Frank Lynch
@fplynch.bsky.social
OK, you found me. Ex-marketing researcher. Editor in chief, samueljohnson.com
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Sucks to get shot. Sucks to get shot on a stupid mission.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Sucks to get shot. Sucks to get shot on a stupid mission.
Some people bury their exes on a golf course; others get them deported.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Some people bury their exes on a golf course; others get them deported.
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“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
Beyond "Avalon": gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
The perfect Thanksgiving NYC indie film almost didn't get made
At the turn of the century, Katie Holmes starred in "Piece of April," James Hedges' now-cult classic.
gothamist.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Beyond "Avalon": gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
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Americans are paying 11% more for electricity than when Trump took office.
His solution? Blame blue states and push coal.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
His solution? Blame blue states and push coal.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Affordability means freezing to death, right?
You know what everyone loves heading into winter and the holiday season? The looming—and increasing—threat of having their power shut off.� And how is President Donald Trump going to deal with ...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Americans are paying 11% more for electricity than when Trump took office.
His solution? Blame blue states and push coal.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
His solution? Blame blue states and push coal.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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And people thought SignalGate was bad, the Witkoff recordings are something else on a much higher level.
#Criminals
#Criminals
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
And people thought SignalGate was bad, the Witkoff recordings are something else on a much higher level.
#Criminals
#Criminals
I think I could afford the time to update the playlist I created for my wife when WFH set in back in March 2020
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I think I could afford the time to update the playlist I created for my wife when WFH set in back in March 2020
This is a tax.
The new plan makes non-U.S. residents “pay a higher rate to help support the care and maintenance of America’s parks,” the Department of the Interior said.
Trump Hits Millions of Tourists With a National Park Price Spike
International travelers will soon have to pay three times as much as Americans to visit the national parks.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is a tax.
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Republican Rep. Don Bacon calls for Witkoff to be fired. May it be the first call of many. Witkoff needs to go, now.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Republican Rep. Don Bacon calls for Witkoff to be fired. May it be the first call of many. Witkoff needs to go, now.
On @arimelber.bsky.social, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social reminded us of Oct 18 in the sequence of Trump’s deterioration, and I remembered Trump’s pathetic, tin eared response: an AI video of him in a plane, bombing marchers with fecal slop. Trump did not get it.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
On @arimelber.bsky.social, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social reminded us of Oct 18 in the sequence of Trump’s deterioration, and I remembered Trump’s pathetic, tin eared response: an AI video of him in a plane, bombing marchers with fecal slop. Trump did not get it.
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The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video in the first place. He believes in weaponizing the federal government against his perceived enemies and does not believe laws apply to him or his Cabinet.
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video in the first place. He believes in weaponizing the federal government against his perceived enemies and does not believe laws apply to him or his Cabinet.
Enough about sex cardigans can we talk about sex spatterdashes
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Enough about sex cardigans can we talk about sex spatterdashes
I do genuinely wonder how Lindsey Halligan got herself into all this, how much of it is due to a lot of horrible advice from Trump's circle, her ignorance, her aspirations. We have a good feel for who Bondi is thanks to what she says into a mike, but Halligan? I think there's a story here.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I do genuinely wonder how Lindsey Halligan got herself into all this, how much of it is due to a lot of horrible advice from Trump's circle, her ignorance, her aspirations. We have a good feel for who Bondi is thanks to what she says into a mike, but Halligan? I think there's a story here.
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
More textbook stuff
More textbook stuff
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
More textbook stuff
More textbook stuff
Admitting the shoe fits
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Admitting the shoe fits
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Given the BlueSky habit of raging at news media for not framing a story exactly right (I am not innocent), I want to stop and thank every journalist who’s digging up facts about this unprecedented moment of profound evil in our government. Owners may suck, editors err, but you are golden. Thank you.
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Given the BlueSky habit of raging at news media for not framing a story exactly right (I am not innocent), I want to stop and thank every journalist who’s digging up facts about this unprecedented moment of profound evil in our government. Owners may suck, editors err, but you are golden. Thank you.
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Pete Hegseth sees the front of an ambulance and asks, "What's an ECNALUBMA?"
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Pete Hegseth sees the front of an ambulance and asks, "What's an ECNALUBMA?"
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If you missed last night’s stellar talk with @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social on Octavia E. Butler, you can watch the entire program for free on YouTube. Hear these acclaimed writers delve into the genius of the Xenogenesis Trilogy, and catch rare audio of Butler herself!
The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler
YouTube video by Library of America
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If you missed last night’s stellar talk with @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social on Octavia E. Butler, you can watch the entire program for free on YouTube. Hear these acclaimed writers delve into the genius of the Xenogenesis Trilogy, and catch rare audio of Butler herself!
Don't you just love it when an account you follow re-skeets TWELVE skeets (s)he was quote-skeeted in? Quote-skeeting the same skeet? TWELVE times, and in quick fashion. That's thin ice behavior, I have to say.
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Don't you just love it when an account you follow re-skeets TWELVE skeets (s)he was quote-skeeted in? Quote-skeeting the same skeet? TWELVE times, and in quick fashion. That's thin ice behavior, I have to say.
For all non-fans of Hold Steady (I'm one), a cool thread on music criticism. (I used to look forward to CBS Saturday Morning's Saturday Sessions* - - and was disappointed when they'd be on.)
*Exposed me to Lucy Dacus, Middle Kids, Madison Cunningham, many other solid acts.
The thread ⬇️
*Exposed me to Lucy Dacus, Middle Kids, Madison Cunningham, many other solid acts.
The thread ⬇️
If you keep in mind one of the greatest lines of rock criticism of all time — "late period Soul Asylum fronted by Charles Nelson Reilly" — maybe you can smile through it
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
For all non-fans of Hold Steady (I'm one), a cool thread on music criticism. (I used to look forward to CBS Saturday Morning's Saturday Sessions* - - and was disappointed when they'd be on.)
*Exposed me to Lucy Dacus, Middle Kids, Madison Cunningham, many other solid acts.
The thread ⬇️
*Exposed me to Lucy Dacus, Middle Kids, Madison Cunningham, many other solid acts.
The thread ⬇️
Happy Evacuation Day, everyone!
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Evacuation Day (New York) - Wikipedia
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November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Happy Evacuation Day, everyone!
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.