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@barbarajacobi.bsky.social

Dual Irish/US Citizen living in rural Ireland. Retiree. Child free cat lady. Emigrated during Bush/Cheney. Lefty. Yes, a socialist. Vote Sinn Féin. No DMs please.

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Latest posts by barbarajacobi.bsky.social on Bluesky

I wish fake Keanu Reeves would stop following me

10.11.2025 10:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Mississippi state legislature begs to differ. 😏

05.11.2025 15:19 — 👍 7339    🔁 1354    💬 506    📌 91
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if @neguse.house.gov has to *rewrite your dumb question* about Donny’s shutdown on the fly? you absolutely suck at journalism www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...

01.11.2025 19:26 — 👍 1264    🔁 366    💬 36    📌 38
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Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

29.10.2025 18:08 — 👍 27485    🔁 11818    💬 810    📌 639

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.

SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.

Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.

People need & deserve assistance

Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich

Be mad about that

25.10.2025 20:18 — 👍 10731    🔁 3634    💬 221    📌 123
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Given that the admin refuses to use emergency funds to cover SNAP & warning that states will not be reimbursedif they do...the administration getting rid of the annual hunger survey that tracks hunger in the US is on brand.

They don't care if Americans starve, it appears to be intentional policy.

25.10.2025 18:20 — 👍 420    🔁 252    💬 31    📌 10
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This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

07.10.2025 17:50 — 👍 21896    🔁 8310    💬 1103    📌 539
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Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

06.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 14317    🔁 5937    💬 458    📌 338

That Goebbels is high on assumed power

05.10.2025 11:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow. Just wow

05.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At a Conspiracy Conference in Rural Ireland, Charlie Kirk Was the Star The increasingly tight links between far-right groups in the US and Europe were on full display at the Rebels Across the Pond conference in Ireland. The star of the show? Charlie Kirk.

“My job is to go for the jugular against the Irish media and I will do that until I end up like Charlie Kirk" — Eddie Hobbs

The speed at which US far-right talking points cross the Atlantic and are weaponzied by Irish figures on the right is now almost instantaneous

www.wired.com/story/conspi...

03.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 139    🔁 34    💬 5    📌 5

I did Nazi that coming

26.09.2025 06:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Let me just put on the record that I am extremely concerned that some or all of the peaceful activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla will be injured or killed by Israel in the coming hours or days, and the world will do nothing either before or after to protect them.

24.09.2025 09:03 — 👍 156    🔁 67    💬 3    📌 1

Callous is “ i don’t care what happens to them”
He proffered that they be murdered by the state

14.09.2025 21:20 — 👍 96    🔁 8    💬 7    📌 0
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Video: Israeli conductor gives passionate anti-genocide speech at BBC Proms On one of the biggest stages in classical music, Ilan Volkov demanded action over Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza

Video: Israeli conductor gives passionate anti-genocide speech at BBC Proms

On one of the biggest stages in classical music, Ilan Volkov demanded action over Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

14.09.2025 10:17 — 👍 104    🔁 52    💬 4    📌 3

Irony isn't dead

14.09.2025 10:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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September 11, 2025 Twenty-four years ago today, terrorists from the al-Qaeda network used four civilian airplanes as weapons against the United States, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in N...

September 11, 2025

12.09.2025 06:10 — 👍 1160    🔁 346    💬 43    📌 41
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September 11, 2025 Twenty-four years ago today, terrorists from the al-Qaeda network used four civilian airplanes as weapons against the United States, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City and a third into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.

September 11, 2025.

12.09.2025 06:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Couldn’t have said it better myself…

07.09.2025 18:36 — 👍 17230    🔁 3989    💬 660    📌 267

Killing 11 Venezuelans in an attempt to create a bigger story than the Trumpstein files is probably a crime.

03.09.2025 03:19 — 👍 1765    🔁 446    💬 59    📌 14

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.

There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.

Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

02.09.2025 22:12 — 👍 7208    🔁 2469    💬 437    📌 608

Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE.

Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files?

#LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files

30.08.2025 20:02 — 👍 8427    🔁 2165    💬 257    📌 79

@browneyegirlhi.bsky.social

31.08.2025 02:41 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Little kids with brain cancer.

That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.

30.08.2025 23:21 — 👍 3220    🔁 1189    💬 130    📌 60

Early on he was in Law and Order, and was mostly an okay guy. Bad fits him better, though.

28.08.2025 14:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fiery Defiance: DC Tells Bondi to 'F-Off' Over Power Grab "Back Off—We Run This City, Not You"

You don’t grab power in DC without a fight. Bondi tried it, and she just got her political teeth kicked in.
This fight’s not over—and DC is still swinging.
belib.org/oC3RhFo

15.08.2025 11:14 — 👍 103    🔁 24    💬 4    📌 0

Boohoo

27.07.2025 18:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think that's just LA. A of California is about $80 billion

17.07.2025 10:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"The Irish Embassy in Tel Aviv’s requirement that flights be purchased before visa approval resulted in a €38,000 loss on non-refundable tickets for the club."

16.07.2025 07:40 — 👍 42    🔁 34    💬 2    📌 3
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The Constitution is not optional.

10.07.2025 07:29 — 👍 166    🔁 44    💬 3    📌 1

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