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Alan Frady

@alanfrady.bsky.social

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Husband, Dad, and Pop to 3 amazing grandchildren. Retired technology leader. Never Trump before it was cool, or necessary. I no longer feel safe in America. #NCPOL #NoKings

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · Jan 25

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell, 1984

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 2h

Love this thread. Thank you, @christine520.bsky.social, for calling out the hatred.

Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 3h

1/ Small acts of defiance…✊

Yesterday, my husband and I went out to dinner with our BFFs to a local diner. It was still early bird special time so you know it was filled with old white people.

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 4h

Informative and uplifting Saturday Morning Covfefe from @oliviaoftroye.com this morning.

www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/saturday-m...

Saturday Morning Covfefe: 5 Things with Olivia

Serving truth hot. No foam, no filter.

www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19h

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 20h

maga are such snowflakes! Stop playing the victim.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Pam Bondi held a news conference today with right-wing influencer Benny Johnson to highlight a threat made against him

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

My former political party is scared to death of these #NoKings rallies. That’s great. So let’s have a gazillion Americans out rallying all around the country on October 18th! Let’s scare the shit out of Trump & his party.

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 1d

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Kyle Sweetser @kyleforalabama.bsky.social · 1d

Our seniors shouldn’t be paying a TAX ON A TAX. That’s just wrong.

I’m running for U.S. Senate to bring COMMON SENSE back to politics.

Join the fight! secure.numero.ai/contribute/Kyl…

Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 1d

That's right, Holy Mike Johnson. The "right of the people peaceably to assemble" has "gotta come to an end".

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 1d

Great news from Maine. Gov. Janet Mills will challenge Sen. Susan Collins in key 2026 Senate contest. We already know Gov. Mills is NOT afraid of the orange god king.

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills will challenge Sen. Susan Collins in key 2026 Senate contest, AP sources say

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year.

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 1d

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social quoting Simon&Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence in today's Morning Shots is worth the read.

"'silence like a cancer' has grown." From Repubs, bus leaders, pundits, and establishment types, "it’s been dry 'wells of silence' all around."

www.thebulwark.com/p/insidious-...

The Insidious Effort To Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare

This is not a president justified in going after those who went after him. It’s a person making a mockery of our justice system.

www.thebulwark.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

So the Nobel Peace Prize was given to someone who fights authoritarianism and was not given to an actual authoritarian.

Makes sense to me.

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 1d

Uplifting post from @matthewjdowd.bsky.social this morning on what kind of leaders we need.

"the first step to a country that respects human dignity is for us to find the things which bind us as humans: the hard knockouts, the sorrows, and the joys."

matthewdowd.substack.com/p/demanding-...

Demanding Leaders with a Soft Touch in Their Soul

This week I highlighted the birthday of Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, who was born October 9, 1893.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 2d

Today I spent my day on Capitol Hiill looking for members of Congress to interview, sadly no republicans were around. Thanks to Democratic Representatives Pete Aguilar, Steven Horsford, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Glenn Ivey, Jimmy Gomez, and Nanette Barragán.

www.thesirennetwork.com/p/its-day-8-...

It's Day 8 of the Republican Shutdown, With No End In Sight

Harry Dunn travels to the Capitol to bring you the latest update on the Gov. Shutdown

www.thesirennetwork.com

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 3d

Must-read emergency Triad from @jvl.bsky.social on trump's military invasion of Chicago.

The man "who fomented an actual insurrection—will invent a fantasy insurrection to justify overturning the rule of law and deploying the U.S. military against civilians".

www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen Miller channeling his inner Mao Zedong - “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 5d

What @jamellebouie.net said 👇

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

anyway, looking forward to bari weiss restoring “trust in news” where “trust in news” means pumping out propaganda for your oligarch boss

Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 5d

@jamellebouie.net FTW!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 5d

Dude, the mandate has been revoked. People fucking hate you. Your guy is more unpopular than Biden when he got out of the race last year. They’ve rejected every part of your agenda. You’ve been losing elections all across the country this year. You’ve lost your mind. Stand down.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d

For Stephen Miller, the Reichstag fire happens anew every six hours. Amazing.

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Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 5d

Danica Patrick has ALWAYS been a whiner.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d

Bad Bunny’s got them hopping mad!

The image shows two X posts. The first, by Alex Cole (@acnewstics
) from 1 day ago, states: "This country eats tacos, drinks tequila, and dances to reggaeton, but god forbid we hear Spanish for 15 minutes at halftime?" The second, by Pop Crave (@PopCrave
) from 1 day ago, states: "Former racecar driver Danica Patrick slams Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl 2026 halftime headliner: 'No songs in English should not be allowed at one of America's highest rated television events of the year... not just for sports.'" The post includes photos of Danica Patrick and Bad Bunny.

Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 5d

Danica Patrick has ALWAYS been a whiner.

Alan Frady @alanfrady.bsky.social · 5d

Support @kyleforalabama.bsky.social!

Kyle Sweetser @kyleforalabama.bsky.social · 5d

My name is Kyle Sweetser and I’m running for U.S. Senate in Alabama.

MAGA politicians have abandoned the Constitution to worship at the altar of Donald Trump.

When I get to the Senate, I will fight to protect our Constitutional rights.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 6d

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 6d

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