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@barryrossnick.bsky.social

Former long time bookseller and head book buyer, former lecture agent, occasionally pretend to be a cyclist. Have been grumpy since probably the age of 15.

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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

07.10.2025 23:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53245    ๐Ÿ” 20143    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1639    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1181
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In the Jura mountains in France there is a place called the โ€˜Cirque de Consolationโ€ or you could move here in San Francisco

07.10.2025 00:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

05.10.2025 19:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2572    ๐Ÿ” 681    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

02.10.2025 22:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32298    ๐Ÿ” 15547    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 655    ๐Ÿ“Œ 736

Lost in Translation soundtrack.

02.10.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For the 75th anniversary of "Peanuts," here's what I consider to be the quintessential strip of the entire run. No one else but Charles Schulz could've gotten away with this on the newspaper funny pages.

02.10.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 129    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

โ€œKavanaugh stops.โ€

02.10.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As a kid, I stayed in the Traymore with my parents two or 3 times a year. Glorious place. Heartbroken when it was destroyed.

The state had the leverage to force the casinos to renovate and preserve the historic hotels. They would have done anything to get casinos. Huge shame that didnโ€™t happen.

02.10.2025 04:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump: "I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships, by the way. We have a Secretary of Navy who came to me, 'cause I look at the Iowa out in California and I look at different ships, the old pictures. I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea. And I look at those ships... "

30.09.2025 13:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 808    ๐Ÿ” 174    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 285    ๐Ÿ“Œ 288
Inside NBA Star Jimmy Butlerโ€™s Epic California Mansion | Open Door | Architectural Digest
YouTube video by Architectural Digest Inside NBA Star Jimmy Butlerโ€™s Epic California Mansion | Open Door | Architectural Digest

Take the tour

youtu.be/3xHPJkTo6P0?...

29.09.2025 21:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41.

Hereโ€™s the President of the United States of America.

29.09.2025 00:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9794    ๐Ÿ” 3578    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 488    ๐Ÿ“Œ 179

Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling.

Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on โ€œhow they look, how do they look compared to, say,โ€ a tall, middle aged white guy.

29.09.2025 01:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4499    ๐Ÿ” 1650    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 124    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that
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28.09.2025 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4044    ๐Ÿ” 728    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 40

Alexander Hamilton could not more accurately describe Trump and the danger to liberty of such a man.

28.09.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 619    ๐Ÿ” 273    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

If you think Trump deploying troops in American cities is nothing more than an opportunity to pivot to a completely different subject, you do not belong in Democratic leadership.

28.09.2025 00:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 946    ๐Ÿ” 205    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Holy Shit.

27.09.2025 23:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 109    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This is fucking horrifying.

27.09.2025 23:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8498    ๐Ÿ” 2590    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 359    ๐Ÿ“Œ 76

The horse, the open steppe, the eagle, and the bow

26.09.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 170    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@stevanzetti.bsky.social The makings of a fine @guygavrielkay.bsky.social novel in two posts. Brilliant.

27.09.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow, is it is as bad as taking a democratic superpower and turning it into a white nationalist backwater with secret-police capture quotas, no freedom of expression, and no rule of law?

27.09.2025 02:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 416    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

I donโ€™t think Iโ€™ve ever loved anything as much as ICE loves violently attacking women.

25.09.2025 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15049    ๐Ÿ” 4210    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1271    ๐Ÿ“Œ 338
Vintage black and white portrait of a young boy with short hair, wearing a button-up shirt.

Vintage black and white portrait of a young boy with short hair, wearing a button-up shirt.

24 September 1937 | A German Jewish boy, Raphael Altmann, was born in Berlin. He lived in the Netherlands.

In February 1944, he was discovered in a hiding place in Zeist. On 25 March 1944 he was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz.

24.09.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 484    ๐Ÿ” 124    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Jimmy Kimmel is Back! Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air and talks about all of the people who have reached out over the last six days including fellow late night talk show hosts, fans of the show, and those who donโ€™t support what he believes but support his right to share those beliefs anyway, and he expresses that it was never his intention to make light of the murder of a young man, how important it is to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this, the Chairman of the FCC Brendan Carr telling an American company that โ€œWe can do this the easy way or the hard way,โ€ Trump saying he has no talent and no ratings, being fortunate to work at a company that has allowed us to do the show we want to do for almost 23 years, not agreeing with the decision to have our show pulled off the air last Wednesday, Trump making it very clear he wants to see Jimmy and other late night hosts fired, and solidarity from the right, left and those in the middle. Then Jimmy talks to the new FCC Chairman (Robert De Niro), and gets into Trumpโ€™s day addressing the United Nations, the escalator breaking, having trouble with the teleprompter, and the headache heโ€™s creating with his buddy RFK over Tylenol. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest #Kimmel: http://bit.ly/JKLSubscribe Follow Jimmy Kimmel on Instagram: https://bit.ly/KimmelInstagram Follow Jimmy Kimmel Live on Instagram: http://bit.ly/JKLInstagram Follow Jimmy Kimmel Live on TikTok: https://bit.ly/JKLTikTok Like Jimmy Kimmel on Facebook: http://bit.ly/KimmelFB Like Jimmy Kimmel Live on Facebook: http://bit.ly/JKLFacebook Visit the Jimmy Kimmel Live Website : http://bit.ly/JKLWebsite About Jimmy Kimmel Live: Jimmy Kimmel serves as host and executive producer of Emmyยฎ nominated โ€œJimmy Kimmel Live,โ€ ABCโ€™s late-night talk show. โ€œJimmy Kimmel Liveโ€ is well known for its viral video successes, with over 16 billion views and more than 19 million subscribers on the showโ€™s YouTube channel. Some of Kimmelโ€™s most popular comedy bits include Celebrities Read Mean Tweets, Lie Witness News, Halloween Candy YouTube Challenge, Jimmy and Cousin Sal pranking Aunt Chippy and music stars like Rihanna and Dua Lipa surprising Jimmy in the middle of the night.

Here is Jimmy Kimmelโ€™s full monologue from tonight.

Jokes on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Trump, Tylenol, etc.

24.09.2025 03:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 693    ๐Ÿ” 223    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24

Seems bad for our society when you canโ€™t make racist terrorists the villains

23.09.2025 23:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5748    ๐Ÿ” 1598    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 96    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

Lots of design inspiration in this account. I want them all.

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23.09.2025 23:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

22.09.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41887    ๐Ÿ” 9106    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1403    ๐Ÿ“Œ 864

Here's what Saint Charlie said about Crockett a few months before he died.

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

21.09.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2815    ๐Ÿ” 715    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 95    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
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It hurts my heart that we have racists like Laura Loomer effectively running the White House.

22.09.2025 17:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1465    ๐Ÿ” 314    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 107    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28

When we first moved to San Francisco in 89, pre-dot com boom, a shopkeeper said to us โ€œthe economy here is just people selling muffins to each other.โ€

With all this cross investment, itโ€™s starting to feel that way again.

22.09.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

And they use a slide rule in space. Probably the only time weโ€™ll ever see that. And a great remit how primitive the tech really was.

21.09.2025 23:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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