Fran in Upstate
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Fran in Upstate
@franinupstate.bsky.social
Servant of heelers and orange cats, nurse, mom
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Join me in condemning this kind of statement and this kind of hate.
September 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.

May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
September 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong.

If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines.

The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible.

Vaccines save lives. Period.
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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This measured, dignified & statesmanlike response proves conclusively that he is a role model for our nation's youth & should counter the narrative that he is an impulsive, infantile, psychologically-damaged dimwit.

#TacoTuesdayTirade 🌮 🤬
June 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Is it now standard to discharge double mastectomy patients same day and on Tylenol and Advil for pain relief? Seems unnecessarily cruel to me.
June 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.
June 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
@stephaniemiller.bsky.social can we do predictions for what will happen next week while Steph is away?
June 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem.

Right fucking now.
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Thank you for your attention to this matter.

#AccountabilityForJanuary6th
June 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.
MIKE JOHNSON: From the people who mandated mask wearing for years, it's absurd. They need to back off ICE & respect our agents

Q: So you're ok w/agents not identifying themselves when they're arresting migrants?

J: Why, so they can target them? So they can put names and faces online and dox them?
June 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Crockett: Right now, it seems like you don’t care about the constitution unless it’s the second amendment and that’s misinterpreted as well. There’s other amendments.. And we don’t get to just change it because our fearless leader says that he doesn’t like it
May 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Neguse was grilling Jim Jordan so hard this morning over language in the reconciliation bill to restrict federal judges' ability to enforce court penalties that Jordan had to consult with his lawyers
May 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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WHY DOES SHE HAVE THE GREATEST ARTISTS OF ALL-TIME & I ONLY GET KID ROCK??? WAAAAAHHH!!!!! 😩
May 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK:

“.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration."

@variety.com
variety.com/2025/music/n...
May 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
April 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.

If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.

Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
April 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process.

Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
@stephaniemiller.bsky.social
Who knew Steph is fluent in Swedish Chef
a chef is making a funny face in a kitchen while holding a pan .
ALT: a chef is making a funny face in a kitchen while holding a pan .
media.tenor.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail.

Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
April 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
April 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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If ANYONE can be picked off the street and sent away without due process, EVERYONE can be picked off the street and sent away without due process…
youtube.com/shorts/0_U6h...
Every American Should Reject This
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtube.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Why is Pam Bondi refusing to investigate the Signal chat?
March 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM