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Shai Franklin
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Humanitarian-for-hire | RoomRater: 9/10 | Per David Duke: “One of America's leading Zio-Supremacists” | Banned by Vladimir Putin | He/Him 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
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“Especially against the backdrop of increasingly gratuitous suffering in Gaza—by Palestinians and Israelis—the latest declarations…are a rebuke of the failed maximalist strategies of Hamas and…Netanyahu. They may also offer an escape hatch for Israel.” blogs.timesofisrael.com/after-30-yea... #UNGA80
The Blogs: After 30 Years, Bibi’s Path Is Dead End
From the blog of Shai Franklin at The Times of Israel
blogs.timesofisrael.com
When they wrote “certain unalienable rights”, they didn’t mean someone could argue away your basic human and civil rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness… nor to equal treatment under the law.
In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community.

It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
Throwing transgender Americans to the wolves will not save us… and even if it would, what’s the point of winning if we become the wolves? Values and humanity matter.
We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation.

If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?
This is why Gavin Newsom is a non-starter for me.

Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader.

A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.
An ugliness far deeper than Mar-a-Lago face.
We were all wondering what kind of woman would be attracted to Stephen Miller and, well
Stephen Miller’s wife threatened to have a naturalized citizen deported because she didn’t like what he said during a TV debate.

www.rawstory.com/katie-miller...
No truly “Christian” government would need to be ordered to do this.
A federal judge appeared to suggest Thursday USDA must use emergency money to partially fund SNAP, days after the Trump administration said it didn't have authority.

The judge plans to rule on a TRO request later today.

@kellygarrity.bsky.social reported from the courthouse for @politico.com
Federal judge suggests Trump admin should partially fund SNAP
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said she planned to issue a ruling later Thursday on Democrats’ lawsuit to keep food aid flowing during the shutdown.
www.politico.com
So, the reason they were able to conduct the robbery so quickly… is because they weren’t being careful about leaving evidence to trace them? Brilliant!
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 3d
Two suspects arrested in connection with the theft of France's crown jewels from the Louvre museum have admitted involvement in the heist and have been remanded in custody, the Paris prosecutor's office said.

Read more: https://cnn.it/47uu2DH
Because the news must be an “anti-woke” #meritocracy.
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
And the guy was detained for weeks… not a democracy.
Rumors spread online that a man was jailed in Tennessee for posting a meme criticizing Trump after Charlie Kirk's death. That's true. ✅ Here's what we know about his arrest:
Man jailed in Tennessee after posting meme deriding Trump following Charlie Kirk's death
The local sheriff accused the man of threatening a school.
www.snopes.com
Of course The Free Press was involved… our new Ministry of Propaganda.
Haaa
This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn.

Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
President Trump has chosen policies that are both inflationary and job-killing, and the poor Fed had to risk feeding inflation in order to try and save some of those jobs… just cleaning up his mess.
Of course
Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."
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JD Vance is lying. He knows he’s lying. But he doesn’t care. Trump has taught Vance & all the others in my former political party that the truth doesn’t matter.
The administration’s caprice and privilege are staggering, with regard to these swindled troops and to the Washingtonians and all Americans who deserve to live and visit freely in our nation’s capital.
These people have civilian jobs. It's one thing to mobilize them for an emergency or a legitimate war, another thing to send them to American cities to stand around and mill about. You're messing with people's careers to further a hostile and idiotic agenda.
NEW: National Guard troops deployed in Washington, DC, will remain mobilized in the city at least through February 2026. Hegseth extended their orders on Monday. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
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Excellent summary. When I discuss the Constitution in class with students, we pay attention to the fact that Article I is about Congress and it takes up about half the text of the document. If the Founders had “intent,” it was for Congress to assume a massive role in the federal government.
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down

From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
www.inquirer.com
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Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this
Shrewd
President Trump has sometimes likened himself to a king. Now he has been given a crown.

Trump received a replica of an ancient golden crown on Wednesday from President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea. He called it “very special.”
Trump Has Likened Himself to a King. South Korea Gave Him a Crown.
President Trump received a replica of a golden crown excavated from an ancient royal tomb in Gyeongju. He called it “very special.”
nyti.ms
Thoughts and prayers
Perhaps the most ominous satellite presentation we've seen. Cat 5 Melissa within 2 hours of landfall in Jamaica. Winds at 185 mph (tied for 2nd highest on record). Pressure at 892 mb (tied for 3rd lowest). Will be one of strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall ever recorded.
Matthew 25:42 #WWJD
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
Wow… but Tylenol?
WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."
NEW STUDY PUBLISHED IN NATURE: People who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within ~3 months before or after starting immunotherapy for cancer lived longer overall than those who didn’t get the vaccine.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
So… Muslims bad?
Eric Adams, endorsing Cuomo: "New York can't be Europe, folks ... Those Islamic extremisms that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over the logical thinkings. And that's what I'm fighting for."
Also, the ad was run by the government of Toronto, not all of Canada. Also, Trump still expects Canada to become our 51st state, so who’s really being indecent here?
More dangerous silliness… any wonder the federal debt increases $1 trillion in just the last month? Of course Reagan opposed tariffs, he was a conservative pro-business Republican! And we need open trade with Canada, also with Mexico. #RealityCheck
Trump is pissed about an ad that Canada recently ran in the U.S. showing Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs in 1987.

“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
“Democrats play a much dirtier fight.”
Q: “One of the [Jan. 6 rioters you pardoned] was charged with allegedly threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries…Do you worry that your actions back on day one undermine what this task force is trying to accomplish?”

Trump: “No.”
Hey, #MAGA
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...