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Barry Deutsch
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Cartoonist and general schmuck. I do political cartoons, SuperButch, Hereville, and Wings of Fire.

My policartoons: www.leftycartoons.com or click #PoliCartoon

SuperButch: www.superbutchcomic.com

Support the cartoons! patreon.com/barry
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · Aug 30
Hey, I have a new PDF collection out! It's 200 pages long and includes 100 cartoons, plus text pieces and lots of behind-the-scenes art and photos.

Everyone who joins my Patreon at the $3 level gets a copy!

www.patreon.com/posts/downlo...
My New PDF Book! (Image of book cover: "Why Must They Shove It In My Face?") 200 pages packed with cartooney goodness!
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reuterszengerle.bsky.social
“As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
The hot dog guy meme, with a captions saying "The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are."
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
On Reddit, half the comments about this comic are about the "B" plot with the painting pigeon. :-p
barrydeutsch.bsky.social Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 10h
What Freedom Looks Like

A cartoon by me and @nadinescholtes.bsky.social

Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
This cartoon has four panels, all showing people talking in a park. PANEL 1 A bearded man wearing a red MAGA cap is talking to a earnest young woman. The MAGA man is angry, waving his hands in the air. WOMAN: If guns are legal at all, they need to be regulated. MAGA: GUN REGULATION IS AUTHORITARIAN! PANEL 2 An older man with a cane is handing out fliers; the same MAGA guy, furious, slaps a flier to the ground. CANE MAN: We're holding a rally for universal health care. MAGA: UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS FASCISM. PANEL 3 A nonbinary person wearing a pinback that says "THEY / THEM" is a bit bewildered as the MAGA guy points at the pinback, hiding his face like he's frightened. MAGA: PREFERRED PRONOUNS ARE TOTALITARIAN! PANEL 4 All three of the characters from the previous panels, looking panicked, are yelling in unison. The MAGA guy calmly laughs it off. THREE CHARACTERS: MASKED GOVERNMENT AGENTS ARE DISAPPEARING PEOPLE! MAGA: That's what freedom looks like. CHICKEN FAT WATCH "Chicken Fat" is a long-dormant cartoonists' term for unimportant but perhaps amusing details. Panel 1 - In the background, a pigeon paints an owl's portrait. Panel 2 - The pigeon, painting tucked under one wing, runs away from a cat. The MAGA cap now says "Make 'Merica Mate Mermen." The flier the MAGA guy slapped says "Reading this tiny print makes you special & smart!" Panel 3 - The pigeon has stopped to show the painting to the cat, who is surprised and impressed. The MAGA cap says "Make America Grout Again." Panel 4 - The cat poses as the pigeon paints its portrait. In the tree above, the owl sits next to where it's hung the pigeon's painting of the owl. The MAGA cap says "Erica's A Hen."
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
What Freedom Looks Like

A cartoon by me and @nadinescholtes.bsky.social

Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
This cartoon has four panels, all showing people talking in a park. PANEL 1 A bearded man wearing a red MAGA cap is talking to a earnest young woman. The MAGA man is angry, waving his hands in the air. WOMAN: If guns are legal at all, they need to be regulated. MAGA: GUN REGULATION IS AUTHORITARIAN! PANEL 2 An older man with a cane is handing out fliers; the same MAGA guy, furious, slaps a flier to the ground. CANE MAN: We're holding a rally for universal health care. MAGA: UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS FASCISM. PANEL 3 A nonbinary person wearing a pinback that says "THEY / THEM" is a bit bewildered as the MAGA guy points at the pinback, hiding his face like he's frightened. MAGA: PREFERRED PRONOUNS ARE TOTALITARIAN! PANEL 4 All three of the characters from the previous panels, looking panicked, are yelling in unison. The MAGA guy calmly laughs it off. THREE CHARACTERS: MASKED GOVERNMENT AGENTS ARE DISAPPEARING PEOPLE! MAGA: That's what freedom looks like. CHICKEN FAT WATCH "Chicken Fat" is a long-dormant cartoonists' term for unimportant but perhaps amusing details. Panel 1 - In the background, a pigeon paints an owl's portrait. Panel 2 - The pigeon, painting tucked under one wing, runs away from a cat. The MAGA cap now says "Make 'Merica Mate Mermen." The flier the MAGA guy slapped says "Reading this tiny print makes you special & smart!" Panel 3 - The pigeon has stopped to show the painting to the cat, who is surprised and impressed. The MAGA cap says "Make America Grout Again." Panel 4 - The cat poses as the pigeon paints its portrait. In the tree above, the owl sits next to where it's hung the pigeon's painting of the owl. The MAGA cap says "Erica's A Hen."
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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jconley.bsky.social
Right, it would ban and criminalize virtually all hemp-derived products currently on the market. Incredibly reckless to destroy a growing industry with more than 300,000 workers with no hearings or debate of any kind in Congress.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
barrydeutsch.bsky.social
The hot dog guy meme, with a captions saying "The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are."
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Reposted by Barry Deutsch
courtneymilan.com
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.

