BarbJoan
@bjgt.bsky.social
Former ESL, reading teacher, and retired elementary principal
Love art, oil painting, word puzzles, Lake Michigan, and the Cubs
Lived in Turkey, MO, MI, MN, KS, DC, and now Chicago
I used to be nice
Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Love art, oil painting, word puzzles, Lake Michigan, and the Cubs
Lived in Turkey, MO, MI, MN, KS, DC, and now Chicago
I used to be nice
Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Reposted by BarbJoan
In just one year in office, Trump has managed to:
-Raise electricity prices by 13%
-Raise gas prices by nearly 60%
-Destroy 165,000 clean energy jobs
-Cancel enough clean energy projects to power 13 million homes
I thought Trump was supposed to lower prices on Day 1? Guess not.
-Raise electricity prices by 13%
-Raise gas prices by nearly 60%
-Destroy 165,000 clean energy jobs
-Cancel enough clean energy projects to power 13 million homes
I thought Trump was supposed to lower prices on Day 1? Guess not.
January 17, 2026 at 10:31 PM
In just one year in office, Trump has managed to:
-Raise electricity prices by 13%
-Raise gas prices by nearly 60%
-Destroy 165,000 clean energy jobs
-Cancel enough clean energy projects to power 13 million homes
I thought Trump was supposed to lower prices on Day 1? Guess not.
-Raise electricity prices by 13%
-Raise gas prices by nearly 60%
-Destroy 165,000 clean energy jobs
-Cancel enough clean energy projects to power 13 million homes
I thought Trump was supposed to lower prices on Day 1? Guess not.
Reposted by BarbJoan
Tariffs. Expansionism. Sending armed guards into communities.
Trump is showing EXACTLY the same kind of out of control and abusive behavior our Founding Fathers rebelled against 250 years ago.
Trump is showing EXACTLY the same kind of out of control and abusive behavior our Founding Fathers rebelled against 250 years ago.
January 18, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Tariffs. Expansionism. Sending armed guards into communities.
Trump is showing EXACTLY the same kind of out of control and abusive behavior our Founding Fathers rebelled against 250 years ago.
Trump is showing EXACTLY the same kind of out of control and abusive behavior our Founding Fathers rebelled against 250 years ago.
Reposted by BarbJoan
We’ll all sit down with our 1 pc of chicken, 1 pc of broccoli, 1 corn tortilla, & 1 other thing (I think it’s a raisin) meals to mandatory viewing of the Army-Navy game. Afterwards, children may play w/ 1 of their 2 dolls & adults are allowed use of 1 of their pencils to write Dear Leader a TY note.
January 18, 2026 at 3:10 AM
We’ll all sit down with our 1 pc of chicken, 1 pc of broccoli, 1 corn tortilla, & 1 other thing (I think it’s a raisin) meals to mandatory viewing of the Army-Navy game. Afterwards, children may play w/ 1 of their 2 dolls & adults are allowed use of 1 of their pencils to write Dear Leader a TY note.
Reposted by BarbJoan
Some attorney at OLC is going to have to vet this executive order.
Marx remarks somewhere that historical events appear, as it were, twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
He forgot to add that beneath the farce also can lurk tragedy.
He forgot to add that beneath the farce also can lurk tragedy.
January 18, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Some attorney at OLC is going to have to vet this executive order.
Reposted by BarbJoan
Reposted by BarbJoan
Yes, they could. And it could be a huge test.
@normornstein.bsky.social
Couldn't the Military refuse to go to Greenland because it's an unlawful order to attack a NATO country?
Couldn't the Military refuse to go to Greenland because it's an unlawful order to attack a NATO country?
January 18, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Yes, they could. And it could be a huge test.
Reposted by BarbJoan
How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”
www.rollingstone.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:11 AM
How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Reposted by BarbJoan
ABC News reporting 1,500 active duty soldiers are on standby to deploy to MINNESOTA.
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
Hundreds of active-duty soldiers on standby, 2 defense officials say
abcnews.go.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:05 AM
ABC News reporting 1,500 active duty soldiers are on standby to deploy to MINNESOTA.
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
Reposted by BarbJoan
The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death.
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed
The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.
wapo.st
January 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death.
