Scott Fenstermaker
@scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
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VP in risk industry, mentor for startup founders, amateur mixologist, Krav trainee. My followers are all of exceptional wit, style and charm.
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At the advent of Trumpism, many conservative pundits asked, "Why is the GOP abandoning conservatism? Conservatism is about personal freedom and pragmatism, not populist mobs! Where did this wholly different thing come from?"

MAGA isn't a deviation from conservatism, but the apotheosis of it. /1

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BASH: One of the concerns is that Elon Musk has billions tied up in govt contracts. You don't see a conflict of interest?

CHRIS SUNUNU: Everyone has a conflict of interest

BASH: But that's a pretty big one

SUNUNU: He's so rich he's removed from the potential financial influence
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
“…but, you know…woke Libs…”
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Biden-to-Trump voter on National Guard deployment in American cities: "I was in the Army and I didn't sign up for that. I signed up to fight enemies of the United States, and my fellow Americans are not my enemy."

@eggerdc.bsky.social joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on this week's Focus Group:
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
Is this long-term work-from-home related, or just because I’m getting old?
sethabramson.bsky.social
Too much truth in one meme
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What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
I seem to recall that "dogs and cats living together" was cited by a reliable source as a sign of the coming Gozerian apocalypse.
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
“This is A-okay with the 4th Amendment, and A-okay with me!”

-Justice Kavanaugh
thetnholler.bsky.social
“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
Whenever you hear someone say, “Things are so POLITICIZED,” challenge them to replace the phrase with, “The right is so fucking TOXIC.”
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Seen in Maywood, Illinois
Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
No! Not the hot dogs!!
butterflygirl24.bsky.social
🤣😂🤣 Pritzker posted a hilarious video showing Taco how war torn Chicago is! So hilarious! Chicago ✊🏼💙 @govpritzker.illinois.gov #chicago #pritzker
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
War zone.
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Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.
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It’s true. When you ask ChatGPT who won the 2020 election, it TOTALLY says “Joe Biden.”

I’ve seen it.
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The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
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Chicago: redeeming frogs from the Pepe memes…
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The frogs have landed in Chicago!
Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.
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This reminds me: How is Bari Weiss getting on at CBS News?
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This is written by a very well-credentialed investigative reporter, but the context is absolutely not credible.

Either the author or his sources are trying very hard to portray Trump as an unconventional international relations savant, which is like crediting Honey Boo-boo with writing Ulysses.
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
People seem to have completely forgotten that this all happened before. Trump, memorably, tried to put his signature on all the farm aid checks.

The lost Chinese soybean market never came back.
thetnholler.bsky.social
REMINDER: American businesses and consumers will pay the 100% import tax www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
We’re feeding them all the deep dish to slow them down on foot chases…
kackbro.bsky.social
We Stand With Chicago,This is
Fighting Chump's Regime.....
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
Some people take the Blue Jays win VERY seriously…
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I have no idea what you people are talking aboooot. You don’t need to welcome me to Toronto. My name is John Smith and this is my wife Mrs. Jane Smith. We are not Americans fleeing from Donald Trump so take off eh
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carnage4life.bsky.social
When I said I wanted my life to be a movie, this isn’t what I meant.
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Wait until Dana finds out who was orchestrating the Qatari financing of Hamas all those years…

www.euractiv.com/news/borrell...
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I remember Wilson being one of the bag of nut jobs like Dinesh D’Souza that Hitch used to mop the floor with.
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
The Shadow Docket is only part of SCOTUS’s technique of using time to ensure conservative outcomes. Alternatively, they drag out cases, like Trump prosecution appeals, sending them back with deliberately vague fact-finding requirements.
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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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The moment you fuck with WGN is, for Chicagoans, like the moment Javier Bardem blew up Daniel Craig’s Aston Martin in Skyfall.

You could see in Craig’s eyes that Bardem had made a serious mistake.
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
Cool, cool. The TV news producer was assaulting ICE.

As they’re totally known for doing…
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UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."
Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

 

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer. 

 

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”
scottfenstermaker.bsky.social
McTiernan is a bit of a character, but he tells a story of personal pride that he cast a black man as Admiral Greer in 1990 when there were no black admirals.

You and I grew up with Admiral Fitzwallace from The West Wing, and we may not appreciate how new that is or how easily it could be undone.
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I learned my fav RO story when Connery died.

The “chicken” scene with the Kanavolov was written for Connery. For realism, he insisted that Glenn take the scene.

Ramius turn over the conn to a sailor of equal rank. He can’t get it back just by walking into the room.

Connery was in the Royal Navy.