@cfranklin16.bsky.social
Public sector attorney, retired.
Never a fan of dystopian themes in entertainment; even less so now that we're living it in reality.
Never a fan of dystopian themes in entertainment; even less so now that we're living it in reality.
the Trumpoid aiming for the Guinness Book of World Records
For those keeping track at home, this make 18 politicians convicted of corruption charges now pardoned by President Trump.
President Trump pardons former TN House Speaker Glen Casada, chief of staff, after corruption convictions
President Donald Trump has pardoned the disgraced former Speaker of the Tennessee House Glen Casada and his co-conspirator after their corruption convictions and sentencing.
www.wsmv.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
the Trumpoid aiming for the Guinness Book of World Records
& yes, researcher Sarah Shackleton is distantly related to Ernest Shackleton
Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth | Newsroom
CORVALLIS, Ore. — A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica. The 6-million-year-old ice and the tiny air...
news.oregonstate.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
& yes, researcher Sarah Shackleton is distantly related to Ernest Shackleton
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The 2025 writers are trolling us.
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The 2025 writers are trolling us.
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SOLUTION:
CRASH Johnson' press conferences.
BRING Adelita Grijalva and a bible.
DEMAND he swear her in right there on live TV.
It's so simple. It'll either get her sworn in or make Johnson stop doing these fucked up lie-filled pressers.
CRASH Johnson' press conferences.
BRING Adelita Grijalva and a bible.
DEMAND he swear her in right there on live TV.
It's so simple. It'll either get her sworn in or make Johnson stop doing these fucked up lie-filled pressers.
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
SOLUTION:
CRASH Johnson' press conferences.
BRING Adelita Grijalva and a bible.
DEMAND he swear her in right there on live TV.
It's so simple. It'll either get her sworn in or make Johnson stop doing these fucked up lie-filled pressers.
CRASH Johnson' press conferences.
BRING Adelita Grijalva and a bible.
DEMAND he swear her in right there on live TV.
It's so simple. It'll either get her sworn in or make Johnson stop doing these fucked up lie-filled pressers.
Good starting place for surfing to solid content & some worthy independent news sources
The Online Journalism Awards – Honoring the Best of Digital Journalism
The OJAs honor excellence in digital journalism around the world, with 53 awards across 23 categories.
awards.journalists.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Good starting place for surfing to solid content & some worthy independent news sources
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There's your answer on MTG
👀 REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “Here’s some tea for you — Trump shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal ambitions to run for senate in Georgia, and she has been on a revenge tour ever since.”
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There's your answer on MTG
The only thing surprising about this is that it's Kash Patel's FBI telling ICE agents to ID themselves when grabbing people off the street & disappearing them.
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The only thing surprising about this is that it's Kash Patel's FBI telling ICE agents to ID themselves when grabbing people off the street & disappearing them.
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It’s so much easier to lie when there are no economic statistics coming out of the government.
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
It’s so much easier to lie when there are no economic statistics coming out of the government.
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"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
www.publicnotice.co
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
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Court,
Lindsey Halligan here. You are ordering things that are simply not going to happen.
Thought you should have a heads up.
Lindsey Halligan here. You are ordering things that are simply not going to happen.
Thought you should have a heads up.
JUST IN: Unusual filing in Tish James case. DOJ says it isn't complying with judge's order to turn over discovery on selective prosecution issue. Usual procedure would be move to reconsider the order but prosecutors file 'notice' telling judge no. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#46 in United States v. James (E.D. Va., 2:25-cr-00122) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE Of Reasons for Not Providing Pre-Vindictive/Selective Prosecution Motion Related Discovery by USA as to Letitia A. James (Keller, Roger) (Entered: 11/04/2025)
storage.courtlistener.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Court,
Lindsey Halligan here. You are ordering things that are simply not going to happen.
Thought you should have a heads up.
Lindsey Halligan here. You are ordering things that are simply not going to happen.
Thought you should have a heads up.
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I’ve been sounding the alarm for months – it continues.
The Trump Slump is hitting Las Vegas hard:
📉 Tourism down nearly 9%
🎰 Strip revenue down 5%
Nevada’s economy can’t afford this decline in jobs and visitors.
The Trump Slump is hitting Las Vegas hard:
📉 Tourism down nearly 9%
🎰 Strip revenue down 5%
Nevada’s economy can’t afford this decline in jobs and visitors.
Las Vegas tourism down again in September with Strip revenue falling 5.5%
Las Vegas tourism again lagged behind 2024 in September, this time welcoming around 300,000 fewer visitors largely due to “slower midweek volumes,” according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors…
lasvegassun.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I’ve been sounding the alarm for months – it continues.
The Trump Slump is hitting Las Vegas hard:
📉 Tourism down nearly 9%
🎰 Strip revenue down 5%
Nevada’s economy can’t afford this decline in jobs and visitors.
The Trump Slump is hitting Las Vegas hard:
📉 Tourism down nearly 9%
🎰 Strip revenue down 5%
Nevada’s economy can’t afford this decline in jobs and visitors.
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One fact I didn't know until just now is that Michael Bloomberg's net worth increased from $55.5 billion in 2019 to $106 billion in 2025. Doubled.
Bloomberg has dropped $5 million against Zohran in these last days of the race, making him the single largest donor. Personally I wish he'd just settle for having successfully bought a 3rd term and do something else with his money www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
One fact I didn't know until just now is that Michael Bloomberg's net worth increased from $55.5 billion in 2019 to $106 billion in 2025. Doubled.
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Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
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We are living in the One Third Reich.
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We are living in the One Third Reich.
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Kavanaugh stops, digital edition
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Kavanaugh stops, digital edition
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Company has now received "$15.2 million in military-linked orders." Unprecedented grift.
Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!”
Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.
New: me, for @forbes.com
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Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.
New: me, for @forbes.com
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After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow
Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.
www.forbes.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Company has now received "$15.2 million in military-linked orders." Unprecedented grift.
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Angus: We were being led to believe by you that Trump was all ready to sign a trade agreement. And then Canada had an ad that just quoted Reagan during the World Series, and your president lost his shit…
October 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Angus: We were being led to believe by you that Trump was all ready to sign a trade agreement. And then Canada had an ad that just quoted Reagan during the World Series, and your president lost his shit…
Who owns your area's newspaper?
(article w a long list, thanks to nonprofit Marin Post & Bob Silvestri)
(article w a long list, thanks to nonprofit Marin Post & Bob Silvestri)
Who is Alden Global Capital and Why Should You Care?
They're beginning to get on my nerves. Who are those guys? ~ Butch Cassidy It’s no secret that the state of mainstream, print, news has be...
marinpost.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Who owns your area's newspaper?
(article w a long list, thanks to nonprofit Marin Post & Bob Silvestri)
(article w a long list, thanks to nonprofit Marin Post & Bob Silvestri)
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When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
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it's hard to Nazi what's going on here
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
it's hard to Nazi what's going on here
Your tax dollars at work.
(aka 'corruption on steroids')
(aka 'corruption on steroids')
Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Your tax dollars at work.
(aka 'corruption on steroids')
(aka 'corruption on steroids')
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Yet another evil abuse of our tax dollars.
Under Trump, E.P.A. Explored if Abortion Pills Could Be Detected in Wastewater
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yet another evil abuse of our tax dollars.