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Mark Barnes SF 🌈
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Progressive | LGBTQI Witness to the violent last gasp of Christo-fascism and white supremacy
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1h
Trump Is Failing
America is hurting while Trump is making out like bandit.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1h
PsychoPete’s Living Guide to Boycotting the Gestapo Streamers
Because silence has a soundtrack — and it’s playing on Spotify.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1h
"Trump’s model for governance predates all that; it goes back to the prerevolutionary days of the Bourbon kings, when the monarch was the state, when l’état c’est moi, when there was no government as such, but rather, and only, the monarch’s court."
More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - The American Prospect
Last year, financier Scott Bessent excoriated the Biden administration for its revival of industrial policy. Now as Trump’s Treasury secretary, he the government would be expanding investments in comp...
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1h
US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts
The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1h
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In Meme Self-Own, Trump Reveals He is Not "For Us"
The AI video of Trump dumping shit on Americans after #NoKings just gave Democrats an opening to make their case for 2026
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1h
How to Make Every Day No Kings Day
Because defeating fascism is a daily job
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1h
The Profound Shame of JD Vance
Trump’s lapdog defends racist Young Republicans as “boys,” while some are almost his age—as they slur Indian women, like his wife, Usha, as “dirty.” How much did he get for his soul?
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1h
Civil Resistance Confronts the Autocracy
While MAGA’s spin was both insane and revealing, the No Kings Day 2 Marches were a major step towards taking our country back.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1h
“‘American Dynamism’ cloaks itself as a moral crusade, but it’s an idolatry of wealth, nationalism and weaponry”
The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 2h
“Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity
After a protest against ICE, federal prosecutors pursued guilt-by-association charges against two “antifa” protesters.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 2h
Every Day is No Kings Day
A friend texted me last night and said she was so bummed that she missed No Kings Day, as she had important family plans that were scheduled long before the protests were announced.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 2h
Democrats finally seem ready to address the Gaza genocide, but it won’t matter if they don’t support Palestinian rights
Trump’s flawed ceasefire plan has opened a door for Democrats to amend their shameful failure to end the Gaza genocide. But it requires doing something few Democrats have been willing to do: support P...
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 2h
"As the Supreme Court rapidly rewrites precedent, Graves believes that the nationwide right to gay marriage secured by Obergefell v .Hodges could be undone"
Author: Gutting voting rights would be ‘no surprise’
Lisa Graves isn’t counting on Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to protect voting rights — or gay marriage.
www.sfexaminer.com
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
"But the infiltration we feared is here. The Trump regime has slithered into Bluesky, just as it infected every other platform. Leaving isn’t a strategy—it’s surrender."
Note from Grandma's Wake
So we held a wake for Grandma—and the jackals showed up wearing bibs and cutlery.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
"Our clients followed the rules, appearing in court as the government ordered, only to be ambushed and then subjected to conditions that no human being should ever endure”
Civil Rights Groups Seek Federal Court Orders to Halt Trump Administration’s Immigration Courthouse Arrests and Inhumane Detention Conditions | ACLU of Northern CA
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data
We’re in a fight for our right to speak up, and out—but it’s not the first time.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
Massive No Kings protest in SF—and all over the country. Where was Lurie? - 48 hills
Lots of talk about the billionaire class. The city's billionaire mayor was nowhere in sight
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
Trump Keeps Overreaching: Will It Backfire?
Today on TAP: No university has agreed to his latest extortion plan. And his vindictive partisan shutdown of the NY-NJ Gateway tunnel project could be a life preserver for Democrat Mikie Sherrill in t...
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
Trump’s Portland Lies Euphemized as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’
When corporate media refuse to call a lie a lie, they enable the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism.
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
The Palestinian Authority may become a casualty of the Trump plan and the new Western consensus
Western support for a two-state solution was never intended to create Palestinian statehood — it was meant to justify the existence of the Palestinian Authority. Now that the Western consensus is shif...
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
"And I think what we’re doing is processing unpleasant information in such a way that we don’t have to look at it too directly."
The History of American Fear | American Experience | PBS
An Interview with Horror Historian David J. Skal
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Hochul or Trump — It’s Wall Street
Wall Street destroyed NYC’s social welfare economy in 1975. Can mass movements stop it from defeating Mamdani’s agenda?
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI
We The People Are Not Afraid of You, Donald.
A Declaration of Decent Americans
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 1d
“There’s a reason why people don’t see the Democratic Party as being able to effectively fight fascism or be in opposition to Trump right now”
'For better or worse': How California’s antisemitism bill became a proxy for the war in Gaza
The controversial bill forced a no-win choice on lawmakers: Fight antisemitism or protect classroom freedoms.
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