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Jackie Frank

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Retired journalist with Reuters 30+ who writes, kayaks, travels and is a lucky Grandma to three. All views are my own. No DMs unless I know you.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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Jeff.L @jefflockard.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The US side. Mexico is taking a different approach.
Colorful murals on the Mexico side of the US border fence.Colorful murals on the Mexico side of the US border fence.Colorful murals on the Mexico side of the US border fence.Colorful murals on the Mexico side of the US border fence.
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Save VOA @savevoa.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
On this week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social with @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social, a history of VOA and how it’s been politicized. Plus, hear why Russia, China, and Iran are celebrating. Listen to the podcast by @wnyc.org Studios 👂
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The Power of Shortwave Radio. And, What Gets Lost with Voice of America? | On the Media | WNYC Studios
This month, the director of Voice of America is being forced out in the latest of many moves to dismantle the state broadcasting service. On this week’s On the Media, a history of the...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
What is it called when government owns the means of production again?
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Oddly, this gives me a lot of hope
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 20/08/2025
President Trump has ordered the entire southern border wall to be painted black to stop migrants from crossing because it’ll be too hot to touch, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
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Trump Wants to Paint Border Wall Black So It’s Too Hot to Touch
President Donald Trump has ordered the entire southern border wall to be painted black to stop migrants from crossing because it’ll be too hot to touch, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 19/08/2025
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US bankruptcies are surging past 2020 pandemic levels
Markets are rising and the economy is on solid footing, but corporate bankruptcies jumped to their highest level since 2020 in July.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/08/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Donald Trump’s interventions and intrusions “reveal a presidency determined to expand executive reach into virtually every sphere of national life,” Thomas Edsall writes.
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Opinion | The Mind-Boggling Intrusiveness of Donald J. Trump
The president is driving the tentacles of the federal government deep into the nation’s economy, culture and legal system.
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Looks like someone went into thrift stores and bought tasteless castoffs.
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John Palfrey @palfrey.org · 19/08/2025
Joining with our friends @knightfoundation.org and others in a new philanthropic effort to help stabilize, support, and revitalize public media. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...
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The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
George Will : As flaccid as a boned fish, Donald Trump crumpled quicker than even Vladimir Putin probably anticipated. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Now it is the Old World’s turn to rescue the United States
As Trump met with European leaders on Ukraine, Churchill’s words from days long ago came to mind.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 19/08/2025
President Trump in April abruptly canceled nearly $400 million in active AmeriCorps grants across the United States that fund volunteers who embed in communities, in exchange for a small stipend and education award. Here's what's happened since. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/18/r...
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AmeriCorps is under siege. What happens in the communities it serves? • Ohio Capital Journal
President Trump in April abruptly canceled nearly $400 million in active AmeriCorps grants across the United States that fund volunteers who embed in communities, in exchange for a small stipend and…
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 19/08/2025
French President Macron tells @kristenwelker.bsky.social that any deal with Russia must allow Ukraine to live in peace.
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Is the idea to get rid of all the officers who actually know how to fight a war- and prevent wars worldwide —and replace them withTrump flunkies who will concentrate on internal US policing? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Top Air Force general to exit in Hegseth’s latest shake-up of Pentagon
Gen. David Allvin will retire halfway through his four-year term, becoming the most recent senior military official to be forced out by the Trump administration.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Jim Crow 2025
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Indivisible MoCoWoMen 💪 ❌🤴 @indivmocowomen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
@indivmocowomen.bsky.social is so excited to welcome you to Silver Spring, MD on 9/18/25. Join Us! bit.ly/WeAreAmerica...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/08/2025
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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When you strip away humanity
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
💥 ICE Brutalizes High-Profile Female TikToker Who Documents Raids. Sends her to Hospital after putting their knee on her neck, in the same way George Floyd was murdered. [source below]
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/08/2025
GOOD TWEET. GOOD MOOD. FIGHT.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has posted statement saying: “American soldiers and airmen policing American citizens on American soil is UnAmerican”
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Looked like a normal Sunday brunch day. I drove through a good swathe of DC NW, NE, SE on errands etc. No patrols, no military vehicles, just one guy pulled over by a cop on upper 16th St NW. Is the show over? Was it too hot (95) to be out in that gear? Or were they pulled back so EU leaders won’t 👀
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Europe will get a first-hand look at Trump’s militarization. European leaders to join Zelenskiy in face-off with Trump over Ukraine - www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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European leaders to join Zelenskiy for Washington talks as Trump presses peace deal
The heads of Britain, Italy, Finland and France will join Ukraine's president who is under U.S. pressure to accept a quick deal to end Russia's war on terms that would be hugely difficult to accept.
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Over 300 protests held Saturday against Trump redistricting push - www.reuters.com/world/us/ove...
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Over 300 protests held Saturday against Trump redistricting push
Pro-democracy activists and labor groups held hundreds of rallies and other events across the United States on Saturday protesting the Trump administration's push for Texas to redraw its congressional map in favor of Republicans.
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Maybe their inherent incompetence wii save us. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
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Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Very very troubling to see that Trump clearly still worships Putin- applauding him as fe walked toward Trump. Ive never seen him treat any other world leader this way - except Kim Jong Un.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Please Canadians 🇨🇦 avoid going to the US at all costs. It is so dangerous! Data shows that so far this year 150 Canadians are being held in ICE custody including two toddlers and a 77 year old. One man died in a Florida detention center. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AYB9b8Yh8S9W...
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Nearly 150 Canadians held in ICE custody this year, including two toddlers, data show — The Globe and Mail
One child was detained for 51 days, more than double the legal detention period, a Globe and Mail analysis found
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Fully half of the cognitive load of living in 2025 is the labor of logging into apps and websites.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
ALABAMA: “The verdict is in. The state’s tough immigration law just isn’t working out… American workers not mentally or physically fit enough to last one day…”
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
They have to provoke disturbances in peaceful areas to justify as Kingsley Wilson, the Defense Department’s press secretary said, “remain(ing) until law and order is restored in the District.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Checkpoint with ICE agents met by protesters in D.C.
Department of Homeland Security agents stopped cars at a busy intersection for seat belt violations or broken taillights, as onlookers protested.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Happy 90th Birthday, Social Security. Since 2007 I've been on SSDI. I'm GRATEFUL that even though I live on a fixed income, I HAVE an income b/c of Social Security. It's saved my life by providing me with Medicare through cancer 2x, Lupus, 2 brain surgeries. I want to live!🙏💜
Peter Morley, Patient Advocate, cancer survivor, lupus warrior in the recovery room in 2017.
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BreezyFBaby @breezybouche.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
What’s craaaazy to me is that a Minnesota state rep was ASSASSINATED and nothing even remotely close to this happened there
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Chris Connolly @chris3943.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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MikeM3 @mikeg80.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Switzerland Asks Whether Its Famed Neutrality Is Fit for the Modern World
Trump’s tariffs force the home of Davos to consider appealing to the U.S. or forming closer ties with the EU.
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Did Trump cede Alaska to Russia in advance of Friday’s meeting with Putin? Of course not. But he did say twice on Monday that he is going to Russia on Friday.
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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for $1.5 billion Trump golf club - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Exclusive: Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for $1.5 billion Trump golf club
Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just $3,200 and rice provisions in return.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital
Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 11/08/2025
Another Tennessee community is dealing with the same developers who are part of the Christian nationalist effort in Jackson County. MONDAY on @NC5 at 6PM, we travel to that county to investigate.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Trump wants to evict homeless from Washington - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump wants to evict homeless from Washington and send them 'far from the capital'
Trump said he will give homeless people places to stay, "bur far from the capital." The White House declined to explain what legal authority Trump would use to evict people from the District.
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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
They just keep out Right Winging each other
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Tony Negron @tnite02.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
We still have not felt enough pain for putting this administration in power. Red Voters have more coming and it’s unfortunate that the rest of us are along for the ride. Tony
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Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
CBS agreed to Trump censorship. They may call it a “truth arbiter” but it is a government censor to ensure only one view gets out - guess who’s? docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Note to Kristi Noem: It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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