Taylor Barnes
@tkbarnes.bsky.social
Field Reporter, @inkstickmedia.bsky.social. Equity Rises grantee, Ploughshares Fund. Atlanta.
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Signal: tkbarnes.10
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Signal: tkbarnes.10
And now a new generation, motivated by US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza, is also calling on the church to divest from the weapons industry.
They've sent hundreds of postcards directly to the investment manager's office.
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They've sent hundreds of postcards directly to the investment manager's office.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
And now a new generation, motivated by US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza, is also calling on the church to divest from the weapons industry.
They've sent hundreds of postcards directly to the investment manager's office.
inkstickmedia.com/gaza-genocid...
They've sent hundreds of postcards directly to the investment manager's office.
inkstickmedia.com/gaza-genocid...
The Tribune cites our exposé, copublished with the Salt Lake City Weekly, dove into the LDS church being a very rare faith-based investor to hold stock in nuclear weapons manufacturers:
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November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Tribune cites our exposé, copublished with the Salt Lake City Weekly, dove into the LDS church being a very rare faith-based investor to hold stock in nuclear weapons manufacturers:
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Update: the Atlanta city council president promoted in these attack ad mailers apparently funded by pro-Israel donors won her election last night, but somewhat narrowly
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Update: the Atlanta city council president promoted in these attack ad mailers apparently funded by pro-Israel donors won her election last night, but somewhat narrowly
@stephensemler.bsky.social on what those billions of stock buybacks add up to -- US taxpayer money to Lockheed and RTX and Northrop Grumman shareholders:
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November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
@stephensemler.bsky.social on what those billions of stock buybacks add up to -- US taxpayer money to Lockheed and RTX and Northrop Grumman shareholders:
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Anduril's executive for its new mega-factory in Ohio is once again calling for children to get ready for careers in weapons manufacturing.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Anduril's executive for its new mega-factory in Ohio is once again calling for children to get ready for careers in weapons manufacturing.
www.10tv.com/article/news...
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#nukesky I’ll be reporting for @inkstickmedia.com what we heard from the plutonium pit contractor SRNS at this public info session in South Carolina last night.
But first sharing this tidbit from a nuclear weapons company town - that contractor has a wing of the local public library named after it!
But first sharing this tidbit from a nuclear weapons company town - that contractor has a wing of the local public library named after it!
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#nukesky I’ll be reporting for @inkstickmedia.com what we heard from the plutonium pit contractor SRNS at this public info session in South Carolina last night.
But first sharing this tidbit from a nuclear weapons company town - that contractor has a wing of the local public library named after it!
But first sharing this tidbit from a nuclear weapons company town - that contractor has a wing of the local public library named after it!
And I’ll take any excuse to post a photo of this - the Lockheed Elementary School in Marietta, a suburb Atlanta. It’s nowadays the low-income school district in the county
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
And I’ll take any excuse to post a photo of this - the Lockheed Elementary School in Marietta, a suburb Atlanta. It’s nowadays the low-income school district in the county
Hmm - got an attack ad mailer today targeting progressive Atlanta City Council president candidate @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social.
It links to a website accusing him of having "out-of-state radicals focused on Palestinian liberation" as donors and of being a "bachelor"!
radicalrohit.com
It links to a website accusing him of having "out-of-state radicals focused on Palestinian liberation" as donors and of being a "bachelor"!
radicalrohit.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hmm - got an attack ad mailer today targeting progressive Atlanta City Council president candidate @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social.
It links to a website accusing him of having "out-of-state radicals focused on Palestinian liberation" as donors and of being a "bachelor"!
radicalrohit.com
It links to a website accusing him of having "out-of-state radicals focused on Palestinian liberation" as donors and of being a "bachelor"!
radicalrohit.com
Utah friends -- our @inkstickmedia.com deep dive into the first-ever divestment and pressure campaign targeting the Mormon church re: weapons company stocks and Israel's genocide in Gaza is on the cover of the Salt Lake City Weekly.
Read more here: inkstickmedia.com/gaza-genocid...
Read more here: inkstickmedia.com/gaza-genocid...
September 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Utah friends -- our @inkstickmedia.com deep dive into the first-ever divestment and pressure campaign targeting the Mormon church re: weapons company stocks and Israel's genocide in Gaza is on the cover of the Salt Lake City Weekly.
Read more here: inkstickmedia.com/gaza-genocid...
Read more here: inkstickmedia.com/gaza-genocid...
Thank you @krclradio.bsky.social in Salt Lake City for having me on again last night to discuss our latest story.
It's about the first-ever divestment campaign targeting the Mormon church, which holds stock in weapons manufacturers that supply the Israeli military:
krcl.org/blog/religio...
It's about the first-ever divestment campaign targeting the Mormon church, which holds stock in weapons manufacturers that supply the Israeli military:
krcl.org/blog/religio...
August 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Thank you @krclradio.bsky.social in Salt Lake City for having me on again last night to discuss our latest story.
It's about the first-ever divestment campaign targeting the Mormon church, which holds stock in weapons manufacturers that supply the Israeli military:
krcl.org/blog/religio...
It's about the first-ever divestment campaign targeting the Mormon church, which holds stock in weapons manufacturers that supply the Israeli military:
krcl.org/blog/religio...
A first-ever Mormon-led divestment campaign is targeting the LDS church's investment manager, a high-impact target since the church is believed to have the largest investment portfolio of any religious organization in the country. #GazaGenocide
Ensign Peak is getting hundreds of letters like this:
Ensign Peak is getting hundreds of letters like this:
August 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A first-ever Mormon-led divestment campaign is targeting the LDS church's investment manager, a high-impact target since the church is believed to have the largest investment portfolio of any religious organization in the country. #GazaGenocide
Ensign Peak is getting hundreds of letters like this:
Ensign Peak is getting hundreds of letters like this:
Bummer - the Missile Defense Agency cancelled the Golden Dome for America industry summit I was registered to attend in Huntsville, Ala, next week
June 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Bummer - the Missile Defense Agency cancelled the Golden Dome for America industry summit I was registered to attend in Huntsville, Ala, next week
Wow, terrific reporting from @theintercept.com about the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs.
Worth noting that neighboring Cobb County dropped a resolution about "unwavering support" for Israel after local outcry. Local public opinion and engagement matters:
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Worth noting that neighboring Cobb County dropped a resolution about "unwavering support" for Israel after local outcry. Local public opinion and engagement matters:
inkstickmedia.com/meet-the-dem...
May 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Wow, terrific reporting from @theintercept.com about the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs.
Worth noting that neighboring Cobb County dropped a resolution about "unwavering support" for Israel after local outcry. Local public opinion and engagement matters:
inkstickmedia.com/meet-the-dem...
Worth noting that neighboring Cobb County dropped a resolution about "unwavering support" for Israel after local outcry. Local public opinion and engagement matters:
inkstickmedia.com/meet-the-dem...
@nytimes.com Your Mujica obit should have a clarification- when the US sent Guantánamo detainees to Uruguay, Obama's envoy wrote: "There is no information that the above mentioned individuals were involved in conducting or facilitating terrorist activities against the [US] or its partners or allies"
May 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
@nytimes.com Your Mujica obit should have a clarification- when the US sent Guantánamo detainees to Uruguay, Obama's envoy wrote: "There is no information that the above mentioned individuals were involved in conducting or facilitating terrorist activities against the [US] or its partners or allies"
Update: Northrop Grumman's CEO told investors yesterday that the building that exploded at missile and rocket plant in Utah's West Desert produced an ingredient for solid rocket motor propellant for their space programs and not for ballistic missiles:
April 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Update: Northrop Grumman's CEO told investors yesterday that the building that exploded at missile and rocket plant in Utah's West Desert produced an ingredient for solid rocket motor propellant for their space programs and not for ballistic missiles:
For example, I learned that centuries-old Indigenous petroglyphs are present among the missile fields, but aren't accessible to the public because of national security restrictions.
April 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
For example, I learned that centuries-old Indigenous petroglyphs are present among the missile fields, but aren't accessible to the public because of national security restrictions.
The Box Elder County sheriff office just released a statement and photo of the explosion at Northrop Grumman’s Promontory (Utah) missile and rocket plant
April 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Box Elder County sheriff office just released a statement and photo of the explosion at Northrop Grumman’s Promontory (Utah) missile and rocket plant
The founder of the Gaza Soup Kitchen describes making meals for people as the genocide goes full steam ahead into its second year as "like being the musicians on the Titanic—playing while the ship sinks." I'm chilled by such harrowing and haunting eloquence.
April 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The founder of the Gaza Soup Kitchen describes making meals for people as the genocide goes full steam ahead into its second year as "like being the musicians on the Titanic—playing while the ship sinks." I'm chilled by such harrowing and haunting eloquence.
My senators Ossoff and Warnock here in Georgia are missing this time around, even though they voted for Sanders' JRDs last year.
April 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My senators Ossoff and Warnock here in Georgia are missing this time around, even though they voted for Sanders' JRDs last year.
Blown away by the stat in this @moreperfectunion.bsky.social video -- with defense contractor profit margins at 9-20%, an estimated $134 billion of the defense budget last year was just profit to private contractors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnu...
April 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Blown away by the stat in this @moreperfectunion.bsky.social video -- with defense contractor profit margins at 9-20%, an estimated $134 billion of the defense budget last year was just profit to private contractors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnu...
Oof. This would be a transfer of lucrative Air Force contracts from unionized United Launch Alliance in rural Alabama to non-union/Elon-profiteering SpaceX:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
March 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Oof. This would be a transfer of lucrative Air Force contracts from unionized United Launch Alliance in rural Alabama to non-union/Elon-profiteering SpaceX:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
But it's not like Anduril is avoiding PR and job creation claims that confer "political benefit" -- the Ohio Republican state government is circulating a social media post claiming the weapons plant is the largest job creation project in state history.
The graphic doesn't mention the subsidies.
The graphic doesn't mention the subsidies.
February 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
But it's not like Anduril is avoiding PR and job creation claims that confer "political benefit" -- the Ohio Republican state government is circulating a social media post claiming the weapons plant is the largest job creation project in state history.
The graphic doesn't mention the subsidies.
The graphic doesn't mention the subsidies.
All caps in the manifesto: WE NEED ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE MORE WEAPONS.
And this jab at Lockheed Martin's scattered F-35 supply chains/ other weapons projects spread across congressional districts for pork barrel purposes.
Anduril claims it will have mostly one mega-weapons plant, this one in Ohio
And this jab at Lockheed Martin's scattered F-35 supply chains/ other weapons projects spread across congressional districts for pork barrel purposes.
Anduril claims it will have mostly one mega-weapons plant, this one in Ohio
February 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
All caps in the manifesto: WE NEED ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE MORE WEAPONS.
And this jab at Lockheed Martin's scattered F-35 supply chains/ other weapons projects spread across congressional districts for pork barrel purposes.
Anduril claims it will have mostly one mega-weapons plant, this one in Ohio
And this jab at Lockheed Martin's scattered F-35 supply chains/ other weapons projects spread across congressional districts for pork barrel purposes.
Anduril claims it will have mostly one mega-weapons plant, this one in Ohio
Noticing some pretty upbeat tones in quarterly earnings calls for defense contractors, who don't expect the DOGE to come for them.
Northrop Grumman, the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, said it would happily build the "Iron Dome" Trump says he wants
Northrop Grumman, the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, said it would happily build the "Iron Dome" Trump says he wants
February 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Noticing some pretty upbeat tones in quarterly earnings calls for defense contractors, who don't expect the DOGE to come for them.
Northrop Grumman, the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, said it would happily build the "Iron Dome" Trump says he wants
Northrop Grumman, the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, said it would happily build the "Iron Dome" Trump says he wants
I took some pictures of that nuclear weapons plant and other Northrop Grumman facilities around Utah on my reporting trips there:
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January 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I took some pictures of that nuclear weapons plant and other Northrop Grumman facilities around Utah on my reporting trips there:
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