Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 26, 2025

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Yes, People news sucks. But at least we have a Pucky Chart! And yes, our leaders’ priorities seem to be completely of the chart, so to speak.

Speaking truth to power…

Cool Cars + Cool Spaceships = Really Stoopid Idea: Launching a Car into Deep Space

divorced dad energy? This feels like the author is making some kind of statement about something that’s a little personal.

I think they Musk be focussing on one billionaire there. It’s an (E)long shot but I might guess who…

Somewhat limited perspective on the news. This might apply to the USA, but not here in Australia. We don’t get cool spaceships.

Puck is brilliant!

Puck is my spirit animal!

BCN, a light in the darkness.

Slightly off-topic : do cats know revenge? one of our neighbors hate cats and she once hit a cat who napped beside her apartment door, then the cat came again and pooped beside her apartment door, my mother joked she pooped beside your apartment door because she or he (the cat) knew you hate cats.

Slightly off-topic : Am I the only one who thinks that grumpy cats and cats in a bad mood look cuter than other cats? to me cats are the only animals that look cuter when they’re grumpy than when they’re not

I haven’t clicked on “Show All Comments” yet.

I’m anticipating an interesting day here…

That last panel hits hard…

Mad kudos! Good on you for going there, and politely.

Power Corrupts , Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely .

That second panel reminds me of Robert Lay’s character Gund, part of the exclusive “Circle” of the four families that run America. – Holmes & Watson: The Case of the Diabolical Daughter

I don’t know if that’s true, but it feels true.

Panel 4 rules! From outside the US, we’re getting through mountains of popcorn. :-)

She left off rabid fascism for anyone NOT a millionaire or higher!

Sorry, but I don’t need a politics or civics lesson from cats (or liberal cartoonists). Stick to hairballs. Bye, bye…

Good for you, Georgia. The cats live in a household supported by an artist. Their world is affected by the people world. The people world isn’t headed down a road that looks good for artists.

This strip Georgia is the BEST!

Thank you, Georgia. <3 My cats were very thankful for the explanation of why people news is stressing me out. ;) P.S. If you get bored and make a comic of Teddy Roosevelt and Rowdy Roddy Piper taking down a certain billionaire with a steel chair, I would be delighted.

Pucky! Dont read people news! Its best ignored! It will fry kitty society like ours! I avoid it completely. Unfortunately my friends continue to clue me in on it. I try to ignore.

GO FOR IT GIRL…The cheshire cat was political… CATS was political… Let ’em have it and be strong in your beliefs… You have a platform for good vs evil – use it well.

The strongest objections seem to be from commenters we haven’t seen before, which is odd.

Love it (and you, Georgia)! The BCN crew should be in the WH press corps!

And here I thought it was more like spoiled 7 year old who needs a good whupping. But you are so right, Puck. Midlife crisis, indeed.

I am so very proud of you for being courageous in a world of sheep

I just have to note the newspaper is “The Sad Times”. How appropriate. Good job on today’s work, Georgia!

I’m fine with this – no explanation necessary.

Do what you wish, your work is cherished.

Divorced dad? Hmmm

Burt’s joke is the highlight of this one. Now, what’s going on at the kitchen counter?

a genius explanation, everything makes sense now

I wish you had not brought politics into the strip. First time I have not “liked” a comic

When People struggle, pets know. They worry about us too!

I’m not sure if the “cool cars/trucks” are a thing. Maybe I’m too poor to understand the “cool” factor of a recent “truck” that’s been on the toc tic lately.

Not fun anymore.., we are out. UNFOLLOW

A Little Known Song From Burt Bacharach’s Movie Lost Horizon: Reflections

When you make your voice heard

Do you know what to say?

If you know what to say

There’s no need for dismay!

…….

’Cause your reflection reflects in what you do and say

And what you do and say

Is your right every day!

…….

When you speak to your friends

Do you listen as well?

If you listen as well

You have every right to tell!

…….

’Cause your reflection reflects in what you do and say

And what you do and say

Is your right every day!

…….

Speaking up for someone else

Isn’t just for someone else

It does twice as much for you

As what you keep

To yourself!

…….

When you lay down to sleep

Do you like all your dreams?

Don’t just keep them as dreams

Make them all heard and seen!

…….

’Cause your reflection reflects in what you do and say

And what you do and say

Is your right every day!

To Georgia and all the Orb Friends: Make your voice heard!

I like the newspaper The Sad Times. Hopefully it doesn’t become The Interesting Times.

I can barely comprehend what’s happening.

I’m reminded of a line from 1984 that starts “The object of power is power…”. I’m sorry, I don’t remember the rest of the line, and my copy of 1984 is long gone. Maybe one of our readers can fill it in. I believe it ends “now, do you begin to understand me?”.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Beatrixia: Today there is a contemporary story that must be told.

