Barbara Atkinson
@barbaraca.bsky.social
Writer, layabout. She/her.
Birds are assholes.
August 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Birds are assholes.
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COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?
HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
August 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?
HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
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They finally made the milk from that hotel
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They finally made the milk from that hotel
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no policy can ever satisfy them, because the thing being addressed isn't any real problem in society but an insatiable need to see social undesirables punished and tortured.
the sadism machine will always need new victims and new undesirables will be invented to meet demand.
the sadism machine will always need new victims and new undesirables will be invented to meet demand.
July 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
no policy can ever satisfy them, because the thing being addressed isn't any real problem in society but an insatiable need to see social undesirables punished and tortured.
the sadism machine will always need new victims and new undesirables will be invented to meet demand.
the sadism machine will always need new victims and new undesirables will be invented to meet demand.
This isn’t WW3. Both the US and Iran are playing to their domestic audiences. No radiation at bombed nuke sites and no casualties in Qatar. Everybody had plenty of warning. This is theater.
June 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This isn’t WW3. Both the US and Iran are playing to their domestic audiences. No radiation at bombed nuke sites and no casualties in Qatar. Everybody had plenty of warning. This is theater.
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The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.
MAGA voted for the Book of Revelations, and we’re getting it.
Trump announces on social media that the US has bombed Iran
June 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.
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Donald Trump illegally took military action against Iran—without congressional authorization—risking dragging us into another endless war.
I am calling for an immediate emergency session of Congress to vote on the War Powers Resolution.
I am calling for an immediate emergency session of Congress to vote on the War Powers Resolution.
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Donald Trump illegally took military action against Iran—without congressional authorization—risking dragging us into another endless war.
I am calling for an immediate emergency session of Congress to vote on the War Powers Resolution.
I am calling for an immediate emergency session of Congress to vote on the War Powers Resolution.
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A Democratic Mayor arrested.
A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.
A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.
A Democratic State Representative killed.
A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.
We can all see where this is going.
A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.
A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.
A Democratic State Representative killed.
A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.
We can all see where this is going.
June 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A Democratic Mayor arrested.
A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.
A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.
A Democratic State Representative killed.
A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.
We can all see where this is going.
A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.
A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.
A Democratic State Representative killed.
A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.
We can all see where this is going.
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If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.
June 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.
No Kings in Santa Cruz, California. The crowd filled the park grounds and spilled out onto nearby streets.
June 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
No Kings in Santa Cruz, California. The crowd filled the park grounds and spilled out onto nearby streets.
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So this is after the Speaker of the House said the Governor of California should be tarred and feathered, slightly disagreeing with the President and his Border Czar who wanted to arrest him, two months after somebody tried to burn the Governor of Pennsylvania and his family alive in their home.
June 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So this is after the Speaker of the House said the Governor of California should be tarred and feathered, slightly disagreeing with the President and his Border Czar who wanted to arrest him, two months after somebody tried to burn the Governor of Pennsylvania and his family alive in their home.
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June 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding
June 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding
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I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!
Trump tells NBC his relationship with Musk is over and he will make no effort to repair it.
“Elon Musk will have to pay very serious consequences if he funds Democratic candidates.”
“Elon Musk will have to pay very serious consequences if he funds Democratic candidates.”
June 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!
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I sure do love KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962), I mention for no particular reason
June 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I sure do love KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962), I mention for no particular reason
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straight up what is even going on anymore
June 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
straight up what is even going on anymore
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Elon Musk getting in a little snit and threatening to pull the rockets essential to supplying the humans on the International Space Station is why the government should NOT award him critical contracts, like SpaceLink proving Internet access in war/disasters.
June 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Elon Musk getting in a little snit and threatening to pull the rockets essential to supplying the humans on the International Space Station is why the government should NOT award him critical contracts, like SpaceLink proving Internet access in war/disasters.
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Sigh. How? By letting them fight it out yes but also stepping up with bold policy ideas so people know there is a robust alternative. Come on guys. This isn’t complicated and it isn’t punditry.
How, exactly? This is not the kind of fight you capitalize on. This is the kind of thing you keep your own posterior as far away from it as possible until the dust settles, because no one is going to win. Stay out of it and ready up for whatever the eventual outcome is.
June 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Sigh. How? By letting them fight it out yes but also stepping up with bold policy ideas so people know there is a robust alternative. Come on guys. This isn’t complicated and it isn’t punditry.
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I reckon if you've been a writer for 15 years and you can comfortably replace part of your process with ChatGPT, it speaks volumes about your writing
May 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I reckon if you've been a writer for 15 years and you can comfortably replace part of your process with ChatGPT, it speaks volumes about your writing
I’m about to go full
Thunderdome at Costco.
Thunderdome at Costco.
May 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I’m about to go full
Thunderdome at Costco.
Thunderdome at Costco.
The Irish jig has never been so menacing.
April 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The Irish jig has never been so menacing.