Joshua Frank
@joshuafrank.bsky.social
Journalist. Montana kid. Editor http://CounterPunch.org. Author of𝘼𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨 (Haymarket Books). Co-Host CounterPunch Radio.
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Want to look through Jeffrey Epstein’s documents yourself?
We published a searchable database of the entire set of new Epstein files and emails.
Despite Trump saying this is a scam, Trump is mentioned more than anyone else. Search for yourself here: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
We published a searchable database of the entire set of new Epstein files and emails.
Despite Trump saying this is a scam, Trump is mentioned more than anyone else. Search for yourself here: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Want to look through Jeffrey Epstein’s documents yourself?
We published a searchable database of the entire set of new Epstein files and emails.
Despite Trump saying this is a scam, Trump is mentioned more than anyone else. Search for yourself here: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
We published a searchable database of the entire set of new Epstein files and emails.
Despite Trump saying this is a scam, Trump is mentioned more than anyone else. Search for yourself here: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
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Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
theintercept.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
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Cancer deaths from environmental devastation and the decimation of healthcare will likely continue long after bombs are dropped in Gaza, writes Joshua Frank, citing our research. tomdispatch.com/gazas-loomin...
Gaza’s Looming Cancer Epidemic
A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people. It was a horrifying,
tomdispatch.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Cancer deaths from environmental devastation and the decimation of healthcare will likely continue long after bombs are dropped in Gaza, writes Joshua Frank, citing our research. tomdispatch.com/gazas-loomin...
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A U.S. official says the Biden administration buried his finding that the IDF intentionally shot a journalist, alleging the State Department downplayed it to avoid angering Israel.
Biden Admin Discarded Internal Finding That Israel Killed Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Purpose
The State Department seemingly contradicted the findings to appease the Israeli government, he said.
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A U.S. official says the Biden administration buried his finding that the IDF intentionally shot a journalist, alleging the State Department downplayed it to avoid angering Israel.
Not a word in this entire piece about the Michigan maniac's love for Trump and Charlie Kirk (he shared posts of the latter), or the fact that Kirk's alleged murderer was raised in a Mormon home. Some facts (spurious or not) that would be very inconvenient for MAGA. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
Michigan Church Attacker Is Said to Have Held a Grudge Against Mormons
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Not a word in this entire piece about the Michigan maniac's love for Trump and Charlie Kirk (he shared posts of the latter), or the fact that Kirk's alleged murderer was raised in a Mormon home. Some facts (spurious or not) that would be very inconvenient for MAGA. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
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Voices from the Labor Movement: Los Angeles, 2025
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September 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The regime is now directly stepping in to influence the media. Companies see what’s happening and they’re paying to play. The classic fascist arrangement — an alliance between corporate and government power to kill democracy and attack the left — is in full swing.
www.jphilll.com/p/full-blown...
www.jphilll.com/p/full-blown...
Full Blown Fascism
Media muzzling, antifa terror designation, kidnapping neighbors. We must fight back.
www.jphilll.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The regime is now directly stepping in to influence the media. Companies see what’s happening and they’re paying to play. The classic fascist arrangement — an alliance between corporate and government power to kill democracy and attack the left — is in full swing.
www.jphilll.com/p/full-blown...
www.jphilll.com/p/full-blown...
"If we are going to be truthful in this moment, the hate that Charles Kirk put out came back on him."
The Killing of Charles James Kirk: Violent Speech Leads to Violence
There are so many words and cliches condemning the killing of Charles James Kirk, and none of the refrains are unique. "We need to dial back our discourse", "we need to be tolerant of different opinio...
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September 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"If we are going to be truthful in this moment, the hate that Charles Kirk put out came back on him."
