Barry Lyons
@lyonsnyc.bsky.social
Things on my mind: tax the rich, ramp up green energy, restore Roe v. Wade. Some stuff I've written—on the Beatles, the Second Amendment, Indiana Jones, and other sundry things—can be found here: lyonsnyc.medium.com/follow
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Barry Lyons
@lyonsnyc.bsky.social
· Oct 19
@velshi.com Regarding Miles Taylor's comment about the Republicans' inability to handle humor:
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The current president goes after past presidents because he's a lowlife and can't achieve anything of his own.
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The current president goes after past presidents because he's a lowlife and can't achieve anything of his own.
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my favorite passage of his
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
my favorite passage of his
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This is Nazism. And the only reason some folks cannot see it is because they, themselves, are also dangerous fascists. This may be the most un-American statement ever uttered by a man currently serving as co-President of the United States. It spits in the face of everything America is.
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is Nazism. And the only reason some folks cannot see it is because they, themselves, are also dangerous fascists. This may be the most un-American statement ever uttered by a man currently serving as co-President of the United States. It spits in the face of everything America is.
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I said it and I'm glad.
May I suggest that Arcadia is the greatest play written in the English language in the last 150 years or so at least?
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I said it and I'm glad.
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RIP Tom Stoppard
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
a man is making a funny face and says i don 't care !
ALT: a man is making a funny face and says i don 't care !
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
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Goodbye to the master.
❤️
❤️
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Goodbye to the master.
❤️
❤️
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
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Solid analysis.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Solid analysis.
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I’m not worried - Republicans said the death ray is a hoax.
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I’m not worried - Republicans said the death ray is a hoax.
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All my best posts are on Bluesky - I just use Twitter for the same reason people visit Florida: morbid curiosity.
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
All my best posts are on Bluesky - I just use Twitter for the same reason people visit Florida: morbid curiosity.
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In case you were wondering how stupid and evil you’d have to be to marry Stephen Miller, just watch this
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In case you were wondering how stupid and evil you’d have to be to marry Stephen Miller, just watch this
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I can't wait until this chest-beating imbecile is brought up on murder charges.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I can't wait until this chest-beating imbecile is brought up on murder charges.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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We need to start calling him this #SecretaryofWarCrimes
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
We need to start calling him this #SecretaryofWarCrimes
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Blade Runner on the 1984 Oberheim :)
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Blade Runner on the 1984 Oberheim :)
I just saw "Russo-Ukrainian war" again. I don't understand why all writers won't write "Russian-Ukrainian war."
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I just saw "Russo-Ukrainian war" again. I don't understand why all writers won't write "Russian-Ukrainian war."
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This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
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What do affordable healthcare and sarcasm have in common?
Most Americans don't get it.
Most Americans don't get it.
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
What do affordable healthcare and sarcasm have in common?
Most Americans don't get it.
Most Americans don't get it.
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