Trish Barker
@trishbarker.bsky.social
Retired project manager
Veteran
Working to make my corner of Ohio bluer every day
Veteran
Working to make my corner of Ohio bluer every day
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Put a quack in charge, expect to be royally ducked.
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Put a quack in charge, expect to be royally ducked.
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In Trump's America, you're a hell of a lot more likely to lose your healthcare due to Trump's tax giveaways to billionaires, than because an emergency room doctor patched up an undocumented immigrant.
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In Trump's America, you're a hell of a lot more likely to lose your healthcare due to Trump's tax giveaways to billionaires, than because an emergency room doctor patched up an undocumented immigrant.
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📣Testimony for Tuesday’s hearing on Congressional Redistricting is due by Monday at 9:00 am!
Find out how to submit and write a testimony using our toolkit!
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Find out how to submit and write a testimony using our toolkit!
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Equal Districts Testimony & Storytelling Kit
SUBMIT TESTIMONY ON REDISTRICTING Step 1: Plan to submit your testimony on behalf of yourself or your organization. Testimony is your opportunity to speak directly to the Ohio Legislature’s Joint Co...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📣Testimony for Tuesday’s hearing on Congressional Redistricting is due by Monday at 9:00 am!
Find out how to submit and write a testimony using our toolkit!
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Find out how to submit and write a testimony using our toolkit!
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🚨REDISTRICTING HEARING ALERT🚨
The Ohio GOP finally announced the next hearing for our congressional redraw ahead of the (very real!) 9/30 deadline.
🗓️Tuesday, Sept 30
⏰9:00 am
📍House Finance Hearing Room (Room 313)
🗣️Testimony due by Mon @ 9am!
redistricting.legislature.ohio.gov/meetings?utm...
The Ohio GOP finally announced the next hearing for our congressional redraw ahead of the (very real!) 9/30 deadline.
🗓️Tuesday, Sept 30
⏰9:00 am
📍House Finance Hearing Room (Room 313)
🗣️Testimony due by Mon @ 9am!
redistricting.legislature.ohio.gov/meetings?utm...
September 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨REDISTRICTING HEARING ALERT🚨
The Ohio GOP finally announced the next hearing for our congressional redraw ahead of the (very real!) 9/30 deadline.
🗓️Tuesday, Sept 30
⏰9:00 am
📍House Finance Hearing Room (Room 313)
🗣️Testimony due by Mon @ 9am!
redistricting.legislature.ohio.gov/meetings?utm...
The Ohio GOP finally announced the next hearing for our congressional redraw ahead of the (very real!) 9/30 deadline.
🗓️Tuesday, Sept 30
⏰9:00 am
📍House Finance Hearing Room (Room 313)
🗣️Testimony due by Mon @ 9am!
redistricting.legislature.ohio.gov/meetings?utm...
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The only thing worse than having your two evil MAGA dads fighting
is realizing that neither ever cared about keeping custody of you.
is realizing that neither ever cared about keeping custody of you.
June 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only thing worse than having your two evil MAGA dads fighting
is realizing that neither ever cared about keeping custody of you.
is realizing that neither ever cared about keeping custody of you.
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This is what I am saying.
This is a pocket civil war.
This is a pocket civil war.
June 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is what I am saying.
This is a pocket civil war.
This is a pocket civil war.
Today will be hard. Hold on! 🤗 Maybe we’ll recover before all our money has been drained from our 401Ks.
April 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Today will be hard. Hold on! 🤗 Maybe we’ll recover before all our money has been drained from our 401Ks.
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no offense to Jeff but if you are alleging the head editor of the Atlantic was cunning enough to circumvent all your security safeguards that kinda makes you sound even worse
Wow — Mike Waltz on Fox News suggests Jeffrey Goldberg somehow schemed his way into the Signal group instead of just being invited by accident
March 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
no offense to Jeff but if you are alleging the head editor of the Atlantic was cunning enough to circumvent all your security safeguards that kinda makes you sound even worse
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Petition to Reinstate the Office for Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Belonging and Social Change
On February 27, 2025, Ohio State President Ted Carter announced the decision to sunset the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. He also revealed that he was discontinuing the services offered by Student...
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March 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
OSU faculty wrote & are distributing this. Please sign & share! @positivelyblue.bsky.social @redwineblueusa.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com @fierceadvo.bsky.social @ohdems.bsky.social @ohhousedems.bsky.social
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ICE released new detention data that shows an ongoing trend in focusing on non-criminals, despite the administration’s rhetoric. I break down these findings as well as ICE’s sloppy mistakes and misleading claims.
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Immigration Data Literacy Skills to Help You Survive a New Wave of ICE Confusion
In this issue: ICE's latest detention data contains errors, growth of non-criminal detainees continues, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's inadequate claims about ICE arrests.
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February 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
ICE released new detention data that shows an ongoing trend in focusing on non-criminals, despite the administration’s rhetoric. I break down these findings as well as ICE’s sloppy mistakes and misleading claims.
open.substack.com/pub/austinko...
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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
February 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
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In the midst of all of the DNC emails asking me for money, maybe they could send JUST ONE EMAIL telling me the party’s plan to protect democracy.
February 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In the midst of all of the DNC emails asking me for money, maybe they could send JUST ONE EMAIL telling me the party’s plan to protect democracy.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal court BLOCKS Trump OMB order purporting to freeze federal spending. Stay will be in place until court can consider case at hearing next Monday.
Follow @democracydocket.com for more.
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January 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal court BLOCKS Trump OMB order purporting to freeze federal spending. Stay will be in place until court can consider case at hearing next Monday.
Follow @democracydocket.com for more.
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Follow @democracydocket.com for more.
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Griffin: Secretary Hegseth has decided to immediately pull General Milley's security detail. Hegseth also ordered the new acting inspector general to conduct a review board to potentially strip General Milley of a star in retirement.. All highly unusual actions.
January 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Griffin: Secretary Hegseth has decided to immediately pull General Milley's security detail. Hegseth also ordered the new acting inspector general to conduct a review board to potentially strip General Milley of a star in retirement.. All highly unusual actions.
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Here's Judge AliKhan's written order staying Trump's funding freeze at least until next Monday. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/doc1/0450111...
![ORDER
On January 27, 2025, Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”), issued a memorandum (“M-25-13”) directing federal agencies to “complete a comprehensive analysis of all of their Federal financial assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that may be implicated by any of the President’s executive orders.” ECF No. 1 ¶ 15. The memorandum further required agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to [the] obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency acti[vities] that may be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.” Id. ¶ 16 (emphasis omitted); Off. of Mgmt. & Budget, Exec. Off. of the President, Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs (Jan. 27, 2025), https://perma.cc/69QB-VFG8.
The memorandum defines “Federal financial assistance” as: “(i) all forms of assistance listed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the definition of this term at 2 [C.F.R. §] 200.1; and (ii) assistance](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreibu3vqvthfj2srv5yqxlsbteqo7f3gu4tn3mgge3xk7vmpbtqdgwu@jpeg)
January 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Here's Judge AliKhan's written order staying Trump's funding freeze at least until next Monday. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/doc1/0450111...
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I will post this everyday for the next 4 years as a reminder that Jan 6th was a day of insurrection.
December 19, 2024 at 8:21 PM
I will post this everyday for the next 4 years as a reminder that Jan 6th was a day of insurrection.
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🚨Speaker Johnson, it's time to step up and show some backbone. A shutdown is a threat to our national security, Veterans, and Armed Forces who are bravely serving and counting on you.
DO. YOUR. JOB.
DO. YOUR. JOB.
December 20, 2024 at 4:08 PM
🚨Speaker Johnson, it's time to step up and show some backbone. A shutdown is a threat to our national security, Veterans, and Armed Forces who are bravely serving and counting on you.
DO. YOUR. JOB.
DO. YOUR. JOB.
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pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....
December 5, 2024 at 1:23 AM
pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....
They need to be confirmed.
Did you know?
The director of ICE is required by law to be confirmed by Congress.
But no ICE director since the start of the first Trump administration has been fully vetted.
Should ICE be allowed to operate outside of the law? Does this raise questions about ICE’s legitimacy?
The director of ICE is required by law to be confirmed by Congress.
But no ICE director since the start of the first Trump administration has been fully vetted.
Should ICE be allowed to operate outside of the law? Does this raise questions about ICE’s legitimacy?
December 3, 2024 at 5:11 AM
They need to be confirmed.
I early retired this year!! I’m fortunate I have VA health care & didn’t have to wait to retire until I got Medicare.
That said, I don’t have dental insurance and had to have work that required prescriptions for pain and antibiotics. Good RX saved me $40 from the pharmacy discounted price of $65. 1
That said, I don’t have dental insurance and had to have work that required prescriptions for pain and antibiotics. Good RX saved me $40 from the pharmacy discounted price of $65. 1
November 19, 2024 at 8:05 PM
I early retired this year!! I’m fortunate I have VA health care & didn’t have to wait to retire until I got Medicare.
That said, I don’t have dental insurance and had to have work that required prescriptions for pain and antibiotics. Good RX saved me $40 from the pharmacy discounted price of $65. 1
That said, I don’t have dental insurance and had to have work that required prescriptions for pain and antibiotics. Good RX saved me $40 from the pharmacy discounted price of $65. 1