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Mark Barnes SF 🌈

@mwbsf.bsky.social
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Progressive | LGBTQI Witness to the violent last gasp of Christo-fascism and white supremacy

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 10h
If you take them at their word, and it turns out the entire Republican Party really are Nazis, of course they want us all dead!
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 20h
Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 20h
This Should Never have been Allowed!
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 10h
"Rubio’s cable reminds consular officers worldwide that Donald Trump’s national security directive NSPM-7 identifies things like “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” views as so-called indicators of political violence."
open.substack.com
The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10h
If someone paid you $300K, demanded “results,” you helped with their IRS dispute, asked for another $100K that “won’t show up anywhere”; later, as ambassador, pushed private business deals while in official capacity, what should investigators look at first? Bribery? Fraud? Corruption? Conspiracy? 🤔
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊
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White House Watchdog @whitehousewatchdog.bsky.social · 10h
Trump claims a packed rally in San Antonio, but C-SPAN footage reveals many empty seats, highlighting a gap between his assertions and reality.
rawstory.com
Camera operator catches Trump in awkward spot after he boasted about Texas crowd size
Trump claims a packed rally in San Antonio, but C-SPAN footage reveals many empty seats, highlighting a gap between his assertions and reality.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h
We have three goals for the next No Kings Day on October 17: 1) Boosting vote turnout to the biggest it’s ever been for the midterms. 2) Getting our communities prepared to organize against election sabotage. 3) Creating a mandate for the reforms and accountability we want to see next year.
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Keryn12🇦🇺 @keryn12.bsky.social · 10h
The image is remarkable. Humiliation personified as the ‘King of Injustice’ is installed in the European Parliament in Strasburg. tRUMP depicted as loathed & despised as the “ORANGE PLAGUE”
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Derek gendvil @derekbshelby.bsky.social · 10h
Social Security Hearing Shows Trump Pick Bisignano Would Worsen 'DOGE-Manufactured Chaos' www.commondreams.org/news/social-...
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Social Security Hearing Shows Trump Pick Bisignano Would Worsen 'DOGE-Manufactured Chaos' | Common Dreams
Democrats grilled financial services executive Frank Bisignano at his confirmation hearing to oversee Social Security, as a progressive think tank reported Trump's cuts have created barriers for benef...
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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 10h
Paxton can't keep his isms straight.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 10h
"The benefits of economic stability are invaluable, and guaranteed income is one of the few ways in which that can help to ensure equitable outcomes for marginalized folx who often lack the safety nets of generational wealth, largely from stolen Indigenous land and enslaved Black labour." 👀
equitableforall.com
Robust Guaranteed Income Programs for All Would Also Be Suicide Prevention
The author continues her journey as a Disability Justice practitioner, desperately attempting to survive the costs of Access Intimacy Abuse at the hands of Makai Livingstone, the founder of Embodied S...
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🌊 Matt Gaetz’ Burner Account 🌊 @krisbouncedx.bsky.social · 10h
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 10h
"To me, it is impossible to look at this coordinated assault on contraception and fail to conclude the regime plans a Comstock-level ban at some point."
andrawatkins.substack.com
How Christian Nationalists Will Ban Contraception if They Win the Midterms
Please LIKE, RESTACK, and SHARE with every person you know who can be pregnant (Recording at the end)
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 11h
"ICE is still circumventing limits on collaboration via the “federal criminalization loophole”
prisonpolicy.org
Cooperation with ICE doesn’t stop community arrests: New data on the results of state strategies
The Trump administration has demanded local and state collusion on immigration enforcement, and promised to pull back on community arrests in return. But our analysis ...
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 11h
"The legal action says less about the newspaper’s coverage than it does about the state of the pro-Israel right."
fair.org
Florida’s Lawsuit Against NYT’s Gaza Coverage Is Pure Desperation
Florida's lawsuit against the New York Times says less about the newspaper’s Israel/Palestine coverage than it does about the state of the pro-Israel right.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 11h
"They need to mark “Yes” on Prop. 40, and “No” on Propositions 41 and 42."
missionlocal.org
‘We need a jingle’: Will voters know the ‘Yes-No-No’ ballot sequence to pass California’s wealth tax?
It won’t be as simple as voting ‘Yes’ on Prop. 40, billionaire tax proponents fret. Ballots are now being mailed out.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 12h
"Don’t you feel better as you enter the Valley of Death? That’s the title of Sharon Weinberger’s topical and frightening book, which was released last week, and documents how technofascists are now fueling the future of war and making a fortune from a global graveyard."
thelefthook.substack.com
How the Nerd Reich Is Making a Fortune Off of War and Death
Elon Musk has joined the Pentagon’s “Project Meridian” task force to map out the future of war. He’ll be joined by other technofascists who will profit off of our collective misery and death.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 12h
"With recent shifts in vaccinations, we may begin to see large-scale outbreaks that take lives, cause significant injury, and impact livelihoods and ways of life."
medscape.com
The Price of Forgetting Measles
Dr Daskalakis explains the societal and economic impact that Americans may be faced with if eliminated diseases revert to endemic outbreaks.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 12h
“The reality is, as long as you disagree with the government, you’re a target.”
theguardian.com
Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 12h
"ICE never wanted you to see these: internal government documents obtained by legal nonprofit Democracy Forward show that Homeland Security Investigations has been probing nonpartisan groups that help register citizens to vote in battleground states."
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ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 13h
"Across the country, voters in red, blue, and purple states are taking back control of their elections from megadonors and special interests. They aren’t waiting for Washington. And they’re winning, often by landslides."
thereformcompass.substack.com
How Big Money Ruined America’s Campaign Finance System — and How We Can Fix It
A whole generation of Americans has never seen a campaign finance system that works for them.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 13h
"In Every Man: Why Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue, he explores what he calls the cultural crisis of pervasive misogyny-magnified by Trump and his predatory pals"
open.substack.com
Live with Jackson Katz
A recording of a conversation about Women, Men, leadership and the Cornell 7
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 13h
"Democrats need to be clear: There is no such thing as the wrong kind of American. No one should face discrimination based on identity, and everyone should have the opportunity to thrive."
advocate.com
Democrats keep asking trans people for money. We’re asking for a backbone
Before sending another fundraising text, Democrats who voted against trans rights should try saying they were wrong, writes retired Space Force Colonel Bree Fram.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 13h
"From reporting under bombardment to capturing the resilience of ordinary people, Bisan shares her deeply personal account of what life has looked like on the ground, the ongoing humanitarian crisis, and what the world continues to overlook."
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Bisan Owda: 3 Years Surviving the Genocide in Gaza
YouTube video by Mondoweiss
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 13h
"LGBTQ human beings’ existence isn’t harming you in the least, and if you were able to step back and be honest enough to admit that, you might have to ask yourself what the hell you’re so angry about."
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
Dear Evangelicals, From A Pastor: Your Refusal to Love Your Queer Neighbors is a Sin
Dear Evangelicals,
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 14h
"By choosing Elon Musk to co-lead the Pentagon’s “Future of Warfare” project, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a potential 2028 Republican presidential candidate, has secured a close working relationship with his party’s single largest political donor."
oligarchwatch.substack.com
Hegseth, a potential 2028 candidate, installs Musk as key Pentagon advisor
By choosing Elon Musk to co-lead the Pentagon’s “Future of Warfare” project, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a potential 2028 Republican presidential candidate, has secured a close working relationshi...
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 14h
"Israel continues to kill Palestinians in Gaza three years into the genocide. Palestinian killed, dozens detained as Israeli forces and settlers attack across the occupied West Bank."
open.substack.com
74,250 Palestinians in Gaza killed since Oct. 7, 2023; U.S. trade deficit top $100 billion; Kenya confirms first Ebola case
Drop Site Daily: October 7, 2026
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 14h
"And, the more that belief comes under assault by the facts, the more they cling to it because, to do otherwise would be to admit they let themselves be duped. For some people, that is the hardest thing to admit."
horseytoons.substack.com
​MAGA faithful cling to their false god
Millions of Americans still believe in a total fraud
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 15h
"The act of having wasted taxpayer dollars on these ads remains a violation of law. At the very least, Trump and his administration must reimburse the Treasury and face the consequences for violating federal law and the Hatch Act.”
citizen.org
Trump Must Reimburse Treasury for Public Funds Wasted on Partisan Ads - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Facing significant backlash to his recent TV ads, Trump recently declared he will no longer use taxpayer funds to…
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 15h
"He has said plenty that no other politician could get away with. And yet the press lets him do just that, sane-washing and second-guessing his vile words."
statuskuo.substack.com
Trump Is Certifiable. The Press Shrugs It Off.
A week of alarming, unhinged statements by Trump raises the question of whether the press can still report with clarity and courage.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 15h
"Americans deserve better than to have their hard-earned tax dollars used for Trump’s illegal schemes"
apnews.com
DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law
The Democratic National Committee has sued the Trump administration over recent TV ads promoting the president.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 15h
"But let this be a reminder, once again, that we need strong public health systems in the U.S. and across the world."
