Jeff Barrus
@jeffbarrus.bsky.social
Communications professional, middle-aged punk, gamer, public health and foreign policy geek, father of twins, a grain of sand in the gears, I have friends everywhere
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Jeff Barrus
@jeffbarrus.bsky.social
· Aug 17
I've lived in Washington, DC, for 24 years, longer than I've lived anywhere else. I can't really convey my level of anxiety right now. Every time I get in my car, I worry I'm going to encounter a checkpoint or masked men with guns. It's been less than a week. 1/
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Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die, fled through the desert while the gunslinger followed.
December 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die, fled through the desert while the gunslinger followed.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
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I love that he's explaining the housing crisis from the landlord perspective
Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.
December 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I love that he's explaining the housing crisis from the landlord perspective
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ok we’re really all doing politics this morning and we need jokes. here I’ve got one: what did the Epstein files say to the person who, to please the admin, spiked a story about state-sponsored torture of prisoners charged with no crime? “I can buy you some time I guess — maybe sixty minutes”
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ok we’re really all doing politics this morning and we need jokes. here I’ve got one: what did the Epstein files say to the person who, to please the admin, spiked a story about state-sponsored torture of prisoners charged with no crime? “I can buy you some time I guess — maybe sixty minutes”
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i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight
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* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: SOME DOCUMENTS RELEASED CONTAIN UNTRUE AND SENSATIONALIST CLAIMS MADE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT WERE SUBMITTED TO THE FBI RIGHT BEFORE 2020 ELECTION
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: TO BE CLEAR CLAIMS AGAINST TRUMP ARE UNFOUNDED AND FALSE
@reuters.com
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: TO BE CLEAR CLAIMS AGAINST TRUMP ARE UNFOUNDED AND FALSE
@reuters.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: SOME DOCUMENTS RELEASED CONTAIN UNTRUE AND SENSATIONALIST CLAIMS MADE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT WERE SUBMITTED TO THE FBI RIGHT BEFORE 2020 ELECTION
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: TO BE CLEAR CLAIMS AGAINST TRUMP ARE UNFOUNDED AND FALSE
@reuters.com
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: TO BE CLEAR CLAIMS AGAINST TRUMP ARE UNFOUNDED AND FALSE
@reuters.com
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This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
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I’m sure Russia knows what we are going to do before the American people since they have so many people serving in the Trump admin sharing intel with them.
December 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I’m sure Russia knows what we are going to do before the American people since they have so many people serving in the Trump admin sharing intel with them.
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PBS Frontline put out a short doc on CECOT a coupla weeks ago.
Surviving CECOT | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
The story of three Venezuelan men branded as gang members and deported to CECOT.
www.pbs.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
PBS Frontline put out a short doc on CECOT a coupla weeks ago.
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This is like a Baz Luhrmann remake of Vertigo
These people all go to rich people megachurches so they have no idea how freaky this looks to normal people
December 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is like a Baz Luhrmann remake of Vertigo
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Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.
December 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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The split within MAGA seems to be whether they should hate everybody EXCEPT Jews or hate everybody but ESPECIALLY Jews.
December 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The split within MAGA seems to be whether they should hate everybody EXCEPT Jews or hate everybody but ESPECIALLY Jews.
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Chris Van Hollen speaks to protesters outside the Kennedy Center: "We are here to say that this desecration of the Kennedy Center will not stand.
Mark my words, whether it's a matter of weeks or months, Donald Trump's name will come down off of the Kennedy Center.
Mark my words, whether it's a matter of weeks or months, Donald Trump's name will come down off of the Kennedy Center.
December 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Chris Van Hollen speaks to protesters outside the Kennedy Center: "We are here to say that this desecration of the Kennedy Center will not stand.
Mark my words, whether it's a matter of weeks or months, Donald Trump's name will come down off of the Kennedy Center.
Mark my words, whether it's a matter of weeks or months, Donald Trump's name will come down off of the Kennedy Center.
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Maybe Congress should pass another law requiring the release of the Epstein Files. That should do the trick
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Maybe Congress should pass another law requiring the release of the Epstein Files. That should do the trick
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The Epstein Files, everybody!
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Epstein Files, everybody!
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this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.
That’s the thing man. If they are to be taken at their word the only takeaway is that there should be no black people in any job any other white person wants. One quick Google search for any of these jobs would show there are usually one or two minorities are best in a unit of 20 or 30 or more.
UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.
December 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.
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Two questions:
1. If Trump via executive order changed the name of the country to “The United States of Trump,” would anyone be surprised?
2. And if he did do that, would any Republican or any conservative media talking head condemn it or try to stop it?
Be honest.
1. If Trump via executive order changed the name of the country to “The United States of Trump,” would anyone be surprised?
2. And if he did do that, would any Republican or any conservative media talking head condemn it or try to stop it?
Be honest.
December 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Two questions:
1. If Trump via executive order changed the name of the country to “The United States of Trump,” would anyone be surprised?
2. And if he did do that, would any Republican or any conservative media talking head condemn it or try to stop it?
Be honest.
1. If Trump via executive order changed the name of the country to “The United States of Trump,” would anyone be surprised?
2. And if he did do that, would any Republican or any conservative media talking head condemn it or try to stop it?
Be honest.
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Interesting, because I am assured by people on both side sides of the aisle that homeless people are not a part of our society, but a social nuisance to be harassed and a great societal danger to be expunged.
A homeless man living in Brown University basement helped police identify the suspect in the campus shooting.
How homeless man helped catch Brown shooting suspect
www.newsweek.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Interesting, because I am assured by people on both side sides of the aisle that homeless people are not a part of our society, but a social nuisance to be harassed and a great societal danger to be expunged.
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@governorwalz.mn.gov had these guys nailed
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
@governorwalz.mn.gov had these guys nailed
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I don't know what to say about this garbage vote to criminalize gender affirming care btw. Been trying to find the words. I hear so many friends in sadness and fear today but of what use is "I hear you"? Not much I fear. To live through this moment sucks ass (negative). We must find a way through
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I don't know what to say about this garbage vote to criminalize gender affirming care btw. Been trying to find the words. I hear so many friends in sadness and fear today but of what use is "I hear you"? Not much I fear. To live through this moment sucks ass (negative). We must find a way through
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Wait. It's real? I assumed it was satire. I ASSUMED IT WAS SATIRE! Is life... satire now?
Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Wait. It's real? I assumed it was satire. I ASSUMED IT WAS SATIRE! Is life... satire now?