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Randy Riddle

@coolcatdaddy.bsky.social
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Retired from higher education. Historian, writer, researcher, filmmaker.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Congressional Republican Richard Hudson is using taxpayer funds to print and mail out fancy expensive color campaign postcards in NC. @airborne1970.bsky.social #NC9 #republicans #frankingscandal #midterms #ncdistrict9 coolcatdaddy.substack.com/p/rep-richar...
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Rep. Richard Hudson (NC-9) Illegally Uses Taxpayer Monies for Campaign Mailing
If you’re on the fence about how you’ll vote in the mid-terms, Hudson’s misuse of public funds might help you make up your mind.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Got a voter registration mailing and phone text sent to a relative that's been dead since 1999. They went out all over NC, The BOE sent out a press release about it. What they don't mention is that the effort is tied to Trump and GOP dark money groups. coolcatdaddy.substack.com/p/are-trump-...
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Are Trump and the GOP Trying to Get People to Register Dead Relatives to Vote?
A confusing voter registration mailing with out-dated forms sent to people in North Carolina, including dead people, has ties to the Trump campaign and various conservative “dark money” groups.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Tip jar contest at Greensboro NC's indie bookshop, Scuppernong Books. (Source: Their Facebook page.)
Screen capture from Scuppernong Books on Facebook with their comment "Current tip jar contest at Scoup" with a photograph of two tip jars, with one a sign reading "Abolish ICE" and the other with a tip jar labeled "Abolish ICE".
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Another economical $3 meal suggested by USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins. #letthemeatporkandbeans
Vintage color magazine advertisement from A&P grocery stores picturing a Yankee Doodle Pizza Pie made with a can of pork and beans, cheese, and a few slices of green peppers.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
"... the public isn’t buying what Trump and the GOP are selling - a compliant appendage to power and wealth that’s a kind of mirror universe, evil, bearded Spock that is designed to make you forget about Jackie Kennedy." coolcatdaddy.substack.com/p/the-not-so...
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The Not-So-Subtle Nazi Ideology of “Melania”
A world where everything is black and white.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
He really gives off Ernst Röhm vibes.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I'm sure all these problems with ICE will be solved by just getting them nicer uniforms.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
When I was working and my employer did fundraising for the United Way, there was a reason I never gave anything - Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse was on the list of charities that the money would go to. www.mediaite.com/media/news/f...
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Franklin Graham Says ‘God Also Hates’ and ‘Is a God of War’ at Pentagon’s ‘Christmas Worship Service’
Franklin Graham told participants at the Pentagon 's "Christmas Worship Service" that the "God of love" they're familiar with "also hates."
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
You know what else you get when you tax the rich? Joe Rogan actually paying taxes. sg.news.yahoo.com/joe-rogan-as...
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Joe Rogan Asks What Happens When You Tax Rich People. 'Are The Poor People Going To Get That Money? No, You're Just Going To Get More Government'
Joe Rogan is raising some big questions about where tax money really goes. In an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” he took aim at what he sees as government waste and called out the idea that sim...
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
So … got that one from the Spirit Halloween bachelor party stripper collection, I see.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This sign just popped up in Mebane in very red Alamance County in central NC. I’ve never seen a sign like this around here before.
Sigh in parking lot reading “TRUMP WE ARE NOT STUPID-FOOLISH. YOU AND EPSTEIN WERE GOOD FRIENDS. TRUMP LIES” in hand made lettering. Sigh in parking lot reading “TRUMP LIES. I WANT MY VOTE BACK!” In hand made lettering.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It never ceases to amaze me that 37% of the population can impose their nutcase ideas on the remaining 63%.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I can’t make up my mind on a caption: “Vegas bookies are taking bets on which GOP donor slips on all this marble and wakes up thinking they’re in a Dubai Marriott.” or “Tomb of the Unknown Pedophile Serial Killer” #epstein #whitehouse
Image from Trump Truth Social account showing remodeled Lincoln Bedrrom bathroom covered in marble and gold
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I was really concerned that fucked up billionaire gay Bond villains who want to replace most of the human race with robots so they can live forever by draining the blood of young nubile slaves weren’t getting enough representation in government. www.wonkette.com/p/peter-thie...
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Peter Thiel Explainer Time!
It has come to our attention not everyone knows who this putz is.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
If you’re curious, ANTIFA headquarters is located at 38 Adler Avenue, Fairfield, New York.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“His model of politics was not dialogue, but trolling: hopping from campus to campus to bait students, churn out sound bites, and spread hate. And his rhetoric was not debate—it was violent, dehumanizing, and designed to put targets on people’s backs.” www.advocate.com/voices/charl...
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We must not posthumously sanitize Charlie Kirk's hateful life
Opinion: While condemning violence is something most can get behind, the sanitization of Charlie Kirk's hate has gone too far, argues Erin Reed.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
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No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2025
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“Arsonist claims house isn’t really on fire as crews battle flames, film at 11” www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett says country is not in a 'constitutional crisis'
Speaking to Free Press founder Bari Weiss to promote her new book, the conservative justice said the American people should trust the Supreme Court.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“The goal of the canvas is to … getting owners to commit to informing their staff of what the Fourth Amendment is—protection against unreasonable searches and seizures—and having a game plan in the event that federal agents show up to conduct workplace raids.” indyweek.com/news/inside-...
