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Barry Freed

@barryfreed.bsky.social
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Archivist/Librarian, erstwhile Arabist, cinephile, certified Voight-Kampff test administrator, Antipope of Antifa. boxd.it/5QN63 Doha/NYC

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 10h
many others have made this point but state research universities are, like, a superpower. gutting them will do lasting harm
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A-100 gecs @pinstripebungle.bsky.social · 9h
In 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...
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Customs and Border Protection doesn't deny using facial recognition to target foreign OnlyFans models
The immigration system has a confusing and opaque approach to foreigners who have done sex work.
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Goodfellas (1990) @goodfellas1990.bsky.social · 12h
It was a very good system. Vinnie was in charge of the tomato sauce.
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Goodfellas (1990) @goodfellas1990.bsky.social · 13h
He used a razor and sliced it so thin - it would liquefy in the pan with a little oil.
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Goodfellas (1990) @goodfellas1990.bsky.social · 13h
Paulie did the prep work. He was doing a year for contempt and had a wonderful system for garlic.
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Kate 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...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As 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.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 13h
i 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
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17h
This 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.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 21h
I hear we're not supposed to call these guys weird.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you recognize the subway hijacker’s sneeze.
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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 21h
Too many for me to go through here now but if someone didn’t nominate the Judge from Blood Meridian I’ll be very disappointed
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22h
👇🎯 Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. In re: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 23h
This 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.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A 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.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
dudes rock
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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That was incredible, I really want to go to that sushi bar even though I find the idea of eating fish lips unappealing.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
oh 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...
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Students 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.
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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Now watching
Fresh Kill
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should 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
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today 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]
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
relevant to all my interests thus still hangs in my home:
A Frank Kozik Guided by Voices poster with Spock's face prominently featured
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
not enough close ups of my world famous zine Steve Albini Thinks We Suck, but we can correct that in the sequel
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They're 100% gonna shut this down within a week
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JCO for the win.
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I 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.
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026
this 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.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yup, 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
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It 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.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The White House is laser-focused on the issues that matter most to Americans.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans
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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus but The Sandbaggers goes hard. Special relationship indeed.
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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just got back from this delightful performance of late 19th-early 20th century Egyptian music
Oxford Maqam
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 29/09/2026
science has long said it is impossible to be both a pig and a worm. well,
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Let's see if anyone has the "balls" to name this Jane Doe so we can all evaluate her veracity, and that of her lawyers, since her lawsuit didn't hesitate to name & shame 7 of her peers as gan...Michael Trac... * @mtracey
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Congratulations to the Daily Beast for totally EXPOSING this day laborer from the Bronx who had the audacity to allegedly post a joke video about Nancy Pelosi on Facebook. Maybe you'll ruin his life! This is TRUE JOURNALISM in the public interest x.com/NoahShachtman/...
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This 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.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a genre of youtube videos that is basically "sovereign citizen successfully argues minor traffic infraction into 45-day sentence for contempt of court"
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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3 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.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brett McGurk belongs in the Hague, but unlike Biden's other advisors who also belong in the Hague, McGurk belongs in U.S. prison too.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
Once 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
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
It’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
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Letter of the day (in the Times)
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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Earlier 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.
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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another fucking unannounced fireworks display in Doha. JFC with this
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Megan 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.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ida Lupino was the first woman to direct a Film Noir.
"The Hitch-Hiker" 1953 original poster one sheet
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i 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...
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Critics Say Miller Hasn’t Changed
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any 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.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC?
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