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The Frolicking Gadfly

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◊ Antagonized Curmudgeon ◊ USAF Vet ◊ Recovering Snarkaholic ◊ GFY MAGA ◊ Drumpf is Traitor ◊ Vote Blue ◊ #Resistance ◊ Old skool blogger thefrolickinggadfly.blogspot.com ◊ Geriatric Artist

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 23h
I imagine the next Democratic President will not get the ‘Trump Leeway’ if they decide not to follow the Constitution, our laws and specific court rulings.
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maher is a reliably loyal apologist for Netanyahu's government. He will get along just fine with the Ellison turds. 🫤
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re screwed www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They were both right that with Drumpf, 'all roads lead to' his puppet master Putin. 🫤
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
"The government is treating people who exercise their First Amendment rights and seek to hold it accountable as criminal suspects, and that's what we're asking the court to stop,” says JoAnna Suriani, an attorney at Protect Democracy who is representing ICE observers in the case.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Springer Lover @ddavis4911.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This man is a sick SOB www.rawstory.com/trump-feel-b...
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Trump: 'I feel badly' for Cornell rape suspects
President Donald Trump said he feels "badly" for the men under investigation in an alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.His comments came a day after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) ...
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The adjudicated rapist is worried that a bunch of accused gang rapists won't get a "fair shake." That tracks. JfC. 🫤
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is about the cultiest thing that someone who is an undeterred member of a death cult could possibly do. 🫤 www.rawstory.com/maga-fan-rus...
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MAGA fan rushes back to Trump rally in hospital gown after having a seizure
A young supporter of President Donald Trump rushed back to the president's rally in a hospital gown and sunglasses after a seizure in his seat sent him away in an ambulance.The supporter, who gave his...
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
trump is sending $500 checks to people utilizing the ACA in battleground states with a letter stating that Biden 'overcharged' them through the system. They're only being sent to swing states. This is blatant vote purchasing, and not one fucking thing will happen to him over it.
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Did anyone stop to think that perhaps the esteemed MAGA Senator isn't worthy of being rescued? They should toss the boat anchor to this morally bankrupt asshole instead of the life preserver. 🫤 www.rawstory.com/republicans-...
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'Triage begins': Panicked Republicans launch 'rescue mission' to save MAGA senator
Republicans launched what a Democratic pollster called a "rescue mission" to save Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) in deep-red Kansas.The Senate Leadership Fund, the top super PAC for Senate Republicans, is...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Watch Alex Gibney's "Musk" and you'll learn that the source for all those claims that Musk used high-tech to manipulate the 2024 elections and insure the election of Trump and a MAGA run Congress is... Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Do they know what they're talking about?
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Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just want to thank all the people who responded to this post. I learned so much more about Palmer Luckey. I knew this Hegseth scheme was corrupt, but it is so much more fucked-up than I realized.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
These greedy fucks aren't going to receive a single cent in revenue from this American household. We will purposely go out of our way to avoid any media products the Ellisons are peddling. 🫤
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One day we're going to wake up to news that he is no longer among us, terrorizing our nation, making our citizenry stupider, and dragging us all into the pit of self-destructive failure and ruin. His permanent exit from our lives will be a day of global jubilation and revelry. 🫤
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please buy this grifting, awful woman's book if you enjoy being gaslit and lied to by an individual whose sole qualification for the job she recently left was her ability to lie to the faces of the American people on a daily basis without batting an eyelash. 🫤 www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Trash talk bomb set to detonate as Karoline Leavitt settles White House grudges
It occurs to me that we don't know much about former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, beyond the obvious: lost a congressional campaign, pregnant to a rich guy she later married, stumbled...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A young woman bravely reported that she was sexually assaulted in 2024 by seven men at their fraternity. But instead of protecting her, Cornell University protected her abusers, letting them off with a slap on the wrist.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How long until Trump hands Bibi Netanyahu the keys to the Oval Office?
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U.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle East
The deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
Unelected Republicans in Georgia are asking Todd Blanche to declare their voting machines illegal. DOJ has no authority to interfere with state-run elections, but I doubt that will stop them from trying. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'X' is for Nazis, MuskRat. 🫤
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Turnabout is fair play... grab 'em by the paycheck.
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Haven't Americans had their fill of these right-wing, conspiracy peddling grifters and charlatans? Haven't these conniving fakers harmed this country enough already? Tune these assholes out. Turn them off. Tell them to go pound sand for an eternity. JfC. 🫤
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
DOOCY: If Paxton is telling people the convention hurt his poll numbers, why go to Texas? TRUMP: Welll, I'll tell you why. We have to win this election. That convention was a tremendous success. We beat the NFL by four times.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unearthed records reveal Ken Paxton spent over $1.9 million in taxpayer dollars to take 275+ out-of-state trips to places such as California wine country, Caribbean resorts, and luxury European destinations.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No, we can't trust a single word that comes from this compromised agency. They have willfully ignored court orders and lied to judges across the country. They are a lawless agency that is beholden to the criminal whims of a lawless POTUS. 🫤
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: judge dismisses case against reflecting pool defendant Davey Hearn WITH PREJUDICE- meaning the DoJ can’t ever bring charges against him in this matter. www.ms.now/deadline-whi...
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Judge permanently dismisses David Hearn Reflecting Pool indictment
The Trump Justice Department sought a temporary dismissal. Hearn wanted his charges tossed for good.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Time interview with Trump is a master class in subjecting yourself to a stream of lies, lunacy, and insults with no correcting him, no calling out his crazy shit, nothing to show for it, nothing accomplished. It’s enabling, not journalism. They should die of shame. time.com/article/2026...
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yep. Has it not been established clearly enough that the words of the two criminally indicted current leaders of the US and Israel aren't collectively worth a bucket of warm spit? They are both unscrupulous hucksters who should be sitting behind bars instead of posing as legitimate world leaders. 🫤
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wilber Garcés Pérez still has a bullet lodged in his back after being shot by an ICE agent. He is finally scheduled for surgery today. But ICE is refusing to let his wife be by his side. My office is pushing for her to be allowed there to support him. ICE has done enough to torment this family.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Of course the primary reason why CNN and MS NOW are running the illegal taxpayer-funded Trump campaign ads is because they are afraid of the Trump Admin coming after them if they refuse. The path of least resistance is compliance caused by fear and intimidation.
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same people who make the "young men shouldn't have their lives ruined by being identified as rapists" argument are the same people who make the "my friends, business partners, and politicians shouldn't have their lives ruined by being identified as Epstein's clients who raped children" argument.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Laid back kinda chill l'il Nazi piece of shit
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump and Hegseth have killed 230+ people on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific with no proof they did anything wrong, no congressional approval, no nothing. Just 2 unhinged fascists ordering our military to commit murder. Vote against all Republicans for the sake of all that is decent.
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Keep this shit up @msnewsdesk.bsky.social and your network will become just as equally 'persona non grata' in this news viewing household as Fox, @cnn.com and @cbsnews.com has become. 🫤
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This man is a clown of the highest order.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For people unfamiliar with this list of schools Hegseth claims are essential to America's defense, Liberty and Hillsdale are small religious colleges. Hillsdale is the pet project of the DeVos/Prince families, and its whole admin helped Trump with his fake elector scheme, organizing MI electors. 1/
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
26 attempts to ratf*ck the midterms, 26 failures. The fact that they keep trying after every loss shows what kind of massive hard-on they have for wanting to cheat in and steal this election for the filthy old, mobbed-up kiddie-diddler. 🫤
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still waiting for Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito to be investigated for allegedly taking bribes from billionaires in the form of lavish vacations while addressing cases in which the wealthy men were involved
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The Frolicking Gadfly @frolickinggadfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heartless and evil. 🫤
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s notable that the purportedly liberal news outlet consigns Noem’s very well documented relationship with Lewandowski to the status of a disavowed rumor and buries it in the last paragraph of this report on her divorce filing. www.ms.now/news/kristi-...
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Kristi Noem files for divorce from Bryon Noem
The announcement of the separation comes six months after a bombshell tabloid photo leak of her husband, Bryon Noem.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear @nytimespr.bsky.social: How do you square this article, which stenographically recounts and amplifies DHS lies, with this policy statement? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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NYTimes Communications
@NYTimesPR
Our reporting on this and other ICE shootings reflects what we can independently verify at the time of publication. We publish statements provided by government agencies and officials, but only report these details as facts once we’ve been able to independently verify the claims.
9:34 AM · Jan 15, 2026
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