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BarbH

@babs81.bsky.social

Proud Chicagoan. We stand with our Ukrainian neighbors, here in Chicago and abroad

created November 13, 2024

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Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like a little Wag the Dog

3/9/2025, 1:30:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Innocenzi (@pantagrapher.bsky.social) reposted

Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.

2/9/2025, 8:24:47 PM | 3477 1283 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

I am going to punish you for not voting for me

2/9/2025, 7:51:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh well

2/9/2025, 7:48:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted

It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:

2/9/2025, 6:06:22 PM | 3731 1653 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Have his bottom teeth always looked so bad? Lots of black spaces between them

2/9/2025, 7:28:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Heather Cherone (@heathercherone.bsky.social) reposted

NEW: Chicago taxpayers have spent at least $231.2 million to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct — including wrongful convictions and improper pursuits — this year, according to an analysis of city data by @wttw.bsky.social.

2/9/2025, 2:19:57 PM | 88 40 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

What new dirt does Rudy have on Trump? 🧐

2/9/2025, 3:31:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

He can be the first to go

2/9/2025, 3:28:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Harry Dunn (@libradunn1.bsky.social) reposted

Thank you on this labor day!!

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1/9/2025, 10:38:04 PM | 26018 6541 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social)

Labor Day Workers over Billionaires march, Mayor Johnson, no military in our city!

1/9/2025, 8:38:22 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted

You guys see where this is going? Right?

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1/9/2025, 2:11:17 PM | 13681 3867 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vikram Bath (@vikrambath.bsky.social) reposted

Promises made. Promises kept.

NY Times pre-election: Donald Trump Says He Will Prosecute His Enemies Order Mass Deportations Use Soldiers Against Citizens Abandon Allies Play Politics with Disasters Believe Him.
1/9/2025, 11:50:30 AM | 628 176 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (@chicago-cata.bsky.social) reposted

🚨NEW LOCATION: we will protest at MICHIGAN AVE & IDA B. WELLS DRIVE **Please share widely to spread the word about this change**

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1/9/2025, 2:53:30 AM | 37 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joe Segal (@joesegal.bsky.social) reposted

THIS! Is the plain spoken truth telling I was posting about the other day here, the sort that everyone from White House press corps reporters to the person on the street needs to see, here and say. Quite an excellent op-ed. Coudn't have written it better myself! @velshimsnbc.bsky.social

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31/8/2025, 4:08:09 PM | 579 226 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted

Trump plan to redevelop Gaza into a series of luxury resorts is slated to contain up to six “AI powered smart cities”, according to the “prospectus” reviewed by the Post. The plan assumes the “voluntary” departure of all now living in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

31/8/2025, 7:32:49 PM | 437 197 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Why was the Park Police arresting him? They are not ICE. It’s not against the law to sit on a park bench in broad daylight

1/9/2025, 4:07:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 1:48:41 AM | 25962 7195 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Think he may also have US citizenship! Check out his new song Big Crime which is in protest of Trump

31/8/2025, 9:43:35 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social)

Butterfly season

31/8/2025, 9:39:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

His own death😂

30/8/2025, 9:28:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

Excellent question.

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29/8/2025, 6:47:54 PM | 21170 6905 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social)

We are killing our grandchildren

29/8/2025, 6:16:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

We are killing our grandchildren

29/8/2025, 6:15:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

When will her constituents wake up?

29/8/2025, 3:27:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

Don’t look away

29/8/2025, 2:39:39 AM | 13588 7685 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly. Not important

28/8/2025, 1:19:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

😕

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28/8/2025, 1:15:10 AM | 1129 330 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

If a doc writes a script for the vax because of prior conditions will that get insurance coverage? I understand no one wants to pay for a doc visit but hope GPs would do the right thing and do it without a visit

28/8/2025, 1:14:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Does this have to do with the Covid Vax guidance?

27/8/2025, 10:27:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems like the ATF has better things to do in this country

27/8/2025, 9:32:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) reposted

We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.

27/8/2025, 6:12:00 PM | 30502 6528 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social)

Reporting from the hellscape of Chicago. All safe here

27/8/2025, 7:04:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social)

Our country under siege by a dictator

27/8/2025, 4:12:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted

🚨The National Guard is now picking up trash in D.C. These images will not make recruiting brochures.

26/8/2025, 10:46:04 PM | 8499 3129 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AltSSA (@altssa.altgov.info) reposted reply parent

Could I interest you in a comprehensive thread on all the steps you should take right now? This thread includes my original post from 6 months ago that I have added to today with this new info. 👇👇👇👇

27/8/2025, 4:12:01 AM | 86 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

They should kick them out of the country

27/8/2025, 12:55:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Our Walgreens near me in Chicago does not have the updated covid vax in yet, unknown when they will get it. I do not believe it has been ok’d by the government. Meanwhile, Covid rates are increasing and I keep reading health officials are advising those who want/need the vax to get it now 🤦‍♀️

27/8/2025, 3:34:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

They led when the Trump admin failed to address Covid early on, they will lead now

27/8/2025, 3:27:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted

That one person in the zombie movie who doesn't tell the rest of the group they got bitten.

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25/8/2025, 10:23:04 PM | 12926 2460 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

J.B. Pritzker got it exactly right, Donald Trump is sending the military to blue cities because he wants to undermine free and fair elections in 2026. Trump believes that military deployments in blue cities is his path to keeping power and Republican victory.

25/8/2025, 10:04:37 PM | 5025 1752 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted

I know you, Chicago — and I know you’re up to the difficult time we have ahead, thanks to this President.

26/8/2025, 12:48:39 AM | 9434 2325 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

At least they muted him after he went on his rant today

26/8/2025, 4:20:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted

THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.

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26/8/2025, 3:19:06 AM | 13823 4139 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s the Republican way

26/8/2025, 3:40:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

What a shame

26/8/2025, 3:04:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

A large poster of Donald Trump is now hanging from the Department of Labor building in D.C.

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25/8/2025, 4:47:28 PM | 772 308 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung: “I look forward to your meeting with the chairman Kim Jong-un and construction of a Trump Tower in North Korea and playing golf at that place.”

25/8/2025, 6:16:44 PM | 1635 447 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) reposted

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

25/8/2025, 8:36:29 PM | 17682 4784 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

I thank God every day that I get to live in Chicago!

25/8/2025, 9:24:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social)

I feel his anger

25/8/2025, 9:22:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump wants to destroy blue cities

25/8/2025, 1:20:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

🔥 CHICAGO MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON: "We're not gonna surrender our humanity to this tyrant… Chicago has a long history of standing up against tyranny-- resisting those who wish to undermine the interests of working people. We're not gonna back down.”

24/8/2025, 2:13:00 PM | 6284 1952 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Pizza is a lot messier

24/8/2025, 4:05:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

He is a smart man. So glad to have him as my governor

24/8/2025, 4:48:21 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like things little kids do on a playground every day 😵‍💫

23/8/2025, 7:55:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

What say Intel shareholders? They just lost 10% of their company

23/8/2025, 6:31:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this one of the wars Trump ended?🤡

23/8/2025, 6:27:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Thinking of the 1936 summer olympics in Berlin with Hitler

23/8/2025, 5:05:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Funny how Nevada voted for Trump

23/8/2025, 4:23:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

He would have been safer in jail ☹️

23/8/2025, 1:48:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social)

I will be out protesting every day the Guard is terrorizing my city

22/8/2025, 9:08:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

If it is very early stages how did they get a search warrant? Bet they made up evidence

22/8/2025, 9:06:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

At some point the leaders of the military need to say no

22/8/2025, 9:04:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Gross and incompetent is Trump. And no one in Chicago wants this and he lost most of the black vote

22/8/2025, 8:30:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

What is the Chiefs of Staff committee doing about this overreach of our military? I haven’t heard boo from them

22/8/2025, 4:39:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted

The Bolton raid should chill you: my emergency video (full video linked) adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

22/8/2025, 2:07:24 PM | 13911 4637 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

He can’t find a country that will welcome him

20/8/2025, 10:23:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Vance has no clue. He has never been to Union Station with his family

20/8/2025, 10:22:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

You would think Target would rethink their position. How much worse can it get for them if they piss Trump off? Don’t see other companies like Costco suffering

20/8/2025, 5:15:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

And yet the feds control all law enforcement in DC so this will never be investigated. Only a civil suit from the victim will possibly bring him any justice but the perpetrators will go unpunished

20/8/2025, 5:07:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

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20/8/2025, 1:32:57 AM | 31576 6540 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tarasworld.bsky.social (@tarasworld.bsky.social) reposted

This is some next level trolling 🙌👏👏👏 #electionriggingresponseact #gavinnewsom #governornewsom #pinks #resist

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19/8/2025, 7:40:58 AM | 9404 2623 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Yikes

19/8/2025, 3:05:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

This has got to be illegal

19/8/2025, 2:46:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted

More Americans Buying Firearms To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Found Their Guns

18/8/2025, 5:00:02 PM | 5911 959 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

He doesn’t remember the difference between license plate and drivers license🤦‍♀️

18/8/2025, 9:37:13 PM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social)

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18/8/2025, 2:55:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess cause the White House was beginning to look like an oligarch’s palace he wants to remind us that it is on US soil

18/8/2025, 3:24:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

If the US had better bread he wouldn’t have thrown it

18/8/2025, 3:17:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Even Americans don’t want to vacation here

18/8/2025, 3:12:17 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Looking for a restaurant that will serve them

18/8/2025, 1:41:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

He has the long maga tie on

18/8/2025, 1:33:55 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

The sad thing is Trump is too stupid to understand history and would rather blame Obama for not starting a war with Russia

18/8/2025, 1:32:26 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t see any tourists. Our capitol is not ours anymore

18/8/2025, 12:55:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Harassment

18/8/2025, 12:47:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

True, that is what I meant

17/8/2025, 11:01:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Its like an alarm bell went off in Europe

17/8/2025, 9:34:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Can another service pick it up?

17/8/2025, 9:28:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes she is Trump’s useful idiot in Illinois

17/8/2025, 9:24:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Pence: "I served alongside the president for four years. I know his style in dealing with these dictators. It's the velvet glove ... Putin only understands strength."

17/8/2025, 1:26:45 PM | 8260 2004 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

I may suffer from mental health issues this year but only because Trump is driving me bananas

17/8/2025, 9:12:23 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

He is kneeling on her head 😡

17/8/2025, 4:22:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Chicago today

17/8/2025, 4:17:11 AM | 22 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

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17/8/2025, 2:09:33 AM | 23907 6590 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, i am tired of living in a state that funds the red states who want the minority to rule

17/8/2025, 4:11:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure W Virginians are against this

16/8/2025, 9:23:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social) reply parent

Weapons to use against US citizens. Shame on the military brass for allowing this

16/8/2025, 9:20:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social)

Met James Talarico and other Texas House Democrats today in Chicago. Thank you for what you all are doing to protect our democracy!

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16/8/2025, 7:08:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BarbH (@babs81.bsky.social)

Marching down Michigan Ave today with the Texas House Democrats to defend our democracy

16/8/2025, 7:06:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view