B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Whatever 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. 000
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Living 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. 100
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) 000
Reposted by B.FranklinDecoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 15/11/2025When 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. 1125241
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 10/11/2025And it has begun … the very moment when humans transform into Eloi and Morlocks 000
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Choose 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 000
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 10/10/2025My attempt to perfectly mashup The B-52s and The Clash … know your rights, all three of them 000
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 16/07/2025I just had a horrible thought: when the new school year starts ... ICE thugs will be plundering all the schools and whisking away parents/kids. 000
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 22/06/2025In 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.” 000
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 24/05/2025My 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. 010
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I 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. 🧵 200
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 06/02/2025David Cross 🔥youtu.beDavid Cross Is Starting To Regret His Vote for Trump...YouTube video by Comedy Dynamics 010
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I 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. 🧵 400
Reposted by B.FranklinJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025historyfacts.com/us-history/a... Trump may not want to celebrate but all of us should lift up Black History month.historyfacts.comThe Story of the Harlem Renaissance, in 6 FactsThroughout 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. 271534384
Reposted by B.FranklinAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/02/2025Trump 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 707108161309
Reposted by B.FranklinMikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025Then stop him. Boot out Musk. Do...literally anything 1020039
Reposted by B.FranklinRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Rape threats. Let's be clear. They texted rape threats. 38473175
Reposted by B.FranklinJoe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Please follow C-Span here on BSky. They need a social media platform that is not Musk's or Meta. Encourage them. 122
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 23/01/2025💯facebook.comWell said! | By Stop Being The Stupid Party | FacebookWell said! 000
Reposted by B.FranklinAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/01/2025Dear 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...govinfo.govSelect January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection 882222537235
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Snow is new water feature for Gulf of America residents 000
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Churchhill WWII Speeches: Simple is Powerful Early Punk: Simple is Powerful 000
Reposted by B.FranklinChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/01/2025Bryan 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. 99118395355
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I'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. 🧵 100
Reposted by B.FranklinFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Don’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. 872878511
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Hey Siri … show me photos of Victorian Era, and current-day China and India, hell throw in an image of “Blinky” the three-eyed fish 010
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Unserious nominations are surpassed by unserious Senators. 000
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 11/01/2025“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.” Nick Carraway 010
Reposted by B.FranklinDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/01/2025To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling." 286193402996
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Invading 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!! 021
Reposted by B.FranklinAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 07/01/2025All 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) 1215028
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Trump fielding questions reminds me of Frank Cross (Bill Murray in 'Scrooged') determining whether people would get a VCR or a towel for Christmas.media.tenor.coma 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 . 000
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Corporation phone menuing systems are the canary in the coalmine of everything horrible in our society. 000
Reposted by B.FranklinTom Dreisbach @tomdreisbach.bsky.social · 06/01/2025As 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: 58257
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 06/01/2025I just added "Golden Globe" and "Golden Globes" to my MUTE word/tag list. @bsky.app 030
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 05/01/2025There 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. 010
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Postecoglou 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 020
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Dune: Prophecy — I'm not sure how many seasons producers had in mind, but probably should be edited down to half. 000
Reposted by B.FranklinSteve 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-...steveschmidt.substack.comPresident Carter, may you have fair winds and following seasThe 39th president of the United States of America has died. 935544
Reposted by B.FranklinJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024This is so spot-on it’s scary. 11345509514311
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I was too young to be aware of this, but a jazz festival is a brilliant use of White House grounds. #Jazz IQ/EQ 020
Reposted by B.FranklinGod @thegodshow.com · 29/12/2024Well they didn’t like the price of eggs. Hope they can accept the price of fascism. 1325756870
B.Franklin @simpleniceness.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I'm not a Liverpool fan, but Salah is special. #EPL #LFC 040