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Franklin Brown

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Lover of gardening, politics, movies, literature, culture, cuisine, arts and the finer things in live. Just generally curious. 😊

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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Trump is saying things to and about Xi in China that if it was Biden that had said these things Republicans and the media would demand he put ashes on his head and wear sack clothes for atonement.
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Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
*Vikki
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Nikki Carr belting out "It Must Be Him"🎵🎵 remains one if my not to miss scenes in #Moonstruck. #TCMParty
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"...And from King David, who was the first of the Jews who reigned therein, to this destruction under Titus, were one thousand, one hundred, and seventy nine years. But from its first building, till this last destruction, were two thousand, one hundred, seventy seven years.
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti should be alive this Sunday afternoon, going about his business. None of this should have happened. It's a long trail of self imposed stupidity that dates back to 2016 that was again replicated in 2024 that set all this in motion. There was no reason why the electorate
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Started watching this last night and it's really good so far. Mel Brooks is a really lucky man to have found a woman like Anne Bancroft. #TCMParty
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Turner Classic Movies @tcmtv.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
From filmmakers Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, MEL BROOKS THE 99 YEAR OLD MAN! (2026) delves into the enduring legacy behind one of comedy's most influential voices: the and only, Mel Brooks! Watch the first installment tonight on HBO Max at 9pm ET.
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
That was a cute intro with Ben and daughter. #ChristmasInConnecticut #tcmparty
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Many Democrats got pilloried after last last years election, especially Joe Biden, for meeting Trump after they had spent years calling him a threat to democracy. Most of these attacks came from our supposedly puritanical Leftist. Mamdani does the same thing after his election
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Ken Burns' American Revolution on @pbs.org has been throughly engrossing. I love the diverse voices, experiences and perspectives. #AmericanRevolutionPBS
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It's fascinating to see most of these folks on the Left who couldn't bring themselves to give the time of day to Liz Cheney in her opposition to Trump now insist that Marjorie Taylor Greene is Joan of Arc reincarnated because of her recent spat with the same Donald Trump.
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I picked up the 1974 edition of Horizon Magazine and one of the articles in it is titled: "The Future Isn't What It Used To Be."
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Zoshigaya - A Town Protected by a Repentant Demoness | NHK WORLD-JAPAN Shows www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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Zoshigaya - A Town Protected by a Repentant Demoness - Dive in Tokyo | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Despite being next to the busy Ikebukuro district, the residential neighborhood of Zoshigaya has managed to avoid the trend of redevelopment. We explore the area and witness the bonds of community.
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I am enjoying this documentary on Paddy Chayefsky. #CollectorOfWords #tcmparty
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"If you are a Russian Jew you were chased to this country.." #tcmparty #CollectorOfWords
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"You're television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy..." #CollectorOfWords #tcmparty
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"She gets the winter passion, and I get the dotage?... Am I supposed to sit home knitting and purling while you slink back like some penitent drunk? I'm your wife, damn it. And if you can't work up a winter passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance..." #tcmparty #collectorOfWords
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
That was a beautiful "in memoriam" with Sara Bareilles and Cynthia Erivo. Just beautiful. #TonyAwards2025 #TonyAwards
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I was watched a documentary on early Christians yesterday and one of the experts said that the persecution of early Christians was localized earlier in the Roman empire and wasn't an imperially decreed thing until much later. He said that we have got to understand how nervous
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Funny golf analogy right there. #AntiquesRoadshow
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Nice introduction, but I think it would serve the audience well if the specific country in Africa (Kenya) where this was filmed on location was stated instead of just saying that it was "filmed on location in Africa." #tcmparty #OutOfAfrica
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"Only the farmers have won. They remain forever. They are like the land itself. You helped rid them of Calvera, the way a strong wind helps rid them of locusts. You're like the wind - blowing over the land and... passing on. Vaya con dios." #tcmparty #TheMagnificentSeven
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It really takes a talent to be a keen observer of life and convey it as poignantly and exquisitely as Kazuo Ishiguro did and Merchant Ivory relayed on screen in The Remains Of The Day. #tcmparty
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Any time I see Christopher Reeve in The Remains Of The Day I can't help but think of what a profound loss he was. #Tcmparty
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I have viewed @tcm long enough to remember Ismail Merchant introducing Bollywood movie classics on this network a lifetime ago. I believe it was in 2003 or so. Those were the days. #tcmparty #MerchantIvory
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This @60minutes.bsky.social report on the disappeared during Argentina's junta days is sad and awful. It's a sick world. The things people do to other people. #60minutes
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“The companies that the CFPB oversees are actually some of the biggest and most powerful,” says Rohit Chopra, former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “They would want ... a lapdog rather than a watchdog.” cbsn.ws/4kahkjc
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
President Trump says his administration is cleaning up a Justice Department corrupted by politics. cbsn.ws/3QRoCLr
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"I don't think anybody believes that these people would've been pardoned if they had engaged in exactly the same acts, but had stormed the Capitol, say, in opposition to the president and his policies," says Peter Keisler, former acting attorney general under Pres. Bush.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This Sunday, Scott Pelley examines the recent firings and resignations at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
No matter what illusions and delusions Trump may harbor about whatever relationship he may have with Putin, and no matter what they agree on, Putin’s ultimate aim will always remain the destruction of the United States of America.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Whether it’s liberals saying Latinx or Republicans renaming the Gulf of Mexico, both sides have at times indulged in awkward nomenclature.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/02/2025
Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.
