LessBarb
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LessBarb
@lessbarb.bsky.social
Recovering FL Republican. Previously art and science daily, and now it turns out I'm just an anti-MAGA anti-DeSantis troll. I will spray biblical verses at Christian Nationalists
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.

If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
x10
He thinks SCOTUS are dummies.

He doesn't care about tariffs in any normal sense: it's his biggest toy/weapon/lever. W/ them he can swing at any nation and watch them capitulate. He loves the power. And now that he has it, it will be a void he'll be hard pressed to fill. Expect more bombings.
Oh, so he totally stole the money
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I live in FL, and and friend and I were just talking about how everyone was starting to look the same...like some middle school fashion craze. Consolidation and homogenization.
“.. If you add more and more product to your face and are surrounded by people who do the same, ‘you lose sight of anatomic normalcy.’”

@axios.com #Panem
www.axios.com/local/washin...
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Trump is emptying the prisons, and filling the streets with criminals...
NEW: Trump pardons the husband of GOP Rep. Diana Harshbarger.

Bob Harshbarger pleaded guilty to fraud & distributing kidney drugs from China that weren't FDA approved.

His wife was an officer in the company, but claimed she wasn't involved.

The WH says the pardon was not related to his last name
Trump Pardons the Husband of a Republican Congressional Ally
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.
1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability
The Government Lawyers Database
glowlaw.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Hard. No.
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare.

I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
16 tons and whadda you get, another day older and deeper in debt. We are meat bots.
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm sure TSA and controllers can be deemed essential...the Republicans control all branches of government...
Sean Duffy: "We have a number of people who want to get home for the holidays, they want to see their family. Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane."
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Page One in Palm Beach:

“.. in 23 of Florida’s 67 counties, more than one out of every four residents is over 65.”

@palmbeachpost.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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In Search of Virginia Faulkner. How I came to write my first book, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, coming in January from the @univnebpress.bsky.social. It all began 17 years ago on NeglectedBooks.com.

neglectedbooks.com?p=10900
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Why do they give him quarter?
Gas down from WHEN?

During the 24 campaign, DJT stated, "Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down and we will make America affordable again." He also pledged to slash energy and electricity prices by half within 12 to 18 months.
Pressed by Stephanopoulos on the fact that electricity prices have in fact gone up, Bessent punts: "Electricity prices are a state problem ... look, there are things the federal government can control. Local electricity prices are not one of them."
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Mad King cites imaginary numbers, imaginary Founders, rails at SCOTUS, consumers, anyone, and promises a payoff in 2 weeks.

Make him take the old citizenship exam (new one, too hard). Maybe he would understand the structure of government. Make him hire real counsel, unafraid make him wear drawers.
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Nobody left in the Office of Council to the President that is willing/able/knows that the Emperor is Nekked.
The president seems to have been briefed on how the tariffs oral argument at SCOTUS went:
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
As we walked out Nuremberg, we chatted about the enduring love of WWII flix, when villains were identifiable, and the necessity for the public to remember what bad guys look like, and what they do. We have actual evil men running our government. The outcome is inevitable, it's just a matter of time.
THIS.
One of the few positive aspects of this era in American history is that it's super-easy to identify the villains.
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Folks this is not a candid shot of the man at 11PM on a weekend, this is what he was doing while sitting in the middle of an internationally broadcast major press conference in the Oval Office

He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Former Chair of the Republican House Freedom Caucus.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Columbo for the Trump age. Rather than solving the crime he just turns up at their house and jerks off onto their door mat.
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Clips like this are political gold
A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM