicans are filling it, https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/02/dinapoli-fundraise-republicans-day-dem-convention/411179/
Page 25 panel 1: The 39% underperformance over DiNapoli’s tenure comes down to an average difference of 1.14% a year (which may not be exact but it’s not too high). Getting 1.14% more on $280 billion would be more than $3 billion extra, or around $61 million per week. That could pay for the entire program so far rather quickly (I’m not sure exactly how quickly, because I don’t know how much the entire program has cost so far, but weeks seems reasonable—I doubt the whole program has cost $300 million yet).
Page 25 panel 2: See https://www.vote.nyc/elections for the election day.
Page 25 panel 3: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A560 (point being, the bill hasn’t passed).
Page 25 panel 5: https://news.ballotpedia.org/2025/10/03/california-voters-will-decide-on-a-proposition-to-allow-public-financing-of-campaigns-in-nov-2026/
Page 26 panel 2 (the table): Source: https://www.ademfornewyork.com/#vision; https://rajgoyle.com/our-vision/; https://www.drewwarshaw.com/ideas. Goyle divest from ICE: https://bsky.app/profile/rgoyle.bsky.social/post/3mbx7alfxoc2c
Page 26 panel 3: Bunkeddeko: : https://www.ademfornewyork.com/#vision; Goyle utility: https://rajgoyle.com/our-vision/Warshaw: https://www.drewwarshaw.com/ideas
Page 27 panels 2 and 3 (the demand for a QR code): https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-forced-wear-qr-code-11411925.
