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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 10m

Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 35m

If this had been American justice's response to Trump's incessant assaults on his own rape victims, we wouldn't have a pedophile president at war with our very way of life right now.

Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 46m

Hot Take: A president who can't even keep his government open for the first year of his term has lost the consent of the Governed, lost the nation's confidence and should be replaced.

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 1h

In France, there's been a high profile rape case recently.

One of the guilty men decided he wasn't really that guilty and went back to court to get his sentence reduced.

Seeing a total lack of remorse for this rape, the French authorities extended his sentence.

That's the way to do it.

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term, BBC News

https://share.google/0eFZtDH217qV20srn

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 2h

"That which I cannot create, I do not understand"

- Richard Feynman

The computer may look creative while it's stirring its bucket of weights and biases, but it will not comprehend the contents of the bucket, nor will it be able to check for sanity in its output.

Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 2h

Also:

"Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened".

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Smart man. Worth heeding.

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 2h

"If we begin to act like them then everything we've fought for has no meaning".

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 2h

"mistook".

I don't believe that.

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 4h

That a politician would be standing up for trans people in this moment is deeply important and meaningful.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 2h

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 4h

"Daaaa Yankees Lose" pretty much sums up all of America rn

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 3h

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

It looks like the news media is protecting itself along with the GOP

Robert Maxwell - Wikipedia

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 3h

The media appears to be protecting itself as hard as the GOP is.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

Robert Maxwell - Wikipedia

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine that

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12h

Horrifying. #Portland

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 12h

1,467 today

Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 15h

Trump's spiritual advisor wasn't at church on Sunday because he was starting a prison stretch for raping a 12 year old girl.

docs.google.com/document/u/1...?

He's number 1,313 on this list that's now 1,467 entries long.

#RightWingSexualPredators

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 22h

Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a camera outside the ICE facility in Portland, documenting how the Trump regime is lying to justify military force against civilians.

www.youtube.com/live/RmJ3YXm...

24 Hours Outside ICE | 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. - Live look at Portland, Oregon ICE Facility for full day

YouTube video by KATU News

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 1d

docs.google.com/document/u/1...

These people shouldn't be allowed anywhere near kids.

#RightWingSexualPredators

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 1d

I'm generally a problem solver, so I just see men there.

Unqualified, willfully ignorant and violent men.

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars has the same destructive power as a nuke.

Anybody got a running total of children killed by cancelling USAID? It was in the hundreds of thousands last I looked.

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's spiritual advisor wasn't at church on Sunday because he was starting a prison stretch for raping a 12 year old girl

He's number 1313 on this list of 1,466 right wing child fuckers.

docs.google.com/document/u/1...

I guess it's the Paper of Pedophiles.

#RightWingSexualPredators

docs.google.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's spiritual advisor wasn't at church on Sunday because he was starting a prison stretch for raping a 12 year old girl

He's number 1313 on this list of 1,466 right wing child fuckers.

docs.google.com/document/u/1...

#RightWingSexualPredators

docs.google.com

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