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Dave Barnkow

@dbarnkow.bsky.social

Aspiring multipotentialite.

created November 21, 2024

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Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

I think the Rockies odds of having a winning season are between “struck by lightning” and “winning an Olympic gold medal”.

31/8/2025, 12:45:12 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

I would rather see J.D. Vance assume presidential under the 25th Amendment due to an incapacitating injury to Trump that leaves Donny aware of his surroundings. Then we can watch as Trump is mocked for his frailty.

30/8/2025, 9:47:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Lyle, not to be a wet blanket, but…. Legal weed has made surgical anesthesia a more dangerous event than it needs to be. Just sayin’.

30/8/2025, 9:36:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted

We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.

30/8/2025, 3:00:28 AM | 19455 3302 | View on Bluesky | view

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

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30/8/2025, 1:03:47 PM | 37120 11645 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

If prayer really worked, I would have woken up to an enormous headline this morning.

30/8/2025, 5:42:27 PM | 12600 1543 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 4:02:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted

"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."

28/8/2025, 11:24:47 PM | 16272 3814 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MorbidAnjel (@morbidanjel.bsky.social) reposted

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

29/8/2025, 10:59:41 AM | 8564 2344 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

History will show conservatives of this time, the GOP Main Street Caucus, Tea Party, MAGA, Freedom Caucus, and Trump-Sceptics, destroyed Intellectualism and Humanitarianism. The Dark Age they are creating will take centuries to undo.

29/8/2025, 3:54:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted

Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

29/8/2025, 12:23:39 AM | 37702 5900 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

My heart sank today. I discovered a highly educated colleague genuinely believes Trump and the GOP are good for our country. We have a friendship that is nearly 20 years old. My despair was so sudden and deep that I was rendered speechless. I felt progressive liberalism has truly been defeated.

28/8/2025, 10:31:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

You don’t have to pay “gun support” to your ex after a divorce! Of course they love guns more than kids.

28/8/2025, 5:47:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

And I’ve been to North Idaho……

28/8/2025, 5:42:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Colorado Springs, CO, with the USAF Academy, a US Army base, and a US Space Force base is one of the most overtly white Christian nationalist places I’ve ever been to.

28/8/2025, 5:41:27 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Konstitution (@konstitution.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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28/8/2025, 5:22:55 PM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Agreed!

28/8/2025, 12:37:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Agreed!

28/8/2025, 12:37:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

The NRA had two goals: resist tyranny and personal protection. The NRA has failed at both.

27/8/2025, 8:22:39 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Donald, name just one of the “many people”. We should give them the credit they so thoroughly deserve.

27/8/2025, 1:37:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."

25/8/2025, 4:34:00 PM | 16638 4465 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) reposted

All those 2A boys are quiet those days...

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26/8/2025, 11:45:30 PM | 251 70 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn’t that one reason we rebelled?

26/8/2025, 10:07:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

If you voted for Trump the first time you were gullible. If you voted for Trump the second time you were a sycophant. If you voted for Trump the third time you are a traitor and enemy of our country.

24/8/2025, 2:25:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) reposted

When Russia began its full-scale invasion in 2022, it was a common expectation that Kyiv would fall within days. More than three years into the all-out war, Ukraine is still there — and celebrating another Independence Day Russia doesn’t want Ukrainian people to have. belib.org/a2EmB8n

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24/8/2025, 2:07:46 PM | 89 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Blue Wave Buccaneer (@bluewavebuccaneer.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Partial List of Texas-Based Businesses to Boycott: AT&T American Airlines Whole Foods Market National Lending Corporation JCPenney Kimberly-Clark USAA Texas Instruments Keurig Pier 1 Saltgrass Steak House Phillips 66 Neiman Marcus Group Chili’s Grill & Bar Ponderosa Steakhouse Men’s Wearhouse

23/8/2025, 12:55:04 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dennis Boyd (@dboydfineartmt.bsky.social) reposted

Boycott Texas! From tourism to products manufactured in Texas! #FUCKTEXAS #FucktheTexasGOP #FuckTrump #FuckGregAbbott #BoycottTexas

21/8/2025, 3:23:59 PM | 17 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@crockett.house.gov) reposted

Here, fixed it.

