Joe DeFrank
@jdefrank.bsky.social
How do you live a good life? Leftist. Pro-education. Pro-human rights, regardless of skin tone, sexuality, gender, whatever. Let’s imagine and actualize a better world together. 🤝
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ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval
September 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval
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Not only do we routinely see kids dying in ICE custody, now they’re missing nearly 1000 people who were being held in Alligator Alcatraz?
HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment?
We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.
HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment?
We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.
September 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Not only do we routinely see kids dying in ICE custody, now they’re missing nearly 1000 people who were being held in Alligator Alcatraz?
HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment?
We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.
HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment?
We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.
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PSA: Thinking this is wrong doesn’t make you a “radical” — thinking it isn’t does.
September 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
PSA: Thinking this is wrong doesn’t make you a “radical” — thinking it isn’t does.
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Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year.
Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.
Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.
Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”
www.wsj.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year.
Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.
Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨
I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨
September 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨
I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨
Why is it “innocent until proven guilty” for U.S. citizens and functionally “guilty until proven innocent” for immigrants in the U.S.?
Why are Americans that go elsewhere “expats” but people from elsewhere “immigrants”?
Why are Americans that go elsewhere “expats” but people from elsewhere “immigrants”?
September 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Why is it “innocent until proven guilty” for U.S. citizens and functionally “guilty until proven innocent” for immigrants in the U.S.?
Why are Americans that go elsewhere “expats” but people from elsewhere “immigrants”?
Why are Americans that go elsewhere “expats” but people from elsewhere “immigrants”?
“I fear persecution in Uganda on account of my race, nationality, political opinion, and membership in a particular social group. I also fear torture by or at the acquiescence of a public official in that country,” Abrego Garcia wrote in the notice sent Saturday.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/p...
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Judge to require that Kilmar Abrego Garcia remain in the US while he challenges deportation to Uganda | CNN Politics
A federal judge said Monday that she will order officials to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the United States while she weighs a new legal challenge from him over the Trump administration’s plans to qui...
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August 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“I fear persecution in Uganda on account of my race, nationality, political opinion, and membership in a particular social group. I also fear torture by or at the acquiescence of a public official in that country,” Abrego Garcia wrote in the notice sent Saturday.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/p...
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I love this creativity and technology. A solar powered train. I’d love to have that here in the United States. A great step forward for Australia.
August 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I love this creativity and technology. A solar powered train. I’d love to have that here in the United States. A great step forward for Australia.
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The university death spiral: 1) Enrollment is down. 2) Let's cut the most popular classes. 3) Oh look, cutting popular classes leads to even lower enrollment. 4) Now there's no money so we better cut them again. 5) Oh look . . .
July 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The university death spiral: 1) Enrollment is down. 2) Let's cut the most popular classes. 3) Oh look, cutting popular classes leads to even lower enrollment. 4) Now there's no money so we better cut them again. 5) Oh look . . .
I’m not saying @thegodpodcast.com is wrong, Jesus Christ I would never blaspheme like that, but like a solar eclipse, the irony’s timing was stellar! ☀️
July 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I’m not saying @thegodpodcast.com is wrong, Jesus Christ I would never blaspheme like that, but like a solar eclipse, the irony’s timing was stellar! ☀️
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why destroy the department of education?
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Who Benefits from Destroying the Department of Education
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous plan of gutting the Department of Education, firing...
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July 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
why destroy the department of education?
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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Upon submitting my negative feedback to ParkMobile, the website claimed it had an error. Figures. Is it wrong to desire a society where everything isn’t privatized and a functional social welfare system?
July 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Upon submitting my negative feedback to ParkMobile, the website claimed it had an error. Figures. Is it wrong to desire a society where everything isn’t privatized and a functional social welfare system?
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So when your dad says “his grandparents came here legally,” what he really means is they just showed up. No visas. No green cards. No paperwork. Just a boat and white skin.
Today’s migrants do more, prove more, and get mistreated.
Today’s migrants do more, prove more, and get mistreated.
July 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
So when your dad says “his grandparents came here legally,” what he really means is they just showed up. No visas. No green cards. No paperwork. Just a boat and white skin.
Today’s migrants do more, prove more, and get mistreated.
Today’s migrants do more, prove more, and get mistreated.
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Bombing Iran is a great way to distract from how your administration is bombing elsewhere.
June 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Bombing Iran is a great way to distract from how your administration is bombing elsewhere.
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The Don’t Tread On Me crowd sure is letting a lot of treading happen.
June 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Don’t Tread On Me crowd sure is letting a lot of treading happen.
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Keep an eye out this weekend for outside agitators like the Proud Boys showing up at the No Kings Protests! They will try to incite violence and blame it on the left as they did during the George Floyd protests.
June 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Keep an eye out this weekend for outside agitators like the Proud Boys showing up at the No Kings Protests! They will try to incite violence and blame it on the left as they did during the George Floyd protests.
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CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..
June 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..
In the movie Wag the Dog, an elaborate fake war plot is launched to distract American voters from a sex scandal.
Four days ago, Elon Musk accused Trump of being in the Epstein files. Within the last 24 hours, armed soldiers were deployed to LA.
m.imdb.com/title/tt0120...
Four days ago, Elon Musk accused Trump of being in the Epstein files. Within the last 24 hours, armed soldiers were deployed to LA.
m.imdb.com/title/tt0120...
Wag the Dog (1997) ⭐ 7.1 | Comedy, Drama
1h 37m | R
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June 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
In the movie Wag the Dog, an elaborate fake war plot is launched to distract American voters from a sex scandal.
Four days ago, Elon Musk accused Trump of being in the Epstein files. Within the last 24 hours, armed soldiers were deployed to LA.
m.imdb.com/title/tt0120...
Four days ago, Elon Musk accused Trump of being in the Epstein files. Within the last 24 hours, armed soldiers were deployed to LA.
m.imdb.com/title/tt0120...
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Thou shalt not force good horses to trample peaceful protesters and pretend thou art the good guys.
June 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Thou shalt not force good horses to trample peaceful protesters and pretend thou art the good guys.
Just another reminder that the racists aren’t even trying to be sly these days. Dismiss more and more immigration judges and officials and there won’t be any legal immigration into the US.
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
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Trump fires more immigration judges even as he aims to increase deportations
Getting rid of judges adds to criticism of the Trump administration for not giving migrants or noncitizens enough due process before they're deported.
www.npr.org
April 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Just another reminder that the racists aren’t even trying to be sly these days. Dismiss more and more immigration judges and officials and there won’t be any legal immigration into the US.
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...