D.G. Barthé, Jr.
@dgbphd.bsky.social
Author, historian, Trad-skin, jiujiteiro (blue belt), and nak muay (20+ years).
Anyone who thinks releasing the Epstein files is going to make a difference to Trump's core supporters don't really understand who Trump's core supporters are.
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Anyone who thinks releasing the Epstein files is going to make a difference to Trump's core supporters don't really understand who Trump's core supporters are.
Remember, remember, the 5th of November...
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Remember, remember, the 5th of November...
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
October 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
"He was killed on camera. No one’s family deserves to have to witness that. It’s unthinkably cruel that people would then go on the internet and use their platform to say about an innocent man that 'I don’t care that he’s dead. He’s not a hero. He’s a scumbag. He shouldn’t be celebrated.'"
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September 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"He was killed on camera. No one’s family deserves to have to witness that. It’s unthinkably cruel that people would then go on the internet and use their platform to say about an innocent man that 'I don’t care that he’s dead. He’s not a hero. He’s a scumbag. He shouldn’t be celebrated.'"
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They've caught Charlie Kirk's assassin, Tyler B. Robinson, and --surprise surprise-- he is the son of a cop and a registered Republican.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
They've caught Charlie Kirk's assassin, Tyler B. Robinson, and --surprise surprise-- he is the son of a cop and a registered Republican.
This aged well.🙄
September 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This aged well.🙄
Between 1982 and 2011, public mass shootings in the US happened approximately once every 200 days. From 2011 to 2014, that frequency accelerated to one every 64 days. #daysoflead
September 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Between 1982 and 2011, public mass shootings in the US happened approximately once every 200 days. From 2011 to 2014, that frequency accelerated to one every 64 days. #daysoflead
"So many people here loathe him. We’re not divided. We’re not divided by religion, or race or political allegiance, we’re just here together because we hate him.” -- Amy White, 15, of Edinburgh on why she was protesting Donald Trump during his visit to Scotland.
July 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"So many people here loathe him. We’re not divided. We’re not divided by religion, or race or political allegiance, we’re just here together because we hate him.” -- Amy White, 15, of Edinburgh on why she was protesting Donald Trump during his visit to Scotland.
Oh look: Nebraska begging for "socialist" intervention!
July 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Oh look: Nebraska begging for "socialist" intervention!
This man is losing his shit.
July 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This man is losing his shit.
"There is no Epstein client list..."
July 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"There is no Epstein client list..."
When Democrats say "running on 'socialism' is a losing proposition," what they really mean is "our billionaire oligarch pay-masters will abandon the party if we support socialist economic reforms." It's time the Democratic Party abandons their billionaire oligarch paymasters.
June 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When Democrats say "running on 'socialism' is a losing proposition," what they really mean is "our billionaire oligarch pay-masters will abandon the party if we support socialist economic reforms." It's time the Democratic Party abandons their billionaire oligarch paymasters.
Oh look: Zohran Mamdani just smoked Wall Street's water-boy.
June 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Oh look: Zohran Mamdani just smoked Wall Street's water-boy.
"...what lies at the core of Trump’s support is a not-insignificant fraction of would-be totalitarians who possess the same mentality as those who lynched Black people in the Jim Crow South, mobbed Jews during Kristallnacht and beheaded professors during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution."
America slides into totalitarianism — and it won't be easy to reverse
"Authoritarianism" is so 2018 — Donald Trump and his minions want to conquer all of civil society
www.salon.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"...what lies at the core of Trump’s support is a not-insignificant fraction of would-be totalitarians who possess the same mentality as those who lynched Black people in the Jim Crow South, mobbed Jews during Kristallnacht and beheaded professors during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution."