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/

9.1K followers1.4K following5.3K posts

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Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Beatrice Keul, testified that she was introduced by Jeffrey Epstein to Donald J Trump, who then brutally raped her in a hotel room in Atlantic City, NJ, and her claims were deemed credible by a panel of the House Judiciary Committee today. The NYT has decided that this is not reportable news.

I'm so old that I remember that this level of overt racism was frowned upon (also obviously a total lie)

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

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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Not that long ago, three major lower-court rulings against the executive branch on three unrelated topics would’ve been a busy *month,* and outlets would’ve rushed to write up such a run of adverse rulings. Now, it doesn’t feel unusual when we get three on the same *day.* It’s all … exhausting.

Guess I've been going to all the lame restaurants over the past 18 years because lol literally never

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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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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.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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"

The Yassification of PA politics continues apace

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social

A single billionaire megadonor is propping up the Republican effort to stop Dems from flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate and gaining full control of government—to a much greater degree than Elon Musk is doing it at the federal level

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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.

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

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

Why do the wrong elderly men keep dying

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

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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I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

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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...

Apologies in advance for overusing this gif

Ann Telnaes@anntelnaes.bsky.social

The demented U.S. president, ladies & gentlemen: "He suggested that the United States should accept fewer Norwegian immigrants, saying, 'I didn’t get the Nobel Prize.'” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

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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

showbiz411.comControversial "Musk" Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films - Showbiz411Alex Gibney's "Musk" movie is pretty much gone. Released October 9th to four theaters, it expanded to 472 last Friday. And now, one week later it's gone

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You know what pissed me off about the Ramaswamy ad beyond the obvious grotesqueries? There’s no EVIDENCE disputing Acton’s life story. There are court proceedings backing up her story. And all Ramaswamy’s got is the (accused) mother saying “nu uh” and somehow that’s enough? FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Get his creepy, racist ass

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

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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.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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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Replying to @ryanlcooper.com

The tech bros made billions thanks to the federal government, and now they're destroying the federal government, but as soon as the bubble pops, you better believe they'll be back demanding a bailout from that same federal government.

It's neat how Trump defends pedophile rapists and their aiders and abettors at pretty much every opportunity

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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"

Caroline Haskins@carolinehaskins.bsky.social

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

Get his ass AG Torrez

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com

New Mexico has filed a civil lawsuit against the former lawyer and accountant of Jeffrey Epstein to block payments by the late sex offender's estate and recover damages for survivors of his alleged sexual abuse, the state's top law enforcement official said on Wednesday.

Weird thing to do if the war is going as well as Trump says

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT IS SET TO ORDER THE DEPARTURE OF CERTAIN STAFF AND THEIR FAMILIES FROM AMERICAN EMBASSIES THROUGHOUT THE GULF - U.S. OFFICIALS

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...

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Carolyn Fiddler@cfidd.bsky.social

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/

Imagine saying this with a straight face

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

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What we're fighting for this year in North Carolina is the restoration of democracy in Raleigh, and a state legislature of, by and for the people - not the crooked politicos who have hijacked it today.

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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.

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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...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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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...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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!)

...wait so the loser who's cool with being VP to the guy who's covering up the Epstein files because he's all over them is campaigning tomorrow with the creep behind the ad featuring the woman who sided with her daughter's rapist Guess JD has a type