Puckmosis: We’ll be back tomorrow with more tales from Ancient Egypt.

Georgia, today’s strip ROCKS! You go, girl, and don’t let any negative comments slow you down!

I don’t mind a bit of politics. It is disturbing how people who have more money than they coukd spend in a lifetime don’t feel it’s enough. Then they want to take from people who have so little to get more wealth theough more and bigger tax cuts. It’s immoral.

I will only add that health care is a fundamental human right. As my old Jesuit philosophy Professor said, “When you have the ability to cure or repair a human being so that they can return to a full life, it is a Positive Good*.”

For those of you who didn’t sit through Fr. Vitalli’s class, a Positive Good essentially means actively seeking to promote good and positive outcomes, often associated with ethical frameworks like utilitarianism that aim to maximize happiness and benefit for the most significant number of people. In simpler words, cure the person so they can return to work and continue to contribute to society.

If it weren’t for The Affordable Care Act and Obama Care, my family would have been bankrupt several times over and would be unable to get health insurance. Now, that lifeline is in danger because the elected government and their billionaire donors think of us as parasites.

Musk’s Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX, and Starlink are all funded through US government contracts. It’s not just a matter of financial gain for him; it’s that he’s in a position of overseeing agencies that regulate his own businesses. It’s akin to the old saying, ‘like making the arsonist the fire chief’—except he’s also the head of HR, head of accounting, and being awarded contracts for accelerants. This paints a concerning picture of potential conflicts of interest. I fact checked this first before adding this comment.

Thank You Georgia! You’re the Best! We are most fortunate to share this planet all together and especially with you. Stay your course, you are on a perfect heading. Love to You and Yours, Erica

You absolutely nailed it, Georgia!!!!

Real life example of real harms being done: My company does work under a branch of the Environmental Protection Agency. Work mandated by Congress through laws that already said these tasks were necessary to protect the health, safety, and happiness of us, the citizens.

Our field is a target in the big red handbook for destroying America. Every Friday we wait for the email saying we’re done.

We work closely with federal employees: reviewers who make sure buildings and bridges are designed safely, the people in charge of making sure our land and water is clean, and preserving the things and places that Americans love. We work with small towns helping them with the process to build a safe bridge or redesign a dangerous intersection because the projects are funded by Federal dollars. Those projects are all in jeopardy now, some funding is already on hold. 1,000s of construction workers possibly idled.

I want to stress I work “WITH” Federal employees. These are people working long hard hours, often more than they get paid for, doing necessary jobs that affect real people and places and oversee companies like mine, to be sure contractors aren’t taking advantage. The Fed employees are the checks to detect private fraud. Right now, I couldn’t scam anything if I tried. Think about that for a minute?

No fed employee is sitting twiddling their thumbs. If they did, they would out, because the jobs are real work that needs to be done and people notice and problems happen when it’s not. I have seen the chaos and non-performers get the boot.

When the Federal agency I report to is gutted, my company, with a 25 year track record of excellent work for bargain prices (it’s my tax dollars too) is out of business, and my employees are on the street collecting unemployment. And the students we were hiring this summer won’t get the good paying jobs they need and studied so hard for.

Just saying, unemployment is the ultimate definition of government paying people to do nothing.

“When they go low, we go high.”

—Michelle Obama

I have been saying for years that billionaires should by taxed out of existence, that they had too much ability to control and influence the world. That was during the Gates and Zuckerberg days. Of course it never happened, and we are seeing what has come to pass.

I’d love to see a strip where Elvis—with the shade of Pogo by his side—confront the evil of Uber capitalists by creating his version of the divine wrath of the whirlwind—a BCN furball!

Very disappointed that you went political. I never thought that would happen to my favorite comic strip. You took a lot of beauty out. Signed – Pistol Pete, my cat.

Georgia, without realizing it, you did create a left leaning cartoon today. I love your work, but I come here to get away from the people politics. Your premise seems to be that using billionaires to get things done is a bad thing. But billionaires are billionaires because they do get things done. Please no more political cartoons. No matter who they favor, you will upset half of your fans. By driving some right leaning fans away, you have made your fan based a little more leftist. Sending you love from a right leaning fan.

I absolutely do not understand people who say they will leave and never come back because they disagree with one single day’s comic out of close to 3000? I don’t have the exact number because some of them are for repeats. Today is number 3183 in the spreadsheet that the late Bill Jackson started and I’ve continued. Let’s just say close to 3000 comics you’ve liked on one side of the scale and 1 you didn’t like on the on the other?

I mean, the cool spaceships part is pretty good. If we could get just that without…all the rest…I’d be happy.

I’m out. i read the funnies for fun.