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21/8/2025, 6:14:19 PM | 26755 8390 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

#BoycottTexas

22/8/2025, 2:30:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

Well, now I am boycotting Texas. #BoycottTexas

22/8/2025, 2:30:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

If you don’t see the authoritarianism, you’re not looking.

21/8/2025, 2:08:13 AM | 13 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@fucktheracists.bsky.social) reposted

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20/8/2025, 4:52:24 PM | 14026 3598 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Might Donald J. Trump be one of those taken into custody?

20/8/2025, 1:35:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I’m still waiting for a Republican business owner or farmer to get arrested for illegally employing migrant workers. When are we going to get perp walk videos of them being hauled off to vans in cuffs by masked agents?

20/8/2025, 12:56:43 AM | 4785 1150 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

I won’t shop there again until I see mainstream media ads offering full-throated support for DEI initiatives.

20/8/2025, 1:26:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social) reposted

The parent company of 9NEWS is being acquired by the parent company of FOX31 in Denver and the stations will be combined, according to the company's CEO. Here's what we know:

20/8/2025, 1:10:41 AM | 394 134 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A Republic If You Can Keep It (@arepublicif.bsky.social) reposted

President of the United States has an especially pernicious personality disorder He’s also a serial rapist of children & adults He’s also a felon He also led an insurrection against… the United States He’s also a Russian asset He’s also chronically bankrupt He’s also demented #RemoveTrump

19/8/2025, 3:56:17 AM | 1484 516 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Do we inspect ICE agents for gang tattoos?

20/8/2025, 2:43:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted

ICE is "merely enforcing a complex legal regime. Claiming that this activity amounts to a defense of the homeland is either a grandiose delusion or an ethno-nationalist confession." Or both.

20/8/2025, 12:00:44 AM | 208 51 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, that assures there will be a lot of cousin kissin’ in OK!

19/8/2025, 9:00:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

This presidency makes clear that, if we constitutionally survive, we need to strengthen the checks and balances on the President.

19/8/2025, 4:21:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry. Meant to send this somewhere else. Please excuse me.

19/8/2025, 12:59:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

It is the Birkeland Currents emanating from galactic center. Research the Laschamp Excursion.

19/8/2025, 12:58:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Neugin (@lostcitymagic.bsky.social) reposted

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are fight against racism and pronounced ahlahstee deegahteelaykee deedadahlaydawdee
17/8/2025, 10:02:00 PM | 441 105 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump didn’t write this; it’s punctuated!

19/8/2025, 12:41:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) reposted

The reason they don’t want to show their faces is that they are engaged in illegal and amoral acts

18/8/2025, 4:01:20 AM | 2019 403 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Brown (@jimbrown.bsky.social) reposted

Truth. Justice. #FUCKYOUTRUMP!

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17/8/2025, 8:08:53 PM | 785 181 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Nothing highlights the myth on “American Exceptionalism” more than Trump, MAGA, and GOP. American dominance was an outcome of circumstances, not divinity.

18/8/2025, 9:19:59 PM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/8/2025, 8:51:12 PM | 147 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) reposted

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

17/8/2025, 8:37:25 PM | 10941 6078 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I have been banging this drum for six years.

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18/8/2025, 6:30:28 PM | 8997 2247 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mickey Kuhns (@mickeykuhns.bsky.social) reposted

“Every blockbuster needs a showdown: California’s caped crusader vs America’s most corrupt stupor villain. Grab your popcorn — truth, justice, and overdue indictments are about to fly.” 🍿🦸‍♂️⚖️🦹‍♂️

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18/8/2025, 5:50:21 AM | 6394 1719 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/8/2025, 3:46:01 PM | 10592 5806 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

And how do we explain to the unvaccinated generation being created now that they will live a shorter and less healthy life than their great grandparents.

14/8/2025, 10:23:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

This was the same day that the robber baron capitalists declared war on the common man!

14/8/2025, 10:20:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

This GOP can’t spell federalism. They keep spelling it f-e-u-d-a-I-s-m.

14/8/2025, 10:17:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

m.youtube.com/@SpaceWeathe...

14/8/2025, 10:09:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

A late night message from Gavin Newsom

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14/8/2025, 4:18:14 AM | 31002 7552 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Clio (@clio.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Gives grassroots outlet for anger

14/8/2025, 7:58:02 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the most hopeful thing of heard all summer!

