40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
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40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
We would welcome them as liberators
pritzker should send the illinois guard to austin to harass everyone going into the comedy mothership
Growing up without a home team to root for in the NFL, the Cowboys were probably only second to the 49ers in terms of fandom in our family. If I had been a die hard Cowboys fan, I probably wouldn't have liked Jones much either.
It's almost like he took one of the elite football organizations and spent 4 decades hollowing it out until the only real product is merchandising and reality TV.
NOBODY hates Jerry like Cowboys fans
“Jerry Jones is basically our Queen Elizabeth” has to be one of the best analogies to ever come out of a @thebarbedwire.com editorial meeting. Read @briangaar.bsky.social and prepare to feel some sort of way for the Dallas anti-hero. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/02/j...
Really enjoyed writing this and I hope you like it
Hi, I wrote about the new Cowboys Netflix documentary from the perspective of a lifelong Cowboys hater. And it made me... like Jerry Jones? thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/02/j...
Ben doing the lord's work. Can you guys also save regular journalism too
Good read, worth your time
(This is no disrespect intended to Anna Nicole at all rip girl you deserved that money)
TCU showing Bill Belichick which state invented this shit put some respect on our name bitch
Kurosawa and Mifune had that shit on
Century of humiliation.
My hustle will be the food truck offering tea, coffee, water, various diuretic fruits, and DJT toilet paper for his biggest fans.
And, of course, it’s the 28th anniversary of the greatest of all newspaper corrections (with apologies to @seamas.bsky.social who traditionally posts this, but it’s 10.39, and I can only wait so long)
If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
Followed by the real heroes (the shitters)
when he does finally go i will demand not just the death certificate but the long form death certificate
Can you imagine how long the line’s gonna be to take a piss on that grave
one milkshake to bring all the boys to the yard and in the darkness bind them
RIP Donald Trump & Turtle WoW
Unstable Relative, Toddler Compete For Attention At Family Get-Together https://theonion.com/unstable-relative-toddler-compete-for-attention-at-fam-1819570990/
Dave Portnoy or Pat McAfee pregame?
About time we got an article on this unknown with tremendous upside.
Since no one's written about Arch Manning yet I figured it fell on me, the greatest sportswriter in America, to give the kid some publicity thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/29/l...
Since no one's written about Arch Manning yet I figured it fell on me, the greatest sportswriter in America, to give the kid some publicity thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/29/l...
Don’t really appreciate your tone
he will do regime consolidation by giving out free Dodge Chargers
Yeah but he's with them on the important things (hating women and going to UFC events)
I wisely sit back and take in the horrors of the day. “Kamala would have done the same thing,” I correctly observe as I do the hard work of listening to podcasts
Watching Yogurt Shop Murders and once I saw the police station I knew they weren't solving anything
Oh, to be a white woman who willfully assumes she's the main character in everyone else's lives.
Tee hee!! We’re pretending to be people who have to do gofundmes for printer paper
Stolen teacher valor, just be bazillionaires (oh right, that’s not relatable)
today is the 1st birthday of @thebarbedwire.com and editor @briangaar.bsky.social summed it up: when we launched, the Texas government was dysfunctional. now it’s dystopian. “Lately, it feels like screaming into a void filled with Ten Commandments posters.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/26/t...
BG knows, he's been there.
The Texas minimum wage is still $7.25. $2.13 for restaurant service workers in the Front of the House.
I wrote about how incredibly messed up Texas politics has gotten over the last 12 months. thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/26/t...
"We believe Texas can be better — but only if we fight for it." As we mark one year at The Barbed Wire, @briangaar.bsky.social writes that our job as journalists is not just to document Texas’ decline into a right-wing fever dream, but to remind you that democracy and decency still matter.
HE LED THE TEN THOUSAND OUT OF PERSIA IS WHAT HE DID. HE WAS A BRILLIANT GREEK COMMANDER. IN THIS HOUSE XENOPHON IS A HERO—END OF STORY
yo dude that show was great
(Me being driven around by my mom in the 80s) what’s up with all this yacht rock
I have a lunch and two comedy shows today; I'm not the kind of person who usually does this much stuff
It's hard to explain if you didn't grow up in the bible belt, but charlatans like James Dobson held enormous influence with parents. Countless kids got the shit beaten out of them for infractions like "listening to metal" (also fuck any Republican today who says they loved Ozzy, they did not).
We can all take comfort today in the certainty that James Dobson is looking up at us and screaming
Till the very end, James Dobson did what he loved (encouraged parents to beat their kids) 🙏🙏🙏
no opinion on woke cracker barrel, but like 25 years ago i was eating there with my grandpa and he ordered a fried shrimp platter. at one point i looked at his plate and it was empty, and i asked if he was eating the tails. "what the hell do you care," he said
you rarely encounter a perfect intro..........but when you do
I wrote about how Texas Republicans have turned the state Capitol into a prison. Naturally they’re happy as pigs in shit bc they’re getting to do what they truly love (using the police to harass black people) thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/19/t...
I wrote about how Texas Republicans have turned the state Capitol into a prison. Naturally they’re happy as pigs in shit bc they’re getting to do what they truly love (using the police to harass black people) thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/19/t...
