Fry
@freedomfry.bsky.social
Wife. Mom. Huge geek, both policy & pop culture. Former mil-foreign policy staffer, now a trailing DOS spouse.
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the sense of incredulity and comic revulsion i get every time i see a cybertruck in the wild has not been reduced by even a single degree in all the time they’ve been on the street
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
the sense of incredulity and comic revulsion i get every time i see a cybertruck in the wild has not been reduced by even a single degree in all the time they’ve been on the street
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I'm really glad to see all the folks stepping up to try to resource the loss of SNAP but also billionaires could just pay taxes.
October 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'm really glad to see all the folks stepping up to try to resource the loss of SNAP but also billionaires could just pay taxes.
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These protests are proving to be pretty popular as far as protests go. I do wish less of our conversation was we said/they said with Republicans and more of it was "y'all are the minority, shut up and think about your choices"
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October 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
These protests are proving to be pretty popular as far as protests go. I do wish less of our conversation was we said/they said with Republicans and more of it was "y'all are the minority, shut up and think about your choices"
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today.yougov.com/topics/overv...
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‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like
Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'
a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'
so the funding disappeared??
and people are dying??
Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'
a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'
so the funding disappeared??
and people are dying??
There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
October 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like
Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'
a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'
so the funding disappeared??
and people are dying??
Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'
a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'
so the funding disappeared??
and people are dying??
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That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
October 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
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A lot of hyper-polarized Americans are going to find out the hard way that just because they [like/don't like] whoever is in the White House, other countries have their own imperatives and existential economic threats will be reacted to accordingly.
Canada needs to know that hurting blue states is much less effective messaging.
March 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A lot of hyper-polarized Americans are going to find out the hard way that just because they [like/don't like] whoever is in the White House, other countries have their own imperatives and existential economic threats will be reacted to accordingly.
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Exclusive: Some US government workers with top security clearances fired in mass layoffs overseen by Elon Musk in recent weeks were not given standard exit briefings and advised on what to do if approached by foreign adversaries, four sources told Reuters reut.rs/4h2A55r
Exclusive: Fired US government workers with top security clearances were not given exit briefings, sources say
Some U.S. government workers with top security clearances fired in mass layoffs overseen by Elon Musk in recent weeks were not given standard exit briefings and advised on what to do if approached by foreign adversaries, four sources told Reuters.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Exclusive: Some US government workers with top security clearances fired in mass layoffs overseen by Elon Musk in recent weeks were not given standard exit briefings and advised on what to do if approached by foreign adversaries, four sources told Reuters reut.rs/4h2A55r
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Farming, famously an industry where you can change your products and business plan with one month's notice.
March 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Farming, famously an industry where you can change your products and business plan with one month's notice.
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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"We report that eliminating PEPFAR would lead to 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 565,000 new HIV infections in South Africa alone over 10 years. These are the projections for just one country."
Across 55 countries, >20 million people get HIV treatment via PEPFAR.
"We report that eliminating PEPFAR would lead to 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 565,000 new HIV infections in South Africa alone over 10 years. These are the projections for just one country."
Across 55 countries, >20 million people get HIV treatment via PEPFAR.
We tried to quantify the impact of abrupt PEPFAR cuts. The results startled even us
A peer reviewer questioned the premise of our study into the potential impact of abruptly ending PEPFAR funding. Then it happened.
www.statnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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"We report that eliminating PEPFAR would lead to 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 565,000 new HIV infections in South Africa alone over 10 years. These are the projections for just one country."
Across 55 countries, >20 million people get HIV treatment via PEPFAR.
"We report that eliminating PEPFAR would lead to 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 565,000 new HIV infections in South Africa alone over 10 years. These are the projections for just one country."
Across 55 countries, >20 million people get HIV treatment via PEPFAR.
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If you are pro Putin and anti-NATO, you are not an American patriot. You are a Russian asset.
“Trump just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history. Tempers flared, voices were raised & protocol was shredded…As Trump got into a shouting match with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a horrified Europe watched the post-second world war order crumble before its eyes.”
Bullying, berating Trump shows his worst self in Zelenskyy ambush
The president said his horrific blowup would make ‘great television’ – the White House has rarely seen anything like this
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you are pro Putin and anti-NATO, you are not an American patriot. You are a Russian asset.
