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foliver4u

@franklinoliver4u.bsky.social
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HS teacher, college prof, poet, consultant, lover of humanity, creator of the first HS Afrofuturism course in the US. www.goodtroublesolutions.net

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foliver4u @franklinoliver4u.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A short look at #Juneteenth from then to now. youtu.be/lL5PcEUbykk #6MinutePodcast #WhoDeannyPod #WeBack
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Juneeteenth
YouTube video by The WhoDeannyPod! from Gayle Force Press
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 30/05/2026
Saw a patient in urgent care last night who was sobbing because she’d recently learned she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer, and now she was struggling to afford the treatment. We need Medicare for All.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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AP Exclusive: Trump administration tells prosecutors to stand down on Venezuela leader, sources say
The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It’s not enough that Trump raped E Jean Carrol? He has to sic his Dept of Injustice on her because he needs to inflict more damage? There’s a place in hell reserved for Todd Blanche, Trump and so many more of these depraved abusers.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 25/05/2026
Nabokov's LOLITA, that was about a pedophile's projections on a young girl he was abusing. It's not actually a love story. Because there cannot be a love affair between a grown man & a thirteen year old girl. I hope the lesson taken away from that novel is the cruelty of abuse, not idolizing it.
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Charm @charm305.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
No lies told, the White House is a new form of a ghetto.
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foliver4u @franklinoliver4u.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
So. Damn. Good.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The red square coordinates I’m crying
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Adameus Mantooth @adameusjmantooth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
#AEW #AEWDynamite
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foliver4u @franklinoliver4u.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
TN may execute Tony Carruthers on May 21 without considering evidence that could prove his innocence. Sign this to stop the execution + allow forensic testing! @uscedp.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
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No Wrongful Execution for Tony Carruthers
Tony Carruthers could be innocent – but without your intervention, Tennessee may execute him without considering the full evidence. Tony was convicted without physical evidence, based on testimony fr...
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The Movement History Initiative @mhimovement.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A voice from our community! Take a moment to slow down, read, and feel every word. Thank you for sharing your work, Franklin! Your words belong here too! Submit your poetry 👉️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Watch the whole episode here:
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How The Onion Won the Infowars Sale — and Shut Up Alex Jones for Good
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
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Harrison Faigen @faignews.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Larry Nance Jr’s shirt at tonight’s Cavs game
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
In the last 6 years poverty has decreased by 18m and the minimum wage has tripled in Mexico. All thanks to its Socialist Government. Mexico is booming because the billionaires are NOT in control.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"There you have it, in black and white. The PM, Keir Starmer, warned in the clearest possible terms that Peter Mandelson maintained his relationship [with Epstein] after the conviction.. there is no escape from this"
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... FBI received a report on August 8, 2019 that Oren and Tal Alexander raped women at Epstein's residence. The case was closed. All three brothers were just convicted of sex trafficking. EFTA01660676 #Epstein
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Luxury real estate brokers and their brother convicted in federal sex trafficking trial
The prosecutor said Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander worked together to convince women with "promises of parties and trips, and when they got there the defendants raped them.”
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Lavonne @loveon9.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"Enigma" is an anagram of "gamine". Epstein birthday card Donald: Enigmas never age... Enigma: A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. Gamine: A French word often used to describe a mischievous, boyish, or waifish young girl.
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#Epstein survivors say there are 'a lot more names' to come out as they call on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson to testify in the US share.google/jqFguPOnOcth...
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Epstein survivors call on Andrew and Mandelson to testify in the US
Sharlene Rochard called on Jeffrey Epstein's friends Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson to 'show accountability' and reveal everything they know.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/02/2026
We are the laughing stock of the world.
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
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Richard 💙 @rabar9.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@are0h.blacksky.app not all white people…..
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I remember when I watched the film adaptation of “Fahrenheit 451.” I felt I would feel compelled to be one of the “bookpeople” — even though that felt VERY stressful. Now here I am. Anxious and angry. Wanting to protect all the books, every story of my people. I fear for the future of the past.
