Vance headlines the ‘March for Life’ today, just 24 hours after defending the agent who ended hers.

The Scene: Thousands are gathering on the National Mall right now for the March for Life. It is the movement’s biggest annual headline, but as the crowds cheer the end of Roe, the actual numbers tell a different story.

The Data Brief: We just published a look at the “Post-Roe Paradox.” Despite strict bans in 13 states and new life sentences for doctors, the number of abortions in America has actually risen since the court victory. An invisible “pill pipeline” and shield laws have effectively nullified state borders, meaning the movement that won the legal war is currently losing the supply war. But the predicted horrors for women on the margins are coming true.

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The Podcast (11:00 AM ET): We are live with the “Pre-Game” for the March, watching the ultimate political pivot. Vice President JD Vance is taking the stage to preach “sanctity of life” just 24 hours after he stood in Minneapolis to defend Renee Good’s killer.

Attribution: Dollar Weakening As A Safe Currency Standard by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com

[Peter Kuper is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Nation and MAD magazine where he has written and illustrated SPY vs. SPY every issue since 1997. He is the co-founder and editor of World War 3 Illustrated a political graphics magazine that has given a forum to political artists for 40 years. He has produced over two dozen books including The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Ruins (winner of the 2016 Eisner Award) and adaptations of many of Franz Kafka’s works into comics including The Metamorphosisand Kafkaesque (winner of the 2018 Reuben Award) . His latest graphic novel is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

He has lectured around the world and has taught comics courses at The School of Visual Arts in NYC and Harvard University].

Attribution: Collection time to Altar of Trump by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Ontario, Canada

[Graeme MacKay born in Ontario, Canada, his worked as staff editorial cartoonist for The Hamilton Spectator since 1997, earning multiple national awards and nominations, including citations from the United Nations and the Association of Canadian Cartoonists.]

Today’s scripture at Davos borrowed from Matthew 5:25-26 KJV

25Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

26Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

and our hymn of the day: “Shall we gather at the Grifter”

Attribution: U.S. Congress full of chickens by Jonathan Brown, PoliticalCartoons.com

[Jonathan Brown was the editorial cartoonist for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, for many years, winning many awards. He became a freelance cartoonist, drawing for scores of clients and he created the comic strip “Analog,” which follows roommates Bradley, a human, and Nigel, a dog who identifies as a cat, as they navigate life in the digital era.]

FYI about the phrase “Nobody here but us chickens” according to Wikipedia:

Its first known appearance was as the punch line of a reader-submitted anecdote in Everybody’s Magazine in 1908, in which a chicken thief tries to evade detection by tremulously telling the investigating owner, “‘Deed, sah, dey ain’t nobody hyah ‘ceptin’ us chickens.” From there, it was picked up by newspapers and reprinted far and wide.