Jamie Barnett

Jamie Barnett

@jamiecbarnett.bsky.social

Listener. Learner. Upstander. Pot-stirrer. Die-hard Monty Python fan. Please, no crypto bros, bible thumpers, or "sexy friends.”

1,580 Followers 1,824 Following 1,794 Posts Joined Nov 2024
4 hours ago

Pretty sure he means incursion.

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The most basic thing Trump could have done to prepare for his war against Iran would have been to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The entire purpose of the SPR was to prepare for a war in the Middle East. They are so stupid they couldn't even do this basic thing.

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7 hours ago

I’ll continue to honor that. I’ve gotten by just fine without Target.

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8 hours ago

He knew so little, refused to surround himself with experts, and made so many false claims—it’s malpractice of the worst kind.

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1 day ago
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From @pkrugman.bsky.social, based on estimates from Americans For Tax Fairness. Billionaire contributions as a percent of total US campaign contributions. And contributions to Rs v Ds are 5:1. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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1 day ago

Regarding Henry but in reverse.

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2 days ago

Cruel

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3 days ago
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A group of us in the Senate are demanding public hearings on Trump's disastrous war with Iran with Secretary Hegseth and Rubio. And we've introduced a half dozen war powers resolutions to force the Senate to vote every day on the war if the hearings don't happen.

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2 days ago

This nails where we are. Precisely.

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3 days ago
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US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

The Navy says NOPE www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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4 days ago
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I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

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5 days ago
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the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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6 days ago

Perfect.

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1 week ago

The difference is the war in Wag the Dog was fake.

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1 week ago
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Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more.

It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

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1 week ago

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

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1 week ago
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"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

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1 week ago
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The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

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2 weeks ago

Brilliant.

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Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

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2 weeks ago

Are they all hitchhiking?

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2 weeks ago

Either way, it’s not the American people.

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2 weeks ago

“Of course a husband is never trespassing in his own garden.” Hooboy.

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2 weeks ago
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Trade Officer Says No Change on Tariff Policy After Court Loss

Because when you control the levers of power (DOJ, FBI, DHS, military), you no longer need to follow the rules. You no longer need Congress or the courts. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

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2 weeks ago

I feel this so much having been a server all through college.

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2 weeks ago

Devastating.

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3 weeks ago
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Standing up to racism shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

Trump posts an objectively racist video, and MAGA is silent.

All while he continues to nominate bigots and dine with Holocaust deniers.

It’s clear who this President is. And it should disgust all of us.

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3 weeks ago

This is what haunts me most—the harms we can’t see now but will compound over time.

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3 weeks ago

For the purposes of this CAPTCHA, please consider the wheels on the bus unconnected from the concept of wheels, round and round, or bus. Please choose all the buses in this single picture of a bus. NO NOT THE WHEELS, YOU ROBOT.

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3 weeks ago
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The stock market is not the economy. 🤷

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