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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky

@kilroi.bsky.social
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I like books and outdoors things and my family and the absurdity of the banal. Data mangler by trade.

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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Alexandra Petri remains the voice that is correct
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can absolutely hope.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As seen engraved directly on the walls of the Kennedy Center, the country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
A picture of the walls of the Kennedy Center with a quote engraved from JFK, as follows: "The country cannot afford to be materially Rich and spiritually poor. To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days"
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The phrase "while her withers wither with her" was the lightning bolt that truly made me fall into amazement with Steven Sondheim, and I'll stand by the absolute staggering mastery evidenced by that phrase until my dying day.
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
50 Senators let a Weekend News Anchorman run the Pentagon because they were afraid a gameshow host would yell at them
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I ran across this line in an obituary: "A striking beauty, Claire lived in New York in the late 30's, singing and acting. While in New York, she met a soldier, Joseph B. Goldberg who was to become her first and favorite husband and the father of their two fantastic daughters."
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Some random kids just biked down the street in the dark singing Never Gonna Give You Up.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Indeed. More testosterone needed I hear?
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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Political cartoonists are better than mainstream media
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Today. Impeach today. Yesterday would have been better. But today will do.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Called it (ish)
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
All the naysayers that are like "hurhur we don't have a king shut up shut up" willfully miss the point, to own the libs.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Even amidst all this shit, I would idly note that the only members of Trump's cabinet that have received real grief yet are two women, bondi and noem... (Very well deserved grief to be crystal clear).
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
They would, in fact, probably love to tell you!
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Even in a sea of idiocy this stands out. (I listened; it's pretty clear he is referencing Khomeini and khamenei as the same person)
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
ok a tweet actually made me laugh thank you and good day
a tweet showing marco rubio on the oval office couch wearing glasses and a hoodie with the meme of "marco rubio finding out he has to run anthropic now"
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14/02/2026
The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This one....I just. ok, sorry, and thank you. (the thread contained source links, validated here : www.justice.gov/epstein/file... )
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 04/02/2026
RFK, jr. is the worst person you ever met at a party in california, patel is the worst guy you ever encountered at the gym, bondi is the worst person you ever met at church, bessent is the worst person you have ever met at a conference, all these people are the worst versions of every stereotype
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A kitchen cabinet containing plates, with a cat behind the plates and three quarters of his face visible on the right
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I was trying to see what even fox news would say about trump polling (yes, yes), and I came across this absolute gem:
screenshot of article about trump polling, saying: "When asked to say in their own words what Trump’s top priority should be as president, voters are most likely to say the economy or prices. "Resigning" also comes in near the top, as that’s what the largest share of Democrats and many independents say should be his No. 1 task. Still, Democrats, Republicans and independents agree they want Trump to prioritize the economy over immigration and foreign policy."
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Protected speech made my agents murder these people, says federal official
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti's gun is like Renee Good's car: irrelevant to the central fact that they were murdered by ICE. ICE wants us to debate whether Pretti should have been carrying because that avoids the central fact. Pro-carry, anti-carry--that has as much to do w/ his murder as his fashion choices. Zero.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This is such a thing Completely incapable of admitting any error, ever, even if it would get them closer to their goals.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/01/2026
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
You cannot "retrain" this. You can only dispose of the failure and start anew.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The heroes of law enforcement making America safer. Abolish ICE.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 16/01/2026
If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
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​Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdown​Trump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Just remember, ICE is a soulless monstrosity of a department from end to end. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Family seeks answers after ICE deported man to Costa Rica in vegetative state
Exclusive: Before Randall Gamboa Esquivel died, his health had deteriorated badly while he was in ICE custody
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.” This is Nick’s story.
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The hell of being a target of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’
A Maryland man from Colombia describes his journey from detainment to incarceration—and miraculous freedom.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The whole thing we built after WWII was moving to a world where this wasn't the case. I can't excoriate Miller more.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Amen.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The English teacher in me loves this cartoon… From Benjamin Slyngstad.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
It is straight out terrifying to worry about which actions my own country will take next.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
That was never in doubt. What we used to have (sometimes) was the capacity to use it sparingly. These cosplayers with their toys are criminals.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Criminals perpetrate crimes.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I just remembered today about clickhole publishing moby dick. That was a masterpiece of experiential art.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
No! Most presidents do not in fact name anything after themselves while they’re in office, because they’re not toddlers who constantly need to be the center of attention.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Someone at a booth at a festival gave this to me a few years back. True Americana folk art.
A pin with a picture of a piece of pie with Trump's face on it with the words impeachment pie beneath it
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people
@Sec_Noem on X: The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country. 

In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people. 

At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.
18 Dec 25@Southcom on X: On Dec. 18, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on two vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations. A total of five male narco-terrorists were killed during these actions - three in the first vessel and two in the second vessel. No U.S. military forces were harmed. #OpSouthernSpear
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I'm sure Mike Johnson doesn't know anything about it.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/12/2025
Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder. We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Good morning I made corn bread.
Corn bread in the shape of corn on the cob
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 24/11/2025
Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history. Pay your respects ⤵️ archive.org/details/in-m... #Wayback1T
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