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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah. Good luck with that.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to know where a country is heading, watch how it treats its teachers and its public schools.
If they are supported, democracy strengthens.
If they are attacked, democracy erodes.
This editorial from the @nytimes.com is a must-read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Are We Losing Our Democracy?

Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 12h

For the the love of all things good and holy, NO.
Good grief. 😑
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Noah Centineo’s ‘Rambo’ Prequel Lands at Lionsgate as Studio Also Strikes Major Deal for ‘Expendables’ Rights

Lionsgate has struck a major deal covering both the "Rambo" and "The Expendables" action franchises with Millennium Media.

variety.com

Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 2d

Only 20 pages in and @kamalaharris.com's book #107Days is completely engrossing, better than I'd even hoped. I have to tear myself away from it to get groceries.
It's answering all the questions I'd had a year ago about what was going on.

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 3d

Just a vile individual. The #GOP, unfortunately, is chock-full of them.

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 3d

And the not-as-young, I can promise you.
www.npr.org/2025/10/31/n...

The American dream feels impossible for many young voters, who see no political fix

We asked readers whether young Americans today can still have a better life than their parents. They responded with stories of economic hardship and growing disillusionment with leaders in Washington.

www.npr.org

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Suparna @2014sdg.bsky.social · 4d

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 4d

Just saw that #BackToTheFuture is back on screens for its 40th anniversary. Be pretty great to see it back on the big screen again.
Still recall the day I saw it in theaters in Spokane. #FunFact: MJF and Lea Thompson had met only 10 min. before the bedroom "Calvin Klein" scene.

Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 5d

More than 42 million people across more than 22 million households relied on #SNAP benefits every month during fiscal year 2025, according to the USDA.
And you want to make their lives harder by cancelling this key program? Shameful and inhumane.

Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 6d

If you're a fan of #AlmostFamous, you'll appreciate this @cbsmornings.bsky.social interview with #CameronCrowe, his start in journalism with @rollingstone.com at the tender age of 15, and his new memoir #TheUncool.
I can't wait to pick it up!
youtu.be/OW6D4Yjvmyo?...

Director Cameron Crowe opens up about new memoir "The Uncool"

YouTube video by CBS Mornings

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 6d

Their entire political world depends on keeping up this "reality show" script that centers on Donald Trump and the world he writes every day. It's literally a cult of personality that is dependent on a reality show of lies, and they'll fight anyone to keep that show on-air at any cost.

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 6d

They're screaming their support for neo-Nazism through cosplay.

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 8d

So many people will need to be sent to prison after this.

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 8d

Basically Rambo in First Blood: Part II: bulging muscles, ammo strapped over his shoulder, massive bowie knife at his side, raiding legal U.S. citizens' homes and leading little kids outside in the cold to be deported. 🙄

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 9d

Still no healthcare plan, or even concepts of a plan, after they gave Lesley Stahl an empty book.

And people STILL believe a single word coming out of trump's mouth? Absolutely ridiculous.

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 9d

Anything to serve der Fuhrer. Reagan wasn't cruel enough, Jesus's Sermon on the Mount is considered "liberal talking points," and Jesus's teachings "don't work anymore," and are now repositioned as "weak."
newrepublic.com/post/174950/...

Christianity Today Editor: Evangelicals Call Jesus “Liberal” and “Weak”

A former evangelical leader is sounding the alarm about the direction his religion is headed in.

newrepublic.com

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 9d

Yep. This is not complicated.

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 10d

Stupid is as stupid does.

Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 10d

If there's any justice left in this country, when all this is over, every one of these Gestapo trash will be in prison for a long time.

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 11d

Here's #AndrewCuomo doing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's job for him. No better campaign material than this.
Cuomo's name is burned, Adams's name is burned, and you're trying to campaign off of both??
Fascinating.
#Mamdani4NewYork

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11d

Man who cut a deal with Trump to avoid conviction for corruption and bribery endorses man who resigned after being credibly accused of sexually abusing 13 women.

All to convince you that the Muslim guy running on affordability for working people is a danger. Hilarious.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12d

Trump will negotiate with Hamas.

He will negotiate with a Russian dictator sworn to destroy America.

He will (allegedly) negotiate with India & Pakistan over a region he couldn’t find on a map.

But he will NOT negotiate with democrats to save millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 11d

This is the result of conservatives' desperation to own the left, even if it completely decimates the country they claim to love so much.
They embraced fascism.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12d

Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…

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Mike Barbre @mikebarbre.bsky.social · 12d

Yep. And nobody's forgetting about the Epstein Files. It's the albatross around his nussy.

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Stephen Wunderlich @swonder.bsky.social · 13d

ICE has purchased guided missile warheads.

Guided missile warheads.

This needs to be the lead story on every news channel.

In every newspaper.

It seems like they’re preparing to go to war with America.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 13d

Get him the fuck out of the White House. It's time. This is bullshit. The American people are suffering. And he doesn't give a damn in the least.

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