John Barcus 🇵🇸
@johnroundtheworld.bsky.social
Lawyer, traveler, foodie. Twitter refugee. I liked it better when politics were interesting instead of terrifying. Fuck Trump and fuck Elon. 🏳️🌈🇱🇧🍉🕊️
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I have been in court and on airplanes for the last several hours and am catching up on news. When does Judge Jeanine choose her pope name?
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A hill I’ll keep dying on: Whatever your politics, the fact that so many U.S. leaders do not understand basic constitutional law—or willfully distort it—reflects extremely poorly on our country.
May 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A hill I’ll keep dying on: Whatever your politics, the fact that so many U.S. leaders do not understand basic constitutional law—or willfully distort it—reflects extremely poorly on our country.
I have been in court and on airplanes for the last several hours and am catching up on news. When does Judge Jeanine choose her pope name?
May 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I have been in court and on airplanes for the last several hours and am catching up on news. When does Judge Jeanine choose her pope name?
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Trump's approval is tanking in ways that are very likely to accelerate once the impact of tariffs starts hitting consumers.
Today, we get news that the SSA is backing off plans to shutter phone services and that the admin. has backed down on student visa revocations.
These phenomena are related.
Today, we get news that the SSA is backing off plans to shutter phone services and that the admin. has backed down on student visa revocations.
These phenomena are related.
April 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Trump's approval is tanking in ways that are very likely to accelerate once the impact of tariffs starts hitting consumers.
Today, we get news that the SSA is backing off plans to shutter phone services and that the admin. has backed down on student visa revocations.
These phenomena are related.
Today, we get news that the SSA is backing off plans to shutter phone services and that the admin. has backed down on student visa revocations.
These phenomena are related.
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Never forget: Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off her career as a college professor.
April 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Never forget: Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off her career as a college professor.
The Battle of Mar-a-Lago would be a fitting way to celebrate.
Today marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolution. Our nation was founded on resistance to arbitrary authority and monarchical power. We built a democracy in the face of impossible odds. We must continue to protect it.
April 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Battle of Mar-a-Lago would be a fitting way to celebrate.
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Those are brownshirts and concentration camps and the people writing these stories need to start calling them what they are.
A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.
Documents reveal how military contractors want to take over mass deportations
The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.
www.politico.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Those are brownshirts and concentration camps and the people writing these stories need to start calling them what they are.
We are two news cycles away from Russia giving military aid to Musk and Trump. Putin’s soldiers in our cities, crushing dissent? I wouldn’t bet against it.
We are one news cycle away from Trump giving military aid to Russia.
February 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are two news cycles away from Russia giving military aid to Musk and Trump. Putin’s soldiers in our cities, crushing dissent? I wouldn’t bet against it.
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And you know who you have to blame for this, Nikki?
February 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
And you know who you have to blame for this, Nikki?
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
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ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent
WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe?
ZELENSKYY: Yes
WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe?
ZELENSKYY: Yes
February 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent
WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe?
ZELENSKYY: Yes
WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe?
ZELENSKYY: Yes
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Money talks
We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
February 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Money talks
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New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter
Dismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy Department
The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.
www.bloomberg.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter
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Wild times we live in.
Tweet via 2018.
Tweet via 2018.
February 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Wild times we live in.
Tweet via 2018.
Tweet via 2018.
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We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article)
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
Will Fort Worth’s Goldee’s get the recognition it deserves? youtu.be/X8SIKtStUVM?...
I Tried The #1 BBQ In Texas
YouTube video by Joshua Weissman
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February 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Will Fort Worth’s Goldee’s get the recognition it deserves? youtu.be/X8SIKtStUVM?...
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JD Vance, Elon Musk, and some Republican lawmakers appear to be laying the rhetorical groundwork to potentially defy court orders that block the Trump Administration’s unlawful abuses of executive power.
If they go this route, it would trigger a constitutional crisis.
If they go this route, it would trigger a constitutional crisis.
February 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
JD Vance, Elon Musk, and some Republican lawmakers appear to be laying the rhetorical groundwork to potentially defy court orders that block the Trump Administration’s unlawful abuses of executive power.
If they go this route, it would trigger a constitutional crisis.
If they go this route, it would trigger a constitutional crisis.
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[slaps National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on roof] This baby can go from zero to quisling in TWO DAYS FLAT
www.thehandbasket.co/p/ncmec-doj-...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/ncmec-doj-...
Missing children’s org removes LGBTQIA+ materials per Trump DOJ demand
A staffer at NCMEC confirms the distressing effort to comply with Trump's executive order.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
[slaps National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on roof] This baby can go from zero to quisling in TWO DAYS FLAT
www.thehandbasket.co/p/ncmec-doj-...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/ncmec-doj-...
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this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
Tent City Rising at Guantánamo Bay (Gift Article)
These are the first independent images to emerge from the migrant operation that the Trump administration has begun at the Navy base.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
It’s hard to fathom what the destruction of USAID would have done to my uncle. He spent decades working for USAID in Haiti, India, Zambia, and Bolivia, helping us use our wealth to help others. Now it’s gone? President Musk and the DOGEbros can get fucked. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Recall of USAID’s global workforce causes havoc and distress
USAID employees stationed overseas are struggling to navigate the sudden upheaval, having received little clear information from the Trump administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
It’s hard to fathom what the destruction of USAID would have done to my uncle. He spent decades working for USAID in Haiti, India, Zambia, and Bolivia, helping us use our wealth to help others. Now it’s gone? President Musk and the DOGEbros can get fucked. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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You should print out your Social Security Statement. Elon and who knows how many countless others now have access to your private information, so it'd be wise to have a record of it.
February 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You should print out your Social Security Statement. Elon and who knows how many countless others now have access to your private information, so it'd be wise to have a record of it.
Amy Klobuchar assumes there will be a “next election” but cites no evidence.
February 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Amy Klobuchar assumes there will be a “next election” but cites no evidence.
Jesus fucking Christ. Did the white cishet sons of confederate veterans club not get a pass? Or is that implied? (It’s implied.)
February 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Jesus fucking Christ. Did the white cishet sons of confederate veterans club not get a pass? Or is that implied? (It’s implied.)
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Folks, Democratic leaders don’t fear you.
They feel very, very cozy.
I say this from direct experience, years of experience.
They should fear you. It’s the only thing that works with them.
They feel very, very cozy.
I say this from direct experience, years of experience.
They should fear you. It’s the only thing that works with them.
February 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Folks, Democratic leaders don’t fear you.
They feel very, very cozy.
I say this from direct experience, years of experience.
They should fear you. It’s the only thing that works with them.
They feel very, very cozy.
I say this from direct experience, years of experience.
They should fear you. It’s the only thing that works with them.