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Dorothy Barker

@totallydaft.bsky.social
939 followers 175 following 365 posts

Quaker(Philadelphia Yearly Meeting), She/Her, Outgoing-Introvert, Old Soul, Cat & Dog Person, Amateur Genealogist, Leo with Gemini Rising, Paralegal, Bourbon lover, “If not now, when? If not me, who?”

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Dorothy Barker @totallydaft.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
But, boy, those godless, commi-socialist libtards sure got owned. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Celica @nothingxs.net · 17/07/2026
alright great value nosferatu calm down
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It’s exactly the kind of thing you expect to find in a government waste book www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-fiscal...
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GOP Fiscal Hawks Turn Chicken On Reflecting Pool
This watery boondoggle is exactly the kind of thing they've criticized for years.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/06/2026
Brutal community note
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
the business is called what a what now sorry
Firm tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool

A White House spokeswoman said the president was not involved in selecting Greenwater Services, the business owned by a trust led by John J Cafaro
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Went to a Juneteenth event last night — an interfaith thing among local churches my wife helped with. Learned a bunch I didn’t know. Among what I learned — that Owen Brown, John Brown’s son, became a big local figure in Pasadena and his grave up on a mountain is still a popular hike.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Former Fed chair Jay Powell received the Profile in Courage Award at JFK Library yesterday. He defended the Fed's independence and urged respect for rule of law. Should not require courage to say such things. But these days it does www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I would not want to be standing under the giant steel arches on the South Lawn if there’s lightning. Good thing DC rarely gets thunderstorms in the summer. 🫠 www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-fyr...
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Trump’s Fyre 250 Disaster
Let’s just do it and be legends.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
There is not a grand jury in America that will indict E. Jean Carroll. We see you.
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/05/2026
"Increasingly, the judges can no longer trust the government to be telling the truth." "It pains me because the damage to the Dept. of Justice is just at this point immeasurable." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and Mary McCord on the Trump DOJ torching its credibility with the courts.
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This image features a giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), the longest member of the mustelid family, which can reach up to 1.8 meters (nearly 6 feet) in length. #Otterday
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
ICE is shooting pepper spray and attacking press right now at Delaney Hall.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/05/2026
"The entire Republican apparatus in Congress is dying for this war to be over...And so Trump not only is not making any clear moves in that direction...but he's adding to the war." @saletan.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social on Trump threatening to blow up Oman as the GOP begs for the war to end.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026
Chicken shit can’t face them because he knows there’s no justification for what he’s done. Consciousnesses of guilt. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...
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Trump visited soldiers at Walter Reed — but not the 14 injured in the Iran war
More than a dozen soldiers injured in Operation Epic Fury are still recovering at the military hospital.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
US Attorney Andrew Boutros is currently scrambling to save his own skin in front of the district court over the Broadview 6 issue. How open will he be to pursuing this?
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Per CNN this was referred to the us attorney’s office in Chicago. That is the same office currently being turned upside down by prosecutorial misconduct in the the Broadview 6 case. I’m sure judges in the Northern District of Illinois would look kindly on this kind of adventurism right now
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Dorothy Barker @totallydaft.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
One can only hope.
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I can tell you a version of American history as a startup company. Let's call it by it's ticker symbol, USA. USA launched in a move-fast, break-things mode. It shipped tons of products (a central bank; territorial expansion) and attracted lots of users . . .
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Dorothy Barker @totallydaft.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🙁
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Particularly given that he brags about being REPEATEDLY ASKED TO TAKE A COGNITION TEST
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Aligning with the political left means that the odds are against you because you choose to side with those historically deprived of power. By definition, that means that defeatism is never an option. The fight continues as it must, across generations. It is good to be part of the fight.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Honestly, if he was eligible to run for POTUS, I'd want to see Mamdani take a real run white rural voters in places like Iowa. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-the-dem...
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Is the Democratic Answer for Winning Rural Voters . . . Mamdani?
Plus: The best Leopard–Face-Eating Chart, ever.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/04/2026
"This is setting off alarm bells because it suggests the president is doing an end-run around the FDA’s normal scientific processes, quite possibly because he wants to quiet a politically influential podcaster who has been giving him grief over Iran."
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When Joe Rogan Is in Charge of Health Care
Psychedelics have genuine potential as psychiatric tools, which is why separating them from politics is so important.
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Dorothy Barker @totallydaft.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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a woman in a blue shirt with the word agreed on her chest
Alt: Betty White, in a blue shirt, nodding her head, with the word “Agreed” across her chest.
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Deborah Witherspoon McFatter @bleupolimcf.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Just heard her being praised on Tell Me Everything @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 20/03/2026
My resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision — H.J.Res 122 — has now been co-sponsored by 72 Members of Congress. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!
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Dorothy Barker @totallydaft.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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a man in a black shirt is making a face and saying that 's correct .
ALT: a man in a black shirt is making a face and saying that 's correct .
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/03/2026
More *just 'cause* than *just cause*
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The Iran War Is Not a Just War
Operation Epic Fury fails almost all the tests of righteous warfare.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20/03/2026
Earlier this week, I had the honor of breaking fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody. It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time.   In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity. Eid Mubarak, New York.
Mayor Mamdani prays alongside people in custody and staff at Rikers Island.People in custody pray together.Rikers Island staff prepare a dining table for iftar. Mayor Mamdani shakes hands with a person in custody across a dining table where other people in custody eat together.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Weekly tradition time. Finding a few rays of light, no matter the weather. Tell me something good. What good thing happened in your life this week? Had some spring in your step or just made it to the first day of spring, both work. Just something good.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20/03/2026
“It is time to depose the President.” You can say that again.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Republicans will charge a woman who took a legal abortion pill to end her own pregnancy with murder, but they won't charge the ICE agents who cold-bloodedly murdered Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti for absolutely no reason whatsoever. www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia...
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Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took abortion pills to end pregnancy
A 31-year-old Georgia woman has charged with murder by police who say she took pills to induce an abortion.
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I have a joke about Cassandra that you wouldn't believe.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Pentagon said the Iran war cost $11 billion in the first week. But it's way way way more than that. Hundreds of billions more. Your family's share is thousands of dollars. And I've got receipts. Lemme youtubesplain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCF_...
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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Mar Quayne is sounding a little sketchy
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Trump found a new way to raise prices. For no apparently reason we're losing 200,000 commercial truck drivers in one fell swoop, thanks to rule barring immigrants who are asylum seekers, refugees or recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, from obtaining commercial licenses
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Trump’s cancellation of licenses for immigrant truckers takes effect
The rule bars immigrants who are asylum seekers, refugees or DACA recipients from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/03/2026
"One reason I worry Trump is willing to let this war go on for months is that it’s a potential weapon against domestic opposition." lnk.thebulwark.com/3PbfCmC
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/03/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/03/2026
Let’s see if Jeanine Pirro really will “bring all the cases” like she screamed at reporters Friday after being asked why she keeps losing.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
President Donald Trump told Speaker Mike Johnson in a private conversation this week that “no one gives a [bleep] about housing,” according to four sources who heard the speaker recount the conversation. punchbowl.news/article/hous...
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Trump dismisses housing fight in push for SAVE Act
Trump told Speaker Mike Johnson in a private conversation this week that “no one gives a [bleep] about housing."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Does Trump Know His Favorite Shoe Company Is Suing Him? nymag.com/intelligence...
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Does Trump Know His Favorite Shoe Company Is Suing Him?
Presumably he wouldn’t be pushing $145 Florsheim oxfords on all his pals if he knew the company sued his administration over tariffs.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/03/2026
"The types of bets that Kalshi, Polymarket, and DraftKings and FanDuel have would make an eighties Vegas guy, he would blush red at the idea of stealing that much money from you. And that's what's normalized now inside of the system." @esaagar.bsky.social on the dangers of online gambling.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
the bombings will continue until peace improves
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"To put it in terms Bezos would use, he is no longer a swashbuckling badass. He should sell the Post to someone who is." www.thebulwark.com/p/jeff-bezos...
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Jeff Bezos Must Sell the Washington Post
Mass layoffs undermine his promises to protect a great American institution.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Vance announces price floor effort for minerals thehill.com/newsletters/...
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Vance announces price floor effort for minerals
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story  Vance announces price floor effort for mineralsThe Trump administration on Wednesday pushed for an internati…
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