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Lee

@ltbarber.bsky.social
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Photographer, glider pilot, tinkerer. Tarheel, former adoped ATLien + Rochestarian. Go Bills! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026
Crisis: (happens) Brain: Finally, some goddamn vindication around here
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Bills Mujahideen @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026
Love ya Buffalo. Go Bills
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EagleBeaverMan @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think we might all be in a very weird hell
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kevin Hassett hitting the business networks to tell everyone how great the jobs print was
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
oh my god shut the fuck UP
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026
"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mitch McConnell's frail health raises new concerns about Joe Biden's advanced age.
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
wake me up when they release phone by the foot and i can just tear off as much phone as i need
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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In the words of the Great Bird of the Galaxy himself:
"STAR TREK WAS AN ATTEMPT TO SAY THAT HUMANITY WILL REACH
MATURITY AND WISDOM ON THE DAY THAT IT BEGINS NOT JUST TO TOLERATE, BUT TAKE A SPECIAL DELIGHT IN DIFFERENCES IN IDEAS AND DIFFERENCES IN LIFE FORMS."
-Gene Roddenberry

Star Trek Day
The First Episode Debuted on
September 8, 1966
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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026
every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s amazing he has the economy that’s the envy of the world and he’s hell bent on taking a crowbar to it because he has real estate developer brain and only cares about low borrowing costs
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😦
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There is something kind of bleakly funny about how much time and ink was spilled about how we'd moved past the GWOT and Forever Wars and come to terms with our mistakes and entered a new phase of politics and then every time a Muslim shows appears on TV the media snaps back to 2003 instantly.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not a single company in human history has ever had $1 trillion in revenue, to give you some sense of how insane this prediction is. Amazon, which is currently the company with the highest revenue on the planet, reported $716 billion in revenue last year.
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Mat™️ @futurekid.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Captain Hook: Aha! We've captured Peter Pan and.. what is this, some girl that was with him? Smee: Sir this is a Wendy
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20/08/2026
"You were riding during rush hour. Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contacted your boss and politely asked to work from 3:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. instead." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
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You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault
You were riding during rush hour Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contacted your bos...
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’ll believe being anti-AI is a generational L when the primary use cases stop being theft, CSAM, stalking, group bullying and fascism
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
Is it tho?
“TIMES EXCLUSIVE” highlighted

Headline: Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them.

Blurb: The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. But the fleet has largely sat idle for months.
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Air to Ground Message: HOW DO TREES USE THE INTERNET... THEY LOG IN Area: Killeen, TX, USA Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8 A: #aa2251b98f8 F: #f8aeacce7f8
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Independent voters are showing out for Abolish ICE and Dems are pretending The Baileys are the key to victory. Abortion rights brought out lots of single issue voters on both sides and dumping ICE seems to be a new segment of single issue voters! Use that to your advantage, dummies!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/08/2026
this too is praxis
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh, my God. Nicest guy. Was on the Pogues bill at Carnegie with him. His love of music was palpable, infectious, radiant. I’ve seldom seen a musician as connected to the moment of the song as he was that night, in deep communion with the song & the people playing it. So many felt it. Hard loss.
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Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
jfc this is the worst possible take on Graham Platner
Cenk Uygur: "This is what I know for sure about Platner - every legacy media outlet is trying their hardest to make sure he loses. They are investigating every minute and every facet of his life. They never do this for insiders. They despise outsiders who challenge power. 

The minute a candidate says he's not going to listen to the donors, especially AIPAC, he is set upon 24/7 by people posing as reporters. They are the attack dogs of the wealthy and powerful people who run this country - and they hate it when their orders are not follwoed.

So, no, I don't believe any mainstream media story. I think they are agents of propganda and not real news. And to my knowledge, they haven't investigated a single component of Susan Collins very long and very corrupt life. Because that's precisely the type of corruption that national media loves and wants you to think is normal."
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Of course the people behind Platner’s campaign are to blame first and foremost but this could have all been avoided if Chuck Schumer didn’t recruit and handpick the one Democrat in Maine who was most ill-suited for this moment and environment
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/07/2026
a) there are, like, single digit trans girls in sports in most states (sometimes literally one!), this entire thing is made up so that one girl who wants to play sports with her friends can't do it b) do not, under any circumstances, make policy based on angry sports parents
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Once again I am calling on my fellow Americans to stigmatize lunatic billionaires like how racists do to minorities
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Nacmtrader17 @nacmtrader17.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
REFORM THE COURT
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm a doomer on liberal court ideas, but there's maybe no issue where Rs get SCOTUS to do more unpopular work than campaign finance. Talk to any normal person, ask if they thought there were too many limits on wealthy interests funding elections. Too bad!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2026
a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/06/2026
New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests
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Seven of Sixty Nine @internetperson69.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Happy frigay everyone! 🌈🖖
Memed screenshot of Captain Kirk from Star Trek TOS The Original Series. He's got a jaunty little smile, with his elbows bent at the hip, hands out in front of him. The image has been edited so that Kirk is wearing a pair of sassy white cat-eye sunglasses. Also, tropical drink emojis have been added to the picture on top of his hands, like he's double fisting these drinks. Instead of the normal Starfleet delta on his chest there is a red heart emoji with a rainbow inside of it. There is a trans pride flag and a progress pride flag hanging behind him. Kirk looks like he's ready for a gay pride beach party with his boyfriends and all his best buds.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 11/06/2026
The death penalty is always immoral and an affront to civilized society.
Norman Rockwell truth teller meme
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Lee @ltbarber.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Whitmer don't step in it for absolutely no reason challenge level: impossible
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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Trumpists consistently undermine faith in elections because they hate universal suffrage, democracy, and the things that make America America.
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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Any time a Spanish speaking government does right by its poorest the New York Times summons the ghost of United Fruit
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I don’t want to make an account just to buy something. I don’t want to download an app either. I just want to pay for the thing and leave. I don’t want to join the rewards program. I don’t want to get the inevitable email that my information has been compromised.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
American journalism and the American legal establishment are very similar actually; both demand all the rewards and accolades of fulfilling an important role in society while violently rejecting any of the obligations. Both defined by fawning sycophancy that they've defined as courage.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 05/06/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/06/2026
In the last 10 years I have watched right-wingers & billionaires systematically warp, dismantle, and degrade mainstream US journalism. Almost no one has tried to stop them. Almost no one has spoken up. (@jaketapper.bsky.social scolded Obama when he tried.) Now it is all rubble.
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