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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was driving home from church just now and briefly found myself following a car with a bumper sticker that said "Stop hatred, support Trump". I thought what on earth could this person be thinking of.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That has been true for a long time now.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I subscribed to the Inquirer for a while to get Will Bunch. I ultimately couldn't justify a whole newspaper subscription just for him, but he's great. Nobody better for calling out naked emperors.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maybe it's a good thing he's using up all our ammo on Iran and he won't have any left for Canada.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The megalomania gets worse every week.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We are better off with open borders than with ICE thugs roaming the streets.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The next Administration should treat the Trump DOJ and DHS as crime scenes.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Being listed among the donors to the Trump ballroom or the Arc de Trump is as shameful as being listed in the Epstein files.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The stupid just keeps letting stupider.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

John Roberts cements his legacy as the Roger Taney of the 21st Century.

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Carolyn Barthel ❌👑 @carolyncbarthel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

@indivisible.org Banner (3x5) for pre-event advertising and Saturday's action in Massachusetts. #NoKings

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Carolyn Barthel ❌👑 @carolyncbarthel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@jeff-roy.bsky.social Massachusetts doesn't need more gas pipelines. Say NO to Amendment #37. @acadiacenter.bsky.social says no pipelines. drive.google.com/file/d/1Mo-r...

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I think I may start ending each social media post with "We are better off with the immigrants." Kind of like Roman senator Cato ended every speech with "Carthage must be destroyed." Another option, which I used to do years ago, is Voltaire's "Ecrasez l'infame".

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Truth to tell, we've been the bad guys before. But now we have placed a man in power who has no trace of goodness in him, and he has surrounded himself with people like him. They have invited us into their moral cave, and about a third of us have accepted the invitation.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Weiss' quashing of this report proves that she is unfit to lead a news organization. Nothing produced by CBS News during her tenure should be believed.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We know they're lying. They know we know they're lying. We know they know we know they're lying. " - Solzhenitsyn

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The next step is to make sure Trump and his creatures actually release all of the Epstein files. They will surely release a carefully chosen subset of the least incriminating, and then falsely claim that they have handed everything over. Just like Trump did with the Mar-a-Lago files.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I may get in trouble for this, but here goes: everybody who is calling for Chuck Schumer's head should take a deep breath and listen to Lawrence O'Donnell's Nov. 10 monologue on "The Last Word." Lawrence knows the Senate well, and makes some points worth thinking about. youtu.be/Eqe0Suhoats

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Lawrence: With Trump's shutdown ending, Dems are closer than ever to forcing Epstein files release

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It is not too early for Stephen Miller to start exploring the real estate market in Argentina.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I think Congressional Dems should use the months of enforced idleness to conduct a People's House of Representatives on the Capitol steps. They should invite any Republicans who have reached their limit with their party's BS to join them. Hold hearings, pass legislation.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My wife and I just canceled our Amazon Prime membership. We try to vote with our money in favor of the kind of future we want, and what we want is fewer oligarchs, less late-stage capitalism, and less power of the few over the many.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The most poignant sign I saw today.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I counted 261 No Kings democracy defenders at the One Traffic Light in the Little Town of Mendon, MA this morning!

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

“Have you ever notice how you can drive by the same trees or signs until you stop noticing them, until one disappears?”

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Carolyn Barthel ❌👑 @carolyncbarthel.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

If every person who reads & SHARES this post were to SIGN UP & ATTEND an Oct 18 #NoKings2 Day event, we'd have our numbers for serious action! Don't just post on social media, SHOW UP AND BE COUNTED Oct 18! We need the resistance numbers for future action! Register nokings.org @indivisible.org

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As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This fits right in with the new theory that Epstein and Maxwell were running a kompromat shop: luring wealthy people into compromising positions, then selling the evidence to third parties interested in blackmailing those wealthy people. Epstein and Maxwell were getting paid at both ends.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Implicit in Trump's bullying of Fed chair Jerome Powell is the assumption that Powell is an authoritarian who can order the Fed to do what he wishes. Actually the he's the chair of the seven-member Board of Governors who make major decisions collectively.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

@harvard.edu Class of '78. I was thrilled when Harvard told Trump to pound sand last spring. Disappointed to hear of this $500 million settlement. Trump does not negotiate in good faith. He'll be back for more. His regime does not value truth or learning and finds universities inconvenient.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Like everything else Trump does, the American Gulag is a grift.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

It is never too late, or not worth the effort, to make the future less awful than it would otherwise be.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Elect an asshole, expect a shitshow.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Trump makes the case for birthright citizenship.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Statements like this remind us just how gobsmackingly stupid racism is.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/07/2025

June 2025 was the lowest ever monthly emissions for EU's power sector, thanks to policy that created lots of wind and solar You are allowed to enjoy and appreciate this. It is good. You don't need to reply with a bad thing. Just soak it up ember-energy.org/data/electri... - via @ember-energy.org

a chart showing falling greehouse gas emissions in the EU

a chart showing the generation mix in the power sector

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 12/07/2025

Religious communities have a long and important tradition of being leaders in the fight against authoritarianism. Learn concrete ways to push back in our Faithful Fight toolkits: protectdemocracy.org/work/the-fai...

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The Faithful Fight: Toolkits for countering authoritarianism - Protect Democracy

The Faithful Fight brings together strategies from religious leaders across denominations to help communities mobilize against authoritarian actions.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

And that goes no matter what "side" they're on.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Foreign countries are seizing the opportunity to recruit American scientists to live and work abroad.

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