Democratic Barbara
@barbtries.bsky.social
💙Born liberal: love and equality for everybody. Spiritual humanist/atheist. Thumbnail: my daughter Bekah Zask 06Jul1980-19Jul2001. Full time unpaid member of #TheOpposition #BlueCrew#BLM💙💙🇺🇸 🌈🇺🇦 I say fuck a lot.
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Democratic Barbara
@barbtries.bsky.social
· Jan 27
#BeTheOpposition #SaveDemocracy
06Nov2024: I lost a lot of my faith that day. My determination to keep on being me, to stay active, to fight the tide of fascism that threatens to ruin us, is strong. To always stand on the side where love, kindness, equality, and acceptance mean more than greed.
06Nov2024: I lost a lot of my faith that day. My determination to keep on being me, to stay active, to fight the tide of fascism that threatens to ruin us, is strong. To always stand on the side where love, kindness, equality, and acceptance mean more than greed.
One piece done one to go.
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
One piece done one to go.
deviling eggs, candying sweet potatoes, baking frozen pies and trying to do a years' worth of neglected housework.
I have no appetite for Christmas this year (thinking about a big haul for a food pantry, and just being together on the day), but Thanksgiving is my favorite.
I have no appetite for Christmas this year (thinking about a big haul for a food pantry, and just being together on the day), but Thanksgiving is my favorite.
a roasted turkey on a table with the words happy thanksgiving family and friends below it
Alt: a roasted turkey on a table with the words happy thanksgiving family and friends below it
my favorite holiday. I have wonderful children, grandchildren, and loved ones far and near that make it all worthwhile even as the world goes to hell in a handbasket. give us this day our annual feast.
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
deviling eggs, candying sweet potatoes, baking frozen pies and trying to do a years' worth of neglected housework.
I have no appetite for Christmas this year (thinking about a big haul for a food pantry, and just being together on the day), but Thanksgiving is my favorite.
I have no appetite for Christmas this year (thinking about a big haul for a food pantry, and just being together on the day), but Thanksgiving is my favorite.
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pure propaganda. omigawd i tire of this shit.
Orwell meets Rockwell. In the most perverse way.
this extremely fashy Trump cult of personality ad featuring Kristi Noem ran this morning on Fox & Friends
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
pure propaganda. omigawd i tire of this shit.
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"...It is empathy that allows us to know that the external world is real.
"Empathy, in other words, is not a condescending concession of a rational person to the emotions of others, but the only way to become a reasonable person."
Pages 65-66
"...It is empathy that allows us to know that the external world is real.
"Empathy, in other words, is not a condescending concession of a rational person to the emotions of others, but the only way to become a reasonable person."
Pages 65-66
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"...It is empathy that allows us to know that the external world is real.
"Empathy, in other words, is not a condescending concession of a rational person to the emotions of others, but the only way to become a reasonable person."
Pages 65-66
"...It is empathy that allows us to know that the external world is real.
"Empathy, in other words, is not a condescending concession of a rational person to the emotions of others, but the only way to become a reasonable person."
Pages 65-66
#ProtestSongOfTheDay
youtu.be/cGvJbijeYSM?...
Faith is like a fire that never burns to embers
Who's gonna stand up, who's gonna fight? The voice of the unheard
Who's gonna break these chains and lies? Love is the answer
I gotta speak it, believe it, that's how I feel inside
I can't sit here quiet
youtu.be/cGvJbijeYSM?...
Faith is like a fire that never burns to embers
Who's gonna stand up, who's gonna fight? The voice of the unheard
Who's gonna break these chains and lies? Love is the answer
I gotta speak it, believe it, that's how I feel inside
I can't sit here quiet
The Resistance
YouTube video by Skillet - Topic
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#ProtestSongOfTheDay
youtu.be/cGvJbijeYSM?...
Faith is like a fire that never burns to embers
Who's gonna stand up, who's gonna fight? The voice of the unheard
Who's gonna break these chains and lies? Love is the answer
I gotta speak it, believe it, that's how I feel inside
I can't sit here quiet
youtu.be/cGvJbijeYSM?...
Faith is like a fire that never burns to embers
Who's gonna stand up, who's gonna fight? The voice of the unheard
Who's gonna break these chains and lies? Love is the answer
I gotta speak it, believe it, that's how I feel inside
I can't sit here quiet
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LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
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US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
988 US helpline
PLEASE REPOST, THANKS!!!
