Ryan Schuette
@barefootknight.bsky.social
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Ryan Schuette
@barefootknight.bsky.social
· Jan 25
Jesus, the @washingtonpost.com cartoons have been neutered since @anntelnaes.bsky.social left. A week in, and America’s media landscape is already self-censoring, the way I remember the press operating in Uganda when I covered its parliament. #cartoonistsunite #resistbillionaires #drawthetruth
Finally finished with this piece, after months of drawing. This work is a tribute to the style of Bernie Wrightson.
Pen and ink on Bristol board.
Pen and ink on Bristol board.
June 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Finally finished with this piece, after months of drawing. This work is a tribute to the style of Bernie Wrightson.
Pen and ink on Bristol board.
Pen and ink on Bristol board.
Latest #cartoon. This sums up Trump's ongoing relationship with El Salvador's dictator, Niyab Bukele, and their open disdain for the U.S. judiciary and the American way of life.
#Bukele #Trump #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #justice
#Bukele #Trump #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #justice
April 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Latest #cartoon. This sums up Trump's ongoing relationship with El Salvador's dictator, Niyab Bukele, and their open disdain for the U.S. judiciary and the American way of life.
#Bukele #Trump #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #justice
#Bukele #Trump #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #justice
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Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders?
In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump.
In disunity, cowardice.
Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/in-unity-t...
In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump.
In disunity, cowardice.
Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/in-unity-t...
In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice
Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders? What their associates, coming associates, and law school deans ought to do.
robertreich.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders?
In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump.
In disunity, cowardice.
Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/in-unity-t...
In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump.
In disunity, cowardice.
Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/in-unity-t...
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If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him?
No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.
Fascism is here.
No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.
Fascism is here.
April 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him?
No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.
Fascism is here.
No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.
Fascism is here.
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15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
We must overturn Citizens United.
Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
We must overturn Citizens United.
Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.
April 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
We must overturn Citizens United.
Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
We must overturn Citizens United.
Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.
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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries.
They're eventually paid by us at the check out line.
And they're regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.
They're eventually paid by us at the check out line.
And they're regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.
April 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries.
They're eventually paid by us at the check out line.
And they're regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.
They're eventually paid by us at the check out line.
And they're regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.
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SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
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See how this works? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause
The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...
www.bloomberg.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
See how this works? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Any traders with inside information that Trump was going to walk back his tariffs — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune.
It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
April 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Any traders with inside information that Trump was going to walk back his tariffs — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune.
It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
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This is a sad state of affairs.
April 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is a sad state of affairs.
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It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
April 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
#Trump is eyeing a third term, in violation of the #22ndAmendment. He hinted at "methods" he could use to subvert the Constitution and hold onto power. You should be very concerned right now.
Oh, and #fascism scholars are fleeing to Canada right now.
#cartoon #editorialcartoon #politicalcartoon
Oh, and #fascism scholars are fleeing to Canada right now.
#cartoon #editorialcartoon #politicalcartoon
April 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
#Trump is eyeing a third term, in violation of the #22ndAmendment. He hinted at "methods" he could use to subvert the Constitution and hold onto power. You should be very concerned right now.
Oh, and #fascism scholars are fleeing to Canada right now.
#cartoon #editorialcartoon #politicalcartoon
Oh, and #fascism scholars are fleeing to Canada right now.
#cartoon #editorialcartoon #politicalcartoon
Latest #cartoon. The House speaker is telling GOP members of Congress to stop holding in-person town halls. They're shifting to teleconference calls, in order to screen out angry constituents and control the narrative about the reaction to #DOGE and the dismantling of government.
April 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Latest cartoon about ICE’s frightening and fascistic abduction of #RumeysaOzturk
#cartoon #politicalcartoon #editorialcartoon #ICE #Trump #deportation
#cartoon #politicalcartoon #editorialcartoon #ICE #Trump #deportation
March 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Latest cartoon about ICE’s frightening and fascistic abduction of #RumeysaOzturk
#cartoon #politicalcartoon #editorialcartoon #ICE #Trump #deportation
#cartoon #politicalcartoon #editorialcartoon #ICE #Trump #deportation
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harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC.
time.com/7269604/el-s...
www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...
time.com/7269604/el-s...
www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...
March 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC.
time.com/7269604/el-s...
www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...
time.com/7269604/el-s...
www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...
Latest cartoon about the frightening lack of due process in #DonaldTrump's decision to deport Venezuelans in the United States to a notorious Salvadoran prison. Their families and attorneys are coming forward with evidence that some of these people were innocent.
How long before it’s us?
#cartoon
How long before it’s us?
#cartoon
March 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Latest cartoon about the frightening lack of due process in #DonaldTrump's decision to deport Venezuelans in the United States to a notorious Salvadoran prison. Their families and attorneys are coming forward with evidence that some of these people were innocent.
How long before it’s us?
#cartoon
How long before it’s us?
#cartoon
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Have courage
Stand up to bullies
Be like President Zelenskyy
Stand up to bullies
Be like President Zelenskyy
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Have courage
Stand up to bullies
Be like President Zelenskyy
Stand up to bullies
Be like President Zelenskyy
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I'm struggling to get over what we saw today.
The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.
That's traumatizing.
The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.
That's traumatizing.
March 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I'm struggling to get over what we saw today.
The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.
That's traumatizing.
The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.
That's traumatizing.
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