FabPhryne
@fabphryne.bsky.social
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No legal scholar, but seems like a very fucking bad idea to let Pres. Yam Tits have unchecked & uncontrolled power over independent agencies. 😒
Would Congress have created any agency if a megalomaniac was free to replace qualified & independent leaders with hacks?
Rules for thee, but not for me.
Would Congress have created any agency if a megalomaniac was free to replace qualified & independent leaders with hacks?
Rules for thee, but not for me.
Supreme Court seems likely to let Trump fire independent agency heads
The ruling could give the president more direct control over several agencies.
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
No legal scholar, but seems like a very fucking bad idea to let Pres. Yam Tits have unchecked & uncontrolled power over independent agencies. 😒
Would Congress have created any agency if a megalomaniac was free to replace qualified & independent leaders with hacks?
Rules for thee, but not for me.
Would Congress have created any agency if a megalomaniac was free to replace qualified & independent leaders with hacks?
Rules for thee, but not for me.
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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The Somali community was well-established in Minnesota when I lived there in the late ‘90s and early aughts. The vitriol being directed at them is just as dangerous as any attack on any other group would be. Turning people against their neighbors only hurts communities.
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Somali community was well-established in Minnesota when I lived there in the late ‘90s and early aughts. The vitriol being directed at them is just as dangerous as any attack on any other group would be. Turning people against their neighbors only hurts communities.
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Has anyone asked where the British Museum was during the Louvre heist?
October 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Has anyone asked where the British Museum was during the Louvre heist?
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Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation.
youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...
youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...
AG Mayes Demands Speaker Johnson Swear In Adelita Grijalva | The Lead with Jake Tapper CNN
YouTube video by Arizona Attorney General's Office
youtu.be
October 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation.
youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...
youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...
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I asked a lawyer
about the list
of extremism indicators
and he said:
worry,
but don’t worry too much
these won’t stand up
in court.
And then
I asked a historian
about the list
of extremism indicators
and she just said:
worry.
about the list
of extremism indicators
and he said:
worry,
but don’t worry too much
these won’t stand up
in court.
And then
I asked a historian
about the list
of extremism indicators
and she just said:
worry.
September 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I asked a lawyer
about the list
of extremism indicators
and he said:
worry,
but don’t worry too much
these won’t stand up
in court.
And then
I asked a historian
about the list
of extremism indicators
and she just said:
worry.
about the list
of extremism indicators
and he said:
worry,
but don’t worry too much
these won’t stand up
in court.
And then
I asked a historian
about the list
of extremism indicators
and she just said:
worry.
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I asked the historian,
who studies the dark times,
how it has come to this
and she replied:
it’s because we have failed
to take care of each other.
So I asked her
if we will get through this
and she replied:
if we do
it will be because we
took care of each other.
who studies the dark times,
how it has come to this
and she replied:
it’s because we have failed
to take care of each other.
So I asked her
if we will get through this
and she replied:
if we do
it will be because we
took care of each other.
September 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I asked the historian,
who studies the dark times,
how it has come to this
and she replied:
it’s because we have failed
to take care of each other.
So I asked her
if we will get through this
and she replied:
if we do
it will be because we
took care of each other.
who studies the dark times,
how it has come to this
and she replied:
it’s because we have failed
to take care of each other.
So I asked her
if we will get through this
and she replied:
if we do
it will be because we
took care of each other.
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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
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This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
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Even working people will likely lose health insurance, following the passage of a bill members of Congress said would get people off the couch and back to work.
mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/07/31/w...
mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/07/31/w...
Medicaid work requirements could strip health care from working, disabled and low-income West Virginians
Politicians said work requirements would get people back to work. They’ll actually kick poor and working people off Medicaid.
mountainstatespotlight.org
July 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Even working people will likely lose health insurance, following the passage of a bill members of Congress said would get people off the couch and back to work.
mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/07/31/w...
mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/07/31/w...
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The State Department has shuttered the team involved in South China Sea security, getting rid of top experts on the subject at a time when the administration says security in the region is a priority.
State Dept. cuts China experts as administration says countering Beijing top priority
The State Department has shuttered the team involved in South China Sea security, getting rid of top experts on the subject at a time when the administration says security in the region is a priority.
n.pr
July 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The State Department has shuttered the team involved in South China Sea security, getting rid of top experts on the subject at a time when the administration says security in the region is a priority.
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Hearing grown men with power make the argument that some people don't deserve to eat or access healthcare and that to make sure those people don't receive these things we need to spend billions of dollars administering paperwork requirements to people who do deserve these things is quite something.
July 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Hearing grown men with power make the argument that some people don't deserve to eat or access healthcare and that to make sure those people don't receive these things we need to spend billions of dollars administering paperwork requirements to people who do deserve these things is quite something.
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ICYMI: The mind-boggling list of hundreds of #bannedbooks in Tennessee now includes Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei.bsky.social, and The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam. More at: pen.org/magic-tree-h... #Caturday #Censorship
July 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
ICYMI: The mind-boggling list of hundreds of #bannedbooks in Tennessee now includes Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei.bsky.social, and The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam. More at: pen.org/magic-tree-h... #Caturday #Censorship
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The Trump admin's new talking point on the Big Beautiful Bill: we're going to deport all the farm laborers and make people on Medicaid work in the fields to earn their health insurance.
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
July 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The Trump admin's new talking point on the Big Beautiful Bill: we're going to deport all the farm laborers and make people on Medicaid work in the fields to earn their health insurance.
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Louder for the people in the back!
June 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Louder for the people in the back!
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The lady that did my hair showed me that effective July 1…our state will be stripping daycare subsidies for working moms….that’s why my summer camp adjusted the prices…shit is so bad…
a close up of a man 's face with a tear coming out of his eye and the words its ok
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a tear coming out of his eye and the words its ok
media.tenor.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The lady that did my hair showed me that effective July 1…our state will be stripping daycare subsidies for working moms….that’s why my summer camp adjusted the prices…shit is so bad…
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You know, Europe has lots of Democratic Socialists in their parliaments. Oh and free national healthcare.
June 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
You know, Europe has lots of Democratic Socialists in their parliaments. Oh and free national healthcare.
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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
June 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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So much for MAHA.
June 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
So much for MAHA.
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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
June 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.