Barry Freed
@barryfreed.bsky.social
Archivist/Librarian, erstwhile Arabist, cinephile, certified Voight-Kampff test administrator, Antipope of Antifa.
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Barry Freed
@barryfreed.bsky.social
· Nov 6
Death Note reboot where Light Yagami works his way down from the top of the Forbes 400 list.
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They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it's over
January 19, 2026 at 7:09 PM
They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it's over
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Says a lot about how on the back foot these people are though that they feel the need to erroneously compare themselves to Ukraine to defend totally insane behavior. Nobody buys this anymore.
January 19, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Says a lot about how on the back foot these people are though that they feel the need to erroneously compare themselves to Ukraine to defend totally insane behavior. Nobody buys this anymore.
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When Shapiro wrote that he volunteered for the IDF, the Israeli military was in year five of suppressing the First Intifada, a nearly totally peaceful mass rebellion of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Over 1,200 Palestinian civilians were killed by the IDF between 1988 and 1994.
Over 1,200 Palestinian civilians were killed by the IDF between 1988 and 1994.
January 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM
When Shapiro wrote that he volunteered for the IDF, the Israeli military was in year five of suppressing the First Intifada, a nearly totally peaceful mass rebellion of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Over 1,200 Palestinian civilians were killed by the IDF between 1988 and 1994.
Over 1,200 Palestinian civilians were killed by the IDF between 1988 and 1994.
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Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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Wonder what would the reaction would have been if Mamdani claimed to have volunteered for a Palestinian militant group or worked in the embassy of, say, South Africa while it lodged its ICJ case.
January 19, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Wonder what would the reaction would have been if Mamdani claimed to have volunteered for a Palestinian militant group or worked in the embassy of, say, South Africa while it lodged its ICJ case.
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Secretary General of the Council of Europe says “International law is either universal or meaningless. Greenland will show which one we choose.” Yes, well. Did Gaza show which one we choose?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | I’m the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. This Is Something I Thought I’d Never Have to Write.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Secretary General of the Council of Europe says “International law is either universal or meaningless. Greenland will show which one we choose.” Yes, well. Did Gaza show which one we choose?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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I'm sorry, doing the right thing is going to require a modicum of moral courage, and these motherfuckers manifestly don't have it. You don't need to feel bad for them. They can all eat shit, and I hope they have nightmares about what they're doing until their dying day.
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I'm sorry, doing the right thing is going to require a modicum of moral courage, and these motherfuckers manifestly don't have it. You don't need to feel bad for them. They can all eat shit, and I hope they have nightmares about what they're doing until their dying day.
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One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.
In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, Blas Nuñez-Neto wouldn't tell us his clients, but did say we should remember that ICE agents are people too. (Can't believe this quote below)
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
![Nuñez-Neto recommended that protesters understand that ICE agents are people, too.
“I think it would help both sides to appreciate the fact that that’s a human being across from you who may or may not want to do the things they’ve been ordered to do. In my long history being in and out of the Department [of Homeland Security], it is very often what makes the news are the terrible things that happen but what doesn’t get reported are the … stories about agents bringing toys into the border patrol station,” he said.
“We’re all human beings, many of them have families, many of them don’t want to be doing what they’ve been directed to do … so it would help us all to lower the temperature a bit. I’m angry too.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/bafkreia3sqpgq4ufvy746ld4tuadfwuf7ul4so6u2wjhf5oggd6kzxibtm@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.
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It is not Europe's job to protect us from the consequences of our elections. They've got a responsibility to defend Greenland from imperialist aggression.
To those who are claiming that it'd be too cruel and extreme for the EU to cut off American tourist visas now (or to otherwise sanction or inconvenience us Americans in any way)....
You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.
You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.
January 19, 2026 at 7:18 PM
It is not Europe's job to protect us from the consequences of our elections. They've got a responsibility to defend Greenland from imperialist aggression.
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[waving a loaded gun around] I WANT MY PEACE PRIZE! I WANT MY PEACE PRIZE!
January 19, 2026 at 1:43 PM
[waving a loaded gun around] I WANT MY PEACE PRIZE! I WANT MY PEACE PRIZE!
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This is what happens when all the smart people leave a platform, you’re left reading the dumbest motherfuckers alive because it’s what’s left
It's pretty clear this person is not mentally well.
January 19, 2026 at 5:27 PM
This is what happens when all the smart people leave a platform, you’re left reading the dumbest motherfuckers alive because it’s what’s left
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Our blog posts get auto-posted to social media. I don't use FB myself, but went in there to post this. I don't expect to see similar attacks from any Bsky users, but figured I should elaborate on my personal opinion here.
January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Our blog posts get auto-posted to social media. I don't use FB myself, but went in there to post this. I don't expect to see similar attacks from any Bsky users, but figured I should elaborate on my personal opinion here.
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every crisis happening right now is because theres dumb fuck sociopaths in charge and they did something stupid, it’s maddening
January 19, 2026 at 5:50 PM
every crisis happening right now is because theres dumb fuck sociopaths in charge and they did something stupid, it’s maddening
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every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed
January 19, 2026 at 5:48 PM
every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed
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Every now and then, it really is worth pausing to think about what the biggest problem in a Harris administration would be right now.
We'd probably be on the third week of a crisis about the cafeteria selections at Bryn Mawr or something equally vital.
We'd probably be on the third week of a crisis about the cafeteria selections at Bryn Mawr or something equally vital.
every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed
January 19, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Every now and then, it really is worth pausing to think about what the biggest problem in a Harris administration would be right now.
We'd probably be on the third week of a crisis about the cafeteria selections at Bryn Mawr or something equally vital.
We'd probably be on the third week of a crisis about the cafeteria selections at Bryn Mawr or something equally vital.
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Yes, a very important note to make here. Shapiro's book makes it sound like the Harris team asked him if he was ever a spy, but it seems like based on the context he was being asked if he ever did any FARA designable work for the Israeli government. Which is fair, because he *has worked for Israel*.
Agent and double agent are different things. He wasn't accused of treason.
January 19, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Yes, a very important note to make here. Shapiro's book makes it sound like the Harris team asked him if he was ever a spy, but it seems like based on the context he was being asked if he ever did any FARA designable work for the Israeli government. Which is fair, because he *has worked for Israel*.
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the day this freak is sentenced to a decades long prison stay is gonna be so good
Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.”
What?
What?
January 19, 2026 at 5:25 PM
the day this freak is sentenced to a decades long prison stay is gonna be so good
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fucking lmao he's completely lost it
TRUMP TELLS NBC NEWS "NORWAY TOTALLY CONTROLS IT DESPITE WHAT THEY SAY” OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMPETITION
January 19, 2026 at 3:59 PM
fucking lmao he's completely lost it
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NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about their plans
While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about their plans
Group chats of billionaires, their mediocre "legacy" media editors, bad men annoyed at woke and Me Too:
"If you weren't in the business, you'd think everyone arriving at conclusions independently
[they're] not
small group who talk to each other between politics and journalism and a few industries"
"If you weren't in the business, you'd think everyone arriving at conclusions independently
[they're] not
small group who talk to each other between politics and journalism and a few industries"
January 19, 2026 at 3:07 PM
NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about their plans
While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about their plans
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donald trump experienced a level of what was, for him, humiliation equivalent to death when obama lightly mocked him back in 2011 and we all are going to pay for it
January 19, 2026 at 3:38 PM
donald trump experienced a level of what was, for him, humiliation equivalent to death when obama lightly mocked him back in 2011 and we all are going to pay for it
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fwiw i think his obsession with the nobel prize is entirely about obama getting it (setting aside whether or not obama ought to have received it)
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
fwiw i think his obsession with the nobel prize is entirely about obama getting it (setting aside whether or not obama ought to have received it)
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Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.
Insightful point here: Even if you take Trump seriously - he does not like the optics - they rested on an assumption that communities would welcome ICE as heroes, rather than showing the type of solidarity that Trump inherently cannot understand.
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 19, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.
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It is really hard these days to over emphasize that these people are exercising the logic—albeit somehow even more ineptly—of the nazi state. They want everything to be assumed by the prerogative state and are telling us as much.
Heckuva a logic your got there Scott.
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the national emergency that justified the announcement of new tariffs on eight European nations is that there would be a national emergency if tariffs were not implemented.“ www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the national emergency that justified the announcement of new tariffs on eight European nations is that there would be a national emergency if tariffs were not implemented.“ www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Bessent: 'The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency'
He was explaining the president's imposition of new tariffs on eight European countries.
www.politico.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:36 PM
It is really hard these days to over emphasize that these people are exercising the logic—albeit somehow even more ineptly—of the nazi state. They want everything to be assumed by the prerogative state and are telling us as much.
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THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN.
This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.
This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.
Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.
He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.
Notice the suppressors
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He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.
Notice the suppressors
1/2
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN.
This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.
This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.