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Brian Barreto

@marblespeak.bsky.social

Visual artist, collaborative curator/ arts organizer, news junky, dog feeder, and kook enthusiast breathing deeply in NM.

46 Followers  |  72 Following  |  23 Posts  |  Joined: 25.01.2025  |  2.1434

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Post image 23.12.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 12083    πŸ” 4368    πŸ’¬ 466    πŸ“Œ 274
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Haha hey anybody remember Jill Stein?

22.08.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 176    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 22
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Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America β€” which we don’t currently have.

28.08.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5016    πŸ” 2376    πŸ’¬ 213    πŸ“Œ 149
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The clearest image of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft.

17.06.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5283    πŸ” 657    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 76
The Good Wash Laundromat in Southeast Washington surrounded by recent, brightly-colored murals. Text on photo reads, β€œHow artists turned a dilapidated D.C. corner into an homage to heroes”

The Good Wash Laundromat in Southeast Washington surrounded by recent, brightly-colored murals. Text on photo reads, β€œHow artists turned a dilapidated D.C. corner into an homage to heroes”

For many years, an abandoned laundromat in Southeast D.C. was an eyesore. Now, the venue is home to after-school arts programs.

This year, two local muralists called on dozens of the city’s artists to turn a once-blighted street corner into something beautiful. wapo.st/4e7tKWo

15.06.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1276    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 7
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Stunning light shows (Auroras) on Jupiter as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

-Credits: NASA

16.06.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1437    πŸ” 207    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 13
Carter-William @carterwalek:
alexa show me the unnervingly large Venn Diagram of people who hate immigrants but love to take 23andMe tests to find out exactly what type of immigrant their family once was

Carter-William @carterwalek: alexa show me the unnervingly large Venn Diagram of people who hate immigrants but love to take 23andMe tests to find out exactly what type of immigrant their family once was

This is a strong point.

14.06.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 410    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Escorting journalists away in cuffs?? Really??

10.06.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.

You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.

Get your lies straight.

10.06.2025 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 29609    πŸ” 9548    πŸ’¬ 719    πŸ“Œ 396

To me, as an Atlanticist and foreign policy guy for most of my career, that comment really stung.

08.06.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1788    πŸ” 267    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 9

Can’t shake the thought that having all this matΓ©riel in DC and provoking anti-ICE riots in LA, Chicago, and gods-know-where would make a handy little setup for declaring martial law.

Meh, it’s probably nothing. 😬

07.06.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 726    πŸ” 242    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 14
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Hell of a photo

07.06.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 24984    πŸ” 6324    πŸ’¬ 392    πŸ“Œ 375
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EVERYBODY WATCH.

ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.

Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.

He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.

Don’t turn away.

06.06.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 23778    πŸ” 11885    πŸ’¬ 1933    πŸ“Œ 1195
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The cruelty is astounding.

16.05.2025 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ICYMI: Disclosure forms show that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s β€œLiberation Day” press conference sent the market tumbling.

πŸ“½οΈ: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

16.05.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1500    πŸ” 637    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 71

πŸ’”

09.05.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 277    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump’s Sneaky Plot to Steal Your Dataβ€”and Weaponize It Against You Under the guise of immigration enforcement, the administration is building a new, expanded surveillance state.

Most authoritarian regimes sustain themselves in large part through broad surveillance and tight control of data flows that can feed into systems of semilegal pressure against potential dissidents and opponents.

08.05.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 9
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The Trump admin just terminated the Ready to Learn grant program that helped bring you Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, and Clifford the Big Red Dog. We must protect public broadcasting.

07.05.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 353    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 3
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9 years ago at the White House 🎢

04.05.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 723    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 15
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Musk Allies Made FAA Staff Sign NDAs to Keep New Project Secret Elon Musk’s DOGE allies have been spearheading a secret new communications project at Donald Trump’s Federal Aviation Administration.

Musk’s DOGE allies have been spearheading a new communications project at the FAA and forcing staff involved to sign NDAs, sources tell us.

They say β€œProject Lift” would be a great opportunity for Musk’s Starlink.

w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

25.04.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 484    πŸ” 266    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 37
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Rep. Tom Emmer refuses to rule out deporting U.S. citizens β€’ Minnesota Reformer On Sunday, U.S. House Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District repeatedly dodged straightforward questions about whether the U.S. president has the legal power to β€œdeport” U.S. citizen...

β€œRep. Tom Emmer refuses to rule out deporting U.S. citizens” 4/21/25 minnesotareformer.com/briefs/rep-t...

22.04.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1918    πŸ” 821    πŸ’¬ 274    πŸ“Œ 137

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.

Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!

NO.

Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.

PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.

This is also about autism.

21.04.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 16901    πŸ” 4676    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 124
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She told Trump the Smithsonian needs changing. He’s ordered her to do it. Who is Lindsey Halligan, the attorney assigned to help remove β€œimproper ideology” from Washington’s most important cultural institution?

Don't put in the newspaper that she is a history buff.

The review of the Smithsonian museums for "improper ideology" is being led by a 35-year old lawyer who has no experience or credentials in history or museum studies.

But one supporter says she is an avid "fan of history."πŸ—ƒοΈ

21.04.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2347    πŸ” 735    πŸ’¬ 198    πŸ“Œ 188
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A statement by Seth Rogan about the evisceration of science in the US, made at an awards ceremony attended by Schmuckerberg, Bezos, and Brin, was edited out of the final version that aired. The "Breakthrough Prize" *for science* was originally established by Schmuckerberg and Brin.

17.04.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1222    πŸ” 322    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 11
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Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system β€” and its hundreds of millions in fees. β€œThis goes against all the norma...

Very very important read. A startup backed by the paypal mafia and the Kushner is set to get a contract to privatize the entire internal govt credit card system. No compete sweetheart deal. Justified by bogus claims abt fraud. Pure corruption. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

18.04.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1816    πŸ” 1013    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 74
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Chris Van Hollen Meets With Abrego Garcia in El Salvador Earlier in the day, armed military officials stopped Senator Chris Van Hollen from trying to visit the prison where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has been held for over a month.

Breaking News: Senator Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador.

18.04.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8223    πŸ” 1266    πŸ’¬ 316    πŸ“Œ 79
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This is the answer. Stand together.

15.04.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7228    πŸ” 1469    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 52

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