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Sharon Barrett

@sbarrt.bsky.social
496 followers 343 following 998 posts

Ally, ADHD hippie, closet Luddite, policy wonk, proudly liberal, but I think of that as being practical. AKA satby in some places. Chicagoan in exile.

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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good, he lost another court case.
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Looks even worse than the photos of Dresden after being bombed to hell in WWII.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Get that man a beer! 🍻
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And Tizzy Ent with why no one should vote for pedophile enabler Andy Biggs.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Montana, wise up and vote for an authentic hero who will work on your behalf, not for the billionaires and corporations throwing up data centers everywhere for more intrusive AI non of us want!
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
All Americans who believe in doing the right thing must stand with Canada. Indeed!
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I hope not quite about to die, but Joe Biden was a great President and a very good, compassionate man and I will defend him right up until it's my own time to die.
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Freddie Mercury's Pajamas @libbityboo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What a fucking disaster & WHY are we all having to do this shit again?? Because white people wanna be white more than they want food without glass in it & a bunch of undercover republicans cosplaying communists convinced you morons that eating glass would save Gaza.
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Man's Deep Sigh and Head Shake
ALT: Man's Deep Sigh and Head Shake
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This account is one of my favorites on this site. It is so important to highlight these stories and think about who puts food on our tables.
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Fifth House Sun @fifthhousesun.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@sbarrt.bsky.social FYI. Because you liked him.
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Conor 📎❤️ #LaraCroft ❤️ #TombRaider ️❤️ #TombRaider30 ❤️ #gaming ❤️ @conormcl2026.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#RobinWilliams #filmsky #moviesky 💔🔄 #BeKind #BeKindAlways ❤️
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 15/08/2026
Danny Thomas had a dream. No child should be denied hope because their family couldn’t afford care. ❤️‍🩹 That dream became St. Jude. A place where children are treated regardless of race, religion or ability to pay. One person’s compassion changed countless lives❤️ #StJude #Hope #SheShed
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Our political press buys into Trump as the personification of what George Lakoff calls “strict-father” morality. I’m not saying that’s their morality. I’m saying they respect it, even more than their own, sometimes. www.thefarce.org/why-the-pres...
Imagine for a second if a Democrat were president. If a Democratic administration stranded thousands of troops in a combat zone for nearly a year without hot water, functional plumbing, or basic supplies, cable news would run a 24/7 countdown clock titled DISRESPECTING OUR TROOPS ALERT, with endless panel participants screaming at the nodding token Democrat about 'executive incompetence,' 'cruelty to service members,' and 'a #BENGHAZI every day!'

But because it’s Trump, the press treats actual, material harm to active-duty military as a minor administrative hiccup rather than a major national scandal. Why?

For the same reason, our media has had difficulty treating Trump’s endless declarations of 'victory,' timed usually to juke the stock market, as what they truly are: an endless stream of humiliations.

Our political press buys into Trump as the personification of what George Lakoff calls “strict-father” morality. I’m not saying that’s their morality. I’m saying they respect it, even more than their own, sometimes.

Because a strict-father figure can never admit defeat, the press becomes incapable of acknowledging it, too. Cable news ends up framing every retreat as a feat of tactical genius, terrified of triggering the regime’s legal or regulatory wrath.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Important read for everyone, and then pass on to others. Trans rights are human rights and we all need to step up and support our fellow citizens and protect their rights. As a friend says: "no one is truly free until everyone is".
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Hope For Ukraine @hfu.org · 12/08/2026
❤️🇺🇦 Courage is contagious. Read the proof in Defiant Hope: www.amazon.com/s?k=defiant+...
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
See it, post it!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bill Cassidy did not want to personally risk anything for the truth. So he needed a rationalization in his own mind to vote yes for RFK. Cassidy is the only one being untruthful…to himself. Until these guys have the awareness to understand their own motivations, this Mickey Mouse show will never end
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Liberal Librarian, Son of Cuban Immigrants 🟦 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The way so many of you motherfuckers turned on this good, decent man will be a stain on your lives forever.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/08/2026
“We should have a plan in place so that if unemployment does go up, we’re prepared, rather than just dealing with the crisis once AI billionaires are becoming trillionaires and many people are put out of work,” said Representative Greg Casar. trib.al/WUUussU
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Great question: who put this idea into the dumbshit's head?
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A special place in hell for Cassidy, Cornyn, Tillis. The only good R is a defeated R.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Of course Cassidy caved on Blanche. Coward wouldn’t want to accidentally benefit the nation or anything.
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
One of my favorite students last year was a COVID orphan, sir. She's one of several I've had. I can't count the ones who lost just one parent. Maybe, just maybe, the closures aren't the things that fucked up the kids.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Please read..... #BookSky
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just like the traitor-in-chief, this old coot is never wrong and never apologizes either.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
One drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Its obvious.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This! One elderly person decades ago was puzzled that suddenly so many gay people were around, because she said "there was no such thing when she was young". Yes they were always around, but it wasn't safe in most societies to be themselves. They hid their entire lives to be safe.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Important for Florida voters to know!
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Given the early morning subject today on my favorite blog, this is very helpful information.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Remembering accurately what happened is essential to understand how we landed at this moment in time and how we decide to go forward. Whitewashing the past in large and small ways never gets us to a resolution, and so the problems fester.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
There was a time in the past, I dimly remember, when this was considered normal journalism. I miss those days.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This will boomerang badly on him and his chosen candidates, I fervently hope.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I'm with this dad too!
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
And that's really the only thing that matters to some people, isn't it.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
With Hunter on this 1000%
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Todd Blanche quite obviously lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he told them this was dead. It was never dead. It was just on hold until he was confirmed.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Eric Hoffer had this horrible decade nailed in 1951, in his book The True Believer.
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Sharon Barrett @sbarrt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
All dogs are INNOCENT!!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My Lyft driver to the Creation Museum was a Kennedy-Goldwater-Nixon-Nixon-Ford-Reagan-Reagan-Bush-Bush-Dole-Bush-Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump-Trump voter. He said that if liberals keep saying "Latinx", there's no way he'll ever vote for a Democrat again.
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