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The Founders are appalled. Loves checks and balances, functional markets, boring banks, anticorruption and Lina Khan.

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · Feb 17

All these MAGA preppers out here paranoid about EMPs knocking out large areas of critical infrastructure… They’re busy lining rooms with tinfoil while the richest man in the world up and fires the specialists who maintain their grid. Turns out your vote for Trump was the EMP bitches

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 21h

They’re just going to scapegoat harder.

benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 23h

Nice. I hang out with @thebulwark.com for my sanity and have already turned to @propublica.org and the Guardian for investigative reporting and news. @wired.com should be on the roster too IMO

benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 23h

Good for them for calling it disgraceful and unbecoming for any Republican... Are they serious though? Joking about violence and denigrating women and minorities is standard fare for current MAGA influencers all the way up to MAGAPOTUS himself. Expand the dismissals guys.

benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

If this is as widespread as it seems… well I get why young women aren’t as interested in marriage

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Just trying to imagine what Republicans would’ve done if, say, the head of the California Democratic Party were accused of rape, while one of the state’s Democratic congressmen has his career ended by sex trafficking allegations and a second juggled multiple allegations of sexual harassment.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

(taps mic)

“Florida Keys Party”

Florida's GOP power couple is embroiled in scandal

House report on former Rep.
Matt Gaetz reveals rampant sexual misconduct, drug use

Exclusive: Top Florida
GOP official was convicted in probe into his romantic involvement with
inmate during his time as jail employee

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against
Rep. Cory Mills

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

This is according to DHS even. They have already proven untrustworthy. I’m suspicious this guy really is who they want him to be

benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

‘08. Comparative newcomers punching way above their weight. NYT and WaPo have been around for 150 years or more. ProPublica doesn’t have their kind of pedigree but they’ve more commitment and they’re doing it on a nonprofit model in the interest of the public, not of profit or billionaire preference

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OpenSecrets.org @opensecrets.org · 1d

President Trump created two similarly named orgs connected to his presidential library. One has shut down without explanation. And because their are no disclosure requirements, the public does not know who is donating to them or how the money being used. www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/10...

One of Trump’s library funds has mysteriously dissolved, but a lack of transparency keeps the public in the dark - OpenSecrets News

Florida officials have administratively dissolved a nonprofit fund connected to President Donald Trump’s planned presidential library because it failed to…

www.opensecrets.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 4d

Story we discussed is here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 3d

Holy crap the @pemalevy.bsky.social interview is not to be missed. An eye-opening look at the Nazi-esque dual-state that SCOTUS is enabling

On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 4d

📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is for sale.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.

Quid Pro Presidency

Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits…

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

*Leaders* of young Republicans from across the country on Telegram are like - “Im going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man” 🤨 Violent ideation is the norm for fash. It’s why they celebrate violent authoritarians like Pinochet and Franco.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

With you on the Economist (and Guardian). See also ProPublica; they’re relatively new and already have a pile of Pulitzers.

Wired(!) is also killing it. And social media can be a great way to track what’s happening if you follow good people.

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

time for our genius POTUS to discontinue congressionally-allocated funding for large renewable energy projects

benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

“five years earlier than usual”

cheaters.

benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

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Kenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social · 1d

The Wired piece by @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social on this just dropped, and the research by Heninger et al is stunning:
“sensitive [sat] traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, corp, gov't, and…private citizens’ voice calls & SMS". 🧵

Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

heh never mind just read your bio so can infer what happened

benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

oh no what happened

benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 1d

Right? What ever happened with that