Barb Dybwad
@doctorparadox.bsky.social
writer, thinker, tinkerer, traveler, history buff, citizen of the internetz.
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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
Donald Trump will be reviled deeply in the history books as a buffoon and a con artist.
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Donald Trump will be reviled deeply in the history books as a buffoon and a con artist.
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If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!
Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!
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Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas.
But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.
It was standing room only.
But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.
It was standing room only.
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas.
But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.
It was standing room only.
But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.
It was standing room only.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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@lizcheney.bsky.social Condolences for the loss of your father. I had my disagreements with many of his ideas but in the end he proved a true patriot. As you have as well, thus respectfully I write this note 🙏🏽
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
@lizcheney.bsky.social Condolences for the loss of your father. I had my disagreements with many of his ideas but in the end he proved a true patriot. As you have as well, thus respectfully I write this note 🙏🏽
The extra delicious thing about Tuesday night is the Republicans have no response. They have nothing. They have a mess to clean up where they "seriously debate" the merits of Nazism to their party. It doesn't get much lower.
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The extra delicious thing about Tuesday night is the Republicans have no response. They have nothing. They have a mess to clean up where they "seriously debate" the merits of Nazism to their party. It doesn't get much lower.
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Thank you, Virginia! It is the honor of my lifetime to be elected your next Governor.
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Thank you, Virginia! It is the honor of my lifetime to be elected your next Governor.
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Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
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The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
The real kicker is that Mellon's grandpappy is literally the guy who helped usher in the Great Depression with this same fucking idiotard economic policy of shoveling undue riches to the already wealthy while starving the non-wealthy classes
So that Mellon guy who gives away cash from his inheritance doesn’t have any left for SNAP?
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The real kicker is that Mellon's grandpappy is literally the guy who helped usher in the Great Depression with this same fucking idiotard economic policy of shoveling undue riches to the already wealthy while starving the non-wealthy classes
oh no John Thune got MAD! which i understand is something i should give a shit about
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 AM
oh no John Thune got MAD! which i understand is something i should give a shit about
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So that Mellon guy who gives away cash from his inheritance doesn’t have any left for SNAP?
October 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
So that Mellon guy who gives away cash from his inheritance doesn’t have any left for SNAP?
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YouTube contributed $25M via a lawsuit settlement for a case it didn’t need to settle.
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
YouTube contributed $25M via a lawsuit settlement for a case it didn’t need to settle.
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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The browser wars have been suddenly reignited. First Comet conquested Chrome to become my default browser, and now Atlas. Partying like it's 1999.
October 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The browser wars have been suddenly reignited. First Comet conquested Chrome to become my default browser, and now Atlas. Partying like it's 1999.
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I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
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We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...
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Have Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey ever read *anything* other than Tolkien?
Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...
October 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Have Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey ever read *anything* other than Tolkien?
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“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
October 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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Are you registered to vote? At your current address? And when is your next election?
People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.
Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
October 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Are you registered to vote? At your current address? And when is your next election?
We are used to being the opposition party on the left. We're not used to being in power. Ergo we have a native advantage in these information wars -- should we choose to use it
October 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
We are used to being the opposition party on the left. We're not used to being in power. Ergo we have a native advantage in these information wars -- should we choose to use it