Bert Franks

i think it is a sign of low character to post something controversial knowing it will get angry comments and then insult the people who responded to your ragebait

Brad with Zohran Mamdani at the Pride parade.

Yesterday I was so PROUD to stand with LGBTQ+ New Yorkers alongside my friend and our Democratic nominee for Mayor, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…

NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

Dammit, now I'm sad, too.

And Jesus entered the temple and said to the money changers, "You are an important part of the local economy and I'm looking forward to working with you"

The reverse Robin Hood: take from the poor to give to the rich.

BREAKING: Senator Warnock calls Big Beautiful Bill “Socialism for the Rich”.

100% true!

Well, Russia says it controls Luhansk as US halts some weapons pledged to Ukraine

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/3/russia-says-it-controls-luhansk-as-us-halts-some-weapons-pledged-to-ukraine

CHARLAMAGNE: “It’s crazy to me that ‘socialism’ is such a dirty word, when all it is is trying close the gap between the rich and the poor and make sure everybody has access to basic necessities... That why I like when @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social uses ‘affordability’.”

There’s something deeply wrong with a society that watches people get snatched by masked men in unmarked cars & looks the other way.

Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.

Le Monde: Israel limits entry of baby formula in Gaza as infants die of hunger

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/07/01/israel-limits-entry-of-baby-formula-in-gaza-as-infants-die-of-hunger_6742899_4.html

China ready to discuss tariffs and subsidies with US at WTO

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ready-discuss-tariffs-subsidies-with-us-wto-2025-07-01/

N. Korea executes 23 defense workers in brutal crackdown

https://www.dailynk.com/english/n-korea-executes-23-defense-workers-in-brutal-crackdown/

Sudan civil war overwhelms border town in neighbor Chad as refugees find little help

https://apnews.com/article/sudan-refugees-war-chad-aid-adre-17505f81c057a115ade6f5bce21e14da

Establishment Dems so frightened of a world that wouldn’t need them that they are traveling all the way from the 90s to push a truly terrible candidate on a huge amount of people

I mean this is what it would sound like if you asked a fourth grader to imagine what a ceasefire would be like. and yet our entire political class is committed to never mentioning that the man is an imbecile

All the genitals and tentacles one could want and there’s still a prostitution guild?

One can only imagine the prowess.

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers.

Easy money, no risk.

Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

Not to rain on everyone’s ceasefire-not-ceasefire parade, but that wrecking ball of a big dumb bill is still working its way through the Senate and still launching an assault on women, wages, benefits, and the entire working class

look man if you’re whole thing is posting on bluesky to trigger the libs or whatever you gotta do better than this lame shit lol

They’re assaulting the mothers and fathers of US soldiers.

Roving gangs of masked men grab human beings off the street.

They send them without due process to prisons in countries they’re not even from where they are then sold into slavery.

Make it stop!!!

6 Americans detained in South Korea for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea by sea

https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-americans-plastic-bottles-rice-balloons-93eeb8ee546b4e4793f5ba18fc38b860

Everything is calamity right now and we all have to be brave and stick together to get through it and both of those requirements are needed to make things better afterwards as well

West Bank: Three Palestinians killed during Israeli settler attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9knl5w529o

UK to fund joint drone production with Ukraine

https://kyivindependent.com/uk-to-fund-joint-drone-production-with-ukraine/

Trump mad at both Israel and Iran, warns against future strikes by either

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-urges-israel-not-break-iran-ceasefire-do-not-drop-those-bombs-2089853

US military base in Syria has been attacked

https://news.az/news/us-military-base-in-syria-has-been-attacked