GADFLY: the Practical Heretic
@agadfly.bsky.social
A heretic is someone who says things that nobody wants to hear.
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SMDH
Target still doesn’t get it. They do not get to kick us in the nuts, put lipstick on a pig, then expect us to smile and keep spending. My lifestyle no longer includes shopping at there.
Target still doesn’t get it. They do not get to kick us in the nuts, put lipstick on a pig, then expect us to smile and keep spending. My lifestyle no longer includes shopping at there.
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
SMDH
Target still doesn’t get it. They do not get to kick us in the nuts, put lipstick on a pig, then expect us to smile and keep spending. My lifestyle no longer includes shopping at there.
Target still doesn’t get it. They do not get to kick us in the nuts, put lipstick on a pig, then expect us to smile and keep spending. My lifestyle no longer includes shopping at there.
Florida needs a governor who doesn't fabricate emergencies in order to circumvent laws he finds inconvenient tomhis correuot agenda. #DeathSantis #wRonDuhSantis #GOPLiesAboutEverything
DeSantis is about to extend his “state of emergency” over immigration for the 19th time.
This started in 2023.
It enables him to suspend all kinds of laws and regulations he doesn’t like—many of them on issues (like porta-pottys ) unrelated to immigration. ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
This started in 2023.
It enables him to suspend all kinds of laws and regulations he doesn’t like—many of them on issues (like porta-pottys ) unrelated to immigration. ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
November 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Florida needs a governor who doesn't fabricate emergencies in order to circumvent laws he finds inconvenient tomhis correuot agenda. #DeathSantis #wRonDuhSantis #GOPLiesAboutEverything
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DOGE is done.
#LawlessRegime
#LawlessRegime
86 DOGE.
"Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been disbanded, despite having eight months remaining on its mandate."
"Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been disbanded, despite having eight months remaining on its mandate."
Musk’s DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ anymore with eight months left on charter
Musk regularly touted DODGE and at one point brandished a chainsaw to advertise his efforts to cut jobs
www.independent.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
DOGE is done.
#LawlessRegime
#LawlessRegime
Imagine that: Trump is simply parroting Putin's wish list and calling it a peace plan; who'd a thunk? #LawlessRegime
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Imagine that: Trump is simply parroting Putin's wish list and calling it a peace plan; who'd a thunk? #LawlessRegime
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Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans.
by Megyn Kelly
by Megyn Kelly
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans.
by Megyn Kelly
by Megyn Kelly
Homeland Security is the home of fail.
#LawlessRegime
#LawlessRegime
So… A BP agent filmed in LA in June kidnapping someone from a Walmart got arrested by Long Beach cops after drunkenly flashing his service pistol in a women’s restroom. He demanded they call BP Commander Bovino. After making bail he died of a drug OD at his parents house. lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...
A viral arrest, a drunken brawl and an overdose: the last days of a notorious Border Patrol agent
We obtained hours of body-camera video that give the fullest — and perhaps last — glimpse of Agent Isaiah Hodgson’s mindset when he became a flashpoint in the fight over immigration raids.
lbpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Homeland Security is the home of fail.
#LawlessRegime
#LawlessRegime
Remember when His Fraudulency disbanded the pandemic response team? He finally found the equivalent action for his 2nd go-round.
#MoronsAreGoverningAmerica
#MoronsAreGoverningAmerica
Government funding bill cuts food safety regulations. See the provisions for yourself www.snopes.com/fact-check/g...
Government funding bill cuts food safety regulations. See the provisions for yourself
The bill prohibited the FDA from enforcing regulations aimed at increasing traceability of the supply chain, among other rules.
www.snopes.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Remember when His Fraudulency disbanded the pandemic response team? He finally found the equivalent action for his 2nd go-round.
