Reposted by Eric FidlerYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live. 3022061069
Reposted by Eric Fidler🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Verily, I tell you, It's Us v. Muskstopthetrillionaires.comIt's US v. MuskMy vote isn't for sale. Make your sign. 0599
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 12/09/2026Happy #caturday from Kitten, who likes few things better than getting in the way of my kettlebells. 060
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 10/09/2026Jesus wept. I’m just a retired old newshound, and maybe I don’t get how much things have changed, but. … 000
Reposted by Eric FidlerGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.” 244357996
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 24/08/2026He’s right. When I lived in the Midwest, we used to dig up corn dogs fresh from the ground. So tasty! 000
Reposted by Eric FidlerAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026There are four overlapping scandals here: 1. Fundraising spam tactics are hallmarks of elder financial exploitation 2. The Dem establishment is in on it 3. Most of what is raised goes to fundraising consultants 4. Capitulation to legal threats by NYT and The Bulwark on a fully vetted story 🧵👇data4democracy.substack.comHook and SqueezeHow Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations. 22871346
Reposted by Eric FidlerAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase! 34766173251
Reposted by Eric FidlerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026“We’re not racist, though.” 😕 836395
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 29/07/2026Expect to see more of this as the administration’s war on international students hits home. 011
Reposted by Eric FidlerEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It would help a lot if a lot of journalists and pundits weren't using Twitter as their assignment editor, several years into its transition into Stormfront. 344616801
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 19/07/2026apnews.com/article/tate...apnews.comSocial media influencers Andrew and Tristian Tate arrested in Miami, US Marshals Service tells APInfluencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by federal authorities Saturday in Miami, according to U.S. Marshals Service. 000
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 25/06/2026Looking at all the news from the States while sweltering in Switzerland, and I can’t help but think the frog has boiled, it just hasn’t realized it. 000
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 17/06/2026So, wait. There’s a super-secret deal that’s different from the MOU they released? Do we give Iran its choice of one of the Dakotas in that deal? Stupid ending (if this is then end) to a pointless war. 000
Reposted by Eric FidlerDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13/06/2026A helpful reminder that the far-right are the bullies from the school. The people who blame everyone else for their own failings. They don't care about women and children, they beat them. They don't care about society or culture. They are sad little insecure wankers, and they are in the minority. 3587150
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 02/06/2026I wish I still lived in Chicago so I could go door to door with this petition. 000
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 21/04/2026That part of jet lag where after three cups of cappuccino you’re wondering why the bastards are serving decaf. 000
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 17/03/2026Holy shit. I spent plenty of time in courts in my career. I’ve seen angry judges, but this … holy shit. 011
Reposted by Eric FidlerMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...moryan.comAn open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchantsTo everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes... 837961495
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 29/01/2026www.liberalcurrents.com/he-served-th...liberalcurrents.comHe Served Those Who Served: Portrait of a Man Named PrettiIt’s better to not know heroes exist than to find out they did only after they’re gone. 000
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 03/01/2026What - and I mean this from the bottom of my heart - the fuck. 000
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 01/01/2026This is a great piece, informed by experience and knowledge as well as righteous anger. www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...forever-wars.comWatching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBSNotes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked 000
Reposted by Eric FidlerChris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025This entire weekend 215341497193
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 02/12/2025I almost let #TerrierTuesday go by without posting a photo of this magnificent specimen. 2261
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 30/11/2025It’s extremely November outside today, so here is a photo of Corfu in March. 000
Reposted by Eric FidlerEn Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 23/11/2025DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals. Its goals were never efficiency or saving money. Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi. DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done. 341823641
Reposted by Eric FidlerKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...washingtonpost.comCIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassinationAudio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements. 11052908712220
Reposted by Eric FidlerGovernor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 13/11/2025WOW, new signage! 411921450
Reposted by Eric FidlerMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/11/2025"Here’s the kicker: We even got them to agree not to pass the healthcare subsidies that we’ve been working for. You know, the ones average Americans rely on. Here’s how we did it: We asked, then they said, 'No way,' and then we said, 'Okay.' That’s how you win." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gre...mcsweeneys.netGreat News: We Got Them to Agree to Their Own Deal“Eight senators in the Democratic caucus broke with the party late Sunday to vote with Republicans and advance legislation to end the government sh... 222660
Eric Fidler @handle.invalid · 05/11/2025“Money once used to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement will now be used to give millennials free avocado toast.” 000