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EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.
On @therecordmedia.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.
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February 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.
On @therecordmedia.bsky.social
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On @therecordmedia.bsky.social
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Tate is like Trump in this sense: the most grotesque thing is not that he exists, but that he’s hugely popular, and what that says about us as a species.
Donald Trump just helped free Andrew Tate from his rape and human trafficking charges.
Tate has bragged about grabbing women by their necks, breaking their jaws, and said “I am absolutely a misogynist.”
Tate has bragged about grabbing women by their necks, breaking their jaws, and said “I am absolutely a misogynist.”
Trump intervention suspected as Andrew Tate, brother Tristan leave Romania for U.S. despite rape charges
Four British women who've accused Andrew Tate of rape are "in disbelief and feel retraumatized by the news" that he's been allowed to leave Romania for the U.S.
www.cbsnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Tate is like Trump in this sense: the most grotesque thing is not that he exists, but that he’s hugely popular, and what that says about us as a species.
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WELL GEE GUYS I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED
Fox News just said the U.S. doesn't have anything like China's Belt and Road Initiative, which is hilarious. We did. It was called USAID.
February 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
WELL GEE GUYS I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED
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”Fuck off“
NDP MP Charlie Angus had some choice words for convoy livestreamer Chris Dacey after Dacey and his gang of far-right activists followed Angus around at a pro-Ukraine protest outside the Russian Embassy in Ottawa this afternoon
NDP MP Charlie Angus had some choice words for convoy livestreamer Chris Dacey after Dacey and his gang of far-right activists followed Angus around at a pro-Ukraine protest outside the Russian Embassy in Ottawa this afternoon
February 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
”Fuck off“
NDP MP Charlie Angus had some choice words for convoy livestreamer Chris Dacey after Dacey and his gang of far-right activists followed Angus around at a pro-Ukraine protest outside the Russian Embassy in Ottawa this afternoon
NDP MP Charlie Angus had some choice words for convoy livestreamer Chris Dacey after Dacey and his gang of far-right activists followed Angus around at a pro-Ukraine protest outside the Russian Embassy in Ottawa this afternoon
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NEW: In a lawsuit challenging DOGE’s access to sensitive governmental information, a federal judge orders Trump administration officials to testify under oath to reveal the extent of DOGE’s access to private data.
Judge Rules Trump Officials Must Testify in DOGE Data Lawsuit
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
NEW: In a lawsuit challenging DOGE’s access to sensitive governmental information, a federal judge orders Trump administration officials to testify under oath to reveal the extent of DOGE’s access to private data.
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This is money already owed. For work already done. They’re asking SCOTUS to let Trump run the government the way he runs his businesses.
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS over order that State/USAID pay owed contracts by the end of the day.
This is coming out of Judge Ali’s Feb. 13 TRO, which he ordered the government to adhere to — with a deadline — in a new order issued on Tuesday.
This is coming out of Judge Ali’s Feb. 13 TRO, which he ordered the government to adhere to — with a deadline — in a new order issued on Tuesday.
February 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This is money already owed. For work already done. They’re asking SCOTUS to let Trump run the government the way he runs his businesses.
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Elon: We won’t be perfect. But when we make a mistake, we’ll fix it very quickly. For example, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola prevention.
Narrator: He did not restore Ebola prevention.
Narrator: He did not restore Ebola prevention.
February 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Elon: We won’t be perfect. But when we make a mistake, we’ll fix it very quickly. For example, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola prevention.
Narrator: He did not restore Ebola prevention.
Narrator: He did not restore Ebola prevention.
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February 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Post Opinions | This country was built on free markets. That's why, for America's sake, the government should only get its web hosting from a vendor that offers free 2-day shipping, access to the Prime Video library, and special members' only discounts at Whole Foods Markets.
February 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Post Opinions | This country was built on free markets. That's why, for America's sake, the government should only get its web hosting from a vendor that offers free 2-day shipping, access to the Prime Video library, and special members' only discounts at Whole Foods Markets.
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This is LITERALLY what USAID does!!!
February 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is LITERALLY what USAID does!!!