Dorothy Barker
@totallydaft.bsky.social
Quaker(Philadelphia Yearly Meeting), She/Her, Outgoing-Introvert, Old Soul, Cat & Dog Person, Amateur Genealogist, Leo with Gemini Rising,
Paralegal, Bourbon lover,
“If not now, when? If not me, who?”
Paralegal, Bourbon lover,
“If not now, when? If not me, who?”
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Bondi: “We'll be taking all available legal action, including an immediate appeal to hold Letitia James and James Comey accountable for their unlawful conduct.”
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Bondi: “We'll be taking all available legal action, including an immediate appeal to hold Letitia James and James Comey accountable for their unlawful conduct.”
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Mark Kelly is a heroic public servant. Donald Trump is a treasonous criminal. Period.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
Pentagon says it might recall Sen. Mark Kelly to military service for court martial over ‘illegal orders’ video | CNN Politics
The Pentagon said Monday that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired US Navy captain, in light of “serious allegations of misconduct” the department has received against him, and co...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Mark Kelly is a heroic public servant. Donald Trump is a treasonous criminal. Period.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
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Just a heads up: He prosecuted two KKK members who committed the 16th Baptist Church (Birmingham) bombing
Former Senator Doug Jones is running for Alabama governor, setting up a possible rematch with Senator Tommy Tuberville. nyti.ms/3XLPfVh
Former Senator Doug Jones Enters Alabama Governor’s Race
The move sets up a possible rematch between Mr. Jones, the last Democrat to win statewide office in Alabama, and Tommy Tuberville, the Republican who ousted him from the Senate in 2020.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Just a heads up: He prosecuted two KKK members who committed the 16th Baptist Church (Birmingham) bombing
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I’m done funding cruelty. Target cuts DEI, Amazon bankrolls this administration, and Home Depot lets ICE terrorize workers on their lots.
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I’m done funding cruelty. Target cuts DEI, Amazon bankrolls this administration, and Home Depot lets ICE terrorize workers on their lots.
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
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Stock up on Onion-branded family heirlooms so your loved ones will have something to pry from your cold dead hands.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Stock up on Onion-branded family heirlooms so your loved ones will have something to pry from your cold dead hands.
https://store.theonion.com/collections/tote-bags
https://store.theonion.com/collections/tote-bags
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
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Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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ICYMI: The great @stevevladeck.bsky.social joined me to break down the ILLEGALITY of Trump’s blowing up of vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
youtu.be/s5UwTnXVX7c?...
youtu.be/s5UwTnXVX7c?...
Trump’s NEW FATAL BOAT STRIKE Triggers MASSIVE LEGAL NIGHTMARE
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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November 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICYMI: The great @stevevladeck.bsky.social joined me to break down the ILLEGALITY of Trump’s blowing up of vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
youtu.be/s5UwTnXVX7c?...
youtu.be/s5UwTnXVX7c?...
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Hey, foreign reporters, you better be as pathetically supine as the American ones or President Whiny McAddlepate will tattle to your leaders about what a big ol' meanie you were to him.
President Trump warns an Australian reporter that he’s hurting Australia because he asked him about his business activity: You are hurting Australia very much right now. They want to get along with me. Your leader is coming to see me soon, I'm going to tell him about you.
September 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Hey, foreign reporters, you better be as pathetically supine as the American ones or President Whiny McAddlepate will tattle to your leaders about what a big ol' meanie you were to him.
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The point shouldn’t be he wasn’t an asshole so he shouldn’t have been shot, it should be we don’t condone extrajudicial killings of people just because we think that they’re assholes.
September 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The point shouldn’t be he wasn’t an asshole so he shouldn’t have been shot, it should be we don’t condone extrajudicial killings of people just because we think that they’re assholes.
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“We are now 24 years past 9/11—and it’s inevitable that our memory of that shocking event…will grow fainter. Perhaps you’ll take a moment to reflect on your own experience and how the world seemed different—surely less fearful—before the terrible destruction.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/memories-o...
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Memories of 9/11
A personal reflection on what was—and what could have been
www.americaamerica.news
September 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“We are now 24 years past 9/11—and it’s inevitable that our memory of that shocking event…will grow fainter. Perhaps you’ll take a moment to reflect on your own experience and how the world seemed different—surely less fearful—before the terrible destruction.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/memories-o...
www.americaamerica.news/p/memories-o...
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I keep seeing people talk about the distance of the shot that killed him. Folks, 200 yards (180m) isn't a difficult shot to make. The average infantry soldier could make that with just iron sights. With a scope, it would be too easy. An operator wasn't needed for that shot. Just an average marksman.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I keep seeing people talk about the distance of the shot that killed him. Folks, 200 yards (180m) isn't a difficult shot to make. The average infantry soldier could make that with just iron sights. With a scope, it would be too easy. An operator wasn't needed for that shot. Just an average marksman.
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WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
September 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
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hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
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The president swapped the innards of one of the world’s premier investigative agencies with pinball machine parts, and now the designated crime solvers can’t solve crimes? Gee, imagine that.
NBC News: "Is it your understanding that [Charlie Kirk's shooter] may be close by or still in Utah?"
The commissioner of Utah’s Department of Public Safety: "We have no idea"
The commissioner of Utah’s Department of Public Safety: "We have no idea"
September 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The president swapped the innards of one of the world’s premier investigative agencies with pinball machine parts, and now the designated crime solvers can’t solve crimes? Gee, imagine that.
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I'm sick after seeing the video of Charlie Kirk being shot.
Violence against civilians is never okay. Political violence — no matter who is hurt — will always beget worse political violence. And it has no place in our country.
Violence against civilians is never okay. Political violence — no matter who is hurt — will always beget worse political violence. And it has no place in our country.
September 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I'm sick after seeing the video of Charlie Kirk being shot.
Violence against civilians is never okay. Political violence — no matter who is hurt — will always beget worse political violence. And it has no place in our country.
Violence against civilians is never okay. Political violence — no matter who is hurt — will always beget worse political violence. And it has no place in our country.
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Please do not call the cops when someone is having a mental health crisis. They escalate the crisis and put people in more danger.
In Philly, you can call 988 to get in touch with non-police mobile crisis teams.
Thank you @leximcmenamin.com for reporting on this for @teenvogue.com.
In Philly, you can call 988 to get in touch with non-police mobile crisis teams.
Thank you @leximcmenamin.com for reporting on this for @teenvogue.com.
Lil Nas X faces felony charges of "battery" against an officer from an arrest during a mental health crisis in late August. I wrote about my family member's experience with police being sent during mental health episodes—still common for wellness checks—and how it ruined their life.
@teenvogue.com
@teenvogue.com
Why Lil Nas X's Arrest Is More Proof Police Have No Business Treating the Mentally Ill
"Police generally aren’t trained or qualified to respond to mental health crises."
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September 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Please do not call the cops when someone is having a mental health crisis. They escalate the crisis and put people in more danger.
In Philly, you can call 988 to get in touch with non-police mobile crisis teams.
Thank you @leximcmenamin.com for reporting on this for @teenvogue.com.
In Philly, you can call 988 to get in touch with non-police mobile crisis teams.
Thank you @leximcmenamin.com for reporting on this for @teenvogue.com.
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I'm still confused. Why did they spend years hyping these files and making their base rabid about it if they don't want to release them
September 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I'm still confused. Why did they spend years hyping these files and making their base rabid about it if they don't want to release them
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We know how Trump, Republicans and Jillian Michaels feel about museums, history & slavery.
But what do historians, scholars & educators think about what this administration is doing
But what do historians, scholars & educators think about what this administration is doing
'Are We Creating Critical Thinkers?' Historians Say Smithsonian Review Reflects Today's Anti-Intellectualism
“We're in a very dangerous moment when everybody's considered an expert, where your training doesn't matter."
dlvr.it
September 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We know how Trump, Republicans and Jillian Michaels feel about museums, history & slavery.
But what do historians, scholars & educators think about what this administration is doing
But what do historians, scholars & educators think about what this administration is doing
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"This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline"
Personal favorite
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline"
Personal favorite
September 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
"This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline"
Personal favorite
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline"
Personal favorite
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For me it's "here come the bus, here come the bus" when the kids are getting picked up from school . . . youtu.be/uGqTZUcemrU?...
Here Comes The Judge | Sammy Davis Jr | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
YouTube video by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
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September 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
For me it's "here come the bus, here come the bus" when the kids are getting picked up from school . . . youtu.be/uGqTZUcemrU?...
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Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
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This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
September 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
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Right up until the minute Trump’s business ventures like Trump Shuttle, Trump Atlantic City casinos, Trump Steaks, Trump University, etc, etc, went bankrupt, Trump was claiming they were a huge success with big things right around the corner. Just like now with the economy.
September 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Right up until the minute Trump’s business ventures like Trump Shuttle, Trump Atlantic City casinos, Trump Steaks, Trump University, etc, etc, went bankrupt, Trump was claiming they were a huge success with big things right around the corner. Just like now with the economy.