Winnie Frolik
@winniethewitch.bsky.social
Published Author of the Mary Grey murder mystery series, high functioning autistic, and cat Mom to Smoky
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The regime’s desire for authoritarian domination is infinite, but its capacity is not.
Every act of resistance, every time anyone says no, makes them spend more of their limited resources.
It bogs them down, tying up resources they’d use to hurt other people.
Enough of that and the regime breaks.
Every act of resistance, every time anyone says no, makes them spend more of their limited resources.
It bogs them down, tying up resources they’d use to hurt other people.
Enough of that and the regime breaks.
Important lesson here is always make them go through every step. One person may not be able to stop the fascist train alone. But everytime everyone of us does something to slow it down, it adds up, and gives more opportunities for others.
Serious credit to Gov. Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and a bunch of people in and around Chicago who stood up to illegal, unjust, un-American, rights-violating anti-immigrant (or sometimes just anti-brown-people) federal operations.
If they weakly acquiesce like some others did, courts don’t take it up.
If they weakly acquiesce like some others did, courts don’t take it up.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The regime’s desire for authoritarian domination is infinite, but its capacity is not.
Every act of resistance, every time anyone says no, makes them spend more of their limited resources.
It bogs them down, tying up resources they’d use to hurt other people.
Enough of that and the regime breaks.
Every act of resistance, every time anyone says no, makes them spend more of their limited resources.
It bogs them down, tying up resources they’d use to hurt other people.
Enough of that and the regime breaks.
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The hypercompetent evil genius is more of an action movie / comic book creation than reality. Or evil governments’ propaganda.
Did you know that Mussolini and the Italian fascists didn’t actually make the trains run on time? They just said they did, and people remember their words.
Did you know that Mussolini and the Italian fascists didn’t actually make the trains run on time? They just said they did, and people remember their words.
December 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The hypercompetent evil genius is more of an action movie / comic book creation than reality. Or evil governments’ propaganda.
Did you know that Mussolini and the Italian fascists didn’t actually make the trains run on time? They just said they did, and people remember their words.
Did you know that Mussolini and the Italian fascists didn’t actually make the trains run on time? They just said they did, and people remember their words.
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People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards.
Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.
Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards.
Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.
Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.
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Atlantic editors: Oh wow, this article defending Bari Weiss censoring 60 Minutes is so bad, people are going to hate it, we’re going to get so many clicks. High five!
December 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Atlantic editors: Oh wow, this article defending Bari Weiss censoring 60 Minutes is so bad, people are going to hate it, we’re going to get so many clicks. High five!
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TREACHERY: Canadian company airs factually accurate news report even though it makes Donald Trump look bad and one of his lackeys in media censored it in the US.
NOT TREACHERY: Conspiring to overthrow Constitution. Rewarding Russian aggression against a US democratic partner. Taking foreign bribes.
NOT TREACHERY: Conspiring to overthrow Constitution. Rewarding Russian aggression against a US democratic partner. Taking foreign bribes.
December 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
TREACHERY: Canadian company airs factually accurate news report even though it makes Donald Trump look bad and one of his lackeys in media censored it in the US.
NOT TREACHERY: Conspiring to overthrow Constitution. Rewarding Russian aggression against a US democratic partner. Taking foreign bribes.
NOT TREACHERY: Conspiring to overthrow Constitution. Rewarding Russian aggression against a US democratic partner. Taking foreign bribes.
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No, people are not exaggerating the significance of what's going on at Heritage. We're talking massive capital flight, in every sense of the word. It will never be the same, and it will be less powerful.
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
No, people are not exaggerating the significance of what's going on at Heritage. We're talking massive capital flight, in every sense of the word. It will never be the same, and it will be less powerful.
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How you exit with flare
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
How you exit with flare
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yeah...this is a really common confusion, but fascists (and evil people generally) are often extremely incompetent. bigotry is a massive moral error which leads to cognitive errors. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/white-supr...
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
yeah...this is a really common confusion, but fascists (and evil people generally) are often extremely incompetent. bigotry is a massive moral error which leads to cognitive errors. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/white-supr...
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whether or not you use AI personally, it is making computer Worse and there’s nothing you can do about it
December 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
whether or not you use AI personally, it is making computer Worse and there’s nothing you can do about it
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Great read. Spread it far and wide. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
The One Percent’s Problem Isn’t Envy. It’s Math.
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Great read. Spread it far and wide. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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Yes and he sees the glow of the fires burning on the horizon…
Is this the same Romney who said, “Corporations were people too.”?
Because he had a chance to do something and instead fought to ease their “tax burden.”
Is that the same Romney?
Because he had a chance to do something and instead fought to ease their “tax burden.”
Is that the same Romney?
December 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Yes and he sees the glow of the fires burning on the horizon…
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What you should be sorry about is this👇🏿
It’s not the country...It’s Y’ALL.
Instead of demanding your demographic do better you’re demanding we take a backseat. Nope.
I’m in the mood to let y’all keep touching the stove until you learn.
We’ll survice because we always do. Y’all? Maybe not🤷🏾♀️
It’s not the country...It’s Y’ALL.
