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Robin Barber

@robindbarber.bsky.social
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Works in tech, perfect Gen X specimen, loves animals (...all of them). Always thinking about, talking about, or watching the TV show "Patriot." 📍outside PDX, but forever a Michigander

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I had forgotten that Justin Verlander was the #2 pick in the 2004 MLB draft. I thought, "Who was the #1 pick that year?" and this is a *ride* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bu...
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Matt Bush (baseball) - Wikipedia
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.
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Mark Primiano @doctor1hundred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm all for Rahm running for President and getting his teeth kicked the fuck in at the primaries before disappearing. No one wants you, you clown.
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Detroit Tigers (Unoffical) @nottigers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tomorrow, the curtain call.
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know everyone's mad at the star of this show for his subsequent questionable antics but there's no rationale for ranking THE OFFICE UK, which absolutely changed the course and tone of TV comedy, lower than THE OFFICE US, which very successfully adapted THE OFFICE UK
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Jon Coughlin @clicktozoom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Patriot is the best show I watched in the past decade. More people gotta watch Patriot (on Amazon)
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alright I went ahead and did the thing. I didn't include anything that is still running and will definitely second guess this later. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
My top 10 shows of the 21st century: Patriot on Amazon, Perpetual Grace LTD, Breaking Bad, The Office (UK), Fleabag, Deadwood, The Thick of It, Review, Hannibal, The Americans
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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A still of Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development saying “good for her.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We have never looked weaker or more pathetic.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Gavin Newsom is a Dem" "Gavin Newsom is actually a Republican" No, Gavin Newsom is rich and that's the only allegiance he has. The only thing that scummy fuckwit would ever to help others would be accidentally falling of a pedo-friend's mega yacht and making himself into a snack for the fish.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We had so, so much free time because we weren't permanently attached to these god forsaken devices
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Again, it’s not just that this Tesla asshole killed a mother and her child with his recklessness. It’s that as his victims were dying, he did nothing to help them and instead sat scrolling through his phone.
Another family member noted that at the crash scene, “Chernicky stood idly by complaining of his knee and scrolling through his phone. He offered no assistance. He killed my family members. I believe he is a threat to this community, and deserves to remain in custody.”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After nearly two years of economic failure and broken promises, JD Vance’s midterm pitch these closing weeks is “give us another chance.” The American people cannot afford another round of this - and the good news is we don’t have to.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm glad he finally got one, but Stephen Root should have won an Emmy for this character
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NewsRadio: Jimmy James Reads Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...
Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”
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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 13/09/2026
There it is. That's how you do it. You don't "have to" do a goddamn thing with this stupid framing except reject it and point out how it's an obvious distraction from the things that matter. Anything less than this is capitulation.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Well that depends. Do you think words have meanings? Like, when people say things, should we attach linguistic definitions to the words they use? Or do you think, like, you know, nothing really means anything, language is just kinda jazz and we should just kinda groove and zone out?
USA Today headline: Trump floats $5,000 checks 'if the Republicans win.' Is that a bribe?
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/09/2026
"While XANTOBI is the most effective weight-loss intervention yet trialed, its effects on patient weight have been overshadowed by its remarkable ability to provide a painless, death-free exit from this absolutely absurd current state of affairs."
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Novel GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Delivers Transition to Astral Plane
“XANTOBI works by loosening the chemical and physical bonds of existence, allowing patients to gradually transition to the astral plane, where they can choos...
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nailed it (weird a little because I've spent 1/3 of my life in DFW Texas)
"you talk most like someone from Michigan, about 59% of your answers match a typical resident"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That's very untrue. Steinem once told Terry Gross that she didn't marry until her sixties because "first I had to reinvent the institution of marriage." Women had no economic equality in the workplace, no equal access, no right against marital rape, sexual harassment...
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
(Sophomore year?) Robin energetically bursts out of Algebra II class, carrying a quart of orange juice, wearing mom jeans and a Walkman.