One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
barrydeutsch.bsky.social
On Reddit, half the comments about this comic are about the "B" plot with the painting pigeon. :-p
barrydeutsch.bsky.social Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 10h
What Freedom Looks Like

A cartoon by me and @nadinescholtes.bsky.social

Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
This cartoon has four panels, all showing people talking in a park. PANEL 1 A bearded man wearing a red MAGA cap is talking to a earnest young woman. The MAGA man is angry, waving his hands in the air. WOMAN: If guns are legal at all, they need to be regulated. MAGA: GUN REGULATION IS AUTHORITARIAN! PANEL 2 An older man with a cane is handing out fliers; the same MAGA guy, furious, slaps a flier to the ground. CANE MAN: We're holding a rally for universal health care. MAGA: UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS FASCISM. PANEL 3 A nonbinary person wearing a pinback that says "THEY / THEM" is a bit bewildered as the MAGA guy points at the pinback, hiding his face like he's frightened. MAGA: PREFERRED PRONOUNS ARE TOTALITARIAN! PANEL 4 All three of the characters from the previous panels, looking panicked, are yelling in unison. The MAGA guy calmly laughs it off. THREE CHARACTERS: MASKED GOVERNMENT AGENTS ARE DISAPPEARING PEOPLE! MAGA: That's what freedom looks like. CHICKEN FAT WATCH "Chicken Fat" is a long-dormant cartoonists' term for unimportant but perhaps amusing details. Panel 1 - In the background, a pigeon paints an owl's portrait. Panel 2 - The pigeon, painting tucked under one wing, runs away from a cat. The MAGA cap now says "Make 'Merica Mate Mermen." The flier the MAGA guy slapped says "Reading this tiny print makes you special & smart!" Panel 3 - The pigeon has stopped to show the painting to the cat, who is surprised and impressed. The MAGA cap says "Make America Grout Again." Panel 4 - The cat poses as the pigeon paints its portrait. In the tree above, the owl sits next to where it's hung the pigeon's painting of the owl. The MAGA cap says "Erica's A Hen."
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
barrydeutsch.bsky.social
What Freedom Looks Like

A cartoon by me and @nadinescholtes.bsky.social

Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
This cartoon has four panels, all showing people talking in a park. PANEL 1 A bearded man wearing a red MAGA cap is talking to a earnest young woman. The MAGA man is angry, waving his hands in the air. WOMAN: If guns are legal at all, they need to be regulated. MAGA: GUN REGULATION IS AUTHORITARIAN! PANEL 2 An older man with a cane is handing out fliers; the same MAGA guy, furious, slaps a flier to the ground. CANE MAN: We're holding a rally for universal health care. MAGA: UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS FASCISM. PANEL 3 A nonbinary person wearing a pinback that says "THEY / THEM" is a bit bewildered as the MAGA guy points at the pinback, hiding his face like he's frightened. MAGA: PREFERRED PRONOUNS ARE TOTALITARIAN! PANEL 4 All three of the characters from the previous panels, looking panicked, are yelling in unison. The MAGA guy calmly laughs it off. THREE CHARACTERS: MASKED GOVERNMENT AGENTS ARE DISAPPEARING PEOPLE! MAGA: That's what freedom looks like. CHICKEN FAT WATCH "Chicken Fat" is a long-dormant cartoonists' term for unimportant but perhaps amusing details. Panel 1 - In the background, a pigeon paints an owl's portrait. Panel 2 - The pigeon, painting tucked under one wing, runs away from a cat. The MAGA cap now says "Make 'Merica Mate Mermen." The flier the MAGA guy slapped says "Reading this tiny print makes you special & smart!" Panel 3 - The pigeon has stopped to show the painting to the cat, who is surprised and impressed. The MAGA cap says "Make America Grout Again." Panel 4 - The cat poses as the pigeon paints its portrait. In the tree above, the owl sits next to where it's hung the pigeon's painting of the owl. The MAGA cap says "Erica's A Hen."
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Reposted by Barry Deutsch
annabower.bsky.social
Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:

Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.

