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Karen Franklin, PhD

@karenfranklin.bsky.social
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Forensic psychologist, San Francisco Bay. Former journalist + criminal investigator. #PsychLaw www.karenfranklin.com

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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it? www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Unique argument in last-ditch appeal to spare life of childhood sexual trauma victim Christa Pike of Tennessee, age 18 at time of her crime
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ready for mobile jails? www.npr.org/2026/09/23/n...
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ICE is looking into 'mobile detention facilities'
Buried in the paperwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's expansion in Pennsylvania is a document requesting "mobile detention facilities."
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wrote about right wing sex positivity, and how the Republican Party’s shift from Christian slut shaming to pornographic vulgarity is less of a big shift than it may seem. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Far more suicide attempts by Navy sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln than previously known, @aljazeera.com confirms aje.news/bmfmbd
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US Navy confirms ‘eight suicide attempts’ on USS Lincoln: What we know
The roughly 5,000-strong crew on board the Lincoln were at sea for more than nine months with only one brief port stop.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I guess it's no longer considered a Constitutional crisis when the courts order a halt to both the White House media bans and the third-country immigrant deportations, yet the next day both things are still happening regardless? We no longer have a functional Congress? #fascism
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An infuriating part of the trans panic is "what if straight men are pretending to be trans women to harass other women?" and it's like if you care about violence against women maybe care about the global pandemic of real violence rather than maybe this might happen violence?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Insane development in Lindsay Clancy murder trial deliberations! Defense seeking to appeal judge's mistrial decision and instead kick lone male juror who won't follow the law and acquit www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Lindsay Clancy murder trial in limbo as judge says he will declare mistrial; defense appeals
For the third time since deliberations began, jurors in Clancy’s trial reported being unable to come to a consensus.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Shame on Kirk Heilbrun for participating in this witch hunt. Tarnishes an otherwise stellar reputation as he nears the end of his career.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It hasn't escaped many of us women that, as the defense noted in their closing argument, the prosecution's experts were all men.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
MAGA has spent years pushing this myth that motherhood is blissful and easy, and that feminists are lying when they say it's not. The Lindsay Clancy trial — or really, the discourse it unleashed — has shown otherwise. MAGA isn't coping well. www.salon.com/2026/08/26/t...
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The Lindsay Clancy murder trial exposes MAGA lies
Why many right-wing men can't admit that postpartum disorders are real
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Lindsay Clancy hellscape: "A courtroom is not the right place for this, I found myself thinking.... Our legal system is adversarial, so jurors have to choose: either she was a failed by the medical system, or she was a monster." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Column | The abject hell of the Lindsay Clancy trial
She’s on trial for the murder of her three children, but she’s already been damned.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 20/08/2026
if a white supremacist says anything you should assume every single word is a lie unless completely independently verified by an entirely unrelated source. if they say it is thursday you should ask an expert on days of the week. this should be the bare minimum standard in this media landscape
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Angie Nixon opens community center full of the books Republicans have banned in Florida. Nixon is currently the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Florida. Shero 🙌📚 jaxtoday.org/2025/07/02/t...
Angie Nixon wearing red top is on the left. On the right, a bookshelf displays various books, plants, and signs in a cozy, well-lit bookstore or library setting.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Angie Nixon is sick of everybody’s shit and frankly that is relatable.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This should be a bigger news story. I witnessed aggressive Israeli incursions at al-Aqsa while visiting in 2019, but these latest, large-scale provocations could prove catastrophic for the region.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The war on TPS is partly a war on the idea that non-white people should have the right to flee lands they cannot survive. It started during Trump I and accelerates today. This is a key plank in what @astra.bsky.social and I call End Times Fascism: Apartheid bunkered states as climate adaptation.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Beyond the obvious, what is fueling the anti-data centers movement? Another cogent essay from @talkingpointsmemo.com 👇
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hey, look, Mamdani speaks for Americans while his many critics… do not.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When you refuse to open the cell door, have working alarms or sprinklers, and you won't let firefighters come in or out quickly, that is murder. Too bad the killers will never be prosecuted. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/24/p...
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How An Illinois Prison Drove Desperate Men to Set Themselves on Fire
Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths.
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 20/07/2026
Built on a former plantation, Angola is a longstanding symbol of American punitiveness, where men still do farm labor in the heat amid armed guards on horseback. But amid the decades of horror stories, music has always trickled out.
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Hed: ‘Music From the Big House’ delivers blues and soul from Angola prisonDek: Standouts include a lively version of Lead Belly’s hit “Midnight Special.”
Hed: ‘Music From the Big House’ delivers blues and soul from Angola prisonDek: Standouts include a lively version of Lead Belly’s hit “Midnight Special.”
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Profound thoughts on the World Cup match 👇
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Very important piece by Cerin Lindgrensavage and @davidasuper.bsky.social. This behavior by the administration is not only illegal, it is anti-constitutional. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
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Congress rejected some of Trump’s proposed budget cuts. OMB is making them anyway.
