Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with protests
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I am one of the people Ross Douthat condemns. I have attended protests. Ross feels those demonstrations should never have happened. “…protests go forward amid a pandemic was justified by redescribing their motor, antiracism, as a push for better public health.” I haven’t heard that one, but it sounds right,…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
In the past, it was the crazy people who lived in armed fortresses at the tops of mountains in Idaho. They wanted revolution. We could patronize. “That’s nice but you’re a lunatic.” Survival is not a status quo Americans want to question. Blindness is easier. But how will we survive…
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Call In the PTA
The American catastrophe has paramilitary roots that extend to South America, Central America, and Mexico. The paramilitary of the paramilitaries is the Drug Enforcement Agency. Why the DEA is sweeping the Portland streets is because national security laws have been thrown out the window. Ostensibly, the DEA is there to…
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Fuck the System
fighting for existence each whispering of chaos and disorder or each failure by assiduous marking in the book of marks his eyes burn his face in hunger standing quietly by the window overlooking the graves by memory of the night marches old with the revolts of awe https://timbarrus.tumblr.com