14/8/2025, 9:55:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karoli (@karoli.bsky.social) reposted

This rally was a shot across the bow. I don't think people realize how important this moment is, but he's got Texas in a box. If they go forward with their redistricting for 5 seats, CA will add 9. And NY will, and IL will, and MD. They've poked the bear. Literally. #CARedistricting

14/8/2025, 7:43:29 PM | 657 134 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

Climate change discussions have been heavily influenced by the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) climate model interpretation. But the CMIP problems. Learn for yourself the shortcomings of these climate models. essd.copernicus.org/articles/spe...

14/8/2025, 3:48:25 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

I only asked you to open your mind. Testimonials are of little value. Investigate for yourself or don’t. Space weather and an electromagnetic universe will overwhelm every effort of mankind. I wish you well.

14/8/2025, 3:26:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

2/2 I believe deeper assessment of space weather and the global magnetic field will provide information vital for humanity’s mitigation of and preparation for climate change.

14/8/2025, 12:15:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

/2 I am not a climate change denier. I believe the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has obscured non-anthropogenic contributions to climate change for political/non-scientific reasons.

14/8/2025, 12:14:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

2/2 I believe deeper assessment of space weather and the global magnetic field will provide information vital for humanity’s mitigation of and preparation for climate change.

13/8/2025, 5:51:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

1/2 I am not a climate change denier. I believe the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has obscured non-anthropogenic contributions to climate change for political/non-scientific reasons.

13/8/2025, 5:51:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

Hey Second Amendment Fanatics! Trump IS the threat you’ve been warning us about!

13/8/2025, 5:20:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

Donald Trump is MAGA’s equivalent of “here, hold my beer while I give that a try!”

13/8/2025, 5:17:30 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Too blind to see non-anthropogenic causes….

13/8/2025, 5:14:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Before you get too high and might, examine increased polar irradiation and inductive heating due to Earth magnetic field weakening. Magnetic polar change is NOT anthropogenic!

13/8/2025, 5:12:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, for f^€k sake. This river is fed by a glacier. Glacial till forms dams. Glacial till is NOT engineered for water retention. This shit has flooded in the past, floods now, and will flood again. Climate changes doesn’t this cycle.

13/8/2025, 5:09:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted

"Fear narrows the aperture. It makes clever people average…brave people quiet…and decent people useful to indecent power. That’s not a judgment; it’s biology. Your nervous system’s job is to keep you alive…not to preserve a republic. Left unchecked… that wiring becomes a tyrant’s best friend."

11/8/2025, 10:52:24 PM | 212 84 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."

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11/8/2025, 5:38:42 PM | 22851 7999 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior.bsky.social) reposted

In 1990, Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov popularized the term "mankurt": a former human with an enslaved mind. Big Tech wants to make us mankurts and AI is their weapon. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

Excerpt from this article: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-stripping
9/8/2025, 11:40:16 AM | 359 122 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

Hey MAGA! How’s that tax cut treating you? The 4-week Treasury Bond market sucks. We now are servicing our loan debt at a higher interest rate because Trump broke the Bond market. Your stocks are great, but your grandkids debt just shot to the moon. Congrats!

11/8/2025, 5:37:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump refused to order the National Guard to DC when then *were* needed. On August 11, 2025, Donald Trump orders the National Guard to DC when they are *not* needed. Both instances are examples of Trump's disregard for law, order, decency, and democracy.

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Profile picture Harry👊🇺🇸🔥 (@scondrasht.bsky.social) reposted

“We’re going to liberate LA!” “We’re going to liberate DC!” What do both cities have in common with each other? Both blue cities. Both majority-minority cities. Both cities have women mayors who happen to be black. We got a taste of his racism in his first term. We’re getting it full now.

11/8/2025, 1:34:12 PM | 676 206 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted

What is ICE doing with all its new money? Nothing good. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worst-...

11/8/2025, 6:00:16 AM | 1082 438 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

This echos the Armed Services Recruitment debacle of the Second Gulf War. We lowered the requirements and got some not-so-bright people we are still dealing with. This is a multi-decade mistake!

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

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Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

Did anthropogenic carbon dioxide cause this too.