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Here is help:
The Trevor Project US LGBTQ: (866) 488-7386
US Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255
LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
988 US helpline
PLEASE REPOST, THANKS!!!
The Trevor Project US LGBTQ: (866) 488-7386
US Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255
LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
988 US helpline
PLEASE REPOST, THANKS!!!
This validates my suspicion that ICE and the BP are psychologically testing candidates so that they can select for psychopathy. #EndICE
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This validates my suspicion that ICE and the BP are psychologically testing candidates so that they can select for psychopathy. #EndICE
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This old hippy agrees 100%.
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This old hippy agrees 100%.
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My daughter and I visited the house we lived in when she was a baby, and she was shocked a 29-year-old Navy guy could afford a nice house in a safe neighborhood.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My daughter and I visited the house we lived in when she was a baby, and she was shocked a 29-year-old Navy guy could afford a nice house in a safe neighborhood.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
methinks they doth protest too much.
seriously, if their orders were legal they could just thank the Congress people for their PSA, and agree. Instead they want to kill them.
seriously, if their orders were legal they could just thank the Congress people for their PSA, and agree. Instead they want to kill them.
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
methinks they doth protest too much.
seriously, if their orders were legal they could just thank the Congress people for their PSA, and agree. Instead they want to kill them.
seriously, if their orders were legal they could just thank the Congress people for their PSA, and agree. Instead they want to kill them.
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Damn straight!
betty boop is playing a guitar in front of a car that says " don t worry be hippie "
ALT: betty boop is playing a guitar in front of a car that says " don t worry be hippie "
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Damn straight!
there's a lot to be said! But it's about priorities - for myself, it's not me so much as it is future generations. They will live in the world my generation created; I'll do everything in my power to ensure that it is a fair and just world.
There is something to be said about us old hippies doing our part.
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
there's a lot to be said! But it's about priorities - for myself, it's not me so much as it is future generations. They will live in the world my generation created; I'll do everything in my power to ensure that it is a fair and just world.
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November 24, 2025
November 24, 2025
U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
November 24, 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"We will not be able to indulge our sadopopulism for much longer. Given the physics of global warming, the sadopopulist urge to watch others suffer first will bring about mass death."
page 252
more in Alt text
"We will not be able to indulge our sadopopulism for much longer. Given the physics of global warming, the sadopopulist urge to watch others suffer first will bring about mass death."
page 252
more in Alt text
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"We will not be able to indulge our sadopopulism for much longer. Given the physics of global warming, the sadopopulist urge to watch others suffer first will bring about mass death."
page 252
more in Alt text
"We will not be able to indulge our sadopopulism for much longer. Given the physics of global warming, the sadopopulist urge to watch others suffer first will bring about mass death."
page 252
more in Alt text
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
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I've somehow buried the filters beneath every other fucking thing in the closet under the stairs.
We're talking some serious hard labor to get them out now.
We're talking some serious hard labor to get them out now.
a woman opens a cabinet in a kitchen with a microwave above it
Alt: a woman opens a cabinet in a kitchen with a microwave above it
i don't even want to do Christmas this year but that doesn't mean I won't be unpacking it just to replace a filter. yikes
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I've somehow buried the filters beneath every other fucking thing in the closet under the stairs.
We're talking some serious hard labor to get them out now.
We're talking some serious hard labor to get them out now.
#ProtestSongOfTheDay
youtu.be/fgphPFNiVZw?...
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's Pa no more
He puts his cigar out in your face just for kicks
His bedroom window, it is made out of bricks
The National Guard stands around his door
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's Pa no more
mass shutdown starting today!
youtu.be/fgphPFNiVZw?...
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's Pa no more
He puts his cigar out in your face just for kicks
His bedroom window, it is made out of bricks
The National Guard stands around his door
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's Pa no more
mass shutdown starting today!
Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
#ProtestSongOfTheDay
youtu.be/fgphPFNiVZw?...
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's Pa no more
He puts his cigar out in your face just for kicks
His bedroom window, it is made out of bricks
The National Guard stands around his door
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's Pa no more
mass shutdown starting today!
youtu.be/fgphPFNiVZw?...
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's Pa no more
He puts his cigar out in your face just for kicks
His bedroom window, it is made out of bricks
The National Guard stands around his door
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's Pa no more
mass shutdown starting today!
Starting today. #BeTheOpposition #SaveDemocracy
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Starting today. #BeTheOpposition #SaveDemocracy