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Michael Barclay

@mbarc.bsky.social
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Volunteer at EFF (posts are my own). Interests: legal, tech, politics, music, cats, humor, Oxford commas, and of course Taylor Swift

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
AAAAA
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Everything Is Called America Now
Every lake is Lake America, and every gulf is the Gulf of America.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Michael Barclay @mbarc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
DJT: I'm renaming Lake Ontario Canada: Do NOT mess with us
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26/08/2026
EFF’s position is that ALPR mass surveillance—the indiscriminate, continuous collection and retention of location data on every driver, regardless of suspicion—should not exist. Because it nonetheless does, EFF also urges courts and state legislatures to impose strict, enforceable restrictions.
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EFF's Policy Position on ALPR Surveillance: Eliminate It and Reduce Its Harms
Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) build a searchable map of everywhere a driver goes, fed into databases that police, ICE, and private vendors can query after the fact. Networked across a city, ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
LINCOLN IS LITERALLY HANGING HIS HEAD IN SHAME???
bust of lincoln looking downward and away from bove and blanche and blanche's wife
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026
So Trump and the White House lied about which plane Trump was on flying out of Turkey, setting up journalists who thought they were on the same plane as the president to possibly be the target of an Iranian attack while he secretly departed on a different one. Words fail.
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Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat
The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2026
holy shit Trump is OUT
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
One America, where people are smart enough to know you don't form plurals with apostrophes. Another America, where people are stupid enough to use apostrophes to form plurals.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Green Day releases “American Idiot” as a single 22 years ago today. Billie Joe said he was watching US tanks enter Iraq after 9/11 — as embedded journalists broadcast live. “It felt like a cross between war & reality television,” he said. “I just felt .. like, someone needs to say something.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
After the elimination of the U.S., Cape Verde, Belgium and Norway, I’m rooting for Spain to take the World Cup. Why? To deny Trump any pleasure in attending the trophy ceremony. I doubt he would even participate if Spain wins.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/06/2026
We applaud SCOTUS' decision in Chatrie v. United States. The Court reaffirmed that you have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and that even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment. (1/3)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026
Ossoff on Mike Collins: "He's pro-war. He's pro-tariffs. He's pro-cutting your healthcare. He's also a notorious bigot and antisemite, and an election-denying extremist who is only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman, and is a Trump puppet who will serve his needs & agenda mindlessly"
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Reuters @reuters.com · 18/06/2026
A video shared on social media by the White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino shows U.S. President Trump signing the Iran Memorandum of Understanding at the Palace of Versailles, just prior to a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
De Niro: When I hear something I don’t like, I use my own free speech to respond. When I hear Trump say, that he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation—not even a little bit—I say: shut the fuck up.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/06/2026
Trump: "I didn't guarantee no war." Trump guaranteeing no more wars:
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 27/05/2026
BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/05/2026
CNN put together a montage of Trump officials, including Trump himself, saying over and over again for nearly three months now that gas prices are about to drop, any day now
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Someone asked a bunch of kids what the first thing was that cane to mind when they thought about Trump. Their answers are priceless. Check out the video.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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Pasquinel 🦇🎃👻 @pasquinel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 30/03/2026
📺 HAPPENING TONIGHT 📺 EFF's Cindy Cohn will be on @TheDailyShow.com with Jon Stewart at 10 PM Central and 11 PM Eastern and Pacific! Make sure you tune in!
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26/03/2026
The Supreme Court just sent a clear message: ISPs are NOT copyright police. That’s a win for internet access, online speech, and creativity. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Supreme Court Agrees With EFF: ISPs Don't Have To Be Copyright
If your ISP can be liable for huge amounts of money for not terminating your access to the internet because of accusations that you—or someone in your household or college network—has committed
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/03/2026
Lieu: "I want the White House to send Kevin Hassett to every single TV channel and to every single swing House district where he can tell the voters of America that hurting consumers is 'the last of our concerns.'"
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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Jimmy Kimmel: We hear a lot about courage at shows like this, but telling a story that could get you killed for telling it is real courage. As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don't support free speech. I'm not at liberty to say which. Let's just leave it at North Korea and CBS.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/03/2026
This moment from Feb 2025 may go down as one of the most prescient exchanges in modern diplomatic history. Zelenskyy warned Trump that while the United States may feel protected by an ocean today, a time could come when America would need help in war. Trump scolded him instead.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
Talarico: "There's another war in the Middle East. There's a cost of living crisis. There's a secret pedophile ring & no one has been prosecuted. So the people responsible are trying to distract us with the same old culture wars ... what do the American people care more about -- pronouns or prices?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/03/2026
LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ? TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged LANDERS: It wasn't though TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know? LANDERS: Your own AG said it TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter LANDERS: Where's the evidence?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12/03/2026
not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Watch how Colbert handles (literally handles) the official CBS rationale for withholding the Talarico interview
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Michael Barclay @mbarc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The Streisand Effect in practice: "James Talarico got double the audience that Taylor Swift got on Stephen Colbert's show" youtu.be/Vawt9DsW3yk?...
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Lawrence: Banned from Colbert, James Talarico says Trump is afraid of losing Texas
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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