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
Reposted by BarbJoan
RFK Jr is doing a modern-day Tuskegee study, where by he uses taxpayer money to intentionality infect African children with Hepatitis B and deny them treatment. You know, just to see what happens
newrepublic.com/post/205330/...
newrepublic.com/post/205330/...
“Another Tuskegee”: Leaked Docs Reveal CDC Is Funding Deadly Study
The CDC is funding a horrific hepatitis experiment on babies.
newrepublic.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:56 PM
RFK Jr is doing a modern-day Tuskegee study, where by he uses taxpayer money to intentionality infect African children with Hepatitis B and deny them treatment. You know, just to see what happens
newrepublic.com/post/205330/...
newrepublic.com/post/205330/...
Reposted by BarbJoan
Reposted by BarbJoan
Reposted by BarbJoan
Participation trophies, honorable mention ribbons, certificates from a Jiffy Lube, just send them all
January 17, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Participation trophies, honorable mention ribbons, certificates from a Jiffy Lube, just send them all
Reposted by BarbJoan
If you want a leg up on what is going to happen next week, read up on the topic of the ACI.
It will almost certainly be enacted the coming week.
policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-...
It will almost certainly be enacted the coming week.
policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-...
Protecting against coercion
The Anti-Coercion Instrument for protecting the EU and its Member States from third countries’ economic coercion entered into force on 27 December 2023.
policy.trade.ec.europa.eu
January 18, 2026 at 1:01 AM
If you want a leg up on what is going to happen next week, read up on the topic of the ACI.
It will almost certainly be enacted the coming week.
policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-...
It will almost certainly be enacted the coming week.
policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-...
Reposted by BarbJoan
Note also that two groups are already calling for activation of the ACI, aka The Trade Bazoka.
Looks like the EU-US trade deal is now dead, with all three major groups in the EU Parliament calling at least for suspension. The downward spiral has already begun.
January 18, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Note also that two groups are already calling for activation of the ACI, aka The Trade Bazoka.
Reposted by BarbJoan
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by BarbJoan
one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 2:47 AM
one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen
Reposted by BarbJoan
This is actually the really simple story of the collapse of American democracy. You can explain America’s constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence:
The Founders assumed that Members of Congress would jealously and zealously guard the powers and prerogatives of their branch of government against the grasping of an overweening Executive, and instead we got this supine GOP majority that yearns to lick the boot.
I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
January 17, 2026 at 7:39 PM
This is actually the really simple story of the collapse of American democracy. You can explain America’s constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence:
Reposted by BarbJoan
The Founders assumed that Members of Congress would jealously and zealously guard the powers and prerogatives of their branch of government against the grasping of an overweening Executive, and instead we got this supine GOP majority that yearns to lick the boot.
I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 7:37 PM
The Founders assumed that Members of Congress would jealously and zealously guard the powers and prerogatives of their branch of government against the grasping of an overweening Executive, and instead we got this supine GOP majority that yearns to lick the boot.
Reposted by BarbJoan
Reposted by BarbJoan
Four GOP Senators.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
I can't repeat this enough.
I've said this before and I'll say it again.
It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.
It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.
January 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Four GOP Senators.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
Reposted by BarbJoan
The president's threat to impose tariffs on countries that oppose his desire to acquire Greenland shows that he does not see tariffs as an economic tool to help America, but as a weapon to hurt his enemies. That's the fundamental nature of his entire presidency.
January 17, 2026 at 1:40 PM
The president's threat to impose tariffs on countries that oppose his desire to acquire Greenland shows that he does not see tariffs as an economic tool to help America, but as a weapon to hurt his enemies. That's the fundamental nature of his entire presidency.
Reposted by BarbJoan
Looks like the EU-US trade deal is now dead, with all three major groups in the EU Parliament calling at least for suspension. The downward spiral has already begun.
January 17, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Looks like the EU-US trade deal is now dead, with all three major groups in the EU Parliament calling at least for suspension. The downward spiral has already begun.
Reposted by BarbJoan
If you're wondering what Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, has said publicly in response to the FBI's raid of a Washington Post reporter's home last week, the answer is nothing.
January 17, 2026 at 10:17 PM
If you're wondering what Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, has said publicly in response to the FBI's raid of a Washington Post reporter's home last week, the answer is nothing.
Reposted by BarbJoan
January 17, 2026 at 11:23 PM