Learning well
AUSTIN: Last shows tonight at the Velveeta Room 8 & 10 pm tix: the-velveeta-room-the-velveeta-room.seatengine.com/events/10960...
Did Trump accidentally text him a dick pic
The show was awesome. Can the club spell my name after 17 years? No. But it was still a great night (come out tomorrow, 8 & 10 pm shows!)
that you @briangaar.bsky.social ?
UPDATE: This is tonight (and tomorrow) see u there
AUSTIN: Come see me do standup tomorrow (8pm) and Saturday (8 & 10 pm)! Hear the story about the time my dad won a lion-naming contest! TIX: the-velveeta-room-the-velveeta-room.seatengine.com/events/10960...
AUSTIN: Come see me do standup tomorrow (8pm) and Saturday (8 & 10 pm)! Hear the story about the time my dad won a lion-naming contest! TIX: the-velveeta-room-the-velveeta-room.seatengine.com/events/10960...
I wrote about the excellent King of the Hill reboot, which offers a hopeful version of Texas - where disagreements happen over a beer in the alley, and where you can be set in your ways without using that as an excuse to be an asshole (or electing one). thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/13/k...
Ok, now I might have to watch the show
my first thought was, well it wasn't a thought so much as a feeling of horror but my second thought was, shit like this is why we need an actual functioning government. I would like government agencies to make and enforce regulations that keep Sepsis Soap from hitting the shelves in the first place
Yes I know the light is green but I’m answering an email
god damn she's awful
I'm not very far into the season but there's a very sweet moment in the very first episode where he's wondering if Texas has changed and he doesn't belong anymore and he starts to feel better when some Girl Scouts tell him they changed the name of Samoas to be more respectful.
“The reboot shows Hank rediscovering Texas in a way that’s as sweet as it is funny. It’s “Ted Lasso” for those of us who tried, and failed, to get into soccer. Hank is the relative you have no-go areas of conversation with, but you still love them.”
Like everyone from Wichita Falls he eventually moved to the DFW area
I wrote about the excellent King of the Hill reboot, which offers a hopeful version of Texas - where disagreements happen over a beer in the alley, and where you can be set in your ways without using that as an excuse to be an asshole (or electing one). thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/13/k...
Watching Yogurt Shop Murders and once I saw the police station I knew they weren't solving anything
Hey there, I'm headlining the Velveeta Room in Austin this Friday (8 pm) and Saturday (8 & 10 pm). I guarantee you'll love it. TIX: www.thevelveetaroom.com
Trump named Pete Hegseth as defense secretray because he knew Hegseth wouldn't hesitate to order American troops to fire on American civilians. Sending the military into our cities is a major step toward imposing a dictatorship. It's so obvious that mainstream media are afraid to say it.
[yelling over club music] I said grief is a rain that falls on everything
One of the most embarrassing ESPN blowjobs I’ve ever read, and folks that is saying something
ZING
With Texas Democrats holed up in Chicago, I have some ideas on how they can pass the time. Idea 1: Go watch the Cubs lose (oh wait they're good this year). thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/06/t...
5. Eat a Hot Dog What’s more Chicago than a hot dog? You can grab one pretty much anywhere, there’s even lots of vegetarian options (these ARE Democrats, after all). But don’t put ketchup on them, or you might find yourself renditioned back to Austin.
I think it's cute that the Tex Dems are holed up in Chicago, 1 of 2 other cities besides Houston that has a giant bean. No keen political observation, I just think it's fun.
With Texas Democrats holed up in Chicago, I have some ideas on how they can pass the time. Idea 1: Go watch the Cubs lose (oh wait they're good this year). thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/06/t...
Next weekend!
He's like a grandpa having Vietnam flashbacks except his flashbacks involve Andy Warhol being rude to him in 1975
Haha
I was wondering why “Uptown girl” was so playing so quietly on this plane and it turned out my headphones weren’t working at all. A flight attendant just scolded me for blasting it from my phone
Yes, I beat it
By far the best thing I’ve read about Hulk Hogan
Why would severe hunger do this
Ozzy AND Hulk Hogan, this is 9/11 if you grew up in a town with one Dairy Queen
Hey thanks!
Most definitely
The year is 2057. I blow dust off the Keith Richards obit draft written in cuneiform
lol every news outlet had a full Ozzy obit ready to go, they'd probably been prewritten since the 70s RIP to a legend
RIP Ozzy, you’re peeing on the Alamo in heaven now 🙏🙏
The Baltimore Sun, Maryland, October 1, 1911
That's exactly what I'm doing now!
Just finished Andor and ummmmmm no lightsaber battles? No using the force to electrocute bad guys? No baby yodas? Just a well acted, well paced drama about the human costs of rebelling against an empire (plus a timely critique how the media works hand in glove with tyranny)? No thanks 0/10
This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
![Screenshot: No room for wokeness! @Wokenessisevil Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment. [photos show Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) with ripped muscles]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:icsm7hd2dok5lxddyrig4gbt/bafkreieqpfyocgnmbjxooiqmg34hpxbxzfjhywfjaej45xdlkmo2j4k3pu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Not really feeling carbon-based today