Gary Barker
@grbrkr.bsky.social
Entrepreneur, Designer, Sculptor, Builder, Inventor, Curler. Oh, and Extreme CA Native Gardener, Beek, Staunch Progressive, Connoisseur of the B-Side, Proud Oaklander. Among other things.
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We're the canaries in the coal mine of social catastrophes: mass shooters, terrorism, dictatorship. Ppl engaged in those activities virtually always start with target practice on women, knowing no one stop them & we'll be blamed somehow...as if we're flies who made the bad boys pull off our wings.
To be a rapist is to be a dictator at the personal level.
We knew he had raped dozens of women and girls.
Now he is ruling like a dictator at the national level.
Just like he promised.
The abuse of women is not incidental. Ever.
#RemoveTrump
We knew he had raped dozens of women and girls.
Now he is ruling like a dictator at the national level.
Just like he promised.
The abuse of women is not incidental. Ever.
#RemoveTrump
August 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
We're the canaries in the coal mine of social catastrophes: mass shooters, terrorism, dictatorship. Ppl engaged in those activities virtually always start with target practice on women, knowing no one stop them & we'll be blamed somehow...as if we're flies who made the bad boys pull off our wings.
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UTAH… this is not a game…
July 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
UTAH… this is not a game…
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Rory Gilmore eat your heart out!!!!!
May 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Rory Gilmore eat your heart out!!!!!
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Iowa constituent: "People will die" because of Republicans' cuts to Medicaid.
Joni Ernst: "Well, we all are going to die."
Holy shit. This chick needs to be sent back to castrating hogs.
Nathan Sage, a Marine mechanic raised in a trailer park, is the candidate to do it.
And we can help him!!
Joni Ernst: "Well, we all are going to die."
Holy shit. This chick needs to be sent back to castrating hogs.
Nathan Sage, a Marine mechanic raised in a trailer park, is the candidate to do it.
And we can help him!!
May 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Iowa constituent: "People will die" because of Republicans' cuts to Medicaid.
Joni Ernst: "Well, we all are going to die."
Holy shit. This chick needs to be sent back to castrating hogs.
Nathan Sage, a Marine mechanic raised in a trailer park, is the candidate to do it.
And we can help him!!
Joni Ernst: "Well, we all are going to die."
Holy shit. This chick needs to be sent back to castrating hogs.
Nathan Sage, a Marine mechanic raised in a trailer park, is the candidate to do it.
And we can help him!!
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We needed this. I don't know how he's managing it, but if the rest of them don't step up after this, they all need to go.
April 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We needed this. I don't know how he's managing it, but if the rest of them don't step up after this, they all need to go.
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Senator Cory Booker is the best of us.
Thank you, Cory!!!!
Thank you, Cory!!!!
April 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Senator Cory Booker is the best of us.
Thank you, Cory!!!!
Thank you, Cory!!!!
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Cory Booker is spitting TRUTH on the Senate floor right now!! He’s been going all night, and if he keeps going, he may just break a record!
Just checked the stream, and he’s up to 91 million likes — that’s INSANE! Exactly the energy we need!!!
Salute, Senator 🫡🇺🇸
Just checked the stream, and he’s up to 91 million likes — that’s INSANE! Exactly the energy we need!!!
Salute, Senator 🫡🇺🇸
April 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Cory Booker is spitting TRUTH on the Senate floor right now!! He’s been going all night, and if he keeps going, he may just break a record!
Just checked the stream, and he’s up to 91 million likes — that’s INSANE! Exactly the energy we need!!!
Salute, Senator 🫡🇺🇸
Just checked the stream, and he’s up to 91 million likes — that’s INSANE! Exactly the energy we need!!!
Salute, Senator 🫡🇺🇸
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In surpassing Strom Thurmond’s record, Cory Booker has toppled another Confederate monument.
Kudos to you @booker.senate.gov.
Kudos to you @booker.senate.gov.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
In surpassing Strom Thurmond’s record, Cory Booker has toppled another Confederate monument.
Kudos to you @booker.senate.gov.
Kudos to you @booker.senate.gov.
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.
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Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people.
Blazing your own path for the W
👏👏👏👏👏
Blazing your own path for the W
👏👏👏👏👏
April 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people.
Blazing your own path for the W
👏👏👏👏👏
Blazing your own path for the W
👏👏👏👏👏
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Thank you to the voters of Wisconsin.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
American democracy is not dead.
Far fucking from it.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
American democracy is not dead.
Far fucking from it.
April 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Thank you to the voters of Wisconsin.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
American democracy is not dead.
Far fucking from it.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
American democracy is not dead.
Far fucking from it.
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I wish this were just some harmless fantasy cooked up in the rust-colored recesses of his muddled & macerated “mind”. But it’s not. This is a full-blown, authoritarian fever dream from a guy who looks like he fell face-first into a vat of expired self-tanner.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
The Constitution Isn’t Into Threesomes.
Third Terms Are for Dictators, Not Donalds
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April 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I wish this were just some harmless fantasy cooked up in the rust-colored recesses of his muddled & macerated “mind”. But it’s not. This is a full-blown, authoritarian fever dream from a guy who looks like he fell face-first into a vat of expired self-tanner.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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I wrote this essay about Noem nearly a year ago. The week, the now “Secretary of Homeland Security”, made a video in front of what looked like a concentration camp, in which she wore a $60K watch and used imprisoned human beings as props.
This was the goal.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
This was the goal.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
Puppy killing to court the mob.
MAGA & the glorification of gratuitous violence.
open.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I wrote this essay about Noem nearly a year ago. The week, the now “Secretary of Homeland Security”, made a video in front of what looked like a concentration camp, in which she wore a $60K watch and used imprisoned human beings as props.
This was the goal.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
This was the goal.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
View outside my window. Oakland, CA.
February 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
View outside my window. Oakland, CA.
As the indefatigable artist Bill Russell reached an impressive milestone, I felt he deserved a little something special to celebrate.
January 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
As the indefatigable artist Bill Russell reached an impressive milestone, I felt he deserved a little something special to celebrate.
This is what you do when you're retired. You build a propane tank cozy to keep the tank from rolling around in the back of your SUV.
January 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is what you do when you're retired. You build a propane tank cozy to keep the tank from rolling around in the back of your SUV.
My secret life as a curler. Here’s Thursday night’s league at the curling club. Our team is the Mid-Century Moderns, comprised of 3 guys born in the 1950’s and an amazing 13-year-old kid. I’m the one in the grey hat. #curling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqMQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqMQ...
January 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My secret life as a curler. Here’s Thursday night’s league at the curling club. Our team is the Mid-Century Moderns, comprised of 3 guys born in the 1950’s and an amazing 13-year-old kid. I’m the one in the grey hat. #curling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqMQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqMQ...
I LOVE Bulky Trash Day! I look forward to it all year long!
January 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I LOVE Bulky Trash Day! I look forward to it all year long!