Reposted by Larry BarberEveline Albers @aerisnoir.evelinealbers.com · 12/10/2026These essays keep being spot on and I will order the books. These should be standard reading for 'maatschappijleer' Notable again: Good isn't a thing you are, it's a thing you do. 0347 0
Reposted by Larry BarberBenjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 11/10/2026This post kind of blew up yesterday. I think Americans really want to know about little things they can do it help people while our government is doing violence to our values, interests, and allies. So I will try to help provide guidance that might be useful for people who want such direction. 9361108 0
Larry Barber @lbarb355.bsky.social · 06/10/2026substack.com/@theleahfile...substack.comLeah (@theleahfiles)If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do. I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's cu... 021 0
Reposted by Larry Barberseranine @seranine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"At Cornell University, it turns out that protesting genocide is a removable offense. But meanwhile, drugging, trafficking, and raping a woman is a writing assignment." 4210100 0
Reposted by Larry BarberPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026This, via @kottke.org, is a terrific late-Sunday-evening-in-autumn thing to watch. earthmusictheater.orgearthmusictheater.orgEarth Music TheaterAstronauts and musicians playing together — stunning Earth flyovers filmed from the International Space Station, scored by world-class musicians. Free, from the Association of Space Explorers. 411425 0
Reposted by Larry BarberWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026really sad to see colleges are still protecting rapists. kudos to the students exposing Cornell's institutional betrayal.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 6833209 0
Reposted by Larry BarberKendra Brimo 🏳️⚧️ @kmellifera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“For the men to be back on campus, either the danger passed at some identifiable moment, and thus this community is owed an account of what changed, or it did not and the suspensions were lifted anyway” 17517 0
Reposted by Larry BarberQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/09/2026These 7 men at Cornell drugged & raped a woman for hours, then called their friends to come rape her. 2 men got expelled. 5 had to write letter of apology. 0 faced any consequences. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men. 92751420 0
Reposted by Larry BarberRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/09/202612-16 miles per day, interfaith pilgrimage www.lasacredresistance.org/adelanto-to-... 201038400 0
Reposted by Larry BarberJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I wrote this: Click-happy media & credulous pols are letting the AI boys set the agenda without investigating the real story: the insane, odious philosophies that drive them. Fear the AI boys more than the AI. They’re Covering the Wrong AI Story medium.com/whither-news...medium.comThey’re Covering the Wrong AI StoryFear the AI cult more than AI, for doom is just a distraction 35727 0
Reposted by Larry BarberLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026PSA: No Kings is a coalition, not an org, and it does not do fundraising appeals for itself. Partner orgs raise money for costs we're incurring to put it on. But if you get a text from "NO KINGS" or a PAC you've never heard of before asking for $ that is a scam and you should block/shame away. 41006422 0
Reposted by Larry BarberRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026As a new NFL season begins, here’s a reminder: publicly funded stadiums for billionaire sports team owners are a scam. Watch.youtube.comThe Sports Stadium Scam | Robert ReichBillionaires have found one more way to fleece the public: sports stadiums.And if we don’t play ball, they’ll take our f 761924624 0
Reposted by Larry BarberHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026People who are pro-union but not in unions themselves always ask me what they can do to help the labor movement. Here is one thing. Very easy but meaningful. 5348141 0
Reposted by Larry BarberLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The attacks on Mark Ruffalo are disgraceful and cynical. The Ellison family and their enterprises have played a clear role in enabling attacks on American democracy and the genocide in Gaza. Shame on anyone attempting to defend them by weaponizing antisemitism. 201137268 0
Reposted by Larry BarberHold My Beer ❌👑🐸🇲🇽🇨🇦 @holdontoyourbutts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Posting every day til the midterms for our overseas friends. Use this essential tool. Can register, check your registration, request your absentee ballot, track your ballot, etc. Been using it for years. Super easy tool to help you vote from abroad. If stateside use vote.org www.votefromabroad.orgvotefromabroad.orgRequest Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.orgHelping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org 314982 0
Reposted by Larry BarberWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026If you read only one thing today, read this 910938 0
Reposted by Larry Barber404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a... 5727841762 0
Reposted by Larry BarberThomas Drake @thomasdrake.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A scar is proof you were here. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social penned a viral essay "Quicksand" that names something we all feel but rarely say, the surrendering of our humanity. I was inspired to write a piece that traces that surrender. Read why. eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/keep-the-scar/eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.pageKeep the ScarSarah Kendzior recently penned a must-read newsletter essay on Substack entitled Quicksand: Gen X was right after all. I am not of the X generation but do have two adult children who are. I keep thin... 23512 0
Reposted by Larry BarberMother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/08/2026A tech prophet finally gets her second comingmotherjones.comA Tech Prophet Finally Gets Her Second ComingIn 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen. 08524 0
Reposted by Larry Barbershauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/08/2026the male version of a karen is an elon 837625 0
Reposted by Larry BarberTim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026JUST IN: America not doing great www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comHow the American oligarchy went hyperscaleThe AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning. 314350 0
Reposted by Larry BarberTriemVisual @triem23.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Normally I wait until after I've read the relevant article to share, but, the bottom line is, by compiling and analyzing all the reporting Seth is drawing correct conclusions before anyone else. If you're not reading him you're weeks-to-months-to-YEARS behind on understanding things. 311949 0
