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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 14h

This piece is excellent and balanced.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 14h

"Decidedly apolitical"? Wasn't he was personally involved in blowing up two death stars?

CHEWBACCA
Having spent more than two centuries witnessing the rise and fall of darkness in the galaxy, Chewbacca remains decidedly apolitical. His focus is always his family, whether related by blood or by the bonds of friendship. Human lifespans are much shorter than those of Wookiees, and Chewie has had to say goodbye to many humans over the course of his long life. But he carries their spirit with him, heartened by the knowledge that his companionship has enriched their lives to some degree. Chewie's honor family now encompasses Rey, Poe, and Finn, for each of these new-generation heroes have meant so much to Han and Leia.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug! - It's the Apocalypse!! And billionaire Hollingsworth Hound knows who caused it! Can you guess? - Great thanks to The Inner Hive, including long-time member Amy DG and new member Steve Track! Join us at tomthedancingbug.com/the-inner-hi... 👊 - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We expect victims to be pure at the start and act as if they're being victimized, but the truth is people who have already made some bad or risky decisions tend to be easier prey. Until our understanding of rape fully internalizes this we wont see change.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When I was in my 20s a store manager caught me shoplifting. Things were very intense, he took my ID and all my info, then let me go. As I walked out I didn't even realize he still had my ID. Then he called my phone and offered to trade sex and my ID back for it to not go any further.

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i dislike the whole project but his paintings have always overwhelmingly struck me as NAIVE in a way that he doesnt seem to intend-- he's treating the illo as lowbrow and authorless and making a joke of putting it into Fine Art, but all i can see is man this fucker had no grasp of drawing at all lol

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What Now: Town Hall

What Now by Kevin Moore
what now.mooretoons.com

Four panel cartoon.

Panel 1: A woman stands at a podium, addressing a town council. Behind her are other citizens. Cops stand nearby.
Woman: WHO EVEN ASKED FOR THIS DATA CENTER?

Panel 2: The cops hit her on the head with a baton and pepper spray her face.

Panel 3: The cops tie twist ties around her wrists while she lays face down on the ground. Someone speaks to her off-panel.
Voice: I DID.
Woman: OH MY GOD.

Panel 3: A stinking pile of crap with multiple mouths appears. It is labeled “A.I.”
A.I.: FEEEEEEEEED MEEEE.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 21h

I've been accused of having AI "draw" my comics. It's funny, but it's also super irritating.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the proof of what kind of people we are & what kind of democracy we have is being shown to the world now & will simply be reinforced if a democratic government comes and simply does nothing, or some muddling by bare minimum.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 21h

It's truly bizarre that the creator of "The Wire" thinks that prosecutors (at least at the ICC) are independent experts, free of institutional pressures and practical limitations, and making decisions based only on Truth.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 22h

I think it depends on what "Israel needs to be reined in" means in practice. There are 60 House Dems who supported the Block the Bombs Act, but didn't support Tlaib's genocide resolution. I'd happily call those 60 house Dems allies. But the 133 House Dems who didn't support Block the Bombs?

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

also, this shit is just run-of-the-mill segregationist ideology. the substance of keeperman and rufo's discussion is identical to the infamous line from the trial judge in loving v. virginia

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Angry feet. Oct 2 2018

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

UPDATE: Texas officials knew about this issue since at least March, when it was flagged by a state lawmaker.

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remembering Groucho Marx, born on this day, 1890.

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The crusaders.

'We make LESS but things cost MORE!' says Girl. 'RETVRN!' cries a crusading Cat. 'To when we made less and things cost the same! Weather is spiraling out of control - with 2 degrees of warming baked in.' 'RETVRN!' cries Cat. 'To weather spiraling out of control with 1.5 degrees of warming baked in' says Girl. 'People aren't going to the emergency room because they're afraid of immigration-' 'RETVRN!' '-they should be NOT GOING because they CAN'T AFFORD IT! Leopards are eating my face=' 'RETVRN!' '- to when leopards were eating YOUR face!' 'RETVRN to 2015!' cries Cat. 'Sound the battle horn!' yells Girl. Cat plays a long golden horn, which blasts out the sound 'GOOD ENOUGH.' 'Now we just wait for an army to assemble,' says Cat. They wait.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 02/10/2026

This is a big one that I think many people don't fully appreciate. Given a room of 1,000 people, it can be hard for one person to find and help those who need the most help. Give everyone UBI and watch as more than half the room leaves, because they only needed a bit of money. Those left need more.

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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...

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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms

Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Arizona Court of Appeals reverses sentencing of defendant where the state presented an AI video of the deceased addressing the court, and lawyers everywhere breathe a sigh of relief Here is the opinion - coa1.azcourts.gov/Portals/1/Op... apnews.com/article/ariz...

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Sentence tossed in Arizona case where deceased victim was depicted speaking in AI-generated video

An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was i...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/10/2026

Less than two days later it is reported that the USG will be waiving human rights conditions requirements on $320,000,000 in military assistance for Egypt "in light of Cairo's "helpful role" since the launch of the US ‌war with Iran".

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EXCLUSIVE: US waives rights conditions for $320 million in military aid to Egypt, letter shows

The US State Department has waived human rights conditions for more than $300 million of military aid to Egypt in light of Cairo's "helpful role" since the launch of the US ‌war with Iran, according ...

