Carolyn Fiddler
Carolyn Fiddler
@cfidd.bsky.social
Comic book lover, oenophile, Virginian. Obsessed with/nation's foremost expert on state politics. carolyncfiddler at gmail dot com. she/her https://statehouseaction.substack.com/
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I'm so old that I remember that this level of overt racism was frowned upon (also obviously a total lie)
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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Guess I've been going to all the lame restaurants over the past 18 years because lol literally never
Trump on DC: "Nobody wanted to eat out. They were afraid. Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and like the Wild West, 'Hold it up!' Everybody is standing there. Can you imagine? A fancy restaurant. They were robbing the whole restaurant. It's crazy."
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10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:
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Trump has no legal authority to do this, of course, but that's not the point. Whipping up a bunch of voter suppression vigilantes -- the obvious result -- is the point, however.
Trump: "Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Yes, making the richest people in the world even richer at the cost of human knowledge, skill, and labor is the dream of all working class people everywhere. We were put on this earth to give our bodies, minds, and soul to the technologists to devour and sell it back to us. That’s liberation.
being anti AI is a luxury belief only available to first world people, especially Americans imagine how important machine translation is for people whose first languages aren't that common
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“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...
Why do the wrong elderly men keep dying
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
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the thing about this is that the L.A.Times is basically pre-emptively anouncing their intention to publish fallacious and defamatory material
Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.
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You need to understand how important this is. If Amy Acton wins, she could reject (veto) bad bills, but Republicans could override her veto & force bills to become law anyway ......unless Ds also pick up 6+ seats in the #Ohio House Vote all the way DOWN BALLOT 🇺🇸🇺🇸 www.statenews.org/government-p...
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“We’re number one! We’re number one!” ☝️✨🇺🇸 news.gallup.com/poll/713933/...
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Well, isn't this interesting...is "Musk" playing anywhere near you? "Released October 9th to 4 theaters, it expanded to 472 last Friday. And now, one week later it’s gone from almost every theater in America." 🏴☠️ Time to sail the seas, & send an e-cuppa joe to Alex Gibney. 🧾 t2m.co/vjuiH0s
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Blatantly illegal. Rubio needs to be hauled in front of Congress when we finally get a Congress. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...
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It’s Never Great When A Judge Has To Use The Phrase ‘Systematic Pattern Of Deception’ https://abovethelaw.com/2026/10/its-never-great-when-a-judge-has-to-use-the-phrase-systematic-pattern-of-deception/
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Again, it's not just that this is appalling and indecent. It's that it reveals someone inhabiting a moral universe where even the concept of decency is so unfathomable and alien that it doesn't even occur to you to attempt a half-assed impression of how someone who isn't human garbage might react.
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
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It's neat how Trump defends pedophile rapists and their aiders and abettors at pretty much every opportunity
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
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Airbnb went from a cheap way to crash in a spare bedroom or rent a vacation house for a weekend and turned into "what if hotels openly hated you and acted like they were doing you a favor by letting you give them hundreds of dollars to stay there, and also it's more expensive"
Airbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...
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The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers
And y'all, I have some RAD guests today: Reporter @benjacobs.bsky.social KS Dem AG candidate Chris Mann @thedlcc.bsky.social pres @heather4dems.bsky.social MN AG @keithellison.bsky.social Pro-democracy digital creator @tevindavis.bsky.social Tune in at 3 p.m. ET! www.youtube.com/@heartlandsi...
I am so thrilled to be guest-hosting for the inimitable @joanesposito.bsky.social this afternoon for Live, Local, and Progressive on @heartlandsignal.com from 3-6 p.m. ET. Oh and don't worry, it won't just be me prattling on -- I have AMAZING guests! Do join us! heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820/
I am so thrilled to be guest-hosting for the inimitable @joanesposito.bsky.social this afternoon for Live, Local, and Progressive on @heartlandsignal.com from 3-6 p.m. ET. Oh and don't worry, it won't just be me prattling on -- I have AMAZING guests! Do join us! heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820/
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I'm not kidding, the guy simply has to be at the very least deported at the end of this. If we're doing "he's not from here" shit, he is the most not from here guy alive. He needs jail or deportation the second it's viable to do it.
BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.
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My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...
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I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...
Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)