Democratic Barbara

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💙Born liberal: love and equality for everybody. Spiritual humanist/atheist. Thumbnail: my daughter Bekah Zask 06Jul1980-19Jul2001. Full time unpaid member of #TheOpposition #BlueCrew#BLM💙💙🇺🇸 🌈🇺🇦 I say fuck a lot. https://substack.com/@barbtries

Bekah Zask. the most beautiful girl in the world to me.
found on facebook. cowardly assholes.
Raleigh, NC - All of U.S. 250 March to "Out! Raleigh Pride" Saturday, June 27, 2026 • 11:00 AM Moore Square 201 S Blount St Raleigh, NC 27601 US
Racist policies destroy the entire body politic. I urge everyone to read this book. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/on-freedom_timothy-snyder/51865150/item/86099907/?utm_adgroup=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18452114577#idiq=63667891&edition=71100330
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYgJQu1ufOH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== from Instagram
from Democratic Underground - the mad king and his kleptocracy are ROBBING US BLIND.
confederates rally somewhere. "Don't tell Black people to get over slavery when you still haven't gotten over losing your slaves."
Protest signs
Strike and Protest, demonstrate for Teachers and Education! May Day in Raleigh NC 01May2026
This section really resonates with me. I don't know how many times in my life I have thought or said, "It doesn't have to be this way!" It really doesn't. I think Timothy Snyder for this book not only for the history, memoir, and philosophy it contains, but for the validation I got from reading it. WE CAN DO BETTER
no matter how many times i watch this episode I laugh so hard it hurts. I Love Lucy, Vitametavegamin
The most important and impactful I have read in possibly my life.
01May2026 STRIKE and check out your local orgs for where to go to demonstrate why you did.
Next Mass Protest 01May2026. March by the millions
Autocracy Inc by Anne Applebaum. must read book.
DU comment I agree with wholeheartedly.
Timothy Snyder's Insta post about today's Substack Thinking about....: https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-next-coup-attempt?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
This is my copy of On Freedom, the most important book I read (twice) in 2025, and possibly in my life. Snyder has a must read substack and interviews, lectures, even his entire 2023 Yale course on the history of Ukraine can be found on youtube. https://substack.com/home/post/p-193162758
Memoir, philosophy, history...this book is also prescriptive for restoring democracy and bringing true freedom to the people.
Elliott displays the names of some of krasnov's victims as we march on 28Mar2026 in Durham NC.
This quote is from the section LED LEADERLESS https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/on-freedom_timothy-snyder/51865150/?resultid=5434acbe-a5a8-41f0-9696-600fcdd410f9#edition=74001780&idiq=86099907
My sign for No Kings 2. and probably today as well.
#NoKings 28Mar2026
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder. Please read this brilliant book!
This quote is part of an early section of the book where he discusses French philosopher Simone Weill. LInk to Snyder's 2023 class on the History of Ukraine, which I'm just "taking" now via youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhTRXzDqRJxjwJVIddAFOF3Eg8OESGiSM
Mass Protest 28Mar2026
28Mar2028 No Kings Mass Protest. Biggest ever people
No Kings Mass Protest 28Mar2026
28March2026 Mass Protest - predicted to be the largest protest in the history of this nation. be there or be square.
The book we should all be reading. You can listen to Timothy Snyder discuss this book here: https://youtu.be/zVxuFLBOpvM?si=FbyCS-e17X-JMLIQ
map of about 3,000 protests planned for 28Mar2026, the biggest Mass Protest ever - and this is just in the USA. I suspect souls will rise all over the world as we #SaveDemocracy and work toward an end to all the wars.
republicans are destroying the country. their greed is boundless and they're a band of psychopaths.
Our slide into fascism was seeded by nixon and put into gear by reagan. Every republican president since has committed crimes, gutted the economy, and ruined the lives of everyday Americans. If and when we get democracy back, republicans must be entirely shunned and prevented from ever holding positions of power again. They don't want a democracy and I think by now that should be abundantly clear.
Less and less people still read books, but reading books means everything to me. It's shaped who I am. It informs my values and beliefs and understanding of the world in which I live. This book is possibly the most important book I have ever read. I read it twice and will read it again, and very possibly again after that. I urge everyone to get and read On Freedom.
"CHILDREN" is the heading for this part of the book, which I found extremely validating. My goal in life is to save democracy, and it's for them, not for me, and it's because I love them so much and want so much for them to live free. https://www.youtube.com/@timothysnyder5948 https://substack.com/@snyder?utm_source=global-search
In this section, "PRISONERS," Snyder's brilliant book makes the case that all for profit imprisonment is wrong. I could not agree more. https://www.youtube.com/@timothysnyder5948
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. If you haven't read it yet, please do so now.
from the Kamala rally in Raleigh NC just days before catastrophe.
my heart dawg Chase.
My Antifa sign. My father, who was on the USS California at Pearl Harbor, next to the page in his War Diary describing the attack, and my great uncle, who died at an Army base in Iowa from influenza during the First World War and whose headstone says "For His Country"
This book is my lifeline to a future beyond krasnov, oligarchs, autocracy, and the uncertainty and brutality of the present state we are in. https://substack.com/@snyder
"Reporters are an avant-garde. They declare freedom for us every day." FLOWING FOUNTAIN History, philosophy, memoir, and a prescription for creating a free society. This book is the most important book I've read in possibly ever.
Where I will be for what I'm hoping will turn out to be the biggest mass protest in American history.
Timothy Snyder also has a substack. https://substack.com/home/post/p-189132130 Fascist Failure
when people in the US don't know if they can make the rent, feed their family, get help if they get sick, this illustrates where our tax dollars go. to private prisons so oligarchs can get rich off of human bodies.
This brilliant book was published in 2024 shortly before the election. That ill fated election. Since then, krasnov and company are studiously erasing the real history of the USA. They are the enemies of freedom.
this clip is in the LIFE'S ARC pages of this important and wonderful book. Timothysnyder.org. https://www.youtube.com/@timothysnyder5948 https://www.instagram.com/thetimothysnyder/
this quote is from the section titled REPUBLICANS timothysnyder.org
Reverend Barber at the Love Forward march and rally 14Feb2026
Raleigh NC Mass Protest at 8:30 at Shaw University, marching to Fayetteville downtown, and making some noise about LOVE.
14Feb2026 mass protest and march in Raleigh NC
Timothy Snyder's brilliant book On Freedom some memoir, some history, some philosophy. Everyone should read it. There is a way to save democracy. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/on-freedom_timothy-snyder/51865150/all-editions/
Info for the #MassProtest on Saturday 14Feb2026 in Raleigh NC