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Stop Calling Me Frank

@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social

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Working up a fever in a one-horse town. Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band on Rum Bar Records. The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, academic crotchets, crap-takes and low-effort posts are mine.

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 15d

New single: “M.B. Anthem (The Market Basket Song)”: a pious hymn to our favorite grocery store.
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MB Anthem (The Market Basket Song), by Stop Calling Me Frank

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

Solidarity is the only way

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1h

String rhetoric. A bold vision for a string America. Thank you, Mr. President.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1h

"We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" is an all-timer. Thank you Mr President, we appreciate your insights.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 51m

Tapping our massive strategic reserves of PAM cooking spray

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1h

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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 1h

WTF

Maudi63 @maudi63.bsky.social · 1h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h

And yet, the Young Republican bigots continued to commit their bigotry to text. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised that older Republicans are prone to making stupid decisions too.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone telling me we must pay the king his taxes and it's silly to suggest that we need to come up with a way to not have our employers pay our fed taxes on our behalf and make Trump come sue us each personally for the money with the IRS he just stripped to the bone

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 2h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 5h

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Daydream of Hell 🚩 @hellsdaydream.bsky.social · 4h

Peter: Oh no! I forgot Chris's birthday! Better get a present quick or Lois will get mad at me for being a bad father!

Brian and Stewie B-plot:

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 4h

Jackie Kennedy should have worn a giant sombrero

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged millinery opinion, as a treat

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 6h

Liz and Max are my ideal interlocutors - delighted with how this conversation turned out! Also, they are so skilled at choosing bumper music that I even enjoyed the Galaxie bits @lizpelly.bsky.social @peretsky.bsky.social cc @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @hillnadell.bsky.social

Critical Listening @criticallistening.bsky.social · 7h

EPISODE 6: WHY SOUND MATTERS w/ DAMON KRUKOWSKI On the occasion of @dadadrummer.bsky.social‘s new book, we spoke about sound as material, music as labor, AI slop as a waste product of music’s financialization & much more. Hear it now by becoming a subscriber:
www.patreon.com/c/CriticalLi...

a podcast about music, technology & culture industry hell

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 17h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 17h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 17h

Correct answer.

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NFL MEMES @nflmemewar.bsky.social · 18h

Pats fans after the Bills loss to the Falcons. #NFL #nfl #nflmemes #afceast #Patriots #Bills #Jets #Dolphins #Falcons

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 21h

What do you mean, we don't know? We know: Fox News. As long as there's footage of unrest in Portland filmed any time in the past five years, Fox will keep running it as if it's news.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

We don't know where Trump is seeing Portland 'on fire.' That's frightening.

If Trump can be fooled by a fake video with his own face and voice, what else is fooling him?

Opinion | We don't know why Trump thinks Portland 'on fire.' That's frightening.

If Trump can be fooled by a fake video with his own face and voice, what else is fooling him?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Fox Propaganda is desperately spinning the "No Kings" events in fearful anticipation of their success.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h

Unprecedented corruption

Michael Scherer @michaelscherer.bsky.social · 20h

Follow the money. A timely bet raises eyebrows amid record crypto selloff www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

A Historic Crypto Selloff Erased Over $19 Billion, but Two Accounts Made $160 Million

Ahead of the selloff, two accounts on Hyperliquid placed massive bets that bitcoin and ether would fall.

www.wsj.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 1d

All avant-garde literature is either Protestant (Hemingway et al) or Catholic (Nabokov et al) and David Foster Wallace killed himself because he had Protestant ethics and Catholic talent.

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 19h

Just to clarify: I meant my reply as a compliment.