Jen Sorensen

@jensorensen

Cartoonist for Daily Kos, The Nation, In These Times, The Progressive, Politico. The Nib alum. Recipient of the Herblock Prize and Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation. Newsletter: jensorensen.com/subscribe Patreon: patreon.com/jensorensen

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Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· 4d

This week's comic: The Truck Stops Here

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· 12d

This week's comic on a tiresome bit of trollery

Playing the jealousy card

A couple walking through the woods on a hike

Woman: Whenever anyone says billionaires shouldn’t exist, or that there’s too much economic inequality, some wiseguy always replies that they’re just “jealous.”

Woman: But I don’t want a 15,000 square foot house, let alone six of them, or a yacht, or a private pedophilia island.

Woman: These grotesque narcissists are hoarding the nation’s wealth while making it harder for the rest of us to succeed--or afford healthcare or housing, or enjoy a livable planet!

Man: But you have to admit, a billionaire and data center-free private island would be pretty sweet.

Woman: Yyyeah...

Man, facetiously: See? Jealous.

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· 19d

Latest comic: Online shopping has become a hall of mirrors that makes it almost impossible to make a well-informed decision as a consumer.

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Jul 18

This week's comic

Selling The Sun

Despite overwhelming objections from scientists, the Trump FCC has approved a space mirror to create “Sunlight on demand.”

Person on Earth in spot being lit by space mirror: What the.?

Among other things, the company promises “unforgettable nighttime experiences for events and public spaces.”

Owl: Not another @&!# midnight corporate retreat!

Besides messing up circadian rhythms, animal navigation, and entire ecosystems, what could go wrong?

Tech bro to astronomer with seared retinas: careful with that telescope! Especially once we have 50,000 of these in orbit.

Coming soon: Blocking the sun unless you pay for it

Farmer in the dark: Hey, what gives?

Tech bro: You haven’t paid your monthly Sun-scription fee!

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Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Jul 5

Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge

Slop-henge
Guide for societal collapse fun tours:
Historians and archaeologists have tried to determine exactly how this civilization perished.
Researchers suspect a kind of mania over pattern recognition machines.
These huge monoliths evidently generated a sacred product known as “slop.”
Here we see a famous circle of these facilities that used up all the water and ruined the atmosphere.
We think they were worshipped and given sacrifices of immense wealth.
But why didn’t they just stop?
It’s a mystery, but our current hypothesis is that they were imbeciles!

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Jun 28

Cartoon: Recycling dilemmas

Recycling dilemmas

The microscopic number
The atoms seem to form a “5.”

Mystery plastic
No number at all?!?

Bag ambiguity
Hmm… it’s sort of like a plastic grocery bag, but crinkly like a
Landfill-only bag.
Nutty nuts
FILM

The guilt of recycling failure
Bits of this clamshell packaging are going to wind up inside an actual clam.
I am scum
All trash

The possible futility
Whether this gets
Recycled at all depends on fickle markets.
Godspeed, little noodle Cup.
#1–5

Can’t we just move on from single-use plastics?
It says here they passed a ban on plastic bag bans.

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Jun 14

This week's comic: Flying is worse than ever

Fly the maxed out skies

Out of control upgrades

$0 extra

“Preferred” seats - Cramped but not in Back: Add $39

Extra legroom: Add $79

First class: Don’t even ask

Coming soon: Restroom access for $29

Airports beyond capacity

And it looks like we’re 19th in line for takeoff. For those with tight connections, may we suggest a contactless-pay cocktail while you watch Top Gun: Maverick?

Super-tight connections from flight delays

If you run at 40 mph, you might make your flight at gate Z infinity

Don’t forget to pick up your bags before going through customs.

Note: All rows now boarding

Chart showing rising Human suffering units

We’ve transformed Billions of HSUS Into profits!

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Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· May 23

This week's comic: The dangers of solar panels

The dangers of solar panels

Conspiracy theories are stopping construction of solar farms (ProPublica 4/24/26)

Conspiracy theorist wearing t-shirt reading Drill baby drill:

Noise! Pollution! Electromagnetic energy!

Here are some actual health concerns of solar power:

Shock from lower energy bills

Fainting man opening bill: I can’t believe it’s reasonable!

Lightheadedness from all that sweet clean air

Man sniffing: Sniff!

Psychological disorientation from sudden energy independence

Woman on psychiatrist’s couch: Humanity may have a future?

I am lost.

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· May 3

Tried to forget the news for a while by going to a rock festival in an old olive oil factory in the Portuguese countryside, as one does. Pictured band: Esquerda

The band Esquerda performing at the Pedra Rock Festival

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Apr 26

Latest comic on an economy that has become hostile to humanity.