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
Top 8 questions about the “plague” situation
Well, “the plague” is trending on almost all social media channels now.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 15h
"While an obscure body like the Georgia State Election Board may not seem terribly important, last week’s news shows that it could play a pivotal role in interference efforts in the coming weeks and months"
open.substack.com
What Georgia’s demand for federal intervention in elections is really about
The State Election Board wants the Trump administration to access voting machines to prove fraud that doesn’t exist.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 15h
"But Trump sees AI as a potential cash cow for himself personally, preferring to milk the industry for personal gain even if it drags down his political prospects."
abovethelaw.com
Department Of Justice Ordered To Call Artificial Intelligence 'SI' To Satisfy Donald Trump Fever Dreams - Above the Law
Are you ready for the next litmus test of Biglaw cowardice?
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 16h
"One small issue: The 2019 order doesn’t convey that authority to Lutnick at all. No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution."
democracydocket.com
Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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machappy2024.bsky.social @machappy2024.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Pamela in CA @pamica.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh hell no.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"But let’s put this on a longer list of worrisome things, and it probably isn’t at the top: Measles deaths in PA, Ebola escaping to Kenya, Trump calling for Southern California to be wiped out. Let’s keep calm heads. And if all else fails, we know how to do pandemics."
open.substack.com
The Actual Epedemiologists and Biosecurity Experts You Should Follow for Good Information
This will be a “live” topic for a while, and here’s the start of a good list of the people I turn to for info on pandemic, plagues, and biosecurity.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The public is ahead of Washington on corruption. In a September Economist/YouGov poll, 53 percent of registered voters described Trump as corrupt, including 62 percent of independents"
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
Unprecedented Corruption—and How We End It
The Trump family syndicate is in full corrupt swing, but it remains vulnerable and can be checked just like other autocratic regimes
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"It is, though, all sadly consistent with a man so crushingly insecure that he wouldn’t let his aides talk him out of responding on Twitter to a bot that called him a retard."
doomsdayscenario.co
A thirsty Patel juices FBI stats — and DOJ gets Watergate wrong
It's not as funny as it sounds.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"White Christian Nationalists can use the Comstock Act to ban anything THEY deem to be obscene, pornographic, overtly sexual, and/or offensive."
andrawatkins.substack.com
White Christian Nationalists Will COMSTOCK (Outlaw) YOUR Porn
Their definition of PORN isn’t what you think it is. EVERYTHING is porn to a WCN. (Recording at the end)
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Dictators don’t oust themselves, horrible regimes don’t leave on their own, and oligarchs don’t tire of devouring up nations, but fortunately, decent, brave, and organized human beings like us aren’t gonna wait around for that."
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
Take Heart, Good People; In One Month, We Defeat Fascism
So, here’s the bad news: fascism isn’t coming to America; it’s here.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
projects.propublica.org
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"This unprecedented deployment of federal officials stands to jeopardize the election and interfere with the right of "voters to participate in the election free from intimidation"
democracydocket.com
DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"For as Pete Hegseth made clear last week, the military is undertaking an unprecedented role in the election — one that happens to violate the Constitution."
open.substack.com
Military Mobilizes for Upcoming Elections
Hegseth’s war on “foreign” threats to our election is dangerous
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Meanwhile, the rich are getting richer, spending millions to campaign against the billionaire tax in California and openly buying out politicians across the aisle."
thelefthook.substack.com
The United States of Oligarchy: How the Elite Screwed The World
Please take a moment to look at the graphic above.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The motherfucker had his puppets at his failed convention pledging to cheat. Out loud. On the record. You almost have to admire the lack of imagination. Almost."
psychopete1.substack.com
There Will Be No Peaceful Transfer of Power
Help me scream it to the world
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"What happens when one trillion dollars are cut from Medicaid to subsidize permanent tax cuts for the world’s richest people?"
thelefthook.substack.com
The Coming Collapse of America's Healtcare with Dr. Rob
If you’ve never played Jenga, let me explain quickly.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"And the facts on the ground are that DSA-supported or self-defined socialists have been winning elections, have been appealing to people, and people are voting for them."
fair.org
‘The Energy in the Party Is With the Rising Socialist Tide’: CounterSpin interview with Raina Lipsitz on DSA politics
"It’s old-fashioned, it's knocking on doors, it's talking to our neighbors, it's going to meetings...making connections, reaching out to other human beings."
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