Rick Barry
@therickbarry.bsky.social
ED of Center for Christian Civics. Very, very pro pluralist democracy, the Wachowskis, pretentious literary short fiction, Doctor Who, kindness.
I know it's cliche to say that, as you get older, your GILMORE GIRLS sympathies shift, but I've been re-watching some of it with my wife and legit just asked, "Why do they keep cutting back to scenes with Rory so much?"
October 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I know it's cliche to say that, as you get older, your GILMORE GIRLS sympathies shift, but I've been re-watching some of it with my wife and legit just asked, "Why do they keep cutting back to scenes with Rory so much?"
Okay, I know things SEEM bad, but have you all considered that that one guy I know insisted that, "There's nothing he can do that the next guy couldn't just undo?"
May 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Okay, I know things SEEM bad, but have you all considered that that one guy I know insisted that, "There's nothing he can do that the next guy couldn't just undo?"
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My first instinct in reading this article was to post it and say, "But her emails!" Then I thought that that wouldn't actually add anything. /1
www.wired.com/story/tm-sig...
www.wired.com/story/tm-sig...
The Signal Clone Mike Waltz Was Caught Using Has Direct Access to User Chats
A new analysis of TM Signal’s source code appears to show that the app sends users’ message logs in plaintext. At least one top Trump administration official used the app.
www.wired.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My first instinct in reading this article was to post it and say, "But her emails!" Then I thought that that wouldn't actually add anything. /1
www.wired.com/story/tm-sig...
www.wired.com/story/tm-sig...
The SAVE act is up for a vote soon. If passed, it would end voter registration drives, registering by mail to vote, and online voter registration. It would lock the right to vote away behind passport fees that are prohibitively expensive for millions of families.
April 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The SAVE act is up for a vote soon. If passed, it would end voter registration drives, registering by mail to vote, and online voter registration. It would lock the right to vote away behind passport fees that are prohibitively expensive for millions of families.
This piece popped up elsewhere today, so I'd like to share my own @bklynlibrary.bsky.social story:
Fifteen years ago this month, I got laid off because I declined to move back to Armenia. I was physically broken (needed a cane to walk) and mentally exhausted. 🧵
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
Fifteen years ago this month, I got laid off because I declined to move back to Armenia. I was physically broken (needed a cane to walk) and mentally exhausted. 🧵
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public Library
Librarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship
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April 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This piece popped up elsewhere today, so I'd like to share my own @bklynlibrary.bsky.social story:
Fifteen years ago this month, I got laid off because I declined to move back to Armenia. I was physically broken (needed a cane to walk) and mentally exhausted. 🧵
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
Fifteen years ago this month, I got laid off because I declined to move back to Armenia. I was physically broken (needed a cane to walk) and mentally exhausted. 🧵
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
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this is straightforwardly concentration camp stuff.
just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.
just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
this is straightforwardly concentration camp stuff.
just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.
just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.
I think one of the things that makes this administration so confounding is that there are multiple distressing narratives about its end goals that conflict with each other but are still true, because there are a lot of cooks in the kitchen and the chef is mostly checked out.
April 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I think one of the things that makes this administration so confounding is that there are multiple distressing narratives about its end goals that conflict with each other but are still true, because there are a lot of cooks in the kitchen and the chef is mostly checked out.
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
The most unrealistic thing about Jurassic Park isn't the dinosaurs, it's that the investors and insurance company would want a team of experts to inspect the park instead of just asking guests to sign a waiver.
April 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The most unrealistic thing about Jurassic Park isn't the dinosaurs, it's that the investors and insurance company would want a team of experts to inspect the park instead of just asking guests to sign a waiver.
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6/ Healthy democracies rely on an independent legal profession to maintain the rule of law, independent universities to guard objective truth and provide forums for dissent to authority, and independent state/local government to counterbalance a powerful federal government.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
6/ Healthy democracies rely on an independent legal profession to maintain the rule of law, independent universities to guard objective truth and provide forums for dissent to authority, and independent state/local government to counterbalance a powerful federal government.
Remember when we didn't have a national deficit? It wasn't that long ago. It was literally in my lifetime.