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Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

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Profile picture Gbenga Ajilore (@gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

My piece focuses on policy but there is a section about the administration's anti-DEI crusade. @crampell.bsky.social had a great op-ed that outlined this how this works. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

7/8/2025, 7:08:23 PM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gbenga Ajilore (@gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social) reposted

I want to share this new paper I've written, exploring how the firehouse of actions from this administration & Congress has impacted Black households. The focus is on Black households (and its targeting of them), but applies to the U.S. as a whole. bit.ly/45EidLs

7/8/2025, 7:04:13 PM | 104 37 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

Fuck the GOP! www.cbpp.org/research/eco...

7/8/2025, 7:32:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

But logic, and compassion, and justice, and facts, and research have no effect on these Gilded Age capitalists. The 99% are there as extraction resource; like coal, oil, or timber. Dehumanized and the property of the first to exploit it.

7/8/2025, 7:31:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) reposted

(1/2) New very long post from OMB’s chief counsel on pocket rescissions wrongly claiming the power to do a pocket rescission. But the EXACT section of the ICA the Trump’s OMB claims *grants* the power of pocket rescissions actually makes them illegal.

Mark Paoletta @MarkPaoletta Follow •@USGAO's Trump Derangement Syndrome is on full display with this pocket rescission post. GAO is wrong on pocket rescissions (the Impoundment Control Act text specifically allows for them) AND GAO previously agreed with this view for 43 years - until 2018 (during Trump 45 Administration) when it abruptly reversed its position. Congress is well aware that the ICA permits pocket rescissions. In fact, GAO told Congress this in a December 15, 1975 opinion, and despite amending various provisions of the ICA over the years, Congress has never amended the language that permits pocket rescissions. Contrary to GAO's recent absurd claim, no Supreme Court case affects GAO's 1975 opinion. GAO reversed its 40-year view solely for political anti-Trump reasons. In 1975, GAO told Congress to fix this provision, writing that it's Impoundment Control Act. We believe Congress should have the affirmative means within the Act to handle rescissions held that legislative veto provisions are unconstitutional. In 1987, the D.C. Circuit held that the ICA's legislative veto provision on deferrals was unconstitutional and the ICA's entire deferral section was unconstitutional. Later in 1987, Congress enacted a comprehensive amendment to the ICA, including by restoring the deferral provision without the unconstitutional legislative veto. Congress also amended the rescission provision by prohibiting the same funds from being proposed for rescission twice. Importantly, Congress did NOT amend the ICA to prohibit pocket rescissions despite GAO specifically recommending it in 1975. Congress rejected this and left in place the exact language that permits pocket rescissions, knowing full well its implications. Thus, Congress ratified that pocket rescissions are permissible. In 2020, 2021, and 2023, legislation was proposed to prohibit pocket rescissions. The legislation failed each time. In its blog post, GAO says its views on the ICA pocket rescission have
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Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

This clown is destroying 80 years of American world respect before our eyes. He is aided by a corrupt GOP the wants to return to an antebellum, racists, classist, gilded age where the the richest of the rich had unlimited power and influence.

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Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

Adolf Hitler used the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin to promote fascism. I hope the world deprives Donald Trump of that same opportunity 92 years later.

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Profile picture Citizens' Impeachment (@citizensimpeachment.com) reposted

To U.S. Representatives: The House is where the responsibility lies. Start the process. To U.S. Senators: The Senate is where the accountability lies. Support the process. To both: Honor your oath of office. Impeach. Convict. Remove. h/t @nmdjm.bsky.social

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Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

This man is representative of the result of inadequate post-traumatic counseling!

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Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

ICE will become his Hilter Brown Shirts, and then his Gestapo.

7/8/2025, 2:19:16 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion.

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Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points: •Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus •Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship

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Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social)

WTF! We need to find who did this and then their bosses. ground.news/article/did-...

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Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Do they keep the elephant?

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Profile picture Bopeep-Burton 🌎🏴‍☠️🏡🐓🏖 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🇺🇸 🏳️‍⚧️💙🗽 (@bopeep-burton.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Dave Barnkow (@dbarnkow.bsky.social) reply parent

Wouldn’t it have been nice if his response was, “So, sue her, I’ve nothing to hide”.

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