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Fredrick Kunkle

@blueskytrotsky.bsky.social

Washington Post staff writer before the Post died in darkness. Now white-knuckling the crash landing into Trump’s authoritarian dystopia

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Jeffries: "We cannot trust the Department of Justice. They're an illegitimate organization right now under the leadership of Pam Bondi and the direction of Donald Trump."

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Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”

Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

28.01.2026 01:44 — 👍 7362    🔁 1869    💬 518    📌 683

It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.

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Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account

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Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
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25.01.2026 02:36 — 👍 16544    🔁 6647    💬 306    📌 382
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It's time for a general strike American labor must step up to shut Trump down

How many more innocent people will this government terrorize and kill before we take collective action?

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25.01.2026 17:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.

16.01.2026 11:15 — 👍 17998    🔁 5722    💬 1654    📌 591
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Another media company caving to incremental authoritarianism. I will never call it by that illegitimate name.

31.12.2025 00:50 — 👍 3524    🔁 785    💬 290    📌 55
Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. “Congresswoman” Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. “Congresswoman” Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

31.12.2025 16:32 — 👍 21245    🔁 5894    💬 2027    📌 707
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Why hunt if it's not actually hunting? Afield with the American couch potato

Why hunt if it's not actually hunting?

Mr. Savage and I took some time in the woods and also a left turn on Substack to write about an always-controversial and, for me, passionate subject: hunting.

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27.12.2025 14:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I’m curious where this kind of overconfidence comes from.

To me, most likely case is still that Republicans hold the senate, the MAGAfication of the judiciary continues, and threats to the rule of law escalate.

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The Kennedy Center was established and named by an act of Congress. No media outlet should call it anything different until Congress amends or repeals that Act. Trump is not a king.

18.12.2025 21:43 — 👍 5405    🔁 1456    💬 210    📌 60

Truth

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My family grew up with this family.
We thought that what a brilliant TV satire was teaching us might change this country for the better.
Trump’s presidency — and his disgraceful response to the death of Rob Reiner and wife — shows how naive we were.
R. I. P., Meathead, one of America’s greats

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‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

27.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 6791    🔁 3166    💬 229    📌 465
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Time To Dust Off The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide In 2017, Polish activist Martin Mycielski offered advice on Twitter—hashtagged #LearnFromEurope—that eventually became a guide for dealing with fascism.

The time to ponder what happens if the United States becomes an authoritarian state has ended. The question now is how do we deal with the authoritarian regime already in power. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-2025...

27.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 1939    🔁 445    💬 67    📌 13
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Trump's military purge should alarm more than six lawmakers Stalin and other authoritarian leaders agree: no takeover is complete without one

Besides the gunman, only Trump is to blame for the horrific attack on National Guard members in DC. He had no justification to send the Guard into the city except to raise the temperature and flex. Here’s another dangerous, authoritarian move that could backfire:

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27.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Last night Russia sent about five hundred drones and missiles to kill Ukrainians. Most were intercepted but those that got through hit a post office, a store, a power plant, and multiple residences. 19 people were killed in Ternopil. (1/2)

19.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 1748    🔁 699    💬 41    📌 27
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"Random Person Leaves the Left" is never not front page news on The Free Press.

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Not that I believe really anything Nuzzi writes, given her record, but the far bigger scandal here is her claim that RFK Jr. was still actively using psychedelics last year, then became HHS secretary in an admin that is killing people for smuggling recreational drugs.

15.11.2025 19:05 — 👍 4650    🔁 1049    💬 106    📌 25

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

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14.11.2025 02:16 — 👍 8014    🔁 3220    💬 251    📌 118
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Mamdani's victory is a blow to America's oligarchs But Jews have reason to worry, too.

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13.11.2025 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Well, he's certainly stayed consistent on that point!

13.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 1069    🔁 200    💬 16    📌 22

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

21.11.2024 20:43 — 👍 1128    🔁 350    💬 35    📌 141

And the motherfucker wants a Nobel Peace Prize

19.10.2025 03:37 — 👍 1557    🔁 298    💬 28    📌 1
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The Second Amendment was supposed to protect us from tyranny. What happened? Red American gun owners seem awfully quiet about Trump's authoritarianism

And here I thought we had to put up with routine school shoutings because guns would keep us free?
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15.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kavanaugh stop

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Memo to MAGA: It's fascism. It might look like a bad parody of George C. Scott's Patton, a TED Talk or Drunk History, but the Quantico shitshow offers the most ominous evidence yet of Trump's fascist design to wield power

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