@leftwingmusicfrank.bsky.social
Old retired Christian left-winger barely surviving economically. I have been waiting for the Revolution for 50 years. Supporter of Democracy Now, Poor People's Campaign, Bernie Sanders, and In These Times. Here for Music, Politics, & Activism. No Dating.
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This sounds like an extended stroke.
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This sounds like an extended stroke.
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This is the most narcissistic, petty display ever.
It’s so obvious Trump is unwell, but what I don’t get is how this is allowed to happen to the people’s house. He’s a temporary occupant. He doesn’t own the joint.
It’s so obvious Trump is unwell, but what I don’t get is how this is allowed to happen to the people’s house. He’s a temporary occupant. He doesn’t own the joint.
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This is the most narcissistic, petty display ever.
It’s so obvious Trump is unwell, but what I don’t get is how this is allowed to happen to the people’s house. He’s a temporary occupant. He doesn’t own the joint.
It’s so obvious Trump is unwell, but what I don’t get is how this is allowed to happen to the people’s house. He’s a temporary occupant. He doesn’t own the joint.
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Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
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Trump just brazenly lied about healthcare. This corporate tool has done everything for the benefit of insurance executives and nothing for the wellbeing of Americans who need health care.
Now, he's blaming his political opponents of the premium spikes his policies are causing.
Now, he's blaming his political opponents of the premium spikes his policies are causing.
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Trump just brazenly lied about healthcare. This corporate tool has done everything for the benefit of insurance executives and nothing for the wellbeing of Americans who need health care.
Now, he's blaming his political opponents of the premium spikes his policies are causing.
Now, he's blaming his political opponents of the premium spikes his policies are causing.
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I consider myself a fairly patient person, but I can't listen to another second of this ridiculous, wheezing idiot. I'm done. Nothing he is saying aligns with anything that is really happening in the real world.
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I consider myself a fairly patient person, but I can't listen to another second of this ridiculous, wheezing idiot. I'm done. Nothing he is saying aligns with anything that is really happening in the real world.
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No war with Venezuela.
December 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
No war with Venezuela.
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Trump just said energy prices will fall.
He told that same lie during his campaign.
This year American households paid $12B more for natural gas.
This grifter's own policies are to blame.
He told that same lie during his campaign.
This year American households paid $12B more for natural gas.
This grifter's own policies are to blame.
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Trump just said energy prices will fall.
He told that same lie during his campaign.
This year American households paid $12B more for natural gas.
This grifter's own policies are to blame.
He told that same lie during his campaign.
This year American households paid $12B more for natural gas.
This grifter's own policies are to blame.
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Healthcare is a human right.
Speaker Mike Johnson, the House is ready to vote to extend the ACA subsidies and save healthcare for millions.
Let’s get it done NOW — no games, no delays.
Speaker Mike Johnson, the House is ready to vote to extend the ACA subsidies and save healthcare for millions.
Let’s get it done NOW — no games, no delays.
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Healthcare is a human right.
Speaker Mike Johnson, the House is ready to vote to extend the ACA subsidies and save healthcare for millions.
Let’s get it done NOW — no games, no delays.
Speaker Mike Johnson, the House is ready to vote to extend the ACA subsidies and save healthcare for millions.
Let’s get it done NOW — no games, no delays.
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Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
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The President is turning the White House walls into his own personal "burn book."
This isn't just pathetic.
It's a blatant authoritarian attempt to rewrite history to reflect his own narcissistic narrative.
This isn't just pathetic.
It's a blatant authoritarian attempt to rewrite history to reflect his own narcissistic narrative.
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The President is turning the White House walls into his own personal "burn book."
This isn't just pathetic.
It's a blatant authoritarian attempt to rewrite history to reflect his own narcissistic narrative.
This isn't just pathetic.
It's a blatant authoritarian attempt to rewrite history to reflect his own narcissistic narrative.
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Before the tragic shooting at Bondi Beach, Australia went 29 years without a major mass shooting. Australia’s weapons restrictions prevented the shooting from being even worse, and could provide a model for the U.S. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/bN1Lzop
Australia Proves Gun Control Works - The American Prospect
The Bondi mass shooting would have been a lot worse if not for Aussie gun regulations—which if anything aren’t strict enough.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Before the tragic shooting at Bondi Beach, Australia went 29 years without a major mass shooting. Australia’s weapons restrictions prevented the shooting from being even worse, and could provide a model for the U.S. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/bN1Lzop
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Rob Reiner had a rare talent for both comedy and politics. He’ll rightly be remembered more for the former, “but his generosity of spirit and anger at injustice suffused both.” From Harold Meyerson: trib.al/Y3gGUFV
A Talent for Comedy and Liberal Politics - The American Prospect
Rob Reiner was a mainstream liberal, devoted to expanding social rights and benefits to people arbitrarily denied them.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Rob Reiner had a rare talent for both comedy and politics. He’ll rightly be remembered more for the former, “but his generosity of spirit and anger at injustice suffused both.” From Harold Meyerson: trib.al/Y3gGUFV
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Republicans have successfully ended a student loan repayment program that provided a lifeline to Americans drowning in debt. “If you were totally screwed before now, you’re super screwed after.” From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/2rpUhC5
GOP Forcing Eight Million Student Loan Borrowers Into Repayment - The American Prospect
The most affordable of all the federal repayment programs is ending sooner than planned after Trump conspired with red-state attorneys general to kill it.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Republicans have successfully ended a student loan repayment program that provided a lifeline to Americans drowning in debt. “If you were totally screwed before now, you’re super screwed after.” From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/2rpUhC5
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Minnesota Republican Representative Tom Emmer was asked directly if he agreed with President Trump’s assessment that the thousands of Somali residents he represents are “garbage.”
He couldn’t give a straight answer. trib.al/Y59q32v
He couldn’t give a straight answer. trib.al/Y59q32v
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Minnesota Republican Representative Tom Emmer was asked directly if he agreed with President Trump’s assessment that the thousands of Somali residents he represents are “garbage.”
He couldn’t give a straight answer. trib.al/Y59q32v
He couldn’t give a straight answer. trib.al/Y59q32v
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Trump’s greatest political ability was to get low information, low propensity voters out to vote for him. People who don’t have X and couldn’t tell you who we’re about to go to war with, much less find Venezuela on a map. They have no idea how tariffs work. To them, this is all good. trib.al/wuaS2hL
The MAGA Crack-Up Is Overrated. MAGA Is Here to Stay.
Sure, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson are squabbling. But the underlying ideology remains as powerful as ever.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Trump’s greatest political ability was to get low information, low propensity voters out to vote for him. People who don’t have X and couldn’t tell you who we’re about to go to war with, much less find Venezuela on a map. They have no idea how tariffs work. To them, this is all good. trib.al/wuaS2hL
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The ballroom's price tag has grown by 100% since Trump first pitched it in July. The original $200M cost became $300M in October, and now the president nonchalantly dropped the cost is at $400M.
The project's original architect was fired for disagreeing about the building's size. trib.al/JlCo9Sm
The project's original architect was fired for disagreeing about the building's size. trib.al/JlCo9Sm
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The ballroom's price tag has grown by 100% since Trump first pitched it in July. The original $200M cost became $300M in October, and now the president nonchalantly dropped the cost is at $400M.
The project's original architect was fired for disagreeing about the building's size. trib.al/JlCo9Sm
The project's original architect was fired for disagreeing about the building's size. trib.al/JlCo9Sm
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Chair Brendan Carr admitted that he sees Trump as his boss, and refused to say it would be wrong to do the president’s bidding as the chairman of (what is supposed to be) an independent agency. newrepublic.com/post/204554/...
FCC Chair Says Trump Is His Boss—and Then Refuses to Answer Follow-Ups
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr appears willing to cave to Donald Trump’s worst demands.
newrepublic.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Chair Brendan Carr admitted that he sees Trump as his boss, and refused to say it would be wrong to do the president’s bidding as the chairman of (what is supposed to be) an independent agency. newrepublic.com/post/204554/...
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"To exist in Donald Trump’s mind palace is to exist in a place where, comparing him to a really decadent Roman emperor or totalitarian dictator living on the other side of the planet, is not a stretch." — Political reporter for Zeteo, Asawin Suebsaeng.
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Goes Off Rails as Susie Wiles Mess Worsens
As Karoline Leavitt spins wildly over the White House chief of staff’s revealing new comments, the author of a new piece on this fiasco explains how it could work against Trump in additional unappreciated ways.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"To exist in Donald Trump’s mind palace is to exist in a place where, comparing him to a really decadent Roman emperor or totalitarian dictator living on the other side of the planet, is not a stretch." — Political reporter for Zeteo, Asawin Suebsaeng.
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Kash Patel’s woefully underqualified No. 2, is finally headed for the exit. trib.al/nH9G4Ym
“Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show,” the president said.
“Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show,” the president said.
Trump Confirms Dan Bongino Is Clearing Out His FBI Office
Bongino was woefully underqualified for the position and is leaving after a rocky tenure.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Kash Patel’s woefully underqualified No. 2, is finally headed for the exit. trib.al/nH9G4Ym
“Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show,” the president said.
“Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show,” the president said.
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The attack against Venezuela’s principal revenue source has nothing to do with drug trafficking–military operations abroad are the least effective method of combating drugs–but rather, reflects an imperial desire acted on by the last five U.S. administrations.
Trump Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker, Threatens Colombia "Could Be Next" Target For Regime Change
The attack against Venezuela's principal revenue source has nothing to do with drug trafficking–military operations abroad are the least effective method of combating drugs–but rather, reflects an imp...
www.counterpunch.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The attack against Venezuela’s principal revenue source has nothing to do with drug trafficking–military operations abroad are the least effective method of combating drugs–but rather, reflects an imperial desire acted on by the last five U.S. administrations.