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Inside the Movement to Teach ICE Defense to N.C. Business Owners
From coffee shops to electrical contractors, local businesses are getting crash courses in constitutional law to prepare for potential encounters with federal agents.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“Headed off to play golf” looks more like “parading him out for two minutes to prove he’s still alive”, considering how swollen his face looks.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
As long as this stays in effect, every time I see a Blu-ray or vinyl record I would have ordered, but now can't, I'm setting that amount aside to donate to liberals running for office or progressive non-profits, fighting Republicans from the local to the Federal level. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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De minimis: How US shoppers will be hit as the tariff exemption ends
Lower-price goods will no longer be duty-free, in a move that will affect millions of shipments.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
So … should I blame the rise in grocery prices on mitochondrial challenges?
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
While the NC Republicans - and even our Democratic governor - brag about how highly rated is nationally for being business friendly, Oxfam has rated North Carolina as the worst state in the nation for workers for the fifth year in a row. www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...
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The Best States to Work in the US 2025
Oxfam's Best States to Work index reveals where working families have opportunities to thrive. Where does your state rank?
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The only universe where prices are going down are in Uranus, Hassett.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Does the anchor also have an opinion on how divination from chicken entrails on health policy will be received by voters?
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The bottom line is that if you have a parent with Alzheimer's turned down for any kind of health insurance, show up at Mr Hassett's home and have them ask for a job.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.
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Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
You can't use reason and logic with MAGA. Some primitive societies and more recent cults engage in self-harm or even mass suicide as a way to "cleanse" guilt and shame. The Big Beautiful Bill is essentially throwing masses of people into a volcano to appease the gods. That's all it is.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
You can't use reason and logic with MAGA. Some primitive societies and more recent cults engage in self-harm or even mass suicide as a way to "cleanse" guilt and shame. The Big Beautiful Bill is essentially throwing masses of people into a volcano to appease the gods. That's all it is.
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Dan Piraro Bizarro @danpirarobizarro.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Today feels more like a funeral than a celebration.
A crowd of journalists and camera operators tapes a press conference on the steps of the Capitol. The decaying corpses of Jefferson, Washington, and Ben Franklin stand before them. Washington says, "Seriously? I think the reason we came back from the dead is pretty obvious. Next question."
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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Despite me knowing many Trump voters who now have regrets about their vote, not a single one of them has publicly acknowledged that their actions have led to the destruction of so many people's lives. Maybe that's just shame and self-loathing at work, but I'd like to see more public statements.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
And this is why UPenn is out of consideration if you are LGBTQ and looking for somewhere to get a degree.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We have a couple of decades experience with this in NC, with the Dems "compromising" on everything from gay marriage to trans issues to immigrant policy and abortion rights. Dems have had nothing but loses, with only the governorship and a few other offices won because of nutcase GOP candidates.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Since denying trans people healthcare or denying the right to abortion isn't sex discrimination, let's outlaw Viagra - not all men have erectile dysfunction and the state has a vested interest in protecting the public against the serious cardiovascular side effects of these medications. #Skrmetti
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BobOne @bjayzusbob.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
WOW:- 2,780 year old israelite tablet finally translated to reveal its message: - “Persia is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon”
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I've been saying this since the 1990s when the establishment left kept compromising with the ultra-right on LGBTQ rights and AIDS and in the 2000s when they were compromising on "bathroom bills" and trans legislation. If you give the right an eighth of an inch, they take a hundred miles.
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mvario @mvario.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
National Park Visitors Are Not Impressed With Trump's Revisionism - emptywheel www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/20/n... #OpposeTrumpsAmerika #GOPFourthReich #NoNazis #StopFascism #SaveDemocracy
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National Park Visitors Are Not Impressed With Trump's Revisionism - emptywheel
Trump wants to rewrite American history, and Doug Burgum wants the public to help. The National Park-going public is having none of it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/06/2025
I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...
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Anatomy of a Hit Piece: Deconstructing The New York Times' Attack on Transgender Rights in U.S. v. Skrmetti
Seemingly not content with the US v. Skrmetti decision issued by the court siding with Tenessee to ban gender affirming care for trans youth, the New York Times was ready to pour salt on the fresh wou...
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Wisdom for today: Listening to James Carville for political advice is like making a query to Ask Jeeves about AI.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
ICYMI: Pride Puppy was one of nine picture books that bigoted Maryland parents sought to restrict in order to erase LGBTQ families from public schools. The Supreme Court will likely rule in the parents’ favor within a week. macleans.ca/society/how-...
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How My LGBTQ Kids’ Book Ended Up at the U.S. Supreme Court - Macleans.ca
My book Pride Puppy is about love and inclusion. Watching its message get twisted by hate and misinformation has been devastating.
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If LGBTQs have to devote money and time to defending trans people, fighting book bans, or providing LGBTQ suicide lines, that's less resources for fighting the right on bigger issues. It's the playbook used by Moms for Liberty, modeled on a 1960s Florida effort. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida...
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Florida Legislative Investigation Committee - Wikipedia
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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's easy to say this if you're not part of the one-third of trans people in the US living in poverty. Discrimination results in lost opportunities for education and employment among LGBTQs generally, and particularly among trans people. www.hrc.org/resources/un....
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Understanding Poverty in the LGBTQ+ Community
Poverty generally refers to a lack of basic necessities, resources and income, though its exact definition is often widely debated and measured in a…
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