Instead of demanding your demographic do better you’re demanding we take a backseat. Nope.
I’m in the mood to let y’all keep touching the stove until you learn.
We’ll survice because we always do. Y’all? Maybe not🤷🏾♀️
December 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
What you should be sorry about is this👇🏿
It’s not the country...It’s Y’ALL.
Instead of demanding your demographic do better you’re demanding we take a backseat. Nope.
I’m in the mood to let y’all keep touching the stove until you learn.
We’ll survice because we always do. Y’all? Maybe not🤷🏾♀️
It’s not the country...It’s Y’ALL.
Instead of demanding your demographic do better you’re demanding we take a backseat. Nope.
I’m in the mood to let y’all keep touching the stove until you learn.
We’ll survice because we always do. Y’all? Maybe not🤷🏾♀️
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It’s a lucrative grift so I’m not surprised.
Sports media talkers are increasingly exploring politics as an alternative career path.
awfulannouncing.com/politics/spo...
awfulannouncing.com/politics/spo...
Why do so many sports media stars want to be politicians?
From Paul Finebaum to Michele Tafoya to Stephen A. Smith, sports media stars are getting more serious about politics.
awfulannouncing.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It’s a lucrative grift so I’m not surprised.
Just finished an Amanda Cross paperback. Always fun.
December 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Just finished an Amanda Cross paperback. Always fun.
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"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness
Porsche reportedly created their new ad without using any AI.
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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if you will leave us alone forever we can even take Kennedy name off the damn building
Trump: "Tell me what you think of my 'Master of Ceremony' abilities. If really good, would you like me to leave the Presidency in order to make “hosting” a full time job?"
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
if you will leave us alone forever we can even take Kennedy name off the damn building
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does this woman fart unicorns and rainbows when she’s in the room with other media people? the number of folks who serve as her personal cheerleading squad while she runs headfirst into brick wall after brick wall is astounding
Bari Weiss was right about how to improve the “60 Minutes” CECOT report, Graeme Wood argues—but her “drama-detector, so refined when seeking out news stories, seems to have failed her when avoiding it in her own newsroom.”
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
does this woman fart unicorns and rainbows when she’s in the room with other media people? the number of folks who serve as her personal cheerleading squad while she runs headfirst into brick wall after brick wall is astounding
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“Who watches you, Your Grace?”
“I do that too. All the time.”
“I do that too. All the time.”
And he KNOWS he's a bastard, and keeps the law in mind when he's tempted.
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“Who watches you, Your Grace?”
“I do that too. All the time.”
“I do that too. All the time.”
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ACAB includes Sam Vimes, but the important thing about Sam Vimes is he generally points the bastardry in the direction of the people who deserve it
and he is offended, at a fundamental level, by those who believe they must follow no rules but their own
and he is offended, at a fundamental level, by those who believe they must follow no rules but their own
December 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
ACAB includes Sam Vimes, but the important thing about Sam Vimes is he generally points the bastardry in the direction of the people who deserve it
and he is offended, at a fundamental level, by those who believe they must follow no rules but their own
and he is offended, at a fundamental level, by those who believe they must follow no rules but their own
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Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
"You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"
"You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
"Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient."
"Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient."
Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies
December 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
"You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"
"You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"
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I am back. Bluesky we need to talk. Black users have been threatened on this site with violence for months & you did nothing
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I am back. Bluesky we need to talk. Black users have been threatened on this site with violence for months & you did nothing
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Why was Bari Weiss hired? The same reason you hire a fox to guard a hen house. You hate the hens but you want someone else to catch heat for doing it. Also she like all conservatives were rejected by the true elite & never got over it.
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Why was Bari Weiss hired? The same reason you hire a fox to guard a hen house. You hate the hens but you want someone else to catch heat for doing it. Also she like all conservatives were rejected by the true elite & never got over it.
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One more time: Bill may be a dog but he’s no child molester. I ask all of MAGA & Fox News morons the following: When did you ever hear of Bill Clinton engaged in anything with underaged girls? I’ll wait.
This - which sounds to me like he substantially wrote it himself - is a more complete version of the statement from the other night, which means, in effect, "Move on me and none of us are getting out of here alive."
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
One more time: Bill may be a dog but he’s no child molester. I ask all of MAGA & Fox News morons the following: When did you ever hear of Bill Clinton engaged in anything with underaged girls? I’ll wait.
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This tells me you don’t know Bill Clinton. He is the smartest politician of my lifetime & yes that includes Barack Obama. He is a dirty fighter & always has been. There’s a reason the GOP hates him, THEY ARE AFRAID OF HIM & HIS WIFE!
Bill Clinton stepping up is not something I had on my scorecard.
I thank him for doing so. 💙
Credit @occupydemocrats.bsky.social
I thank him for doing so. 💙
Credit @occupydemocrats.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This tells me you don’t know Bill Clinton. He is the smartest politician of my lifetime & yes that includes Barack Obama. He is a dirty fighter & always has been. There’s a reason the GOP hates him, THEY ARE AFRAID OF HIM & HIS WIFE!