Winnie Frolik
@winniethewitch.bsky.social
Published Author of the Mary Grey murder mystery series, high functioning autistic, and cat Mom to Smoky
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Excellent short article worth reading in full. But man, this first tweet really underscores Elon’s shameless dishonesty.
To say the only fascists are people who directly commit violence is to argue that Hitler and most members of the Nazi Party were not fascists.
To say the only fascists are people who directly commit violence is to argue that Hitler and most members of the Nazi Party were not fascists.
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Excellent short article worth reading in full. But man, this first tweet really underscores Elon’s shameless dishonesty.
To say the only fascists are people who directly commit violence is to argue that Hitler and most members of the Nazi Party were not fascists.
To say the only fascists are people who directly commit violence is to argue that Hitler and most members of the Nazi Party were not fascists.
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Guessing soybean sales are really hurting, huh. Good for us vegetarians, bad for the economy and farmers.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/07/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/07/t...
Treasury Secretary Bessent says he has divested his soybean farm
The New York Times has reported that Secretary Bessent owned as much as $25 million of soybean and corn farmland in North Dakota.
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Guessing soybean sales are really hurting, huh. Good for us vegetarians, bad for the economy and farmers.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/07/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/07/t...
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Right, because they are exactly the same things.
Anyways someone needs to do a study on the fitness community to right wing grifter pipeline.
Anyways someone needs to do a study on the fitness community to right wing grifter pipeline.
December 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Right, because they are exactly the same things.
Anyways someone needs to do a study on the fitness community to right wing grifter pipeline.
Anyways someone needs to do a study on the fitness community to right wing grifter pipeline.
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She's not wrong about Trump but it's clear she hasn't quite yet realized that she is just like him.
December 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
She's not wrong about Trump but it's clear she hasn't quite yet realized that she is just like him.
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The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
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Seems unfair that I had to leave these two beasts to come into work today.
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Seems unfair that I had to leave these two beasts to come into work today.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she deals with the consequences of having her visa revoked by the Trump administration, leading to six weeks of detention.
Turkish student who criticized Israel can resume research at Tufts after visa revoked, judge rules | CNN
A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she deals with the consequences of having her visa revoked by the Trump administration, leading...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she deals with the consequences of having her visa revoked by the Trump administration, leading to six weeks of detention.
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the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
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Some powerfully half-arsed tree harassment from Tux.
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Some powerfully half-arsed tree harassment from Tux.
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god, the publisher must be absolutely *kicking* themselves for not putting a competent ghost on this.
Look, let's be blunt about it: what literally every reader of this book wants to know is "hey, so... you blew up your entire life for THIS GUY. What, uhm, what's the deal with that? HIM???"
We're 100 pages in and Nuzzi is extremely not talking about it at all.
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We're 100 pages in and Nuzzi is extremely not talking about it at all.
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In line for the TSA behind this guy
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
god, the publisher must be absolutely *kicking* themselves for not putting a competent ghost on this.
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My colleague points out here that possibly one in seven requests to our library now may be assisted by LLMs.
When those point to fictional documents, that's a huge staff time drain. There's often no quick way to check if an undigitized primary source doc exists beyond physically pulling some boxes.
When those point to fictional documents, that's a huge staff time drain. There's often no quick way to check if an undigitized primary source doc exists beyond physically pulling some boxes.
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
My colleague points out here that possibly one in seven requests to our library now may be assisted by LLMs.
When those point to fictional documents, that's a huge staff time drain. There's often no quick way to check if an undigitized primary source doc exists beyond physically pulling some boxes.
When those point to fictional documents, that's a huge staff time drain. There's often no quick way to check if an undigitized primary source doc exists beyond physically pulling some boxes.
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you will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
you will be visited by three spirits
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I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔
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In a functioning society parents wouldn’t need to organize volunteer guard shifts at their kids’ immigrant-run daycare to prevent the federal government from abducting teachers and staff because they’re brown but that’s where we are now.
My first shift starts Wednesday afternoon.
Fuck ICE.
My first shift starts Wednesday afternoon.
Fuck ICE.
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In a functioning society parents wouldn’t need to organize volunteer guard shifts at their kids’ immigrant-run daycare to prevent the federal government from abducting teachers and staff because they’re brown but that’s where we are now.
My first shift starts Wednesday afternoon.
Fuck ICE.
My first shift starts Wednesday afternoon.
Fuck ICE.
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This is, in all seriousness, the best podcast episode of all time.
Reading around for a pod I'm recording tomorrow I came across this classic episode of @chrislhayes.bsky.social's pod where we dug into America's epistemic crisis. Tons of gems in here. And boy has everything on this front gotten *much* worse since 2018...
David Roberts explains how America's information crisis has impacted conservatism
Chris Hayes speaks with journalist David Roberts about how the erosion of trust and manipulation of information has impacted the conservative movement.
www.nbcnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This is, in all seriousness, the best podcast episode of all time.
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Why have we handed our economy & technological future over to this blinking, sheltered man-child who can't imagine life before doordash?
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 6:16 PM
Why have we handed our economy & technological future over to this blinking, sheltered man-child who can't imagine life before doordash?
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Has anyone figured out exactly which editor at NY Mag took Nuzzi's vacuous slop and made it readable? The more of her writing comes out, the more heroic that person appears in retrospect.
“I look down at the crashing swell. Alone at the after-party, a kind of honeymoon in hell. I am on the list, a bit of grave misfortune. I am in the New York Post, even worse. The ink is black, the pages yellow. Everything, some kind of lie. What of doubt? Scientists cannot see the soul.”
Sentences From American Canto That Sent Me To The Hospital
I reviewed Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto for Slate. There's far less RFK Jr. in it than you'd expect.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Has anyone figured out exactly which editor at NY Mag took Nuzzi's vacuous slop and made it readable? The more of her writing comes out, the more heroic that person appears in retrospect.
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something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
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"The speaker that Johnson most closely resembles these days is John Boehner, who endured 4 tumultuous years leading the chamber before quitting in disgust. Johnson may be holding on to his job only because Republicans don’t think anyone else could succeed at it either." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Mike Johnson's downward spiral
Speaker of the House is a tough job. But he's particularly bad at it.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"The speaker that Johnson most closely resembles these days is John Boehner, who endured 4 tumultuous years leading the chamber before quitting in disgust. Johnson may be holding on to his job only because Republicans don’t think anyone else could succeed at it either." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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The very real problem Republicans have right is there are zero adults around Trump right now.
It's Loomers all the way down.
It's Loomers all the way down.
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The very real problem Republicans have right is there are zero adults around Trump right now.
It's Loomers all the way down.
It's Loomers all the way down.
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right in the middle of all of it is prof. dr. robert j. catman, esq., P.I. snoozing away when he’s not trying to bat ornaments off the tree
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
right in the middle of all of it is prof. dr. robert j. catman, esq., P.I. snoozing away when he’s not trying to bat ornaments off the tree
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it took putin many, many years to consolidate the power he currently has, trump just doesn't have that kind of time, and everyone knows it.
December 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
it took putin many, many years to consolidate the power he currently has, trump just doesn't have that kind of time, and everyone knows it.
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a lot of this shit might make more sense if trump were going to live another decade or two in power, but he isn't going to. these people are all behaving as if trump at 79 years old is putin when he was 48 years old, and that there'll never be any negative consequences.
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
a lot of this shit might make more sense if trump were going to live another decade or two in power, but he isn't going to. these people are all behaving as if trump at 79 years old is putin when he was 48 years old, and that there'll never be any negative consequences.