Kevin Barron
@kevinbarron.bsky.social
Healing our hearts seems to be a lifelong process, not a simple onetime fix; Life is a conversation. But where can I find those “who have forgotten the words, so that we may truly communicate”?
Join the conversation:
Backloop.substack.com
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Backloop.substack.com
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Kevin Barron
@kevinbarron.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Until we realize that this is not a political fight, but a fight for survival as a species, we will continue to fight a rearguard action, and continue to lose. We need a vision based on the reality of the ecological crisis, and sound scientific actions that will empower that vision based on history
Words fail
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.
We'll let their words speak for themselves.
We'll let their words speak for themselves.
February 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Words fail
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Note that about half of the states in the US have already agreed to use Trump’s blatantly flawed voter purge system called “SAVE”. The DHS is suing the other states to get them to hand over their voter rolls too. www.kten.com/news/politic...
Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/
February 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Note that about half of the states in the US have already agreed to use Trump’s blatantly flawed voter purge system called “SAVE”. The DHS is suing the other states to get them to hand over their voter rolls too. www.kten.com/news/politic...
This is the one most people remember him for, but I love his quiet roles like Secondhand Lions and Tango Lessons.
RIP Robert Duval 🙏
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"
February 16, 2026 at 8:07 PM
This is the one most people remember him for, but I love his quiet roles like Secondhand Lions and Tango Lessons.
Unmasking the mysogynist, racist cabal gathered by Brockman and funded by Epstein.
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Unmasking the mysogynist, racist cabal gathered by Brockman and funded by Epstein.
Redemption Song
February 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Redemption Song
Cosplay Barbi gets schooled
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
robertreich.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Cosplay Barbi gets schooled
👇👇 THIS 👇👇
Some very powerful people want us to believe human labor is obsolete & way too many people are buying it.
Don’t let them make you think that you are disposable.
Time to revive the idea of a job guarantee. They just created a bunch of fascist ICE jobs overnight. Imagine that for work that matters.
Don’t let them make you think that you are disposable.
Time to revive the idea of a job guarantee. They just created a bunch of fascist ICE jobs overnight. Imagine that for work that matters.
February 15, 2026 at 6:34 PM
👇👇 THIS 👇👇
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Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.
She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.
They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.
She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.
They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.
It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
zeteo.com/p/israels-te...
zeteo.com/p/israels-te...
Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’
zeteo.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.
She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.
They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.
She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.
They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.
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“That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.” - Arnold Kling
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
www.thebanner.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
“That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.” - Arnold Kling
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1. Remember: plenty of other civilizations have lasted - even after land theft and genocide - for millennia. And it’s from ancient cultures& values that we must learn deeply. If you can support the Global Restoration Collaborative or Land Peace Fndn, that’d help.
@kevinbarron.bsky.social thanks ☺️
@kevinbarron.bsky.social thanks ☺️
This new post by @kevinbarron.bsky.social features the Land Peace Foundation's inclusive and inter-generational model for building community and working together on the land to transform the unsustainable systems collapsing around us.
It's a powerful initiative with so much potential.
It's a powerful initiative with so much potential.
Building Inclusive Community & Bridging Divides
The Land Peace Foundation
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:20 AM
1. Remember: plenty of other civilizations have lasted - even after land theft and genocide - for millennia. And it’s from ancient cultures& values that we must learn deeply. If you can support the Global Restoration Collaborative or Land Peace Fndn, that’d help.
@kevinbarron.bsky.social thanks ☺️
@kevinbarron.bsky.social thanks ☺️
Thought-crime is here. Anything we read or post is subject to be collected and used as evidence to justify whatever punishment has already been meted out.
“I never imagined that America would reach a point where our constitutional protections are teetering because the latest innovations in technology are converging with demagogic politics to corrode the institutional checks & balances by which republics endure.”
—Editor-In-Chief Nathan Gardels
#ice
—Editor-In-Chief Nathan Gardels
#ice
Where There Is Connectivity There Is Surveillance | NOEMA
The immigration crackdown in the U.S. opens the gates to a monitory state just as Covid tracing did in China.
www.noemamag.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Thought-crime is here. Anything we read or post is subject to be collected and used as evidence to justify whatever punishment has already been meted out.
Perfect:
“It was the fake orgasm of committee hearing performances; loud, theatrical, sweaty, and meant to trick just one man into keeping her around by flattering his ego.”
www.againstallenemies.net/p/pam-bondis...
“It was the fake orgasm of committee hearing performances; loud, theatrical, sweaty, and meant to trick just one man into keeping her around by flattering his ego.”
www.againstallenemies.net/p/pam-bondis...
Pam Bondi's Fake Orgasm
And she still made Epstein worse for Trump.
www.againstallenemies.net
February 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Perfect:
“It was the fake orgasm of committee hearing performances; loud, theatrical, sweaty, and meant to trick just one man into keeping her around by flattering his ego.”
www.againstallenemies.net/p/pam-bondis...