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Richard Blumenthal @blumenthal.senate.gov · 21/01/2026
BREAKING: Whistleblower disclosures reveal a formal ICE policy to ignore the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.  Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy authorizing its agents to kick down your door & storm into your home. 1/
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
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Euri Giles @clareifi.com · 22/01/2026
#Trump has described ICE agents as "patriots" handling "rough, rough people," HOW IN THE FUCK IS THIS MAKING ANYONE SAFE? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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Woman guilty of keeping slave for 25 years in Tewkesbury
The victim had bleach splashed on her and her head shaved against her will by Mandy Wixon.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
1/2 Remember that the great disruptions of past 11 1/2 months are from the WHIM OF ONE MAN: —Upheaval of world economy via tariffs —Effective dissolution of longest-standing Western alliances (NATO, North Amer partners, cultural-scientific-educ-aid institutions, US "soft power" overall.) —Now this.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
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Ororo’s Headpiece ⚡️ @myquael.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
They don’t talk about Jesus flipping tables enough for me 🙂‍↔️
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Saint Badman 🥀🤞🏿❤️‍🔥 @infamousbrave.blacksky.app · 09/12/2025
Fine I’ll post it dont have tontwist my arm about it 😂 youtu.be/OKaZWLEp_Ww?...
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Verzuz Replay: Earth, Wind & Fire Vs the Isley Brothers
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"After her hearing ended, three-year-old Lucy cuddled her teddy bear as she walked back from the lawyer’s table and took a seat. Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..." coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Texas, let’s win this thing. #JasmineForUS #TexasTough
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is running for US Senate. youtu.be/W-Pe1GifYLs?...
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FULL: Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces run for Texas Senate
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 06/12/2025
🔴 Russian forces attacked at least 16 locations of Ukraine's power grid, according to monitoring channels. It total, 704 drones and missiles were deployed in the attack.
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foliver4u @franklinoliver4u.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Who were the #11Venezuelans?
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Our photographer captured Chicagoans braving the snowiest November day in history. See more photos here: blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/30/p...
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PHOTOS: How Chicagoans Spent The Snowiest November Day In History
From running on the 606 to being stranded at O'Hare Airport, here's how Chicagoans marked one of the biggest snow storms in recent memory.
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foliver4u @franklinoliver4u.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
"Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
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Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 26/11/2025
The US just revoked the visa of Former South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor who initiated the genocide case against Israel. Watch Zeteo's interview with her from March last year where she said there was 'huge murder underway' in Gaza: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: South African Foreign Minister tells Zeteo 'huge murder underway' in Gaza
“For us to be invisible in a massive human struggle where we know a huge murder is underway, I think that is unacceptable.” - Naledi Pandor
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 27/11/2025
Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon. Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
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‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
When the whole negotiation fits in one panel… #Oligarchy #Trump #Putin #Ukraine #Peace #War #WhiteHouse
Cartoon-style illustration of a White House press briefing. The speaker at the podium, resembling Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, says, “The peace talks are between Ushakov and Witkoff.” A journalist in the audience responds, “And on the American side?”
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 22/09/2025
An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed. A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
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He’s Been On Louisiana’s Death Row for Decades. A Judge Just Vacated His Conviction.
Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now under threat from the state’s Republican leadership.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/11/2025
Biden commuted their death sentences, so Trump retaliated by making their lives living hell, putting them in the country's most brutal prison, where they "spend 22 to 24 hours a day locked alone inside concrete cells that are smaller than a standard parking space." Pure, pointless cruelty.
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Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
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Kirsten Grady @mrskgrady.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Once you learn the history, you can’t unsee it. But I still love Thanksgiving because some of my best memories are there: kids’ table chaos, music, way too much food, laughter with family. Now I try to hold both things at once. I keep the love and the gratitude, and I refuse to forget the truth.
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