Kathy Fredrick
Reader, dreamer, walker, art-lover, traveler, theater-goer. Blissfully retired to full-time life.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickAmerican star Alysa Liu overcame a delay en route to the Milano Skating Arena caused by Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade and finished second in the women’s short program at the Olympics team event. “We almost didn’t make it,” her coach said.
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Kathy FredrickJust gonna drop this photo of January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang destroying a "Prosecute ICE" sculpture in Minneapolis. He's been arrested for this, btw.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickJD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.
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- Reposted by Kathy FredrickVice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickI hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickI'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickThis is a major, huge, humongous deal that will go largely unnoticed because of the broader chaos engulfing our politics. But, suffice it to say that the government is broken when the courts explicitly say they can't trust the administration to tell the truth.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickNEW: Huge cheers earlier for the Ukrainian athletes at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Then huge BOOS as JD Vance comes on the big screen in the stadium. Even the commentators can’t hide it…
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- Reposted by Kathy FredrickLet’s be honest. He is getting worse. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
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- Reposted by Kathy FredrickJD Vance was just ruthlessly booed at the Olympics during the Opening Ceremony when he was shown on the screen. But you would never know by watching the broadcast on NBC.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickJ.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it. “There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickThe entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
- Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- Reposted by Kathy Fredrick1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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- Reposted by Kathy FredrickBefore Trump 2.0, this was one of my biggest fears. With everything that's happened in the last year, it may seem like small news -- just another stream in the constant firehose of institutional destruction. But it's not. Effectively losing the professional federal civil service is a very bad thing.
- Final Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickI’m not sure why Coons is just laughing this off when it is currently the central organizing theme of the Republican Party. We need to address these racist lies aggressively with strong arguments, not just laugh and say “that’s not true.” bsky.app/profile/atru...
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickThis is a great idea and we should expand it to cover *all* of the justices of the Supreme Court, and then we could see who did unethical stuff like "attended the Grammys" or "bankrolled by a billionaire white supremacist donor who collects Nazi memorabilia" or "married to a January 6th plotter" or
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickImportant thread on the Republicans latest attempt to rig the midterms.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickIf every Republican elected official does not condemn the truth social post of Trump they should be seen as likewise racist sacks of shit and will be shunned in history.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickNew, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
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- (AXIOS) - Top Republicans are increasingly worried about private polling that paints a dire picture of the midterms — and it's not just the House they're afraid of losing, it's also the Senate. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/02/06/g...
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickLove how the presumption here is that the President doesn't know what he's sharing and that's fine and normal. Sorry, no, if the President doesn't know what he's sending out then that is indisputable proof of gross incompetence, cognitive unfitness, or both.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickJUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS. Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickI somehow missed that Trump is illegally holding NYC infrastructure money hostage to get both Dulles and Penn Station named after himself www.axios.com/2026/02/06/t...
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickEvery American needs to watch this:
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickHistorian here President Abraham Lincoln opposed the Mexican War as a land grab for slavery when he was a first term Congressman from Illinois.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickSummers in private: endlessly scheming with the world's most famous pervert to get a young female colleague whom he calls by a racist nickname to fuck him at conferences. Summers in public: "I don't see that many women in my field, it must be because they're bad at math"
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickWe have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickFACT CHECK: RFK Jr. asserted yesterday that a Harvard doctor had "cured schizophrenia using keto diets" -- a completely unfounded claim. Experts say very preliminary research suggests keto might be helpful. But there is "no credible evidence" of a cure. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by Kathy Fredrick🚨 Munitions inventory leaked to me shows Border Patrol is stockpiling over 35,000 weapons in Minneapolis for crowd control. Full inventory here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/in-ices-wa...
- Reposted by Kathy Fredrick"This has become a defining moment not just in reining in ICE and DHS, but in reining in Trump. The Europeans got him to retreat a few weeks ago. It is our turn now." @simonwdc.bsky.social sees big potential in this moment (discusses opposition to ICE camps) www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/american-p...
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickStaggering levels of malevolence, national sabotage, and corruption.
- A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind/Solar Projects Federal agencies are delaying approvals for renewable energy projects on both federal land and private property at a time when electricity demand is going up. By Brad Plumer and Rebecca Elliott www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...
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- Reposted by Kathy FredrickNEWS Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation. Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service." Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickThe GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickNEW: In a bipartisan vote, the House Oversight Committee advanced a bill by @repkweisimfume.bsky.social calling for domestic mail-in ballot envelopes to include a standardized barcode that would allow voters to track ballots, starting with this year's federal election mfume.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickSpanberger is a moderate Democrat who used to work for the C.I.-fucking-A. It should put the actions of Schumer and Jeffries into perspective for everyone. Are they Republicans? Because they sure act like it. They need to get the fuck out.
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickJoin us youtu.be/_33QCJcTyDg?...
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickNo, the GOP can't "take over" national elections. But take Trump's threats seriously anyway. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
- Reposted by Kathy Fredrick“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickNEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
- Reposted by Kathy Fredricka Republican witness in the GOP's "Somali Scammers" hearing details how he drives by childcare centers and looks at how many footprints in the snow there are to determine how many kids are there. Psycho stuff.
- Reposted by Kathy Fredricknormal guy of the week alert
- Reposted by Kathy FredrickJD Vance is the most loathsome character in American politics, and it's mostly because he's immediately recognizable to anyone with an interest in politics as The Worst Guy From Your PoliSci Class
