Stephanie Franklin
@sannfrank.bsky.social
Stephanie/she/they
Founder/Executive Director of Masakhane Center in Newark, NJ
Founder/Executive Director of Masakhane Center in Newark, NJ
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Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced an effort to expand child care across the state, including a free program for 2-year-olds in New York City starting in the fall.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/08/f...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/08/f...
Hochul Pledges Free Child Care at Age 2, Bolstering Mamdani
New “2-Care” program for New York City gets a two-year commitment from the governor, offering a lifeline to strapped families.
www.thecity.nyc
January 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced an effort to expand child care across the state, including a free program for 2-year-olds in New York City starting in the fall.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/08/f...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/08/f...
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January 9, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.
January 8, 2026 at 5:51 PM
These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.
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She was deeply loved by her wife who is presumably going to raise the six-year-old boy you just categorized as an orphan for some reason.
And we didn't ✌🏾lose✌🏾 her. The government murdered her. Words mean things
And we didn't ✌🏾lose✌🏾 her. The government murdered her. Words mean things
Renee Nicole Good was a mother of three, including a 6-year-old boy who is now an orphan.
Renee was deeply loved by many. Her mom described her as “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”
This is who we lost yesterday.
Renee was deeply loved by many. Her mom described her as “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”
This is who we lost yesterday.
January 8, 2026 at 2:55 PM
She was deeply loved by her wife who is presumably going to raise the six-year-old boy you just categorized as an orphan for some reason.
And we didn't ✌🏾lose✌🏾 her. The government murdered her. Words mean things
And we didn't ✌🏾lose✌🏾 her. The government murdered her. Words mean things
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You can feel like something is inevitable and still experience shock. Many of us knew something like this would happen, bc things like this have already happened, bc law enforcement functions with impunity, bc ICE kept drawing its guns on observers. But emotional and moral shock can still occur.
January 8, 2026 at 6:07 AM
You can feel like something is inevitable and still experience shock. Many of us knew something like this would happen, bc things like this have already happened, bc law enforcement functions with impunity, bc ICE kept drawing its guns on observers. But emotional and moral shock can still occur.
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well i don’t have fans and i’m not a hollywood has been but i do believe in mutual aid and 1/6 of what was raised for him would DRASTICALLY IMPROVE MY LIFE and the lives of many others. so if he doesn’t want it, i do
feel free to help me instead
gofund.me/c16a727ba
feel free to help me instead
gofund.me/c16a727ba
January 6, 2026 at 6:21 PM
well i don’t have fans and i’m not a hollywood has been but i do believe in mutual aid and 1/6 of what was raised for him would DRASTICALLY IMPROVE MY LIFE and the lives of many others. so if he doesn’t want it, i do
feel free to help me instead
gofund.me/c16a727ba
feel free to help me instead
gofund.me/c16a727ba
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There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.
January 8, 2026 at 1:14 AM
There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.
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In many parts of the U.S., gun violence is down to pre-pandemic rates. In some places, shootings are at historic lows. In others, the drop is still out of reach. Use our Atlas of American Gun Violence — now updated with all 2025 data — to see how gun violence has marked your corner of the country.
Gun Violence Map: How Many People Have Been Shot Near You?
Explore data on more than 441,000 shootings in the United States.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:17 AM
In many parts of the U.S., gun violence is down to pre-pandemic rates. In some places, shootings are at historic lows. In others, the drop is still out of reach. Use our Atlas of American Gun Violence — now updated with all 2025 data — to see how gun violence has marked your corner of the country.
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The focus on training misses the mark. Yes, many federal agents are sloppy and unprepared, but years of organizing against police violence have taught me that more training doesn't stop violence. It just makes the death-making more respectable (sometimes) and more expensive.
January 7, 2026 at 7:55 PM
The focus on training misses the mark. Yes, many federal agents are sloppy and unprepared, but years of organizing against police violence have taught me that more training doesn't stop violence. It just makes the death-making more respectable (sometimes) and more expensive.
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abolishing the domestic terror group ICE is the moderate position at this point
January 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
abolishing the domestic terror group ICE is the moderate position at this point
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America & the EU fighting over Greenland when it belongs to its Indigenous. Hate to see it.
January 7, 2026 at 2:59 PM
America & the EU fighting over Greenland when it belongs to its Indigenous. Hate to see it.
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It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Darren Michael has reportedly been reinstated and given $50,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The post Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated first appeared on Mediaite.
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January 7, 2026 at 12:31 PM
It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.
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For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...
Grok, the Child Porn Generator, Should Be Illegal
X, the child porn company formerly known as Twitter, is now removing the clothes of women and children with photos on the site on behalf of its users.
I first joined Twitter in December 2015. Deeply ...
www.burnsnotice.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:39 PM
For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn't experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate "lockdown" with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
there’s a thread on reddit right now called “was COVID really that bad?” and it is interesting to read people’s accounts five years out
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
January 6, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn't experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate "lockdown" with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
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there is a lot of intentional minimization of the pandemic but i am really more interested in the unintentional sort.
like, how does unmarked grief and suppressed fear sort of get digested and forgotten?
how does the memory of lockdown for most people end up leaving those things out?
like, how does unmarked grief and suppressed fear sort of get digested and forgotten?
how does the memory of lockdown for most people end up leaving those things out?
October 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
there is a lot of intentional minimization of the pandemic but i am really more interested in the unintentional sort.
like, how does unmarked grief and suppressed fear sort of get digested and forgotten?
how does the memory of lockdown for most people end up leaving those things out?
like, how does unmarked grief and suppressed fear sort of get digested and forgotten?
how does the memory of lockdown for most people end up leaving those things out?
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The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 6, 2026 at 7:26 PM
The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
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The PBS kids show Molly from Denali includes a lot of media literacy! Too bad we're defunding public broadcasting.
pbskids.org/molly
pbskids.org/molly
January 7, 2026 at 1:11 PM
The PBS kids show Molly from Denali includes a lot of media literacy! Too bad we're defunding public broadcasting.
pbskids.org/molly
pbskids.org/molly
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“Oh it’s not gonna be bad any more, covid is just like the flu now!”
Meanwhile the flu:
Meanwhile the flu:
BREAKING: Mutant H3N2 Influenza Surges in the U.S., Driving 11 Million Illnesses, 120,000 Hospitalizations, and 5,000 Deaths as Positivity Nears 33%
January 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
“Oh it’s not gonna be bad any more, covid is just like the flu now!”
Meanwhile the flu:
Meanwhile the flu:
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After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
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this is the 3rd time for this exact occurrence.
January 7, 2026 at 2:51 AM
this is the 3rd time for this exact occurrence.
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“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
Monstrously cruel.
Monstrously cruel.
Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:20 PM
“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
Monstrously cruel.
Monstrously cruel.
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PSLN is seeking volunteers. After attending reference volunteer training, you can remotely answer reference questions mailed to us from people incarcerated in correctional facilities around the country. plsn-nyc.tumblr.com/be-a-volunteer
Volunteer for reference
Attend a Reference Training:
The best way to get involved with this project is to attend a virtual volunteer training and learn how to answer letters. These are hosted online, and require a signifi...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:50 PM
PSLN is seeking volunteers. After attending reference volunteer training, you can remotely answer reference questions mailed to us from people incarcerated in correctional facilities around the country. plsn-nyc.tumblr.com/be-a-volunteer
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It's been one year since the Los Angeles wildfires. The hardest hit communities will never be the same.
Standing up for climate justice matters most when the news cycle has moved on.
Standing up for climate justice matters most when the news cycle has moved on.
🇺🇸 A year on, Los Angeles fire survivors struggle to rebuild
Altadena was hardest hit by the fires that ravaged parts of Los Angeles in January 2025. The suburb is slowly coming back to life but many fear this diverse town will lose its soul because people cannot afford to rebuild.
Altadena was hardest hit by the fires that ravaged parts of Los Angeles in January 2025. The suburb is slowly coming back to life but many fear this diverse town will lose its soul because people cannot afford to rebuild.
January 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
It's been one year since the Los Angeles wildfires. The hardest hit communities will never be the same.
Standing up for climate justice matters most when the news cycle has moved on.
Standing up for climate justice matters most when the news cycle has moved on.
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Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt.
This is cruel and unnecessary.
If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.
This is cruel and unnecessary.
If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt.
This is cruel and unnecessary.
If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.
This is cruel and unnecessary.
If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.