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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What happened at WorldCon 2023? I'm out of the loop.

John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My father and two other fathers of kids I grew up with on my 10 house dead end street lost their jobs and basically all their retirement savings in 2008-2010.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

In the future, can you find a source other than CBS to share?

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Not much argument from me on that one

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I read somewhere that UAE and Saudi Aeabianare redirecting oil south across their countries. Kuwait and Qatar would be fucked though.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

They could just keep them operating and dump the oil somewhere. A massive environmental disaster vs long term economic disaster. We are run by a nation of idiots.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

How does one get ambushed by 5 elephants?

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Summary for any of those who refused to give the Times any more money due to their Palestine coverage?

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · 07/04/2026

By the way, I just want to remind you that until we are shown otherwise, this is effectively the Republican agenda.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Please keep at it. You are one of the few candidates I've been truly excited about in my lifetime.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

There's an astonishing pattern of seemingly normal dudes just getting publicly criticized for some bad position once, and deciding to become an absolute right-wing shitheel so no one ever expects morality from them ever again.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Hours after Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times, Gregory Bovino emailed him to ask he continue working past retirement: "In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" he wrote.

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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi atomwaffen group

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2026

in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The 78-year-old Janet Mills has a very inspiring campaign message: "I'm too old to care."

Asked how hard the race would be, Mills deadpanned.

“None of it’s going to be easy, but hey, what are they going to do to me?” she said. “I’m too old to care.”

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Civil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes. As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them. Effectively a mark of rank.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I want to point out that this is your reaction to anyone not immediately and gushingly agreeing with you that the dicks on Blueskt are mostly tankies. I assume you don't talk to people in real life like this. If you want to cultivate respectful discourse on Bluesky, consider setting the tone yrslf

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I'm old enough to remember when tankie on the internet meant a communist who unironically thought Stalin and the Soviet Union did nothing wrong, and broadly supported authoritarian state policy to achieve socialist goals. I haven't really seen many of them here, so I presume you mean something else

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Simply that not every dick on the Internet is a 'tankie'. Dicks come in a rainbow of varieties.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I think we should expect Harris to visit Minneapolis before we expect her to convince others to visit Minneapolis.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Brady retired, and they just sucked for several years, how can you still hate the Patriots?

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

There are definitely people who want the Democratic party to pick a program that Liz Cheney would feel comfortable getting on board with. I think the influence of those people is widely exaggerated, but they definitely exist.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

There are also people who rage about any criticism of the Democratic party. As if it's not possible to vote for a party and still demand it be better than it is.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I just had a first run-in with a lot of very angry Dem zealots for daring to say whoever Democrats run in 2028 shouldnt have been involved in obfuscating Biden's cognitive issues during the campaign, and that it was a fact that Biden circa 2024 was not the same as Biden circa 2020.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Republicans in New Hampshire are currently advancing two bills which would allow landlords to evict anyone 'not lawfully present' in the United States, and make it a felony for undocumented immigrants to not affirmatively disclose to their landlords if they are undocumented.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I know it's much more comforting to view the world in absolutist black and white, but it's possible for someone to vote for Harris and simultaneously feel the Democratic party failed to give her or any other candidate the best chance to prevent our current fascist hellscape.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Hot take: it's possible to simultaneously believe 2 people shouldn't be president, just as it's possible to feel one of those two people who shouldn't be president would cause more harm to the country.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Did you seriously just 'fake news' that voters felt misled about Biden's capacity to continue the job?

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Forgive me, but I would want my party to learn from its past mistakes.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

It's not his stutter that concerned voters. We need to be honest about what the issue was; he repeatedly struggled to recall words, mixed up names and dates, all the regular signs of age-relates cognitive decline. And 6 months after the election it came out he was suffering advanced stage IV cancer.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Seeing that photo of Obama putting the Medal of Freedom on Tom Homan circulate again. It's fake. Homan did get a civil service award during the Obama administration, but it wasn't the Medal of Freedom, it wasn't a medal (it was a certificate), and Obama didn't present it to him in person.

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to
their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more
orderly and humane policy than currently in place.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
7um Jing
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35

There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

mprnews.org

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident

The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Maybe “centrist” means “halfway between child and adult”

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Sometimes this reminder is helpful on Bluesky: It’s good to oppose Trumpism. Trumpism is evil. But there are plenty of people who oppose Trumpism who are also petty, shitty, annoying people. Block them or ignore them and go back to opposing Trump.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Historically, political candidates have excluded youth voters. We need to make sure young people are part of the political conversation. Missed this stream? Join us for the next one, we're live on Twitch & YouTube every week!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Absolute amateur hour at DOJ; they didn’t even respond to a “hey you forgot to attach the thing” request.

This complaint warrants dismissal.
The Subject Judge's March 11 Comment. The primary theory of the complaint is that the judge made an improper statement at the Judicial Conference on March 11 about the risk that the Administration would not comply with federal judicial rulings. This claim fails to establish a cognizable basis of misconduct. First, it lacks "sufficient evidence" to support the allegations. Judicial-Conduct Rule 11(c)(1)(D). Here is the key allegation in the complaint: "On March 11, 2025, at one of the Conference's semiannual meetings, Judge Boasberg disregarded its history, tradition, and purpose to push a wholly unsolicited discussion about 'concerns that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts, leading to a constitutional crisis. By singling out a sitting President who was (and remains) a party to dozens of active cases, Judge Boasberg attempted to transform a routine housekeeping agenda into a forum to persuade the Chief Justice and other federal judges of his preconceived belief that the Trump Administration would violate court orders."Compl. Compl. at The The Department identified one source of evide, Attachment A, for the judge's statement and for the setting in which it occurred. The complaint, however, did not include the attachment
The D.C. Circuit contacted the
Department about the missing attachment and exp
ed that, if it failed to submit the
attachment, the circuit would consider the complaint as submitted. The Department did not supply the attachment.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Proof that it's not just Republicans who can be delusional cultists.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This is a flat lie. You are doing MAGA shit just lying about objective reality and hoping it sticks.

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

There's currently ads on Craigslist to pay people $50 and a free ticket to go see it's premiere in Boston

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John Barleycorn @stower.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I think it is an obviously relevant credibility issue that basically the entire democratic establishment lied to everyone in the country about Biden's capacity. Anyone running in 2028 should be able to say they weren't part of that charade.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

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