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Gaza's Looming Cancer Epidemic: The Many Ways Bombs Can Kill
by @joshuafrank.bsky.social
by @joshuafrank.bsky.social
Gaza’s Looming Cancer Epidemic
A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people. It was a horrifying,
tomdispatch.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Gaza's Looming Cancer Epidemic: The Many Ways Bombs Can Kill
by @joshuafrank.bsky.social
by @joshuafrank.bsky.social
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Israel Kills 113 More Palestinians in Gaza, Including 33 People Seeking Aid
Israel Kills 113 More Palestinians in Gaza, Including 33 People Seeking Aid
Officials in Gaza say Israel has killed 113 Palestinians over the past day, including 33 people seeking aid. Al Jazeera reports an Israeli drone strike killed several children who were in line for water in al-Mawasi, which had been designated to be a “s...
www.democracynow.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Israel Kills 113 More Palestinians in Gaza, Including 33 People Seeking Aid
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Not just an attack on “experts” or science. It’s an attack on facts, knowledge, education or anything that could support someone questioning their iron rule. The bedrock of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. That’s what RFK Jr is calling for. Only the dictator knows “the truth.”
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
August 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Not just an attack on “experts” or science. It’s an attack on facts, knowledge, education or anything that could support someone questioning their iron rule. The bedrock of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. That’s what RFK Jr is calling for. Only the dictator knows “the truth.”
The chaos at the CDC is a culmination of anti-science, authoritarian hackery - everything braindead MAGA voted for. With public health guardrails now almost destroyed, the next pandemic that strikes may well catapult us into a Mad Max dystopian future. As if this one wasn't dystopian enough.
August 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The chaos at the CDC is a culmination of anti-science, authoritarian hackery - everything braindead MAGA voted for. With public health guardrails now almost destroyed, the next pandemic that strikes may well catapult us into a Mad Max dystopian future. As if this one wasn't dystopian enough.
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Airdrops of aid in Gaza fall on desperate, hungry civilians and crush them to death. The air drops are not a solution to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. They are a publicity stunt so that Western governments can avoid holding Israel accountable for the blockade.
Palestinian boy killed in Gaza aid drop as starvation toll rises to 217
Falling aid pallet crushes 15-year-old Muhannad Zakaria Eid, as more Palestinians, including children, starve to death.
www.aljazeera.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Airdrops of aid in Gaza fall on desperate, hungry civilians and crush them to death. The air drops are not a solution to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. They are a publicity stunt so that Western governments can avoid holding Israel accountable for the blockade.
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“Every time you ask Al to write a paper, remix a photo, or curate your dream playlist, something else is happening behind the screen.”
“Elon Musk's xAl is constructing one of the world's largest Al supercenters in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. This mirrors a long history of environmental racism where polluting industries and hazardous developments are placed in communities with the least
political and financial power.” 🧵
political and financial power.” 🧵
August 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Every time you ask Al to write a paper, remix a photo, or curate your dream playlist, something else is happening behind the screen.”
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What is the Cancer-Industrial Complex?
Great discussion with METASTASIS author @cannafis.bsky.social and @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social!
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/05/t...
Great discussion with METASTASIS author @cannafis.bsky.social and @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social!
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/05/t...
The Cancer-Industrial Complex w/ Nafis Hasan
On this episode, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Nafis Hasan about his new book, Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the
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August 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What is the Cancer-Industrial Complex?
Great discussion with METASTASIS author @cannafis.bsky.social and @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social!
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/05/t...
Great discussion with METASTASIS author @cannafis.bsky.social and @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social!
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/05/t...
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This is my friend.
His name is Christian Smalls.
He founded the Amazon Labor union
Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough.
Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF
And no one in the MSM is talking about it.
paydayreport.com/amazon-union...
His name is Christian Smalls.
He founded the Amazon Labor union
Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough.
Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF
And no one in the MSM is talking about it.
paydayreport.com/amazon-union...
July 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This is my friend.
His name is Christian Smalls.
He founded the Amazon Labor union
Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough.
Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF
And no one in the MSM is talking about it.
paydayreport.com/amazon-union...
His name is Christian Smalls.
He founded the Amazon Labor union
Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough.
Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF
And no one in the MSM is talking about it.
paydayreport.com/amazon-union...
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The Israeli genocide in Gaza has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle East and, second, Israel is utterly incapable of surviving on its own.
Can Israel Survive without the West? The Answer Reveals Our Collective Power
The Israeli genocide in Gaza, along with the escalating regional wars it has ignited, has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the sec...
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July 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The Israeli genocide in Gaza has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle East and, second, Israel is utterly incapable of surviving on its own.
An extremely important essay by @wsolol.bsky.social on the NYT's favorite genocide denier. www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/25/b...
The New York Times' Bret Stephens, Genocide Denier
In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, the New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide ...
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July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
An extremely important essay by @wsolol.bsky.social on the NYT's favorite genocide denier. www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/25/b...
Jacobin, always uncritically keen on nuclear power while ignoring every externality but CO2 emissions.
Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation? Fine. Accidents? No prob. Links to proliferation? Yeah right. Nuke plants in war zones? Safe! Forever waste? We'll figure it out. jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...
Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation? Fine. Accidents? No prob. Links to proliferation? Yeah right. Nuke plants in war zones? Safe! Forever waste? We'll figure it out. jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...
Atomic Abundance and Its Enemies
Wrangling over the construction of nuclear power in New York State has revealed the priorities of some of the state’s biggest environmental lobbies. For them, creating bureaucratic procedures they can...
jacobin.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Jacobin, always uncritically keen on nuclear power while ignoring every externality but CO2 emissions.
Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation? Fine. Accidents? No prob. Links to proliferation? Yeah right. Nuke plants in war zones? Safe! Forever waste? We'll figure it out. jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...
Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation? Fine. Accidents? No prob. Links to proliferation? Yeah right. Nuke plants in war zones? Safe! Forever waste? We'll figure it out. jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...
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Ann Coulter wants to kill Native Americans (so do some on the Left) by @joshuafrank.bsky.social
Ann Coulter Wants to Kill Native Americans (So Do Some on the Left)
The live music had come to an end, and my friend Janene Yazzie, an organizer with the NDN Collective, looked up from her phone in disgust, horrified by what she had just read. Someone wished her peop...
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July 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Ann Coulter wants to kill Native Americans (so do some on the Left) by @joshuafrank.bsky.social
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I get this instinct but based on years of evidence it has just reinforced the idea that immigration is about public safety (a lie) rather than about labor and seeking refuge. Instead of arguing on their terms it's much more effective to do what Mamdani did when Trump threatened to denaturalize him..
But not saying that allows the public to erroneously believe, as Trump claims, that ICE is going after immigrants in gangs, convicted of violent crimes, etc.
Moreover, "criminals deserve due process" is constitutionally correct but unlikely to change minds. "These people aren't criminals" might.
Moreover, "criminals deserve due process" is constitutionally correct but unlikely to change minds. "These people aren't criminals" might.
repeating “ICE aren’t going after criminals like Trump said they would” is a fantastic triple threat of propaganda: it affirms arguments about immigrants as public safety or national security threats, shoring up arguments plenty of Dems parrot, even as it purports to defend some “good” immigrants
July 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I get this instinct but based on years of evidence it has just reinforced the idea that immigration is about public safety (a lie) rather than about labor and seeking refuge. Instead of arguing on their terms it's much more effective to do what Mamdani did when Trump threatened to denaturalize him..
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BREAKING NEWS: Senate Republicans voted to pass Trump’s budget bill.
This bill strips Americans of health care and food assistance, just to give the ultra-wealthy a huge tax handout.
This is a devastating blow for working people.
This bill strips Americans of health care and food assistance, just to give the ultra-wealthy a huge tax handout.
This is a devastating blow for working people.
July 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Senate Republicans voted to pass Trump’s budget bill.
This bill strips Americans of health care and food assistance, just to give the ultra-wealthy a huge tax handout.
This is a devastating blow for working people.
This bill strips Americans of health care and food assistance, just to give the ultra-wealthy a huge tax handout.
This is a devastating blow for working people.