Frank Buffum
@frankb-listening.bsky.social
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Bears repeating that one of Russia’s first major social media influence campaigns in the US promoted antivax views. Why? For it’s a way to do clear material harm to the country.
And here we are.
And here we are.
For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vaccination. Here's what parents should know. n.pr/4q7VSh5
Hepatitis B: What parents should know about the virus and the vaccine
For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vaccination. Here's what parents should know.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Bears repeating that one of Russia’s first major social media influence campaigns in the US promoted antivax views. Why? For it’s a way to do clear material harm to the country.
And here we are.
And here we are.
pathetic.
Link is paywall-free. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Link is paywall-free. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
pathetic.
Link is paywall-free. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Link is paywall-free. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Simpler times, sure. But ‘Media’ is more than the weak-kneed NYT class, so we can see plenty more than batting an eye. Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social @democracydocket.com @marisakabas.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social just for starters
Remember in 2000 when Al Gore was repeatedly misquoted as having said he invented the internet and that was seen the eyes of many as disqualifying him from office? Simpler times. Today, Trump makes up lies equivalent to "I invented the internet" 30 times a week and no one bats an eye. Good job media
November 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Simpler times, sure. But ‘Media’ is more than the weak-kneed NYT class, so we can see plenty more than batting an eye. Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social @democracydocket.com @marisakabas.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social just for starters
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The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
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Someone needs to set up a camera so we'll know when Pete Hegseth orders this plaque removed from West Point.
Here’s the plaque at West Point with the relevant text highlighted
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Someone needs to set up a camera so we'll know when Pete Hegseth orders this plaque removed from West Point.
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NIH grant terminations disrupt hundreds of clinical trials, affecting more than 74,000 participants www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
NIH grant terminations disrupt hundreds of clinical trials, affecting more than 74,000 participants
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
NIH grant terminations disrupt hundreds of clinical trials, affecting more than 74,000 participants www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
Focused spending strike: Thanksgiving day-Cyber Monday, join a boycott of Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. protest these corporations enabling this administration, ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities—to enable their tax breaks. Pass it on! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/u0yKhPwF
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
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November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Focused spending strike: Thanksgiving day-Cyber Monday, join a boycott of Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. protest these corporations enabling this administration, ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities—to enable their tax breaks. Pass it on! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/u0yKhPwF
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NEW: The Trump administration's brutal removal of so many workers is projected to shrink the nation’s GDP by as much as 6.8% — a deeper hit than the one sustained during the Great Recession.
A.J. Schumann:
A.J. Schumann:
Mass Deportations Aren’t Helping Workers. They’re Tanking The Economy. - OtherWords
Trump claimed immigrants were “taking your jobs.” But during his brutal crackdown, the job market has only gotten worse.
otherwords.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
NEW: The Trump administration's brutal removal of so many workers is projected to shrink the nation’s GDP by as much as 6.8% — a deeper hit than the one sustained during the Great Recession.
A.J. Schumann:
A.J. Schumann:
The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Sign the UC Unbowed petition before the UC Regents meet on Nov 18 and tell them to protect UC's independence. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
University of California: Reject the federal government's political control
The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Sign the UC Unbowed petition before the UC Regents meet on Nov 18 and tell them to protect UC's independ...
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Sign the UC Unbowed petition before the UC Regents meet on Nov 18 and tell them to protect UC's independence. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
Chocolate lovers —support workers at the famous SF company here
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November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Chocolate lovers —support workers at the famous SF company here
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actionnetwork.org/letters/ghir...
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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
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“Until we have real data, people making policy haven't got a clue what to rely on”- Prof. Daniel Hamermesh.
And as @marisakabas.bsky.social sets out, the Trump regime's economic 'data' ranges from cherry-picked figures to blatant lies.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/wh-inflati...
And as @marisakabas.bsky.social sets out, the Trump regime's economic 'data' ranges from cherry-picked figures to blatant lies.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/wh-inflati...
WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report.
It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“Until we have real data, people making policy haven't got a clue what to rely on”- Prof. Daniel Hamermesh.
And as @marisakabas.bsky.social sets out, the Trump regime's economic 'data' ranges from cherry-picked figures to blatant lies.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/wh-inflati...
And as @marisakabas.bsky.social sets out, the Trump regime's economic 'data' ranges from cherry-picked figures to blatant lies.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/wh-inflati...
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Stay with the fundamentals.
Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Stay with the fundamentals.
Life under the campaign of continuing cruelty
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Life under the campaign of continuing cruelty
Hard to track all the corporate overlords, but apparently @wired.com and @newyorker.com are under this thumb...
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hard to track all the corporate overlords, but apparently @wired.com and @newyorker.com are under this thumb...
"substantively, the meeting itself accomplished remarkably little...The net result is more commotion than motion."
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
What happened when Trump met Xi? | Brookings
Brookings scholars analyze the key takeaways from the Trump-Xi meeting on the sidelines of APEC.
www.brookings.edu
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"substantively, the meeting itself accomplished remarkably little...The net result is more commotion than motion."
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/QC6Bl2Jy
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
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November 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/QC6Bl2Jy
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On September 23, Adelita Grijalva won a special election to represent Arizona in the House of Representatives in a landslide, collecting 69% of the vote.
Forty-three days later, House Speaker Mike Johnson has not sworn in Grijalva.
Forty-three days later, House Speaker Mike Johnson has not sworn in Grijalva.
Speaker Johnson’s unprecedented, democracy-thwarting effort to keep the Epstein files secret
On September 23, Adelita Grijalva won a special election to represent Arizona in the House of Representatives in a landslide, collecting 69% of the vote. Forty-three days later, House Speaker Mike Joh...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
On September 23, Adelita Grijalva won a special election to represent Arizona in the House of Representatives in a landslide, collecting 69% of the vote.
Forty-three days later, House Speaker Mike Johnson has not sworn in Grijalva.
Forty-three days later, House Speaker Mike Johnson has not sworn in Grijalva.
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You know what tonight proves more than anything else? Local elections matter.
Local. Elections. Matter.
Local. Elections. Matter.
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
You know what tonight proves more than anything else? Local elections matter.
Local. Elections. Matter.
Local. Elections. Matter.
A concrete proposal for a wealth tax in CA, to offset healthcare funding slashed by Republican regime.
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Unveiled today: The first politically viable wealth tax
A proposed 2026 California...
americanprospect.bluelena.io
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A concrete proposal for a wealth tax in CA, to offset healthcare funding slashed by Republican regime.
americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...
americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...
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One police department in Maine ended an agreement after 900 people signed a petition opposing it.
Two Police Departments Drop Agreements With ICE
www.newsweek.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
One police department in Maine ended an agreement after 900 people signed a petition opposing it.
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Turkey legs were $25. Corny dogs were $8 each. Deep-fried Oreos were $14.
This year, The State Fair of Texas saw its lowest attendance since 2018, and a lot of Texans are blaming rising costs and tariffs.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/21/t...
This year, The State Fair of Texas saw its lowest attendance since 2018, and a lot of Texans are blaming rising costs and tariffs.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/21/t...
...So Was It the Price of Turkey Legs? State Fair of Texas Attendance Dropped by 400,000
Texas State Fair attendance was the lowest since 2018. Many, including U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, pointed to rising costs.
thebarbedwire.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Turkey legs were $25. Corny dogs were $8 each. Deep-fried Oreos were $14.
This year, The State Fair of Texas saw its lowest attendance since 2018, and a lot of Texans are blaming rising costs and tariffs.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/21/t...
This year, The State Fair of Texas saw its lowest attendance since 2018, and a lot of Texans are blaming rising costs and tariffs.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/21/t...