Barry Freed
@barryfreed.bsky.social
Archivist/Librarian, erstwhile Arabist, cinephile, certified Voight-Kampff test administrator, Antipope of Antifa.
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Barry Freed
@barryfreed.bsky.social
· Nov 6
Death Note reboot where Light Yagami works his way down from the top of the Forbes 400 list.
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There it is. This is literal Nazi shit ok
Cases of measles cropped up in two centers for unauthorized immigrants in Arizona and Texas last month. They are almost 1,000 miles apart, yet the centers have one thing in common: They are operated by CoreCivic, a publicly traded detention company with a checkered track record.
Sick Detainees Describe Poor Care at Facilities Run by ICE Contractor
Problems at detention centers operated by CoreCivic extend far beyond recent measles outbreaks.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
There it is. This is literal Nazi shit ok
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Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced
February 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced
Chewing what now?
February 16, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Chewing what now?
Now watching Wu Yonggang’s The Goddess
February 16, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Now watching Wu Yonggang’s The Goddess
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Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
February 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
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Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
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The Defense Secretary is taking aim at such bastions of radical wokedom as ... Wake Forest? Florida Institute of Technology? William and Mary?!?
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
www.cnn.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
The Defense Secretary is taking aim at such bastions of radical wokedom as ... Wake Forest? Florida Institute of Technology? William and Mary?!?
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
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Day #215: Fritos (1975)
February 16, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Day #215: Fritos (1975)
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This is brilliant.
Why are pubs closing? For the same reason everything else is falling apart - we have sold off the social fabric of the country.
Why are pubs closing? For the same reason everything else is falling apart - we have sold off the social fabric of the country.
My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it.
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?
How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.
open.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:25 AM
This is brilliant.
Why are pubs closing? For the same reason everything else is falling apart - we have sold off the social fabric of the country.
Why are pubs closing? For the same reason everything else is falling apart - we have sold off the social fabric of the country.
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On a Leos Carax binge. Art & film - Vampyr - Edvard Munch (1893-94) and Pola X (1999) Leos Carax
February 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
On a Leos Carax binge. Art & film - Vampyr - Edvard Munch (1893-94) and Pola X (1999) Leos Carax
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‘The goal has been to demystify’: how a colonial Nairobi library was restored and given back to the people www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘The goal has been to demystify’: how a colonial Nairobi library was restored and given back to the people
Once a whites-only enclave, the grand McMillan Memorial library is one of three in the Kenyan capital that have been transformed for the community
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:45 AM
‘The goal has been to demystify’: how a colonial Nairobi library was restored and given back to the people www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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mostly I am tired of people with 3 passports and 6 multinational conglomerates lecturing me on the virtues of ethnic nationalism
February 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
mostly I am tired of people with 3 passports and 6 multinational conglomerates lecturing me on the virtues of ethnic nationalism
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Irish elevated to founding stock, it's like he's allergic to reading a history book
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Irish elevated to founding stock, it's like he's allergic to reading a history book
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1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
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Oh wow, YOUR enemies actually really are uncivilized savages incapable of self-rule? You actually didn't even want to take over their country and expropriate all their land? It's for their own good? Wow, I didn't know that. You're telling me for the very first time.
February 16, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Oh wow, YOUR enemies actually really are uncivilized savages incapable of self-rule? You actually didn't even want to take over their country and expropriate all their land? It's for their own good? Wow, I didn't know that. You're telling me for the very first time.
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the idea that compromising your values at all means winning isn't worth it is one of the most destructive ideas we have, the ghost of the New Left and its generational defeat
February 16, 2026 at 2:49 AM
the idea that compromising your values at all means winning isn't worth it is one of the most destructive ideas we have, the ghost of the New Left and its generational defeat
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This is an important difference because the policy implications for it are bad. I really do think that the average American would have gladly traded more death for less interruption, and I don’t know what the fuck to do with that because the electorally successful policy is “mass death”.
February 16, 2026 at 12:07 AM
This is an important difference because the policy implications for it are bad. I really do think that the average American would have gladly traded more death for less interruption, and I don’t know what the fuck to do with that because the electorally successful policy is “mass death”.
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I’m going diverge from this a little bit because there’s a small critique I want to make that has big policy implications - Americans weren’t traumatized by death, and I understand why we interpret it as death, they’re traumatized by a year+ interruption to their normal lives.
"Americans are to a greater and lesser extent all psychologically traumatized from watching more than a million Americans die from COVID, and explain that general sense of malaise through economic sentiment" has always struck me as a parsimonious explanation.
February 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
I’m going diverge from this a little bit because there’s a small critique I want to make that has big policy implications - Americans weren’t traumatized by death, and I understand why we interpret it as death, they’re traumatized by a year+ interruption to their normal lives.
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The President of the United States most likely raped girls along with his best friend Epstein.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
New videos resurface showing Trump partying with underage girls
We’ve all seen Pam Bondi’s petulant performance before the House this week, screaming at members of Congress as they ask why various Epstein files remain redacted for Co-conspirators and perpetrators ...
www.dailykos.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:28 AM
The President of the United States most likely raped girls along with his best friend Epstein.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.
Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...
I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...
I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.
Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...
I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...
I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3