Zach
@thesecretbarn.bsky.social
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History, politics, elections. CA -> NM
Usually self-aware reply guy
History, politics, elections. CA -> NM
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Some military service personnel have started seeking outside legal counsel about the missions Trump has assigned them.
At least two members of the National Guard have already said they will defy orders to unlawfully occupy Oregon.
This is what we need.
Good people standing up to fascism.
At least two members of the National Guard have already said they will defy orders to unlawfully occupy Oregon.
This is what we need.
Good people standing up to fascism.
Military personnel seek legal advice on whether Trump-ordered missions are lawful
Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. The strikes against alleged drug traffickers and deployments to...
www.pbs.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Some military service personnel have started seeking outside legal counsel about the missions Trump has assigned them.
At least two members of the National Guard have already said they will defy orders to unlawfully occupy Oregon.
This is what we need.
Good people standing up to fascism.
At least two members of the National Guard have already said they will defy orders to unlawfully occupy Oregon.
This is what we need.
Good people standing up to fascism.
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Not for nothing, this is one reason why we say "pregnant patient" instead of "woman." It's not just for non-binary inclusion.
In addition to the fact that it's very much the power imbalance and legal responsibility to protect them that makes them children, it's also disturbing that so many people are willingly like "listen, 15 year olds are hot, and that's a fact." They are children. They look like children.
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Not for nothing, this is one reason why we say "pregnant patient" instead of "woman." It's not just for non-binary inclusion.
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I mean, Emily wants the attention, so, I'll give it to her!
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, Emily wants the attention, so, I'll give it to her!
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I don’t mean to be glib but this is probably a more damning indictment of American elite culture than the Iraq Invasion.
Every single time! Epstein will write:
"porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no"
and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying:
"You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."
"porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no"
and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying:
"You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I don’t mean to be glib but this is probably a more damning indictment of American elite culture than the Iraq Invasion.
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This is infuriating. He said, I’m doing ethnic cleansing and got a fucking pass. Your rent will fall because I’m sending your neighbor to a torture prison abroad indefinitely. Journalists, whose job is to figure this out, and treat people skeptically, especially known liars, were totally flummoxed
This was the only housing plan offered up by the Trump campaign and no one in the media thought it interesting enough to ask for details.
The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations.
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is infuriating. He said, I’m doing ethnic cleansing and got a fucking pass. Your rent will fall because I’m sending your neighbor to a torture prison abroad indefinitely. Journalists, whose job is to figure this out, and treat people skeptically, especially known liars, were totally flummoxed
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The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
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The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
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in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
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But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.
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If someone wants to play actual hard ball I say this should be used to drag AG in front of congress
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If someone wants to play actual hard ball I say this should be used to drag AG in front of congress
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NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
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Everyone is dunking on Kim Kardashian. The truth is the California bar is notoriously hard, the pass rate was only 55%, the pass rate for people who didn‘t go to an accredited law school is way lower, and lots of very smart and dedicated people don’t pass the first time and become good lawyers.
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All fucking full of shit'
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All f---ing full of s---'
'All f---ing full of s---': Kim Kardashian has some choice words for the psychics who predicted she'd pass the bar exam.
ew.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Everyone is dunking on Kim Kardashian. The truth is the California bar is notoriously hard, the pass rate was only 55%, the pass rate for people who didn‘t go to an accredited law school is way lower, and lots of very smart and dedicated people don’t pass the first time and become good lawyers.
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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My kingdom for someone to write up how everything they've done to date is fundamentally just the Admin unilaterally deciding what to spend money on, or not
There's no law, no rule controlling what they're doing, it's solely what they're choosing
There's no law, no rule controlling what they're doing, it's solely what they're choosing
I guess if they can illegally pay the full military paycheck why is it so hard to find the remaining 25% of half a month’s pay for the military for food stamps to keep the poor on your side.
These people are incredibly dumb.
All stick no carrot
These people are incredibly dumb.
All stick no carrot
November 8, 2025 at 3:52 AM
My kingdom for someone to write up how everything they've done to date is fundamentally just the Admin unilaterally deciding what to spend money on, or not
There's no law, no rule controlling what they're doing, it's solely what they're choosing
There's no law, no rule controlling what they're doing, it's solely what they're choosing
They’re gonna uphold the tariffs
This just into the newsroom
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
They’re gonna uphold the tariffs
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this sort of thing makes me feel sincerely that we have fallen from grace as a civilisation
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
this sort of thing makes me feel sincerely that we have fallen from grace as a civilisation
Incredible. Can we start runnings ads on this immediately, please?
SCOOP: Trump is pardoning Michael McMahon, a retired NYC cop convicted of acting as an unregistered Chinese agent in a plot to intimidate a Chinese family in NJ.
Prosecutors said it was part of a CCP effort to control Chinese nationals around the world.
The WH says McMahon was tricked into it.
Prosecutors said it was part of a CCP effort to control Chinese nationals around the world.
The WH says McMahon was tricked into it.
Trump Pardons Ex-Officer Convicted in a Chinese Government Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Incredible. Can we start runnings ads on this immediately, please?
Does she have a substack or a givesendgo or something? Or is she the rare attention-seeking bigot who hasn’t figured out how to grift
Can't believe this thrice-divorced weirdo is back in the news
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Does she have a substack or a givesendgo or something? Or is she the rare attention-seeking bigot who hasn’t figured out how to grift
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Rudy Giuliani convened a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping five years ago today. Good times. No, really: The times are unlikely to *ever* get any better than this.
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Rudy Giuliani convened a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping five years ago today. Good times. No, really: The times are unlikely to *ever* get any better than this.
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I’ll admit to being one of the people laughing that they spent more trying to get Cuomo elected than ZM will cost them in taxes, but it’s so obvious now that the point wasn’t money. It was access. They literally can’t conceive of a person in power who’s not in their pocket and at their beck and call
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’ll admit to being one of the people laughing that they spent more trying to get Cuomo elected than ZM will cost them in taxes, but it’s so obvious now that the point wasn’t money. It was access. They literally can’t conceive of a person in power who’s not in their pocket and at their beck and call