Shai Franklin
@shaifranklin.bsky.social
Humanitarian-for-hire | RoomRater: 9/10 | Per David Duke: “One of America's leading Zio-Supremacists” | Banned by Vladimir Putin | He/Him 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
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Shai Franklin
@shaifranklin.bsky.social
· Sep 25
The Blogs: After 30 Years, Bibi’s Path Is Dead End
From the blog of Shai Franklin at The Times of Israel
blogs.timesofisrael.com
“Especially against the backdrop of increasingly gratuitous suffering in Gaza—by Palestinians and Israelis—the latest declarations…are a rebuke of the failed maximalist strategies of Hamas and…Netanyahu. They may also offer an escape hatch for Israel.” blogs.timesofisrael.com/after-30-yea... #UNGA80
#Meritocracy update.
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
#Meritocracy update.
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NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
NEW: Transgender Activists to Dine with Pope Leo XIV during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor
Papal luncheon with trans advocate Alessia Nobile set for Sunday at Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor, highlighting a legacy of outreach and hopes for continued inclusion.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
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For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
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Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
Read @daveweigel.bsky.social on the widespread societal consequences of Elon's link suppression:
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How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
And meanwhile, Trump has shuttered most of the Education Department’s civil rights division which would implement and oversee any actual “civil rights” measures.
Sad to see Cornell capitulating to Trump, even though there's been no finding Cornell violated civil rights law. As I've said before, we must address antisemitism on campus - we also must protect academic freedom & freedom of speech. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... (1/2)
Cornell Settles With the Trump Administration
Cornell will pay out $30 million and invest another $30 million in agricultural research. In exchange the federal government will restore research funding and close investigations.
www.insidehighered.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
And meanwhile, Trump has shuttered most of the Education Department’s civil rights division which would implement and oversee any actual “civil rights” measures.
Maybe this is true… are most Mainers billionaires?
A press release from NRSC defends Collins saying "Susan Collins always fights for Mainers" and says "Mainers trust Susan Collins to keep doing what she always has and put their needs first, while Democrats like Janet Mills and Graham Platner support refusing to fund critical benefits and services"
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Maybe this is true… are most Mainers billionaires?
It still amazes me, how someone with no awareness of how the real world works or how normal people behave, can still be so effective motivating large numbers of people to do his bidding.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It still amazes me, how someone with no awareness of how the real world works or how normal people behave, can still be so effective motivating large numbers of people to do his bidding.
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Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, has announced she’s running for the California State Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, has announced she’s running for the California State Senate.
And as anyone who’s ever tried to buy health insurance knows, buying individually is always cheaper and better than as part of a group.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
And as anyone who’s ever tried to buy health insurance knows, buying individually is always cheaper and better than as part of a group.
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This sounds like the start of a conversation to put Paw Paw in an assisted living center.
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This sounds like the start of a conversation to put Paw Paw in an assisted living center.
It wasn’t a “peace deal”, it was barely a ceasefire. #RealityCheck
Trump-brokered peace deal between Thailand and Cambodia breaks down after border landmine blast
Trump-brokered peace deal between Thailand and Cambodia breaks down after border landmine blast
Thailand’s military chief suspended the peace agreement with neighbouring Cambodia after a landmine blast injured two Thai soldiers near the border
Thailand has suspended the implementation of a peace agreement with neighbouring Cambodia after a landmine blast injured two Thai soldiers near the border, escalating tensions between the neighbours who clashed in July.
US president Donald Trump helped broker a peace deal between the two southeast Asian nations, after a five-day border conflict. Both sides signed an expanded truce in Malaysia in October but on Monday Thailand’s armed forces chief said that had been halted. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It wasn’t a “peace deal”, it was barely a ceasefire. #RealityCheck
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This is good news… but please don’t let our guard down.. it was a hard case for the anti marriage equality advocates to overturn. We will continue to stand up for the rights of all Americans including those who are LGBTQ+
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates ...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is good news… but please don’t let our guard down.. it was a hard case for the anti marriage equality advocates to overturn. We will continue to stand up for the rights of all Americans including those who are LGBTQ+
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
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The politics of the shutdown:
*GOP had a strong opening position
*Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP
*Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change
*Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies
*GOP had a strong opening position
*Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP
*Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change
*Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The politics of the shutdown:
*GOP had a strong opening position
*Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP
*Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change
*Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies
*GOP had a strong opening position
*Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP
*Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change
*Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
They’re gonna lay off the people they were already firing pre-shutdown.
Lee Zeldin announces on Fox that there will be "severe" layoffs at the EPA if the shutdown continues
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
They’re gonna lay off the people they were already firing pre-shutdown.
It’s just unabated plunder.
Americans are losing health care, going hungry, and missing paychecks.
Meanwhile, the GOP is finding every way to hand more tax cuts to billionaires.
Their cruelty just doesn’t end.
Meanwhile, the GOP is finding every way to hand more tax cuts to billionaires.
Their cruelty just doesn’t end.
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It’s just unabated plunder.
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This is very confusing, but in short:
1) For the most part working families are receiving food stamps in Democratic states, but not Republican states.
2) Trump is not just trying everything possible to stop food stamps in general, they are trying to prevent Democratic states from helping their own.
1) For the most part working families are receiving food stamps in Democratic states, but not Republican states.
2) Trump is not just trying everything possible to stop food stamps in general, they are trying to prevent Democratic states from helping their own.
Breaking News: The Trump administration told states to undo any steps to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if the states do not comply. It was unclear how that would affect the program.
Trump Live Updates: Airport and SNAP Benefit Disruptions Amid Shutdown
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is very confusing, but in short:
1) For the most part working families are receiving food stamps in Democratic states, but not Republican states.
2) Trump is not just trying everything possible to stop food stamps in general, they are trying to prevent Democratic states from helping their own.
1) For the most part working families are receiving food stamps in Democratic states, but not Republican states.
2) Trump is not just trying everything possible to stop food stamps in general, they are trying to prevent Democratic states from helping their own.
Because people know what they’re spending, and how much they still owe at the end of the month.
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Because people know what they’re spending, and how much they still owe at the end of the month.
And anyway, gas price is just above $3… most other stuff is more expensive.
"Dropped $3 a gallon?" What does that even mean? Below $3 a gallon? Does no one proofread this stuff?
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
And anyway, gas price is just above $3… most other stuff is more expensive.
Seemingly the last universally acceptable form of bigotry… let’s call them people with transphobia, so they start graduating to “people first”.
Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
A women's soccer star is the target of an anti-trans activist - Outsports
Barbra Banda's peers in the NWSL stood up for her when the head of an anti-trans fashion brand tried to demean her.
www.outsports.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Seemingly the last universally acceptable form of bigotry… let’s call them people with transphobia, so they start graduating to “people first”.
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After the NYTimes published the op-ed "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", I remembered that a NYTimes Guild report in 2021 found "Overall, median pay for women was $10,000 less per year than for men, meaning women earned roughly 92 percent of what men earned." nytimesguild.org/papers/2021-...
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
After the NYTimes published the op-ed "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", I remembered that a NYTimes Guild report in 2021 found "Overall, median pay for women was $10,000 less per year than for men, meaning women earned roughly 92 percent of what men earned." nytimesguild.org/papers/2021-...
But as the Speaker keeps explaining to us, he’s been really really busy.
There is a compromise on the table to get this deal done and reopen the government while keeping health insurance premiums down. But the sole problem, plain and simple, is Mike Johnson.
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
But as the Speaker keeps explaining to us, he’s been really really busy.
Indeed.
Your faith says you can't eat dinner with Jewish people?
Heritage Foundation having a normal one
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November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Indeed.
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Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?