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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Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections.
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...
FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use
The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician ...
news.bloomberglaw.com
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.
It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
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?
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.
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.
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...
www.rawstory.com/katie-miller...
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
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
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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
Read more: https://cnn.it/47uu2DH
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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
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...
Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
Of course
Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."
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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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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...
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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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 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
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.
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.”
Scoop: Bari Weiss has discussed hiring Fox News anchor Bret Baier for CBS News.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bret-baier...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bret-baier...
Bari’s Baier Market
Barely a month into her CBS tenure, Bari Weiss is making moves that reveal how she intends to reshape the network—including an eyebrow-raising interest in Fox News anchor Bret Baier.
www.status.news
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...
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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."
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.”
“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
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.”
Trump: “No.”
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 ...