Scott Franzen

Thought we obliterated their nuclear program...

Trump’s EPA just rescinded one of its most important rulings that protected public health & the climate because Trump is beholden to coal & fossil fuels. @michaelemann.bsky.social joins for a sobering conversation about our climate crisis that has perilously escalated. youtu.be/9vx1zTG6VbI?...

Just watched our Secretary of State laud the Scientific Revolution and deride climate science as a “cult,” almost in same breath. The distorting effect of fossil fuel’s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.

The Trump administration's social media repurposes language and cultural references with connections to neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements. It's content that experts say is instantly recognizable to those who are in the white supremacist know, but can be largely invisible to everyone else.

A democratic society organized around the assumption that everyone has some degree of morality committed to truth, honor and integrity is no match for a cabal of conscienceless malignant narcissists without a single characteristic of humanity — pure evil masquerading as human.

Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings. This can't be "reformed"

Umm, so we “need” to take Greenland to “protect it from Russia”… The same Russia he just asked to join his “peace board”? Do I have that right?

Donald Trump is a criminal who should be in jail and not the White House. ICE is a band of lawless goons who shouldn't be allowed to carry guns or badges. And the citizens who peacefully protest the Administration's violence against our nation are the true patriots.

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." —William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

It should astound and shock us that Greg Bovino has a larger security detail than all but perhaps three Cabinet secretaries. This is what it looks like when he uses the bathroom.

Remember this same GOP crowd once styled itself the "Moral Majority." Murder, rape, pedophilia, and theft - all of which Republicans defend - are anything but moral. Maybe they should go with "the Amoral Party" instead.

He murdered her

The shooter calls her a "fucking bitch" right after shooting her three times. He shot because he was pissed off, not because he reasonably believed he was in danger. Also, he is filming while handling his weapon at the same time?!? Was he even looking at where he was shooting?

This is murder.

Law enforcement officers CANNOT use deadly force against a fleeing person fleeing unless they have a reasonable belief that the individual poses a danger to others (e.g., they know the person is armed). If in vehicle, the person must be threatening to use deadly force with the vehicle or other means

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

It is truly insane to me that our system has the means to end this insanity but the people who can effect it refuse to…even though we are now at a point where in cannot possibly be in their own interest to keep supporting this shitshow

Let’s be clear: the Trump Admin is lying to the American people. This has never been about stopping drugs from coming to the US — it’s about grabbing Venezuela’s oil for his billionaire buddies. Trump has put American troops in harm’s way to boost oil company profits. Outrageous.

In authoritarian regimes, underlings signal loyalty to the ruler by publicly attesting to obviously false claims

To all of you who thought, "What could go wrong electing a stupid, immature, vulgar, child rapist with advanced dementia and no impulse control as our president?": I don't like to say, "I told you so," but I'm willing to enthusiastically make an exception.

The first time I searched Trump, there were over 900 records found. I also confirmed there are now 332.

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

We need to vote OUT every senator & congress member who is accepting money from gun manufacturers & gun supporting companies. Lets vote for people who want rational gun laws.

Three Shirts McGee’s entire MAGA schtick was about draining the swamp, exposing the deep state cabal blah blah… Here he is palling around with Jeffrey Epstein. They are the monsters they were warning us about.

If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." — Plato

The other thing that ties Bondi, Patel, and Trump together is that they are all utterly corrupt. Pamela Jo Bondi only got the AG job because she took a bribe from Trump when she was the Florida AG to drop her investigation of Trump University for consumer fraud.

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services is not a fan of the Trump admin’s Ukraine peace plan.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

For Trump: extravagant dinners with murderous dictators who fill the pockets of him and his family and friends For you: higher prices

Last night, Donald Trump, the adjudicated rapist sexual abuser who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, called a female reporter “piggy” for asking a question about the Epstein files. Party of family values, amirite.

Operation Change The Topic From Epstein

This is what intelligence and critical thinking sound like: VIA hana.clio What is there to debate?(for myself)

Turns out the Golden Age of MAGA was an Epstein cover-up, 600,000 Chinese students, H1-B jobs for Indians, massive deficits, pardons for fraudsters & drug traffickers, blowing up boats, 50 year mortgages, tariffs on everything, higher prices, a ballroom, & al-Qaeda in the Oval.

There is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the religious instinct...I would not even object to saying that the sense of awe before the grandeur of nature is itself a religious experience.

🚨🚨🚨SILVER ALERT for the SHREVEPORT AREA🚨🚨🚨 My brother Mike (pictured below) has been wandering the streets for days now. He keeps trying to hold pretend press conferences but then insists he doesn't know anything about anything. It's very sad! If you have seen him, please let our family know!

Facts matter…this is true. 💙

the one part of this awful video I found inspiring is the moment when the cam pans back and you see an array of upstanding Americans with their smartphones out filming these gutter thugs. that's really the symbol of the opposition. the smartphone and its embedded video cam.

They 👏 are 👏 breaking 👏 the 👏 law. Two judges have just ordered that the Trump Administration must release funds for SNAP benefits. The GOP and Admin trying to use hungry kids as political leverage is beyond morally reprehensible. And it’s against the law.

Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.

The Epstein Files aren’t the only thing Donald is covering up.