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Carl Franzen

@carlfranzen.bsky.social

late 30s, executive editor @venturebeat.com, fiction writer, AI video creator

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The map we've found unlocks the path to more portals.
Stay tuned as we're preparing new visualizations to share soon.

19.11.2024 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pettiest man alive.

06.09.2025 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25586    ๐Ÿ” 6965    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2328    ๐Ÿ“Œ 685

To be clear, the President of the United States has declared war on the City of Chicago.

07.09.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 476    ๐Ÿ” 146    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
bernie sanders and zohran mamdani

bernie sanders and zohran mamdani

At the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social / @sanders.senate.gov event at Brooklyn College. The two entered to thunderous applause.

06.09.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2467    ๐Ÿ” 257    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

checked linkedin to find that my sleep paralysis demon got promoted to sleep paralysis demon L3 two weeks ago

06.09.2025 22:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 432    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rep. Quigley: It's time to watch what this president is doing. It's instructive in history to remember that, often tyrants are elected democratically at firstโ€ฆ.

06.09.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8192    ๐Ÿ” 2476    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 285    ๐Ÿ“Œ 87
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This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

06.09.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17121    ๐Ÿ” 4965    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 264    ๐Ÿ“Œ 204

(scrolling through job postings for 20 minutes) Maybe this doesn't matter. Maybe nothing matters at all. Maybe the industrial revolution was a mistake

06.09.2025 22:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2174    ๐Ÿ” 265    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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Where do you stand?

You can want solutions for the unhoused, you can want safer cities, but you can also be dead set against federalizing them and against military occupation.

I stand with DC!

06.09.2025 20:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13292    ๐Ÿ” 3452    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 340    ๐Ÿ“Œ 161
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My godโ€ฆ

06.09.2025 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8286    ๐Ÿ” 2538    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 624    ๐Ÿ“Œ 341
The Onion News Network truck featuring the headline ICE Opens New Supermax Prison for Most Hardened Toddlers stationed outside the ICE facility.

The Onion News Network truck featuring the headline ICE Opens New Supermax Prison for Most Hardened Toddlers stationed outside the ICE facility.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

06.09.2025 17:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22661    ๐Ÿ” 4192    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 241    ๐Ÿ“Œ 173
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When even Rand Paul thinks youโ€™re despicable.

07.09.2025 01:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27543    ๐Ÿ” 6519    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1275    ๐Ÿ“Œ 465
A TruthSocial post from Donald Trump, featuring an AI generated image of him in front of Chicago burning and under invasion with the words โ€œChipocalypse Nowโ€ near him stylized like the poster for the film Apocalypse Now. The text accompanying the post reads โ€œโ€˜I love the smell of deportations in the morningโ€ฆโ€™ Chicago about to find out why itโ€™s called the Department of WAR ๐Ÿš๐Ÿš๐Ÿšโ€

A TruthSocial post from Donald Trump, featuring an AI generated image of him in front of Chicago burning and under invasion with the words โ€œChipocalypse Nowโ€ near him stylized like the poster for the film Apocalypse Now. The text accompanying the post reads โ€œโ€˜I love the smell of deportations in the morningโ€ฆโ€™ Chicago about to find out why itโ€™s called the Department of WAR ๐Ÿš๐Ÿš๐Ÿšโ€

The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because โ€” wait for it! โ€” Black and Brown people live here.

This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.

06.09.2025 16:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29666    ๐Ÿ” 7419    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2250    ๐Ÿ“Œ 871
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The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers

03.09.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6131    ๐Ÿ” 1842    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 108    ๐Ÿ“Œ 67
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Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want?

Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?

02.09.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20793    ๐Ÿ” 4913    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 314    ๐Ÿ“Œ 190
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So Kilmar Abrego Garcia walks free from federal custody. Funny how the system manages to move quickly when it wants to, but grinds to a halt when itโ€™s about justice.

The bigger story will be when he turns around and sues the Feds for what they put him through.

22.08.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11901    ๐Ÿ” 2924    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 711    ๐Ÿ“Œ 211
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia free from Tennessee jail and returning home to Maryland, lawyer says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News.

Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland.

โ€œToday, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,โ€ his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement.

fox17.com/news/local/k...

22.08.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13400    ๐Ÿ” 3304    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 482    ๐Ÿ“Œ 356

Everyone is a transhumanist when they're getting a life saving organ transplant, and everybody is a biocosmist in the ER.

22.08.2025 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 111    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I expect major movement in Texas tomorrow. No one is covering the GOP's redistricting scheme with as much context and analysis as Democracy Docket. Its team of 20 works around the clock to provide you pro-democracy news and information.

Support their work by signing up today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

23.08.2025 00:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8041    ๐Ÿ” 2078    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 81    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45
The Cracker Barrel logo featuring their new slogan โ€œWhite people are devils created by the great scientist Yakubโ€

The Cracker Barrel logo featuring their new slogan โ€œWhite people are devils created by the great scientist Yakubโ€

Okay I guess I can see why this new logo is controversial

22.08.2025 21:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12084    ๐Ÿ” 1757    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 212    ๐Ÿ“Œ 62

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.

But they donโ€™t get a serious seat at the table to decide how theyโ€™re governed.

D.C. statehood now.

22.08.2025 19:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16749    ๐Ÿ” 4530    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 437    ๐Ÿ“Œ 174

Germany gets 60% of its power from renewables and is shutting down its coal plants. No blackouts. No high bills. Every right wing lie about renewables has been proven false.

22.08.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14544    ๐Ÿ” 3806    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 322    ๐Ÿ“Œ 126

Iโ€™ve seen so many people spreading the misinformation that PBS is shut down or is shutting down.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been shut down and PBS has been defunded.

HOWEVER!!! PBS still exists. It is more important now than ever that you donate to PBS if you can.

22.08.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12354    ๐Ÿ” 3951    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 152
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SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on fascism in ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ : โ€œThere is not safety in keeping your head downโ€ฆ People who oppose public policy decisions but are too afraid of retribution from their government to speak their mind should send a chill down all of our spines.โ€

23.08.2025 03:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9882    ๐Ÿ” 3544    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 233    ๐Ÿ“Œ 189
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๐Ÿšจ League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott Learn more.

๐ŸšจBREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social

23.08.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29786    ๐Ÿ” 8158    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 992    ๐Ÿ“Œ 366
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is released from federal custody in Tennessee Abrego Garcia walked out of federal custody for the first time since March, when he was deported to El Salvador in what the government has called an "administrative error."

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego has been RELEASED from prison and is headed home to Maryland to be with his family. Judge Xinis has an order in place requiring a 72 hour notice if ICE decides to detain and deport him to a third country. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

22.08.2025 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18117    ๐Ÿ” 4009    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 628    ๐Ÿ“Œ 254
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Otherwise known as communism.

22.08.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10939    ๐Ÿ” 3041    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1098    ๐Ÿ“Œ 395
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John Bolton, 12 days ago: โ€œโ€ŠI think he's already come after meโ€ฆโ€Šit is a retribution presidency.โ€

22.08.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7015    ๐Ÿ” 1960    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 201    ๐Ÿ“Œ 76

This is really bad.

23.08.2025 06:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is so importantโ€ฆ

Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and sheโ€™s finding they donโ€™t match the vehicles.

In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tacticsโ€”just like we suspected.

REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
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22.08.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23639    ๐Ÿ” 11577    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1130    ๐Ÿ“Œ 806

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