MB Barber
@mbbarber916.bsky.social
Californian. Civil servant. Library & arts lover. MBA. Former journalist and political junkie who’s damn worried about our democracy. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
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MB Barber
@mbbarber916.bsky.social
· Feb 8
I really wanted to be the crazy family member at holiday dinners and not fucking Cassandra.
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"I'm trying to figure out why Trump's inability to stay awake during a press availability isn't being covered as if it's a crisis." -- Senator Brian Schatz
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"I'm trying to figure out why Trump's inability to stay awake during a press availability isn't being covered as if it's a crisis." -- Senator Brian Schatz
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Through collaboration with NorCal Resist, my office has received troubling reports regarding new ICE activity inside the John Moss Building targeting Afghan asylum seekers living in Sacramento.
I want to be clear about what we know so far and how we are responding. [2/2]
I want to be clear about what we know so far and how we are responding. [2/2]
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Through collaboration with NorCal Resist, my office has received troubling reports regarding new ICE activity inside the John Moss Building targeting Afghan asylum seekers living in Sacramento.
I want to be clear about what we know so far and how we are responding. [2/2]
I want to be clear about what we know so far and how we are responding. [2/2]
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ICE is active in Sacramento today. Possibly targeting the Afghani community.
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
ICE is active in Sacramento today. Possibly targeting the Afghani community.
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Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
Keep your eyes open on this one, friends. Our votes are our own personal business, and the right to have our votes count is a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy.
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Keep your eyes open on this one, friends. Our votes are our own personal business, and the right to have our votes count is a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy.
Teachers are the best people. Bravo, San Diego. (This story makes me want to cry.)
"After ICE took students’ parents, these teachers began rising at dawn to keep watch: ‘We said, hell no’" #ICYMI www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
After ICE took students’ parents, these teachers began rising at dawn to keep watch: ‘We said, hell no’
With students terrified and arrests rising, educators in San Diego are scanning streets, sharing alerts and defending the right to feel safe
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Teachers are the best people. Bravo, San Diego. (This story makes me want to cry.)
This feels a bit on target.
I dunno man it just really seems like American universities have lost the plot over the past 30 years or so and while I too love college football and basketball, the people making key decisions at them don't seem to care about their educational mission at all
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This feels a bit on target.
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Keep in mind: Trump put tariffs on Ukraine and exempted Russia
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Keep in mind: Trump put tariffs on Ukraine and exempted Russia
Saw this in the NYT feed and thought to myself, “Why would I want to help sideline education? I like education!”
Get a copy editor, @nytimes.com
Get a copy editor, @nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Saw this in the NYT feed and thought to myself, “Why would I want to help sideline education? I like education!”
Get a copy editor, @nytimes.com
Get a copy editor, @nytimes.com
This needs to be said more.
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This needs to be said more.
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If you aren't worried about Trump's crypto dealings, you should be.
Trump's corrupt crypto grift provides a way for anyone from corporate interests to criminals seeking pardons to entities seeking government contracts, to secretly bribe the president with huge sums of money.
Trump's corrupt crypto grift provides a way for anyone from corporate interests to criminals seeking pardons to entities seeking government contracts, to secretly bribe the president with huge sums of money.
November 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If you aren't worried about Trump's crypto dealings, you should be.
Trump's corrupt crypto grift provides a way for anyone from corporate interests to criminals seeking pardons to entities seeking government contracts, to secretly bribe the president with huge sums of money.
Trump's corrupt crypto grift provides a way for anyone from corporate interests to criminals seeking pardons to entities seeking government contracts, to secretly bribe the president with huge sums of money.
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This shooting of National Guardsmen the day before Thanksgiving is horrific. These are servicemembers who deserve our utmost respect.
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This shooting of National Guardsmen the day before Thanksgiving is horrific. These are servicemembers who deserve our utmost respect.
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Tomorrow? O, that’s sudden!
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Tomorrow? O, that’s sudden!
One hundred % accurate!
I was a lifelong opponent of trigger warnings. Then I read Ryan Lizza's most recent Substack post.
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
One hundred % accurate!
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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This one wins the internet today.....
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November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This one wins the internet today.....
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Wow! Senators Kelly and Slotkin and Reps DeLuzio, Goodlander, Houlahan, and Crow encouraging members of the military to defy illegal orders!
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Wow! Senators Kelly and Slotkin and Reps DeLuzio, Goodlander, Houlahan, and Crow encouraging members of the military to defy illegal orders!
Wait … what?
(Context: DOE has loan programs for professional degrees, different terms than, say, a humanities master. They’ve been taking a knife to that classification, with public health and now nurses.)
(Context: DOE has loan programs for professional degrees, different terms than, say, a humanities master. They’ve been taking a knife to that classification, with public health and now nurses.)
Doctor Here 👋
-The Department of Education just said nursing is no longer a professional degree.
- #Nursing is one of the most important and respected professions. Our healthcare system depends on them.
- #Nurses save lives!! They must be respected as professionals!
#medsky #publichealth
-The Department of Education just said nursing is no longer a professional degree.
- #Nursing is one of the most important and respected professions. Our healthcare system depends on them.
- #Nurses save lives!! They must be respected as professionals!
#medsky #publichealth
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Wait … what?
(Context: DOE has loan programs for professional degrees, different terms than, say, a humanities master. They’ve been taking a knife to that classification, with public health and now nurses.)
(Context: DOE has loan programs for professional degrees, different terms than, say, a humanities master. They’ve been taking a knife to that classification, with public health and now nurses.)
UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine soccer and the Big West championship. Been looking at AI search results that first say Irvine is the champ with a win 1-0, then the next min SB takes it 1-0. Both are adamant in the certainty of the answer.
The game isn’t for another 3+ hours.
The game isn’t for another 3+ hours.
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine soccer and the Big West championship. Been looking at AI search results that first say Irvine is the champ with a win 1-0, then the next min SB takes it 1-0. Both are adamant in the certainty of the answer.
The game isn’t for another 3+ hours.
The game isn’t for another 3+ hours.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Aren’t these the people we want in the US - hardworking family-oriented good people?
“I still cry sometimes,” Juan Ramón González said from Mexico after “self-deporting” in August, leaving the family he had raised over three decades in California.
'I Still Cry Sometimes': Self-Deporting as ICE Cracks Down
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Aren’t these the people we want in the US - hardworking family-oriented good people?
It was quite bizarre that Justice Jackson granted the motion to stop snap benefits on Fri evening. This is a good explanation of why, by a legal scholar at Georgetown.
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
It was quite bizarre that Justice Jackson granted the motion to stop snap benefits on Fri evening. This is a good explanation of why, by a legal scholar at Georgetown.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
People feel they have to protect schools in Portland OR from ICE.
portlanders showed up en masse to protect Cesar Chavez middle school today. ICE did not enter any schools in north portland today but people are worried & PPS locked doors at some schools
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb1b...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb1b...
Community members surround north Portland school after ICE reported nearby
YouTube video by KPTV FOX 12 | Local news, weather Portland, Oregon
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
People feel they have to protect schools in Portland OR from ICE.
This is very true.
The DNC didn't win last night; the fired-up Democratic voters did.
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is very true.