Caleb Barrett

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

It’s literally pro-death.

What are they talking about?! Is it gaslighting or shifting goalposts or what?

I read that the broadcast was on a 2-hour delay, so it was a conscious decision to air “nig*er” from a person with Tourette’s in the audience and not air a “Free Palestine” call from award recipient.

Also, it shouldn’t be lost that the n-word outburst came when 2 black men were receiving awards.

The people who want women put to death for having abortions are the same people who, for decades, have turned a blind eye to pastors who rape kids, rejecting institutional accountability & common-sense safeguarding measures. #ThisistheSBC

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The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Quietly, the Trump administration is now ending even the life-saving aid that they had promised would be preserved

Reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

Such overt, unabashed misogyny.

That person should be under church discipline. But who knows, maybe he’s an elder at his church. (I’m assuming he’s part of a church)

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed.

I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.

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I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

Page 29: "Absent genuine, particularized necessity, the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness requirement prohibits government officers from executing a civil arrest while systematically concealing their identities in a manner that eliminates contemporaneous and subsequent accountability."

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

8 in-custody deaths in 50 days—one every 6 days. This needs to be a much larger story.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

The US government keeps using dangerous chemicals on protestors Civilians, children, and even the agents themselves are at risk.

The US Government Keeps Using Dangerous Chemicals on Protestors.

When you insist on seeing God in the face of the emperor, no matter how corrupt they are, and refuse to see God in the face of the immigrant being arrested after being falsely accused of being a criminal, you have yet to understand the gospel of Jesus.

What happens when you speak for a bit too long at a city council meeting in opposition to a data center being built in your town? In Claremore, Oklahoma, a man was arrested and charged with trespassing.

Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/man-opposing...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Ring’s AI-powered “Search Party” feature isn’t intended to always be limited only to dogs, the company’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

DO NOT LOOK AWAY.

Two-month old babies, choking on their own vomit while detained by ICE? I can't even believe I typed that sentence.

MAGA, you can't keep clinging to your "oh, they need to come here legally" bullshit. These are BABIES.

Where is the humanity?
Shut these concentration camps DOWN.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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A very simple point, almost always true: NO technology produced by capitalism is meant to capture time back for workers for their leisure. It is ALWAYS meant to free up time so that workers can fill it accumulating more wealth for the capitalists. Dats it!

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

Enough money to effectively end homelessness in America, and we're spending it building concentration camps.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

“I like that God doesn’t play or talk nice to the hands of injustice. What freedom it is to witness a God whose primary concern is not for how he makes the oppressor feel, but for feeling alongside the oppressed. And telling the truth about it.”
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley