Reposted by Jackie FrankAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Pritzker: 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. 11575512717326
Reposted by Jackie FrankJeff.L @jefflockard.bsky.social · 25/08/2025The US side. Mexico is taking a different approach. 2234
Reposted by Jackie FrankSave VOA @savevoa.bsky.social · 24/08/2025On 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 👂wnycstudios.orgThe Power of Shortwave Radio. And, What Gets Lost with Voice of America? | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThis 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... 02813
Reposted by Jackie FrankGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/08/2025What is it called when government owns the means of production again? 44556041266
Reposted by Jackie FrankBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 20/08/2025President 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 Noembloom.bgTrump Wants to Paint Border Wall Black So It’s Too Hot to TouchPresident 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. 376414161
Reposted by Jackie FrankSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 19/08/2025www.businessinsider.com/corporate-ba...businessinsider.comUS bankruptcies are surging past 2020 pandemic levelsMarkets are rising and the economy is on solid footing, but corporate bankruptcies jumped to their highest level since 2020 in July. 13221113
Reposted by Jackie FrankThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/08/2025In @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.nyti.msOpinion | The Mind-Boggling Intrusiveness of Donald J. TrumpThe president is driving the tentacles of the federal government deep into the nation’s economy, culture and legal system. 3614543
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Looks like someone went into thrift stores and bought tasteless castoffs. 140
Reposted by Jackie FrankJohn Palfrey @palfrey.org · 19/08/2025Joining 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...nytimes.comThe Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations 624489
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 19/08/2025George Will : As flaccid as a boned fish, Donald Trump crumpled quicker than even Vladimir Putin probably anticipated. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Now it is the Old World’s turn to rescue the United StatesAs Trump met with European leaders on Ukraine, Churchill’s words from days long ago came to mind. 010
Reposted by Jackie FrankOhio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 19/08/2025President 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...ohiocapitaljournal.comAmeriCorps is under siege. What happens in the communities it serves? • Ohio Capital JournalPresident 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… 13021
Reposted by Jackie FrankNBC News @nbcnews.com · 19/08/2025French President Macron tells @kristenwelker.bsky.social that any deal with Russia must allow Ukraine to live in peace. 741328300
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Is 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...washingtonpost.comTop Air Force general to exit in Hegseth’s latest shake-up of PentagonGen. 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. 000
Reposted by Jackie FrankMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Jim Crow 2025 40747371754
Reposted by Jackie FrankIndivisible 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... 054
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 18/08/2025youtube.com/shorts/sAmcu...youtube.comWhen you strip away humanityYouTube video by Josh Johnson 000
Reposted by Jackie FrankChris⚖️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] 30201159
Reposted by Jackie FrankOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/08/2025GOOD TWEET. GOOD MOOD. FIGHT. 511144564073
Reposted by Jackie FrankScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 18/08/2025DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has posted statement saying: “American soldiers and airmen policing American citizens on American soil is UnAmerican” 20684682210
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Looked 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 👀 000
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Europe 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...reuters.comEuropean leaders to join Zelenskiy for Washington talks as Trump presses peace dealThe 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. 000
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Over 300 protests held Saturday against Trump redistricting push - www.reuters.com/world/us/ove...reuters.comOver 300 protests held Saturday against Trump redistricting pushPro-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. 010
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Maybe their inherent incompetence wii save us. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...npr.orgGovernment papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summitDocuments with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer. 000
Reposted by Jackie FrankAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/08/2025“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened. 676233237442
Reposted by Jackie FrankMia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Very 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. 1524430
Reposted by Jackie FrankMarie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Please 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...apple.newsNearly 150 Canadians held in ICE custody this year, including two toddlers, data show — The Globe and MailOne child was detained for 51 days, more than double the legal detention period, a Globe and Mail analysis found 59798433
Reposted by Jackie FrankNick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Fully half of the cognitive load of living in 2025 is the labor of logging into apps and websites. 1830121
Reposted by Jackie FrankThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025ALABAMA: “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…” 909108194306
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 14/08/2025They 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...washingtonpost.comCheckpoint 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. 010
Reposted by Jackie FrankPeter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Happy 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!🙏💜 622042
Reposted by Jackie FrankBreezyFBaby @breezybouche.bsky.social · 14/08/2025What’s craaaazy to me is that a Minnesota state rep was ASSASSINATED and nothing even remotely close to this happened there 5943091366
Reposted by Jackie FrankChris Connolly @chris3943.bsky.social · 14/08/2025bsky.app/profile/acyn... 062
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 13/08/2025www.wsj.com/world/europe...wsj.comSwitzerland Asks Whether Its Famed Neutrality Is Fit for the Modern WorldTrump’s tariffs force the home of Davos to consider appealing to the U.S. or forming closer ties with the EU. 000
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Did 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. 100
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for $1.5 billion Trump golf club - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...reuters.comExclusive: Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for $1.5 billion Trump golf clubVietnamese 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. 100
Reposted by Jackie FrankSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v... 5252805611552
Reposted by Jackie FrankAvram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAnas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospitalAl 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. 18024
Reposted by Jackie FrankMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed. 604122379687
Reposted by Jackie FrankPhil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 11/08/2025Another 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. 12405243
Reposted by Jackie FrankAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Inslee: 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. 384156124791
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Trump wants to evict homeless from Washington - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...reuters.comTrump 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. 201
Reposted by Jackie FrankDcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 10/08/2025They just keep out Right Winging each other 712552636
Reposted by Jackie FrankTony Negron @tnite02.bsky.social · 09/08/2025We 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 1692402874
Jackie Frank @jmfrank.bsky.social · 09/08/2025CBS 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... 000
Reposted by Jackie FrankMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Note 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. 687221276232