Barney T
@omnibarn.bsky.social
Author and bald man about town.
Public Historian and Archivist.
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Public Historian and Archivist.
No DMs. None. Never.
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I have two friends who left the US for France in February 2016. They have taken the traditional route to citizenship there after deciding they would like to stay. It took them five years of residency to even qualify to begin the process.
So did the Clooneys buy their way in?
So did the Clooneys buy their way in?
Helped torch democracy in 2024 then peaces out to France b/c he has the means to do so. I fucking hate this prick.
December 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I have two friends who left the US for France in February 2016. They have taken the traditional route to citizenship there after deciding they would like to stay. It took them five years of residency to even qualify to begin the process.
So did the Clooneys buy their way in?
So did the Clooneys buy their way in?
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18 years for having a stillbirth. Medical testing showed meth but a med examiner testified he couldnt say it was the cause of death. She’s 1 of at least 20 Alabama women who suffered miscarriage/stillbirth then faced sentencing as severe as for murder, rape or kidnapping. www.al.com/news/2022/09...
She lost her baby, then her freedom. ‘When the judge said 18 years, I couldn’t believe it.’
Brooke Shoemaker suffered a stillbirth in Auburn in 2017. Although a state medical examiner found the cause of death to be undetermined, the county coroner blamed her methamphetamine use. After she lo...
www.al.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
18 years for having a stillbirth. Medical testing showed meth but a med examiner testified he couldnt say it was the cause of death. She’s 1 of at least 20 Alabama women who suffered miscarriage/stillbirth then faced sentencing as severe as for murder, rape or kidnapping. www.al.com/news/2022/09...
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I have been warning for years that once insurance companies had a reason to stop denying hormones to trans folks, they’d be coming for the menopausal among us next. We all rise or fall together.
My insurance company just sent me a letter saying they will stop covering two of my prescriptions because they are ‘not medically necessary’. Which ones?
1. My testosterone, because I am not a man
2. My menopause meds for hot flashes because, after all, women should just deal with it.
1. My testosterone, because I am not a man
2. My menopause meds for hot flashes because, after all, women should just deal with it.
December 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I have been warning for years that once insurance companies had a reason to stop denying hormones to trans folks, they’d be coming for the menopausal among us next. We all rise or fall together.
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There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...
NEW: Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative.
On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative
On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
www.lawdork.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...
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do you guys wanna see a dead body dot jpeg, but the body is an elite 20 post roast of Rob Schneider
Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.
December 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
do you guys wanna see a dead body dot jpeg, but the body is an elite 20 post roast of Rob Schneider
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“Financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
“Losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”
— Performers on canceling Kennedy Center gigs, showing far more integrity than wealthy executives at CBS and ABC news organizations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
“Losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”
— Performers on canceling Kennedy Center gigs, showing far more integrity than wealthy executives at CBS and ABC news organizations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“Financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
“Losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”
— Performers on canceling Kennedy Center gigs, showing far more integrity than wealthy executives at CBS and ABC news organizations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
“Losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”
— Performers on canceling Kennedy Center gigs, showing far more integrity than wealthy executives at CBS and ABC news organizations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
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CNN becomes the first US outlet to confirm Trump's attack on the Venezuelan mainland. He apparently did report it to Congress. This is an act of war and a violation of the UN Charter. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
CNN becomes the first US outlet to confirm Trump's attack on the Venezuelan mainland. He apparently did report it to Congress. This is an act of war and a violation of the UN Charter. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
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Fascists truly cannot distinguish fiction from reality
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
December 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Fascists truly cannot distinguish fiction from reality
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
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My friend Nicolle is a middle school choir director at Skyview Middle School in the suburbs of Seattle. Her students have been offered the opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall, and she is fundraising to make that possible. www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-s...
Donate to Help the Skyview Middle School Choir Sing at Carnegie Hall!, organized by Skyview Music Boosters
The Skyview Middle School Choir has been invited to an incred… Skyview Music Boosters needs your support for Help the Skyview Middle School Choir Sing at Carnegie Hall!
www.gofundme.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My friend Nicolle is a middle school choir director at Skyview Middle School in the suburbs of Seattle. Her students have been offered the opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall, and she is fundraising to make that possible. www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-s...
Something a bit off about Mamdani? JFC about two guesses for Caldwell what that is. Gutter racists and true weirdos.
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
December 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Something a bit off about Mamdani? JFC about two guesses for Caldwell what that is. Gutter racists and true weirdos.
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idols indiana jones wasn’t expecting: thread
December 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
idols indiana jones wasn’t expecting: thread
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We’re murdering fishermen in handmade peñeros with $40K in motors using $300K in missiles to depose Maduro so Rubio can come 5th in the 2032 primaries 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/world/americas/trump-boat-strikes-gulf-of-venezuela-wreckage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.OLR8.KODM5zTAI3xD
December 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
We’re murdering fishermen in handmade peñeros with $40K in motors using $300K in missiles to depose Maduro so Rubio can come 5th in the 2032 primaries 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/world/americas/trump-boat-strikes-gulf-of-venezuela-wreckage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.OLR8.KODM5zTAI3xD
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It’s not our duty to just smile and nod when a man with this much power demonstrates that he’s a pathological liar and an imbecile. Quite the contrary. Real patriots say out loud this is just plain nuts and he’s unfit to hold office.
