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Joel C Barnabas

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Dad. Husband. Human. 🌈 🟧🌻💙📸 DC native currently living in OC SoCal

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS Rob Bonta (California AG): “We think it’s limitless what he (Trump) will try and what he is capable of. So, if you can imagine it, we have thought of it and we have a plan.” Every attorney general should be planning for this.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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born2balive.bsky.social @born2balive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The New Yorker posted exactly how I interpreted the whole visit.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump can't beat the judges or silence the press, so he plasters his name and face on everything. Ruth Ben-Ghiat sees it for what it is. Your November vote is the check he can't fake, and if you sit out, nobody else is stopping him. #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
QUESTION: What’s going on with Susan Collins and the bribery scandal? But explain it to me like I’m five. ANSWER: Here you go 👇🏽
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Epic lecturing of LAPD for violating a court order. Most of LA cops are moonlighting as ICE slave catchers.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Susan Park @susanpark60.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump has a 32% approval rating. 32% of Americans are still complete fucking idiots.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No one, and I mean no one, launches a state-run propaganda TV network overnight.. They just don’t . This shit was planned all along. Pay. Attention. It’s. Project. 2025. 😎✨
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fun fact: the U.S. House can sue a sitting president with a simple majority vote. If the Democrats retake the chamber, they should do more than just "investigate" Trump's corruption. They should sue him in federal court for the illegal ballroom, Qatari jet, and more.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21/09/2026
Oh that’s why..
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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
37 pages of the Epstein files that mysteriously disappeared are now going to be released. According to Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island they detail Tr*mp sexually and physically assaulting a 14-year-old. Yesterday a federal court has ordered these to be released.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW EPISODE: Donald Trump just did something extraordinary on stage at the RNC convention: he made Republicans raise their right hand and pledge to him personally — then pledge that they're going to "cheat like hell." www.youtube.com/watch?v=A70h...
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What Trump Just Said on Stage Should Shock Every American
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump's assault on the Kennedy Center is exactly as if he tried to add his name to the Washington Monument or the Jefferson or Lincoln Memorials or any gravestone at Arlington. Our worst president--in the running to be seen as the worst American ever--is trying to steal the glory of our heroes.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Donald Trump admits what DOJ and most of the legacy media refuse to. The U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rule was a partisan effort to help the GOP. SCOTUS' decision was, in his words: "a big loss for Republicans."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Robert Kraft is in the Epstein Files.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13/09/2026
Bet the Saudis are experiencing some buyer's remorse. Good.
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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is such an important story.👇 Opponents of President Donald Trump’s dangerous executive order restricting mail voting say there’s a simple motivation behind the scheme: Democrats vote by mail more than Republicans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Democrats use mail voting more than Republicans. That’s why Trump is attacking it
In 2024, 37% of Democrats reported voting by mail compared to 24% of Republicans, according to the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨 NEW: ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database: As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database. @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There’s appetite for anti-trump and there’s a reason for that
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Every day that the mainstream media don't report loudly and urgently that the president is insane is a day in which they're committing journalistic malpractice.
Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be “hotter” than ever before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have a piece in the Atlantic about SCOTUS’s ballroom order - and how the Court has a very wrongheaded and destructive account of the separation of powers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“The court is totally wrong on separation of powers”
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Forbes @forbes.com · 02/09/2026
“Epstein used” hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai “and his entities to control and further abuse the victims and in turn Fekkai made millions,” the victims alleged.
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Epstein Victims Sue Top Hairdresser After Rep. Massie Names Alleged ‘Co-Conspirators’
“Epstein used” hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai “and his entities to control and further abuse the victims and in turn Fekkai made millions,” the victims alleged.
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you to the USPS whistleblower. May your courage be contagious.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE: A bombshell whistleblower complaint, submitted to Sen. Richard Blumenthal's office, reveals that the U.S. Postal Service allegedly kept building a new system to restrict mail-in ballots even after federal courts ordered it to stop it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySb4...
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BREAKING: Whistleblower Exposes Trump's Secret USPS Plan to Reject Thousands of Ballots at Once
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You’re not alarmed enough 🚨
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Liz Sanders: PBS News obtained a letter from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine sent to Senator Elissa Slotkin - he writes, "The Joint Force has no plans to send Federal military personnel or Federalized members of the National Guard to polling places during the 2026 elections.”
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A Chinese burn survivor turned his scars into art, tapping colored glass with a hammer and steel needle until hyperrealistic human faces emerge from thousands of tiny fractures.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 31/08/2026
A new U.S. weapon, touted as the missile of the future, appears to have left a wide path of death and destruction across an Iranian city, according to an expert report.
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New US missile appears to have left wide path of death and destruction in Iranian city, report says
Lockheed Martin has touted the pinpoint accuracy of its Precision Strike Missile. But the conflict monitor Airwars says a close look at what is believed to be its first use in combat highlights the potential peril of deploying this weapon near population centers because it appears to spray pellets o
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
One of the greatest Sporting photos ever taken. MUHAMMAD ALI reacts to his first round knockout of Sonny Liston during the 1965 World Heavyweight Title fight. 📷 by Neil Leifer
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 28/08/2026
If you still support Trump and his administration, we don’t have political differences — we have moral ones. Because racism, hatred, and incitement are not opinions. They are a character test. And you are failing it.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
WATCH: @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social examines Donald Trump, a president focused on renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” while Americans face an illegal war he started, rising prices, and attacks on our right to vote. #LastWord
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/08/2026
Dr. Vin Gupta, an actual health expert, just dismantled RFK Jr.’s entire health agenda piece by piece. Medicaid cuts. NIH trials canceled. Environmental protections gutted. "Lots of marketing, little substance" on food policy.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Angus: He has said on multiple occasions that he thinks he should be able to arbitrarily move the border… That's the Great Lakes. So you arbitrarily move the border, that's an invasion.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s Lake Ontario.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nothing but respect for Dolly in this 1977 interview. Barbara Walters: “Do you ever feel like you’re a joke and people are laughing at you?” Dolly: “I know they make fun of me. But actually the joke is the public. I know exactly what I’m doing and I can change it anytime.”
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New episode with @jimacosta.bsky.social youtu.be/xNSOy5NbSXE?...
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