Jeff Barrus
Communications professional, middle-aged punk, gamer, public health and foreign policy geek, father of twins, a grain of sand in the gears, I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦
- Reposted by Jeff Barrus“So what do you think Democrats can learn from somebody who, like you, targets the most vulnerable among us?” said Newsom theonion.com/gavin-n...
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusBut remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusSilicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusNo, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
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- Reposted by Jeff BarrusKash Patel is the living definition of waste, fraud, and abuse—all on the taxpayer’s dime. Flying private to see his girlfriend, skipping critical meetings, and totally unfit for the job he was never qualified for in the first place. But hey… playing FBI Director is rough work.
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- Reposted by Jeff BarrusAll of the Democratic heads of the Consumer Product Safety Commission have just been abruptly fired by the White House. The commissioners say it's punishment for speaking out against staff cuts and threats to the agency's independence. New from me at @consumerreports.org today:
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusWhat ICE has done in Newark is unacceptable. The Newark Mayor was doing his job. Arresting him is an alarming escalation that cannot be allowed to stand. We stand firmly with Mayor Baraka and his right to do his job . The Trump administration’s actions are an abuse of all we believe in America
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusNEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:
- Reposted by Jeff Barrusi am explicitly pro-technocrat because we are seeing the alternative
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusTANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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- Reposted by Jeff BarrusI'm sorry but if you don't have enough fully functional neurons firing in your brain to have seen this coming from the beginning, I refuse to believe you can be trusted with any task or objective that requires more than a third-grade intellect. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...
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- Reposted by Jeff Barrus*No paywall*The story starts with teachers pleading for empathy for 3 immigrant students. It ends with a border patrol agent pleading for empathy for 3 other students at the school — his own. Might be a theme here. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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- Reposted by Jeff BarrusTrump's threat to arrest Governor Evers is a chilling attempt to normalize fascism & silence dissent. They want to bully & intimidate anyone who doesn't conform to their ideology. We will NOT be intimidated. We will NOT be silenced. We will DEFEND our freedom.
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusI had the best time with @jimmykimmel.com last night! I don’t think either of us is expecting invites from Donald Trump anytime soon. @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Jeff BarrusSinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusOur long national nightmare of making national healthcare decisions based on germ theory is finally coming to an end, but at least now christians will get to force children in public schools to learn about Noah's ark in science class. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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Has he seen that movie where the lady says to literally him “You’re going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.” - Reposted by Jeff BarrusI think you can conclude that every job given to Marco Rubio is one Trump doesn’t think matters to his central corruption project.
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- Reposted by Jeff BarrusA few people have pointed out that many of the grievances in the Declaration sound like they were written about Trump. I collected all of the ones that could apply www.liberalcurrents.com/unfit-to-be-...
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- Reposted by Jeff Barrus"Your health records will be on the block chain." "Everyone will live in the Metaverse." "All art will be NFTs." "Generative AI will replace the need for humans." We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusCanada’s brand-new Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney: “Trump is attacking Canadian families, workers, and businesses, and we cannot let him succeed.” We must all take a page from their book and stop Trump from doing the same in our country. This could be us next year, America. Let’s be ready!
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusHey Paul Weiss associates—meet your new pro bono clients. It’s ok, the Skadden associates are getting the coal companies.
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusMinnesota has sued Trump at least once every week the administration has been in power so far. “If you capitulate to Trump in this moment, I think history will look at you as one who failed when the propitious moment arrived,” says Keith Ellison
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusThis whole clip is truly unbelievably great. I am genuinely astounded by how good this is.
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- Reposted by Jeff BarrusSo basically, there was a Signal chat with tech folks and some Harpers Letter writers, and the Harpers folk were chased out when Andreessen realized they would not go along with censorship. But the tech guys stuck with Chris Rufo. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
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- Reposted by Jeff Barrus“No matter what you have done before,” Professor William McBride wrote to Annapolis’s Superintendent Adm. Yvette Davids, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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- Reposted by Jeff BarrusNews: Two Scotland Yard detectives who investigated Murdoch tabloids say given new evidence they would have considered Will Lewis a criminal suspect in covering up wrongdoing there - via @guardian Lewis currently chief executive & publisher of WaPo www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
- Reposted by Jeff BarrusThe reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
- "The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
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- Reposted by Jeff BarrusThis statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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