Jen Frankel
@jenfrankel.bsky.social
Follow me for a Canadian hot take on American hot messes. 🇨🇦♨️🇺🇸 Substack on writing https://substack.com/@xenofranka
Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Parable of the Talents” depicts a dystopian United States run by Christian Nationalists. Their slogan is “Make America Great Again.” Published in 1998, many years before Trump’s political career, but this poem in the book prophesied Trump. (Poem from @zymplex.bsky.social)
BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · 3d agoA 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.
Has there ever been a more iconic entrance? Rest in peace, Tim Curry.
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
The United States Treasury: An ATM for the Rich and Powerful
Yes. And that’s why Donald Trump is in prison now.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4w agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Trump keeps losing. He hasn’t been able to ram through his SAVE Act, and SCOTUS shut down his attempt to throw out people’s mail ballots. He’s more desperate than ever, and it’s SHOWING. That’s why he threw another tantrum today.
Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · last mo.If you missed today’s Trump address, here’s all you need to know: He’s still a pathetic loser.
Ossoff: "Tonight I heard a failed president desperately casting out for excuses to meddle in the upcoming election if he can, or to discredit the result when he loses decisively as I expect he will"
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
The latest example of Melania dropping her price.
Reimagining a system of proportional representation “In that world, Racicot’s testimony gets weighed against one man’s career instead of a movement’s future.”
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis piece does a much better job of explaining how I feel about the Platner situation than anything I could write myself.
BELGIUM scores again! It's now 4-1 against the USMNT with only a couple minutes left in stoppage time. This is the end of the road for the US in the World Cup. The Trump curse is real.
A new report revealed that Trump’s ballroom will cost $600 million, with over half that coming from taxpayers. That’s despite his initial claims that taxpayers wouldn’t pay a dime and it would only cost $400 million. Here’s what else you should know about his vanity project…
Trump’s Ballroom Corruption Exposed
Is this the most corrupt thing a president has ever done?
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So many questions about the ICE custody death of Philly immigrant Tuan Van Bui, child of the Vietnam War, welcomed here in 1990, violently arrested in 2025 The biggest: Why do other detainees tell such a different story from ICE about how he died? My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...
The U.S. welcomed this child of the Vietnam War. Why did he die in ICE custody? | Will Bunch
In 1990, the U.S. welcomed Tuan Van Bui, other young Amerasians. In 2025, ICE violently arrested him. Why did he die in custody?
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Countries are blocking abortion information. A new report released today by Women on Web and the Open Observatory of Network Interference documents evidence of the blocking of Women on Web domains across at least seven countries. www.womenonweb.org/en/news/new-...
Paxton wins, NC declares life at fertilization, DOJ targets E. Jean Carroll, and can a Christian-Left Messaging Dem flip Texas? #politicspod #resist #startmeup New #StartMeUp 👅 podcast with @sarahwood.bsky.social #MSWMedia #donalddecaying Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/159479...
I guess it’s no surprise where Republicans get their courage to stand up to Trump — when they have nothing to lose.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3mo agoBREAKING: The Senate has advanced a bill to block trump's war in Iran. Republicans have blocked multiple war powers resolutions, but this time Bill Cassidy, fresh off his primary election loss, flipped and voted FOR it. apnews.com/article/trum...
In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 9mo agoAndrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.
We must use words that accurately describe who Trump and his lackeys really are — and what they are actually doing to America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/regime-change
How to Describe this Catastrophe?
We must use words that accurately describe who Trump and his lackeys really are — and what they are actually doing to Am
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A big, big story
Samuel Larreal@bueninvierno.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: President Donald Trump bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in tech companies and government contractors including Nvidia and Palantir. Some of those trades overlapped with regulatory decisions that were favorable to these companies. www.notus.org/money/donald...
Remember when we made fun of Reagan but he wasn’t starting wars, gutting the Constitution, and profiting off the presidency?
