Andy Barnett
@hof1991.bsky.social
I recommend books. Retired librarian, author and 3rd generation Packer owner. Make the New Deal great again. Third Reconstruction is the charm. #indivisible
Oh, honey . . . Dolly Parton disliked everything you are. You are a selfish, venal fool who mocks those with misfortunes, lies, and takes food and medicine away from children. She was a generous, incorruptible sage who comforted those with misfortunes, spoke the truth, and gave to children.
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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If a con man is capable of convincing you that CANADA is our enemy and NORTH KOREA is our friend, then intellectually, you are in serious trouble.
Tomorrow's handout for my Immigration 101 lecture is really throwing the students in the deep end.
The upshot of the Supreme Court's mail-in voting opinion is that the conservative justices think you are very stupid. They think Trump should be able to hijack the midterms, and do not think you can see that they are doing what they can to help.
The Supreme Court Thinks You Are Stupid
The conservative justices are reserving for themselves the power to decide whether Trump can hijack the 2026 midterms.
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If you’ve never heard Trio, the work of Dolly, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris together, you should fix that. youtu.be/ykMzS6ugnPI?...
Trio - After The Gold Rush (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Warner Records Nashville
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1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
Perfectly nice and correct article in the FT and yer Da is absolutely apopleptic in the comments - nude, red, and mad that an actual historian knows about history and his wank fantasies aren't real. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Why is the far right so obsessed with knights?
Medieval military monks have become a regular sight at political rallies and marches
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A few very minor quibbles about the early history of the star machine which aren’t that important, this is about dead on. Blonde studies.
tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell
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I do not want Democrats to figure out how they can work together to help Donald Trump enact his agenda. I want Democrats to win power and then act as a wrench in the gears of government for the rest of Trump's term. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
Father of sailor aboard USS Abraham Lincoln taken into US immigration detention reut.rs/4c6jT3m
Father of sailor aboard USS Abraham Lincoln taken into US immigration detention
The immigrant father of a U.S. sailor on board the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which was deployed in the Middle East during the Iran war, was taken into federal immigration detention, the sailor said in a Facebook post.
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First they came for CRT, then the trans scholars, then women's studies. And I said nothing because woke And then they came for a race scientist with a bigoted vendetta against a Black scholar, and I was like, "Woh! Woh! Woh! Hold up. Too relatable!"
In my opinion, a failure to understand the white-hot rage so many people feel about ICE's campaign of terror and oppression is what has taken some establishment Dems by surprise in their primaries. Abolish ICE and Nuremberg 2.0 is basically the floor for what the Dem electorate is demanding.
Among other reforms, it cannot stand that the President can sue everyone all the time but never face any lawsuits or criminal charges himself because he’s president. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic (Gift Article)
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
nytimes.com
“This war has involved one cover-up, after cover-up, after cover-up by Team Trump. Within the first 72 hours of the conflict, the administration was…trying to cover-up the true nature of U.S. troop casualties – a suppression of information…that persists to this day. And… zeteo.com/p/scoop-trum...
Chase Madar@madar.bsky.social · last wk.Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
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JAYNE MANSFIELD had an IQ of 163, spoke 5 languages, and was a more than proficient Violinist, as evidenced here playing Vivaldi's Concerto No. 6 in A minor on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.
I'm sorry but it's clearly newsworthy that the President's decisions are being unduly influenced by a mentally unstable obsessive no one voted for who has attached themselves to him in an effort to live out weird fantasies they've had for decades. Something has to be done about Stephen Miller.
The Navy may change the name of a warship to honor a brave black man who served honorably in the Pearl Harbor attack to the name of a cowardly draft dodger who is so ignorant he didn’t even know what happened at Pearl Harbor, according to his then Chief of Staff accompanying him on the visit
Darth Vader spoke in favor of Flock cameras at a San Diego city council meeting yesterday
'The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock': Darth Vader Speaks at City Council Meeting
"This council was elected to serve the police, not the public," said Vader.
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Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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"...professors at my mini-viva questioning my use of the term 'Asian American canon', insisting that 'canon' was the remit of white authors (and reciting names to me as I fought back tears)..." www.vogue.co.uk/article/camb...
I Aspired To Get My PhD At Cambridge – I Left Because Of The Racism
“I could write a second memoir solely on the racism I experienced at Cambridge University as a Master’s and PhD student,” writes Jill Damatac, a Filipino-American author who was a student at Cambridge...
vogue.co.uk
Does it ever feel like you're in a cage being watched? Well, you are. By Flock cameras, thanks to Mike Rogers.
