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Barb Shelly

@bshelly.bsky.social
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Career journalist and lifelong observer. Now living in Philly, emotionally connected to Kansas City. Spotlighting the resistance. barbshelly.pressfolios.com

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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Holiday weekends seem to be especially difficult for DJT. I expect we might see more outrageous material tonight and tomorrow.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I've been on a break from this platform for a bit, but now jumping back in to say that this "settlement," signed by Todd Blanche, will live in infamy. What a sellout. What a con job. What pure gutlessness by the U.S. Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
nytimes.com
I.R.S. Must Drop Audits of Trump and Family
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Think I'll jump off this platform for awhile. The misinformation and conspiracy spouting in the wake of the WHC dinner shooting, along with the outright hatred directed at the journalists present, has maxed me out. Bye for now.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I haven't gotten there yet!
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Well. That was certainly a mismatch.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A million times, this.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I will wait with baited breath to see the discovery in this lawsuit.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Very cool.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Oh, I'm sorry to see this, Joel. I so enjoyed your work. So true about journalism.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Oh, yeah. A big AMEN to this. Also, the senator from Missouri is an idiot.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Yes.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
OK. I see this and I wonder: how the hell did he avoid this disclosure for as long as he did
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Wow!
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Can a Pope also be president?
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Exactly right. And still they won't act.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"Should Trump persist in his threatened course of action, then only a mass resignation of senior officers would stand between the president and a campaign of genocide." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Did Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran?
If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Unfortunately, yes.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Same!
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is offensive.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Is there a point to this mumbo jumbo?
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"Barack Hussein Obama."
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Once a copy editor always a copy editor.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
100 percent.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Please.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/03/2026
Remember Donald Trump’s “concept of a plan” for health care? The new Republican idea is to cut your health care to pay for Trump’s war in the Middle East and ICE’s terror in your community.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
And we're supposed to be the elitists.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
People of Wisconsin! Vote this man out.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The quiet part isn't even quiet anymore. This isn't about security. It's about Republican control m
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Oh for gods sake.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I might be open to a yoga class.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My thoughts exactly!
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Well put!
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
There was that. And many other things.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
When you've lost this guy..
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Oh, well.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Oh hell yes. All of this!
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is everything
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
They can use whatever language they want. We saw what we saw and we know what they did.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Yes, this is the piece I was waiting to see. Thank you, Tom Nichols. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Pete Hegseth's glee as he boasts about America's military prowess makes me nauseous. A total disregard for the seriousness of taking human life.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
People of Maine..Send this spineless woman packing!
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Serious question: Is Trump going to allow Iranian refugees into the U.S. once they are displaced and persecuted due to the war he started? hias.org/statements/t...
hias.org
Trump Administration Ends Refugee Pathway for Persecuted Iranian Religious Minorities
The Trump Administration has ended the refugee pathway for Iranian religious minorities to resettle in the U.S., abandoning thousands.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Who had on their Bingo card in 2024 that Donald Trump was going to kill the head of state of another country? A horrific precedent.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
(Free) How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System and Why This Story is Important open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
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How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System
A New Miami Herald Investigation
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Cake in the land of cholera.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/02/2026
(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Sadly, it's been awhile since I was required to produce an ID to purchase alcohol.
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Barb Shelly @bshelly.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Oh boy. Talk about bring out if your league.
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