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B.Franklin

@simpleniceness.bsky.social
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Creating "a more perfect union" shouldn't be this dysfunctional and it certainly can't be found in the past ... in the grave-clothes of imperfect leaders and citizens who were apt to state, "The beatings will continue until morale improves."

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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Whatever megalomaniac building projects has started should be immediately removed and land cleaned up at Trump’s personal expense: East Wing, reflecting pool, the arch, etc, etc.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Living in the US is like Gilligan’s Island … what should have been a three-hour tour has turned into a serialized abandonment of serious solutions to real problems… and each episode concludes with another clownish act of ineptitude.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“Nobody starts to fight foul until he sees he can’t win any other way.” from “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” (1943)
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The Irany of F47 policies/whims
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
When Fox News doesn't know how to spin a story the network ignores it. @stephaniemiller.bsky.social found a way to bring up the Epstein emails on Hannity. Greg Gutfeld downplayed it on "The Five." It wasn't mentioned on Fox & Friends or The Ingraham Angle.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
And it has begun … the very moment when humans transform into Eloi and Morlocks
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Choose One: 1. Case of Trump Wine 2. Trump Crypto Currency 3. Trump Get-Out-Of-Jail Pardon 4. Lunch at a Trump Property 5. Signed Truth Social Tweet
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Demo•goguery gone wild
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
My attempt to perfectly mashup The B-52s and The Clash … know your rights, all three of them
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I just had a horrible thought: when the new school year starts ... ICE thugs will be plundering all the schools and whisking away parents/kids.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
In Terry Jones' (Monty Python) Middle Ages series: “Chaucer referred to the 100 Years War stuttering on, like all wars it was a very costly business. The attitude of barons was that the spoils of war were private, but the funding should be public.”
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
My great-great-grandfather introduced a bill in 1873 in the New York legislature, first designating May 30 as Memorial Day. It later became a national holiday.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I find worker's unions to be counterproductive. I also know that toxic management/ownership led to the need for unions. Although I have never had to join a union I support the right of workers not to be exploited, to work in a safe environment, and to earn a fair wage and access to benefits. 🧵
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
David Cross 🔥
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David Cross Is Starting To Regret His Vote for Trump...
YouTube video by Comedy Dynamics
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I just started to watch "The Mortal Storm" (1940; starring James Stewart) about a family ripped apart in Nazi Germany. Very few people are still alive who remember firsthand the rising storm that led to Blitzkrieg and sunk Europe into years of destruction. 🧵
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
historyfacts.com/us-history/a... Trump may not want to celebrate but all of us should lift up Black History month.
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The Story of the Harlem Renaissance, in 6 Facts
Throughout the 1920s, New York City’s Harlem neighborhood served as the vibrant headquarters of a transformative period in African American art, literature, music, and social justice leadership.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/02/2025
Trump in a press avail, said yesterday that under Biden, planes were “circling all over.” This makes absolutely no sense from an aviation perspective. Literal nonsense speak
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025
Then stop him. Boot out Musk. Do...literally anything
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Rape threats. Let's be clear. They texted rape threats.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Please follow C-Span here on BSky. They need a social media platform that is not Musk's or Meta. Encourage them.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Well said! | By Stop Being The Stupid Party | Facebook
Well said!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/01/2025
Dear members of the press, Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE: When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here: www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
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Select January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Snow is new water feature for Gulf of America residents
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Churchhill WWII Speeches: Simple is Powerful Early Punk: Simple is Powerful
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Griftmas Eve Sunday, January 19, 2025
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/01/2025
Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of a New York-based immigrant rights group, was pulled over by CBP with two undocumented passengers in the vehicle. He knew his rights, refused to acknowledge their "warrant", and despite CBP threatening him, the agents eventually were forced to let him go.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I'm rewatching "Hitsville, The Making of Motown" ... The DNC needs to replicate what Berry Gordy did, which is to replicate the FoMoCo assembly line. Law School isn't enough, public speaking isn't enough, ego or vision isn't enough. 🧵
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Don’t come crying about “norms and traditions” of attending the inauguration when the asshat getting sworn in broke that tradition himself. Now the norm is to skip it. Congratulations Donald. You did that.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Hey Siri … show me photos of Victorian Era, and current-day China and India, hell throw in an image of “Blinky” the three-eyed fish
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Unserious nominations are surpassed by unserious Senators.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.” Nick Carraway
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/01/2025
To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Invading our allies' countries will be way easier than invading Iraq and Afghanistan (which Rumsfeld said would be easy). Invading our allies' countries is like sleeping with your friend's spouse! Everybody wins!!
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 07/01/2025
All the Trumpy talk about the U.S. taking over Greenland, Canada, Panama, Neptune, etc. makes one thing clear: That, just like in Trump's first term, a HUGE challenge for news outlets will be paying less attention to bullshit and more to (1) bad policies and (2) incompetence and malversation. (1/4)
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Covfefe 2.0
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Trump fielding questions reminds me of Frank Cross (Bill Murray in 'Scrooged') determining whether people would get a VCR or a towel for Christmas.
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a man with a missing tooth is wearing a black jacket and white shirt .
ALT: a man with a missing tooth is wearing a black jacket and white shirt .
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Corporation phone menuing systems are the canary in the coalmine of everything horrible in our society.
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Tom Dreisbach @tomdreisbach.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
As Donald Trump prepares to pardon people convicted for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, it's worth looking at what leading Republicans said in the immediate aftermath of that day's violence. A thread:
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I just added "Golden Globe" and "Golden Globes" to my MUTE word/tag list. @bsky.app
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
There is a certain *sameness* to all the title sequences for all the big streaming service series (GoT, Westworld, White Lotus, Only Murders, Silo, Slow Horses, etc). I'm grateful to choose skip intro.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Postecoglou only has Plan A and the front office only seems to have a Plan B/C. After the injuries in the last season, it would have been great to work on physio/conditioning. #hotspur not so hot and underperforming with a +12 GD
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Dune: Prophecy — I'm not sure how many seasons producers had in mind, but probably should be edited down to half.
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
“The American people should take a moment and say a prayer of gratitude for Jimmy Carter. Whatever ails America, it still produces people like Jimmy Carter.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/president-...
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President Carter, may you have fair winds and following seas
The 39th president of the United States of America has died.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This is so spot-on it’s scary.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I was too young to be aware of this, but a jazz festival is a brilliant use of White House grounds. #Jazz IQ/EQ
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/12/2024
Well they didn’t like the price of eggs. Hope they can accept the price of fascism.
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B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I'm not a Liverpool fan, but Salah is special. #EPL #LFC
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