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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One piece done one to go.
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
One piece done one to go.
#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
#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
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"A politician who wins office with the help of algorithms is unlikely to lead us into a human future."
page 153
"A politician who wins office with the help of algorithms is unlikely to lead us into a human future."
page 153
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"A politician who wins office with the help of algorithms is unlikely to lead us into a human future."
page 153
"A politician who wins office with the help of algorithms is unlikely to lead us into a human future."
page 153
the people in charge are distracting him with these shiny toys. let's put gold crap all over the WH. hell, let's just tear down the East Wing. We'll have a ballroom. We'll pave the Rose Garden, and make an arc d'trump.
and all on our dime while we suffer.
and all on our dime while we suffer.
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
the people in charge are distracting him with these shiny toys. let's put gold crap all over the WH. hell, let's just tear down the East Wing. We'll have a ballroom. We'll pave the Rose Garden, and make an arc d'trump.
and all on our dime while we suffer.
and all on our dime while we suffer.
and even looks like a fascist
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
and even looks like a fascist
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"Social mobility requires cooperative labor. Freedom includes the right to organize. Union membership girds solidarity. It also supports factuality...."
Page 364
"Social mobility requires cooperative labor. Freedom includes the right to organize. Union membership girds solidarity. It also supports factuality...."
Page 364
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"Social mobility requires cooperative labor. Freedom includes the right to organize. Union membership girds solidarity. It also supports factuality...."
Page 364
"Social mobility requires cooperative labor. Freedom includes the right to organize. Union membership girds solidarity. It also supports factuality...."
Page 364
Mass Blackout 25Nov-Dec02 2025
Protest the authoritarian takeover of the USA
Protest the authoritarian takeover of the USA
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Mass Blackout 25Nov-Dec02 2025
Protest the authoritarian takeover of the USA
Protest the authoritarian takeover of the USA
I laid in supplies yesterday to do my best to take part in this protest. We're not going to get a General Strike so these actions become very important.
#BeTheOpposition #SaveDemocracy
#BeTheOpposition #SaveDemocracy
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I laid in supplies yesterday to do my best to take part in this protest. We're not going to get a General Strike so these actions become very important.
#BeTheOpposition #SaveDemocracy
#BeTheOpposition #SaveDemocracy
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"The notion that what was good about the state was that it arrested other people was a trap laid for white Americans, a preparation for social stasis and anger.
"Tyrannies make anxiety seem normal."
Pages 198-99
"The notion that what was good about the state was that it arrested other people was a trap laid for white Americans, a preparation for social stasis and anger.
"Tyrannies make anxiety seem normal."
Pages 198-99
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"The notion that what was good about the state was that it arrested other people was a trap laid for white Americans, a preparation for social stasis and anger.
"Tyrannies make anxiety seem normal."
Pages 198-99
"The notion that what was good about the state was that it arrested other people was a trap laid for white Americans, a preparation for social stasis and anger.
"Tyrannies make anxiety seem normal."
Pages 198-99
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"There is no cave, except the one we enter when we close our eyes to the world and our hearts to others."
Page 85
"There is no cave, except the one we enter when we close our eyes to the world and our hearts to others."
Page 85
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"There is no cave, except the one we enter when we close our eyes to the world and our hearts to others."
Page 85
"There is no cave, except the one we enter when we close our eyes to the world and our hearts to others."
Page 85
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Mass Blackout 25Nov-02Dec2025
time to put the hurt on the people hurting us.
Mass Blackout 25Nov-02Dec2025
time to put the hurt on the people hurting us.
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
www.instagram.com/reel/DROWSln...
Mass Blackout 25Nov-02Dec2025
time to put the hurt on the people hurting us.
Mass Blackout 25Nov-02Dec2025
time to put the hurt on the people hurting us.
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"Racism stops us from being pluralistic and so prevents us from being free."
Page 197
"Racism stops us from being pluralistic and so prevents us from being free."
Page 197
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"Racism stops us from being pluralistic and so prevents us from being free."
Page 197
"Racism stops us from being pluralistic and so prevents us from being free."
Page 197
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so I've skipped black friday shopping since the 1980s so it's not hard for me, but even if i wanted to, this is a good deed, telling the administration what you're doing is not working for your bosses, the people.
so I've skipped black friday shopping since the 1980s so it's not hard for me, but even if i wanted to, this is a good deed, telling the administration what you're doing is not working for your bosses, the people.
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
so I've skipped black friday shopping since the 1980s so it's not hard for me, but even if i wanted to, this is a good deed, telling the administration what you're doing is not working for your bosses, the people.
so I've skipped black friday shopping since the 1980s so it's not hard for me, but even if i wanted to, this is a good deed, telling the administration what you're doing is not working for your bosses, the people.
#DailyTimSnyder #OnFreedom
…in a world governed by inevitability, there can be no freedom. The politics of inevitability generates passivity, dampening the fighting spirit of individuals. Free people resist impersonal forces or turn them to their own purposes; they do not kneel before abstractions.
…in a world governed by inevitability, there can be no freedom. The politics of inevitability generates passivity, dampening the fighting spirit of individuals. Free people resist impersonal forces or turn them to their own purposes; they do not kneel before abstractions.
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#DailyTimSnyder #OnFreedom
…in a world governed by inevitability, there can be no freedom. The politics of inevitability generates passivity, dampening the fighting spirit of individuals. Free people resist impersonal forces or turn them to their own purposes; they do not kneel before abstractions.
…in a world governed by inevitability, there can be no freedom. The politics of inevitability generates passivity, dampening the fighting spirit of individuals. Free people resist impersonal forces or turn them to their own purposes; they do not kneel before abstractions.
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
…everyone at the beginning of life needs the help of others.
Natality, not fatality. Better a womb than a tomb. Thinking of Socrates’s mother, we begin the philosophy of freedom not from an enclosing cave but from an opening world.
Page 89
…everyone at the beginning of life needs the help of others.
Natality, not fatality. Better a womb than a tomb. Thinking of Socrates’s mother, we begin the philosophy of freedom not from an enclosing cave but from an opening world.
Page 89
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
…everyone at the beginning of life needs the help of others.
Natality, not fatality. Better a womb than a tomb. Thinking of Socrates’s mother, we begin the philosophy of freedom not from an enclosing cave but from an opening world.
Page 89
…everyone at the beginning of life needs the help of others.
Natality, not fatality. Better a womb than a tomb. Thinking of Socrates’s mother, we begin the philosophy of freedom not from an enclosing cave but from an opening world.
Page 89
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"As sovereign individuals, we learn to care about these ideals, and balance them, and bring them to life. We can also learn to create them. We don’t borrow from an ideal world. We reach toward it and expand it."
page 86
"As sovereign individuals, we learn to care about these ideals, and balance them, and bring them to life. We can also learn to create them. We don’t borrow from an ideal world. We reach toward it and expand it."
page 86
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"As sovereign individuals, we learn to care about these ideals, and balance them, and bring them to life. We can also learn to create them. We don’t borrow from an ideal world. We reach toward it and expand it."
page 86
"As sovereign individuals, we learn to care about these ideals, and balance them, and bring them to life. We can also learn to create them. We don’t borrow from an ideal world. We reach toward it and expand it."
page 86
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Russia has become a genocidal fascist empire for many reasons, but one of them is negative freedom. This concept made it hard to see that its oligarchy was the antithesis of freedom (rather than a side effect)...."
Page 70
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
Page 70
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Russia has become a genocidal fascist empire for many reasons, but one of them is negative freedom. This concept made it hard to see that its oligarchy was the antithesis of freedom (rather than a side effect)...."
Page 70
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
Page 70
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
"We cannot be neutral: we either deaden the world around us, or we make it more lively."
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
Page 98
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
Page 98
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"We cannot be neutral: we either deaden the world around us, or we make it more lively."
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
Page 98
#DailyTimothySnyder #OnFreedom
Page 98
The next project for my daily keyboard warrioring has to do with this phenomenal book, which I just finished reading for the 2nd time.
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The next project for my daily keyboard warrioring has to do with this phenomenal book, which I just finished reading for the 2nd time.
Mass Protest DC 22Nov2025
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Mass Protest DC 22Nov2025
There may be an action near you to support Veterans with direct street action.
maydaystrong.org
maydaystrong.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
There may be an action near you to support Veterans with direct street action.
maydaystrong.org
maydaystrong.org
Just found this it was the first 4th of July after women lost their right to bodily autonomy. I had it taped to my front door. Was that 2022?
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just found this it was the first 4th of July after women lost their right to bodily autonomy. I had it taped to my front door. Was that 2022?