Welcome to “Let the Cat Out the Bag,” my Substack home for smart satire and serious civics
Every week, I team up with Campbell the Cat — a dignified grey tuxedo feline with a red bow tie, sharp claws, and no patience for humie nonsense. Together, we decode American democracy, media madness, and the art of herding politicians.
I’m Doc — your friendly neighborhood strategist-turned-scribe. Campbell is the Supreme Feline Commander of the Clowder Network — a secret society of snarky cats dedicated to clawing back democracy.
Our dispatches combine humor, history, and high-level civics for readers who prefer their truth with a side of fur and irony.
Featured Project
🐾 The Funny Thing About the Great Chicago Baby Massacre — Coming Soon
Cam is a smug gray tuxedo cat with a strategy problem.
Doc is an exhausted Black American activist who thought she’d retired from saving the republic.
Too bad.
Drafted back into the fight by a feline with delusions of constitutional grandeur, Doc joins Cam, four militant frogs, and a battalion of furious babies to outwit a brutal ICE agent and expose the absurd machinery of American power.
Dark, illustrated, and deliciously unhinged, The Funny Thing About the Great Chicago Baby Massacre skewers political theater, authoritarian flexing, and the myth that ordinary people can’t fight back.
Turns out they can. Even if some of them have paws.
Meet the Cast
Campbell the Cat — Supreme Feline Commander. Dignified. Mildly annoyed. Always right.
Doc — Tall humie with glasses and a plan. Cynically hopeful. Easily exasperated.
Together, they anchor The Campbell Claws — an upcoming illustrated book that turns American power, politics, and constitutional chaos into something you can finally understand (and occasionally, laugh at).
