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Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

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“Necessitous Men Are Not Free Men” Refugee from Truth Social 2, aka Xitter

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Frank D’Elia @frankd7.bsky.social · 14d

“…if it weren't for liberals, we'd be living in a dark, evil country…What has conservatism given America? A stable social order? A peaceful homelife? Respect for law and order?Hell, no.It hasn't given us anything we didn't have and it wants to take away our freedoms”

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Kris @pachyaena.bsky.social · 11h

Is Portland Burning? No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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Frank D’Elia @frankd7.bsky.social · 1h

Court stenographers sleepwalking through autocracy.
At least they’re consistent in their principled stand against sensationalizing the age-diminished capacity of presidents of both parties.
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Frank D’Elia @frankd7.bsky.social · 1d

“…vaccines in terms of these massive vaccines twice the size of a jar like that, a glass of water like that, into a baby's body.” My question to the court stenographers - AKA, the Washington press corp - is how the fuck are you listening to this without directly questioning his sanity

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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 14h

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

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Frank D’Elia @frankd7.bsky.social · 1h

Good story about RFK the Lesser’s latest expectoration, with this gem: “He…relayed a story about a "Columbia professor" who "was saying F Trump and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta" -- which is not where fetuses are located”. “Relayed”: invented
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RFK Jr. Links Circumcision to Autism via Supposed Tylenol Use

Kennedy cited two studies, but neither offered proof of causality

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Trixie 🌸🇨🇦 @trixie57.bsky.social · Jul 4

The story of Bogalusa Louisiana, the Trump town that Trump is about to destroy. 70% of Bogalusa voted for Trump.

Also on his hit list -
Knox County, Kentucky
Mamou, Louisiana
Stigler, Oklahoma
Fort Scott, Kansas

Kansas could lose 60% of its hospitals.

Yet Maga still proudly wears their red hats.😳

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 3h

Senator, I appreciate everything you're doing and saying but I also think at a certain point you and your Democratic colleagues need to be more direct and just say plainly that Speaker Johnson is a massive liar who lies all the time to advance his agenda.

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Frank D’Elia @frankd7.bsky.social · 1h

Maths are hard for MiniMike.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3h

Trump’s chaos will punish students.

It’s not the billionaires’ kids who will suffer.

It's working families' kids who will fall further behind.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 2h

Why is there so much hatred in this world and particularly in this country?

This is a pastor calling for Black youth to be killed/ executed.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

Four dead, 12 injured after a mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi, following a homecoming football game. (NYP)

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19h

It’s almost like OSHA and other regulatory agencies are actually important 😱

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2h

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.

In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.

@washingtonpost.com
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D. A. Rupprecht @darupprecht.bsky.social · 6h

apnews.com/article/russ... restored to 800,000 in Kyiv after major Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy grid

Power restored to 800,000 in Kyiv after major Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy grid

Power has been restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv, a day after Russia launched major attacks on Ukraine's power grid, causing widespread blackouts.

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Frank D’Elia @frankd7.bsky.social · 2h

“Over the past three decades, stagnant weekly wages of public school teachers have fallen further and further behind those of college graduates who chose other careers, resulting in an ever increasing teacher pay gap that hit a record high in 2024”
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The teacher pay penalty reached a record high in 2024: Three decades of leaving public school teachers behind

Over the past three decades, stagnant weekly wages of public school teachers have fallen further and further behind those of college graduates who chose other careers, resulting in an ever increasing ...

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 20h

For context, this work stems from the idea that all data modalities (images, sounds, text, etc) are views of the same underlying world, and that treating them as such is useful.

We are interested in identifying commonalities between different models and modalities, and providing unifications.

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Frank D’Elia @frankd7.bsky.social · 2h

“The defense secretary cites a “Trump bump.” But the Army’s recruiting surge wouldn’t have been possible without the program started three years ago at Fort Jackson.”
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This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

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MetaArXivBot @metaarxivbot.bsky.social · 14h

Methodological biases in Virology: Insights and Lessons from Early SARS-CoV-2 Studies: https://osf.io/vjw86

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 16h

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van. Merica!

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van | Common Dreams

WGN producer Debbie Brockman forcefully arrested by ICE agents in Chicago. Video shows aggressive tactics used in the arrest.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 18h

My understding is this arrest is contempt of court by ICE who have been explicitly ordered by the courts not to arrest journalists.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 18h

Elevating today’s ICE arrest of a journalist and American citizen in Chicago

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 14h

Republicans want to be the party of healthcare? Open up the government. Put the subsidies back in place, and stop fucking with people’s health care.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

After we all spend years chasing the same bubble/fad while the rest of our programs are defunded (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), we'll discover students also need to still learn things like, foreign languages & all the liberal arts. Maybe we'll still have a few of those programs left, too, but 🤷‍♂️

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