@raykosarin.bsky.social
Amateur humanitarian; professional maker of cartoons for TV and film, college instructor. Delights: music, art, film, nature, cooking and food, wine that’s good enough, contract bridge, cats, democracy.
What half of social media posts feel like, right now:
“Everyone is about to be dishonored, profaned, swindled, abused, or left for dead, in a dramatic fashion which will, in some twisted sense, be novel. Grab the popcorn.”
“Everyone is about to be dishonored, profaned, swindled, abused, or left for dead, in a dramatic fashion which will, in some twisted sense, be novel. Grab the popcorn.”
July 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
What half of social media posts feel like, right now:
“Everyone is about to be dishonored, profaned, swindled, abused, or left for dead, in a dramatic fashion which will, in some twisted sense, be novel. Grab the popcorn.”
“Everyone is about to be dishonored, profaned, swindled, abused, or left for dead, in a dramatic fashion which will, in some twisted sense, be novel. Grab the popcorn.”
The GOP in 2017:
“It’s unfair to count the cost Trump’s 2017 tax cuts in calculating the deficit, because they are only temporary cuts.”
The GOP in 2025:
“It’s unfair to count the cost of making Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, because the tax cuts already exist.”
June 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The GOP in 2017:
“It’s unfair to count the cost Trump’s 2017 tax cuts in calculating the deficit, because they are only temporary cuts.”
The GOP in 2025:
“It’s unfair to count the cost of making Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, because the tax cuts already exist.”
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The Trump administration attitude is that if you receive any taxpayer dollars, you are an employee of Trump Enterprises
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The Trump administration attitude is that if you receive any taxpayer dollars, you are an employee of Trump Enterprises
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Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.
May 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.
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“Donald Trump has repeatedly said he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he’s elected president again.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump: "I'm not happy with what Putin is doing. He's killing a lot of people and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time ... we're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don't like it at all. I'm surprised."
May 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Donald Trump has repeatedly said he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he’s elected president again.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
So—if you’ve been fortunate enough to have lived a long time, without having criminals break in and burglarize your house, have you spent all this time disappointed, believing that the only reason for this is that there haven’t been burglars manly enough to do it?
May 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
So—if you’ve been fortunate enough to have lived a long time, without having criminals break in and burglarize your house, have you spent all this time disappointed, believing that the only reason for this is that there haven’t been burglars manly enough to do it?
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Ah yes, Habeas Corpus. Latin for, "Deport first, Google later."
May 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Ah yes, Habeas Corpus. Latin for, "Deport first, Google later."
The air traffic controllers‘ radar screens have again just gone dark again at Newark International Airport. Which means there’s only one thing to do.
Devote still more resources and personnel to discourage crossings at the Southern border.
May 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The air traffic controllers‘ radar screens have again just gone dark again at Newark International Airport. Which means there’s only one thing to do.
Devote still more resources and personnel to discourage crossings at the Southern border.
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NPR thinks protests aren’t really worth covering and the only newsworthy aspect is the crowd size, you say?
April 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
NPR thinks protests aren’t really worth covering and the only newsworthy aspect is the crowd size, you say?
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'If Your Church Won't Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter'
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April 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
'If Your Church Won't Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter'
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johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...
Isn’t it horrifying that there has been (at least, since 2021) no insurrection, and no sign whatever of an insurrection, and yet we pretty much already know that this president will almost certainly invoke the Insurrection Act, and may do so soon?
April 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Isn’t it horrifying that there has been (at least, since 2021) no insurrection, and no sign whatever of an insurrection, and yet we pretty much already know that this president will almost certainly invoke the Insurrection Act, and may do so soon?
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Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?
The government ignored his protective legal status & deported Abrego Garcia. “Now they claim that the court is powerless to order any relief. If that’s true, the immigration laws are meaningless because the government can deport ANYONE & no court can do anything about it once it’s done.”
March 31, 2025
On April 1, 1861, Secretary of State William Henry Seward wrote an astonishing letter to President Abraham Lincoln.
open.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?
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Pathetic. Shameful. Cowardly. Disgusting. Trump and JD Vance showed the world they will enthusiastically reward the aggression of dictators and don't think freedom is worth fighting for.
They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."
They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."
February 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Pathetic. Shameful. Cowardly. Disgusting. Trump and JD Vance showed the world they will enthusiastically reward the aggression of dictators and don't think freedom is worth fighting for.
They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."
They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."
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Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
February 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
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liz Cheney: Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine...
February 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
liz Cheney: Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine...
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
So, basically: Ukraine knew perfectly well not to leave the house dressed like that.
February 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
So, basically: Ukraine knew perfectly well not to leave the house dressed like that.
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This. Especially Senate Republicans.
The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.
February 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This. Especially Senate Republicans.
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The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox
February 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox
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“Any hint of the selective suspension of congressionally authorized payments will be a breach of trust and ultimately, a form of default,” five former U.S. Treasury secretaries write. “And our credibility, once lost, will prove difficult to regain.”
Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.
Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“Any hint of the selective suspension of congressionally authorized payments will be a breach of trust and ultimately, a form of default,” five former U.S. Treasury secretaries write. “And our credibility, once lost, will prove difficult to regain.”