Richard Fawal
@rfawal.bsky.social
I do politics, public affairs, podcasts, and craft beer. I lead Voxtopica.com. I write at https://6to64.substack.com. I publish DCBeer.com. I don’t do fascism. No 🧊
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A Failure of Communication
Democrats caved in the worst possible way
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Senate Democrats could have ended the #shutdown by declaring victory. Instead, they ended it by declaring defeat.
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
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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
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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Who we gotta embarrass into saving PBS
PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Who we gotta embarrass into saving PBS
Absolutely crushed to hear that Todd Snyder passed away. One of my musical heroes, gone far too soon.
RIP brother.
RIP brother.
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Absolutely crushed to hear that Todd Snyder passed away. One of my musical heroes, gone far too soon.
RIP brother.
RIP brother.
This regime is grotesque and must be defeated. Then these criminals must be tried and punished.
This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This regime is grotesque and must be defeated. Then these criminals must be tried and punished.
Democrats should run ads like this non-stop from June-November 2026
My right side is absolutely killing me
You need an appendectomy
How much is that
Umm … $47,285
How much without the anesthesia
Ok we can do that for $36,210
I don’t think so
What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today
I’m going to shop around
Hold on, my manager is coming over
You need an appendectomy
How much is that
Umm … $47,285
How much without the anesthesia
Ok we can do that for $36,210
I don’t think so
What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today
I’m going to shop around
Hold on, my manager is coming over
TRUMP: We’re going to give Americans the money to buy health insurance
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Democrats should run ads like this non-stop from June-November 2026
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I’d just like to reiterate that if you put on a mask, and go out without a warrant and kidnap people because they aren’t white enough, you’re a huge piece of shit…
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I’d just like to reiterate that if you put on a mask, and go out without a warrant and kidnap people because they aren’t white enough, you’re a huge piece of shit…
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“This should be a nuclear bomb, it shouldn’t be a Wednesday.” - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“This should be a nuclear bomb, it shouldn’t be a Wednesday.” - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
I think he’s speaking Russian
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I think he’s speaking Russian
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ALSO: Cannabis should be legalized federally too.
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
ALSO: Cannabis should be legalized federally too.
It was so great to have @radiofreetom.bsky.social on The Hot Dish! Always good to see you, Professor!
(But sad Lily didn’t make an appearance 😢)
(But sad Lily didn’t make an appearance 😢)
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It was so great to have @radiofreetom.bsky.social on The Hot Dish! Always good to see you, Professor!
(But sad Lily didn’t make an appearance 😢)
(But sad Lily didn’t make an appearance 😢)
The GOP is just corruption and grift from top to bottom.
WATCH: “Every Republican voted to keep a payola provision to send millions to individual senators bank accounts. IT’S CORRUPTION.”
The @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty payday WILL be in the funding bill. Truly obscene & shameless even for them.
The @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty payday WILL be in the funding bill. Truly obscene & shameless even for them.
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The GOP is just corruption and grift from top to bottom.
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Only a Fraction of Republicans’ Much-Touted $50 Billion Rural Health Fund Can Help Struggling Hospitals Pay Their Bills talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rural-h...
Only a Fraction of Republicans’ Much-Touted $50 Billion Rural Health Fund Can Help Struggling Hospitals Pay Their Bills
As President Donald Trump’s deadline for a massive budget bill drew near...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Only a Fraction of Republicans’ Much-Touted $50 Billion Rural Health Fund Can Help Struggling Hospitals Pay Their Bills talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rural-h...
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But Trump said no annexation! Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attack two Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to vehicles and other property in the latest in a series of escalating violent attacks by extremist Jewish settlers.
apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...
Masked Israeli settlers attack 2 Palestinian villages in the West Bank
Israeli and Palestinian officials say dozens of masked Israeli settlers have attacked a pair of Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank.
apnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
But Trump said no annexation! Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attack two Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to vehicles and other property in the latest in a series of escalating violent attacks by extremist Jewish settlers.
apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...
