Frank J Wells
@frankjwells.bsky.social
I'm a conductor, guitarist, church musician, and retired public educator. I enjoy music, books, travel, the outdoors, and eating, plus other things. I try to be a good human who cares about others. I might actually know the meaning of life.
These are my people. ❤️
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October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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October 4, 2026 at 11:19 AM
These are my people. ❤️
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“It turns out that Americans believe in religious freedom, diversity, and democracy, not racist theocracy.” open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
A Defining Moment of Religious Pluralism
🚨 36 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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September 28, 2026 at 1:04 PM
“It turns out that Americans believe in religious freedom, diversity, and democracy, not racist theocracy.” open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
September 26, 2026
Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.
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September 27, 2026 at 12:12 PM
“Equality is not a dream. It is a decision.”
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September 22, 2026
In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.
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September 23, 2026 at 1:23 PM
“Equality is not a dream. It is a decision.”
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Clean the stables, indeed. Is the Grand Old Party starting to wake up and smell the horse sh*t?
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September 18, 2026
According to the American Automobile Association, diesel hit its highest recorded average price today at just above $6.44 per gallon.
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September 19, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Clean the stables, indeed. Is the Grand Old Party starting to wake up and smell the horse sh*t?
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When the AI industry leaders themselves are asking for regulation and a slowdown, that tells you something about the concerns. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
September 13, 2026
On Saturday, September 12, Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for AI companies to slow down their improvem...
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September 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
When the AI industry leaders themselves are asking for regulation and a slowdown, that tells you something about the concerns. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
“The Republican Party in particular must finally loose the chains of its political and moral enslavement to Donald Trump and separate itself from the MAGA political party cult.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
September 12, 2026
On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J.
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September 13, 2026 at 12:27 PM
“The Republican Party in particular must finally loose the chains of its political and moral enslavement to Donald Trump and separate itself from the MAGA political party cult.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
Yes. Go vote!
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On Being an American
I am not ashamed to be an American.
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September 13, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Yes. Go vote!
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This is good news.
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An Update: The First Circuit Protects Voting By Mail From the Trump Administration
Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Talwani’s injunction that prevents the administration, at least for the midterm elections, from putting its plans to interfere with mail voting...
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September 11, 2026 at 1:01 PM
This is good news.
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In case you forgot about Musk. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
September 8, 2026
On Sunday, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternativ für Deutschland, or AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in a legislative election in the small state of Saxony-Anhalt, formerly part of ...
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September 9, 2026 at 1:10 PM
In case you forgot about Musk. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
Vote in person if you can. This USPS scandal stinks like rotten fish. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
September 1, 2026
Yesterday, by a vote of 5–4, the United States Supreme Court allowed Trump to continue to build his ballroom.
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September 2, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Vote in person if you can. This USPS scandal stinks like rotten fish. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
The first part is a little depressing; you need to read it to the end. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-22-...
August 22, 2026
On Tuesday, August 18, during a debate for a runoff to win the South Carolina Republican senatorial primary, Senator Darline Graham (R-SC) answered a question about Taiwan and the importance of the So...
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August 23, 2026 at 12:16 PM
The first part is a little depressing; you need to read it to the end. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-22-...
This is a good one.
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August 16, 2026
“There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.”
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August 17, 2026 at 1:19 PM
This is a good one.
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The behavior of this administration is disgusting. Vote.
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August 13, 2026
Today Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board voted to put Trump’s name back on the Kennedy Center, this time in letters saying the building was “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J.
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August 14, 2026 at 2:06 PM
The behavior of this administration is disgusting. Vote.
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Failing, flailing, and doubling down. The midterms can’t come soon enough.
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August 12, 2026
In Minnesota yesterday, close Trump ally Mike Lindell, the former chief executive officer of MyPillow, lost the Republican primary for governor to Republican state house speaker Lisa Demuth.
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August 13, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Failing, flailing, and doubling down. The midterms can’t come soon enough.
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Such inept “leadership.” The road to a better world has gotten longer and awfully rough.
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Trump Has Lost More Than the Iran War
Nonstop blunders further erode our international standing
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July 29, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Such inept “leadership.” The road to a better world has gotten longer and awfully rough.
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If you were thinking the Nazi comparisons were hyperbolic, think again.
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July 26, 2026
From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies have not simply challenged laws or constitutional provisions.
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July 27, 2026 at 12:35 PM
If you were thinking the Nazi comparisons were hyperbolic, think again.
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This kind of stuff makes me crazy. We have to protect our cultural heritage. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 25, 2026
It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.
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July 26, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This kind of stuff makes me crazy. We have to protect our cultural heritage. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
This is a pretty good piece on how to not screw it up this time.
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How To Choose a Nominee
Democrats cannot blow it in 2028
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July 23, 2026 at 12:17 PM
This is a pretty good piece on how to not screw it up this time.
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This is pretty interesting.
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The Number of Votes Needed to Change Everything Is Smaller Than You Think
There are long periods of national political-geologic stability in American history. This is not one of them. In this moment, the volcanoes keep erupting.
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July 21, 2026 at 11:58 AM
This is pretty interesting.
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