March 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Remember when we didn't have a national deficit? It wasn't that long ago. It was literally in my lifetime.
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This is an INCREDIBLY serious story for Washington, DC.
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
February 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
This is an INCREDIBLY serious story for Washington, DC.
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
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This was March 27th 1933
Hitler was sworn in just 2 months prior.
Hitler was sworn in just 2 months prior.
February 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This was March 27th 1933
Hitler was sworn in just 2 months prior.
Hitler was sworn in just 2 months prior.
One of the things that has been galling to me about politics basically my entire adult life, but especially during the last decade of overt assaults on the structural integrity of our government, has been the revelation of just how much so many people take for granted.
We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
February 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One of the things that has been galling to me about politics basically my entire adult life, but especially during the last decade of overt assaults on the structural integrity of our government, has been the revelation of just how much so many people take for granted.
For years, I've told people that "bureaucracy is good because it stops bad ideas from being implemented quickly." I...never expected that to become such a partisan statement.
February 8, 2025 at 3:37 AM
For years, I've told people that "bureaucracy is good because it stops bad ideas from being implemented quickly." I...never expected that to become such a partisan statement.
Friendly reminder that our federal government was not designed for parties. Congress is supposed to be fighting the president. Instead, we've been living with half of congress coordinating with the president to fight the other half of congress for generations now.
February 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Friendly reminder that our federal government was not designed for parties. Congress is supposed to be fighting the president. Instead, we've been living with half of congress coordinating with the president to fight the other half of congress for generations now.
Despair has a seductive allure, especially for those of us who are already tired from years of trying to hold bad things back. But there’s nothing poetic or noble in it. No one needs your despair—not even you. I say this to myself more than anyone.
January 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Despair has a seductive allure, especially for those of us who are already tired from years of trying to hold bad things back. But there’s nothing poetic or noble in it. No one needs your despair—not even you. I say this to myself more than anyone.
You know what we need right as that "probable next pandemic" we've been hearing about since like September really starts to pick up speed? A comms blackout from the CDC.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...
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As bird flu expands, concern grows over communications blackout by federal health agencies
As bird flu expands, infecting almost 70 people and forcing a Long Island duck farm to euthanize almost 100,000 birds, there was concern over a communications blackout by the CDC and other federal hea...
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January 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
You know what we need right as that "probable next pandemic" we've been hearing about since like September really starts to pick up speed? A comms blackout from the CDC.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...
As a #millennial, I actively try not to engage in the insults and condescension that older generations aimed at us in our 20s.
That said, Gen Z turned "aesthetic" into an adjective and I hate it.
That said, Gen Z turned "aesthetic" into an adjective and I hate it.
January 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
As a #millennial, I actively try not to engage in the insults and condescension that older generations aimed at us in our 20s.
That said, Gen Z turned "aesthetic" into an adjective and I hate it.
That said, Gen Z turned "aesthetic" into an adjective and I hate it.
:::youth pastor voice::: You know who ELSE is rizz’n?
November 23, 2024 at 3:01 PM
:::youth pastor voice::: You know who ELSE is rizz’n?
In a hotel lobby ahead of a meeting, the TV behind me is set to local news. The last story, about a robbery, started with the anchor declaring, "A city under siege!" Buried near the end of the story was a one-sentence acknowledgement that, "Robberies in the city are down 35% this year."
November 15, 2024 at 1:05 PM
In a hotel lobby ahead of a meeting, the TV behind me is set to local news. The last story, about a robbery, started with the anchor declaring, "A city under siege!" Buried near the end of the story was a one-sentence acknowledgement that, "Robberies in the city are down 35% this year."
Years ago, I was talking with a friend and mentioned that white evangelicals need to learn from Black Christians how to thrive in the faith without normative cultural power. Sunday I talked with a friend about how white evangelicals need to learn from Black Christians how to lament.
November 12, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Years ago, I was talking with a friend and mentioned that white evangelicals need to learn from Black Christians how to thrive in the faith without normative cultural power. Sunday I talked with a friend about how white evangelicals need to learn from Black Christians how to lament.