Frondescent Sparkleberry
@frondescent.bsky.social
Recovering coffee achiever and counterrevolutionary. Post-verbal communication style.
If anyone takes this much care to help you with your writing, you are truly blessed.
Ok, however much you've thought about this Nuzzi business, I promise I've thought about it more.
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Notes on Your American Canto Draft
I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor, even people who don’t get one. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition...
newsletter.anamariecox.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If anyone takes this much care to help you with your writing, you are truly blessed.
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. We all need to reflect on the lives lost to transphobia and violence. Consider supporting organizations that are making things better for people.
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. We all need to reflect on the lives lost to transphobia and violence. Consider supporting organizations that are making things better for people.
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DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
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man, if I had a nickel for every time I've been in this situation
Eric Trump: "You can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11pm while having a glass of wine with your wife for virtually zero fees."
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
man, if I had a nickel for every time I've been in this situation
Chuck Schumer is a sex addict with a humiliation kink. Now he has to throw away a once-in-a-lifetime political advantage to get himself off.
What else will he ruin? Anything he can get his hands on.
What else will he ruin? Anything he can get his hands on.
Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Chuck Schumer is a sex addict with a humiliation kink. Now he has to throw away a once-in-a-lifetime political advantage to get himself off.
What else will he ruin? Anything he can get his hands on.
What else will he ruin? Anything he can get his hands on.
I don’t think Democrats should reopen the government so long as Donald Trump is:
- Trying to starve millions of Americans
- Invading U.S. cities
- Disappearing people
- Taking a hatchet to public health
- Gutting environmental regulations
- Not funding foreign aid
- Committing war crimes
- Trying to starve millions of Americans
- Invading U.S. cities
- Disappearing people
- Taking a hatchet to public health
- Gutting environmental regulations
- Not funding foreign aid
- Committing war crimes
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I've been following Matthew for a little while and I'm constantly impressed. He has great insights into everything influencing elections, from polls to media to messaging. Hope you will check him out, and maybe some of you can help out.
Some personal news: I have been financially supporting a family member in a mental health crisis which has spiraled into a financial disaster.
I would like to keep doing progressive activism but I can no longer pay rent for myself and my two kids.
Please help if you can. Thank you very much.
I would like to keep doing progressive activism but I can no longer pay rent for myself and my two kids.
Please help if you can. Thank you very much.
Donate to Support Needed for Rent and Career Transition, organized by Matt Sheffield
I never thought I'd be doing this before, but I could really use your hel… Matt Sheffield needs your support for Support Needed for Rent and Career Transition
gofund.me
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I've been following Matthew for a little while and I'm constantly impressed. He has great insights into everything influencing elections, from polls to media to messaging. Hope you will check him out, and maybe some of you can help out.
This seems, uh, important.
“However, when candidates inoculate early and respond directly, they recover those points and sometimes gain additional margin by demonstrating their values and strength,” the memo continued.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This seems, uh, important.
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if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners
THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners
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Don't trust a New York Times reporter. Don't talk to a New York Times reporter. They are the most ambitious journalists on the planet and will do anything to get the story their editor wants. The truth doesn't matter to them, only getting the story their editor wants so they can move up.
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Don't trust a New York Times reporter. Don't talk to a New York Times reporter. They are the most ambitious journalists on the planet and will do anything to get the story their editor wants. The truth doesn't matter to them, only getting the story their editor wants so they can move up.
Please read. I'd like to move to a system where voting is required. It should be a crime to impede voting in any way.
I'm finally going to post, because I've seen some really naive takes on voter suppression in Texas and how it can't possibly have any kind of meaningful impact on voting. (You might wonder why Republicans bother!) Anyway, this is what a successful Dem get-out-the-vote effort looks like in Texas:
Former Democratic state House candidate among nine indicted for alleged vote harvesting in South Texas
The charges are the latest escalation in a probe that resulted in Texas authorities indicting six other Frio County area officials in May.
www.texastribune.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Please read. I'd like to move to a system where voting is required. It should be a crime to impede voting in any way.
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It's unconsciounable incompetence that there is nothing remotely similar on the left to TPUSA or to the Federalist Society. Meanwhile, the right wing has like 5 other organizations just like TPUSA.
We can copy Republican professionalism without copying their deceitfulness.
We can copy Republican professionalism without copying their deceitfulness.
What Charlie Kirk knew
The slain co-founder of Turning Point was a masterful political organizer—and a religious extremist
plus.flux.community
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It's unconsciounable incompetence that there is nothing remotely similar on the left to TPUSA or to the Federalist Society. Meanwhile, the right wing has like 5 other organizations just like TPUSA.
We can copy Republican professionalism without copying their deceitfulness.
We can copy Republican professionalism without copying their deceitfulness.
What doesn't seem right to me is that these ICE getaway cars still have all four wheels, and the tires are fully inflated. Also they seem to have gas in their tanks. It just doesn't seem right.
October 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
What doesn't seem right to me is that these ICE getaway cars still have all four wheels, and the tires are fully inflated. Also they seem to have gas in their tanks. It just doesn't seem right.
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If Congress has not appropriated these funds (it hasn't) the Anti-Deficiency Act makes it illegal to accept private donations to offset a funding lapse. ONLY Congress has the power of the purse. Not POTUS. Not Anonymous LLC. Every story here too should put "illegal" in the headline. Every one.
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If Congress has not appropriated these funds (it hasn't) the Anti-Deficiency Act makes it illegal to accept private donations to offset a funding lapse. ONLY Congress has the power of the purse. Not POTUS. Not Anonymous LLC. Every story here too should put "illegal" in the headline. Every one.
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If ur a musician & signed away the rights to ur songs in publishing/record deals in the late 80s/early 1990s, it’s time to get them back. Under U.S. Copyright Act, authors have opportunity to kill licenses/assignments made to 3rd parties during a 5year window starting 35 yrs… see next post
October 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
If ur a musician & signed away the rights to ur songs in publishing/record deals in the late 80s/early 1990s, it’s time to get them back. Under U.S. Copyright Act, authors have opportunity to kill licenses/assignments made to 3rd parties during a 5year window starting 35 yrs… see next post
Yes, we do need to know why our "law enforcement" officers protected the law-breakers instead.
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid
The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Yes, we do need to know why our "law enforcement" officers protected the law-breakers instead.
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
The frog is a miracle. Funny and lovable absurdity faces off against murderous, obscene absurdity.
The frogs will win!
The frogs will win!
What I'd love people to take from the Portland Frog (and the other inflatable costumes) is both that wearing an inflatable costume to a protest can create cool viral visuals AND that you need to just try shit.
October 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The frog is a miracle. Funny and lovable absurdity faces off against murderous, obscene absurdity.
The frogs will win!
The frogs will win!
Everyone involved in habitat restoration uses glyphosate. Everyone trying to reclaim ecosystems and eliminate invasive species uses glyphosate (carefully, and according to directions). It's the best solution currently available.
The problem is nobody likes uncertainty or complexity. I studied glyphosate/Roundup. Sometimes surfactants in Roundup have more side effects than the glyphosate itself but it's easier to study glyphosate. Effects of glyphosate in real systems are variable and complex, and alternatives..
October 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Everyone involved in habitat restoration uses glyphosate. Everyone trying to reclaim ecosystems and eliminate invasive species uses glyphosate (carefully, and according to directions). It's the best solution currently available.
Feeling entitled? Bored? Losing your moral compass due to the privileges of modern civilization? Instead of another yoga retreat, try a Kavanaugh stop! Once you've been randomly brutalized, kidnapped off the street, and held without access to counsel, you'll say goodbye forever to that pesky ennui!
American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Feeling entitled? Bored? Losing your moral compass due to the privileges of modern civilization? Instead of another yoga retreat, try a Kavanaugh stop! Once you've been randomly brutalized, kidnapped off the street, and held without access to counsel, you'll say goodbye forever to that pesky ennui!
"...effective messaging can shift public opinion and electoral outcomes..."
This should be tattooed on the forehead of every Dem politician and strategist. I'd make it "effective, consistent, and frequent messaging" because even when they stumble on an effective message they change it or drop it.
This should be tattooed on the forehead of every Dem politician and strategist. I'd make it "effective, consistent, and frequent messaging" because even when they stumble on an effective message they change it or drop it.
you'd think Democrats would realize that effective messaging can shift public opinion and electoral outcomes after watching Republicans wage relentless and super-effective propaganda warfare on the nation's dim electorate for going on five fucking decades
Weird. It’s almost like making accusations generates friction which generates news which rallies your supporters.
October 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"...effective messaging can shift public opinion and electoral outcomes..."
This should be tattooed on the forehead of every Dem politician and strategist. I'd make it "effective, consistent, and frequent messaging" because even when they stumble on an effective message they change it or drop it.
This should be tattooed on the forehead of every Dem politician and strategist. I'd make it "effective, consistent, and frequent messaging" because even when they stumble on an effective message they change it or drop it.
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Under the Desk News issued a video about the connection between real estate management companies and these "immigration" raids (The Chicago raid wasn't about immigration. Something far more sinister drove it.).
I decided to look up what's happening with propery management companies.
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I decided to look up what's happening with propery management companies.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Under the Desk News issued a video about the connection between real estate management companies and these "immigration" raids (The Chicago raid wasn't about immigration. Something far more sinister drove it.).
I decided to look up what's happening with propery management companies.
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I decided to look up what's happening with propery management companies.
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This is how the Trump administration roots out waste and fraud: By defunding the people who identify actual waste and fraud.
Trump administration moves to defund inspector general watchdog group
The decision marks the latest example of the administration’s push to limit government oversight activities.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is how the Trump administration roots out waste and fraud: By defunding the people who identify actual waste and fraud.
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This is an excellent piece overall, but this pull quote is 💯^💯.
“Dooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is an excellent piece overall, but this pull quote is 💯^💯.
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Pic of the new replaceable bulb for the Torch 2. No more throwing out the entire fixture each time the bulb dies (Yes, it's nuts, that's how basically all Far-UVC emitters work, yes, the industry likes it this way). It should really drive the price of Far-UVC through the floor.
October 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Pic of the new replaceable bulb for the Torch 2. No more throwing out the entire fixture each time the bulb dies (Yes, it's nuts, that's how basically all Far-UVC emitters work, yes, the industry likes it this way). It should really drive the price of Far-UVC through the floor.