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Kevin Barron

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Eyes on the prize: to ensure our children stand a chance of ANY future, a viable biosphere is paramount. The technofascists in ascendency know full well the dangers ahead, and are consolidating power for that reason. They don’t have a viable plan.

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · Jun 25

Until we realize that this is not a political fight, but a fight for survival as a species, we will continue to fight a rearguard action, and continue to lose. We need a vision based on the reality of the ecological crisis, and sound scientific actions that will empower that vision based on history

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 4h

Please share and give if you can ❤️

Razan 🇵🇸 @palraz89.bsky.social · 1d

I am Nema from Gaza, amother of three children

Today, a ceasefire was announced, but unfortunately, it has not been implemented

our difficult situation remains the same 💔

🚨I need urgently 400$
to feed my children and to treat my little one💔

✅ Verified by Molly Shah
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 1h

George Retes is a US citizen and Army veteran who served in Iraq and was jailed by ICE and held for three days without an explanation.

"Civil rights in America have always been about one thing: holding power accountable when it strips people of their dignity and freedom. They are not privileges that government agents get to decide whether to honor. What happened to me wasn't just a mistake—it was a violation of the very protections that our Constitution guarantees."

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 4h

This is Evil

Lisa Brooten @lisabrooten.bsky.social · 4h

Stripping our science infrastructure even more. This destruction for what? I mean, seriously.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 4h

Might as well contract out our security to the Kremlin - oh, I guess we already did.

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 5h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

Is this the country where you want to live? Where people get assaulted (and hospitalized) just for talking?

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 6d

This is Brighton Park, the neighborhood where a U.S. Border Patrol agent also shot a woman earlier today. It is a predominantly Latine community on the southwest side.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 1d

Sickening.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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David Thompson @davesthompson.bsky.social · 5d

Well worth watching Professor Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social and her YouTube channel where she is currently documenting Trump's attacks on democracy. Here's a link to her most recent post: youtu.be/j44MxnNujgY?...

Trump's authoritarian actions - Sat 4th October 2025

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel

youtu.be

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 1d

So-called AI is nothing less than a move to forever entrap citizens in a panopticon prison of ultimate control.

Beyond Orwellian.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

AI is a dictator's dream, and it is being forced upon us in an unnatural way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo1I...

The Dark Fraud Behind the Promise of AI: Sarah Kendzior

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and part of the healing is to address the supremacy that is at the root of the damage. Not more tokenism but a major shift in honoring (and applying) the wisdom of indigenous cultures.

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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 2d

UN experts have said the IDF's "targeted destruction" of Gaza's health-care system amounts to "medicide." The UN has accused Israel of deliberately attacking and starving health-care workers, paramedics and hospitals in order to wipe out medical care in the besieged enclave.

Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 2d

2 years into the [genocide], these figures illustrate the scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza

2 years into the war, these figures illustrate the scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza | CBC News

For two years, Palestinians across the Gaza Strip have faced unrelenting bombardment, mass hunger and recurring displacement as Israeli fighting continues in the desolate territory.

www.cbc.ca

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

The only criminal who can out-do The Onion and South Park simultaneously.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

The documentary "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink," about how Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is gobbling up newspapers across America and gutting them, is available to watch on PBS.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

No notes (just a leaflet)

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 2d

How meta ... a post about context collapse bsky.app/profile/aaro... that also suffers from context collapse. bsky.app/profile/this...

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 2d

I'll be trying out leaflet.pub moving forward to try to write longer form blogs on Trust and Safety so that I can explain things in a bit more depth.
leaflet.pub/25030fdf-2a8...

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant comment that perfectly captures the AI grift.

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

“As countless Palestinians have pointed out, the Nakba did not end in 1948.”

Anne Irfan | Balfour to Blair

By endorsing the Trump plan, Keir Starmer continues the long-standing British position of denying the Palestinian people...

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 3d

I imagine this is not in relation to the wafflegate posts, but allow me to apologize for the comment I made there which may have landed as mansplaining/defense of Jay and co.
It was intended as a critique of this character-limit format which seems to cause more problems than it solves.

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 3d

The best analysis of where we are, how we got here, and what to do about it, from @andreapitzer.bsky.social

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 3d

I started Degenerate Art a year ago today, in the last weeks of the before times. Today, I wrote about the most important history and current events I've covered related to our rapidly expanding authoritarianism, and what the future is likely to bring.

State of the Degenerate union

The newsletter turned one today! What's happened and what's next.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 3d

I went through one of these as a kid when we lost our home, and it was just devastating. So awful that the government did so much for kids in poverty during Covid but is actively harming families now.

Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 3d

US bankruptcies have already exceeded 2020 levels.

So. Much. Winning.

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 3d

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

Best for plagues, locusts and grifters;
worst for everyone else

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to your face off with Weiss on the Whitehouse lawn (or wherever the wrestling matches take place). My money is on you taking her down in the first round. 🤛

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to John Martinis and co for the award of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Their work has been described as validating the notion of Schroedinger’s cat paradox.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 3d

Forward Path

When the world
Is burning down
Acts of grace and integrity
Large and small
Create the requisite resilience
A path forward

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 4d

Two years of war in #Gaza. Two years too long.

It’s time for a #CeasefireNow.

Time to release all the hostages in Gaza and Palestinian detainees.

Time to lift the siege and allow a standard flow of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies under the coordination of the UN including UNRWA.

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