Luis Bárcena
lu1bar.bsky.social
Luis Bárcena
@lu1bar.bsky.social
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It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.
NYT puts farmer pain on Page One:

@nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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yes! how can *both sides* turn down the temperature when one side keeps dousing everything in accelerant?
It's also prepping for the establishment just capitulating further, once these assholes are out of power, under the guise of "turning down the temperature."
i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
October 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.
October 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that.

Thank you, Greg, and rest well.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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We will need Nuremberg-like trials
ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas
October 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The reason every elite institution in the country is propping up pampered millionaire Ezra Klein is that his overarching response to the country’s plunge into tyranny is “Don’t fight the fascists, become a little more like them.”
October 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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“if you wish to see a virgin on-screen” thank u economics professor tyler cowen for that very cool and normal phrase
October 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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That's about "the French don't even have a word for entrepreneur" level.
US Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack:

Peace is an illusion. There has never been peace.

There will probably never be peace.

Somebody wants dominance, which means somebody has to submit. There is no Arabic word for submit. They can't wrap their head around submit.
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
September 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Ezra Klein on today’s podcast:

“The reaction to my article about Charlie Kirk was intense; it really made me think how America is in a dangerous place.

Anyhow here’s an interview with Ben Shapiro about how society is made of lions and scavengers and how Obama being too woke ruined the country.”
September 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Me recuerda cuando cierto influencer español de la web 2.0 escribió hace años: «Si me documentara, escribiría mucho menos y esto no tendría tanto éxito».
you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩
September 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Guy with a Dr. Strangelove avi who’s never heard of the Red Scare
Even ignoring how the Dixie Chicks and “freedom fries” were more than 20 years ago, how do these people look at themselves in the mirror with dignity. Is this really it for punditry now? Is it just “you started it” until the end of time, are you all just nine fucking years old now
September 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Never been a more successful mass gaslighting campaign than telling you it's inciting violence to call someone racist or a fascist.

While those same people are like "we should mass execute millions of children and veterans if they don't own property or can afford rent"
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Me desespera lo mucho que cierta banda culpa a las redes sociales e internet por todo. Breve recordatorio de que literalmente el en difundir la teoría de conspiración de que las balas del asesino de Kirk tenían mensaje de «ideología trans» fue el pinche WSJ.
September 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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In an almost laughable parody, Shellenberger is working on a project examining the left’s “dehumanization” of the right.

The profound level of dishonesty and cynicism it requires to paint dehumanization of one’s political opponents as remotely a left-wing issue is staggering.

Unserious man.
Left’s Dehumanization Of MAGA Behind Rising Support For Violence
Decrying Charlie Kirk’s assassination isn’t enough
www.public.news
September 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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In other news, do we think Jacobin knows about the Jacobins
September 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?

It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
September 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
13 - a song featuring a featured artist

Little Trouble Girl ~ Sonic Youth feat. Kim Deal

youtu.be/fJWJcSTPNpM?...

#SonicYouth #KimGordon #KimDeal
September 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for “attacking” Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated
September 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I'm genuinely confused at so much of my feed being filled with "Don't celebrate Charlie Kirk being shot **because** this gives Trump the go ahead to violently crush opposition." Did you mean to add "faster" to the end of that sentence? Like, he wasn't waiting for an impetus. It's happening already
September 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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this is all true but it's also hard to say how much that matters given the fact that this is literally their rhetoric all the time now
Rufo calling for mass arrests, Blake Masters & Cernovich calling for RICO against Dem & left funders, and a whole lot of everyday people begging for martial law, or, even worse, "gloves off." 99.9% of whom are just spouting off, but today if anything teaches us the damage that one .1% fool can do.
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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This is your brain on techofascist billionaire money.
September 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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conservatives are increasingly going to deal with issues because they treat a man being murdered in broad daylight and a beloved character being recast with a black actor as the exact same level of severity. everything is a crisis and the only acceptable response is to "crush" the enemy
September 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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the website that lists Rachel first as someone allegedly celebrating Kirk's murder screenshots a tweet where she explicitly condemns violence & says she hopes he survives. for that she's receiving death & rape threats
September 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM