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Frank D’Elia

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I'm sure it's no accident that femme or NB presenting profiles are blind to the racist trash who aided and abetted the ascent of the antivaccine Samoan baby killer into the HHS. Sexual harassment is awful, enabling vaccine preventable deaths and morbidity is far worse.

November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

These tweets from 2014 should have disqualified her from anything other a place on the Fox and Friends sofa. How is it random randos can dig this stuff up but the hiring honchos at New York and Vanity Fair can’t?

November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

John Kenneth Galbraith diagnosed the problem with conservative intellectuals decades ago.

November 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

CEOs at similar orgs make similar salaries, just the reality of the world we live in.

November 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

Swedish Glögg -substitute Aquavit for white rum

November 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

It's ironic you don't understand the meaning of "subjectively". The word you're looking for is "ostensible". As far as the CIA is concerned, that was not the first time they were involved in drug smuggling. Historian Alfred McCoy has written about the subject. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pol...

November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

Gross 👇

November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

More of this, please

November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.”

destroyed much it was because they had suffered much. They knew that as long as these plantations stood their lot would be to labour on them until they dropped. The only thing was to destroy them.
From their masters they had known rape, torture, degradation, and, at the slightest provocation, death.
They returned in kind. For two centuries the higher civilization had shown them that power was used for wreaking your will on those whom you controlled. Now that they held power they did as they had been taught. In the frenzy of the first encounters they killed all, yet they spared the priests whom they feared and the surgeons who had been kind to them. They, whose women had undergone countless violations, violated all the women who fell into their hands, often on the bodies of their still bleeding husbands, fathers and
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The Black Jacobins brothers. 'Vengeance! Vengeance!' was their war-cry, and one of them carried a white child on a pike as a standard.
And yet they were surprisingly moderate, ' then and afterwards, far more humane than their masters had been or would ever be to them. They did not maintain this revengeful spirit for long. The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppres-sion. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased. As the revolution gained territory they spared many of the men, women, and children whom they surprised on plantations. To prisoners of war alone they remained merciless. They tore out their flesh with red-hot pincers, they roasted them on slow fires, they sawed a carpenter between two of his boards. Yet in all the records of that time there is no single instance of such fiendish tortures as burying white men up to the neck and smearing the holes in
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November 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

November 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

Mark Epstein denies it was Clinton
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

“Overflowing with prescriptions”
- his anabolic kit: testosterone, HGH, and other hormones. The doctor who prescribes this? Probably this guy drlife.com, who offers hormone “optimization”.

November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

Coulter fan should have been memory holed years ago

2014 Olivia Nuzzi tweet gushing over Ann Coulter

November 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

Butt breathing doesn’t work: its most prominent practitioner doesnt get enough oxygen to his brain
www.medpagetoday.com/criticalcare...

November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

“We’re certain because we’re certain. QED”

November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

Caught in the act- this is the face she makes before she commits some act of mischief, e.g., jumping on to a shelf and knocking a figurine to the floor or just going for a good old-fashioned, Tarzan-style hang from drapes, that is when she’s not jumping into the tops of doors.

November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

Thank you for your service, and for those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Happy Veterans Day.

Extract from A.E. Housman’s “ A Shropshire Lad” commemorating war dead: “From Clee to heaven the beacon burns,
The shires have seen it plain, From north and south the sign returns And beacons burn again.
Look left, look right, the hills are bright,
The dales are light between,
Because 'tis fifty years to-night
That God has saved the Queen.
Now, when the flame they watch not towers
About the soil they trod,
Lads, we'll remember friends of ours
Who shared the work with God.
To skies that knit their heartstrings right,
To fields that bred them brave,
The saviours come not home to-night:
Themselves they could not save.
It dawns in Asia, tombstones show And Shropshire names are read;
And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
We pledge in peace by farm and town
The Queen they served in war,
And fire the beacons up and down The land they perished for.

November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

Evergreen.

November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

Alan Grayson called it

November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM

Frank D’Elia

@frankd7.bsky.social

Although first used for Jonah Goldberg, “Spongedough Loadpants” is a fitting description for this subspecies of conservative pundit.
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