Barry Eriksen
@barryeriksen.bsky.social
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He's trolling them the best atm
Keep it going @governor.ca.gov 👍
Keep it going @governor.ca.gov 👍
August 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
He's trolling them the best atm
Keep it going @governor.ca.gov 👍
Keep it going @governor.ca.gov 👍
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Let's go. This is it. We need to wake up. We cannot survive if he rigs not just Texas, but he goes to Indiana, goes to Missouri, goes to Ohio, goes to Florida. We have to have other governors of like mind, and there are many, to now do something, not just say something."
August 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Let's go. This is it. We need to wake up. We cannot survive if he rigs not just Texas, but he goes to Indiana, goes to Missouri, goes to Ohio, goes to Florida. We have to have other governors of like mind, and there are many, to now do something, not just say something."
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
August 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
Yes! We deserve better than the shithole country known formerly as the United States -- an irreparably hijacked, broken democracy, adulterated by oligarchs and their sustained attacks since they engineered the actor Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980 to serve as their front man.
Opinion | Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court.
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Yes! We deserve better than the shithole country known formerly as the United States -- an irreparably hijacked, broken democracy, adulterated by oligarchs and their sustained attacks since they engineered the actor Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980 to serve as their front man.
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the clown car arrives in the White House briefing room
August 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
the clown car arrives in the White House briefing room
This would make a good laugh, except these twisted and hateful fundamentalist/fascist American Christian teachings are real. And they hate America, the Land of Liberty, because they want to control everyone's actions and thoughts. Never forget what these people really are: control freaks and bigots.
Course - The Rise of Secularity in America
Word on Fire
institute.wordonfire.org
August 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This would make a good laugh, except these twisted and hateful fundamentalist/fascist American Christian teachings are real. And they hate America, the Land of Liberty, because they want to control everyone's actions and thoughts. Never forget what these people really are: control freaks and bigots.
Three cheers for the New Fight for State Rights to Democracy from the Land of Lincoln! ...And for the governor of the Great State of Illinois for bucking this fake, country-wide, "emergency" gambit for permanent, minority-led, autocratic power.
August 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Three cheers for the New Fight for State Rights to Democracy from the Land of Lincoln! ...And for the governor of the Great State of Illinois for bucking this fake, country-wide, "emergency" gambit for permanent, minority-led, autocratic power.
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Artificial famine and starving children are not self-defense. Neither is killing mothers and their children by the tens of thousands.
Dems finally stand up for human decency against the fascist commanders of the Israeli right wing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
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Artificial famine and starving children are not self-defense. Neither is killing mothers and their children by the tens of thousands.
Dems finally stand up for human decency against the fascist commanders of the Israeli right wing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Gazans Are Dying of Starvation
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Artificial famine and starving children are not self-defense. Neither is killing mothers and their children by the tens of thousands.
Dems finally stand up for human decency against the fascist commanders of the Israeli right wing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
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Artificial famine and starving children are not self-defense. Neither is killing mothers and their children by the tens of thousands.
Dems finally stand up for human decency against the fascist commanders of the Israeli right wing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Criminalize behaviors that are not approved by the new Secretary for Theocratic Rules? Believe it.
Trump wants to divert many billions into penitential housing and drug treatment programs run by churches or their affiliated groups. Bu
Trump wants to divert many billions into penitential housing and drug treatment programs run by churches or their affiliated groups. Bu
Words & Phrases We Can Do Without
‘Civil commitment’ means locking up people without housing
contrarian.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Criminalize behaviors that are not approved by the new Secretary for Theocratic Rules? Believe it.
Trump wants to divert many billions into penitential housing and drug treatment programs run by churches or their affiliated groups. Bu
Trump wants to divert many billions into penitential housing and drug treatment programs run by churches or their affiliated groups. Bu
‘Revenge Is Not a Policy’: Israelis Voice Dissent Against the War in Gaza
www.nytimes.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Hehehe
July 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Hehehe
This is supposed to distract us from the Epstein Affair?
