The Frolicking Gadfly
@frolickinggadfly.bsky.social
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If anyone is wondering, and without getting into too much detail, I am a 60ish, curmudgeonly grandpa, IT guy, veteran, and part-time internet political junkie who was weaned on Bartcop's blog yonder a century ago, and if you know who Bartcop was and grokked his style, then we'll get along just fine.
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REMINDER: Trump has 12 DAYS left to release ALL the Epstein files--including hard drives of surveillance footage secretly recorded by Epstein at his houses. The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires Trump to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files by Dec 19.
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
REMINDER: Trump has 12 DAYS left to release ALL the Epstein files--including hard drives of surveillance footage secretly recorded by Epstein at his houses. The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires Trump to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files by Dec 19.
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Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire. The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich. We should tax trillionaires out of existence.
December 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire. The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich. We should tax trillionaires out of existence.
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NEW - The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.
www.propublica.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NEW - The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
The same court btw where the wife of one of the conservative justices was deeply involved in coordinating the Jan. 6th gathering of MAGA terrorists, and another conservative justice who has been on the 💵 take from right-wing sugar daddies for years. Don't believe for a second they wouldn't do it. 🫤
The GOP-majority Supreme Court will issue a ruling on Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship, one more step in the president's plot to take away citizenship for the US-born children of immigrants.
The plot against birthright citizenship
The incoming Trump administration wants to take away citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrants. Here's how.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The same court btw where the wife of one of the conservative justices was deeply involved in coordinating the Jan. 6th gathering of MAGA terrorists, and another conservative justice who has been on the 💵 take from right-wing sugar daddies for years. Don't believe for a second they wouldn't do it. 🫤
Defund ICE. Shut them down. 🫤
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Defund ICE. Shut them down. 🫤
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Imagine being such an insecure, attention-craving, validation-starved manbaby that you have ZERO fucking clue how much of a pathetic fool you look like accepting a fake prize that was created for the sole purpose of stroking your fragile ego...
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Imagine being such an insecure, attention-craving, validation-starved manbaby that you have ZERO fucking clue how much of a pathetic fool you look like accepting a fake prize that was created for the sole purpose of stroking your fragile ego...
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The entire antivax movement is a bourgeois indulgence of a corrupt capitalist system, a masturbatory exercise where complete numbskulls are empowered by power-mad dicks to say they know better than medical science. We are killing ourselves to feed the egos of rich fucks.
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The entire antivax movement is a bourgeois indulgence of a corrupt capitalist system, a masturbatory exercise where complete numbskulls are empowered by power-mad dicks to say they know better than medical science. We are killing ourselves to feed the egos of rich fucks.
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BREAKING: Antifa thugs break into FIFA headquarters and replace "FIFA Peace Prize" trophy with crude forgery moments before it was presented to President Trump.
#DonaldTrump #FIFAPeacePrize
#DonaldTrump #FIFAPeacePrize
December 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
BREAKING: Antifa thugs break into FIFA headquarters and replace "FIFA Peace Prize" trophy with crude forgery moments before it was presented to President Trump.
#DonaldTrump #FIFAPeacePrize
#DonaldTrump #FIFAPeacePrize
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Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court just announced it will hear our case challenging President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.
Every child born on U.S. soil has a right to citizenship. We’ll see the president in court.
Every child born on U.S. soil has a right to citizenship. We’ll see the president in court.
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just announced it will hear our case challenging President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.
Every child born on U.S. soil has a right to citizenship. We’ll see the president in court.
Every child born on U.S. soil has a right to citizenship. We’ll see the president in court.
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Major media act like what happened on that boat in the Caribbean is a mystery because Democrats say the 2 surviving crewmen were desperately trying to survive and Sen. Tom Cotton says they were "staying in the fight." But it should be no mystery to seasoned journalists that Cotton is damn liar.
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Major media act like what happened on that boat in the Caribbean is a mystery because Democrats say the 2 surviving crewmen were desperately trying to survive and Sen. Tom Cotton says they were "staying in the fight." But it should be no mystery to seasoned journalists that Cotton is damn liar.
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LMAO FIFA created a bullshit "Peace Prize" and just awarded it to Trump because Nobel wouldn’t give him the real one
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
LMAO FIFA created a bullshit "Peace Prize" and just awarded it to Trump because Nobel wouldn’t give him the real one
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Is your pension fund fueling fascism?
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Is your pension fund fueling fascism?
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
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The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.