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/10/2026

People can like or dislike Rashida all they like for whatever reasons but it really does need to be highlighted that Western liberal-humanitarian discourse is so poor that she is basically the only one in Congress that talks about this stuff with regularity

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The part that struck me was their insistence that they know the kids at the UT game "aren't assimilated" because despite being at a football game and having the same shitty fashion sense and the same goofy hand gestures as white fans, they still look Indian. Gives the game away.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These bigots like to talk about assimilation because it sounds like they're scoring people on their behavior rather than their genes. But when people are behaving exactly like their ideal of all-American sports-lovin' too-big-pastel-shirt wearin' bros, it still doesn't count.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

at any rate prosecutors are not scholars. they want to win a case, not a point.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think this is sorta wrong. genocide is notoriously difficult to prosecute in intl tribunals. whether the prosecutors believe it’s genocide and whether they believe they can get convictions are different things.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley are introducing the Ban Flock Act. This bill would effectively put an end to AI surveillance cameras that track Americans. /1

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My theory is that neither the letter or the photo was sent by Scott, and Professor X is paying someone to spy on Scott and Madelyn.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Who Would You Rather Meet In The Forest? A #PoliCartoon by me and @nadinescholtes.bsky.social .

This site doesn't give enough alt text space for me to fit in a description of this five-panel cartoon, but there's a complete transcript and description at https://www.patreon.com/posts/104442709 . I'll also post that link in comments.

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the financial story of this midterm broadly is a story of the GOP trying to bury Dems in super PAC money, but the financial story of Texas specifically is a story of the super PACs frantically footing ~the whole bill for the priciest seat on the map because their nominee is allergic to raising money

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 01/10/2026

Hey all, an Israeli friend of mine just asked me to promote this fundraiser that supports protective presence against settler terror. All the money goes directly to supporting Palestinian families. www.drove.com/campaign/6ab...

drove.com

Keep Settler Terror Outside the Fence

In the occupied West Bank, violent settler militias attack Palestinian families almost every night. As the violence continues to escalate, we need to take our protection efforts one step further. Alon...

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Bunch of Einsteins By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels.

PANEL 1

A bearded man in a red cap is recording a video of himself.

JAKE: Why should taxpayers be on the hook for science research with no real-world value? If their research were worth anything, private industry would already fund it!

PANEL 2

Jake’s rant continues over a cross-section of the landscape, from farmland and suburbs to a city; his voice is coming from a little cabin. A fiber-optic cable runs underground all the way across the panel.

JAKE: Believe me, these researchers aren’t a bunch of Einsteins!

CAPTION: There wouldn’t be high-speed internet for this doofus’s videos without fiber optic cables!

PANEL 3

Under the ocean, a fiber-optic cable runs along the ocean floor. Word balloons coming from the fiber optic cable contain the icons of many internet-based services — Facebook, Zoom, Discord, Netflix, Minecraft, and more.

CAPTION: Without fiber optics, the internet would be far too slow for how we use it today.

PANEL 4

CAPTION: So where did fiber optics come from? Well…

CAPTION: 1966

In a laboratory break room, an excited scientist throws his arms wide while another scientist eats at a table.

SCIENTIST: Now that lasers exist, we can use ultrapure glass fibers to carry light long distances!

OTHER SCIENTIST: How does that do anything?

PANEL 5

CAPTION: 1960

A scientist proudly holds up a diagram of a newly invented device. Another scientist sits at a microscope.

SCIENTIST: I call it a “laser”! It’s based on the old theory of stimulated emission.

OTHER SCIENTIST: But Theo, what use is it?

PANEL 6

CAPTION: 1917

Outside a university, a pompous-looking man gestures indignantly as he reads a scientific paper. He's speaking to a young Albert Einstein, who rolls his eyes.

MAN: Albert, where’s the practical value in this “stimulated emission” drivel? It’s a waste of taxpayer money!

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

This cartoon has four panels.

PANEL 1

On a city sidewalk, a balding man in a shirt and tie is talking insistently to a purple-haired passerby with glasses and tattoos.

MAN: Hey, pal, guess what? They’re letting millions of illegals into the country to vote for Democrats!

PANEL 2

In a kitchen, the same man has stuck his head and shoulders through a window into the kitchen, shaking a finger emphatically as he lectures a startled woman.

MAN: The Democrats’ dirty vote machine is so diabolical it’s impossible to “prove,” but everybody knows it stinks!

PANEL 3

In a park, the same man has grabbed another person by the shoulder and is shouting in their face.

MAN: Never mind “proof.” Your elections are stolen! It’s all rigged! Democracy is dead!!

PANEL 4

Close-up of a hand holding a phone. On the screen, the same man—now smiling and calm—is speaking on Fox News.

MAN: Of course there’s proof elections are crooked! Because if they aren’t, why do so many Americans think they are?

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

JFC this is some tremendous ahistorical bullshit. Another Atlantic piece blaming the "woke left" for the actions of the right. The argument hinges on a lie: that Heritage and the voucher movement simply recognized an opportunity in the 2020s "culture wars" to push for vouchers.

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How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk

Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The cultural critic Maris Kreizman said, 'There are people claiming antisemitism when they didn’t get a book deal, but maybe they’re just bad writers.'” jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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