Shai Franklin

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

We cannot forget this or let this go. Just because it’s “gone” doesn’t mean:
1. Some of the people are still embedded in the govt in places with data access, and those people didn’t always go through proper background checks.
2. The damage doesn’t go away when the entity goes away.

Also, even though she’s a woman and a Black woman at that — after Hillary and when “DEI” is a dirty word — she almost won (and possibly did). Conventional wisdom retains this silly assumption, that a significant portion of o it electorate can just be “convinced” or fooled to vote for Dems.

Friends call your Senators and House Member and demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine and Europe.

Every Dem elected at every level of government should be denouncing this rancid appeasement of Putin.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.

We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

Literally, a walking contempt of court.

Hmm

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

At least he isn’t a woman, right??

Can confirm that Fox News totally ignored the press conference where Epstein survivors and lawmakers called for the release of the Epstein files.

Last week, they ignored key revelations from the Epstein emails. These omissions depict a false reality to their viewers.

Lemme guess…

Trump’s Poll Numbers Just Entered the Danger Zone Trump’s job approval fell below 45% for the first time in his second term—historically the point where the GOP gets wiped out in midterms.

“Trump’s Poll Numbers Just Entered the Danger Zone” — my latest for @washingtonmonthly.com

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/18/t...

MAHA update

In world first, Israeli scientists use RNA-based gene therapy to stop ALS deterioration By adding a microRNA molecule to ALS models, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University and Weizmann Institute researchers say the damaged nerve cells 'even regenerated'

In world first, Israeli scientists use RNA-based gene therapy to stop ALS deterioration https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-world-first-israeli-scientists-use-rna-based-gene-therapy-to-stop-als-deterioration/

If they could fly cattle cars, I bet they would.

Congratulations to Alexander De Croo on his appointment as UNDP Administrator.
 
Your leadership comes at a crucial time for the UN system, as an ambitious reform is needed.

I am confident the EU-UNDP partnership will keep growing stronger, including through Global Gateway.

Any effort to normalize with Saudis won’t materialize without Netanyahu et al renouncing their entire agenda… and if their antics help derail a long-term ceasefire and reconstruction deal for Gaza, they’ll be thrilled. #RealityCheck

So true… literally every statement he makes is a lie.

Man films Border Patrol agents smashing his car window in Charlotte Willy Aceituno, a Honduran-born U.S. citizen, was stopped twice by Border Patrol agents in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Homeland Security is not protecting us. It’s terrorizing us.

#Meritocracy update.

NEW: Transgender Activists to Dine with Pope Leo XIV during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor Papal luncheon with trans advocate Alessia Nobile set for Sunday at Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor, highlighting a legacy of outreach and hopes for continued inclusion.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.

For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...

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Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts

And meanwhile, Trump has shuttered most of the Education Department’s civil rights division which would implement and oversee any actual “civil rights” measures.

Maybe this is true… are most Mainers billionaires?

It still amazes me, how someone with no awareness of how the real world works or how normal people behave, can still be so effective motivating large numbers of people to do his bidding.

A dark-haired woman wearing pearls

Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, has announced she’s running for the California State Senate.

And as anyone who’s ever tried to buy health insurance knows, buying individually is always cheaper and better than as part of a group.

This sounds like the start of a conversation to put Paw Paw in an assisted living center.