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@barbbat.bsky.social
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Keeping my sanity with needles and yarn. Dog lover. Reader of books. PNW. Political junkie. 💙

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Me, too!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On the 91st anniversary of Social Security, these words from FDR are just as important today:
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
May Dr. West rest in power and glory.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump is destroying the beautiful, untouched land of the Big Bend region in Texas to build a completely unnecessary border wall. One of the contractors, who has received $2B in federal contracts for the project, just so happens to be a major Trump donor. There’s always a grift.
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JoanKay @joankay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/08/2026
We need to protect Social Security for the next generation.
The Social Security payroll tax is capped at $184,500 in income. So if you're a nurse or construction worker, you pay Social Security on 100% of your income. But if you're a lawyer raking in millions, you only pay Social Security on a tiny fraction of your income. That is not right.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A president who refuses to send aid to states that didn’t vote for him, is a literally enemy of the state and the nation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Under Trump & RFK Jr.: -22,000 cyclospora cases and 2 deaths -Multiple ongoing salmonella outbreaks -Measles cases at 35-year high -New "forever chemical" pesticides in our food supply How the hell is any of this Making America Healthy Again?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
ICE lied about how Renee Good was shot. They lied about how Alex Pretti was shot. And now they’re lying about how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot. Don’t believe their story for a second.
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Well, duh!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children. The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath. Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Best gift ever!
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️☮️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/05/2025
(next to an image of President Obama) “It is up to all of us to fix this. It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you.

The most important office in this democracy is the citizen—the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right."

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
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Matthew Clarke @sportofkings.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Yellow Chested Halfwit
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them. DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it. Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them. Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Small but mighty! Over 3,000 protesters at the Hands Off Rally in Everett WA today
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I’m right there with you!
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Despicable = Felon 34
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Despicable = Felon 34
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Same here
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Smug little shite
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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Henrietta Lacks statue unveiled in Constitution Square - SoVaNOW: Home of The News & Record and The Mecklenburg Sun
Henrietta Lacks’ journey from an unknown daughter of Halifax County to a worldwide symbol of medical advancement came full circle Friday with the unveiling of a statue in her honor at South Boston’s C...
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I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"I can't vote for Harris because of Gaza." Cool, you just got Gaza wiped out of existence. Congrats.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
🔥Senator Tim Kaine 🎤 DROP to the fELON!👏👏
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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C.J. Tudor - Author @cjtudor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
What a wonderful gesture! One cannot have too many books📚📚
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m 76 and my hair still has not turned grey….it’s medium brown. I take after my maternal grandmother whose hair never went grey.
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I’m speechless and dismayed
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Sending all the positive energy I can muster up. I know exactly what you’re going through - my husband is in the same situation.
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We certainly are
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Looks like the Ring Master chose another clown for his circus
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barbbat.bsky.social @barbbat.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Looks so peaceful
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