Trump admin releases MLK's files despite family objection
Trump admin releases MLK's files despite family objection
Tulsi Gabbard released on Monday over 230,000 pages of documents related to the 1968 assassination of MLK.
www.axios.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is supposed to distract us from the Epstein Affair?
Hang on. It's been worse.
July 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Hang on. It's been worse.
Domestic Terror:
The newly formed ICE jobs program for 10,000+ angry, white boy-man incels is going to be an ugly blemish on the American people, citizen or not.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
The newly formed ICE jobs program for 10,000+ angry, white boy-man incels is going to be an ugly blemish on the American people, citizen or not.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees
abcnews.go.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Domestic Terror:
The newly formed ICE jobs program for 10,000+ angry, white boy-man incels is going to be an ugly blemish on the American people, citizen or not.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
The newly formed ICE jobs program for 10,000+ angry, white boy-man incels is going to be an ugly blemish on the American people, citizen or not.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
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Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots https://on.ft.com/46bWXh3 | opinion
Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots
Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI models
on.ft.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots https://on.ft.com/46bWXh3 | opinion
How to keep a gas-guzzling Chevy Tahoe on the road.
Elon Musk: Pollution Salesman
Elon Musk is not in the car business; he is a pollution salesman.
www.gregpalast.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
How to keep a gas-guzzling Chevy Tahoe on the road.
It's almost as if the Israelis were planning the "ethnic cleansing" of Gaza.
From the NYT, July 14, 2025:
From the NYT, July 14, 2025:
July 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It's almost as if the Israelis were planning the "ethnic cleansing" of Gaza.
From the NYT, July 14, 2025:
From the NYT, July 14, 2025:
Great article, reporting that solar has taken off, surpassing all other new power sources around the globe and dramatically reducing the carbon cost of electricity -- just in time for the anti-science Trump "administration" to lead us away from its adoption.
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Great article, reporting that solar has taken off, surpassing all other new power sources around the globe and dramatically reducing the carbon cost of electricity -- just in time for the anti-science Trump "administration" to lead us away from its adoption.
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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A disabled US veteran and citizen is still missing after ICE raided Camarillo yesterday. The family can’t get answers from authorities.
Article in next post/
Article in next post/
July 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A disabled US veteran and citizen is still missing after ICE raided Camarillo yesterday. The family can’t get answers from authorities.
Article in next post/
Article in next post/
Republican congressmen's new constituent service: Springing people from detention in ICE concentration camps. Whoodathink?
Iranian mother released from ICE detention after Republican House Majority Leader intervenes | CNN
An Iranian mother detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers has been released this week following advocacy from Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.
www.cnn.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Republican congressmen's new constituent service: Springing people from detention in ICE concentration camps. Whoodathink?
Yes, Mr. Sinclair is still correct. I never have figured out what some of my favorite polticians call themselves "socialists" (typically "democratic socialists") when they could just as easily be "social democrats." But here we go...
July 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Yes, Mr. Sinclair is still correct. I never have figured out what some of my favorite polticians call themselves "socialists" (typically "democratic socialists") when they could just as easily be "social democrats." But here we go...
We need to do more to "promote the general welfare."
Democratic socialism is an America tradition:
Tom Paine proposed a social welfare state.
Many founding members of the GOP were socialists.
Milwaukee elected 3 Socialist mayors.
FDR was influenced by Socialist Norman Thomas.
Socialist A. Philip Randolph was a key March on Washington organizer.
Tom Paine proposed a social welfare state.
Many founding members of the GOP were socialists.
Milwaukee elected 3 Socialist mayors.
FDR was influenced by Socialist Norman Thomas.
Socialist A. Philip Randolph was a key March on Washington organizer.
New Yorkers Aren’t Afraid of a Democratic Socialist Mayor
Andrew Cuomo's allies spent a fortune shouting that Zohran Mamdani is a socialist. Result? A Mamdani landslide in the Democratic primary.
www.thenation.com
July 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
We need to do more to "promote the general welfare."