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Tim Barrus
The New York Times was on a jag today, the issue being medical screenings. All the comments were old people declaring war on any institution or individual who might get in their way of the old folks and their constitutional right to every single screening tools available to stupid people…
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Tim Barrus
There was only one question in Dirt Bike Town, and that question was about survival.
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Tim Barrus
I was Creative Director for a foundation where we brought art programs and cameras to kids at risk, all over the world. We gave hundreds of Play Sport Kodak cameras to the children. What came back was a kick in the gut. I was speechless (rare). This is how they…
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Tim Barrus
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antichrist-ross-douthat.html#permid=143116474 Take notes. Ross has major chops with his interviewing skills. I’m not sure if I have ever seen or heard anything like this interview. I am interested in the sparring. In some ways, Ross did push some (Ross, you squirmed, don’t do that), and then he smiled and settled…
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Tim Barrus
ICE has arrived in Appalachia. This morning, I walked over to the migrant camp. I walked up and down that old dirt road. People smiled and they waved. Women were hanging dripping clothes on overburdened clotheslines. I speak Spanish. I wave back. Gossiping was mainly about how well their kids…
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Tim Barrus
Dirt Bike Town a novel by tim barrus read by robin king
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Tim Barrus
NarcoState. SlaveryState. FailedState. TheocracyState. NaziState. HumiliationState. SadismState. BibleState. Entrenched PovertyState. Choose one, and you will be right. $1.39 allotted per meal per MinorState. HatredState. PunishmentState, Environmental MessState. N0 safety NetState. Healthcare TerrorismState. LawlessState. IllnessState. ExecutionState. PollutionState. The DisasterState. TheFacebookState. XState. InstaState. FoneState. The TheftState. Big Bags of our MoneyState. The…
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Tim Barrus
I grew up born-and-bred to work the assembly line at Oldsmobile. We did not attend college. No idea what university was. That is where the rich kids went. Whoever they were. We kinda made them up. So we could blame them for the poverty of our lives. I blame them,…
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Tim Barrus
I can’t think of three other journalists I would rather listen to. These three cut through issues boom, boom, boom. Thank you. A cogent conversation. Now is the time for the Normals to remember. The TV was darkened to bible black images of the dead being thrown into the backs…
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Tim Barrus
I am almost stunned this was published in the New York Times. Thank you. It is informative and has a voice to die for. Parades of ghosts. Authority is coming for you. No one will remember. Because it’s time. They’re coming for you. Yes, they’re coming for you. Who is…
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Tim Barrus
I’m sorry. You’ve been had. I said you would be had, and then, you couldn’t buy enough. A Narco-State. A Police-State. A Hysterical-State. Of numbing incredulity. Does America even know what is real. “I will not be arrested.” This tells me you have never been arrested. You are immune from…
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Tim Barrus: The State Can Dictate
I am not confused. The first thing government is responsible for – is where to put the dead. A lot of what Ross writes is all mixed up with Catholicism. He’s not being honest about the extent to which The Church’s influence is everything. The Church is a relic from…
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Kansas
Masada: A Novel By Tim Barrus
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Tim Barrus: Always Hopeful
I am autistic. But I am not a dream machine. I do not understand how all of these lists of threats – code for what might happen – can be juxtaposed against what actually did happen. Thusly, what will happen. Simple particle physics. Life happens. We know we can move…
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Tim Barrus: Kansas
I am a communist. All the old bedfellows are the new bedfellows. The one thing we can expect from a deviant is deviance. Tear it up to tear it down. It doesn’t come anymore American than that. Down here in the deep South, the managerial class is the caste that…
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Tim Barrus: The Center Will Not Hold
Well-written. Crafted. To the point. Informative. Soft landing. Solid journalism. It is focused on a complexity of power. We now have a government that is critically out of control, and we have no idea what to do about it. Cool and calm under pressure think piece. Weapons of mass destruction…
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Tim Barrus: We Are Living In a Gulag
I am a communist. Thank you for this piece with Slotkin. I learned a lot. Elissa isn’t getting it. She’s not alone. Our elected officials are way behind on this. Slotkin still feels that the system works. She is an institutionalist, she’s from the CIA, and those folks are all…
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Tim Barrus: The Great Highway
I am a communist. I lived in SF for decades. I like the no cars paradigm. I lived in a hole in the Tenderloin. I’m poor. Looking at the photography that goes with this piece, startled me. I was working in a group home for neurodivergent autistic children. I had…
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Tim Barrus: Eat the Rich
The New York Times has a set paradigm where frequently, I am asked – by third parties – questions, questions. And I try to address them. I think I got some of that action with this one. Sometimes there are so many questions, I don’t have time. I wish I…
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Tim Barrus: Male friendships Are A Thing Of The Past
I am autistic. My mates protected me. I had a big mouth. They did not have words for it. “We know you are a weirdo but we love you.” This was a rust belt factory town. Bar fight town. Football town. Poker town. Hunting and killing animals town. Lawn mower…
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Hecuba
Make me stop.
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Tim Barrus: Autistic Being Touched
I am autistic. I do not hug. I do not look at faces, and I never look directly at eyes. Covid gave me an excuse to not shake hands. People do not believe that the experience of being touched is not the same for everyone. If I read my books…
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BIGWIGGY
I am a communist. Mainly because there are so many little American henchmen I desire to annoy. Guerrilla Theatre: A bank lobby. A department store. A mall lobby. Break up a corporate bigwiggy conference. Sing songs. They hate songs. Parking lots. Free diapers for everyone. Give a die in a…
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Boys And Bedrooms
I am autistic. Sex seems to be the proverbial bugabuga that it’s always been. Leave the kids alone. Or they will find another place and it might not be a place adults approve of. Sex in cars is a lot of work. I would bet the ranch that the two…
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Sleeping in the River
I am autistic. My family says: He’s lost in day dreaming again. I’m not there. I am not looking into your eyes. I am not focused on what you are saying. Why. Because I do not care and there it is. As I age, I have less and less reason…