MB Barber
@mbbarber916.bsky.social
Californian. Civil servant. Library & arts lover. MBA. Former journalist and political junkie who’s damn worried about our democracy. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
Goddamnit. Two of the victims-one deceased, one critically injured-from a shooting in Idaho are from Northern California. The other deceased victim has family ties to SoCal. We have banned these weapons in CA for a reason. Or at least tried to. Yet a shooting in ID takes the lives of Californians.
CBS News Sacramento@cbsnewssacramento.bsky.social · 2d agoOne of the people killed was Ashley Garibay, an In-N-Out associate from Stockton, her family confirmed in a statement Monday evening
BREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit
Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...
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I initially thought this was The Onion.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is truly a sick individual.
What the US government is doing to Dr. Fauci is the embodiment of what they are doing to scientific infrastructure overall.
Dedicated to Hegseth who's seeking supplemental funds. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
This infuriates me. Those texts are super annoying. Not what I signed up for.
Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi.bsky.social · 2w agoApparently the org behind ninety-plus percent of this is an outfit called Mothership Strategies and it also keeps most of the money. Just basically a massive grift to get American progressives to take their money and light it on fire.
Taylor Farms' parent company has given $2.2M to GOP PACs this election cycle. That includes $1M to Trump's own PAC, just 6 days after the FDA delayed new food tracing requirements last year. Money in politics is sickening.
Reminder: there's NO legitimate use for crypto. Its only practical uses are tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, specualtion, and crime. No Democrat should vote for the so-called CLARITY Act, a bill backed by the crypto lobby that would make this Ponzi scheme even worse.
This article is basically saying they are playing like thugs and the refs appear to be fine with it.
M Sports@motorcyclesports.bsky.social · 2w agoArgentina adopts tough tactics to disrupt Spain in 2026 World Cup final first half
Donald Trump released classified documents which incriminate himself, proving without a doubt there was Russian collusion. Trump several campaign aides, his family and other associates were directly involved with Russian agents, attempting to discredit Joe Biden in 2020. He is so stupid. I love it.
I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...
We need more people with influence to speak up like this. I’m sooo damn tired of non-licensed pyro shows.
Michael J. Stern@michaeljstern.bsky.social · last mo.I like a good fireworks show as much as anyone, but enough with the backyard pyrotechnics all hours of the night for weeks on end. It's a waste of gun powder and sky. And it's terrifying the dogs. Finally, Bah, Humbug.
I fear the general public has grown numb to what is happening. It hurts my heart. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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California budget hits school libraries with ‘catastrophic’ cut. #freadom calmatters.org/education/k-...
California budget hits school libraries with ‘catastrophic’ cut
The money that was cut pays online fees for student research materials.
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The top 1% owns as much wealth as the entire middle class. That's not the America we're supposed to be. We need an economy that works for everyone, not just those already at the top.
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇
Gere summarizes the importance of the moment so well here. We need more of this-familiar faces from popular media to help move the dial. I could have seen Reiner bringing together dozens of known people to do this like when he started First 5, had he not died. Is there someone who could do this?
Marie 🇨🇦@pawbaby2.bsky.social · 2mo agoRichard Gere just said what millions are feeling. At the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, Gere choked up and called this “the darkest moment of my life,” warning that America’s democratic norms and human rights are under unprecedented strain. #USDemocracy #Pinks
“In effect, today’s corporations and wealthy are hoarding the society’s resources for themselves, while starving the treasury of funds that are badly needed for repairing and strengthening the society on which their wealth depends.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
CEOs Still Fail to Understand the Rage Against Them
As the trial of Luigi Mangione moved forward in New York state court last week, the proceedings highlighted how deeply the murder of UnitedHealthcare Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson has unsettled ...
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This is a friggin dystopian sci fi movie or novel from the early 1980s. Feels kind of Total Recall-ish. #booksky
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 2mo agoTrump has said the cage fight at the People's House on his 80th birthday will be “the greatest show on earth.”
