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Fry

@freedomfry.bsky.social
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Wife. Mom. Huge geek, both policy & pop culture. Former mil-foreign policy staffer, now a trailing DOS spouse.

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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
-why is it the ONLY unforgivable sin?" And then she told me, "I finally figured it out. The Holy Ghost is that part of God that lives in everybody, and the way you sin against it is by not loving everybody with all your heart, for exactly who they are."
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Dolly Parton - Travelin' Thru [Official Music Video]
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 27/07/2026
Trump threat to tariff Canada over wildfire smoke closest he will ever come to understanding climate change
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Trump threat to tariff Canada over wildfire smoke closest he will ever come to understanding climate change
WASHINGTON D.C. - President Donald Trump has threatened to tariff Canadian goods as a means of forcing Canadians to address circumstances that would cause future forest wildfires, a tactic that demons...
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 21/07/2026
Now with hilarious article!
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Canadians just so goddamn tired of this bullshit
CANADA - Canadians across the country have collectively unleashed a sigh of agonized frustration while simultaneously stating "Again with this bullshit?"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Voter files are public information that anyone can purchase!
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I can’t stress this enough- a lot of people in Africa have air conditioning.
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Sarah D. Wire @sarahdwire.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A pending ruling on mail ballot deadlines could limit grace periods, raising concerns that overseas troops and military voters may struggle to have ballots counted on time. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... via @usatoday.com
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How a Supreme Court case could affect military voting
A pending ruling on mail ballot deadlines could limit grace periods, raising concerns that overseas troops and military voters may face struggles.
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Mark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
Facebook post from Scottish soccer fan - The busses have stopped at some park thing near the ground and there's American guys making food and giving people free beers and stuff
Some Haiti fans here as well, what a bunch of good guys
wtf is going on man, what an experience this is man holy shit

With photos of people boozing in a parking lot
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
was marco rubios long history of enthusiastic ufc fandom well known
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Chrétien: When you look at the polls, Canadians have never been more united. Thank you to Donald Trump for that. I should propose him for the Order of Canada, but I cannot succeed. Do you know why? Rosie: He's not Canadian? Chrétien: Because we don't give it to a person who has a criminal record.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Oh it's OK, we had hyperconcentration of income and wealth in the top .1% in the 1920s too and that economy never stopped roaring.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
adm. william adama from the battlestar galactica reboot, looking pissed off
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
NASA is honestly one of the greatest things humans have ever created, the stuff of math and dreams
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Trump is such an asshole he’s got the Irish guy defending the English guy
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Fry @freedomfry.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Proud alum of the top name on the list. Also amused as hell that so many Jesuit universities are joining AU.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
it is some consolation to me to believe in hell.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
our country was founded by outlaws
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17/11/2025
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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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 27/10/2025
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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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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" today.yougov.com/topics/overv...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/10/2025
‼️ 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??
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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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George Pearkes @peark.es · 04/03/2025
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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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/03/2025
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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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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David Ziff @djsziff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Farming, famously an industry where you can change your products and business plan with one month's notice.
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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.”
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
www.statnews.com/2025/03/01/p... "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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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.
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Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you are pro Putin and anti-NATO, you are not an American patriot. You are a Russian asset.
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Martin Matishak @martinmatishak.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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 therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
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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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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
WELL GEE GUYS I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 27/02/2025
”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
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/02/2025
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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Judge Rules Trump Officials Must Testify in DOGE Data Lawsuit
Read more here.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We're watching psychological warfare against a workforce that has been committed to furthering the lives of other people. This was a career choice they made to help others even if they disagreed about how to improve USAID.

If you want to reform foreign aid, this isn't the way to do it. This approach is going to radically increase the cost of all future foreign aid. That's because if you want to work with anybody in the future and you tell them, "No, no, no, this time we're here. We're not going to fold on you," how are you going to convince them of that? When you can't trust someone, it makes you reluctant to make agreements with them. And that means doing less good with more money to have the same positive impact as we were having before.

There's a lot of good that USAID has done across the board in terms of health, education, helping farmers, and helping people in crisis.

Now, there are people who are going to be radically worse off and sick and not educated in the same way because of what's happened. Literally taking people who are in hospitals and stopping treatments because the money is not there.

And not just that — people are going to die. A lot of people.

So we now have a million million tragedies that could have been avoided.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/02/2025
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.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Dean Karlan, Chief Economist at USAID, has resigned www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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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Mark Leon Goldberg @markleongoldberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is LITERALLY what USAID does!!!
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/02/2025
Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.
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Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you've never been part of a world that demands women submission this will seem alarmist to you. Those who have, will recognize the systematic devaluing, disempowering, sidelining, abuse documented here. Each piece alone is sickening, together it's deeply alarming www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a...
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"A woman is like a child": MAGA turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power
Conservative women believe complicity will save them, but an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Washington Post currently accepting op-eds on the topic of how irresistibly sexy bald billionaires are.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.
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katie dzwierzynski @kdzwierzynski.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
just circling back on this
from a columbia journalism review article: “Despite his sometimes strident and sometimes even violent rhetoric about the press, he loves talking to us,” the print reporter said. “And his team—they like talking to us, and they know that they’re going to have a huge audience.”
“I actually think the team that’s coming in is not going to be as horrific as people might imagine,” the veteran White House reporter said. “It’s not going to be like the first Trump term, where nobody had any idea what they were doing.”
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