Barb in Portugal

Barb in Portugal

@bibsilu.bsky.social

Escaped to Nazaré in 2022; member of Democrats Abroad

1,821 Followers 432 Following 100 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Tonight’s state of the union.

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Opinion | The Trump 1 Percent Fan Club Has a Lot of New Members

The Trump 1 Percent Fan Club Has a Lot of New Members www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

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Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE (Gift Article) Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Truth Matters (@politicsusa46) Every now and then someone sees what’s really going on and articulates it. Thanks to Madison Briggs for the clip 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRjcoVCy/

You go, girl!

substack.com/@politicsusa...

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ICE Documents Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in Warehouses “They want to build a network of concentration camps,” said one critic.
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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

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ICE are not legitimate federal agents. They are not law enforcement. They have no authority to commit crimes, violate rights, assault and kidnap Americans. Zero. They're criminals with badges and guns.

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After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's.

Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.

Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

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If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Accurate about a Pathological Liar and Convicted Felon who Incited an Insurrection, tried to Steal a Fair Election and is Covering up Sex Crimes against Children, shouldn't his Disgraceful Presidency be terminated? I say, YES!

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Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS,

and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected

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America needs an Attorney General who:
1) will read a law,
2) understand what she is reading, and
3) comply with it.

That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?

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Peace on earth, goodwill to men.

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‘Carol of the Bells’ Once Filled the Air Here. Now It’s Only Bombs.

‘Carol of the Bells’ Once Filled the Air Here. Now It’s Only Bombs. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/w...

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(Watch Ms. Krut’s performance on Instagram, where there will be a translation button below her written post.)

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Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment

NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up.

She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.

She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.

She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

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Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…

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“Clinton is in the Epstein files!”

Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know.

The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.

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During a press briefing, President Zelenskyy presented a 20-point peace plan between the US, Europe, Ukraine, and Russia, calling it a “basic document on ending the war.”

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Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators

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OMG…

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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

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Opinion | A Christmas Argument That Ended in Harmony

A Christmas Argument That Ended in Harmony www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Opinion | Trump Says He Doesn’t Want the Best for His Enemies, but There Is Someone He Wants the Best For

Spot on

Trump Says He Doesn’t Want the Best for His Enemies, but There Is Someone He Wants the Best For www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79

McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49

Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.

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Yeah, hard to explain that... #TDS #ItsAcult #MAGAtNation

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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.

I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

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Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

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