LessBarb

@lessbarb.bsky.social

Recovering FL Republican. Previously art and science daily, and now it turns out I'm just an anti-MAGA anti-DeSantis, troll. Known to hose Christian Nationalists with Bible verses. I have a hypocrisy trigger.

NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war

🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

democracydocket.com

They want us divided. They want us fighting each other instead of working together. Organized people beat big money every day of the week. But we have to get organized. So what are we going to do about it yall? Volunteer today at AngieNixon.com. #AngieForFlorida

I'm honored to be opening the Association of Research Libraries 189th meeting this morning in Arlington, VA with an address entitled "Information Foraging in the Digital World".

Silhouettes of airport passengers walking through a hallway with a sea-green background. 

"How have we evolved to relate to information? How have our information technologies evolved in turn?"

Who believes that Trump will part with any sizable portion of the campaign coffers that he controls? It is a means of control + he never lets go of a farthing, like some old demented dragon. Watch. He won't part with the cash.

Sean Casten@seancasten.bsky.social · 5d ago

"If House Republicans are going to pull off an upset in November, they say it would come down to the party’s massive cash advantage and its aggressive gerrymandering push." Eg, not on policies or the will of a democratic electorate. www.cnn.com/2026/10/03/p...

Again, these “factories” are data centers. The construction jobs, temporary, and the end employment, a guy with a laptop, a guy with a screwdriver, and a guy with a broom. This also has had the effect to hike the cost of all construction.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

incredible spin from Hassett on mortgage rates being well above 7%: "When the economy is growing really high, then longer-term interest rates can sometimes go up not because of inflation, but because like all these businesses have a high demand for capital because they're building factories."

“We’re at a period where our molecular understanding is unprecedented,” said Dr. Paul Mischel, a physician scientist at Stanford. “But the infrastructure is really falling apart.” “It’s a problem — it’s a big, big problem,” he added. “People should be really angry.”

New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don’t More Patients Get Them?

Targeted gene therapies are highly effective at stopping cancers, but the very abundance of the treatments, plus cost and sluggish change, are hindering access.

nytimes.com