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Victoria Barnes

@betweenwords.bsky.social

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I forgot to stop asking questions. You're not the boss of me. Mythologist (Ph.D.), photographer, poet. California-born. Living on Lenapehoking people's homelands. Honoring the land itself & the Lenapehoking Tribe both past & present.

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Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 4d

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 2h

“As a business that sells coffee and food, it didn’t feel right to just sit and watch people go hungry,” (wrote Josh, the owner of Heretic Coffee, Portland). Any other food establishments up for this kind of help during #SNAP shutdown? www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/sna...

Portland coffee shop offers free SNAP breakfast 'until everyone’s benefits are reinstated, or we go broke doing it'

The Heretic Coffee owner said Portland has recently been depicted as “some kind of rioting, looting, burning-down city” and “this act is just one small glimpse of the real Portland.”

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Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 3h

Have to ask what ICE agents’ spouses, partners, children, mothers, friends think of them being bribed with huge salaries to harm others.

Do they hold hands in church?

Go to Target to buy toys and say, “See what I can buy you because I terrorize people?”

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

The Unknown Secret Police, allegedly ICE but their identity remains concealed, abducts and vanishes a man as he arrives for his immigration court hearing in San Antonio, Texas. He is seen in tears, pleading for his life, as he is forcibly dragged into an unmarked vehicle.

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 4h

“In 1980, the average effective tax rate for highest-income ($200,000+) earners was just above 40%. By 2015, the average effective tax rate for the highest earners ($2 million+) was 27.5%.” www.snopes.com/fact-check/h...

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 5h

If you’re tempted to indulge yourself with (fill-in-the-blank) to quell fear and rage and to feel better about the world, send that money you’d have spent to a food bank. Our neighbors who rely on #SNAP need our help.

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 5h

“Tell your children who the cowards were” — @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 23h

Who is gonna pay the heating bills for the #Epstein Cotillion #Ballroom? Or to wash the bulletproof windows?

a black and white photo of a man and a woman in costume dancing in a room .

Alt: A black and white photo of a man and a woman in regal costumes entering a room.

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Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 23h

Why an #MRI? Because . . .

www.mayoclinic.org/tests-proced...

MRI - Mayo Clinic

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Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 1d

Why would he bring this up, you ask? To lay the groundwork with his base for doing it illegally (because SCOTUS says he can’t be prosecuted for crimes while in office). And—further delay of Epstein file release and its attendant consequences (i.e., prosecution as a private citizen).

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Now would be a good time to buy my book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, which dives into how bad and unfounded ideas about autism hurt #ActuallyAutistic people.
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

We're Not Broken

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...

www.harpercollins.com

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Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 1d

More, please, @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social
The effect isolates the thought(less) process when deattached from this person and their gestures, tone, and facial expressions. Substantiates the observations @gtconway.bsky.social has been making over the last many weeks.

Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 1d

Trump without Trump - You won't have to listen to his voice or see his face. This quote is 100% accurate and unedited. This is from his Rose Garden announcement on 10/21/25. Are there women inside? Third greatest president.

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 1d

#SNAP requires approximately $8 billion to fund a single month of benefits nationwide.

This amount demonstrates our country's hollow religiosity; minimum wage travesties; the shamelessness of CEO salaries; quashing of opportunities.

Our neighbors should not be going without food.

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 3d

My sense is that first we need a few more massive nationwide and worldwide protests to cement solidarity. Then the courage to strike will be more readily adopted and implemented.

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Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 3d

Blue sky for @bsky.app

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 3d

Scary data is collected by this app.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to help your neighbors who are food insecure and/or losing SNAP benefits, click here, plug in your zip, and DONATE.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America

Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.

www.feedingamerica.org

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Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 3d

“Ignorance is strength.” —George Orwell, 1984

And 2025.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe how everything in American politics gets stupider and stupider every week

- Trump annihilates the east wing
-says the government should pay him millions of dollars
-decides to bail out Argentina for billions of dollars
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Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 3d

My biography in nine words.

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 3d

A painting of a bird beside the text "you probably shouldn't have said that shit out loud"

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 3d

What are some strategies that work best?

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 4d

(It’s gonna be a McDonalds, @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social)

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

If a temporary resident of the White House can totally demolish the East Wing to build a gaudy ballroom, without any authority, approval, or regulation, he can tear down the rest of the White House to build a Walmart. That this destruction is allowed underscores how off the rails our country is now.

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 4d

Naw—his parents are on HIS plan, @theonion.com because he’s either a tech bro or brogrammer who earns billions a year.

The Onion @theonion.com · 4d

37-Year-Old Still On Parents’ Verizon Plan Saves Credibility By Clarifying He Pays Them $50 A Month https://theonion.com/37-year-old-still-on-parents-verizon-plan-saves-credibility-by-clarifying-he-pays-them-50-a-month/

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 4d

Okay, NOW I think I have everything sorted for the author fair on Sunday!

(At the Queen Theater in Wilmington, DE if you're local.)

Big thanks to Christine at FedEx for her help getting the signage printed properly!!!

White text against an outer space background:

Trapped between a dark past and an incandescent future, Percival Gynt will either save the universe or damn us all*.

Shows covers of Percival Gynt and the Inevitability if Fire (fiery with a ring of white stars) and Percival Gynt and the Conspiracy of Days (a round smart phone looking thing against a partly cloudy sky) both marked down from $16.95 to $15.

Below that it reads:

The fate of everything, in two volumes.

For fans of Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy, and everything, everywhere, all at once.

*Or... both? Probably both.

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Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 4d

…since he now lives in Château Trump.

Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 4d

Headline correction:

Goodbye, White House.
Hello, Château Trump.

The American Prospect @prospect.org · 4d

Trump’s demolition of the East Wing of the White House is the most tangible example of the type of leader he is. “This is what dictatorship feels like, and it’s long since time Americans woke up to this fact,” writes @ryanlcooper.com:

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Goodbye, White House. Hello, Trump House. - The American Prospect

It turns out that the notion of American exceptionalism actually makes the country more vulnerable to an authoritarian takeover. But it’s not too late to stop Trump’s attempt to consolidate a dictatorship.

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Victoria Barnes @betweenwords.bsky.social · 4d

Raise your hand if you cry in your sleep.