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Barry Gott

@bazgott.bsky.social
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Children's book author/illustrator, greeting card writer/artist. Represented by Bookmark Literary @teresakie He/Him

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 6h
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4h
“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Barry Gott @bazgott.bsky.social · 4h
Some of those kids and even some of the adults are still alive and voting today
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tferg23.bsky.social @tferg23.bsky.social · 5h
Between this and the AES debate tonight, it's refreshing to hear this from democrats. I'm glad every question is not treated as an opportunity to pivot to "kitchen table issues," but is instead met with all the reasons why the R is a gigantic piece of shit.
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Star Wars First Order Rally
ALT: Star Wars First Order Rally
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026
oh look paid protesters
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
All Dem quotes must be twisted into the least generous interpretation ever while all Trump quotes must be tortured into coherence.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This thing where reporters simply do not check trump supporters' public social media posts at all, and editors don't give a shit either, has to stop
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Barry Gott @bazgott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wasn't going to see it until my wife saw spoilers and knew I would love it. She was right.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/10/2026
H’as spoken like a traitor, and shall answer As traitors do.
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A. Cosmographer @acosmographer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
we know how the tech bros feel about women because, all the awful outlined labour issues aside, the question "how would women feel about having directions to their private residence recorded" didn't occur to anyone involved
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Whether it's Obama telling farmers to plant arugula in Iowa or Donald Trump telling Iranians to take out Los Angeles, both presidents made deeply insensitive statements about regions of the country.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it
NYT: "It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it."
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“The lifeblood of MAGA is sadism: a desire to inflict pain on women, minorities, LGBTQ people. A lot of people don't necessarily feel comfortable saying that on an individual basis, but when they go to a rally, they can chant hateful, racist things and get that glee, and they're kind of anonymous.”
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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So HBO is now MAGA. Lovely. How long before John Oliver gets fired?
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
PSST
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install.exe @lakecounty1975.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Numerous articles have shown immigrants pay far more into society than they get back (including into social services whose benefits they are unable to enjoy) but MAGA just doesn't care. Instead they lie, call immigrants an economic drain, and dress up cultural grievances as economic populism.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Barry Gott @bazgott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Surely the world’s richest man who’s the CEO of several companies wouldn’t take the time and energy to go online to try and provoke people. People around him would laugh behind his back if he did things like that.
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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"It's important for you all to stay on the same team as Ken Paxton," says the woman who filed for divorce and ended their marriage
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Senegalese basketball player for Kentucky State University was detained on August 7 at an airport while traveling with her team and has been in ICE custody ever since, despite her removal order being rescinded by an immigration judge.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every single morning, I ask Alexa if it's going to snow today. When it says no, I ask what's the easiest way to change earth's axial tilt to make winter come immediately. When it says it can't do that, I ask it how to speed up the death of the sun to make it cold enough to snow by tomorrow.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My pre election jitters constantly bounce back and forth between "these people will do anything to hold power" and "these people are the biggest collection of idiots in US history."
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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Saw this on a thread of "how to win back TFG voters" and the point about student loans...Biden wiped out billions in student loans (about 7.5b) using tactics that circumvented GOP blocking. Most didnt care, it somehow pissed off leftists, then TFG forced a bunch to start repaying.
Straight up universal student loan forgiveness for everybody.  Just wipe the slate clean.  Can be done, easily. Mortgage forgiveness for all people with homes under, say 400,000 - new housing systems.   Finagling can be done for wealthier people. Healthcare.

Poor people are poor.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s going to be really hard for them to say Trump’s lost his mind because their feeling of superiority to us dirty hippies has depended for so long on insisting he’s some sort of savant and he’s always been a monster and we knew it and weren’t afraid to say so.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Shelby Gonzales @shelbytgonzales.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Starting today many people granted humanitarian immigration protections, including refugees, people granted asylum, and survivors of trafficking, will no longer be able to access health care through federally funded Medicaid and CHIP programs. www.cbpp.org/research/imm...
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Harmful Republican Megabill Takes Away Health Coverage, Food Assistance, Tax Credits From Millions of Immigrants and Their Families
The harmful Republican megabill imposes massive cuts in food assistance, health coverage, and other supports for people with low incomes and singles out immigrants with lawful status and their familie...
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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 20/06/2026
werner herzog with a speech bubble over the quoted post
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“When you open it, the cutesy avatar asks for a name. Then it asks for total control of your Gmail, calendar and entire computer if you're on a Mac.” Fuck no.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Barry Gott @bazgott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe the kid here is upset about the nightmarish uncanny valley bust of her dead dad ghoulishly smirking
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