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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 18h

"But the infiltration we feared is here. The Trump regime has slithered into Bluesky, just as it infected every other platform. Leaving isn’t a strategy—it’s surrender."

Note from Grandma's Wake

So we held a wake for Grandma—and the jackals showed up wearing bibs and cutlery.

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

"Our clients followed the rules, appearing in court as the government ordered, only to be ambushed and then subjected to conditions that no human being should ever endure”

Civil Rights Groups Seek Federal Court Orders to Halt Trump Administration’s Immigration Courthouse Arrests and Inhumane Detention Conditions | ACLU of Northern CA

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data

We’re in a fight for our right to speak up, and out—but it’s not the first time.

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

Massive No Kings protest in SF—and all over the country. Where was Lurie? - 48 hills

Lots of talk about the billionaire class. The city's billionaire mayor was nowhere in sight

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

Trump Keeps Overreaching: Will It Backfire?

Today on TAP: No university has agreed to his latest extortion plan. And his vindictive partisan shutdown of the NY-NJ Gateway tunnel project could be a life preserver for Democrat Mikie Sherrill in t...

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

Trump’s Portland Lies Euphemized as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’

When corporate media refuse to call a lie a lie, they enable the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism.

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

The Palestinian Authority may become a casualty of the Trump plan and the new Western consensus

Western support for a two-state solution was never intended to create Palestinian statehood — it was meant to justify the existence of the Palestinian Authority. Now that the Western consensus is shif...

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

"And I think what we’re doing is processing unpleasant information in such a way that we don’t have to look at it too directly."

The History of American Fear | American Experience | PBS

An Interview with Horror Historian David J. Skal

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Hochul or Trump — It’s Wall Street

Wall Street destroyed NYC’s social welfare economy in 1975. Can mass movements stop it from defeating Mamdani’s agenda?

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI

We The People Are Not Afraid of You, Donald.

A Declaration of Decent Americans

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 19h

“There’s a reason why people don’t see the Democratic Party as being able to effectively fight fascism or be in opposition to Trump right now”

'For better or worse': How California’s antisemitism bill became a proxy for the war in Gaza

The controversial bill forced a no-win choice on lawmakers: Fight antisemitism or protect classroom freedoms.

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 20h

California AG vows to sue if Trump sends troops to San Francisco

Trump raised the possibility of deploying the National Guard in San Francisco after Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he was "all for" the move.

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 21h

“Kavanaugh Stops”

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 21h

"But it may buy enough time for Bessent’s buddies to get much of their money out before the bottom falls out of the Argentine economy."

America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First

Argentina: A very Trumpy debacle

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 21h

JIM ACOSTA, DON LEMON AND JOY REID LIVE NO KINGS DAY COVERAGE

A recording from Jim Acosta's live video

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 21h

Project 2025—A Road Map and a Warning

Knowing which elements in Project 2025 have not yet been begun may give people a chance to anticipate what is coming next.

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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 21h

‘Roots are so deep’: The GOP is straining to get past its Obamacare morass

GOP lawmakers are talking about pursuing a health policy overhaul — but leaders are warning not to revisit a repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

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The Sticker Resistance @sticker-resistance.bsky.social · 22h

↙️↙️↙️ #NOKINGS #AKAB #FIGHTFASCISM #FIGHTBACK #RESIST

CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Huntsville, Alabama 🚨
We The People are done when Alabama shows up! ✊🏼 No Kings

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BadRobotLinda @lms2025.bsky.social · 1d

Our little red town in a little red state had something to say to Donald Trump!
🚫 👑
#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
#Pinks

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 23h

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