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Whistleblower Israeli soldiers describe killing unarmed Palestinians as they ‘demolish’ Gaza www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Whistleblower Israeli soldiers describe killing unarmed Palestinians in Gaza
IDF soldiers tell how they use teenage Palestinians as human shields in Gaza and have left the enclave a ‘zombie apocalypse’
www.independent.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Whistleblower Israeli soldiers describe killing unarmed Palestinians as they ‘demolish’ Gaza www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
Schumer thinks Americans are nothing but poll numbers, message testing subjects, and focus group participants. Old man hasn’t spoken to an actual voter in decades.
A thing I wrote about Schumer when Mamdani won the primary and kind of thinking about it a lot the last two days
Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Schumer thinks Americans are nothing but poll numbers, message testing subjects, and focus group participants. Old man hasn’t spoken to an actual voter in decades.
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CLIP: TN-5 candidate Columbia, TN mayor @chazmolder on Andy Ogles pushing for a Trump 3rd term, using 9/11 footage to attack Zohran, and calling Chaz a “Marxist” — as he ducks the FBI, and Q’s about that child burial fundraiser🤔💰
Full interview: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7V2YS...
Full interview: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7V2YS...
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
CLIP: TN-5 candidate Columbia, TN mayor @chazmolder on Andy Ogles pushing for a Trump 3rd term, using 9/11 footage to attack Zohran, and calling Chaz a “Marxist” — as he ducks the FBI, and Q’s about that child burial fundraiser🤔💰
Full interview: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7V2YS...
Full interview: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7V2YS...
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"Where is the outrage, the coverage even, of the mutilated Palestinian bodies, with crushed legs and gunshot wounds to the head, that the Israelis finally released as part of this 'ceasefire' deal?" zeteo.com/p/israel-ret...
Crushed Legs. Gunshot Wounds to the Head. Shackled: Israel Returns Mutilated Palestinian Bodies
Where is the outrage, the coverage even, of the mutilated Palestinian bodies, with crushed legs and gunshot wounds to the head, that the Israelis finally released as part of this 'ceasefire' deal?
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Where is the outrage, the coverage even, of the mutilated Palestinian bodies, with crushed legs and gunshot wounds to the head, that the Israelis finally released as part of this 'ceasefire' deal?" zeteo.com/p/israel-ret...
What Dems SHOULD have said:
The GOP would rather inflict pain than negotiate.
We care about you. We’ll reopen the government to feed hungry people and get workers paid.
The fight for affordable healthcare isn’t over. The battle against authoritarianism isn’t done.
We’re Democrats. We fight for you.
The GOP would rather inflict pain than negotiate.
We care about you. We’ll reopen the government to feed hungry people and get workers paid.
The fight for affordable healthcare isn’t over. The battle against authoritarianism isn’t done.
We’re Democrats. We fight for you.
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What Dems SHOULD have said:
The GOP would rather inflict pain than negotiate.
We care about you. We’ll reopen the government to feed hungry people and get workers paid.
The fight for affordable healthcare isn’t over. The battle against authoritarianism isn’t done.
We’re Democrats. We fight for you.
The GOP would rather inflict pain than negotiate.
We care about you. We’ll reopen the government to feed hungry people and get workers paid.
The fight for affordable healthcare isn’t over. The battle against authoritarianism isn’t done.
We’re Democrats. We fight for you.
Absolutely. They completely failed to put forth a winning message and opted for messaging that displayed weakness instead. Wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Absolutely. They completely failed to put forth a winning message and opted for messaging that displayed weakness instead. Wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
Senate Democrats could have ended the #shutdown by declaring victory. Instead, they ended it by declaring defeat.
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
A Failure of Communication
Democrats caved in the worst possible way
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Senate Democrats could have ended the #shutdown by declaring victory. Instead, they ended it by declaring defeat.
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
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This sounds like the start of a conversation to put Paw Paw in an assisted living center.
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This sounds like the start of a conversation to put Paw Paw in an assisted living center.
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"The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts" at the GHF distribution points.
"Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians: IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts" at the GHF distribution points.