Amber Barnard
@crazycatchemist.bsky.social
She/they. Former chemist now care worker. Obsessed with circus arts and my cat. In my thirsting for Sauron era. Chaotic bisexual.
https://linktr.ee/crazycatchemist
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Sen. Van Hollen and his meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is all over the news and social media.
Joe Rogan is talking about the value of due process, wrongly denied to Abrego Garcia.
Thankfully the “just poll, then do what’s already popular, never try to lead or shape opinion” crowd lost.
Joe Rogan is talking about the value of due process, wrongly denied to Abrego Garcia.
Thankfully the “just poll, then do what’s already popular, never try to lead or shape opinion” crowd lost.
April 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Sen. Van Hollen and his meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is all over the news and social media.
Joe Rogan is talking about the value of due process, wrongly denied to Abrego Garcia.
Thankfully the “just poll, then do what’s already popular, never try to lead or shape opinion” crowd lost.
Joe Rogan is talking about the value of due process, wrongly denied to Abrego Garcia.
Thankfully the “just poll, then do what’s already popular, never try to lead or shape opinion” crowd lost.
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I’m reminded again today that a big part of how we resist fascism isn’t by doing things—it’s by NOT doing things.
Refusal to cooperate is one of the best tools at our disposal.
Refusal to cooperate is one of the best tools at our disposal.
April 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I’m reminded again today that a big part of how we resist fascism isn’t by doing things—it’s by NOT doing things.
Refusal to cooperate is one of the best tools at our disposal.
Refusal to cooperate is one of the best tools at our disposal.
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Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
April 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
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We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.
Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov
Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is demanding a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele over the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and says he’ll go to El Salvador himself if the Marylander isn’t returned.
April 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.
Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov
Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov
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There we go. Support this man.
Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return
"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return
"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
April 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
There we go. Support this man.
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“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
March 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
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I just want to personally thank Pete Hegseth for proving my theory that when your entire personality is “minorities are incompetent,” it’s usually because you’re more incompetent than anyone could have imagined.
a man in a dodgers shirt is holding a glass of wine in front of a microphone
ALT: a man in a dodgers shirt is holding a glass of wine in front of a microphone
media.tenor.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I just want to personally thank Pete Hegseth for proving my theory that when your entire personality is “minorities are incompetent,” it’s usually because you’re more incompetent than anyone could have imagined.
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This is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment but a lot of cowards in academia will use this as an excuse to crack down on campus protest.
March 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment but a lot of cowards in academia will use this as an excuse to crack down on campus protest.
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If your rep is republican and is too afraid to hold a town hall... reach out to a Democrat and ask them to hold a town hall in your area instead. Seriously.
March 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If your rep is republican and is too afraid to hold a town hall... reach out to a Democrat and ask them to hold a town hall in your area instead. Seriously.
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You had different dreams for yourself than having to meet this shit historical moment.
I did too. I did too.
I did too. I did too.
January 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
You had different dreams for yourself than having to meet this shit historical moment.
I did too. I did too.
I did too. I did too.
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In “Way of the Kings” there’s a cursed king who doesn’t know whether he will wake up a genius or an idiot each morning.
That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.
That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.
February 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In “Way of the Kings” there’s a cursed king who doesn’t know whether he will wake up a genius or an idiot each morning.
That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.
That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.
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February 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
February 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
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Hey 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
I just saw a thread where someone live posted their department’s plans for responding to the current political situation and I just want to remind everyone that putting information out there publicly can endanger plans/could be used against your department in legal proceedings
I just saw a thread where someone live posted their department’s plans for responding to the current political situation and I just want to remind everyone that putting information out there publicly can endanger plans/could be used against your department in legal proceedings
February 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Hey 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
I just saw a thread where someone live posted their department’s plans for responding to the current political situation and I just want to remind everyone that putting information out there publicly can endanger plans/could be used against your department in legal proceedings
I just saw a thread where someone live posted their department’s plans for responding to the current political situation and I just want to remind everyone that putting information out there publicly can endanger plans/could be used against your department in legal proceedings
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February 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My FREE Narcan kit from the Mississippi Department of Health expired so I just ordered another kit for FREE.
FREE NARCAN FOR MISSISSIPPI RESIDENTS:
odfree.org/get-naloxone/
FREE NARCAN FOR MISSISSIPPI RESIDENTS:
odfree.org/get-naloxone/
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if I see one more post about how being a Hobbit is all about sitting around barefoot and eating potatoes I’m going to snap. it’s about toppling authoritarian regimes through self-sacrifice and love in action!!! get off your butt!!!!
(you can bring the potatoes with you though)
(you can bring the potatoes with you though)
February 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
if I see one more post about how being a Hobbit is all about sitting around barefoot and eating potatoes I’m going to snap. it’s about toppling authoritarian regimes through self-sacrifice and love in action!!! get off your butt!!!!
(you can bring the potatoes with you though)
(you can bring the potatoes with you though)
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Pete Hegseth isn’t DEI. Daniel Penny isn’t DEI. That’s not what DEI is.
They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring.
So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.
They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring.
So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.
February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Pete Hegseth isn’t DEI. Daniel Penny isn’t DEI. That’s not what DEI is.
They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring.
So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.
They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring.
So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.
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The piece of advice I keep giving over and over again in this moment is:
Stop trying to convince people to care. Focus your energy on working with the people who already understand how important it is.
Stop trying to convince people to care. Focus your energy on working with the people who already understand how important it is.
February 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The piece of advice I keep giving over and over again in this moment is:
Stop trying to convince people to care. Focus your energy on working with the people who already understand how important it is.
Stop trying to convince people to care. Focus your energy on working with the people who already understand how important it is.
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“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
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@chuckschumer.com Hey instead of posting on social media about how we're all going to hate higher prices maybe read this and take notes.
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
@chuckschumer.com Hey instead of posting on social media about how we're all going to hate higher prices maybe read this and take notes.
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I appreciate the effort to sound the alarm and identify historic echoes—and many are making this analogy—but Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science, unlike the NIH et al., was not a government agency. Worse, the book burnings of 1933 did not involve the Institute setting its own records on fire.
Maybe there's some confusion about the motives of the moves to crush the NIH, NSF, and CDC. The Trump administration is conducting a book burning. Me for @sequencermag.bsky.social
www.sequencermag.com/this-is-a-bo...
www.sequencermag.com/this-is-a-bo...
This is a book burning
The Trump administration's actions at the CDC, NIH, and NSF are the familiar tactics of fascists and dictators
www.sequencermag.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I appreciate the effort to sound the alarm and identify historic echoes—and many are making this analogy—but Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science, unlike the NIH et al., was not a government agency. Worse, the book burnings of 1933 did not involve the Institute setting its own records on fire.
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A reminder. This is a coup and they are trying to get the US from the inside. That's it.
February 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A reminder. This is a coup and they are trying to get the US from the inside. That's it.
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It should be a red flag, by the way, when someone says you’re “the first” to discover a type of oppression.
Society and oppression have been around for far too long for that. It really mean you’re being isolated and others’ work is being erased.
Society and oppression have been around for far too long for that. It really mean you’re being isolated and others’ work is being erased.
I spent years of my PhD being told by sociologists that I was in the “first cohort” of sociological sexual violence researchers.
It wasn’t true. But the prior research wasn’t in the canon. And it had been forgotten by mainstream sociology.
It wasn’t true. But the prior research wasn’t in the canon. And it had been forgotten by mainstream sociology.
February 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It should be a red flag, by the way, when someone says you’re “the first” to discover a type of oppression.
Society and oppression have been around for far too long for that. It really mean you’re being isolated and others’ work is being erased.
Society and oppression have been around for far too long for that. It really mean you’re being isolated and others’ work is being erased.
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If you can't find an online history for an organization (or, if it's a coalition, it's component organizations), DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR INFO
my god PLEASE do not sign up online for an organized general strike via a slick looking website claiming hundreds of thousands have already registered.
even if it's not a honeypot, it's still going to be a honeypot.
even if it's not a honeypot, it's still going to be a honeypot.
February 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
If you can't find an online history for an organization (or, if it's a coalition, it's component organizations), DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR INFO