Franki Butler

You know what's spooky? 12% of the population losing food access.

If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.

So anyway I completely understand where JD Vance stands right now—married to show he wasn’t racist, but now finds that this is a negative in the climate he helped create

But also, there was a kind of right-wing dude in the 2010 period who married a girl who was brown (but not Black, never Black) and also acculturated so the record would show that he was not a racist.

This isn’t true, but it is true that slaveowners routinely enslaved and sold their children.

FBI makes law enforcement arrests in Delta - Mississippi Today Multiple law enforcement officers across the Mississippi Delta were arrested on Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a drug conspiracy takedown, authorities confirmed to Mississippi Toda...

At least 12 Mississippi cops were arrested for corruption/ drug sales, including some sheriff deputies.
mississippitoday.org/2025/10/30/f...

In this economy?! No one's wasting perfectly good illicit substances to get Little Susie high.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

"In the 1970s, 1 in 50 Americans received food stamps. Now 1 in 8 do."

I wonder if something happened around 1980? 🤔

Zohran with his hand on his chest leaning into the passenger side window of a taxi, talking with the driver.

Zohran extending his hand to shake hands with a taxi driver through the window.

An airport worker showing Zohran something on his phone, both are smiling.

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.

So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

In California, WIC will remain open and fully operational through November. Families should keep their scheduled WIC appointments and use their WIC cards for groceries as usual. Find updates at: myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/Federal...
#WIC #WICWorks #FundWIC

...and when he get on, he'll leave your ass for a white girl.

“They were just doing their job—and just telling the truth. But that is not what Trump hires people to do.”

Elie Mystal on why the GOP needs the illusion of a Trump third term

Evolution: Facts about the processes that shape the diversity of life on Earth Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process

Yes, science updates. But that doesn’t mean everything is up for grabs.
Gravity, evolution, germ theory—these are settled within tested domains.
Pretending otherwise misleads the public and erodes trust in science.
www.livescience.com/...
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There is such a thing as 'settled science' — anyone who says otherwise is trying to manipulate you How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility.

“Science is never settled” sounds reasonable—but it’s often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change.
Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence.
My latest for Live Science
www.livescience.com/...
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I genuinely think sometimes rather than explaining or arguing these totally made up controversies people should just be shamed for pretending not to know basic information about the world

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

My favorite part of this @tressiemcphd.bsky.social oped is that she manages to say “stop settling for mediocre white men” in a way that will still get published by the NYT.

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

lol all of Western History summed up in a single skeet:

Same, girl, same.

Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Like any politician, Sanders has been good on some things and not so good on others. Not that this matters to the point, which is his argument is an example of the cyclical popularity of this working class myth in dem party. That’s pretty easy to demonstrate.

Fire The Consultants The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems. There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...

For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again.

Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...

How To Help People Who Rely On SNAP While Minimizing Risk To Their Benefits | Matthew Cortland Get more from Matthew Cortland on Patreon

I firmly believe, with every single atom of my being, that instead of amplifying unreliable information that discourages helping, our focus as 42 million Americans face hunger must be on providing factual information that enables people to help.

www.patreon.com/posts/142285...

F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls

It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually

*stares directly at the camera*