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markbarrington.bsky.social
I write about basketball and take lots of pictures of cats. [Temporary spooky Halloween name.]
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On 22 February 1943, three young Germans, members of the White Rose Society -- Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst -- were guillotined by the Nazis for distributing leaflets speaking out against the crimes of the Third Reich. Their bravery, and their cause, will not be forgotten.

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The President who was doing flyovers at Daytona and golfing through his presidency wants an accounting of every federal employee’s work week or they will be fired. This while Elon Musk won’t account for any of his time to Congress.

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Saying this again because true to MO, the RFK Jr. crew is blaming US measles outbreaks on the vaccine: there is no such thing as an outbreak of measles caused by the measles vaccine. It has literally never happened. Furthermore, in the data we have, all but 4 cases in Texas are unvaccinated or...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I don’t know why any country would want to be an ally of the United States under the Trump regime after seeing what they’re doing to Ukraine, with the extortion and betrayal.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

My open letter to Elon Musk.👇 Mr. Musk, You recently criticized me and another prominent lawyer fighting for the rule of law and democracy in the United States. I am used to being attacked for my work, particularly on the platform you own and dominate. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 6 hours ago • 116 comments

every nazi deserves only one thing:

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

Possibly the most antisemitic thing I’ve ever seen in public. Trying to erase huge swaths of American Jewish history.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

"Their (Detroit) rebounding hurt us, and that's something they do well," - Mitch Johnson Pistons 125, Spurs 110: What they said after the game www.kens5.com/article/spor... #nba #porvida #sanantonio #gospursgo

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Always always always listen to Ed Yong. One of the smartest and most empathetic humans out there.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

He nails it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1316 comments

While we're on the grand old topic of fighting kings, here's my series on the many, many ways medieval commoners did so. Peasant revolt was way more frequent and better organized than we're usually told! Tyrants can always be fought! History is important! www.patreon.com/collection/1...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1229 comments

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY??? You, a fucking JUDGE, cannot ORDER A NEWSPAPER to REMOVE an editorial. What the fucking FUCK.

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

He wants his military to say "yes sir" when he tells them to shoot protestors... www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1...

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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First clip from my interview with former NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Chris Kluwe about why he chose to be arrested for civil disobedience at his right wing city council meeting this week in protest of MAGA. More clips to come before we release the whole interview. Chris is fiire.

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Oh boy do I have the historical anecdote for this: late 1930s, the American Silver Shirts—initials, S.S., deliberately chosen, decided not to do the sieg heil, writing in their minutes that it was “too fascist”—with “too” underlined. Goldilocks fascism.

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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GOP Rep. Rich McCormick at his town hall last night justified the Trump administration firing CDC workers by saying "a lot of the work they do is duplicitous with AI"

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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