The post-human economy

poorly paid worker makes actual products in distant factory

more abstract jobs are given to a.i. "agents"

one executive to another: what a fantastic team we've assembled!

bot 1
bot 2
bot 3
bot 4

investors reward companies that do away with workers, breathable air, a habitable planet

tv chyron: nasdaq jumps on plan to end humanity

as apocalypse nears, opportunities just keep growing!

computer monitor: doomsday prediction market

when will our goose be cooked?

dude: i'm going all in on next wednesday. i'm gonna be rich!

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Apr 25

Happy 25 de Abril! On this day in 1974 Portugal was liberated from dictatorship. Took part in a freedom walk this morning.

Man wearing Portuguese flag and holding carnation in 25 de Abril liberty walk

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Apr 18

Cartoon: "Dems should move to the right"

If Dems Want My Support to save Democracy, They'll Need to Move to the Right.

You Mean by Embracing... Climate Change Denial?

Or the Lie That There Is Widespread "Voter Fraud"?

Or the Fiction That the U.S. Has "Open Borders"?

Or the Vile Myth Linking Lgbtq People to Child Abuse?

Or Completely Discredited Ideas from the Eugenics Movement?

Or Bogus Claims about Health and Medicine That Are Risking the Lives of Millions?

Or World-destabilizing Military Aggression with Flagrant Disregard for International Law?

As I Was Saying, If Dems Want My Support to save Democracy, They'll Need to Move to the Right.

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Apr 11

Latest comic: Name That Bellicose Babbler

Quiz Time: Name That Bellicose Babbler

1. "God Will Roast Their Stomachs in Hell."

2. "Don't Push It, or I'll Give You a War You Won't Believe."

3. "You Should... Totally Cut Their Windpipes and Thus Clearly Show Them What a Real War Is Like."

4. "I Am Altering the Deal. Pray I Don't Alter It Any Further."

5. "[They] Will Become Good Food for the Sharks."

6. "Open the F#@*&N' Strait, You Crazy Bastards, or You'll Be Living in Hell."

7. "Ithe Best in Life Is] to Crush Your Enemies, See Them Driven Before You, and to Hear the Lamentations of Their Women."

8. "If You Start Throwing Hedgehogs under Me, I Shall Throw a Couple of Porcupines under You."

A. Kim Jong Un

B. Nikita Khrushchev

C. "Baghdad Bob"

D. Rambo

E. Conan the Barbarian

F. Iranian Spokesperson

G. Trump

H. Darth Vader

Answer Key: 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-h, 5-f, 6-g, 7-e, 8-b

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Apr 4

This week's comic on the authoritarian takeover of US media

Hostile Takeover

A Right-wing Billionaire Took over Twitter.

Twitter

@eel_crust

I Rule Now!

As If Fox and Newsmax Weren't Enough, the Right Wing Is Taking over Cbs, Tiktok, and Cnn.

No Libs Here!

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting Has Been Buying up Local Tv News Stations.

Up Next:

Immigrants Are Scary!

Local Newspapers Have Been Gutted.

The Biweekly Foghorn

4 Pages

Educators Are Being Harassed for Teaching American History.

The Civil War

And Yet...

The Problem with You Kids Today Is That You're Not Open to Other Points of View!

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Mar 29

Latest comic: Everyone wants to believe there's some "secret" out there that some meathead just discovered.

The Wellness Charlatan's Guide to Longevity

1. Get Creative!

Offal Baths

The Blood Sausage Diet

Live 7 times as Long on Dog Food

2. Start a Podcast and Make Millions

Labman Louie’s Longevity Longhouse

Podcaster Bro:

Today Only—50% off Snortable Kibble!

3. Get the Very Best Health Insurance Money Can Buy

Podcaster Bro Signing Insurance Contract:

Plutocratic
Premium Plus
Private
Poshcare™

4. Enjoy Access to Excellent Medical Care

Podcaster Bro as Old Man in Hospital Bed: See? I Lived to 100!

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Mar 14

Latest comic on changing usage of the insult "PC," a form of linguistic warfare that has successfully redefined morality, human rights, and democracy itself as "liberal" -- and therefore weak, effeminate, and inferior.

Insult Bloat
IN THE '90s, IF SOMEONE FROM "THE LEFT" TRIED TO USE INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE, THEY WERE MOCKED AS "POLITICALLY CORRECT."
‘90s person: WE LIVE IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Man in bowtie: PC!

THE TERM EXPANDED TO INCLUDE ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH "THE LEFT."
Man: I SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE.
Right winger: PC! WOKE! ENEMY WITHIN!

