Distressed
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❤️Michigan roots, NYC soul, Venice FL transplant ❤️
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Distressed
@kimbarber.bsky.social
· Nov 16
The Word of the Day is ‘recrudescence’: the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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Tariffs.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
June 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Tariffs.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...
Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights!
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...
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March 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...
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Look at these numbers—not as statistics, but as lives lost because of the dismantling of USAID and the wildly successful PEPFAR program. These are real people—families, parents, spouses, children—being condemned to death. Don't let the scale numb your empathy.
pepfar.impactcounter.com
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PEPFAR Impact Tracker
Track the impact of PEPFAR funding halt
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February 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Look at these numbers—not as statistics, but as lives lost because of the dismantling of USAID and the wildly successful PEPFAR program. These are real people—families, parents, spouses, children—being condemned to death. Don't let the scale numb your empathy.
pepfar.impactcounter.com
pepfar.impactcounter.com
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USAID staff have two days to clean out their offices at the agency’s former headquarters in DC.
People are gathering on the sidewalk in the rain to show their support, applauding workers as they pass by.
People are gathering on the sidewalk in the rain to show their support, applauding workers as they pass by.
February 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
USAID staff have two days to clean out their offices at the agency’s former headquarters in DC.
People are gathering on the sidewalk in the rain to show their support, applauding workers as they pass by.
People are gathering on the sidewalk in the rain to show their support, applauding workers as they pass by.
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Wow. From an email sent around by appalled USAID officials:
"The termination to contracts, grants, and assistance agreements over the last two weeks and the huge bulk last night were not done according to federal laws, regulations and procedures..."
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-midnight...
"The termination to contracts, grants, and assistance agreements over the last two weeks and the huge bulk last night were not done according to federal laws, regulations and procedures..."
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-midnight...
A Midnight Global Health Massacre
Life-saving programs, including George W. Bush’s cherished global AIDS initiative, were hit in the latest, harshest round of cuts.
www.thebulwark.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Wow. From an email sent around by appalled USAID officials:
"The termination to contracts, grants, and assistance agreements over the last two weeks and the huge bulk last night were not done according to federal laws, regulations and procedures..."
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-midnight...
"The termination to contracts, grants, and assistance agreements over the last two weeks and the huge bulk last night were not done according to federal laws, regulations and procedures..."
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-midnight...
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RIP Gene Hackman. An incredible actor with a huge range. Sad to hear his wife has passed away also.
February 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
RIP Gene Hackman. An incredible actor with a huge range. Sad to hear his wife has passed away also.
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February 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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My 9 year-old daughter drew this tonight after 217 spineless Republicans voted to cut $880B in Medicaid in order to give tax breaks to the super rich.
How are you feeling?
How are you feeling?
February 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
My 9 year-old daughter drew this tonight after 217 spineless Republicans voted to cut $880B in Medicaid in order to give tax breaks to the super rich.
How are you feeling?
How are you feeling?
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Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people
February 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people
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This hits hard…
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
February 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This hits hard…
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
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My only criticism of George Orwell’s 1984 is that it wasn’t titled 2025.
February 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
My only criticism of George Orwell’s 1984 is that it wasn’t titled 2025.
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First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.
NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.
Completely disgusted! So, if I’m a woman or a minority im disqualified from being a leader in my country now! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon (Gift Article)
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Completely disgusted! So, if I’m a woman or a minority im disqualified from being a leader in my country now! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.
February 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.
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I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?
February 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?
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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot.
REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
February 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot.
REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
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Never surrender.
No matter what your fight may be.
It could be a fight against a foreign dictator, a social media oligarch, or that politician who behaves disgracefully, yet still manages to win elections.
Or all these battles at once.
But remember, you are not alone.
You are in good company 🇺🇦⚔️
No matter what your fight may be.
It could be a fight against a foreign dictator, a social media oligarch, or that politician who behaves disgracefully, yet still manages to win elections.
Or all these battles at once.
But remember, you are not alone.
You are in good company 🇺🇦⚔️
February 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Never surrender.
No matter what your fight may be.
It could be a fight against a foreign dictator, a social media oligarch, or that politician who behaves disgracefully, yet still manages to win elections.
Or all these battles at once.
But remember, you are not alone.
You are in good company 🇺🇦⚔️
No matter what your fight may be.
It could be a fight against a foreign dictator, a social media oligarch, or that politician who behaves disgracefully, yet still manages to win elections.
Or all these battles at once.
But remember, you are not alone.
You are in good company 🇺🇦⚔️
All too frightening what one powerful man can do to destroy our democracy!
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How Musk is cancelling the U.S. government
Friends,
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February 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
All too frightening what one powerful man can do to destroy our democracy!
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More details on this shockingly sloppy episode.
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
More details on this shockingly sloppy episode.
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Total coincidence that the NYT, NPR, and NBC are all being forced out of the Pentagon and replaced with right-wing outlets. I’m sure those names were just picked out of a hat randomly!
NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
February 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Total coincidence that the NYT, NPR, and NBC are all being forced out of the Pentagon and replaced with right-wing outlets. I’m sure those names were just picked out of a hat randomly!
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Pete Buttigeig for President!
January 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Pete Buttigeig for President!