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Frank Popper

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Land-use planner. From Chicago, now in Manhattan. BA (psychology), Haverford; MPA, PhD (political science), Harvard. Taught at Rutgers, 1983-2019, teaching at Princeton with my wife Deborah Popper, 2001-present. Google has the woowoo details.

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Richard Condon died 30 years ago, but his novels, especially the ones on national politics, perfectly capture the crazed paranoiac mood of the last US half-generation. Our new war's the current summit, but there's always tomorrow...

07.03.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am really surprised at how many people were closet admirers of Jesse Jackson (who have now come out of the closet)...Amazing that he didn't win the Democratic nomination when he ran.

07.03.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dumb to try blaming others for your fuck-ups when your dick is still inside the dog, but whatever.

07.03.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Everyone who's ever met him knows he's incompetent, but he's never had the pleasure, so...

07.03.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Paranoia's the fantasy that someone's paying attention.

07.03.2026 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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this week in stupid: March 7 edition Donny stays on topic, Marco gets myopic, and so much more...

"what does it look like exactly, when a country is run by β€˜religious fanatic lunatics’?

"is it when the country’s leader surrounds himself with evangelicals who fill his ears with fever-swamp fairy tale nonsense about he’s been chosen by God? 1/3

07.03.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's your Somali fraud, since you're so assed-up about fraud & financial waste.

07.03.2026 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just want to go on record and say that you people are crazy if you think only 6 American soldiers have died in this conflict. It's pointless to expect the truth from mainstream media about anything much less this war of preference/choice.
America is not angry enough yet for me.

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Our representative government is almost gone. We have a criminal conspiracy masquerading as a federal government.

They are doing virtually nothing for the average American.

Their focus is on personal wealth and power. And unwavering loyalty to the authoritarian ruler.

Rescue America. VOTE!

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because i voted for kamala harris in chicago, illinois, in november 2024 i cannot be held accountable for anything the united states is currently doing. copy and paste this message into your profile so others know you are NOT responsible for the conduct of the united states.

06.03.2026 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 686    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 25
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He seems pretty sensitive whenever someone confronts him with evidence that Putin might not be our friend. Even when Fox brings it up.

06.03.2026 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 12138    πŸ” 3787    πŸ’¬ 1070    πŸ“Œ 279

Periodic reminder that ICE does not just track and watch immigrants. They are collecting and storing information on us all.

06.03.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3372    πŸ” 994    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 36

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 29561    πŸ” 7319    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 235
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No More Benefit Of The Doubt Last Sunday, we discussed a number of cases pending in front of federal district judges in Minneapolis.

"Traditionally, judges applied what’s known as the presumption of regularity, assuming that federal agents and prosecutors were doing their jobs properly, acting in good faith, and following the rules unless there was clear evidence to the contrary." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

07.03.2026 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And this is all he had to replace Noem.

06.03.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 11174    πŸ” 4102    πŸ’¬ 2349    πŸ“Œ 619

The Department of Justice has sued 30 states and DC for access to their unreacted sensitive voter data. My law firm is fighting them in all 30 cases.

We are dedicating so many resources because these are the most important legal fights and the future of free and fair elections is at stake.

06.03.2026 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 15814    πŸ” 4080    πŸ’¬ 376    πŸ“Œ 136

Basically all of the bad economic news this term is because the president deliberately decided to do something moronic. He is much more personally responsible for this than most presidents are for the downturns in their administration.

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Their guy said he'd pardon the J6 insurrectionists--and then shockingly did it.

I haven't heard any potential Democratic candidate promise to pardon everybody arrested for protesting ICE.

That'd go a long way toward showing me they're opposition and not just controlled.

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A family fled violence. A family sought refuge. A family followed the lawβ€”and was punished for it.

Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez came to this country not to defy its laws but to seek their protection. She came not as a burden but as a mother. She came not to take from America but to ask of it the one thing it has always promised the world: that those who are persecuted may find here a sanctuary, and those who follow the rules may find here a home.

A family fled violence. A family sought refuge. A family followed the lawβ€”and was punished for it. Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez came to this country not to defy its laws but to seek their protection. She came not as a burden but as a mother. She came not to take from America but to ask of it the one thing it has always promised the world: that those who are persecuted may find here a sanctuary, and those who follow the rules may find here a home.

I am the father of two sons. I know what it is to want for them nothing more than safety and nothing less than justice. Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez wanted no more and no less for hers. She fled a violent man. She protected her children. She obeyed every instruction given to her. What more could this nation have asked of her?

I am the father of two sons. I know what it is to want for them nothing more than safety and nothing less than justice. Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez wanted no more and no less for hers. She fled a violent man. She protected her children. She obeyed every instruction given to her. What more could this nation have asked of her?

A Hayward mother and her two small children were deported to Colombia without due process and without her eldest son's assistive hearing device.

This is cruelty practiced in our name. Read my full statement here.

07.03.2026 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Snickers, get off the cat!

Cat? What cat?

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I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.

This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.

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This is not the best part of the firing, but it’s in the Top 10.

07.03.2026 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 19851    πŸ” 2867    πŸ’¬ 636    πŸ“Œ 146

Our Health Secretary looks imo maybe 15 years older than his actual age of 72. This is who we want medical counsel from?

06.03.2026 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This goes beyond politics, and is not even a statement about politics.

Something is wrong with us. This nation is broken on a cultural level. I can't define it, and I don't know how to fix it. But we are tearing ourselves apart. If we don't diagnose and treat that, the rest of it won't matter

05.03.2026 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3034    πŸ” 625    πŸ’¬ 384    πŸ“Œ 89
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This is not good.

06.03.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9643    πŸ” 3690    πŸ’¬ 756    πŸ“Œ 468

Actually, this is exactly what you voted for, you just didn't expect it to negatively impact you. Many of you were gleeful when you thought it would hurt others.

Now that it does impact you, suddenly you're all unhappy?

Awww... Cue the nanolin orchestra! You deserve no sympathy and no mercy.

06.03.2026 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, so that's their excuse is it? Key files with evidence of TFG's pedophilia were "incorrrectly coded"?

Guess what? I've got a bargain price offer on a bridge for sale!

06.03.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Russia thought it could overwhelm Ukraine's 40 million people quickly. Now Trump and Hegseth think they can do the same to Iran's 90+ million, plus Hamas and Hezbollah. And Putin at least has had most of the Russian population behind him.

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Autocrats always find way to contribute to entice people to give up their morals.

That’s why it’s so important for all of us to be aware of when they’re trying to do, remain true to our morals, and find ways to respond accordingly.

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