🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦
@franmacp.bsky.social
Small L liberal. Deeply concerned about the current state of the world. Believe climate change is real and serious work needs to be done so the earth is still inhabitable for our grandkids and their kids.
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“Dictators are never as strong as they tell you they are…People are never as weak as they think they are.”
- Dr Gene Sharp
- Dr Gene Sharp
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Shocking yet no longer surprising.
WTF? ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security.
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Shocking yet no longer surprising.
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Affordable healthcare, if not free universal healthcare, would help stabilize our country and boost the economy. People who can't afford to live can't afford to buy. People who can't afford to live are also going to have to resort more to crime and violence.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Affordable healthcare, if not free universal healthcare, would help stabilize our country and boost the economy. People who can't afford to live can't afford to buy. People who can't afford to live are also going to have to resort more to crime and violence.
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I'm becoming more and more concerned everyday that we can't make it three years. It will take years if not decades to rebuild all the shit DJT has dismantled.
Trump 'Taking a Sledgehammer' to One of World's Most Vital Climate Research Center, Scientists Warn | Common Dreams
Colorado officials are vowing to fight the Trump administration's attack on climate research at NCAR with every legal tool. Will dismantling this renowned scientific facility jeopardize our ability to...
www.commondreams.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I'm becoming more and more concerned everyday that we can't make it three years. It will take years if not decades to rebuild all the shit DJT has dismantled.
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Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
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Over six years ago, I published an 11,000 word article in The Atlantic (gift link below) explaining how Donald Trump was, beyond any question, mentally ill and unfit to hold any office of public trust.
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Over six years ago, I published an 11,000 word article in The Atlantic (gift link below) explaining how Donald Trump was, beyond any question, mentally ill and unfit to hold any office of public trust.
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Zelenskyy: “Today we heard new signals from Moscow that Russia is preparing 2026 as a year of war. These signals are not only for us. Our partners must see them, and respond, including in the United States, where some still claim Russia wants to end the war.”
December 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Zelenskyy: “Today we heard new signals from Moscow that Russia is preparing 2026 as a year of war. These signals are not only for us. Our partners must see them, and respond, including in the United States, where some still claim Russia wants to end the war.”
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Orbán claimed that the EU Comm had taken the question of seizing frozen RU assets off the formal agenda of this week’s EU summit.
Fact: EU docs describe summit as a key moment for deciding on a “reparations loan” to Ukraine backed by immobilized RU assets.
Orbán’s statement = Budapest’s framing
Fact: EU docs describe summit as a key moment for deciding on a “reparations loan” to Ukraine backed by immobilized RU assets.
Orbán’s statement = Budapest’s framing
December 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Orbán claimed that the EU Comm had taken the question of seizing frozen RU assets off the formal agenda of this week’s EU summit.
Fact: EU docs describe summit as a key moment for deciding on a “reparations loan” to Ukraine backed by immobilized RU assets.
Orbán’s statement = Budapest’s framing
Fact: EU docs describe summit as a key moment for deciding on a “reparations loan” to Ukraine backed by immobilized RU assets.
Orbán’s statement = Budapest’s framing
This??? Is what they are spending hard-earned taxpayer $$$ for??? This display is shameful & and an affront to every single American!
WH added text to the pictures hanging on the wall… to sum it up: it is deranged.
December 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This??? Is what they are spending hard-earned taxpayer $$$ for??? This display is shameful & and an affront to every single American!
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I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Love 💕 this because it’s so damn true!
December 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Love 💕 this because it’s so damn true!
Speech is only free when a Republican says it & to hell with everyone else… Think about that in the context of the First Amendment!
PETERS: Will you commit you will not move to revoke any license for broadcasters or retaliate against companies merely for hosting content critical of POTUS?
CARR: Any broadcaster that complies with the public interest standard is not in any risk
P: And you get to determine the public interest
CARR: Any broadcaster that complies with the public interest standard is not in any risk
P: And you get to determine the public interest
December 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Speech is only free when a Republican says it & to hell with everyone else… Think about that in the context of the First Amendment!
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The 🍊🌮💩 is NOT my President!!! He never was nor will ever be!
What a disgrace and embarrassment to us all.
What a disgrace and embarrassment to us all.
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The 🍊🌮💩 is NOT my President!!! He never was nor will ever be!
What a disgrace and embarrassment to us all.
What a disgrace and embarrassment to us all.
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Read this. Then read it again.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.
December 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.
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BREAKING MS NOW:
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...
FBI’s No. 2 quietly tells colleagues he’s moving on
Controversial deputy director has cleared out his office, sources tell MS NOW.
www.ms.now
December 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
BREAKING MS NOW:
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...
Just another example of whatever the republicans accuse the democrats of is what they are actually doing (this is super disturbing, so be aware):
The Children’s Pastor: The 40-year mission to stop a preacher accused of raping children www.nbcnews.com/video/the-40...
The Children’s Pastor: The 40-year mission to stop a preacher accused of raping children www.nbcnews.com/video/the-40...
The Children’s Pastor: The 40-year mission to stop a preacher accused of raping children
NBC News follows a group of women who allege they were sexually abused by their former pastor as children. Now, decades later, they’ve reunited and found the courage to speak out, determined to stop t...
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just another example of whatever the republicans accuse the democrats of is what they are actually doing (this is super disturbing, so be aware):
The Children’s Pastor: The 40-year mission to stop a preacher accused of raping children www.nbcnews.com/video/the-40...
The Children’s Pastor: The 40-year mission to stop a preacher accused of raping children www.nbcnews.com/video/the-40...
Important news that seems to be flying under the radar:
Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election
Smith testified about his investigations into Trump during a closed-door hearing with members of the House Judiciary Committee.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Important news that seems to be flying under the radar:
Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Leaving Congress didn’t give me all the answers. It forced me to ask better questions.
Here are the first ten things I’ve learned about myself, politics, and humanity since the lights went out.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Here are the first ten things I’ve learned about myself, politics, and humanity since the lights went out.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
The First Ten Things I’ve Learned Since Leaving Congress
What politics, loss, and distance taught me about myself, power, and being human
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Leaving Congress didn’t give me all the answers. It forced me to ask better questions.
Here are the first ten things I’ve learned about myself, politics, and humanity since the lights went out.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Here are the first ten things I’ve learned about myself, politics, and humanity since the lights went out.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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This video is from a year ago today. MELIA spent Christmas at the shelter. Let's not let it happen again. Be her miracle 🙏
Hempstead Animal Shelter
[email protected]
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
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www.facebook.com/reel/5733265...
Hempstead Animal Shelter
[email protected]
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
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www.facebook.com/reel/5733265...
10K views · 954 reactions | Today Melia has been here 462 days making her the 10th longest resident at the shelter 💔 being a nervous black dog who needs someone that will work & commit to NEVER giving...
Today Melia has been here 462 days making her the 10th longest resident at the shelter 💔 being a nervous black dog who needs someone that will work & commit to NEVER giving up on her, she might wait.....
www.facebook.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This video is from a year ago today. MELIA spent Christmas at the shelter. Let's not let it happen again. Be her miracle 🙏
Hempstead Animal Shelter
[email protected]
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
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www.facebook.com/reel/5733265...
Hempstead Animal Shelter
[email protected]
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
⬇️
www.facebook.com/reel/5733265...
Eradicated??? This is awful & it damn well should be illegal! What would’ve happened if she was not white? This is your government in action. You voted for this, right? Right???
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 ERADICATED‼️ WTF‼️
WE ARE NOT ANGRY ENOUGH‼️
WE ARE NOT ANGRY ENOUGH‼️
December 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Eradicated??? This is awful & it damn well should be illegal! What would’ve happened if she was not white? This is your government in action. You voted for this, right? Right???
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Jeffries calls on the House to stay in session until there's a vote on the discharge petition: "Mike Johnson should not recess the House of Representatives until we vote on the straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act Tax credits."
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Jeffries calls on the House to stay in session until there's a vote on the discharge petition: "Mike Johnson should not recess the House of Representatives until we vote on the straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act Tax credits."
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218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
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Nothing says “restoring trust in public health” like RFK Jr. funding a modern-day Tuskegee-Nazi mashup study that puts the lives of Black children in a vulnerable country at risk.
December 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Nothing says “restoring trust in public health” like RFK Jr. funding a modern-day Tuskegee-Nazi mashup study that puts the lives of Black children in a vulnerable country at risk.