#MoronsAreGoverningAmerica
#MoronsAreGoverningAmerica
The Petrodollar is DEAD? | John Kiriakou
YouTube video by Veil of State
youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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In honor of Veterans Day I’d like to remind all our president had his father have a doctor say he had bone spurs to avoid the draft.
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
In honor of Veterans Day I’d like to remind all our president had his father have a doctor say he had bone spurs to avoid the draft.
The #Faithless8 have decided to embrace appeasement. #Quisling proved that this approach will fail.
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The #Faithless8 have decided to embrace appeasement. #Quisling proved that this approach will fail.
When you give up your health insurance because it's become unaffordable, you have Tim Kaine, Jeanne Sheehan, Maggie Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman, Jackie Rosen, and Angus King to thank for it.
Hassan: With the government reopening shortly, Republicans now finally have to come to the table. Or make no mistake, Americans will remember who stood in the way.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
When you give up your health insurance because it's become unaffordable, you have Tim Kaine, Jeanne Sheehan, Maggie Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman, Jackie Rosen, and Angus King to thank for it.
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I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Trump's dementia in action.
He read “South America” as “South Africa” because he’s blind, but then he has to ramble incoherently about South Africa in order to pretend that he meant to say it.
Trump: "For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what's going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what's going on. Look at South America, what's going on. You know, we have a G20 meeting in South Africa."
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Trump's dementia in action.
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I think that it's very harsh of Nottingham to complain about the economic situation when you look at how wealthy Prince John is.
a cartoon of a king and a snake with a bag of gold coins
ALT: a cartoon of a king and a snake with a bag of gold coins
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I think that it's very harsh of Nottingham to complain about the economic situation when you look at how wealthy Prince John is.
Isn't saying "sectors of the economy are in recession" sort of like saying "parts of a woman are pregnant?"
TAPPER: Do you agree that the US is at risk of a recession?
BESSENT: I believe we are in a transition period here. I think we're in good shape, but there are sectors of the economy that are in recession
BESSENT: I believe we are in a transition period here. I think we're in good shape, but there are sectors of the economy that are in recession
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Isn't saying "sectors of the economy are in recession" sort of like saying "parts of a woman are pregnant?"
A story that's been buried: the MAGA convoy that went to down to help defend Eagle Pass against the invasion, only to discover that the border was completely secured, and had been for years.
without changing anything in the real world, you could literally tell maga chuds that immigration had been “fixed”, stop talking about it, and they would never know better.
remember their “convoy” to eagle’s pass, tx last year where they all showed up and were stunned that the border wasn’t “open”?
remember their “convoy” to eagle’s pass, tx last year where they all showed up and were stunned that the border wasn’t “open”?
November 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A story that's been buried: the MAGA convoy that went to down to help defend Eagle Pass against the invasion, only to discover that the border was completely secured, and had been for years.
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I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.
And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.
And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
Everything Trump touches dies.
#TrumpLegacy
#TrumpLegacy
EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover
Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Everything Trump touches dies.
#TrumpLegacy
#TrumpLegacy
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SCOOP: The Trump administration acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing; can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors; and consider those survivors to be “unprivileged belligerents." theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...
Trump Administration Admits It Doesn’t Know Who Exactly It’s Killing in Boat Strikes
Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.
theintercept.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing; can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors; and consider those survivors to be “unprivileged belligerents." theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...
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I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018 - 2019 — for 35 days — before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed.
Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.
Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.
October 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018 - 2019 — for 35 days — before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed.
Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.
Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.
“High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition..."
Ronald Reagan, April 25, 1987
youtu.be/Foggkeiwlp0?...
Ronald Reagan, April 25, 1987
youtu.be/Foggkeiwlp0?...
October 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition..."
Ronald Reagan, April 25, 1987
youtu.be/Foggkeiwlp0?...
Ronald Reagan, April 25, 1987
youtu.be/Foggkeiwlp0?...
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An embarrassingly obvious point, but...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business
President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...
www.cnn.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
An embarrassingly obvious point, but...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...