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Stop Calling Me Frank
@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social
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Working up a fever in a one-horse town. Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band on Rum Bar Records. The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, academic crotchets, crap-takes and low-effort posts are mine.
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 10d
New single: “M.B. Anthem (The Market Basket Song)”: a pious hymn to our favorite grocery store.
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MB Anthem (The Market Basket Song), by Stop Calling Me Frank
track by Stop Calling Me Frank
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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 5h
Hard to think of a more pointed pick given Trump's murder and terror spree punishing Venezuelans for being forced to endure a dictatorship.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5h
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 11h
Shit is so bad that the best American news of the week is that Dolly Parton didn't die.
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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 13h
Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”
An Interview With the Portland Chicken
Rachel Saslow
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14h
Not even at a year into this and we're at the anxiously watching to see if an academic can successfully escape from America stage.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 16h
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h
they can see the polling
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 20h
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 9h
Staring into the abyss but it's looking at its phone
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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 9h
I've had blind dates like this. Heyoooo
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 9h
Staring into the abyss but it's looking at its phone
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 9h
(I mean: that’s the movie, not the answer.)
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 9h
Ninotchka?
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rawkitbawl @rawkitbawl.bsky.social · 9h
It's wild how completely stupid he sounds. If you ever for whatever reason thought the rich were smarter or better than you, this article will certainly cure that.
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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 9h
😳

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Exclusive: Peter Thiel in talk on 'Antichrist' says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has urged long-time associate Elon Musk to quit the Giving Pledge under which signatories leave the majority of their wealth to charity.
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 9h
You can see the clumsy trick with the word “politics”: petty liberals are ending friendships over reasonable disagreements about taxation or regulations. But this isn’t about politics. It’s a disagreement about reality and morality at basic levels.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h
Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h
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Kenny Smith #THWG @kennysmith.bsky.social · 9h
You’ve got your bad data and your nada data.

And that, friends, is no way to feed the country.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 16h
Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as US shutdown blocks key crop data reut.rs/3VYW3xZ
Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as US shutdown blocks key crop data
U.S. data vital to global grain and soybean trading has gone dark during the federal government's shutdown, leaving commodity traders and farmers without crop production estimates, export sales data and market reports during the peak of the autumn harvest.
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 9h
“It’s a great word that you don’t hear anymore, and they don’t want me to say it—‘Sir, the fake media will go crazy!’—I gotta say it: ‘Famine.’”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h
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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 10h
I wonder if we’re bailing out Argentina because of Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice.
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Why Trump loves 'Evita,' and what it says about his presidency
A look at President Donald Trump's love of Evita, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 10h
This works if “civics” refers to the education of citizens and it also works if it refers to Honda Civics. That’s because they’re both totally gay.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10h
It will soon come ashore looking for the manager.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10h
Subtropical Storm Karen forms far from land in the north Atlantic Ocean.
Tropical Storm Raymond, third system now off the coast of Mexico, forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean
Tropical Storm Raymond has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the third system now off the western coast of Mexico. The U.S.
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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 10h
logging on
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11h
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 10h
Somehow topical
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Peace Frog (2020 Remaster)
YouTube video by The Doors - Topic
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h
And Trump always speaks so well of him too.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 11h
President Barack Obama is facing criticism from right-wing influencers and White House officials after a post celebrating the Israel-Hamas peace deal failed to mention Donald Trump.
MAGA Fumes at Obama for Ignoring Trump in His Peace Post
Furious Republicans found another reason to be annoyed at the former president.
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 10h
Portland is an excellent illustration of Hunter Thompson’s adage, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 10h
I'm really proud of how my city is handling the situation so far. It's endearing weird against oh-my-god-what-is-THIS weird.
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 10h
Check out Charles Ponzi: “Mom, why did you always dress me like the con-man in the Simpsons’ monorail episode?”
Charles Ponzo in dapper suit and hat, holding a cane horizontally
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