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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 23d

NEW MAP! 🗺️

What will be the UN’s biggest challenges in 2025?

@clairemaevabg.bsky.social and I put together @crisisgroup.org’s Top Ten list. Explore the issues shaping the year ahead:

🔗 www.crisisgroup.org/visual-expla...

#UNGA #foreignpolicy #mapping

[Visual] Ten Challenges for the UN in 2025-2026 | International Crisis Group

World leaders gathering at the UN General Assembly in September 2025 will find an organisation in trauma. Our briefing sets out the ten challenges the UN faces in the year ahead.

www.crisisgroup.org

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5h

Correct, but I don't particularly blame Apple because all US corporations are effectively state-owned enterprises now, operating at the pleasure of our Dear Leader (who is totally not a socialist) bsky.app/profile/beeg...

Beagleboy @beegleboy.bsky.social · 5h

There is something rotten in this Apple.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 5h

Informative and must-listen to interview from @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 21h

As Trump and ICE unleash terror on Chicago, due process is nowhere to be found.

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social unpacks ICE’s overreach
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/ice-is-out-of-control-aaron-reichlin

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Olya Oliker aka Dr. Olga Oliker (she/her) @olyaoliker.bsky.social · 1d

The logic of Russian military assistance (including deployments of Wagner and Africa Corps), explained in a short video, with excellent maps, from @crisisgroup.org w/the erudite Pauline Bax narrating! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0yI...

MAPPING CONFLICT | Russia’s Growing Influence in Africa

YouTube video by International Crisis Group

www.youtube.com

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 19h

Fox Sports wants the Yankees to come back so badly. #mlb

Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 19h

Unless Elon is fired and/or stripped of his exorbitant compensation, I'm #NeverTesla.

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Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 4d

I'm humbled by the momentum this campaign is building. Together, we raised over $500,000 this past quarter from thousands of people across this district, state, and country ready to bring change to the Hudson Valley. We’ve got more work to do, but I’m honored to be in the fight with you all. LFG

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 2d

and I'm loving every second of it lol ☠️☠️☠️

Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 2d

The Toronto Blue Jays have the chance to do the funniest thing against the U.S. this October. #mlb #baseball

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Lucian Kim @luciankim.bsky.social · 6d

Join @crisisgroup.org for a 7-minute tour of Africa, from São Tomé and Príncipe to Libya and Mali, tracing the growing reach of Russia's Africa Corps (né Wagner). www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0yI...

MAPPING CONFLICT | Russia’s Growing Influence in Africa

YouTube video by International Crisis Group

www.youtube.com

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 7d

i think it's more that the reds are just painfully mid for a "playoff" team

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 7d

if this was my team, it would probably be the same score, if not worse with how bad our SP's were this year

Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 7d

ngl, kind of enjoying the dodgers nuke cincinatti rn

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 7d

Lol, I kinda enjoy seeing the Reds just get absolutely lit by LA. #LGM

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 7d

This is just incredible. Someone made not just a computer, but an *entire working LLM* out of (438 million) minecraft blocks www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

www.tomshardware.com

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 7d

I thought I saw all the most wild builds in Minecraft, but...dang.

Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 8d

You aren't. But his supporters believe you do.

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 8d

🔴 We are hiring a new IT Security Officer to join our team.

📍 Based in Brussels, Belgium

Learn more and apply here: jobs.crisisgroup.org/o/it-securit...

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 12d

We lost Hitchens too soon. He would be more than meeting this authoritarian moment.

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chartle @chartle.cc · 13d

Have you played today’s Chartle? Do you know which country has the second highest GDP per capita in the world in 2024?

Have a try at chartle.cc

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 13d

Our VPOTUS posting like the worst of that other site.

VP acting tough. "What exactly did I get wrong, dipshit"?

Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 13d

My district elected one of the most insecure, unlikeable "argument bros" ever to Congress, not once, but twice.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

"I think you can hear me" -- Mike Lawler just crashed out on CNN and spoke over host John Berman for a solid 45 seconds straight

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 14d

10 hours later and nearly 10,000,000 views for Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue just on YouTube alone.

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 14d

And here's an excellent recap of an underreported scandal involving my congressman, that only David has been tracking: bsky.app/profile/trum...

TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 14d

“Remove yourself from my presence, right now!”

- GOP Rep. Mike Lawler to a reporter trying to ask him why his aide infiltrated a Signal chat under a false name in order to stir chaos at his town hall.

Dude sounds like he's hiding something.

#NY17

davidmckaywilson.substack.com/p/lawler-rem...

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