David Barnhart
@davidbarnhart.bsky.social
Mental health counselor, pastor, writer
Private health insurance is a scam.
August 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Private health insurance is a scam.
Today is National Loving Day. On June 12, 1967, the SCOTUS overturned laws forbidding interracial marriage. Mildred & Richard Loving were married in Virginia in June of 1958 & were arrested in July. They were forced to leave Virginia, & eventually filed suit, which led to the ruling 9 years later…
June 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today is National Loving Day. On June 12, 1967, the SCOTUS overturned laws forbidding interracial marriage. Mildred & Richard Loving were married in Virginia in June of 1958 & were arrested in July. They were forced to leave Virginia, & eventually filed suit, which led to the ruling 9 years later…
Something tells me that a $5000 baby bonus ain’t gonna move the needle.
May 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Something tells me that a $5000 baby bonus ain’t gonna move the needle.
1. May 4, 1886: The Haymarket Incident.
I do not remember learning about the history of the Haymarket Incident or about organized labor when I was in high school. I learned about it and multiple other stories of class conflict when I read "Lies My Teacher Told Me"…
I do not remember learning about the history of the Haymarket Incident or about organized labor when I was in high school. I learned about it and multiple other stories of class conflict when I read "Lies My Teacher Told Me"…
May 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
1. May 4, 1886: The Haymarket Incident.
I do not remember learning about the history of the Haymarket Incident or about organized labor when I was in high school. I learned about it and multiple other stories of class conflict when I read "Lies My Teacher Told Me"…
I do not remember learning about the history of the Haymarket Incident or about organized labor when I was in high school. I learned about it and multiple other stories of class conflict when I read "Lies My Teacher Told Me"…
He said,
"The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders."
Rest in power, Paulo Freire.
"The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders."
Rest in power, Paulo Freire.
May 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
He said,
"The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders."
Rest in power, Paulo Freire.
"The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders."
Rest in power, Paulo Freire.
On April 30, 2016, Father Daniel Berrigan died. He was a Jesuit priest and pacifist whose protest of the Vietnam War (burning draft cards) landed him on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list and, in 1970, in prison.
April 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
On April 30, 2016, Father Daniel Berrigan died. He was a Jesuit priest and pacifist whose protest of the Vietnam War (burning draft cards) landed him on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list and, in 1970, in prison.
James Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation:
"The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God's own condition. This is the essence of the biblical revelation." …
(Photo from Union Theological Seminary.)
"The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God's own condition. This is the essence of the biblical revelation." …
(Photo from Union Theological Seminary.)
April 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
James Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation:
"The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God's own condition. This is the essence of the biblical revelation." …
(Photo from Union Theological Seminary.)
"The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God's own condition. This is the essence of the biblical revelation." …
(Photo from Union Theological Seminary.)
This is barbaric and evil.
April 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is barbaric and evil.
From The Guardian:
“people across the world are united in wanting action to fight the climate crisis but remain a silent majority, because they wrongly think only a minority share their views.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“people across the world are united in wanting action to fight the climate crisis but remain a silent majority, because they wrongly think only a minority share their views.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
April 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
From The Guardian:
“people across the world are united in wanting action to fight the climate crisis but remain a silent majority, because they wrongly think only a minority share their views.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“people across the world are united in wanting action to fight the climate crisis but remain a silent majority, because they wrongly think only a minority share their views.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, and marks the day in 1915 when the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian leaders—scientists, clergy, politicians, and teachers—and deporting them.
The photo below from wikipedia shows people waiting for "deportation" which turned into a massacre.
The photo below from wikipedia shows people waiting for "deportation" which turned into a massacre.
April 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, and marks the day in 1915 when the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian leaders—scientists, clergy, politicians, and teachers—and deporting them.
The photo below from wikipedia shows people waiting for "deportation" which turned into a massacre.
The photo below from wikipedia shows people waiting for "deportation" which turned into a massacre.
Classic DARVO: “it’s not market manipulation; it’s your fault for calling out this insanity.”
April 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Classic DARVO: “it’s not market manipulation; it’s your fault for calling out this insanity.”
One of the oldest scriptures in the Bible is essentially Miriam singing, "…and the horse you rode in on" (Exodus 15:21).
“Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.”
“Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.”
April 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
One of the oldest scriptures in the Bible is essentially Miriam singing, "…and the horse you rode in on" (Exodus 15:21).
“Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.”
“Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.”
Oh how sweet—the dictator who regularly kills his opponents by throwing them out of windows or poisoning them with novichok—prays for our dictator. Maybe the could attend dictator church together?
March 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Oh how sweet—the dictator who regularly kills his opponents by throwing them out of windows or poisoning them with novichok—prays for our dictator. Maybe the could attend dictator church together?
1/4 Monday is the feast day of Oscar Romero, who was gunned down by fascist death squads for advocating for the poor and calling out human rights abuses. Here is a prayer he wrote:
This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
March 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1/4 Monday is the feast day of Oscar Romero, who was gunned down by fascist death squads for advocating for the poor and calling out human rights abuses. Here is a prayer he wrote:
This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
This kind of headline is so misleading. They pay less taxes as a percentage of their income than you, but they are so obscenely richer than you that it’s always going to be a bigger “share.” Just like 10% of the Sun is more “share” of the solar system than 30% of the Earth.
March 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This kind of headline is so misleading. They pay less taxes as a percentage of their income than you, but they are so obscenely richer than you that it’s always going to be a bigger “share.” Just like 10% of the Sun is more “share” of the solar system than 30% of the Earth.
Can you think of anything more asinine, more Dunning-Kruger like, than asking people doing critical or top secret work, to take time out of their week to explain to a non-expert what they do? And isn’t reporting to TWO supervisors the very opposite of efficiency?
February 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Can you think of anything more asinine, more Dunning-Kruger like, than asking people doing critical or top secret work, to take time out of their week to explain to a non-expert what they do? And isn’t reporting to TWO supervisors the very opposite of efficiency?
"…The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglass, who died on this day in 1895. (Photo from Wikipedia)
thisistheday.beehiiv.com/p/february-20
Frederick Douglass, who died on this day in 1895. (Photo from Wikipedia)
thisistheday.beehiiv.com/p/february-20
February 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"…The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglass, who died on this day in 1895. (Photo from Wikipedia)
thisistheday.beehiiv.com/p/february-20
Frederick Douglass, who died on this day in 1895. (Photo from Wikipedia)
thisistheday.beehiiv.com/p/february-20
From today's devotional:
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters."
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters."
February 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
From today's devotional:
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters."
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters."
"On this day in 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, which forcibly displaced Japanese Americans to internment camps. Before this order, Japanese American farmers accounted for thirty percent of all California farms."
thisistheday.beehiiv.com/p/february-19
thisistheday.beehiiv.com/p/february-19
February 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"On this day in 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, which forcibly displaced Japanese Americans to internment camps. Before this order, Japanese American farmers accounted for thirty percent of all California farms."
thisistheday.beehiiv.com/p/february-19
thisistheday.beehiiv.com/p/february-19
Luisa Capetillo, 1911: "What do we think of those who oppose all ideas of equality and human freedom? We consider them traitors, Judases who have betrayed the Teacher. Those who judge unrealized ideas to be utopian are obstacles, and obstacles must be pushed aside. …
February 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Luisa Capetillo, 1911: "What do we think of those who oppose all ideas of equality and human freedom? We consider them traitors, Judases who have betrayed the Teacher. Those who judge unrealized ideas to be utopian are obstacles, and obstacles must be pushed aside. …
Oh, come on, @nytimes.com, could you please stop kissing up to this tyrant’s delusional sense of his masculinity? “Muscular?” Please. Try “corpulent” or “entitled” instead.
January 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Oh, come on, @nytimes.com, could you please stop kissing up to this tyrant’s delusional sense of his masculinity? “Muscular?” Please. Try “corpulent” or “entitled” instead.
3/4🧵 In this example, misinformation and the media are treated as the same thing, essentially agreeing with the Orange Fuhrer's use of the term "fake news." These bastards are subtle, and they shy away from specifics. They will pretend to be on your side, but they are wolves in sheep's clothing.
January 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
3/4🧵 In this example, misinformation and the media are treated as the same thing, essentially agreeing with the Orange Fuhrer's use of the term "fake news." These bastards are subtle, and they shy away from specifics. They will pretend to be on your side, but they are wolves in sheep's clothing.
1/4🧵This is the bait-and-switch of right-wing Christianity, to pretend to political neutrality while reinforcing white Christian nationalism. "He Gets Us" is financed by anti-queer right-wing evangelicals.
January 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
1/4🧵This is the bait-and-switch of right-wing Christianity, to pretend to political neutrality while reinforcing white Christian nationalism. "He Gets Us" is financed by anti-queer right-wing evangelicals.