Don Frances
@dfrances.bsky.social
California newspaper editor. Feet on the Earth, head in the stars.
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Don Frances
@dfrances.bsky.social
· Jul 29
How dare Jeffrey steal Donald’s underaged girls. Those were Donald’s!
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
Keep thinking how crazy it is that Trump is now prosecuting/persecuting James Comey, the very same jackass that handed Trump the election in 2016. NONE OF THIS decade-long nightmare would have happened without Comey.
September 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Keep thinking how crazy it is that Trump is now prosecuting/persecuting James Comey, the very same jackass that handed Trump the election in 2016. NONE OF THIS decade-long nightmare would have happened without Comey.
“Ellies in Tarangire a couple of days ago.”
September 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“Ellies in Tarangire a couple of days ago.”
Keep it up people.
September 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Keep it up people.
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It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.
September 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.
Meanwhile yet another school shooting happened yesterday in Denver and it barely made the news at all because it wasn’t a political assassination. And of course people are being shot dead in their homes all over the country every day because America is a WAR ZONE thanks to liars like Charlie Kirk.
September 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Meanwhile yet another school shooting happened yesterday in Denver and it barely made the news at all because it wasn’t a political assassination. And of course people are being shot dead in their homes all over the country every day because America is a WAR ZONE thanks to liars like Charlie Kirk.
Never good when all your scientists head for the exits! arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
arstechnica.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Never good when all your scientists head for the exits! arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Newspapers go to extraordinary lengths to avoid getting sued because every penny counts. By contrast, “news” outlets like Fox and Newsmax air egregious falsehoods which ultimately cost them tens or hundreds of millions in court settlements and it makes no difference at all.
JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ
Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage
The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October.
n.pr
August 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Newspapers go to extraordinary lengths to avoid getting sued because every penny counts. By contrast, “news” outlets like Fox and Newsmax air egregious falsehoods which ultimately cost them tens or hundreds of millions in court settlements and it makes no difference at all.
My kind of cartoon
August 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My kind of cartoon
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i am pro-"partisan statehood measures." make DC a state. allow PR a binding resolution to determine if want statehood. offer the same to our other island holdings — american samoa, guam, the northern mariana islands and the US virgin islands. if they agree, incorporate them as a 1 or 2 units.
August 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
i am pro-"partisan statehood measures." make DC a state. allow PR a binding resolution to determine if want statehood. offer the same to our other island holdings — american samoa, guam, the northern mariana islands and the US virgin islands. if they agree, incorporate them as a 1 or 2 units.
This is how he wants everything in his life to be presented: as REALITY TV.
Being a reality tv star is literally the only thing he is truly good at.
Being a reality tv star is literally the only thing he is truly good at.
July 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is how he wants everything in his life to be presented: as REALITY TV.
Being a reality tv star is literally the only thing he is truly good at.
Being a reality tv star is literally the only thing he is truly good at.
How dare Jeffrey steal Donald’s underaged girls. Those were Donald’s!
July 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
How dare Jeffrey steal Donald’s underaged girls. Those were Donald’s!
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ICE just prevented me from entering an immigration detention facility in my district—a clear violation of federal law.
Members of Congress have the right to immediately access these facilities. Listen here 👇
Members of Congress have the right to immediately access these facilities. Listen here 👇
July 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
ICE just prevented me from entering an immigration detention facility in my district—a clear violation of federal law.
Members of Congress have the right to immediately access these facilities. Listen here 👇
Members of Congress have the right to immediately access these facilities. Listen here 👇
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“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
www.motherjones.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Donald Trump’s signature could be a shadow…or pubic hair, this is the power of this man’s art
July 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Donald Trump’s signature could be a shadow…or pubic hair, this is the power of this man’s art
This is the best story I ever read.
“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
“This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story.”
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
“This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story.”
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
July 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is the best story I ever read.
“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
“This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story.”
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
“This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story.”
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
Things are going great
July 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Things are going great
This seems pretty solid. youtu.be/4T8jF8BEeCM?...
What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains
YouTube video by Dr Russell Razzaque
youtu.be
July 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This seems pretty solid. youtu.be/4T8jF8BEeCM?...
Hotdog joint quoting Charles Dickens
July 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hotdog joint quoting Charles Dickens
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Decisions: should I repost the post about how the CEO of X is leaving and she baldfacedly lies about achieving any of her stated goals or the one about how she's being replaced by the Hitlerbot or the one about how she's coincidentally leaving the day after Hitlerbot awoke or the the one
July 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Decisions: should I repost the post about how the CEO of X is leaving and she baldfacedly lies about achieving any of her stated goals or the one about how she's being replaced by the Hitlerbot or the one about how she's coincidentally leaving the day after Hitlerbot awoke or the the one
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This is the day white voters abandoned the Democratic Party.
July 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is the day white voters abandoned the Democratic Party.
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“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget.
Republicans did it.
Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
Republicans did it.
Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
July 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget.
Republicans did it.
Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
Republicans did it.
Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due