President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.
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disgruntled lesbian of Minneapolis @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours
climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This photo pretty much sums it up. 👇
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
AP: “A history of terrifying & violent behavior… attacked multiple women… threw boiling water at his ex wife while she was holding her child…” The MAINE killer ICE agent is more proof ICE is hiring the worst of the worst and giving them badges & guns. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The detail I can’t get out of my head here is how he told his ex-wife that he had been hired by ICE, but she thought he must have been having a delusion, because how could ICE hire someone who had such a long history of family violence?
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A (small and local) revolution won! Hurray! buckscountybeacon.com/2026/07/cbsd...
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CBSD Neighbors United Was a Revolution in Central Bucks School District - Bucks County Beacon
While CBSD Neighbors United is closing its doors, the movement we started lives on.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The frustratingly vague NYT piece "leaves the reader to assemble the crime scene from fragments, then declines to investigate the most damning ones." Curious, indeed.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Glorifying inhumanity via snuff videos, "the Trump Administration is larded up with MAGA minions channeling their inner ISIS."
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Way to kick someone when they're down. Bloodsucking leeches.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Military women are under violent attack - and it's only getting worse. The rate of homicides among women soldiers from intimate partner violence is at least three times higher than the national average.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"It's a smartphone going from a luxury to a convenience to a necessity whose true purpose is mass surveillance and social control."
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Mother Of Sentient Beings🕊️ @whytetara.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
TFW their own tech snitches on them Re: the original Monopoly game as cautionary tale erasure
Monopoly was originally invented in 1903 by a progressive writer and feminist named Lizzie Magie.
She designed it as an educational tool to protest unchecked capitalism and promote a "single tax" system. Decades later, an unemployed man named Charles Darrow adapted the game and sold it to Parker Brothers in 1935, erasing Magie's legacy for decades.
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The Radical Origins: The Landlord's Game In 1903, Lizzie Magie patented The Landlord's Game.
Her goal was to demonstrate the social and economic injustices of land monopolies. w Wikipedia +1
• Two Rule Sets: The game originally featured two sets of rules. One was anti-capitalist (where players shared wealth and prosperity, and the other was a
"monopolist" version (where players aimed to crush their opponents and bankrupt everyone else).
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• The Spread: Magie's game became incredibly popular organically, primarily circulating through colleges, left-wing circles, and Quaker communities.
It was often played with the monopolist rules.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We told the nation this back in...2013 www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Taxpayer subsidies helped save Tesla Motors, so why does Elon Musk slam them?
Silicon Valley has always relied on the government to jump-start innovative businesses—no matter how much it clings to the go-it-alone narrative.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A decade ago, JD Vance told a friend Trump could become "America's Hitler." Today, a crush-them-with-troops Vance looks poised to become America's Hitler, an 80-year-old clogged heartbeat from power We need to stop Vance from becoming 48th president. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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JD Vance can never become president | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, how the 14th Amendment saved U.S. men’s soccer.
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/06/2026
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thank you @moiradonegan.bsky.social for writing this critical piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Life inside the Delaney Hall ICE detention camp is a travesty | Moira Donegan
The immigrants’ courage is matched only by the severity of their limited options. Ultimately, the pressure for change will have to come from the outside
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Shocked by the number of people who fall for this one. “Feminists and misogynists are the same because they are both dissatisfied with gender relations.”
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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I became a subscriber to the Inquirer just to read Will Bunch. His outrage at Sherrill's actions is warranted. We are in a period in which Democrats have to choose between supporting capital or opposing fascism. Sherrill is choosing to stand with capital.
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hrlatinam.bsky.social @hrlatinam.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
share.inquirer.com/g63mad - 🎁 link
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Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace | Will Bunch
New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Of all the cruelty, this is especially heartbreaking: A pregnant woman from Ghana locked in an airport room for a week, forced to choose between the health of herself and her unborn child and that of her son for whom she was seeking medical treatment. It matters not that she followed all the rules.
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Trial by jury is the final line of defense against injustice. That's why fascists seek to disempower it. Good historical review by @foxmike90.bsky.social
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 22/05/2026
We're seeing the ultra-high-profile cases where DOJ lawyers indict a former FBI director over a photo of seashells. But there are certainly many more cases out there like what happened in Chicago. And we need to find out all about it.
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In the Trenches with the Law — Thoughts on the Broadview Six Case
I was thinking last night about the denouement of the Broadview Six...
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Westworld 3.0! "The ultimate AI-age fantasy could be the chance to spend the rest of our lives being told we’re really, really special by a gorgeous robot ranch hand on a billion-dollar luxury retreat for people no longer emotionally equipped to handle reality." www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
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The return of Westworld is perfect timing for the flattery-oriented age of AI
Now that real life has caught up with science fiction, the imminent danger isn’t malfunctioning cowboys, it’s the robots convincing us that we’re great and everything is totally fine
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Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Rallying in support of grotesque sexual violence. Appalling.
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