Frank Amari
@frankamari.bsky.social
Lapsed attorney and former public defender. Pro-Democracy, Anti-Trump. Loves dogs, nature, art and history. "As long as one lives, one can learn." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg 🌊💙🌊💙
"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles." -- Friedrich Engels, who died #OTD 1895, in "The Communist Manifesto"
"The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time." -- Friedrich Engels, who died #OTD 1895
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself." -- Richard Burton, who died #OTD 1984
"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being..." -- Toni Morrison, who died #OTD 2019
"In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate." -- Toni Morrison, who died #OTD 2019
The Atlantic: Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office. By Tom Nichols www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.
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"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." -- Toni Morrison, who died #OTD 2019, in "Song of Solomon"
The economy is slowing down. Reported today: Private companies added just 44,000 workers in July, below expectations, ADP reports www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/p...
Private companies added just 44,000 workers in July, below expectations, ADP reports
Hiring at private companies slowed considerably in July, with most of the job growth coming health care.
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Blanche Pledges To Make Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions ‘Permanent’ in ‘Every Single State’ The likely soon-to-be attorney general has faced questions from anti-abortion rights groups about the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. www.nysun.com/article/blan...
Blanche Pledges To Make Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions ‘Permanent’ in ‘Every Single State’ | The New York Sun
The likely soon-to-be attorney general has faced questions from anti-abortion rights groups about the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.
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Yet another GOP attack on Medicare - Los Angeles Times share.google/SqvpLYYUkOBi...
Commentary: Trump administration finds a new way to screw Medicare members — hiking their drug bills
The administration claims Medicare drug premiums have 'stabilized,' so it's going to let health insurers raise the premiums that enrollees pay.
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Can they be believed?? Trump administration claims Hormuz deal is close as Iran denies negotiations www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump administration claims Hormuz deal is close as Iran denies negotiations
The status of the war remains in limbo, as Washington and Tehran offer differing versions of reality.
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An association of thousands of FBI agents & other groups are backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year for their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trump's efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. share.google/MTYfwWHqF7an...
FBI agents fired over Trump investigation get broad backing in lawsuit against administration
An association of thousands of FBI agents and other groups are backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year for their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trum...
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On this date in 1944, Anne Frank and her family were arrested in Amsterdam after hiding from German occupation authorities for more than two years. Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February 1945
Not all Republicans are racists but every racist is a Republican.
Ripple effects: Three people have Reflecting Pool charges dropped after Hearn request www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...
Ripple effects: Three people have Reflecting Pool charges dropped after Hearn request
Federal prosecutors moved to drop their case against David Hearn, blaming Reflecting Pool damage on a "botched installation" rather than vandalism. That has implications for others who were charged.
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The New Republic today: Blanche Privately Vows to Take Down Abortion Rights Next Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is promising to roll back abortion rights in every single state. newrepublic.com/post/213939/...
Blanche Privately Vows to Take Down Abortion Rights Next
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is promising to roll back abortion rights in every single state.
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The New Republic today: Trump’s Reflecting Pool Lawsuits All Quietly End in Total Failure The Department of Justice has dropped charges against the two remaining defendants. newrepublic.com/post/213946/...
Trump’s Reflecting Pool Lawsuits All Quietly End in Total Failure
The Department of Justice has dropped charges against the two remaining defendants.
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The New Republic: Think Jeanine Pirro Acted Honorably in the Hearn Case? Think Again. Some gave her credit for belatedly doing the right thing. But she had no choice, and she’s still a disgrace. newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Think Jeanine Pirro Acted Honorably in the Hearn Case? Think Again.
Some gave her credit for belatedly doing the right thing. But she had no choice, and she’s still a disgrace.
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The New Republic today: Trump Hit by Fox Poll Shocker That Undercuts His Latest Midterm Tirade Fox News polling shows serious slippage for Trump in unexpected places newrepublic.com/article/2139...
Trump Hit by Fox Poll Shocker That Undercuts His Latest Midterm Tirade
As Fox News polling shows serious slippage for Trump in unexpected places, a Democratic strategist ponders whether his party can pull off miracles in Texas and other red states.
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The New Republic today: Fresh Panic as Pentagon Depletes Missile Stockpile in Iran War The Trump administration is out of ideas on Iran—and out of long-range missiles. newrepublic.com/post/213931/...
Fresh Panic as Pentagon Depletes Missile Stockpile in Iran War
The Trump administration is out of ideas on Iran—and out of long-range missiles.
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How Trump’s claims of vandalism at the renovated Reflecting Pool crumbled www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How Trump’s claims of vandalism at the renovated Reflecting Pool crumbled
Trump has lashed out at U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after she dropped vandalism cases and blamed damage at the pool on rushed and flawed work by a contractor.
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Trump keeps making bombastic threats: In his second term, he has said he will annihilate Iran, seize Greenland and annex Canada. World leaders are taking him less and less seriously. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching.
The president’s bombast has ceased to rattle world leaders, who have seen him fenced in by courts, rebuffed by Congress and strung along by Iran.
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Who can we believe?? Trump administration claims Hormuz deal is close as Iran denies negotiations www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump administration claims Hormuz deal is close as Iran denies negotiations
The status of the war remains in limbo, as Washington and Tehran offer differing versions of reality.
washingtonpost.com
"I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why." -- Helen Thomas, born #OTD 1920 share.google/rY9BD445LJ2H...
Trump takes swipes at press during White House Correspondents' Dinner
The event celebrated press freedom after the first dinner was cancelled by a shooting in April.
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