""The rich get richer and the poor get children" is a phrase that cynically highlights the growing economic inequality, suggesting that wealth tends to accumulate among the already wealthy while those in poverty often have larger families due to limited opportunities and resources."And even worse now, the poor or geographically challenged get babies whether they want them or not. At one time “women and children first” was a courtesy. Now they’re a target.

Puck Puts People in Perspective

@BreakingCatNews

People see, and read into things, what they want to see. Did some of you forget that this is a cartoon about cats, written several weeks ago? (but what a score to have it after last night’s vote). It’s not a fact piece, it’s not news of any stripe. It’s the CAT’S world.

Wow! This really hit a nerve. That’s too bad. I don’t think it was meant to be controversial. Why don’t we all take a breath and just go back to being our normal Mega Orb Orbster selves. This too shall pass. I don’t think I will finish reading all the comments today, though. If this doesn’t become a 500+ comment day I will be very surprised!

Another priority appears to be having 13 kids with 4 different women.

Darn straight! Billionaires need to stop wasting money on things people cannot benefit from. Sadly, that may not happen any time soon.

You said it, Georgia. Keep on keeping on. :)

There’s a lot of people who’ve never been here before just popping in to say they’ll never be here again. I’m confused by the idea of just dropping by someone’s house for the sole purpose of complaining about the cooking.

I’m glad it’s not an everyday thing, but it’s fun seeing Georgia clown on the real news a little.

Dear Georgia Dunn,Please keep writing and painting your cats and your humans the way you choose. Tell the stories you want to tell. I will certainly be reading them.

Georgia, BCN is a national treasure, and today’s comic couldn’t have come at a better time. Just this morning the billionaire owner of the Washington Post announced a stunning change in their editorial policy. Fortunately for journalism, the owner of BCN did too. Go get ’em, Puck! ✊

Started reading this gem a few months ago thanks to a dear friend’s recommendation. Today’s strip is brilliant! And I’m even more appreciative of my friend! Thanks, Georgia!

I never knew, after all these years, there was a comment section for GoComics. It’s been an interesting slice of citizenry, attending today. Much more civil than the Washington Post and MUCH more interesting, according to my cat, Meezer (distant cousin of Elvis).

Thank you, Ms. Dunn, for your bravery, kindness, artistry and writing. BCN continues to brighten my day. I hope the folks I’ve shared the crew with continue to enjoy your offerings. My white deaf cat is also named Lupin, in honor of your dear Lupin. He listens with his eyes and his heart. We humans should be so fortunate. Be well.

I know being born to a billionaire family make your life like heaven but let’s look on the bright side, people who were not born to billionaire families, can do achievements without someone underestimating their achievements.

See you guys later.

Loving it!

I’m baffled as to why the minute someone mentions prices, healthcare, the environment, housing (thank you Pucky), everyone jumps on it, shouting “she got all political!! I’m quitting reading the strip!” People, these are things we deal with everyday. Please don’t get your knickers in a knot. These things are quality of life issues for everyone, and ignoring them or crying “foul” will not make them go away. Nor will it solve anything. If we can’t be kind and less judgmental towards each other, then we are all heading down a very unhealthy path. I’m comforted by the fact that the BCN crew has sensed this disturbance in the Force.

A Special Update from our suburb! I check under the porch every morning before we let our cats out (they have Invisible Fence collars) to make sure no stray cats or raccoons are denning there. We have medium-sized lots; our next-door neighbors’ property lines are 2 feet away from one side and maybe 25-30 feet on the other away from the house, so not Chicago-bungalow-crowded, but not multiple-acres.

Anyway, yesterday there was a cat lurking under the porch. He saw me coming down the ladder from the trapdoor and oozed out the other side of the porch. Big brindled fellow with a very floofy tail.

Today he was there again — so I went quickly up the ladder and walked fairly silently to peer over the railing on that side of the porch, and saw him coming out.

And he was not a cat. He was a FOX.

I’ve been a bit nervous about letting our guys outside, but they insist (slipping out when I open a door), and we’ll check on them more often than every hour. They’ve also got lots of places they can be UP, and probably (hopefully?) out of reach of a hungry fox. Wonder if we ought to call Animal Control — don’t want any harm to come to him(her?), but really don’t want a fox denning under our porch or woodrick.

Georgia, I will admit that I was dismayed to read today’s strip. I’m glad it won’t be a recurring theme.

We are drowning in this madness, and BCN is a treasured oasis of laughter and adventure.

At night I often spend too much time scrolling through the archives, re-reading beloved story lines and the hilarious situations the cats find themselves in, and their solutions. You create a wonderful hideaway for us to visit in these kitties’ world. Conflicts are resolved with humor, empathy, and kindness. I can’t count how many times I’ve been moved to tears by your stories and art. Words are inadequate to convey how much I appreciate the strips you give us. They are a precious respite from everyday reality.

Thank you, thank you for all you do for us.