Lee
@ltbarber.bsky.social
Photographer, glider pilot, tinkerer.
Tarheel, former adoped ATLien + Rochestarian. Go Bills!
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Tarheel, former adoped ATLien + Rochestarian. Go Bills!
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There is only one Big Beautiful Bill and his name is Joshua Patrick Allen
December 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
There is only one Big Beautiful Bill and his name is Joshua Patrick Allen
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absolutely the fuck not
Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
absolutely the fuck not
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I hate this stuff so much. It’s just a completely terrible user experience by design. It can’t even be profitable, I just don’t get it.
It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I hate this stuff so much. It’s just a completely terrible user experience by design. It can’t even be profitable, I just don’t get it.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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one thing that i don't think people remark enough on is Bovino is not a political appointee
Bovino on Abrego Garcia: "When he becomes deportable, he is going to get deported. And he needs to be deported now."
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
one thing that i don't think people remark enough on is Bovino is not a political appointee
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Hello, my name is Generic Democratic Candidate in an extremely red district or state. I'm a veteran, a small business owner and a parent who will work with anyone. I am running for X office against a right-wing candidate in a race they will certainly win. Can I get 20,000,000 likes and $2 million?
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Hello, my name is Generic Democratic Candidate in an extremely red district or state. I'm a veteran, a small business owner and a parent who will work with anyone. I am running for X office against a right-wing candidate in a race they will certainly win. Can I get 20,000,000 likes and $2 million?
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Hi Senator. Glad you're posting to Bluesky. But kinda weird that you're trying to kill Section 230 at the same time which would make it very difficult for Bluesky to exist. Maybe think through that a bit more carefully?
What possible use could there be to adding these two bozos to that conversation? More gangster gong show? Just what Ukraine needs, right? So shaming for U.S.
s2.washingtonpost.com/461627e/693c...
s2.washingtonpost.com/461627e/693c...
Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiator spark concern
FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, have met with Ukraine’s top delegate amid a U.S. pressure campaign on Kyiv to trade land for peace.
s2.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hi Senator. Glad you're posting to Bluesky. But kinda weird that you're trying to kill Section 230 at the same time which would make it very difficult for Bluesky to exist. Maybe think through that a bit more carefully?
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Like, everybody has lost their minds, but the average man in particular has just gone completely off the goddamn deep end. All they know is sports bet, eat Fad Diet, and lie about their feelings
December 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Like, everybody has lost their minds, but the average man in particular has just gone completely off the goddamn deep end. All they know is sports bet, eat Fad Diet, and lie about their feelings
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In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
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Confession: socialists make me anxious because I find it hard to figure out whether they are making fun of themselves or me
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Confession: socialists make me anxious because I find it hard to figure out whether they are making fun of themselves or me
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Okay this is going to be long so mute it if you don't want a granular explanation but first: SHAME on @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social for misrepresenting what Chair Powell said in order to pat himself on the back. Shame on you.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
@peark.es seems real bad that the fed chair doesn't trust the job numbers
L - Last week.
R - This week.
R - This week.
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Okay this is going to be long so mute it if you don't want a granular explanation but first: SHAME on @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social for misrepresenting what Chair Powell said in order to pat himself on the back. Shame on you.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
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Healthcare for profit is evil as it is but "want patients to become consumers" is just despicable.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Healthcare for profit is evil as it is but "want patients to become consumers" is just despicable.
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THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIPPED A GANG OF EIGHT MEETING????!!!!
Mike Johnson on video of the second September 2 strike: "My admission here is I was not in the Gang of 8 briefing yesterday because we were working on the healthcare stuff"
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIPPED A GANG OF EIGHT MEETING????!!!!
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Platform idea: abolish DHS, refound the WPA
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Platform idea: abolish DHS, refound the WPA
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435 isn’t a magic constitutional number. Congress can and should enlarge the size of the House. But it won’t.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/10/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/10/o...
The Supreme Court just escalated the redistricting war. Congress must end it. - The Boston Globe
The best solution would be to increase the size of the House of Representatives from its current 435 members.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
435 isn’t a magic constitutional number. Congress can and should enlarge the size of the House. But it won’t.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/10/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/10/o...
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Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?
From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...
www.teenvogue.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
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"We're going to use tremendous amounts of money to do something very stupid, that physics argues strongly against, and has no practical application."
An Elon Musk joint.
An Elon Musk joint.
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"We're going to use tremendous amounts of money to do something very stupid, that physics argues strongly against, and has no practical application."
An Elon Musk joint.
An Elon Musk joint.
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the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
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Yes, and what if your access to affordable healthcare was considered a right guaranteed to everyone by the government and not a bauble of certain types of employment or friggin club store membership? What then?
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Yes, and what if your access to affordable healthcare was considered a right guaranteed to everyone by the government and not a bauble of certain types of employment or friggin club store membership? What then?
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QOTD from the CEO of a bankrupt US e-bike manufacturer:
"I really thought Trump would put the tariffs higher on our competitors, and least help local manufacturers … but the tariffs didn’t help local manufacturers at all" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"I really thought Trump would put the tariffs higher on our competitors, and least help local manufacturers … but the tariffs didn’t help local manufacturers at all" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
QOTD from the CEO of a bankrupt US e-bike manufacturer:
"I really thought Trump would put the tariffs higher on our competitors, and least help local manufacturers … but the tariffs didn’t help local manufacturers at all" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"I really thought Trump would put the tariffs higher on our competitors, and least help local manufacturers … but the tariffs didn’t help local manufacturers at all" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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normally when i say “don’t ventriloquize the dead”, i don’t mean it so literally
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
normally when i say “don’t ventriloquize the dead”, i don’t mean it so literally
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a *lynching*? huh.
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
a *lynching*? huh.
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The Sunday morning political shows are just an opportunity for conservatives to lie as they push their very unpopular ideas and policies to a complicit press willing to have their programs launder these ideas.
It’s been this way for decades and few noticed or cared.
But now it’s just dangerous.
It’s been this way for decades and few noticed or cared.
But now it’s just dangerous.
October 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The Sunday morning political shows are just an opportunity for conservatives to lie as they push their very unpopular ideas and policies to a complicit press willing to have their programs launder these ideas.
It’s been this way for decades and few noticed or cared.
But now it’s just dangerous.
It’s been this way for decades and few noticed or cared.
But now it’s just dangerous.