THEN MANY IDEAS THAT HAD BEEN WIDELY ACCEPTED AS BASIC VALUES BECAME DEFINED AS "LEFT WING" AND THEREFORE "PC."
Hegseth: "THE DUMB, POLITICALLY CORRECT WARS OF THE PAST... HAD RESTRICTIVE, MINIMALIST RULES OF ENGAGEMENT."
FIRST PERSON TO EVER CALL IRAQ WAR "PC"

NOW, EVERYTHING IS "PC" (OR "WOKE") EXCEPT FOR THE CHAOTIC WHIMS OF ULTRAVIOLENT MAN-BOYS.
Iranian woman: PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!
Young man in red hat: OH, STOP BEING SO YOU-KNOW-WHAT!

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Mar 7

This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle

The BIG DUMB WAR CYCLE

HAWKS ITCH FOR BATTLE
IT WILL BE A SPLENDID LITTLE WAR!

9/11 FALSELY INVOKED
I'M SURE THEY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE HIJACKERS.

BOOSTERS OF PREVIOUS WAR ALL OVER TV
BOMBS AWAY!

MILLIONS PROTEST AROUND THE WORLD AND ARE IGNORED
THIS WAR IS BUNK TOO

PATRIOTISM OF OPPOSITION QUESTIONED
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS YOU TRAITOR

WAR A BLOODY DISASTER WITHOUT END
WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM FORMS THAT WAR WAS
A MISTAKE, BUT NO ONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

HOW'D WE GET INTO THAT MESS?
BEATS ME!

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Feb 7

This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word

"Polarization"

IT'S A COMMON REFRAIN THESE DAYS.

NATTERING NOGGINS HOSTS:

THE PROBLEM AS I SEE IT IS THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME TOO POLARIZED.

YES, IT'S SO SAD.

WHEN A MOVEMENT BECOMES EXTREMIST, DO WE REALLY WANT TO SEE THE OPPOSITION AS PART OF THE PROBLEM?

MAN: ANYONE WHO HELPS A 10 YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM GET AN ABORTION SHOULD GO TO JAIL!

WOMAN: THAT'S BARBARIC AND I'M GOING TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO FIGHT IT.

POLARIZATION ALERT

BUT THE TERM "POLARIZATION" CAN BE A FORM OF BOTH-SIDESING THAT OBSCURES SPECIFICS.

ARMED EXTREMIST: I'M HERE TO STOP THE TRANSGENDERS FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.

TRANSGENDER PERSON: I PREFER NOT TO DIE, AND SOMETIMES SHARE THIS OPINION!

WOULD THIS BE BETTER?

MAN IN MILITARY GEAR: YOU WILL DO AS I SAY, SUBHUMAN!

LATINO MAN: I WILL POLITELY ACQUIESCE!

HOW NICE! NO MORE POLARIZATION!

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Jan 31

Latest comic: Hollowed out shells

HOLLOWED OUT SHELLS

THE CDC

POLIO SHMOLIO!

CBS NEWS

EDWARD R. MURROW? WALTER CRONKITE? NEVER HEARD OF 'EM!

THE PEOPLE-POWERED INTERNET

Botula Assistant

Greetings! As your new best friend, I will provide all answers and take over the functions of your brain. You are no longer necessary.

AMERICA

DON'T MIND ME-I'M JUST A GRAND OLD FLAG HAVING AN IDENTITY CRISIS.

STILL SOLID:

MINNESOTA

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Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Jan 17

This week's comic on the radical libertarian fantasies of colonizing Greenland

Frozen Dystopia

AMONG THOSE INTERESTED IN COLONIZING GREENLAND ARE TECH BROS WHO DREAM OF BUILDING AN AUTOCRATIC "UTOPIA."

IT'S THE NEXT BEST THING TO MARS!

FOR THIS WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF DESTROYING NATO AND THE POST-WWII ORDER

THESE FANTASIES ARE PARTLY INSPIRED BY ISAAC ASIMOV'S FOUNDATION SERIES IN WHICH A REMOTE PLANET BECOMES A BASE FOR A MATH GENIUS TO SAVE HUMANITY.

GHOST OF ASIMOV: HOW CONVENIENTLY THESE FOOLS FORGET MY SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW!

WHEN THE BROLIGARCHS EVENTUALLY ARRIVE…

DUDE, I LOVE HOW MY SPERM DONATION FOR FUTURE HIGH-IQ ALPHAS FREEZES INSTANTLY.
ER, DON'T SLIP ON THE "ICE."

THE HONEYMOON DOESN'T LAST LONG.

TECH BRO IN CYBERTRUCK ON BREAKING ICE SHEET:

I AM THE KING OF QAQORTOQ!

KRAK!

UH OH... GROK-HOW TO GET CYBERTRUCK OFF ICE FLOE?

©2026 Jen Sorensen

Jen Sorensen@jensorensen· Jan 11

A comic from 2022 on the dangers of unaccountability and kicking the can down the road. As recent elections demonstrate, voting is still extremely important.