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Ray Barr - Dad, teacher, triathlete, coach
@rwbarr.bsky.social
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Dad with two young sons, ex-lawyer turned ESE Teacher, triathlete, coach, fighting for equal rights for all!

🐿️ADHDaf.

Tired of the vitriol and hate. Ready to see America move beyond polarized partisanship.
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The best part of being a public school teacher are the dress up days. (Good knows it's not the pay.) But I'm really excited for "dress as your favorite holiday movie day" at school this year.
Photo shows a t-shirt emblazoned with "Nakatomi Plaza Christmas Party 1988" showing the facade from the Die Hard movie with Santa's sleigh flying overhead.
December 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Would someone please take the Orange Man to Oz and hang some sort of really big medal around his neck so he'll feel he finally measures up to a real President.

(Trump fails again in quest to finally have a medal as big as President Obama's.)
Photo is a picture of a deranged orange president, who recently claimed that 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was accepted "on his behalf" by Venezuelan liberal, Maria Corina Machado, after being snubbed (and rightfully so) by Peace Prize committee in his quest to finally have a medal as big as President Obama's.
October 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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New research indicates that big gavels are over-compensation for other inadequacies.
Photo shows a bearded male legislator in blue suit and red tie wielding a gavel nearly the length of his arm. Caption is from AP news. Caption reads "Texas GOP considers censoring state representatives who aren't conservative enough."
October 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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No lies detected.
ANTIFA won two World Wars. MAGA smeared shit on The Capitol walls.
October 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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WTF: Welcome to Florida!
Image is of an automobile sticker in the style of European country of origin stickers with three letters, "WTF" representing both "Welcome to Florida" and "What The F*ck?" in an appropriate expression of near-constant disbelief at the stupidity of some of our residents.
August 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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The Trevor Project is amazing. Please support this worthy cause!

To Give (donations currently matched x4):
give.thetrevorproject.org

To get support:
Call: 866-488-7386
Text: 678678
Chat: chat.trvr.org
Donation page from The Trevor Project announcing current four times match for donations in the wake of the Trump regime move to cut funding for LGBTQ+ support on national suicide hotline. https://give.thetrevorproject.org/
July 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Image is a screenshot from the Independence Day movie where aliens destroy the White House with a green beam of light.
July 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Trump and Musk going at each other is the news I needed today.
Image is of the scene from "Avengers: Endgame" where Thor and Quill are fighting over who controls the ship. Mantis hopefully suggests they fight using knives to settle the dispute. Caption reads: "Oh, yes! Please, use knives."
June 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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These men need to be charged with corresponding STATE CRIMES from which Trump CANNOT pardon them.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Image shows NBC News story that is linked from the post. "Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she is 'disappointed' Trump is considering a partner for men who plotted to kidnap her."
May 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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"The weaponization of intelligence to undermine the President's agenda..."

Intelligence is never going to be on Donald Trump's side, Tulsi
A social media post by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard from her official account: The weaponization of intelligence to undermine the President’s agenda is an assault on democracy. Those behind this illegal leak of classified intelligence, twisted and manipulated to convey the exact opposite finding, will be held accountable under the full force of the law. Rooting out this politicization of intelligence is exactly what President Trump campaigned on and what Americans overwhelmingly voted for. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence fully supports the assessment that the foreign terrorist organization, Tren De Aragua, is acting with the support of the Maduro Regime, and thus subject to arrest, detention and removal as alien enemies of the United States.
May 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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We're more likely to see this one.
Photo shows a mysterious Donald J. Trump tombstone in Central Park, New York City.
April 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I saw this yard sign for sale online today.

It seems oddly on point, like it might almost be a parody. Lol!

How many Trumpers buy a $25 sign that screams "I'm functionally illiterate and LOVE Trump!"
Photo of a yard sign offered for sale online. The sign reads: "Pro Trump *** Anti Establisment" [sic] I believe it's legitimately a typo. I'm suspicious, however, that it might be a non-Trump parody to see how many MAGA geniuses will pay $25 for a yard sign that screams "I love Trump and am functionally illiterate!"
April 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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It's not just you
Picture of me holding a sign that says "I did NOT GROW UP reciting Liberty and Justice for all for it not to include Literally fucking EVERYONE!"
April 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Lots of good trouble yesterday in Cocoa for the protest. Hat's off to this guy who kept circling and honking for us. We started "the wave" to keep him coming back.

#NoKings #Cocoa #Brevard
Picture of a man driving a Chevy Tahoe who kept making laps around the protest, honking to cheer us on. Hats off to you with a price of gasoline being what it is. Thank you for being there.
April 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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My favorite sign from the protest today. It keeps all the MAGA from mistaking the uterus and fallopian tubes for a stethoscope and a catcher's mit. They understood *this* sign.
Photo shows a protest sign. The sign reads "Hands Off Women's Rights" with the text being framed by the hourglass curves of a woman's body with the belly button between the words "hands off" and "women's rights." One fellow protester said it looked much easier to draw than a uterus and fallopian tubes and another remarked that she was tired of men asking what the "stethoscope and the catcher's mit" had to do with women's rights.
April 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Picture is of a protest sign. The sign as alternating red and white lines of text. The sign reads: "YOU CAN choose to LOOK AWAY but you can NEVER AGAIN say you did NOT KNOW"
April 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Dude is not playing chess. Hell, he's not even playing checkers. He's eating crayons.
April 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This on again off again bullshit is going to be worse than actually just levying a tariff and letting it sit.

And it's not encouraging manufacturing to shift back to the US if they keep playing the stupid game.
"Dude is not playing chess. Hell, he's not even playing checkers. He's eating crayons."
April 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Erma Bombeck titled one of her funniest works with this theme.
"The grass is always greener over the septic tank."
Photo is from the cover of Erma Bombeck's book with the title "The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank." Cover shows the title and a woman with her hair in curlers, riding a riding lawn mower, with a child in her lap, mowing over a bright green patch of grass over a septic tank.
April 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Resisting in Orlando!
My favorite sign that I brought to this protest. It says "I did not grow up reciting 'Liberty and Justice for all' for it not to include literally fucking everyone." Picture of protest in Orlando, Fl. Picture of protest from Orlando, Fl. Thousands showed up to protest the insanity of the current regime. Picture of thousands protesting in Orlando, Florida
April 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Meanwhile, Florida wants to allow 14-year-olds to work overnight and teens to work on school nights.

Hello, again, 1850s.
What's next? Revive slavery? (El Salvador prison work camps.)
Repeal women's suffrage? (SAVE Act would strip the vote from many women.)

Looks like Project 1850 to me.
Image is from original post with highlight on "1852: Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 19 hours a day" to draw comparison to current Florida legislative push to allow 14 year olds to work overnight on school nights.
March 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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So... I broke a student's heart today. I told him that Dinosaur Nuggets were not made from dinosaur meat.

He wasn't the same for the rest of the day.
Picture shows three dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets, which a third grade student in my class mistook for dinosaur meat nuggets in the shape of little dinosaurs.
March 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Brutal!
Completely 👊🇺🇲🔥
Picture shows a Tesla Swasticar Cybertruck (Incelcamino model) in a used car listing. Chat window follows. Billy: Is this still available? Morgan: Billy, yes. Billy: Not surprised
March 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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👊🇺🇲🔥
Image shows post from Kyle Cheney announcing Judge James E. Boasberg has been assigned to the "Signalgate" lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Columbia. This is the same judge currently dealing with the Venezuelan mass deportation to a brutal gulag in El Salvador.
March 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Will Rogers said the same thing. A long time ago.
Image of Will Rogers, American satirist. "The money was all appropriated for the top in hopes it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn't know that the money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow's hand." - Will Rogers
March 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM