Reposted by Barry FreedGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 10hmany others have made this point but state research universities are, like, a superpower. gutting them will do lasting harm 2386
Reposted by Barry FreedA-100 gecs @pinstripebungle.bsky.social · 9hIn my latest for @reason.com I dove into what's happening with sex workers at the US border, and the almost certain use of facial recognition to profile them- even if they're traveling for personal reasons. reason.com/2026/09/19/c...reason.comCustoms and Border Protection doesn't deny using facial recognition to target foreign OnlyFans modelsThe immigration system has a confusing and opaque approach to foreigners who have done sex work. 1153
Reposted by Barry FreedGoodfellas (1990) @goodfellas1990.bsky.social · 12hIt was a very good system. Vinnie was in charge of the tomato sauce. 021
Reposted by Barry FreedGoodfellas (1990) @goodfellas1990.bsky.social · 13hHe used a razor and sliced it so thin - it would liquefy in the pan with a little oil. 091
Reposted by Barry FreedGoodfellas (1990) @goodfellas1990.bsky.social · 13hPaulie did the prep work. He was doing a year for contempt and had a wonderful system for garlic. 042
Reposted by Barry FreedKate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 632946962
Reposted by Barry FreedAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 13hi am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest 292311496
Reposted by Barry FreedPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17hThis would be the equivalent of sports coverage devoting itself to reporting on gambling markets instead of the game. Because real reporting on real stories is hard. 2051997
Reposted by Barry FreedSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 21hI hear we're not supposed to call these guys weird. 718731
Reposted by Barry FreedPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you recognize the subway hijacker’s sneeze. 841971160
Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 21hToo many for me to go through here now but if someone didn’t nominate the Judge from Blood Meridian I’ll be very disappointed 031
Reposted by Barry FreedMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22h👇🎯 Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. In re: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 015734
Reposted by Barry FreedTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 23hThis is broadly speaking understandable when you realise that to a certain kind of American liberal, only America actually exists, and the rest of the world is a sort of theoretical argument that is only brought up to distract from the manichaean struggle between Democrats and Republicans. 729538
Reposted by Barry FreedNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A lot of people have reverse-engineered their entire understanding of 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 specifically to defend Joe Biden in online arguments c. February 2024 and it all ends up being fascinatingly weird. 928031
Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That was incredible, I really want to go to that sushi bar even though I find the idea of eating fish lips unappealing. 000
Reposted by Barry Freedryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...nytimes.comStudents at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 162060501
Reposted by Barry FreedEric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing 202921541
Reposted by Barry FreedSam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly 241627449
Reposted by Barry FreedMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture] 201277130
Reposted by Barry FreedMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026relevant to all my interests thus still hangs in my home: 1942
Reposted by Barry FreedMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026not enough close ups of my world famous zine Steve Albini Thinks We Suck, but we can correct that in the sequel 21154
Reposted by Barry FreedDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They're 100% gonna shut this down within a week 1130574
Reposted by Barry FreedMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows 543101568
Reposted by Barry FreedTheodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026JCO for the win. 231447222
Reposted by Barry FreedMore like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I feel like a major lesson of Trump is that people like him will act in bad faith or violate the law no matter what, so it's literally not possible to Trump-proof a policy except through robust removal and punishment provisions for people like Trump. 222345
Reposted by Barry FreedColin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement. 92918551
Reposted by Barry FreedNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else 51248183
Reposted by Barry FreedNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It is remarkable *how* self-inflicted it was, this wasn't an ongoing crisis that they mismanaged or something that blew up in their faces unexpectedly, they really could have just done *nothing* and it would have been immeasurably better. 1787
Reposted by Barry FreedAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The White House is laser-focused on the issues that matter most to Americans. 2135560
Reposted by Barry FreedJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans 381409180
Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jesus but The Sandbaggers goes hard. Special relationship indeed. 010
Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just got back from this delightful performance of late 19th-early 20th century Egyptian music 050
Reposted by Barry FreedSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 29/09/2026science has long said it is impossible to be both a pig and a worm. well, 612712
Reposted by Barry FreedLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere. 12580151981
Reposted by Barry FreedStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's a genre of youtube videos that is basically "sovereign citizen successfully argues minor traffic infraction into 45-day sentence for contempt of court" 1221523
Reposted by Barry FreedHoward Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...nytimes.com3 Egyptian Officials Convicted of Kidnapping Slain Italian Student (Gift Article)The verdict followed a decade-long effort in Italy to account for the killing of Giulio Regeni, an Italian researcher who disappeared in Cairo in 2016. 02112
Reposted by Barry FreedMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Brett McGurk belongs in the Hague, but unlike Biden's other advisors who also belong in the Hague, McGurk belongs in U.S. prison too. 317725
Reposted by Barry Freed#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026Once you learn that not a single major US news outlet used the phrase "Hamas-ran health ministry" until after 10.17.23 you really start to see how pernicious this stuff is. Nobody really disputed that the GHM was accurate, even Israel admitted so, but that didn't matter. Anyway now it is spreading 51320400
Reposted by Barry FreedI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026It’s been darkly amusing watching people deal with the fact that Trump actually had not imposed a permanent change to our culture and politics that would allow them to be their worst selves without friction. Some are doubling down, hence the neighborhood bar fascination, and others are pivoting hard 7854105
Reposted by Barry FreedBeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins 4559321099
Reposted by Barry FreedAlan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Letter of the day (in the Times) 12263872473
Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Earlier tonight I attended a screening at NUQ with the director present for a Q&A, also a nephew of Alex Odeh who works in Doha was there. And I’m listed in the thanks part of the credits for giving input when I saw the rough cut last year, a great film and Will’s a mensch. 040
Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Another fucking unannounced fireworks display in Doha. JFC with this 030
Reposted by Barry FreedJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss. 201453204
Reposted by Barry FreedRichard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ida Lupino was the first woman to direct a Film Noir. 2295
Reposted by Barry Freedrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i think this video of Stephen Miller calling torture "a celebration of life and human dignity" is the ur-text of Trumpism www.youtube.com/shorts/pqD3j...youtube.comCritics Say Miller Hasn’t ChangedYouTube video by NowThis Impact 214726
Reposted by Barry Freed#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong. 2347361063
Reposted by Barry FreedDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC? 822070320