Democratic Barbara
@barbtries.bsky.social
💙Born liberal: love and equality for everybody. Spiritual humanist/atheist. Thumbnail: my daughter Bekah Zask 06Jul1980-19Jul2001. Full time unpaid member of #TheOpposition #BlueCrew#BLM💙💙🇺🇸 🌈🇺🇦 I say fuck a lot.
https://substack.com/@barbtries
https://substack.com/@barbtries
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
…everyone at the beginning of life needs the help of others.
Natality, not fatality. Better a womb than a tomb. Thinking of Socrates’s mother, we begin the philosophy of freedom not from an enclosing cave but from an opening world.
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…everyone at the beginning of life needs the help of others.
Natality, not fatality. Better a womb than a tomb. Thinking of Socrates’s mother, we begin the philosophy of freedom not from an enclosing cave but from an opening world.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
…everyone at the beginning of life needs the help of others.
Natality, not fatality. Better a womb than a tomb. Thinking of Socrates’s mother, we begin the philosophy of freedom not from an enclosing cave but from an opening world.
Page 89
…everyone at the beginning of life needs the help of others.
Natality, not fatality. Better a womb than a tomb. Thinking of Socrates’s mother, we begin the philosophy of freedom not from an enclosing cave but from an opening world.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"As sovereign individuals, we learn to care about these ideals, and balance them, and bring them to life. We can also learn to create them. We don’t borrow from an ideal world. We reach toward it and expand it."
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"As sovereign individuals, we learn to care about these ideals, and balance them, and bring them to life. We can also learn to create them. We don’t borrow from an ideal world. We reach toward it and expand it."
page 86
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"As sovereign individuals, we learn to care about these ideals, and balance them, and bring them to life. We can also learn to create them. We don’t borrow from an ideal world. We reach toward it and expand it."
page 86
"As sovereign individuals, we learn to care about these ideals, and balance them, and bring them to life. We can also learn to create them. We don’t borrow from an ideal world. We reach toward it and expand it."
page 86
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Russia has become a genocidal fascist empire for many reasons, but one of them is negative freedom. This concept made it hard to see that its oligarchy was the antithesis of freedom (rather than a side effect)...."
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#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
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#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Russia has become a genocidal fascist empire for many reasons, but one of them is negative freedom. This concept made it hard to see that its oligarchy was the antithesis of freedom (rather than a side effect)...."
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#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
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#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"We cannot be neutral: we either deaden the world around us, or we make it more lively."
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
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#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
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November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"We cannot be neutral: we either deaden the world around us, or we make it more lively."
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
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#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
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The next project for my daily keyboard warrioring has to do with this phenomenal book, which I just finished reading for the 2nd time.
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The next project for my daily keyboard warrioring has to do with this phenomenal book, which I just finished reading for the 2nd time.
Mass Protest DC 22Nov2025
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Mass Protest DC 22Nov2025
There may be an action near you to support Veterans with direct street action.
maydaystrong.org
maydaystrong.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
There may be an action near you to support Veterans with direct street action.
maydaystrong.org
maydaystrong.org
Just found this it was the first 4th of July after women lost their right to bodily autonomy. I had it taped to my front door. Was that 2022?
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just found this it was the first 4th of July after women lost their right to bodily autonomy. I had it taped to my front door. Was that 2022?
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
head of the HHS is fucking allergic to illness in others. wow.
but what krasnov did is - well, you gotta see that picture
but what krasnov did is - well, you gotta see that picture
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
head of the HHS is fucking allergic to illness in others. wow.
but what krasnov did is - well, you gotta see that picture
but what krasnov did is - well, you gotta see that picture
Right, and I've heard her discuss it many times. There is one planned coming up this month over Thanksgiving week and I'm planning how to be able to do it.
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Right, and I've heard her discuss it many times. There is one planned coming up this month over Thanksgiving week and I'm planning how to be able to do it.
My sign from Saturday
October 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My sign from Saturday
This sign I'm bringing is inspired by Timothy Snyder. We CAN make a better world.
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This sign I'm bringing is inspired by Timothy Snyder. We CAN make a better world.
Made my signs. As you can see I'm not a great artist but I have some positive thoughts to share and I'm bringing a couple of my Antifa ancestors along for this big day.
October 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Made my signs. As you can see I'm not a great artist but I have some positive thoughts to share and I'm bringing a couple of my Antifa ancestors along for this big day.
www.nokings.org
My then 9-year-old granddaughter was with me at the Womens March in DC in 2017, and I so clearly remember asking her, "How does it feel to know you're making history?"
She's on the other side of the country now, but my guess is we'll both be making history then, too.
My then 9-year-old granddaughter was with me at the Womens March in DC in 2017, and I so clearly remember asking her, "How does it feel to know you're making history?"
She's on the other side of the country now, but my guess is we'll both be making history then, too.
October 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
www.nokings.org
My then 9-year-old granddaughter was with me at the Womens March in DC in 2017, and I so clearly remember asking her, "How does it feel to know you're making history?"
She's on the other side of the country now, but my guess is we'll both be making history then, too.
My then 9-year-old granddaughter was with me at the Womens March in DC in 2017, and I so clearly remember asking her, "How does it feel to know you're making history?"
She's on the other side of the country now, but my guess is we'll both be making history then, too.
It's going to be the biggest protest ever. Let's all be there, be peaceful, be brave, be joyful, be present.
October 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
It's going to be the biggest protest ever. Let's all be there, be peaceful, be brave, be joyful, be present.
A page out of my Antifa father's diary written on the USS Constitution on 07Dec1941.
October 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A page out of my Antifa father's diary written on the USS Constitution on 07Dec1941.
Here's the first post card my father sent to his family after it was determined that he was alive after all.
October 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Here's the first post card my father sent to his family after it was determined that he was alive after all.
i think for the Mass Protest on 18Oct2025, I'll print up a picture of my dad in the Navy back in 1941 (USS California, Pearl Harbor) and label it my Antifa roots.
October 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
i think for the Mass Protest on 18Oct2025, I'll print up a picture of my dad in the Navy back in 1941 (USS California, Pearl Harbor) and label it my Antifa roots.
Stuffed into my seat ready to fly. Here's a great book y'all should read.
October 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Stuffed into my seat ready to fly. Here's a great book y'all should read.
