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cfidd.bsky.social
Comic book lover, oenophile, Virginian. Obsessed with/nation's foremost expert on state politics. DAGA communications director. carolyncfiddler at gmail dot com. she/her
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Frog walked into the house. It was dark.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

A little toe-dip into research suggests that this isn't the least bit atypical ... still a weird thing to wake up to at 3 a.m.! www.seattleareafelinerescue.org/do-cats-dream/

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

A sure sign that Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center is a roaring success is when we see events being sponsored by such leading corporate benefactors as “Moxie Pest Control”

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

we’re back

submitted 17 hours ago • 136 comments

"Talks" = cute little mews and such

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So, um, I just figured out that my cat talks in her sleep -- Normal? Unheard of? I've had cats most of my life and this is definitely a first for me

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Really important piece on what a catastrophe it was when Arkansas imposed (paper)work requirements on Medicaid. Now Republicans are going to do it nationwide, and it will be one of the worst policy disasters in decades. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

the tech right suddenly discovers due process

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

DECEASED

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing. Respect the lede.

submitted 3 days ago • 322 comments

I’m just saying — we tried to warn them that renaming ships is very bad luck. Anyway, happy pride!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Me and my @effinbirds.com mug, catching up on today's news

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Without the ability of private individuals to enforce their own voting rights, the strength of those rights will rise and fall with the shifting priorities of whatever administration happens to be in power. www.wzzm13.com/article/news...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

It’s the happiest day of Elon Musk’s life because he finally posted something people actually want to read

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

Times like these, I find it helpful to reread the criteria for NPD. www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Just reskeeting for, um, no particular reason

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🚨BREAKING: "A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to restore programs funded by AmeriCorps grants in 24 Democratic-led states" It pays to elect Dem AGs. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When a pregnant woman is having a medical emergency, doctors are required by law to provide life-saving care. That includes abortions. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. think they should be the ones to make decisions in emergency rooms — not your doctor. This will hurt women everywhere.

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

Good morning

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Starting now! Tune in!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

Anecdata: IAD was an absolute ghost town this morning. Literally never seen fewer travelers there.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This hits so hard. Again, Judge Jones (I knew him as Delegate Jones) was one of the reasons a barely adult me came to really, fundamentally understand that politics is (...okay, should be) about making humans' lives better. Rest In Power, sir. www.wavy.com/news/local-n...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Narrator: ...I give up.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This hat is objectively hilarious

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

MAKARY: 88 percent of American kids, their parents have said no to the covid shot last season. So the vast majority of Americans are saying no. BRENNAN: I don't want to crowdsource my health guidance. You don't go with popularity, you go with data.

submitted 7 days ago • 740 comments

*Eagle screech* 🦅🏳️‍🌈

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submitted 8 days ago • 127 comments

Meet the @democraticags.bsky.social who saved Christmas (by blocking Trump from illegally making everything four times more expensive): www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

This is so deeply dystopian www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Only mildly obsessed with this TACO thing

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's America: Land of the red, white, and SUED www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump admin is trying to kill us www.npr.org/2025/05/28/n...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 11 days ago • 290 comments

Who took out Trump's tariffs? Dem AGs @democraticags.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

submitted 11 days ago • 1204 comments

Funny story — I don't! I get to do my therapy out in public and make a living from it. It's awesome.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

hashtag Team Springsteen

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

When Russian leaders referred to Trump as “emotional” they were saying, “You’re being weak and unmanly.” They clearly don’t respect him. Neither do leaders in China, Israel or anywhere. They blow him off. He promised lifting American prestige and respect; he’s bringing the opposite.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

1. *fewer 2. Absolutely nothing wrong with getting certified as an electrician, plumber, or in any other trade (and plenty right), but call me when literally anyone in Trump's orbit is cool with their kid foregoing an elite college education for training in such a skill

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t tell you that I always found it super fun to deal with GAO when I was an Executive Branch lawyer. But their independence is incredibly important for our democracy. Republican efforts to undermine that independence are deeply troubling. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Am I not America (I v much want covid boosters)

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

College was longer ago than I care to admit, but it would have been a much less cool and less knowledge-expanding experience w/o my international student friends. They're a benefit to both American schools AND American students, and seeking to limit us by banning them is deeply un-American

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever Trump announces some new authoritarian policy, like the ban on Harvard international students, the first two questions should always be: 1) Can he do that? 2) If he can't, will he get away with it? More often that not, the answers are no. And I think this case will fit the pattern.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments