Frank Ladd
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Frank Ladd
@frankladdstl.bsky.social
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You get two dolls, a hunk of chicken, one piece of broccoli, and a corn tortilla

Golden Age!
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 14, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes
January 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Despite Venezuela, forecasters say 2026 will be the cheapest year for gas since Covid www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/b...
Forecasters say 2026 will be the cheapest year for gas since Covid | CNN Business
The gas pump has emerged as a rare source of relief for Americans drowning in higher prices – and that positive trend is expected to continue in 2026.
www.cnn.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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For U.S. refiners, an accelerated increase in Venezuela's oil output would likely soften distillate/jet fuel cracks first, especially in the GC and Atlantic basin
January 3, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Where do these people think subsidies go to? They do not go to health insurance companies They go to us, people who buy health insurance. We buy it. Then get a rebate at tax time. They're talking about sending me a thousand dollars when my rebate is worth seven times that.
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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somebody told Katie Britt to not smile all the time on TV so now she's overcorrecting
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This is what I was thinking. Have to go back and look at how both pardons issued by Trump could apply to the January 6 pipe bomber.
December 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Q: You outlined the dangers posed by drugs. So what explanation do you have for Trump pardoning the former president of Honduras?

SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I don't know the details. Happy to look into it. I can't speak to it

Q: Alright. Um. Ok. Like, no thought on it?

MARSHALL: I haven't researched it
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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The reason why he needs to travel the world with his girlfriend on a free government jet with security details is because “he’s entitled to a personal life.” bsky.app/profile/atru...
Kash Patel: "Yes, I'm entitled to a personal life just like my other agency counterparts with their partners. So do I support my girlfriend? Absolutely. And do I take trips with her? Absolutely."
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Trump's eyes are closing and he's dozing off. But he still has enough in the tank to jerk awake every few seconds.
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Kristi Noem refuses to directly answer a question about what Trump means by "remigration" -- a word that, as Kristen Welker notes, is often invoked by white nationalists in Europe
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Correspondence obtained and detailed by Bloomberg’s FOIA Files lays out how Kash Patel sent about 1,000 special agents to the bureau’s Central Records Complex in Winchester, Virginia, for crash-course redaction training on the “Epstein Transparency Project."

www.thedailybeast.com/fbis-frantic...
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Rep Maria Salazar (R-FL) says Trump is about to invade Venezuela, and the objective is to seize their oil. Remarkable candor, because this seems to be precisely what is going on. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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About that time years ago when Marjorie Taylor Greene stalked a survivor of the Parkland shooting massacre to tell him that he's a coward for wanting more done about gun violence.

Before you consider welcoming her to the fold ...

www.editorialboard.com/why-marjorie...
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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ICYMI - POPE LEO: “When people are living good lives for 10, 20 years… (Trump) is treating them in a way that’s extremely disrespectful, violent — We have to look for ways to treat people humanely and with dignity.” (H/T @CBSNews)
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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CNN: In the last couple of weeks or so, she's become kind of an ally on some issues. What do you make of this?

Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?

TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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There it is.
HOT OFF THE PRESSES: RFK Jr. told me he personally instructed CDC to abandon its longstanding position that vaccines don't cause autism. He acknowledged that large-scale studies of MMR vaccine and thimerosal show no link. But he cited gaps in vaccine safety science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Trump on MBS: "He's investing $1 trillion into the United States." (The entire GDP of Saudi Arabia is $1.1 trillion, so yeah, this isn't happening)
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Welker to Sen. John Barrasso on healthcare: "What I hear you saying is there's no plan, there's no bill." (Note that he doesn't try to refute her claim!)
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM