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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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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

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

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

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 · 21h

No notes (just a leaflet)

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 23h

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 · 1d

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 · 22h

Brilliant comment that perfectly captures the AI grift.

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 22h

“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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

US bankruptcies have already exceeded 2020 levels.

So. Much. Winning.

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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...

www.nobelprize.org

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

Yes - we definitely need more solidarity and willingness to stand up for the principles that we espouse.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

Blue states need to band together to protect immigrants, science, health, and our values. Some of this is happening already, we just need to face what more we can and must do www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

Also, this limited context burns many, prompting them to leave.
Which is sad when you consider the potential of an open global cmns network.
And to those who would say this is the fate of all media, I would argue this is different in the sense of it being personal cmns, and less mediated/censored.

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

Building online community is hard. Having witnessed the early usenet flame wars and the listserv endless scroll, it strikes me that we have reached a bottleneck. Xitter has hardened people to the point of knee-jerk reaction and a strike first approach. Character limit = limited communication. 1/

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. It’s never a good time to critique their neoliberal act because that might expose the game for what it is: a thin veneer of social justice hiding a coin-operated influence selling machine.

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

Historical AND current complicity! If it weren’t for the latter, the former would be (somewhat) less urgent.

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/

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Sue dragon @suedragon70.bsky.social · 3d

A woman after my own heart! I've been saying the same for CA and NY. If they don't use their tax money for the right things, then we should not allow them any. Those bastards who are ruining our country think we will continue feeding them, whether they feed us or not. They have to wise up.

🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 3d

Alrighty then! Maine's FEMALE governor has more balls than the male ones.

They need to take note.

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

Shitty Fandom perfectly captures what has become of the GOP Magats.
It’s not politics, it’s cartoon wrestling mania.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2d

As the overwhelm increases, the previous coping mechanism of ‘continuous partial attention’ becomes ‘infrequent momentary attention’ via custom filters.
Seemingly, this is the only “logical” adaptation to accelerationism.
(Which begs the question, Who is served by accelerationism?)