Frances
@frances17033.bsky.social
Designer, mom, #resister, COVID mitigator, democracy lover, font aficionado, neurodivergent, Mac 🍎, she/her. TRE45ON merch available at https://www.zazzle.com/store/acuity
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Frances
@frances17033.bsky.social
· Nov 26
#ActuallyAutistic mom of autistic kids
Currently working in healthcare
Editor/designer/photographer
First-generation U.S. via Germany
Posting about:
COVID and Long COVID 😷
Disabilities
Autism + neurodivergence
LGBTQ+ ally
Politics
Guide dogs (The Seeing Eye)
Narrow gauge railroads
Typography
Currently working in healthcare
Editor/designer/photographer
First-generation U.S. via Germany
Posting about:
COVID and Long COVID 😷
Disabilities
Autism + neurodivergence
LGBTQ+ ally
Politics
Guide dogs (The Seeing Eye)
Narrow gauge railroads
Typography
Where is Mitch McConnell?
Where are the Epstein Files?
Where are the Epstein Files?
September 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Where is Mitch McConnell?
Where are the Epstein Files?
Where are the Epstein Files?
It *is* shameful, and it speaks to what the Israeli government has become. Who will hold them accountable?
UK - along with Australia and Canada - says it is "shameful" that Israel has closed without explanation its criminal investigation into the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza
August 21, 2026 at 4:31 PM
It *is* shameful, and it speaks to what the Israeli government has become. Who will hold them accountable?
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Liberals imploring new voters to organize with The Democratic Party instead of The DSA:
July 28, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Liberals imploring new voters to organize with The Democratic Party instead of The DSA:
Nobody better than Pete Buttigieg to explain in the most basic terms what needs to change
"That's almost word for word what they told us when we were sold the war in Iraq. Remember 2003?" -- another Pete Buttigieg masterclass on Fox News. There is no Democrat better at communicating to that audience.
July 24, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Nobody better than Pete Buttigieg to explain in the most basic terms what needs to change
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Germany To Restore Economic Competitiveness By Making People Who Are Sick Do More Paperwork
July 4, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Germany To Restore Economic Competitiveness By Making People Who Are Sick Do More Paperwork
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The "new" Air Force One is a plane that was delivered to Qatar in 2012...14 years ago.
Quit acting like it has that new jumbo jet smell.
Quit acting like it has that new jumbo jet smell.
July 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The "new" Air Force One is a plane that was delivered to Qatar in 2012...14 years ago.
Quit acting like it has that new jumbo jet smell.
Quit acting like it has that new jumbo jet smell.
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this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan
June 18, 2026 at 4:54 PM
this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan
Cool cool
Despite the U.S.-Iran MOU announced Sunday, the U.S. is still intercepting Iranian drones targeting commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC has launched multiple drones each night since the agreement was signed, while JMIC still rates the regional threat as “SUBSTANTIAL.”
June 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Cool cool
Curious
Interesting Susan Collins tweet by outgoing Republican Senator John Cornyn
June 17, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Curious
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Israel has killed more Palestinian children in the last 3 years than Palestinians have killed Israelis of any kind over the last 80 years.
June 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Israel has killed more Palestinian children in the last 3 years than Palestinians have killed Israelis of any kind over the last 80 years.
Perfect
June 10, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Perfect
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Receipts of more crime...
Criminal Real Estate payola: Public financial disclosures showed that an arm of Reliance paid the Trump Organization a $10 million "development fee" to license the Trump name for a real estate project in Mumbai to gain favor.
Criminal Real Estate payola: Public financial disclosures showed that an arm of Reliance paid the Trump Organization a $10 million "development fee" to license the Trump name for a real estate project in Mumbai to gain favor.
June 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Receipts of more crime...
Criminal Real Estate payola: Public financial disclosures showed that an arm of Reliance paid the Trump Organization a $10 million "development fee" to license the Trump name for a real estate project in Mumbai to gain favor.
Criminal Real Estate payola: Public financial disclosures showed that an arm of Reliance paid the Trump Organization a $10 million "development fee" to license the Trump name for a real estate project in Mumbai to gain favor.
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In other words, a guy who is implementing racist policies is decrying racism.
Dr. Oz: You can't be racist anymore, because that's racist
The Trump administration's complaining that people think its campaign against Somalian communities—and therefore, Minnesota's social programs—is bad.
www.motherjones.com
June 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
In other words, a guy who is implementing racist policies is decrying racism.
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A GOP Rep has been missing for 3 months…missed 100+ votes, and nobody will say where he is. Yet somehow he’s still introducing legislation.
Congress apparently has a work-from-undisclosed-location policy now an ultimate remote work arrangement.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
newrepublic.com/post/211435/...
Congress apparently has a work-from-undisclosed-location policy now an ultimate remote work arrangement.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
newrepublic.com/post/211435/...
Missing Republican Rep. Is Somehow Still Introducing Legislation
Representative Tom Kean Jr. has been missing for months.
newrepublic.com
June 5, 2026 at 6:35 PM
A GOP Rep has been missing for 3 months…missed 100+ votes, and nobody will say where he is. Yet somehow he’s still introducing legislation.
Congress apparently has a work-from-undisclosed-location policy now an ultimate remote work arrangement.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
newrepublic.com/post/211435/...
Congress apparently has a work-from-undisclosed-location policy now an ultimate remote work arrangement.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
newrepublic.com/post/211435/...
What a tremendous loss--heartbreaking 💔
June 4, 2026 at 12:28 PM
What a tremendous loss--heartbreaking 💔
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Charlie Brown asks Lucy to let him kick the football
Reuters: VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS ASK U.S. SUPREME COURT TO INTERVENE AFTER STATE SUPREME COURT INVALIDATED PRO-DEMOCRATIC U.S. HOUSE MAP AHEAD OF NOVEMBER ELECTIONS
May 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Charlie Brown asks Lucy to let him kick the football
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This was a hard story to report.
Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably.
But more and more families are declining the shot.
And babies are dying.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably.
But more and more families are declining the shot.
And babies are dying.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2026 at 11:25 AM
This was a hard story to report.
Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably.
But more and more families are declining the shot.
And babies are dying.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably.
But more and more families are declining the shot.
And babies are dying.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
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May 3, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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Do the laws not apply to the rich and wealthy? Kleptocracy? Quid pro quo. Bribery. You name it. All of this is wrong and illegal. Shameful.
May 2, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Do the laws not apply to the rich and wealthy? Kleptocracy? Quid pro quo. Bribery. You name it. All of this is wrong and illegal. Shameful.
"Freedumb"
We are all suffering from a pile-up of consequences lately. Why not add one more ill-informed policy that will kill people?
We are all suffering from a pile-up of consequences lately. Why not add one more ill-informed policy that will kill people?
April 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM
"Freedumb"
We are all suffering from a pile-up of consequences lately. Why not add one more ill-informed policy that will kill people?
We are all suffering from a pile-up of consequences lately. Why not add one more ill-informed policy that will kill people?
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“Cease normalising AI hype (…) The technologies do not have the advertised capacities & their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, & safety.” openletter.earth/open-letter-... cc @olivia.science
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
April 13, 2026 at 7:36 PM
“Cease normalising AI hype (…) The technologies do not have the advertised capacities & their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, & safety.” openletter.earth/open-letter-... cc @olivia.science
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Without hyperbole, the dude has dementia. People, call your reps t& tell them to support raskin’s call for a cognitive exam to be done and made public. we are entitled to know just how gone he is, cuz he is,. nothing he says is based on reality. It’s not just lying, he’s too unwell to be president.
April 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Without hyperbole, the dude has dementia. People, call your reps t& tell them to support raskin’s call for a cognitive exam to be done and made public. we are entitled to know just how gone he is, cuz he is,. nothing he says is based on reality. It’s not just lying, he’s too unwell to be president.
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"These numbers are a disaster for President Trump ... the worst of all time at this point" -- Harry Enten ticks through Trump's absolutely dire polling on the economy
April 1, 2026 at 3:27 PM
"These numbers are a disaster for President Trump ... the worst of all time at this point" -- Harry Enten ticks through Trump's absolutely dire polling on the economy
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