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Rick Fry

@rsfry19.bsky.social
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Writer, Leftist, Anti-Fascist, Pro-Union Pastor, Former Hitchhiker

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21h
Muskism from apartheid to AI “call bullshit on the idea that these people are “futurists.” They’re not futurists. their political and economic ideas are the worst failed, most discredited ideas of the 20th century. Why we should look to them for political and economic leadership is baffling to me."
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 18h
“The President should be impeached and removed for his ongoing corrupt abuse of power by using law enforcement agencies to target his political enemies on pretextual charges.” Fixed it.
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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In my mind the defining feature of Trump II is that is ✨actually✨ a kakistocracy. RFK Jr and Russ Vought have very little in common politically, but they do share one essential quality: they are absolutely the worst person alive for the jobs they have.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
another day another way he’s openly positioning himself as the GOP nominee, great uniter from the west, grand reagan bsky.app/profile/anna...
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon.
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Gabe Bullard @gbullard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great essay by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and what a powerful closing paragraph.
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How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration
What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Democratic candidates up and down the ballot take note: when your central thesis is "i have scraped dogshit off my shoe that has more moral fiber and respect than my opponent" you can land some real body blows on the other guy across a VARIETY of topics
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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s an interesting and unusual choice, particularly as a Democrat, to decide to completely obliterate your opponent in a debate when you could’ve played it safe.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/10/2026
me: I dunno, I still like the guys on the team but I'm sympathetic to the argument seeing the Dodgers win in the playoffs every year is boring (braves fans start doing the chop) me: General McPherson I summon and bind thee to these boys' bats. Claim your vengeance
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Hadas Thier @hadasthier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“I don’t know how families are making it right now.” Brooke Floyd told me, “It does make me think when I’m lying in bed at night, What are these babies eating?” hammerandhope.org/article/medi... Grateful for support from @economichardship.bsky.social to write this for @hammerandhope.bsky.social
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The Economic Crisis in Black America
Life for most Black people in the United States is a scramble to get by in the best of economic times — and with Trump’s cuts to social programs like Medicaid and food stamps, the times are getting worse.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
• More than 38,000 women (22,000) and girls (16,000) have been killed, including since the so-called ceasefire. These figures likely understate the true toll, as many bodies remain trapped under rubble.
The cost of the war in Gaza on women & girls
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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Imagine being named Conor Geekie and you meet your line mate and his name is Charle-Edouard d’Astous
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We allow monsters to rule us
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the thing to remember about the global far-right is that it is fundamentally a movement of unhappy freaks who scapegoat immigrants for their own inadequacies
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026
you'd like to schedule a doctor's appointment? have you logged into MyHealthChart yet? Remember that MyHealthChart used to be Healbe. If you migrated your chart from Healbe Now or Healbe Epic, you are not eligible to make an account. Please make note Healbe Epic is formerly MyHealthChartRX.
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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When witches are cackling and telling you “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” take a step back. Breathe. Those are normal things for fire and cauldrons to do. They’re trying to mess with you.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Before judging your first draft too harshly, remember the original Pillsbury Doughboy sketch
A very very rough line drawing sketch of what would come to be the PBDB. It's more like a smiling amoeba with a mushroom cloud hat
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Putting a bottle or can of pop in the freezer to cool it quickly and assuming you'll pull it out before it explodes is known as 'the devil's fizzy wager.'
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Quebec is a great place to live if you want to experience Maximum Weather. No Mediterranean temperate shit here, bitch, just raw uncut seasons.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Unsung Women Behind America’s Most Celebrated Civil Rights Protest The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Book Review: ‘How Bright the Path Grows,’ by Marcia Chatelain (Gift Article)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"EVERYONE KNOWS they're not really like wonder woman's plane. idiots."
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chicago Pope from the top rope!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Monday: The Workman's Curse Tuesday: The Day of Bastards Wednesday: Heavy is the Burden of Sisyphus Thursday: The Second Day of Bastards Friday: Business in the Front, Party in the Back Saturday: Me Old Ham, My Good Time Charlie Sunday: Fairweather Friend
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Relatedly, I think Canada should pull the plug on sending the US oil for a week or two, as a reminder to voters exactly what the consequences of voting for a party that decides to explicitly undermine their sovereignty will be if they keep it up
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it would change nothing but it would still be stunning and important to see someone brave enough to withhold communion to certain justices over this
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
weird who gets a response in 11 minutes and who gets one in 6-9 months!
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
every lever of power in the so-called American liberal order – from the ostensibly liberal government to the ostensibly liberal media to ostensibly liberal academia – are all laser focused on one single thing...the state of Israel must be allowed to massacre as many Palestinians as they wish
This is one of those moments where I’m overwhelmed and do not feel up to the task of capturing exactly what is happening in words as peaceful college students across the country are being thrown into the carceral grinder by their own administrations for the crime of sitting around and asking for the facilitation of less death but I will tell you one thing which is that we are currently experiencing a period of collective mass hysteria and mass psychosis I haven’t seen since the early 2000s where every lever of power in the so-called American liberal order – from the ostensibly liberal government to the ostensibly liberal media to ostensibly liberal academia – are all laser focused on one single thing: No matter the cost in blood or money, no matter the suffering of innocents, no matter the violations of supposed norms, the state of Israel must be allowed to massacre as many Palestinians as they wish and any effort to forestall that from Boston to Los Angeles to Atlanta to New York City should be met with the full force of the militarized police to “restore the peace.” 

This specific slaughter for some reason – and yes I know a number of the reasons – is worth any price we might have to pay at home in terms of dismantling our own Constitutional rights. It’s madness. People have gone mad. Normal people that we all know not just the easily dismissed as "evil" ones.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
elon and all of the little freaks in doge have 100% done this
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Imagine using A.I. instead of hand painting an amazing mural of a steer waiter serving the best steaks.
Sick mural of a cow waiter serving steaks on the side of a local steakhouse
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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Animals serving or cooking themselves is one of my favorite food signs. He's so happy to be in a pot that he's wearing a chef's hat!
pig in a pot for a delicious carnitas place
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A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you, like me, have a congressperson up for election in a safe blue seat or precarious purple seat, it doesn’t hurt to start calling them now, demanding oversight like no one’s ever seen come 2027
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'd rather shoot myself in the fucking face
Ad for a Polymarket sponsored "debate" between Andrew Yang and Scott Jennings
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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particle dogs @particledogs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
An energy weapon (work computer) is beaming harmful rays (emails) at me
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026
lots of discussion on here this week about how brains work and what consciousness really is so i'll go ahead and speculate that this is probably fun as fuck for the cow
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026
yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
investigating Elon Musk, subpoenaing him, making him testify under oath, and working toward significant prosecutions should be one of the leading Democrat campaign promises right now not just for DOGE, for a decade of self-driving fraud that has killed more than 60 Americans, and many other crimes
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