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Bill Barnes

@jazzybill.bsky.social

Jazz and blues guitarist, writer, father, grandfather, lover of music, books, art, theater, wine, sailing, cooking, travel and people who do not suck. Not necessarily in that order. Virulently anti-fascist.

79 Followers  |  85 Following  |  18 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024  |  1.6162

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DECENCY IN AMERICA It is no longer about whether trump has any decency but if WE do. if WE β€œHave You No Sense of Decency?” With those words, in 1954 attorney Joseph Welch disarmed Senator Joseph McCarthy&…

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MAKE AMERICA CRUEL AGAIN It’s okay to be mean some times. It’s okay to get angry- in fact, if you don’t, you probably need help. It’s okay to get tough. Tough times require tough skin, firm resolve …

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TIME FOR β€œGOOD TROUBLE” March 15, 2025 Yesterday I participated in an anti-trump demonstration at the Maine Capitol. It was a nice, feel-good event, protected by police, with a proper permit. A few hundred people yowled i…

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Chris Hedges: The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel Chris Hedges: The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship

This is scary stuff. Please watch.

UNITARY EXECUTIVE THEORY: Google it. Scary.

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NOT MY PRESIDENT: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD FROM AN ORDINARY EVERYDAY AMERICAN Dear World, A narcissistic trust fund baby, climate change denier, misogynist, adjudicated sexual predator, grifter, insurrectionist and Nazi-loving sociopath with 34 felony convictions is nearly s…

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capitolprotest01 Complete University of Wisconsin-Madison coverage since 1892.

It's coming down to this.
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How Trump's Chaos Distracts from Elon's Power Play | Pivot
YouTube video by Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway How Trump's Chaos Distracts from Elon's Power Play | Pivot

We need to stop the bleeding- the fast-moving coup of the Putin-Musk regime. This video is worth your time to watch.

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Are We Willing to Pay the Price? In view of the rapid developments in Washington many have been calling for the formation of an active resistance to the Putin-Musk regime’s fascist takeover of our failing democracy. If such …

My latest blog entry:
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What you can do Revised and expanded

Here's a plan from Robert Reich-
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Who's going next Wednesday? Who in Maine will be in Augusta?

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Zero-Sum Tactics That Built Trump Inc. Could Backfire With World Leaders NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with David Honig, who teaches negotiations at Indiana University, on how President Trump has employed a technique called "distributive bargaining," and how that can backfire.

There's a transcript in the link.

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RFK doesn't remember a lot. The internet does.

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I refuse to sing Kumbaya with Nazis.

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Hi "Nora!" Glad to hook up here.

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I'm new to this platform but, just to be clear, I'm progressive, egalitarian, passionate about the people and things I love and sick over the outcome of the 2024 U.S. election. I will be doing whatever I can to stop the fascist takeover of our government currently under way.

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