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Jon Frandsen

@jcfrandsen.bsky.social
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Dismayed retired journalist/writer; dog walker; cat herder. Proud father, grandfather & partner. “Not long lines. Long tables!”—Chef and future Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Andres.

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Stars⭐ @stars8465.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As several analysts have pointed out, this exposes catastrophic flaws in the current administration’s personnel appointments and routine vetting processes.
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TruePlayer💫 @trueplayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
About sums it up!
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social I just saw the gov’t-financed propaganda/Trump campaign ad in the wild (DC football) for the 1st time & I’m more livid than I was when I 1st heard about this. I never want to hear the words guardrails & norms again. These fascists are breaking the law whenever they want.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW: People’s Republic of China (PRC) entities likely linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reportedly sold Iran satellite images of a US air base in Jordan that Iran later used to kill three US soldiers and injure another four. (1/8) Read the full report: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Largest theft of labor in human history.” What a quote.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Homeland Secretary declares war on the Homeland. JFC.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is what Trump did on 9/11.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
I can’t wait to read the NYT op-ed from Renee Good’s wife about grief on the one year anniversary of her death. Surely the NYT will extend the same grace to Becca Good—whose partner died protesting against state power—as it has to Erica Kirk—whose partner died defending white supremacy
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@lauralippman.bsky.social in case you don’t have the game on and are not at it … Eddie Murray hit his 500th homerun 30 years ago today. He was sitting in the seat it landed in during a celebration today. Didn’t see that but saw many other of his and Cal’s heroics.
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The insanity is getting even more lethal. And disgusting.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was a feminist icon and democracy defender who spent her life fighting for human rights. Her memory should inspire us all to do a little, or a lot, each day. Rest in Peace, Gloria Steinem. 💔
"Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy."
-Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Go @pablo.show, Go!
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This points out a vulnerability faced by hundreds of communities across the country. Rascists exploiting it as a deliberare strategy just underscores the need to create or shore up local news resources nationwide & to recognize they they are as vital to communities as water, power & healthcare. 1/2
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Read this important thread. And realize yet again how monstrous is Mike Johnson
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Lock. Him. Up.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing. What a colossal asshole.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I appreciate that in the shifts and ebbs of time, you can always count on New Hampshire libertarian edge lords being themselves indepthnh.org/2026/05/26/g...
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Granite State Libertarians Booted From National Party After Kauffman Speech - InDepthNH.org
The Libertarian National Committee has had enough of New Hampshire party chair Jeremy Kauffman, his racist social media trolling, and his support for President Donald Trump.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you post on X, you are an active participant in the richest man in the world’s far-right, racist disinformation campaign. But, you know, gotta get that engagement clout.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
#JusticeInMotion launches Today! Judges are meeting Americans outside courthouses AND in the community to talk about how the #RuleofLaw must ensure equal justice and fairness in everyday American life. Follow their journey in: PA ➡️ OH ➡️ MI 👉 justiceinmotion.us
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Justice In Motion
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Spirit of 2026 anntelnaes.substack.com/p/spirit-of-...
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I hope everyone reads this and tattoos it on their foreheads so they see it when they brush their teeth in the morning and before they go to bed.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Taking a hit for the team: Watching Caligula at Mt. Rushmore. The "idea" part of the speech, read from script, is extended, Joe McCarthy-toned denunciation of Communism as the era's greatest threat. Recall that his three closest chums internationally are: -Putin -Xi Jinping -Kim Jong Un
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iamthe1nonly1.bsky.social @iamthe1nonly1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
When Fake Fox News Continues to Purposely Lying Without Legal Penalties 🙄 Hmmm Lawsuit.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/07/2026
"The Halls, America’s Future, and Flynn all did not respond to requests for comment." Maybe they should have said "Quote me as saying I was misquoted." lnk.thebulwark.com/4veDyoD
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Kim Philby Was Bad @kimphilbywasbad.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This article comparing Peron is good but I wouldn’t call it Peronism; the guy is a criminal smashing and grabbing like a common street thug and “isms” are too good for him. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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America’s Perón
Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Jesus wept.
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Court reform or bust is the only patriotic & constitutional move now.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This.
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Michael Karlik @michaelkarlik.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Wow. Magistrate Judge Scott Varholak ordered a bond hearing w/this note: "If the Court is wrong, let another court declare that a noncitizen with no criminal history, no history of flight, & an adjudicated right to asylum may be detained indefinitely without running afoul of the Due Process Clause."
IV. Conclusion
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the Court notes
that the demarcation of the rights of noncitizens in this country has not always been clear.
Indeed, nearly fifty years ago the Supreme Court noted:
[D]ecisions of this Court with regard to the rights of [noncitizens] living in our
society have reflected fine, and often difficult, questions of values. As a
Nation, we exhibit extraordinary hospitality to those who come to our
country, which is not surprising for we have often been described as “a
nation of immigrants.”
Foley v. Connelie, 435 U.S. 291, 294 (1978). Fifty years later, it is difficult to reconcile the
rights acknowledged by Zadyvdas with certain statements from Knauff and
Thuraissigiam. This Court has done its best to do so. If the Court is wrong, let another
court declare that a noncitizen with no criminal history, no history of flight, and an
adjudicated right to asylum may be detained indefinitely without running afoul of the Due
Process Clause.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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A Bit of Tedious Drama At Bluesky
Bluesky Can Ban Whoever They Want! But They Won’t Stop Me From Saying What I Think. I Think The World Would Be A Better Place Without Elon Musk.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2026
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It is terrifying how far in over their heads Trump and his clowns are. Almost as frightening as how oblivious they are to their own ignorance.
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Jim of Pennsyltucky @jimdigs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
There is no one in the Trump administration qualified to negotiate with the Iranians. Especially on the plutonium issue. #Iran #USA
The original 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) was negotiated between Iran, the European Union, and the P5+1 (the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and China).

Nuclear experts played a vital role by moving from background consulting to the main negotiating table.

Scientist Diplomacy.

The breakthrough was led by peer-to-peer negotiations between the top U.S. and Iranian nuclear officials, both MIT trained nuclear scientists who used shared physics expertise to solve political stalemates.

Technical Constraints.

Experts calculated the exact mathematical limits needed to push Iran's weapon breakout time to at least one year. They set strict caps on uranium enrichment (3.67%), limited centrifuge counts, and redesigned reactors to prevent plutonium production.

Strict Verification.

Nuclear inspectors from the IAEA designed an incredibly intrusive monitoring system to track Iran's entire nuclear supply chain and prevent any secret operations.

Trump's deal was negotiated by his son-in-law, a golfing buddy, Little Marco, and his scapegoat JD Vance. I think the first agreement was far superior than the surrender

Trump has just given the Iranians.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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Butterflies Katz ⓥ @butterflieskatz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Seattle Street Artist’s mural Tribute to Alex Pretti; veteran nurse killed by Border Patrol officers #StreetArt #mural #AlexPretti #tribute
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
😂😂😂😂 www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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Trump’s Name Is Disappearing From More Than Just the Kennedy Center
Lawyers are ordering staff to remove Trump from email signatures, letterhead, webpages, brochures, promotional materials, press releases, signs, and more.
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
@radiofreetom.bsky.social For your Death of Expertise files. This idiot Pulte wasn’t even a competent nepo baby. Got fired from the family business. From a 2025 NYT story ….
Excerpt of a 2025 story on Pulte and his exaggerated ties to the Pulte company and the Pulte charity…

He was pushed off the company’s board in 2020 after being elected to a seat several times since 2016. And his family’s $500 million charitable foundation, run by an aunt and his father, issued a statement two years ago saying that “Bill Pulte does not represent, nor is he a spokesperson for, all members of the Pulte family, in any capacity.”
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Utterly disgusting. A convicted killer.
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@radiofreetom.bsky.social Soooo …I’m watching the episode of The Boys where Homelander is about to give his big speech & says beforehand he only wants real believers behind him. Are we sure Trump isn’t watching this? And taking notes?
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
And if this attitude prevails, ladies and gents, this is how we’ll lose the Senate. So maybe you should be the one to STFU.
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A great reminder of how to feel good, at least a bit, when things seem so terrible.
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Chris Baiocchetti @matchstickboy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Road construction sign displaying the message "Bring the heat.  Fuck Ice"
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Democrats take heed. The various ways Trump is crushing small businesses (tariffs, crackdowns on seasonal immigrant workers, increased health insurance costs etc.) has to be a campaign theme for candidates at every level. Our economic well-being is being throttled by stupid & extremist ideology.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/05/2026
Talked to the owner of a small store down the hill from where Trump spoke on Tuesday. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
"All my stuff is coming from Asian countries," he told me. Trump's return to office "just cranked up the cost of everything. Tariffs, the price of gas, diesel. You got semis, all hooked up with diesel."

He looked down as he spoke, offering his assessment without much energy. It was clearly not the first time that he'd expressed these concerns.

"I'm making a lot less money," he told me, pointing not only to Trump but to competition from Costco and Walmart, both of which were increasingly carrying similar products. Clearly the administration was not doing much to help. Lee wanted to renovate the store, which was definitely showing its age, but he indicated that this simply wasn't possible.

I'd taken enough of his time, so I thanked him for speaking with me.

"I wish you the best of luck," I said as I left the shop.

"I need it," Lee replied.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It is an obscene, irrational, irresponsible, and unprecedented massive increase in military spending not seen since 1942 after we entered a World War on two fronts with a small military. It also comes at a time when our national debt accelerates and zooms past $40 trillion.
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Jon Frandsen @jcfrandsen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The real bottomline of the court’s devastating blow to minority voting rights.
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