Gary Barker

We're the canaries in the coal mine of social catastrophes: mass shooters, terrorism, dictatorship. Ppl engaged in those activities virtually always start with target practice on women, knowing no one stop them & we'll be blamed somehow...as if we're flies who made the bad boys pull off our wings.

UTAH… this is not a game…

Rory Gilmore eat your heart out!!!!!

Iowa constituent: "People will die" because of Republicans' cuts to Medicaid.

Joni Ernst: "Well, we all are going to die."

Holy shit. This chick needs to be sent back to castrating hogs.

Nathan Sage, a Marine mechanic raised in a trailer park, is the candidate to do it.

And we can help him!!

MSU faculty join call for Big Ten 'mutual defense compact' against Trump administration - The State News Under the compact, participating institutions would “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund” that would “provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution un...

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Cory Booker filibuster at 21 hours, 15 minutes and still going. April 1, 2025.

We needed this. I don't know how he's managing it, but if the rest of them don't step up after this, they all need to go.

Senator Cory Booker is the best of us.

Thank you, Cory!!!!

Cory Booker is spitting TRUTH on the Senate floor right now!! He’s been going all night, and if he keeps going, he may just break a record!

Just checked the stream, and he’s up to 91 million likes — that’s INSANE! Exactly the energy we need!!!

Salute, Senator 🫡🇺🇸

In surpassing Strom Thurmond’s record, Cory Booker has toppled another Confederate monument.

Kudos to you @booker.senate.gov.

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.

Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people.

Blazing your own path for the W

👏👏👏👏👏

Thank you to the voters of Wisconsin.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

American democracy is not dead.
Far fucking from it.

The Constitution Isn’t Into Threesomes. Third Terms Are for Dictators, Not Donalds

I wish this were just some harmless fantasy cooked up in the rust-colored recesses of his muddled & macerated “mind”. But it’s not. This is a full-blown, authoritarian fever dream from a guy who looks like he fell face-first into a vat of expired self-tanner.

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Puppy killing to court the mob. MAGA & the glorification of gratuitous violence.

I wrote this essay about Noem nearly a year ago. The week, the now “Secretary of Homeland Security”, made a video in front of what looked like a concentration camp, in which she wore a $60K watch and used imprisoned human beings as props.
This was the goal.
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View outside my window. Oakland, CA.

As the indefatigable artist Bill Russell reached an impressive milestone, I felt he deserved a little something special to celebrate.

This is what you do when you're retired. You build a propane tank cozy to keep the tank from rolling around in the back of your SUV.

My secret life as a curler. Here’s Thursday night’s league at the curling club. Our team is the Mid-Century Moderns, comprised of 3 guys born in the 1950’s and an amazing 13-year-old kid. I’m the one in the grey hat. #curling

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I LOVE Bulky Trash Day! I look forward to it all year long!

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SFGiants 🤖

A group of fans challenged Matt Chapman to a beer chugging race at today’s FanFest Tour stop in Napa.
It wasn’t a close race.

SFGiants 🤖

Happy birthday to #ForeverGiant Kevin Mitchell! 🎂

I do find these interesting.

I’ve just signed up for Bluesky. Giving it a go.

“Brutalism Friday”

“Hotel du Lac”, architect Raffaele Contigiani, 1973, Tunis.

The striking design, departing from traditional Arab and European architecture, made the hotel a symbol of modernism in Tunis.

#brutalism #brutalismfriday #brutalisticarchitecture #architecture #concreteconstruction