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Fred Douglis

@fdouglis.bsky.social

Tech and political nerd. Bridge player.

145 Followers  |  217 Following  |  8 Posts  |  Joined: 01.02.2025  |  2.081

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Fun fact: Hawley voted for the bill that let ACA subsidies expire. He’s my Senator. He’s the reason I will lose my health insurance.

23.07.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 454    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 7

Dude's wanted a military parade for himself for years and he finally makes it happen and turnout is worse than at a medium sized city's farmers market on a rainy day while like 2% of the entire country went out to protest his bullshit

14.06.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4868    πŸ” 933    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 28
Pete Hegseth's National Security 'Friends & Family Plan'
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger Pete Hegseth's National Security 'Friends & Family Plan'

National security clearances? Overrated.
Now you too can stay in the loopβ€”thanks to Pete Hegseth’s Friends & Family Plan!

youtube.com/shorts/-CKXq...

21.04.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 16544    πŸ” 3723    πŸ’¬ 566    πŸ“Œ 177

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

15.04.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 40070    πŸ” 13315    πŸ’¬ 550    πŸ“Œ 504

I wonder is SpaceX is upto the challenge.

05.04.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1623    πŸ” 237    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 11
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This is complete madness......

03.04.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 9134    πŸ” 2394    πŸ’¬ 283    πŸ“Œ 92
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I hope NASA at least waits until Suni Williams is home safe before erasing all mention of her from their website

18.03.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1350    πŸ” 360    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 20

Read the room!

14.03.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He was always a used car salesman at heart.

11.03.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 41153    πŸ” 4959    πŸ’¬ 1057    πŸ“Œ 271

Please run again.

10.03.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The famous communist rag, the Wall Street Journal.

04.03.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11196    πŸ” 2588    πŸ’¬ 377    πŸ“Œ 92
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Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

04.03.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 18376    πŸ” 5877    πŸ’¬ 646    πŸ“Œ 704

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

28.02.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 29791    πŸ” 7916    πŸ’¬ 825    πŸ“Œ 525
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

28.02.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 8858    πŸ” 2468    πŸ’¬ 326    πŸ“Œ 205
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One pernicious step after another, Bezos encroached on the Post editorial policy. Today he seized it fully. The old Washington Post is gone. I'll never write for it again as long as he's the owner.

26.02.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4005    πŸ” 653    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 41
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It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

23.02.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 45313    πŸ” 9447    πŸ’¬ 1610    πŸ“Œ 564
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My Open Letter to Elon Musk From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are β€œundermining civilization.” This is my response.

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.

I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

21.02.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 18674    πŸ” 3945    πŸ’¬ 675    πŸ“Œ 220
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This is Zero. She's the world's first herding dog with a work-from-home gig. 14/10

20.02.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10873    πŸ” 1117    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 70
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USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people.

And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

19.02.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 28445    πŸ” 9436    πŸ’¬ 1113    πŸ“Œ 573

There needs to be legislation on how to deal with the absence of the penny. (Rounding, to avoid people being taken advantage of)

13.02.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kristen Grind, my San Franciso-based NYT colleague, and I went through every federal investigation/lawsuit targeting Musk companies. What did we find? At least 11 federal agencies targeting Musk companies have seen leadership disruptions/changes that could undermine these efforts -- and benefit Musk

12.02.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1446    πŸ” 599    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 24

Because of course they did.

12.02.2025 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I saw him at our township democratic committee meeting. Very impressed!

09.02.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Come on in, the water’s fine!

(I keep Facebook only for the groups, like cruise lines.)

08.02.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I delivered the Star Ledger as a teenager. So sorry to see it go out of print.

04.02.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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