Karen Franklin, PhD
@karenfranklin.bsky.social
Forensic psychologist, San Francisco Bay. Former journalist + criminal investigator. #PsychLaw
www.karenfranklin.com
www.karenfranklin.com
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I found this on the wall in a university math building, and I think it may be the best logics problem ever written.
Dating apps accommodate serial rapists, lawsuit alleges
“Even when Match Group receives reports about rapists, they continue to welcome them, fail to warn users about the general and specific risks, and affirmatively recommend known predators to members.”
www.jezebel.com/lawsuit-clai...
“Even when Match Group receives reports about rapists, they continue to welcome them, fail to warn users about the general and specific risks, and affirmatively recommend known predators to members.”
www.jezebel.com/lawsuit-clai...
Lawsuit Claims Hinge and Tinder Failed to Protect Women from Sexual Predators
The lawsuit was filed by six date rape survivors of the same cardiologist, who's since been sentenced to 158 years in prison.
www.jezebel.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Dating apps accommodate serial rapists, lawsuit alleges
“Even when Match Group receives reports about rapists, they continue to welcome them, fail to warn users about the general and specific risks, and affirmatively recommend known predators to members.”
www.jezebel.com/lawsuit-clai...
“Even when Match Group receives reports about rapists, they continue to welcome them, fail to warn users about the general and specific risks, and affirmatively recommend known predators to members.”
www.jezebel.com/lawsuit-clai...
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Is it alarmist to think the Vance administration, plausibly starting any minute now, will be far worse? It seems like Peter Thiel and Co. is just licking its chops...
December 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Is it alarmist to think the Vance administration, plausibly starting any minute now, will be far worse? It seems like Peter Thiel and Co. is just licking its chops...
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Maybe this is why I'm not a Beltway journalist, but I think the fact the United States is about to invade Venezuela to take their oil is an 100X bigger story than Trump's chief of staff going on the record with Captain Obvious characterizations of their dysfunctional regime
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Maybe this is why I'm not a Beltway journalist, but I think the fact the United States is about to invade Venezuela to take their oil is an 100X bigger story than Trump's chief of staff going on the record with Captain Obvious characterizations of their dysfunctional regime
Reposted by Karen Franklin, PhD
Reposted by Karen Franklin, PhD
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. But teach a man how to fish and Pete Hegseth will murder him.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. But teach a man how to fish and Pete Hegseth will murder him.”
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Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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One officer was accused of spreading a nude photo of a woman he knew.
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
One officer was accused of spreading a nude photo of a woman he knew.
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Dude spends 27 years on Death Row based on bogus bite-mark evidence, his conviction gets overturned and he's released in time to have Thanksgiving with his family, and the state of Louisiana is STILL aiming to kill him? Maybe enough is enough?! Via @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/jimm...
www.propublica.org/article/jimm...
A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the...
www.propublica.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Dude spends 27 years on Death Row based on bogus bite-mark evidence, his conviction gets overturned and he's released in time to have Thanksgiving with his family, and the state of Louisiana is STILL aiming to kill him? Maybe enough is enough?! Via @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/jimm...
www.propublica.org/article/jimm...
A culture of sexual misconduct: Chicago PD promotes cops who sexually assault and harass women. It's not accidental, it's the Bro Code. Thanks to @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
www.propublica.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A culture of sexual misconduct: Chicago PD promotes cops who sexually assault and harass women. It's not accidental, it's the Bro Code. Thanks to @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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try to imagine the media firestorm if the military was conducting strikes and obama, clinton, or biden said "i dont know anything about it" and how the media just shrugs at trump saying the same thing.
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
try to imagine the media firestorm if the military was conducting strikes and obama, clinton, or biden said "i dont know anything about it" and how the media just shrugs at trump saying the same thing.
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For example, one thing that Sen Schiff has done to stand up to attacks on his people is voting to confirm several Trump judges and members of his administration, as recently as an AL district judge on 10/24/25.
“But amanda how is that standing up to attacks on his people” he does it while frowning
“But amanda how is that standing up to attacks on his people” he does it while frowning
When it comes to standing up to attacks on our people and our democracy, my advice is this:
Don't try to do everything. Find one thing you can do to mitigate the harms. If everyone does that, we'll get through this.
Don't try to do everything. Find one thing you can do to mitigate the harms. If everyone does that, we'll get through this.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
For example, one thing that Sen Schiff has done to stand up to attacks on his people is voting to confirm several Trump judges and members of his administration, as recently as an AL district judge on 10/24/25.
“But amanda how is that standing up to attacks on his people” he does it while frowning
“But amanda how is that standing up to attacks on his people” he does it while frowning
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Americans who saw through the propaganda for war in the middle east but now fully buy into it for regime change in Venezuela are the weirdest. That’s like managing to pull your head out of your ass, taking a deep breath, and then shoving it right back in there.
November 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Americans who saw through the propaganda for war in the middle east but now fully buy into it for regime change in Venezuela are the weirdest. That’s like managing to pull your head out of your ass, taking a deep breath, and then shoving it right back in there.
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California, and the country, cannot await the outcome of the midterms to repel Trump’s siege on democracy. More drastic action is required.
It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
www.motherjones.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
California, and the country, cannot await the outcome of the midterms to repel Trump’s siege on democracy. More drastic action is required.
Heartbreaking.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Heartbreaking.
"AIPAC poses the single biggest existential threat to democracy in America." - Mamdani's young Jewish campaign manager Morris Katz, in excellent interview by Haaretz
www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
Radicalized by AIPAC: Mamdani's Jewish strategist on big money and weaponized antisemitism
26-year-old Morris Katz Is Gearing Up to Guide Democratic Progressives Toward Victory in the Midterms and Beyond
www.haaretz.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"AIPAC poses the single biggest existential threat to democracy in America." - Mamdani's young Jewish campaign manager Morris Katz, in excellent interview by Haaretz
www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
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While baristas are on strike, our job is simple: DON’T SHOP AT STARBUCKS.
They’re striking for fair pay and respect and we’re standing with them.
Show the billionaires our solidarity is stronger than their greed.
#NoContractNoCoffee
They’re striking for fair pay and respect and we’re standing with them.
Show the billionaires our solidarity is stronger than their greed.
#NoContractNoCoffee
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
While baristas are on strike, our job is simple: DON’T SHOP AT STARBUCKS.
They’re striking for fair pay and respect and we’re standing with them.
Show the billionaires our solidarity is stronger than their greed.
#NoContractNoCoffee
They’re striking for fair pay and respect and we’re standing with them.
Show the billionaires our solidarity is stronger than their greed.
#NoContractNoCoffee
Reposted by Karen Franklin, PhD
Federal corrections officers fleeing to go work for ICE has real consequences for the lockups they leave behind, including less programming and fewer health care services for inmates.
➡️ Read our full story: https://propub.li/3LZlde3
➡️ Read our full story: https://propub.li/3LZlde3
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Federal corrections officers fleeing to go work for ICE has real consequences for the lockups they leave behind, including less programming and fewer health care services for inmates.
➡️ Read our full story: https://propub.li/3LZlde3
➡️ Read our full story: https://propub.li/3LZlde3
#AllHerFault. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Unabashedly feminist, class conscious and morally ambiguous. Fun plot. Great acting. Highly recommended.
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
#AllHerFault. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Unabashedly feminist, class conscious and morally ambiguous. Fun plot. Great acting. Highly recommended.
The spider in #CharlottesWeb devoted her life to securing the freedom of a pig named Wilbur
apnews.com/article/char...
apnews.com/article/char...
Granddaughter of 'Charlotte's Web' author upset with use of its title in immigration crackdown
The Trump administration has a name for its immigration sweep in North Carolina’s largest city. They're calling it “Operation Charlotte’s Web.”
apnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The spider in #CharlottesWeb devoted her life to securing the freedom of a pig named Wilbur
apnews.com/article/char...
apnews.com/article/char...
Another sign of the times
CDC officials confirm that the US is two months away from measles being considered endemic for the first time since 2000. “Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months.” [arstechnica.com]
CDC data confirms US is 2 months away from losing measles elimination status
Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Another sign of the times
Hilarious yet ominous: Flood of AI-generated commentaries undermining academic journals, with no simple solution in sight www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hilarious yet ominous: Flood of AI-generated commentaries undermining academic journals, with no simple solution in sight www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
Mass killers: Sheeps in wolves' clothing
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers
Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ for future violence
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Mass killers: Sheeps in wolves' clothing
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...