Reposted by AJ BarberCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 46107823007
Reposted by AJ BarberThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper. 191211222
Reposted by AJ Barberjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026a livestreamed execution is just a lynching 285103572011
Reposted by AJ BarberJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/09/2026Damn, if only there were some sort of well-known historical comparison to make for this. 1425264
Reposted by AJ BarberUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 132530874
Reposted by AJ BarberPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.texastribune.orgTexas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned. 712869702
Reposted by AJ BarberMichael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days 6247051594
Reposted by AJ Barberjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026my bet is that he'll flip if it's a 50-50 or 51-49 dem senate, so dems need to somehow get to 52 to be safe 2344180574
Reposted by AJ BarberAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center. 8652891329
Reposted by AJ BarberSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum) 522984650
Reposted by AJ BarberJohn Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine 3483312481
Reposted by AJ Barberceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193218834409
Reposted by AJ BarberKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved” 20591013162
Reposted by AJ BarberI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026Even here as he details the state violence he experienced he had to contrast his treatment with a gang member who is supposed to “deserve it” into the narrative. 10638130
Reposted by AJ BarberDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences. 205122363301
Reposted by AJ Barber[toyota carroll] (6,5,,) @iamtherog.com · 25/08/2026It straight up pisses me off that Dolly Parton was doing this stuff for the past 30 years while the biggest assholes in the world became billionaires whose only charitable contributions are to their own tax-exempt organizations (that they receive tax benefits for donating to & "volunteering with".) 8682116
Reposted by AJ BarberMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If we cured all cancer tomorrow, and it became an extremely rare condition, I guarantee that 30 years from now there would be people saying, “They just want you to take that anti-cancer pill to control you. It’s a bullshit disease that doesn’t even exist anymore.” 21085981415
Reposted by AJ BarberRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable. 7333491543
Reposted by AJ BarberRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The appointment of Todd Blanche, as AG, is the latest sign that America is experiencing a form of personalist rule. This is a form of autocracy which organizes around the self-preservation of a leader whose private interests prevail over national ones in shaping domestic & foreign policy. 23792286
Reposted by AJ BarberLawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I remember a time when judicial opinions didn't generally open with sentences in which the judge gives his own opinion on the policy he is about to rule against. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub... 37566119
Reposted by AJ BarberAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie. 1814214058940
Reposted by AJ BarberGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Here is a weird thing about comics right now. Do you know who is actually practically a guarantee of quality storytelling in comics at the moment? Godzilla. I kid you not. For a long time in America, the Godzilla comics were mostly okay, meant to be fun, lots of monsters fighting. 1/ 53936176
Reposted by AJ BarberMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026“Silly” is a good way to put it! There were excesses in 2020 but they were mostly low-stakes efforts by well-intentioned people to address real injustices. The excesses of the right during the same era were far more harmful. The reckoning we need now is about how elites lost sight of that. 513139406
Reposted by AJ Barberskáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026everything about this is fake except what i have to pay 20110484
Reposted by AJ BarberGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/08/2026"The idea of society may sound appealing, but it's old men who will take the hit, planting trees under whose shade they might never sit." 61628265
Reposted by AJ BarberAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/07/2026replace “ai” with “green energy” in any of these stories and imagine the public and political backlash 11732176
AJ Barber @ajbarber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026We can and should strip the Supreme Court down to its original jurisdiction and stick them back in the basement of Congress. Replace with a new Supreme Court of Appeals - a large rotating panel of appellate and district judges. Supermajority requirement to strike down statutes 000
Reposted by AJ BarberKayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The Odyssey (dir. Christopher Nolan) 192541491
Reposted by AJ BarberKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges. 505179127111
Reposted by AJ BarberBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026It took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case 461053265
Reposted by AJ BarberJennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Real talk about political parties, America. A short thread. 🧵 Political parties are essential institutions in a democracy. Parties coordinate voters, candidates, and lawmakers to cast ballots, nominate candidates, and pass laws. But, there is an important trade-off in how parties are designed. 1/ 15617
Reposted by AJ BarberRenee🏳️⚧️ @reneexlieselotte.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I hate how big companies just don't want anyone to own anything ever again. They'd rent food to us if they could 42469131339
Reposted by AJ BarberJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Hey, look at that, what had been subtext is once again just text. This is a Redeemer administration. 1261545360
Reposted by AJ BarberAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026this should be illegal, easy layup for any new party taking a branch of government in the midterms imo 720829
Reposted by AJ BarberDave Draeger @davedraeger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment. 6843221098
Reposted by AJ BarberMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system 462759493
Reposted by AJ BarberMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026this framing, the court standing up to trump, is precisely why this withered old piece of shit is unfit to even hold office, let alone lead the caucus 7903136
Reposted by AJ BarberLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I cannot fucking believe that birthright was 5-4! On whether the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship! 671492222
Reposted by AJ BarberMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/06/20265-4 instead of 9-0. Just a completely illegitimate institution at this point. 261853378
Reposted by AJ BarberMrSquid @mrsquid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026My honest belief is that the dissenters should just be fully disbarred. You cannot sincerely believe the 14th Amendment does not contain birthright citizenship. To hold this is to be either so dishonest or so incapable of analysis that you cannot practice law. 181452367
Reposted by AJ BarberMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming. 5544421113
Reposted by AJ BarberNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Not to keep repeating myself, but the problem with the Court is not merely that their decisions are bad, but that their entire self-conception of themselves as the Guardian Council of the USA, with sweeping and arbitrary power to maintain the mos maiorum, is utterly incompatible with a free society 241961430
