Fridolfdotter
@fridolfsdotter.bsky.social
Studied history before attending trade school. Recovering financial services lawyer. Midwestern roots, Mississippi raised, 40-year Texan. Back in The ‘Sip.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
@kcarterjackson.bsky.social Look what I found today!
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
@kcarterjackson.bsky.social Look what I found today!
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!
November 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!
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This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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No Kings. No Monarchs. No Tyrants. No Autocrats.
We had that discussion 250 years ago. And we don't need a different answer now.
#NoKings
We had that discussion 250 years ago. And we don't need a different answer now.
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
No Kings. No Monarchs. No Tyrants. No Autocrats.
We had that discussion 250 years ago. And we don't need a different answer now.
#NoKings
We had that discussion 250 years ago. And we don't need a different answer now.
#NoKings
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be funny if they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the frog
October 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
be funny if they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the frog
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The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation
October 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation
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Contrary to Stephen Miller, the president is not "commander-in-chief" of law enforcement within the United States. The invocation of the title "commander-in-chief" to justify anything Trump wants to do anywhere is a sign of how far down the road the administration is to Caesarism.
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Contrary to Stephen Miller, the president is not "commander-in-chief" of law enforcement within the United States. The invocation of the title "commander-in-chief" to justify anything Trump wants to do anywhere is a sign of how far down the road the administration is to Caesarism.
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It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.
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ICE now conducting “Kavanaugh stops” on entire buildings at once:
“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
ICE now conducting “Kavanaugh stops” on entire buildings at once:
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One of my favorite recent pieces, if I do say so myself, was a look at the absolutely insane conspiracy content on Trump Media's new streaming service.
Few stories surprise me these days. This one did. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/tr...
Few stories surprise me these days. This one did. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/tr...
President Trump’s Media Company Is Offering Movies About ‘Lizard People’ And Other Wild Conspiracy Theories
Less than two minutes into the movie, the narrator makes a shocking...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
One of my favorite recent pieces, if I do say so myself, was a look at the absolutely insane conspiracy content on Trump Media's new streaming service.
Few stories surprise me these days. This one did. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/tr...
Few stories surprise me these days. This one did. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/tr...
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this is fucking great
August 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
this is fucking great
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Via @alander.bsky.social: A Georgia man accused of running a $140 million Ponzi scheme contributed a total of $132,000 to three elected Alabama GOP officials or their PACs, according to finance records. A PAC run by one of the recipients later made a $29,000 loan to one of the man's businesses.
Georgia man accused of running $140M Ponzi scheme contributed to 3 Alabama officials | Alabama Reflector
The SEC has accused Edwin Brant Frost IV of running a Ponzi scheme in Georgia. Frost and his businesses made $136,000 in contributions to Alabama candidates and PACs.
alabamareflector.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Via @alander.bsky.social: A Georgia man accused of running a $140 million Ponzi scheme contributed a total of $132,000 to three elected Alabama GOP officials or their PACs, according to finance records. A PAC run by one of the recipients later made a $29,000 loan to one of the man's businesses.
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A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
June 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
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President Trump Exceeds Expectations by Placing Civil War in Correct Century.
Trump: "If you look at the end of the Civil War -- the 1800s, it was a very turbulent time. If you take the end day -- was it 1869? Or whatever."
June 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
President Trump Exceeds Expectations by Placing Civil War in Correct Century.
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How many pre-written "#MeToo Is Over" columns had to be shelved tonight?
June 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
How many pre-written "#MeToo Is Over" columns had to be shelved tonight?
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They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
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It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
June 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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We have always been at war with Eastasia
Getting an explainer on CNN just now that this is "not necessarily at odds" w Trump promising not to get into any Mideast wars.
("He sees bombing as separate from entering a war.")
("He sees bombing as separate from entering a war.")
June 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
We have always been at war with Eastasia
Mississippi fights fascism! Good crowd in Gulfport. #nokings @nukularbiskits.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Mississippi fights fascism! Good crowd in Gulfport. #nokings @nukularbiskits.bsky.social
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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.