Frank Amari
@frankamari.bsky.social
Lapsed attorney and former public defender.
Pro-Democracy, Anti-Trump. Loves dogs, nature, art and history.
"As long as one lives, one can learn."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Pro-Democracy, Anti-Trump. Loves dogs, nature, art and history.
"As long as one lives, one can learn."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
🌊💙🌊💙
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Frank Amari
@frankamari.bsky.social
· Nov 9
A question I've yet to see be asked:
What part of the greatness of America WASN'T accomplished by immigrants or by their "proud to be American" descendants?
What part of the greatness of America WASN'T accomplished by immigrants or by their "proud to be American" descendants?
Trump's "Fake News" is right out of the fascist playbook:
A Brief History of 'Lügenpresse,' the Nazi-era Predecessor to Trump's 'Fake News' - U.S. News share.google/njGknpw4BlDR...
A Brief History of 'Lügenpresse,' the Nazi-era Predecessor to Trump's 'Fake News' - U.S. News share.google/njGknpw4BlDR...
A brief history of 'Lügenpresse,' the Nazi-era predecessor to Trump's 'fake news'
Used in World War I to Attack Enemy Propaganda, the Phrase 'Lying Press' Resurfaced Under the Nazis and During the 2014 Anti-immigrant Movement in Germany Is Now Staple of Trump's Rhetoric.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Trump's "Fake News" is right out of the fascist playbook:
A Brief History of 'Lügenpresse,' the Nazi-era Predecessor to Trump's 'Fake News' - U.S. News share.google/njGknpw4BlDR...
A Brief History of 'Lügenpresse,' the Nazi-era Predecessor to Trump's 'Fake News' - U.S. News share.google/njGknpw4BlDR...
Bob Ross painting sells for record $1m at auction to benefit US public broadcasters
- The Art Newspaper - International art news and events share.google/skvpCEawDHb3...
- The Art Newspaper - International art news and events share.google/skvpCEawDHb3...
Bob Ross painting sells for record $1m at auction to benefit US public broadcasters
Four original canvases by the late television painting instructor have been sold lately to raise funds for US public broadcasting following slashes by the Trump administration, and dozens more will be...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Bob Ross painting sells for record $1m at auction to benefit US public broadcasters
- The Art Newspaper - International art news and events share.google/skvpCEawDHb3...
- The Art Newspaper - International art news and events share.google/skvpCEawDHb3...
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won Academy Award for 'Shakespeare in Love,' has died at 88
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British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won Academy Award for 'Shakespeare In Love,' has died at 88
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won Academy Award for 'Shakespeare in Love,' has died at 88
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Right out of the fascist playbook:
Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker
A new White House webpage presents a “Hall of Shame” for news reports that the president disagrees with, coming after Trump voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times ...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Right out of the fascist playbook:
Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors
The Republican-led committee’s pledge came after The Post reported that the defense secretary ordered that a U.S. strike on an alleged narcotics boat leave no survivors.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This morning, at 4:43 AM:
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This morning, at 4:43 AM:
"Douglass was one of the most photographed individuals of the nineteenth century. By repeatedly sitting for portraits across decades —daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes-de-visite, and cabinet cards — he ensured that a wide public saw representations of a dignified Black man..."
Frederick Douglass, the Integrity of the Past and the Problem of AI 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Frederick Douglass, the Integrity of the Past and the Problem of AI
We are just beginning to comprehend the ways in which AI is fundamentally changing how we produce and consume history.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Douglass was one of the most photographed individuals of the nineteenth century. By repeatedly sitting for portraits across decades —daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes-de-visite, and cabinet cards — he ensured that a wide public saw representations of a dignified Black man..."
What a sh*t show:
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
What a sh*t show:
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
It's Trump's economy now:
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's Trump's economy now:
Henry Kissinger died #OTD 2023.
The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Wikipedia share.google/wkOhxC7Gsmti...
The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Wikipedia share.google/wkOhxC7Gsmti...
The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Wikipedia
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November 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Henry Kissinger died #OTD 2023.
The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Wikipedia share.google/wkOhxC7Gsmti...
The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Wikipedia share.google/wkOhxC7Gsmti...
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Nonsense du jour:
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Nonsense du jour:
A Gallup Poll released today:
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low share.google/zf4A1FtsxT3J...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low share.google/zf4A1FtsxT3J...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A Gallup Poll released today:
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low share.google/zf4A1FtsxT3J...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low share.google/zf4A1FtsxT3J...
"straightforwardly Naziism"
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"straightforwardly Naziism"
On this date in 1893, New Zealand women vote for the first time in a national election.
(New Zealand was the first country to grant the right to vote to women.)
(New Zealand was the first country to grant the right to vote to women.)
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
On this date in 1893, New Zealand women vote for the first time in a national election.
(New Zealand was the first country to grant the right to vote to women.)
(New Zealand was the first country to grant the right to vote to women.)
"For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit."
-- John Bunyan, born #OTD 1628
Fact check: Debunking 100 Trump false claims from his first 100 days | CNN Politics share.google/oRMmppp27FWC...
-- John Bunyan, born #OTD 1628
Fact check: Debunking 100 Trump false claims from his first 100 days | CNN Politics share.google/oRMmppp27FWC...
Fact check: Debunking 100 Trump false claims from his first 100 days | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump filled his first 100 days back in office with the same relentless dishonesty that was a hallmark of his first presidency and his 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit."
-- John Bunyan, born #OTD 1628
Fact check: Debunking 100 Trump false claims from his first 100 days | CNN Politics share.google/oRMmppp27FWC...
-- John Bunyan, born #OTD 1628
Fact check: Debunking 100 Trump false claims from his first 100 days | CNN Politics share.google/oRMmppp27FWC...
"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles."
-- Friedrich Engels, born #OTD 1820, in The Communist Manifesto
-- Friedrich Engels, born #OTD 1820, in The Communist Manifesto
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles."
-- Friedrich Engels, born #OTD 1820, in The Communist Manifesto
-- Friedrich Engels, born #OTD 1820, in The Communist Manifesto
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
-- William Blake, born #OTD 1757
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
-- William Blake, born #OTD 1757
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
-- William Blake, born #OTD 1757
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
-- William Blake, born #OTD 1757
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... & some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
-- William Blake, born #OTD 1757
-- William Blake, born #OTD 1757
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... & some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
-- William Blake, born #OTD 1757
-- William Blake, born #OTD 1757
By the President of the United States:
"A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at..."
"A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at..."
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
By the President of the United States:
"A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at..."
"A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at..."