Tim Barrus Blog
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I AM A COMMUNIST
I am a communist. Writer. There is no such thing as brotherhood. Idealism is so yesterday. Journalists drink alone. All the journalism bars are closed. Do you really think that any major American editor would publish an avowed communist voice. What planet do you live on. David Brooks is right.…
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I AM A COMMUNIST
TIM BARRUS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. You have to scope the lay of the land before the demonstration begins, not after. I am a communist. I write. Communism is rooted in the past. Take a closer look. Marx was Jewish. His sense of community is evident in everything he…
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Federal Officers From Ice and the DEA Have Infiltrated Protest Groups
Protest groups organizing demonstrations across the country have been infiltrated by officers of the Feds whose experince includes infiltrating organized drug cartels in South and Central America. Protest groups are a piece of cake. To the Feds, they’re all the same. They get your name. They get where you live.…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Going around the government. You can’t believe a word they say. I wonder how that happened. So the press steps in. Because they have to. This is why the people who wrote the Second Amendment wrote the Second Amendment. Data is free speech. Johnny get yer gun. But everywhere there… -
This Is How You Always Slept
There was no way I could do this. I need sheets and blankets pulled up over my head to keep the demons out. https://timbarrusart.tumblr.com
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The Phantom Drooping Trees
I doubt that we will see the likes of this again for at least a few lifetimes. Generations of a thin exhaustion. I remember the river. I remember the smell of the river not unlike a slow light upon the ground held in check by rain. I remember watching kids…
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Comments Are Bones For Dogs
FYI AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES: This letter appears on the medium along with a protest video where James Baldwin speaks. COMMENTS ARE BONES FOR DOGS AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES medium.com I do have a New York Times Most Notable Book under my… -
Tim Barrus New York Times
Apil 12, 1861 was the year the bloodbath began to run. We are going straight hell again. This will at first glance seem uncivil. It is the truth. Complacency is evil. Ideology is camouflage. Public policy is constructed in the face of a pandemic the insular United States confronts with…
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because you are compelled to or he will disappear/
Tim Barrus Photography https://timbarrus.tumblr.com
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green blanket
“But there’s nothing to photograph here.” My eyes to the sky.