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Barbara Williams

@openmindbarbara.bsky.social

100 followers 140 following 25 posts

Multiple past lives: Bank Auditor, Respiratory Therapist, Software Engineer, Critical Care Nurse Lived in: PA, NM, CA, NH Volunteering: Many but most recently on a Critcal Care Conference Board and as a Poll worker Hobbies: Travel, Dancing, Fiddling .. more

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Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Sep 3

You’re still awake?

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jul 1

Part 2/2 of the video:

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Reposted by Mona Eltahawy, Martin McKee, Jason Mittell , and 8 more Mona Eltahawy, Martin McKee, Jason Mittell, Simon Chapman, Shawn Cole, Jussi T. Eronen, Barbara Williams, Allison Eden, Stephen Pimpare, Hubert Guillaud, Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jul 1

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

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Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Jun 15

Question: Would it be fair to call Trump a stochastic terrorist? And if so, would all the elected officials who parrot his demonization of Americans be stochastic terrorists as well?

My next protest sign might be:
Trump is a terrorist!
(stochastic)

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Jun 14

This was more encouraging than I thought. Dover, NH had two No Kings protests today. It was surprisingly large. The response from passing motorists was largely supportive; honking, cheering, waving flags, and waving their own signs. We returned 🫶 in response to the few 🖕.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Jun 10

Trump has a new plan to undermine judges, and it’s called “court-baiting.” The strategy forces judges to take potentially unpopular decisions that are necessary to protect constitutional principles, then attack them for those decisions.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump’s New Plan to Undermine Judges: ‘Court-Baiting’

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Feb 4

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

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Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Jan 23

Blue states should secede from the union taking our ports and tax money with us. I’m sick of the despicable behavior of Republicans denying disaster relief to the needy just because they live in a blue state. The very states whose tax dollars funded unrestricted disaster relief to red states.

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · Dec 26

Credit where credit's due - this was written by satirist Andy Borowitz during the first term
www.newyorker.com/humor/borowi...

Denmark Offers to Buy U.S.

“We believe that by giving the U.S. an educational system and national health care, it could be transformed from a vast land mass into a great nation,” a spokesperson for Denmark said.

www.newyorker.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Dec 23

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

George Hahn @georgehahn.com · Dec 23

Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · Dec 23

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Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Dec 22

You need to turn down the background music on this. It overwhelms the message a bit and is painful to listen to.

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Dec 11

I didn’t need to see that.

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Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Dec 9

@support.bsky.team Hi - is there a way to get notifications from Bluesky? There have at least two recent events for which the people I follow have lauded The Bluesky app for keeping up with the news. I didn’t happen to catch most of the events, in real time, because I had my nose in something else

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Dec 5

Me too.

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Dec 5

Trump also lacks that humility.

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Dec 5

I think “It’s Itene might be a bot”. Similarly the last guy, “Engaged citizen”, might also be a bot.

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Dec 4

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Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Dec 3

What happened to the other Bill Kistol account? I thought the real Bill Kristol account had (official) in its title. So is this the correct one?

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Dec 2

If you expected the entire Bluesky universe to be sweet then you might want to review your expectations of humanity. Your sweetness ratio is in your hands. Block her and move on.

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Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Dec 2

Can you forward this to Steve. Schmidt please.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Nov 29

I’ve been organizing in rural areas since the first Trump administration. Rural Dems can make the difference in races at the top of the ticket.

Republicans have all of the electorate they’re ever going to have. Organize to turn out 5% to 10% more Dems in rural spaces. Watch what happens…

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Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Nov 28

Same to you!

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Nov 28

P.S. That’s how we refer to ourselves wrt our relationship with Cassie. Seen here getting her evening crunchies delivered by Couch Dash.

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Nov 28

You don’t have a choice. You are merely one of her monkey slaves.

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Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Nov 28

It does with me 😃

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Nov 28

I love these packs. And I love that I’m already following alot of them on my own.

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Nov 24

Wow- I was taken in by that. Everything looks real enough about it. Even @gtconway.bsky.social is listed as a follower. When I looked closer I noticed that there were only three posts however. Thanks for the heads up.

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Nov 17

Is there ever a time to learn on the job for this position?

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Nov 17

www.bbc.com/news/live/cj...

Ukraine latest: Biden gives green light for US missiles to strike deeper into Russia

The approval is what Ukraine's President Zelensky has been urging for months.

www.bbc.com

Barbara Williams @openmindbarbara.bsky.social · Nov 17

It’s about time! Biden approves use if long range weapons in Ukraine!

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