Reposted by Larry BarberDr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025“Students learn how to spot deception across subjects: in maths, they see how statistics can be manipulated; in art, they explore how images can convey misleading messages; in history, they study famous propaganda campaigns; & in Finnish, they examine [how] words can be used to confuse or mislead.” 115057 0
Reposted by Larry BarberJCSouperstar 🌱 @storyheadjill.bsky.social · 30/11/2025#ICYMI #LeonardPeltier #DemocracyNow youtu.be/M7ZY_TlTMzM?...youtu.be"I'm Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Decades in Prison, Coming HomeYouTube video by Democracy Now! 041 0
Reposted by Larry BarberTom Moroney @etmcalifornia.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Very thoughtful read. "But in the twenty-first century, we’re waking up to a new kind of struggle for freedom, one far more intimate and far less obvious: the fight for freedom from manipulation. The right to an unscripted mind." 33913 0
Reposted by Larry BarberDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025My brother wisely asks: 14685222 0
Reposted by Larry BarberKelly Thompson @kellythompson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025In honor of fucking grokpedia launching 🙄 I've made a monthly recurring donation to Wikipedia and if you have the ability and care about free and accurate information, you should too. 7682223 0
Reposted by Larry BarberA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you." www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...the-reframe.comEventually You're Going to Have to Stand for SomethingOn accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra. 111084255 0
Reposted by Larry BarberBen Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are. 322126336297 0
Reposted by Larry BarberQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 21/10/2025This is Jesse Mack Butler from Oklahoma. Butler r*ped two teen girls over a period of 9 months, nearly killed them by strangulation, which was recorded on video. Butler was convicted of 11 counts of r*pe and sexual assault and was sentenced to 78 years in prison. But he will serve 0 jail time 1/2 61456381 0
Reposted by Larry BarberChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/10/2025You know that scene in Gravity were some debris destroys the Hubble Space Telescope and severely damages the ISS? 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫 If things keep going the way they are with unregulated use of LEO, that won’t be scifi for long 🙃 31035 0
Reposted by Larry Barberbigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 20/10/2025It’s getting to the point where it is not moral or ethical to keep supporting the NYT with a subscription. I recommend the Guardian. 15610 0
Reposted by Larry BarberQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/10/2025The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong. Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽 www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...qasimrashid.comJournalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media IntegrityFrom Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable. 10394149 0
Reposted by Larry BarberJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport. 866171459285 0
Reposted by Larry BarberCraig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The big guy in Los Lobos, David Hidalgo, turns 71 today. He plays guitar, accordion, violin, banjo, cello and drums and writes songs that make the angels dance. youtu.be/8tHCsUsCfCY?...youtu.beLos Lobos 'Angel Dance' 1991YouTube video by Steve M 1213 0
Reposted by Larry BarberJonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I saw a post get ratioed earlier because it assumes that fascism only exists once state power is completely consolidated and I imagine a lot of people are dunking on it but I just want to share two recent resources: 1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...truthout.orgHow to Fight Fascism in a Captured StateA union exists whenever a group of people work together to solve a problem they couldn’t alone, says Shane Burley. 15522 0
Reposted by Larry BarberAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2025i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended 11898804533 0
Reposted by Larry BarberDecoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Keep up the fight folks! youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?...youtu.beWoody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To LoseYouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand 818146 0
Reposted by Larry BarberTizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025#MorningVibe Listen to the great Shirley Chisholm. Wake up. Do the work. Have confidence in yourself. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. #StayWoke 20722287 0
Reposted by Larry BarberBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Definitely the coolest Sun Day video yet! Please watch and share (I promise you'll like it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDn...youtube.comWhy Grass Grows Better Under TrampolinesYouTube video by MinuteEarth 713954 0
Reposted by Larry BarberAndrea Plaid @ajplaid.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Heads up to any and all writers who are in my Bsky community! 04424 0
Reposted by Larry BarberDenise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you. 39328612052 0
Reposted by Larry BarberPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him. 7062784704 0
Reposted by Larry BarberZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 02/08/2025"We are living through a very dangerous time. . . The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." — James Baldwin (born #tdih 1924) "A Talk to Teachers" ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...zinnedproject.orgAug. 2, 1924: James Baldwin BornJames Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York. 012767 0
Reposted by Larry BarberJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/07/20251. Happy Prime Day! (It's a scam) (Follow this thread for details) 🧵popular.infoPrime Day is a scamAmazon Prime Day is a four-day sale promoted by the mega-retailer as a rare opportunity to secure "deep discounts" on a variety of consumer items. 34912434 0
Reposted by Larry BarberNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Does NY Times Editor in Chief Joseph Kahn Beat his Wife? Joseph Kahn Not a Domestic Abuser, Some Say Kahn Faces Scrutiny Over Wife-Beating Allegations Party Concerned Domestic Abuse Allegations Undermine Joe Kahn's Prospects 501913460 0
Reposted by Larry BarberTroy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Save this schedule folks. Pre-RFK jr vax schedule. Repost and pass it on to others. 14983506 0