Trump: "It's funny, I settled 8 wars. Some were going on for 35 years. And we got them settled in a couple of days. Some of them -- one was going on for 37 years. I settled it in one day. But this is a very complex one."
December 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It’s not our duty to just smile and nod when a man with this much power demonstrates that he’s a pathological liar and an imbecile. Quite the contrary. Real patriots say out loud this is just plain nuts and he’s unfit to hold office.
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I never know what those lectures are supposed to mean in practice, like we shouldn't say MTG sucks so long as she's going on TV saying Trump sucks? She's never going to cast a vote for anything we like and is quitting that job anyway, what exactly is she bringing to the tent
December 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I never know what those lectures are supposed to mean in practice, like we shouldn't say MTG sucks so long as she's going on TV saying Trump sucks? She's never going to cast a vote for anything we like and is quitting that job anyway, what exactly is she bringing to the tent
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What’s being built in plain sight isn’t ideology—it’s capacity. Detention, surveillance, selective enforcement, and legal ambiguity form a system that no longer depends on political will once operational.
#Democracy #Authoritarianism #Power #Surveillance #RuleOfLaw #USA
#Democracy #Authoritarianism #Power #Surveillance #RuleOfLaw #USA
The Machinery of Oppression
How Enforcement Infrastructure Becomes the Engine of Political Power
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
What’s being built in plain sight isn’t ideology—it’s capacity. Detention, surveillance, selective enforcement, and legal ambiguity form a system that no longer depends on political will once operational.
#Democracy #Authoritarianism #Power #Surveillance #RuleOfLaw #USA
#Democracy #Authoritarianism #Power #Surveillance #RuleOfLaw #USA
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🧵Trump is blowing up protected land to extend his border wall.
Government contractors blew up part of a mountain in the Coronado National Memorial in early December.
A critical habitat managed by the National Park Service has now been destroyed.
Government contractors blew up part of a mountain in the Coronado National Memorial in early December.
A critical habitat managed by the National Park Service has now been destroyed.
December 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🧵Trump is blowing up protected land to extend his border wall.
Government contractors blew up part of a mountain in the Coronado National Memorial in early December.
A critical habitat managed by the National Park Service has now been destroyed.
Government contractors blew up part of a mountain in the Coronado National Memorial in early December.
A critical habitat managed by the National Park Service has now been destroyed.
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Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.
I'm a collection of Slovak Coal Miners in Western Pennsylvania. (Cloud By Day)
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I'm a collection of Slovak Coal Miners in Western Pennsylvania. (Cloud By Day)
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i had been wondering about this. afaik the usg has offered ZERO evidence that it has followed up its attacks with any form of evidence collection - boats, bodies, contraband - to verify its assertions. why? b/c it's all built on lies, politics and aggression. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
i had been wondering about this. afaik the usg has offered ZERO evidence that it has followed up its attacks with any form of evidence collection - boats, bodies, contraband - to verify its assertions. why? b/c it's all built on lies, politics and aggression. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
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The Russians have tried to assassinate Zelensky many times. Never seems to have bothered Trump.
Trump on a report that Ukraine tried to strike Putin's residence: "I don't like it. It's not good. I heard about it this morning. You know who told me about it? President Putin told me about it ... I was very angry about it."
December 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Russians have tried to assassinate Zelensky many times. Never seems to have bothered Trump.
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Should also add that right before she quit, Marjorie Taylor Greene passed a bill through the House to ban gender-affirming care for minors. She is not a moderate. She is still super right wing. She just felt Trump no longer could accomplish her goals.
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88
December 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Should also add that right before she quit, Marjorie Taylor Greene passed a bill through the House to ban gender-affirming care for minors. She is not a moderate. She is still super right wing. She just felt Trump no longer could accomplish her goals.
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'Snow Day London'
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
December 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
'Snow Day London'
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
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If you're not already aware, look up what the Christian crusaders did when they reached Jerusalem in 1099 (the first crusade).
Far-right groups are co-opting the aesthetics of the Crusades for their own objectives, transforming an obsession with feudal justice into a campaign for a White Christian nation.
Why We Should All Be Worried About "Crusadercore"
This online trend equips young, White men with a historically bastardized visual lexicon — one that gives new credence and religious authority to far-right bigotry.
hyperallergic.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If you're not already aware, look up what the Christian crusaders did when they reached Jerusalem in 1099 (the first crusade).
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She followed around a Parkland kid to harass him about how school shootings aren’t real, and her doing this shit propelled her to conspiracy internet fame then Congress. You do not have to hand it to her.
December 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
She followed around a Parkland kid to harass him about how school shootings aren’t real, and her doing this shit propelled her to conspiracy internet fame then Congress. You do not have to hand it to her.
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.