“It was the fake orgasm of committee hearing performances; loud, theatrical, sweaty, and meant to trick just one man into keeping her around by flattering his ego.”
www.againstallenemies.net/p/pam-bondis...
Bingo!
“turning on the air conditioning in response to a house fire.”
Paul Watson on geoengineering.
“turning on the air conditioning in response to a house fire.”
Paul Watson on geoengineering.
“Climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just as the world’s governments appear to have lost their appetite for tackling the emissions that are causing the warming.”
There may be no turning back this climate crisis
As warming breaches a critical threshold, scientists fear cascading consequences.
www.motherjones.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Bingo!
“turning on the air conditioning in response to a house fire.”
Paul Watson on geoengineering.
“turning on the air conditioning in response to a house fire.”
Paul Watson on geoengineering.
Reposted by Kevin Barron
This new post by @kevinbarron.bsky.social features the Land Peace Foundation's inclusive and inter-generational model for building community and working together on the land to transform the unsustainable systems collapsing around us.
It's a powerful initiative with so much potential.
It's a powerful initiative with so much potential.
Building Inclusive Community & Bridging Divides
The Land Peace Foundation
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:49 PM
This new post by @kevinbarron.bsky.social features the Land Peace Foundation's inclusive and inter-generational model for building community and working together on the land to transform the unsustainable systems collapsing around us.
It's a powerful initiative with so much potential.
It's a powerful initiative with so much potential.
Reposted by Kevin Barron
I wonder if companies understand that consumers don't owe them any additional favors (in the form of offering reviews) after we have given them money for a good or service. it is a curious situation. the favor was already granted in the form of...money?
February 12, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I wonder if companies understand that consumers don't owe them any additional favors (in the form of offering reviews) after we have given them money for a good or service. it is a curious situation. the favor was already granted in the form of...money?
This is Arendt's nightmare fused with Łobaczewski's: the banality of evil powered by artificial intelligence, operating at scale, in real time, with no single human being required to make a conscious moral choice at any point in the chain.”
A thoughtful and damning analysis of my new article “Jackhammering into the Sewer”, on Epstein and deep corruption:
eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/the-dystopia...
eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/the-dystopia...
The Dystopia That Was Always Coming — And the One They Built While We Looked Away
Eyewitness for History
by Thomas Drake
“They transform pain into social media content. They turn pain into predator contentment. The pursuit of truth is always noble: but not the sluggish or careless...
eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page
February 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This is Arendt's nightmare fused with Łobaczewski's: the banality of evil powered by artificial intelligence, operating at scale, in real time, with no single human being required to make a conscious moral choice at any point in the chain.”
Can these bridges being built at the Land Peace Foundation be a model for others to adapt and deploy?
Building Inclusive Community & Bridging Divides
The Land Peace Foundation
backloop.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Can these bridges being built at the Land Peace Foundation be a model for others to adapt and deploy?
Well said
No one asked Gallup to display special courage in this moment. Just to continue doing what they'd always done.
And that was too much for them.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
And that was too much for them.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Well said
Reposted by Kevin Barron
"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."
The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.
Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
www.kut.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:11 PM
"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."
A great salve if you’re feeling down about where we are politically.
In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:
Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination
I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsl...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:32 AM
A great salve if you’re feeling down about where we are politically.
WTAF!!?
omg
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
February 11, 2026 at 1:10 AM
WTAF!!?
How to grift on “sustainable energy”. As always, minimize costs, reap in subsidies, and externalize health hazards to marginalized peoples.
As @mzjacobson.bsky.social points out in the article, wind and solar powered electrolysis offers a cleaner route to green ammonia.
As @mzjacobson.bsky.social points out in the article, wind and solar powered electrolysis offers a cleaner route to green ammonia.
“These plants increase air pollution, they increase global warming...they increase not only energy costs, but total social costs, and so there’s zero benefit — except to the people who are taking the subsidies"
Louisiana bets big on ‘blue ammonia
floodlightnews.org/louisiana-bl...
Louisiana bets big on ‘blue ammonia
floodlightnews.org/louisiana-bl...
Louisiana bets big on ‘blue ammonia.’ Communities along Cancer Alley brace for the cost.
Carbon capture hasn’t delivered major climate benefits — and the plants would still emit thousands of tons of pollution.
floodlightnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
How to grift on “sustainable energy”. As always, minimize costs, reap in subsidies, and externalize health hazards to marginalized peoples.
As @mzjacobson.bsky.social points out in the article, wind and solar powered electrolysis offers a cleaner route to green ammonia.
As @mzjacobson.bsky.social points out in the article, wind and solar powered electrolysis offers a cleaner route to green ammonia.
And spending half a $billion to buy warehouses means they’re just getting started.
ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
February 10, 2026 at 6:53 AM
And spending half a $billion to buy warehouses means they’re just getting started.
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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
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Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing against Palestinians Escalate
Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing against Palestinians Escalate
Atrocities Against Palestinians with Impunity Challenge Rules-Based International Order
dlvr.it
February 10, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing against Palestinians Escalate