Lee Franke
@leefranke.bsky.social
Dad of 2. 2 Dogs, 2 cats, 2 kids.
Marine 0311. 84-91.
Aggie Band Class of '87
Connoisseur of Dad jokes
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Marine 0311. 84-91.
Aggie Band Class of '87
Connoisseur of Dad jokes
LLAP
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December 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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WHAT A START 🤩
James McClean’s dangerous cross is palmed into the path of Kieffer Moore and he taps the ball home!
4’ | Preston North End 0-1 Wrexham AFC
🔴⚪️ #WxmAFC
James McClean’s dangerous cross is palmed into the path of Kieffer Moore and he taps the ball home!
4’ | Preston North End 0-1 Wrexham AFC
🔴⚪️ #WxmAFC
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
WHAT A START 🤩
James McClean’s dangerous cross is palmed into the path of Kieffer Moore and he taps the ball home!
4’ | Preston North End 0-1 Wrexham AFC
🔴⚪️ #WxmAFC
James McClean’s dangerous cross is palmed into the path of Kieffer Moore and he taps the ball home!
4’ | Preston North End 0-1 Wrexham AFC
🔴⚪️ #WxmAFC
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December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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The NFL plans to upgrade playing surfaces in all stadiums by 2028 to meet new standards. NFL field director Nick Pappas announced Thursday that teams will receive a list of approved fields before next season.
NFL mandates new playing surfaces for all stadiums by 2028 to enhance player safety
The NFL plans to upgrade playing surfaces in all stadiums by 2028 to meet new standards. NFL field director Nick Pappas announced Thursday that teams will receive a list of approved fields before next season.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The NFL plans to upgrade playing surfaces in all stadiums by 2028 to meet new standards. NFL field director Nick Pappas announced Thursday that teams will receive a list of approved fields before next season.
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In July 2024, both a local pastor and a former lawmaker were banned from the Commissioners Court and issued trespass warnings for expressing concerns about the alarming number of deaths occurring at Tarrant County Jail. There have been multiple arrests at commission hearings this year.
In Tarrant County, a Grassroots Coalition Pushes Back on Christian Nationalists
The recent redistricting of the county commissioners court has galvanized progressive organizers heading into 2026.
www.texasobserver.org
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In July 2024, both a local pastor and a former lawmaker were banned from the Commissioners Court and issued trespass warnings for expressing concerns about the alarming number of deaths occurring at Tarrant County Jail. There have been multiple arrests at commission hearings this year.
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From Tuesday: "That commandment to love our neighbors is inherently a public thing. Politics is just another way that we figure out how we treat our neighbors and how we treat each other."
With Primary Field Still in Flux, James Talarico Pitches His Big Tent Revival
"I'm not interested in tearing down my fellow Democrats, because we are all on the same team ... but I think that I've got a compelling case to make."
www.texasobserver.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
From Tuesday: "That commandment to love our neighbors is inherently a public thing. Politics is just another way that we figure out how we treat our neighbors and how we treat each other."
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This is Pebble. She may be the reason you're late, but wants to remind you she's also your reason for living. 13/10 (IG: pebbletherottie)
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is Pebble. She may be the reason you're late, but wants to remind you she's also your reason for living. 13/10 (IG: pebbletherottie)
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Whiskey Pete tried to attack the reliability of @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social by noting that there was one EXTRA text in what Whiskey Pete turned over, on top of what Goldberg published.
This was that text.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
This was that text.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Whiskey Pete tried to attack the reliability of @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social by noting that there was one EXTRA text in what Whiskey Pete turned over, on top of what Goldberg published.
This was that text.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
This was that text.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Lawyers have instructed Pete Hegseth to answer all questions about the Venezuelan boat attack with "I'm too trashed to remember."
December 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Lawyers have instructed Pete Hegseth to answer all questions about the Venezuelan boat attack with "I'm too trashed to remember."
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Fucking Nazis
A new video captures masked ICE agents in unmarked vehicles swarming the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew before hauling her away. There’s no way this was random.
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Fucking Nazis
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Russian losses per 04/12/25 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff.
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Russian losses per 04/12/25 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff.
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After spending his term pardoning corrupt conservative Republicans, Donald Trump has pardoned a corrupt conservative Democrat. Where was this bipartisanship from Obama and Biden?
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
After spending his term pardoning corrupt conservative Republicans, Donald Trump has pardoned a corrupt conservative Democrat. Where was this bipartisanship from Obama and Biden?
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In this Ohio diner, double tap still means a bar with both Miller Lite and Coors Light. But they do know this: Pete Hegseth ordering the Navy to fire on shipwrecked survivors is better than dudes in dresses holding DEI trainings, which is all the military did under Biden.
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
In this Ohio diner, double tap still means a bar with both Miller Lite and Coors Light. But they do know this: Pete Hegseth ordering the Navy to fire on shipwrecked survivors is better than dudes in dresses holding DEI trainings, which is all the military did under Biden.
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But attacking pre-school teachers because they don’t think Palestinian kids should be bombed to death? Declaring NYC’s first Muslim mayor “our enemy?” Fomenting hatred, even within the Jewish community?
You’re not making anyone safer.
You’re not making anyone safer.
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
But attacking pre-school teachers because they don’t think Palestinian kids should be bombed to death? Declaring NYC’s first Muslim mayor “our enemy?” Fomenting hatred, even within the Jewish community?
You’re not making anyone safer.
You’re not making anyone safer.
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Just a quick note: FloriDUH is a stand your ground state. That they are still doing these arrests there despite that reality, not that it would be likely effective as a defense in these circumstances, is an indicator that they think they can do this anywhere & everywhere w/ no consequences at all!
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Just a quick note: FloriDUH is a stand your ground state. That they are still doing these arrests there despite that reality, not that it would be likely effective as a defense in these circumstances, is an indicator that they think they can do this anywhere & everywhere w/ no consequences at all!
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Re-upping this again:
If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.
Hyperbole Bookstore
A family-owned independent bookstore in College Station, TX
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December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Re-upping this again:
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Damn, messing up on day one.
Pentagon spox confirmed that all strikes in Caribbean are "directed by the President". Congrats.
Pentagon spox confirmed that all strikes in Caribbean are "directed by the President". Congrats.
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Damn, messing up on day one.
Pentagon spox confirmed that all strikes in Caribbean are "directed by the President". Congrats.
Pentagon spox confirmed that all strikes in Caribbean are "directed by the President". Congrats.
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If I, or any other civil servant or contractor, refused to do either of these things, let alone both, my access would be suspended & I would expect my clearance would be yanked & I’d ultimately be terminated.
MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Breaking on MS NOW: The Signalgate report contradicts Pete Hegseth's claims he did nothing wrong. It shows he "violated policy by using a non-approved device," a source who read the report says.
Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
If I, or any other civil servant or contractor, refused to do either of these things, let alone both, my access would be suspended & I would expect my clearance would be yanked & I’d ultimately be terminated.
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As Guam braces for a major increase in U.S. troop levels over the next decade, the Defense Department is widening child care options on the island, with the Navy's Family Child Care program recently expanding eligibility to include off-base providers. (from @alexmwilson.bsky.social)
Navy opens off-base child care program to meet growing demand on Guam
The Navy recently expanded eligibility to include off-base child care providers on Guam as the island braces for a major increase in U.S. troop levels.
www.stripes.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
As Guam braces for a major increase in U.S. troop levels over the next decade, the Defense Department is widening child care options on the island, with the Navy's Family Child Care program recently expanding eligibility to include off-base providers. (from @alexmwilson.bsky.social)
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The United States must not sell advanced AI chips to China, plain and simple. The world's foremost experts on AI unanimously agree.
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The United States must not sell advanced AI chips to China, plain and simple. The world's foremost experts on AI unanimously agree.
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Official government statistics that come from independent statistical agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Those folks tell the truth. The problem, of course, is that every word that comes out of the White House, almost every word... is a lie."
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Official government statistics that come from independent statistical agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Those folks tell the truth. The problem, of course, is that every word that comes out of the White House, almost every word... is a lie."