Rick Fry
@rsfry19.bsky.social
Writer, Leftist, Anti-Fascist, Pro-Union Pastor, Former Hitchhiker
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Rick Fry
@rsfry19.bsky.social
· May 23
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I was recently interviewed for the SD Voyager with a profile of my background, and the challenges of political oriented ministry in the church today.
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"The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."
"The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."
I struggle with the conversations about “political violence,” because so many of them are based in not recognizing it’s a daily reality, not an anathema or some kind of rare occurrence. Any attempt to “deal with it,” that ignores this is doomed. Free to all.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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"The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."
"The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."
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Sometimes I think white peoples obsession with rewhitening media is a form of self-soothing, like sucking your thumb. if all the lantern jawed manly white men and submissive blonde thin women return, things will be okay again and the world won’t be so scary again.
Sometimes it’s just racism.
Sometimes it’s just racism.
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Sometimes I think white peoples obsession with rewhitening media is a form of self-soothing, like sucking your thumb. if all the lantern jawed manly white men and submissive blonde thin women return, things will be okay again and the world won’t be so scary again.
Sometimes it’s just racism.
Sometimes it’s just racism.
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I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour
like incredible takeaway from a huge overperformance by Democrats in fucking *TN*
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour
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i will again note the slight of hand here. “respecting” public opinion is defined as being subservient to public opinion. but you can respect where the public lies without making yourself a slave to its whims.
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
i will again note the slight of hand here. “respecting” public opinion is defined as being subservient to public opinion. but you can respect where the public lies without making yourself a slave to its whims.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Jimmy Fallon: And does it taste good? I bet it's great.
CEO of Company That Made Lemonade That Kills You: I don't know Jimmy, it kills you when you drink it, so I haven't, you know, I haven't had it. Yet!
Jimmy Fallon: That's amazing, that's amazing. We have some if - if the audience wants to try?
CEO of Company That Made Lemonade That Kills You: I don't know Jimmy, it kills you when you drink it, so I haven't, you know, I haven't had it. Yet!
Jimmy Fallon: That's amazing, that's amazing. We have some if - if the audience wants to try?
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Jimmy Fallon: And does it taste good? I bet it's great.
CEO of Company That Made Lemonade That Kills You: I don't know Jimmy, it kills you when you drink it, so I haven't, you know, I haven't had it. Yet!
Jimmy Fallon: That's amazing, that's amazing. We have some if - if the audience wants to try?
CEO of Company That Made Lemonade That Kills You: I don't know Jimmy, it kills you when you drink it, so I haven't, you know, I haven't had it. Yet!
Jimmy Fallon: That's amazing, that's amazing. We have some if - if the audience wants to try?
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tried to impress a girl when i was 17 by chugging a bottle of cough medicine and vomited it all up while watching Fight Club
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
tried to impress a girl when i was 17 by chugging a bottle of cough medicine and vomited it all up while watching Fight Club
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our 'better angels' are the kind of angels that massacred the Assyrian army outside the walls of Jerusalem in 2 Kings
Once again, for 2028 I'm a single issue voter and that issue is post-Trump lustration. GTFO with "better angels of our nature" for once.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
December 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
our 'better angels' are the kind of angels that massacred the Assyrian army outside the walls of Jerusalem in 2 Kings
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The current SCOTUS majority is a bunch of sophists who like to dismiss evidence in favor of hypotheticals. They are spending enormous political capital trying to empower a guy that tried to overthrow the US government. If any good comes of this, hopefully it will radicalize people about SCOTUS.
The conservative justices have their talking point -- what if Congress turned every department into a multimember commission -- and it is totally absurd considering that has never happened under the existing law.
December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The current SCOTUS majority is a bunch of sophists who like to dismiss evidence in favor of hypotheticals. They are spending enormous political capital trying to empower a guy that tried to overthrow the US government. If any good comes of this, hopefully it will radicalize people about SCOTUS.
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We're off to see the boss class 🎶
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We're off to see the boss class 🎶
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Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the stupidest tweets ever written
December 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the stupidest tweets ever written
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bad news: another portal to hell has opened
good news: nothing has gotten noticeably worse
good news: nothing has gotten noticeably worse
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
bad news: another portal to hell has opened
good news: nothing has gotten noticeably worse
good news: nothing has gotten noticeably worse
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My second piece from Liberal Currents! Here I try and lay out the ethos that I think Liberals should adopt towards the criminality and corruption of the Trump Administration, and what virtues we should model while we work to turn the tide.
Je me Souviens!
There will be a reckoning.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My second piece from Liberal Currents! Here I try and lay out the ethos that I think Liberals should adopt towards the criminality and corruption of the Trump Administration, and what virtues we should model while we work to turn the tide.
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
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A billion dollars is such an unfathomable, inhuman amount of money that of course you can't spend it on tangible things. It has its own inertia, its own insistence on being leveraged for political influence and capital reproduction. It is an inherently dangerous concentration of wealth
December 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A billion dollars is such an unfathomable, inhuman amount of money that of course you can't spend it on tangible things. It has its own inertia, its own insistence on being leveraged for political influence and capital reproduction. It is an inherently dangerous concentration of wealth
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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The 6 far right extremists on the illegitimate Supreme Court have officially allowed fascist republicans in Texas to use their newly redrawn corrupt racist gerrymandered map in 2026.
These white supremacists won’t stop until US democracy is totally destroyed. Disgusting.
These white supremacists won’t stop until US democracy is totally destroyed. Disgusting.
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The 6 far right extremists on the illegitimate Supreme Court have officially allowed fascist republicans in Texas to use their newly redrawn corrupt racist gerrymandered map in 2026.
These white supremacists won’t stop until US democracy is totally destroyed. Disgusting.
These white supremacists won’t stop until US democracy is totally destroyed. Disgusting.
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its also, crucially, made all of us worse. some of us by a lot, others by just a little. but a piece of all of us has rotted away by necessity of having to accept this in order to go on with our lives, or by refusing to accept it and bearing the strain of that
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
its also, crucially, made all of us worse. some of us by a lot, others by just a little. but a piece of all of us has rotted away by necessity of having to accept this in order to go on with our lives, or by refusing to accept it and bearing the strain of that
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i’m killing 3 birds with 1 stone. but your stone to bird ratio is cool too
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
i’m killing 3 birds with 1 stone. but your stone to bird ratio is cool too
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“We are doing anti-racist work under a fascist government, please act like it.”
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“We are doing anti-racist work under a fascist government, please act like it.”
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
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95% of MN Somalis are US citizens. 58% were born in the US. The only reason to target this community with immigration agents is for the sake of racial profiling and harassment - which the US supreme court says is legal now.
www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
95% of MN Somalis are US citizens. 58% were born in the US. The only reason to target this community with immigration agents is for the sake of racial profiling and harassment - which the US supreme court says is legal now.
www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...
www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...
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One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.
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i recently gained access to the last Cray supercomputer owned by the CIA. Last used at Langley to calculate the solubility of LSD in coffee, I fed 10 years of posts into this profoundly evil machine. it produced a map of internet discourse hell designed to make any who gaze upon it go mad with rage
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
i recently gained access to the last Cray supercomputer owned by the CIA. Last used at Langley to calculate the solubility of LSD in coffee, I fed 10 years of posts into this profoundly evil machine. it produced a map of internet discourse hell designed to make any who gaze upon it go mad with rage
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What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.