Now he’s pardoning them for it.

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annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h
News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.

But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia

My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
barrydeutsch.bsky.social
What kind of necklace is this? Does anyone know where I could buy something similar?
Smiling woman wearing a necklace with a large pendant of some sort of gleaming tear-shaped crystal or stone or something.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
barrydeutsch.bsky.social
An interesting thought about a small silver lining in the Supreme Court's anti-trans passports decision (or, rather, in Jackson's dissent), from a member of my Discord:
I believe there is a silver lining in the decision. Or, rather, in the dissent. In Justice Jackson's dissent, she points out something that Democrats have been afraid to say until now: "The Government also insists that gender identity is not a meaningful basis for identification—strangely begging the question why sex markers are required on passports at all." As far as I am aware, this is the first time a high-profile Democrat has publicly questioned the necessity of tracking everyone's legal sex. If other Democrats listen more to Jackson and less to political consultants, we could see blue states completely eliminate "legal sex" from birth certificates and driver's licenses, which would make it a lot harder for the federal government to enforce transphobic laws, as well as being a massive improvement for nonbinary people and for binary trans people who don't have the resources to navigate the legal hurdles of changing their documents.
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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nbcnews.com
Researchers behind a new study say that the methods used to evaluate AI systems’ capabilities routinely oversell AI performance.
AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study
A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models.
nbcnews.to
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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sammieishere.uk
Trans women have such a huge advantage at sports that no trans woman has ever won an Olympic medal since being 'allowed' to compete so therefore must be banned
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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folduptoys.bsky.social
hello i think you should follow me because i post little paper creatures ok ty
a photo of a papercraft depicting Elephant Mario a photo of a papercraft depicting a Thromp that has just crushed Mario
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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tznkai.bsky.social
Where I am, for what little it is worth, is that the defectors were in fact defectors, and they blew the political opportunity. But we were not on the verge of extending the enhanced subsidies unless you can think of a way to get *House* Republicans on board.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Barry Deutsch
altcdc.altgov.info
THE SUPREME COURT WON’T REVISIT GAY MARRIAGE

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
Supreme Court won't revisit landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges appealing damages she owed a gay couple after she denied them a marriage license.
www.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
I'm sorry, I know this is not your problem, but I just felt like screaming into a void seeing that now Dems may cave and end the shutdown without getting anything they were supposedly fighting for. We've been put through hell for weeks, constantly having our ability to simply feed ourselves dangled in front of our faces, our survival used as a bargaining chip, told it was for a reason. Our suffering would prevent even more suffering and that it would be temporary and worth it to save healthcare for millions. And now it's all for nothing. They stood for nothing. They caused suffering for no reason. They'll cause even more suffering for no reason. It wasn't 40 million people starving that made them cave. They were willing to put up with that. But the threat of holiday traveling being disrupted seems to be the thing to push them to give in. They have failed everyone. I'm so angry.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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katjathieme.bsky.social
"After the SJC filed a defamation suit it was revealed that the 'contractor’ was Adam Dobrer who had actually been Hillel BC’s ‘Lead Advocacy Professional’ for more than a year (July 2022 - Aug 2023). Dobrer’s LinkedIn mentions how part of his role at Hillel BC was to combat antisemitism."
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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theonion.com
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Reposted by Barry Deutsch
thomasav.bsky.social
Time for @schumer.senate.gov to go. Use this letter campaign to demand Senate Dems who opposed this terrible bill REMOVE Schumer as Senate Minority Leader. OR lose our donations and support.
Demand Democratic Senate Leadership Accountability: Remove Senator Chuck Schumer as Senate Minority Leader
This petition calls on sitting Democratic US Senators to remove Chuck Schumer from his role as Senate Minority Leader due to his failure to protect millions of Americans during the recent government s...
actionnetwork.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
I think this is true. Democrats previously had the ability to say that voting for them delivered the lesser of two evils. I've long believed that was true. But I was a chump.

My senator, Adam Schiff, keeps voting for Trump's nominees. I voted for Schiff. And yet he keeps voting for Trump's agenda.
autistichalsin.bsky.social Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 1d
I'd argue it's even worse than 2024. In 2024 we had the promise that they'd fight Republicans. Now that we see what they're really made of (jelly) no one has any reason to vote for them.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
I’m already seeing people insist that even with this capitulation the Democrats will still sweep 2026 because Trump is that bad. It was precisely that attitude that gave us 2024.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM