Barry Freed
@barryfreed.bsky.social
Archivist/Librarian, erstwhile Arabist, cinephile, certified Voight-Kampff test administrator, Antipope of Antifa.
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Death Note reboot where Light Yagami works his way down from the top of the Forbes 400 list.
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To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
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One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
December 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
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Sure sounds like a no-quarter order that everyone understood to be a no-quarter order without calling it that. Which is a war crime.
This is the Witch Trials theory of war: If they try not to drown at sea, they're terrorists.
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Sure sounds like a no-quarter order that everyone understood to be a no-quarter order without calling it that. Which is a war crime.
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
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It remains slightly troubling to me that the wealthiest man in the world and the commander in chief of the world's largest military are overt white supremacists
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It remains slightly troubling to me that the wealthiest man in the world and the commander in chief of the world's largest military are overt white supremacists
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"Steam has banned Horses" is awful news and, stripped entirely of context, a fun idea to think about
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"Steam has banned Horses" is awful news and, stripped entirely of context, a fun idea to think about
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Trump's (well, let's be real: Miller's) insistence on repeatedly fucking over Cuban emigres is genuinely fascinating to me, because I really am curious to see how much shit the Florida Cuban community is willing to eat from these guys.
South Floridians from Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela expecting to become U.S. citizens this week learned instead that their naturalization ceremonies had been canceled after the Trump administration issued a sweeping directive aimed at halting immigration from so-called high-risk countries.
South Florida immigrants on cusp of citizenship told to wait as DHS changes policy
The cancellations, confirmed by multiple immigration attorneys, came after the Trump administration paused immigration from 19 nations and froze all asylum claims.
www.miamiherald.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Trump's (well, let's be real: Miller's) insistence on repeatedly fucking over Cuban emigres is genuinely fascinating to me, because I really am curious to see how much shit the Florida Cuban community is willing to eat from these guys.
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Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
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I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
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Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
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Two things:
1) How can people floating in open water continue a drug run? Swim a thousand miles towing a crate?
2) More importantly, drugs are not weapons, and a drug run is not a national security threat, especially not an immediate one to the world's most powerful navy.
1) How can people floating in open water continue a drug run? Swim a thousand miles towing a crate?
2) More importantly, drugs are not weapons, and a drug run is not a national security threat, especially not an immediate one to the world's most powerful navy.
A top admiral is expected to tell lawmakers tomorrow that he and his legal adviser concluded that the two survivors of a boat strike in September were attempting to continue their drug run, making them and the damaged vessel legitimate targets for another attack.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the September attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Two things:
1) How can people floating in open water continue a drug run? Swim a thousand miles towing a crate?
2) More importantly, drugs are not weapons, and a drug run is not a national security threat, especially not an immediate one to the world's most powerful navy.
1) How can people floating in open water continue a drug run? Swim a thousand miles towing a crate?
2) More importantly, drugs are not weapons, and a drug run is not a national security threat, especially not an immediate one to the world's most powerful navy.
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives gave that girl an award for writing a terrible essay? For getting a trans person fired? This whole thing is an op.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Oklahoma House of Representatives gave that girl an award for writing a terrible essay? For getting a trans person fired? This whole thing is an op.
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Lady Snowblood
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Lady Snowblood
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Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers | CNN
Ammar Wadi knew he was risking his life when he set out to get a bag of flour for his family from an aid truck near the Zikim crossing into Gaza in June.
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
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For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
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Again I would point to the Twitter OSINT crowd - a collection of experts on determining the veracity of videos who experienced a strong and lasting shift from mostly pro to mostly anti IDF stances in the first couple months of the war
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Again I would point to the Twitter OSINT crowd - a collection of experts on determining the veracity of videos who experienced a strong and lasting shift from mostly pro to mostly anti IDF stances in the first couple months of the war
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I would say this is gutter racism but frankly the gutter racists are not this fucking bizarre about it. it takes a special kind of brain to talk about human beings like you're introducing a new species of beetle to an ecosystem.
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I would say this is gutter racism but frankly the gutter racists are not this fucking bizarre about it. it takes a special kind of brain to talk about human beings like you're introducing a new species of beetle to an ecosystem.
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they really are trying to import the south african racial system exactly
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
they really are trying to import the south african racial system exactly
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christ, what a disgrace the UK media is.
So, looks like it’s official: BBC house style is to refer to trans people as “biological men/boys/women/girls who identify as women/girls/men/boys”. Transphobic rhetoric now Licence Fee-funded mainstream terminology
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding
Girlguiding says the move is in response to the Supreme Court ruling that said sex meant biological sex in equality law.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
christ, what a disgrace the UK media is.
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to reiterate a point from the column trump’s pardons of fraudsters and corrupt politicians should be understood as an expression of his belief that corruption should not be a crime
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
to reiterate a point from the column trump’s pardons of fraudsters and corrupt politicians should be understood as an expression of his belief that corruption should not be a crime
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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NYT: Is the President tired?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
NYT: Is the President tired?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
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I was not aware that the engineered bioweapon of covid-19 also gives you HIV, thanks for the info, dude who will now decide that more kids should get measles.
Boy, when Trump said he'd let RFK Jr. "go wild on health" he really wasn't kidding.
Boy, when Trump said he'd let RFK Jr. "go wild on health" he really wasn't kidding.
Meet the head of a federal panel expected to upend the childhood vaccine schedule later this week. Dr. Kirk Milhoan believes that Covid was made in North Carolina and deployed to China as a bioweapon ... among other conspiracy theories. www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...
December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I was not aware that the engineered bioweapon of covid-19 also gives you HIV, thanks for the info, dude who will now decide that more kids should get measles.
Boy, when Trump said he'd let RFK Jr. "go wild on health" he really wasn't kidding.
Boy, when Trump said he'd let RFK Jr. "go wild on health" he really wasn't kidding.
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Dreamt about another elusive LP that only exists in the world of dreams. It was…
Stan Laurel & Sonny Liston - Jazz At Stonehenge (HMV, 1960)
The cover showed Stan and Sonny in hunting tweeds, looking at each other as if they were both prizefighters at a weigh-in, a megalith standing between them.
Stan Laurel & Sonny Liston - Jazz At Stonehenge (HMV, 1960)
The cover showed Stan and Sonny in hunting tweeds, looking at each other as if they were both prizefighters at a weigh-in, a megalith standing between them.
December 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Dreamt about another elusive LP that only exists in the world of dreams. It was…
Stan Laurel & Sonny Liston - Jazz At Stonehenge (HMV, 1960)
The cover showed Stan and Sonny in hunting tweeds, looking at each other as if they were both prizefighters at a weigh-in, a megalith standing between them.
Stan Laurel & Sonny Liston - Jazz At Stonehenge (HMV, 1960)
The cover showed Stan and Sonny in hunting tweeds, looking at each other as if they were both prizefighters at a weigh-in, a megalith standing between them.