Barry Deutsch
@barrydeutsch.bsky.social
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
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...
Everyone who joins my Patreon at the $3 level gets a copy!
www.patreon.com/posts/downlo...
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I'm delighted to see that the #Creatives4Sudan has now raised over 7 grand! We're raising money for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan, and every bid helps the Emergency Response Rooms there do their work. Bid here on mentoring from comics supremo! @nickabadzis.bsky.social bit.ly/4pxHBK7
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I'm delighted to see that the #Creatives4Sudan has now raised over 7 grand! We're raising money for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan, and every bid helps the Emergency Response Rooms there do their work. Bid here on mentoring from comics supremo! @nickabadzis.bsky.social bit.ly/4pxHBK7
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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The alpha wolf concept was debunked by the very guy who coined it because he realized that wolves in the wild are extremely communal and defer to parents for guidance. The “alpha” behavior was observed in captivity and was a terrified and violent male lashing out to feel some sort of control.
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The alpha wolf concept was debunked by the very guy who coined it because he realized that wolves in the wild are extremely communal and defer to parents for guidance. The “alpha” behavior was observed in captivity and was a terrified and violent male lashing out to feel some sort of control.
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almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
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And did absolutely nothing to stop them.
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
And did absolutely nothing to stop them.
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I keep having to unfortunately remind myself that Valve, as a private company, still sucks ass due to the monopoly they hold on the PC gaming market. Like no storefront or company should ever have the authority to outright ban the sale of games due to the content within them.
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I keep having to unfortunately remind myself that Valve, as a private company, still sucks ass due to the monopoly they hold on the PC gaming market. Like no storefront or company should ever have the authority to outright ban the sale of games due to the content within them.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
Hey, you! Yeah, you! Are you looking to fail to get work done because you just keep on scrolling a thread? Well, have I got a thread for YOU!
this is a post where you (yes, YOU) can and should reply with underrated comic strips or other comic-y jokes. could be an unheralded entry from a classic strip or maybe a lesser-known strip altogether.
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Hey, you! Yeah, you! Are you looking to fail to get work done because you just keep on scrolling a thread? Well, have I got a thread for YOU!
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I think about this John Cullen comic all the time. Thank you! @nellucnhoj.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I think about this John Cullen comic all the time. Thank you! @nellucnhoj.bsky.social
Supporters of regime change in Venezuela claim their plan won't have disastrous effects. This is what people favoring US military regime changes always claim, and they're basically always wrong.
The Chaos and Violence of Regime Change
open.substack.com/pub/daniella...
The Chaos and Violence of Regime Change
open.substack.com/pub/daniella...
The Chaos and Violence of Regime Change
Interventionists always deny that there will be serious negative consequences from military action because otherwise they can’t sell an attack as something worth doing.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Supporters of regime change in Venezuela claim their plan won't have disastrous effects. This is what people favoring US military regime changes always claim, and they're basically always wrong.
The Chaos and Violence of Regime Change
open.substack.com/pub/daniella...
The Chaos and Violence of Regime Change
open.substack.com/pub/daniella...
Not a shocker that they didn't include Dave Sim.
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not a shocker that they didn't include Dave Sim.
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for people confused by the ‘wheeled onto a plane then stood up,’ panel
some wheelchair users are ambulatory - the chair is necessary for mobility/accessibility, but they may be able to walk or stand for short periods of time or short distances.
some wheelchair users are ambulatory - the chair is necessary for mobility/accessibility, but they may be able to walk or stand for short periods of time or short distances.
Stupid Things You Hear In A Wheelchair
By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
for people confused by the ‘wheeled onto a plane then stood up,’ panel
some wheelchair users are ambulatory - the chair is necessary for mobility/accessibility, but they may be able to walk or stand for short periods of time or short distances.
some wheelchair users are ambulatory - the chair is necessary for mobility/accessibility, but they may be able to walk or stand for short periods of time or short distances.
Economist Dean Baker argues that Ezra Klein is wrong about the cause of the housing shortage; Baker says the biggest part of it isn't zoning laws, but the lingering effects of the housing bubble bursting.
www.patreon.com/posts/ezra-k...
www.patreon.com/posts/ezra-k...
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Economist Dean Baker argues that Ezra Klein is wrong about the cause of the housing shortage; Baker says the biggest part of it isn't zoning laws, but the lingering effects of the housing bubble bursting.
www.patreon.com/posts/ezra-k...
www.patreon.com/posts/ezra-k...
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Stupid Things You Hear In A Wheelchair
By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Stupid Things You Hear In A Wheelchair
By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
Let Sarah Hurwitz speak!
I want Hurwitz's comments about Gaza played on every news show. Shared on TikTok hundreds of thousands of times daily. I want her to become Israel's best known defender, so every person hears her words and sees how extreme Zionism makes people monsters.
I want Hurwitz's comments about Gaza played on every news show. Shared on TikTok hundreds of thousands of times daily. I want her to become Israel's best known defender, so every person hears her words and sees how extreme Zionism makes people monsters.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Let Sarah Hurwitz speak!
I want Hurwitz's comments about Gaza played on every news show. Shared on TikTok hundreds of thousands of times daily. I want her to become Israel's best known defender, so every person hears her words and sees how extreme Zionism makes people monsters.
I want Hurwitz's comments about Gaza played on every news show. Shared on TikTok hundreds of thousands of times daily. I want her to become Israel's best known defender, so every person hears her words and sees how extreme Zionism makes people monsters.
"Our kids are seeing too many videos of children killed by Israel, and it's turning them against Israel."
"So Israel should stop killing children?"
"No, no, we should take our kids' smartphones away."
"So Israel should stop killing children?"
"No, no, we should take our kids' smartphones away."
Why is Sarah Hurwitz suddenly doing so many media hits and why is every single one of them basically a caricature of the pro Israel view?
"I'm sorry if this is a graphic thing to say, but … when I'm trying to make arguments in favor for Israel … I'm talking through a wall of dead children."
"I'm sorry if this is a graphic thing to say, but … when I'm trying to make arguments in favor for Israel … I'm talking through a wall of dead children."
November 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"Our kids are seeing too many videos of children killed by Israel, and it's turning them against Israel."
"So Israel should stop killing children?"
"No, no, we should take our kids' smartphones away."
"So Israel should stop killing children?"
"No, no, we should take our kids' smartphones away."
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All of you are deliberately mischaracterizing what Sarah Hurwitz was saying about Holocaust education. Do better.
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
All of you are deliberately mischaracterizing what Sarah Hurwitz was saying about Holocaust education. Do better.
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I don't have to use a wheelchair but I'm mentally disabled and I have heard some of these things. People are just so rude to disabled people and I don't understand it.
Stupid Things You Hear In A Wheelchair
By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I don't have to use a wheelchair but I'm mentally disabled and I have heard some of these things. People are just so rude to disabled people and I don't understand it.
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Topline: Ariana is a young journalist targeted by the Ortega regime in Nicaragua. ICE is just straight up attempting to have a journalist—who was granted asylum—executed using a single missed phone call (if it even was made and they’re not just lying) as a bogus justification
So this is someone I know who got snatched by ICE for the crime of missing a phone call while she was at work. She needs help and it would be good to help her.
Donate to Help Free Ariana from I.C.E., organized by Lisa Munyan
My name is Lisa Munyan; I'm just your average, semi-retired old woman living on a s… Lisa Munyan needs your support for Donate to Help Free Ariana from I.C.E.
gofund.me
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Topline: Ariana is a young journalist targeted by the Ortega regime in Nicaragua. ICE is just straight up attempting to have a journalist—who was granted asylum—executed using a single missed phone call (if it even was made and they’re not just lying) as a bogus justification
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Imagine trying to settle a property dispute by talking only to the intruder. That's the logic here. The Trump/Putin proposal is an attempt to impose terms on a country under attack leaving the defending nation out of the room. Peace cannot be done to Ukraine; it must be done with Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Imagine trying to settle a property dispute by talking only to the intruder. That's the logic here. The Trump/Putin proposal is an attempt to impose terms on a country under attack leaving the defending nation out of the room. Peace cannot be done to Ukraine; it must be done with Ukraine.
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no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
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I think the people who deleted a bunch of humanitarian aid programs they knew fuck all about on a whim because it's woke to help people should in fact be miserable the rest of their lives.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I think the people who deleted a bunch of humanitarian aid programs they knew fuck all about on a whim because it's woke to help people should in fact be miserable the rest of their lives.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM