Marcy Frantom

Maybe it’s time to dump coffee grinds in the Potomac dressed as Oompah Loompahs, orange faces and all. A 50% coffee tax???!!!

At this rate I expect next we’ll get new information about Monica Lewinsky, a list of 205 card-carrying communists employed by the State Department, and possibly some blockbuster revelations about Grover Cleveland’s illegitimate child.

Shame! Shame on the Trump administration for stripping legal status from thousands of our ALLIES, including many we evacuated from Kabul ourselves!

This makes our country utterly untrustworthy. No future ally will ever believe our promises; all can be taken away. We lose our honor.

Could the U.S. force treatment on mentally ill people (again)? Sixty years ago, America began closing mental hospitals. A growing chorus is blaming that for the crisis of mentally ill folks living on our streets.

oh man we were so innocent and naive as recently as the middle of April

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This is only possible because of decades of corporations buying family owned media outlets and corporate mergers that Congress was too meek to put a stop to. #media

NYC to face $64-million cut in security funds from Trump administration after deadly shooting The Trump administration said it would cut terrorism prevention funding for New York City, according to a grant notice posted days after a gunman killed four people inside a Manhattan skyscraper.

Congress created the anti-terrorism program to help cities prevent terrorist attacks. Now Trump, through executive fiat, is threatening to cut those funds without Congressional approval. NY City is particularly targeted.

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UCLA says the federal government has frozen more than a half-billion dollars of its research funds | CNN For the first time since revealing last week that the Trump administration began freezing its federal research funding, the University of California, Los Angeles has put a number on how much is at ris...

#UCLA says the federal government has frozen more than a half-billion dollars of its #research fund. www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/u...

her home address will be leaked by the president of the united states by thursday afternoon

Gertrude Ederle swimming what looks like the front crawl. She is a white woman with her hair in a bathing cap.

#OnThisDay, 6 Aug 1926, American Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel.

She was an Olympic swimmer, and had held five world records in swimming.

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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

How Confederate Monuments Came Down in the Summer of 2020 and Why It Matters The Albert Pike statue, that President Trump has ordered to be returned to its pedestal in Washington, DC after being pulled down in the summer of 20202, honors a man, who served briefly in the Confed...

How Confederate Monuments Came Down in the Summer of 2020 and Why It Matters 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

🗃️ Most may not know that Indiana led the resurgence of the KKK in the 1910s 1920s and 1930s. Indiana! Not the South. So, the continuity here should not surprise

#TDIH, the Voting Rights Act was enacted; today, it hangs by a thread. Here's a quick history of voting rights in the US, which I published in 2022.
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🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Melanie Morgan (b. November 11, 1967) is a politician serving as a Democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 29th legislative district. Morgan is a veteran of the United States Army and served on the Board of Community Healthcare.

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Just spent a month traveling around England and Scotland. I did not find a bunch of people pro-Trump. It was more like—are you okay? The more informed folks were uber and taxi drivers. One guy said he had gotten an offer to move his biz to Texas. I asked if he trusted Trump and he said no.

GOP Mike Flood's town hall answer for having cut SNAP and health care benefits: "We do not have unlimited money in the United States."

If the US has $30 Million to waste on Trump's parade, there's enough money for SNAP and health care.
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

If governors can simply “remove” state legislators they disagree with, we no longer live in a democracy.

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

"You're outwardly telling people on hiking trails to not vaccinate your children. You're going on podcasts and saying there's no such thing as a safe vaccine." It would be inaccurate *not* to call RFK Jr. anti-vaccine. Doctor Mike joins @citizencohn.bsky.social:

Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremism

Trump's Project 2025 wants to eliminate public schools. Biased, greedy businesses want personal profits & Christian Nationalism instead of free, non-religious education. Fight back against attempted destruction of federal education dept. Keep showing up!

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has:

Removed COVID vaccine recommendations

Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee

Replaced scientists with antivaxxers

Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research

Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

Top Trump officials are meeting at the Vice President’s residence tomorrow to discuss their next moves to cover-up Trump’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein

How Can Urbanists Stay True to Their Values in Trump’s America? The Ethical Urbanist: Principled urbanism can feel nearly impossible under an administration openly hostile to social justice, equity and cities as a whole. But there’s still a lot of opportunity to d...

"The Ethical Urbanist: Principled urbanism can feel nearly impossible under an administration openly hostile to social justice, equity and cities as a whole. But there’s still a lot of opportunity to do good."

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Northwest states, cities targeted in latest federal threats over sanctuary laws The U.S. Department of Justice promises more litigation is coming. Top attorneys for Oregon and Washington say their sanctuary laws are on sound legal footing.

The U.S. Department of Justice promises more litigation is coming. Top attorneys for Oregon and Washington say their sanctuary laws are on sound legal footing.

Hotel chain slammed for 'outsourcing check-ins to virtual front desk in India'

A hotel is under fire after a viral video revealed the front desk was operated by an outsourced worker all the way in India, welcoming guests during check-in - in Miami.

🍂 🦠 🧪 E.coli Infections Linked to Raw Milk in FL

People need to stand up. #StandUpForScience 🧪🧬🦠🌍🔭

People need to stand up. #StandUpForScience 🧪🧬🦠🌍🔭