Washed up, morally bankrupt professional golfer who is essentially a prison bitch of the Saudi Royal murderers has some quaint thoughts about US immigration. 🫤
December 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Washed up, morally bankrupt professional golfer who is essentially a prison bitch of the Saudi Royal murderers has some quaint thoughts about US immigration. 🫤
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This SCOTUS is an indelible stain on every state and federal judge who takes their oath to uphold the constitution seriously.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
This SCOTUS is an indelible stain on every state and federal judge who takes their oath to uphold the constitution seriously.
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So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.
Wake up America. This nation's corrupt, conservative-led Supreme Court is a rogue, anti-constitutional court whose conservative members seem hellbent on giving a convicted felon, rapist and coup-plotting thug pretty much all the executive powers of a King. It ends well for no one if they succeed.🫤
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Wake up America. This nation's corrupt, conservative-led Supreme Court is a rogue, anti-constitutional court whose conservative members seem hellbent on giving a convicted felon, rapist and coup-plotting thug pretty much all the executive powers of a King. It ends well for no one if they succeed.🫤
A US Senator and unapologetic advocate for the US military committing cold-blooded murder on the open seas at the direction of a convicted felon, rapist, and child rapist shows us how far the GOP has strayed from 'The Party of Lincoln" to servile Drumpf cultists. 🫤
www.rawstory.com/tom-cotton-2...
www.rawstory.com/tom-cotton-2...
Strike survivors deserved death for 'trying to flip their boat back over': GOP senator
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) insisted that two survivors of the strike on a small alleged drug boat deserved to die because they were trying to "flip" the vessel back over after it was hit.Following a brief...
www.rawstory.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A US Senator and unapologetic advocate for the US military committing cold-blooded murder on the open seas at the direction of a convicted felon, rapist, and child rapist shows us how far the GOP has strayed from 'The Party of Lincoln" to servile Drumpf cultists. 🫤
www.rawstory.com/tom-cotton-2...
www.rawstory.com/tom-cotton-2...
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
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More normalizing of the slimiest people in this country by the morally impoverished muckrakers in this country's now valueless "news" media. 🫤
Ryan Grim: I think the posse will find a lot useful there.
Steve Bannon: You’re an intrepid reporter, sir, and a voice of truth. Sometimes people love it and sometimes people love it less, but you’re you’re a warrior.
Grim: No doubt about it.
Bannon: Let's welcome on Raw Egg Nationalist!
Steve Bannon: You’re an intrepid reporter, sir, and a voice of truth. Sometimes people love it and sometimes people love it less, but you’re you’re a warrior.
Grim: No doubt about it.
Bannon: Let's welcome on Raw Egg Nationalist!
December 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
More normalizing of the slimiest people in this country by the morally impoverished muckrakers in this country's now valueless "news" media. 🫤
Thank you @cbsnews.com for giving this American household further reason to continue boycotting your product and seeking out more trustworthy and credible outlets for news and information. 🫤
CBS News staffers rip ‘shallow’ Bari Weiss for moderating ‘absurd’ network town hall with Erika Kirk
CBS staffers rip ‘shallow’ Bari Weiss for moderating ‘absurd’ Erika Kirk town hall
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thank you @cbsnews.com for giving this American household further reason to continue boycotting your product and seeking out more trustworthy and credible outlets for news and information. 🫤
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Until He’s Dead Or In Prison, EVERY Election Must Be A Referendum On Trump: Two days ago, Trump unleashed the ugliest, most bigoted stuff about brown and black immigrants. About Somalian-Americans. And his entire cabinet just sat there and nodded. Yesterday, he unleashed even uglier stuff about…
Until He’s Dead Or In Prison, EVERY Election Must Be A Referendum On Trump
Two days ago, Trump unleashed the ugliest, most bigoted stuff about brown and black immigrants. About Somalian-Americans. And his entire cabinet just sat there and nodded. Yesterday, he unleashed even uglier stuff about Somalian-Americans. And the Congress people and business executives just stood there and nodded. Silence is complicity. The entire Republican Party owns his racism, bigotry, and cruelty. So every election for the foreseeable future must be about him. Period.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Until He’s Dead Or In Prison, EVERY Election Must Be A Referendum On Trump: Two days ago, Trump unleashed the ugliest, most bigoted stuff about brown and black immigrants. About Somalian-Americans. And his entire cabinet just sat there and nodded. Yesterday, he unleashed even uglier stuff about…