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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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Homer Simpson's Swear Jar Misadventures
Alt: Homer Simpson's Swear Jar Misadventures from the episode "Bart the Lover"
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 31/08/2026
I’m curious, if “eggs expensive under Biden” was newsworthy, how come “Trump intentionally caused every single fucking thing to be heinously expensive” isn’t a story?
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So Mike Rogers can be just like daddy🌴
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oh now it’s LAKE AMERICA That changes everything
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Canada should retaliate by also renaming Lake Erie Lake America
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lake America. So weak. Absolute loser shit. So embarrassing and small and foolish. The sort of idea a drunk asshole has right before he falls off the roof and onto a picket fence.
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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 26/08/2026
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Needy Amin!!!!!!
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🎁🔗 Incredible news from Moderna about their Melanoma mRNA vaccine 👏🏻 www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
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Moderna Shares More Than Double on Success of mRNA Cancer Vaccine
Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Q: Are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues for the United States? Sen. Darline Graham: “I’m just going to be honest here. I’m not that informed on national security, so — but I do support the military.” Wow
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
As always, sincere congrats to Senators Collins and Murkowski, who belong to a party that occasionally lets them vote their conscience as long as it couldn't fucking matter less.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Please, do not do this. #google #gemini #androidAuto #pleaseStop
"We’re writing to let you know that the Google Assistant on your mobile device is being discontinued, and Gemini—our next-generation AI-powered assistant—is now the assistant experience on Android."
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/08/2026
The fact that the Democratic senators are agreeing to a continuing resolution until Dec 11th with NO compromises for them is absolute political malpractice and head scratching. Why not even try to ban like…. The arch? Anything!
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🎁🔗 www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
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The Ordinary Miracle of Existing
Being alive at all is the most extraordinary stroke of good luck any of us will ever experience.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hello @gluesenkampperez.house.gov As I prepare to cast my ballot in the primary, can you please clarify why your bio says "independent" and not "democrat"? Seems like you vote with the GOP a lot either way, just hoping for some context. Thanks!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If Washington can withhold funding, maybe it’s time those states considered withholding those tax dollars until the federal government honors its obligations.
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Trump Officials Withhold $1 Billion in Medicaid Funds From California and Minnesota Over Suspected Fraud
The administration accused California and Minnesota of fraudulent activity in their public health insurance programs.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
hey does anyone know where i can read a profile of some dumb asshole that fell for a reality show hosts bull shit and it took a decade for them to realize theyd been duped? oh every day in every major publication? awesome thanks
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Study Finds There Aren’t Enough Occasions Where You Get To Eat Rolls
ITHACA, NY—Concluding that Americans were being forced to endure huge stretches of the year without any obvious social pretext for serving warm bread, a new study published Monday by researchers at Co...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/07/2026
"How about a 1.0, 2.0, type A, A to B, B to C, or a micro to macro? Because somewhere in this plastic spaghetti, I have them. I have them all. Would you like one? Please, take a cable. I have too many, and it has become a burden, decades in the making. Please. Take a whole shoebox." buff.ly/Cxo36JI
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I Cannot Throw Away USB Cables, and It Is Becoming a Problem
“I have entire desk drawers of USB cables. Shoeboxes under the bed. I wouldn’t be surprised if the shoes themselves came with a USB cable. I really can’t loo...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/07/2026
“The entirety of the document consists of very specific battle plans for the scorched-earth military conquest of Azerbaijan and a clear directive that all persons named in the will immediately begin deploying troops to carry out these objectives,” said a person close to Graham’s family
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Lindsey Graham’s Will Orders Estate To Start War With Azerbaijan
WASHINGTON—Stipulating that the South Caucasus nation should be nothing but ash by the time it’s all over, the will of recently deceased Sen. Lindsey Graham orders his estate to start a war with Azerb...
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Absolutely atrocious 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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