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State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Like many other U.S. manufacturers, Husco faces a growing list of trade policies under the new administration of President Donald Trump that have jumbled investment plans and cast a shadow over an upturn in the domestic manufacturing economy." buff.ly/4gDPOrl
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
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Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article)
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"But you're a con man! And you blew it like a pimp! I didn't teach you to be no pimp." #tcmparty #TheSting #31DaysOfOscar
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A Trump quote for the ages from the special counsel's report: "Mr. Trump made admissions that reflected his understanding that he had lost. In a private moment, Mr. Trump confessed to his family members that 'it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell.'"
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Everything about #TheMagnificentSeven never gets old. The score, the storyline and the acting is all inspired. #tcmparty
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Laken Riley Act would not have prevented its namesake's tragic death, but it would do a lot of other destructive (bonkers) things D lawmakers (and any fair-minded Rs still out there) should learn what they’re voting for before they get manipulated into doing so www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | What does the Laken Riley Act have to do with Laken Riley? Almost nothing.
This is a terrible, demagogic bill that exploits a horrendous murder.
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This is the jobs booming economy that Joe Biden has presided over and is handing over to Donald Trump. Folks should remember that because in a couple of weeks Trump will be claiming he had something to do with it. #jobsreport
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Heather Long @byheatherlong.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
JUST IN: A strong December jobs report. The US economy added 256,000 jobs (well above expectations). Overall, the US added 2.2 million jobs in 2024. That’s about the same as 2018. Unemployment rate fell slightly to 4.1% Wages grew 3.9% in past year (well above 2.7% inflation)
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Heather Long @byheatherlong.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The US economy added 2.2 million jobs in 2024. It's a significant slowdown from recent years, but it's similar job gains to 2017-2019. Bottom line: No recession in sight. 2024: 2.2 million 2023: 3m 2022: 4.5m 2021: 7.2m 2020: -9.3m 2019: 2m 2018: 2.3m 2017: 2.1m
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Biden went against his top national-security aides when deciding to tank a Japanese takeover of U.S. Steel and instead align with his domestic advisers to bolster his pro-union legacy www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Biden’s National-Security Aides Wanted to Keep Steel Deal Alive
The president went against top national-security aides when deciding to tank a Japanese takeover of U.S. Steel and instead align with domestic advisers, bolstering his pro-union legacy.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Leopards, faces; scorpions and frogs. www.politico.com/news/2024/12...
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These California farmers went for Trump. Now he could deport half their workers.
California’s farm owners bet on President-elect Donald Trump and won. His campaign promise of mass deportations could ruin them.
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
@footenotes.bsky.social Good to see you Lisa.
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
How on earth did anyone read the script to this movie and think it was worth producing? #TarzanTheApeMan #tcmparty
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Franklin Brown @franklin19788.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
What is this ridiculousness that I have stumbled upon? Goodness. #TarzanTheApeMan #tcmparty
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Petra Moser @pmoser.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Policies to keep out unskilled immigrants - but allow skilled - did not work in the 1920s (www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/use60...) and won't work today
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Ed Dolan @dolanecon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"Forget the tariffs and mass deportations. The sleeper economic issue of the next few years — the one where President-elect Donald Trump could wreak the most permanent damage — is sabotage of the Federal Reserve." says @crampell.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | A confrontation between Trump and the Fed might be inevitable
The president-elect’s threat to Fed independence is the sleeper economic issue of the next few years.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
About two-thirds of U.S. crop-farm workers are foreign-born, and 42% aren’t legally authorized to work in the country www.wsj.com/business/an-...
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Farms, Meat Plants Brace for Trump Immigration Crackdown
Agriculture companies and laborers fear raids; 42% of crop farmhands aren’t legally authorized to work in the U.S.
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