Frank 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️

@feilmeyer.bsky.social

117

Followers

195

Following

275

Posts

“Goddamnit, you gotta be kind.” -Kurt Vonnegut • Blue dot in a purple town in a (unrecognizably) red state (📍#Iowa) • Attorney • Supporting #progressive #democracy #resist #persist #ANTIFA • #PostRefugee #Posties #ExPostie • He/him • 🐕 🐕‍🦺

Posts Replies Media Lists

Epictetus wrote about Faux News and Trumpism 2000 years ago: «Apply your principles. … when it concerns us to know the truth on any special point, no one of us will do anything by guess. But where the first and principal source of right or wrong action is concerned, …. 🧵/1

Reposted by

Frank 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️

New post by Al Charlson: How's the economy doing? Depends on your point of view www.bleedingheartland.com/2024/07/06/h...

How's the economy doing? Depends on your point of viewwww.bleedingheartland.com Al Charlson and his wife are comfortable financially. It's a different story for many younger Iowa families.

Amen:

The pundit class needs to get a gripopen.substack.com Politics isn't fantasy football and there's no One Weird Trick to beat Trump.

Reposted by

Frank 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️

One guy is old. The other guy is an old lying pedophile philandering racist rapist, convicted of 34 felonies, liable for $464 million of business fraud, who ripped off thousands of people, stole top secret US military documents, and tried to violently overthrow the government.

Wake up your too-busy-for-politics friends and neighbors and share this Project 2025 stuff. I cannot believe this garbage will be popular.

Trump is trying to claim Project 2025 has nothing to do with him. It is to going to be an albatross for the GOP.

Reposted by

Frank 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️

Germany understands. Let’s hope enough US voters feel the same. #VoteBlue

Reposted by

Frank 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️

I am glad this piece about the Heritage Foundation threatening civil war if the left doesn’t accept a monarchy came out in the WaPo. More like this, please.

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Why does anyone take this MF seriously?

As if being anti-vax, known for committing sexual assault, perhaps having eaten a dog, but clarifying that he wouldn’t eat humans, and having brain worms isn’t enough to make RFK Jr not ethically eligible to be a presidential candidate…

RFK Jr.: ‘I won’t take sides on 9/11’thehill.com Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday he “won’t take sides” on the subject of the truth of the 9/11 attacks but would push for transparency if elected president.&nbsp…

The Republiqan candidate lies about everything and wants to blow up the government with a Russian-backed Hungarian-Orban-hatched authoritarian blueprint, but we are still talking about a bad debate performance. The media is fucking us and themselves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

Project 2025 - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Reposted by

Frank 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️

“New robes just dropped and we’re all screwed”, #EditorialCartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad on brand X. Please support the publications that employ Editorial Cartoonists. Link to original cartoon, as found online: x.com/SlyngCartoons/status/1807866360128758249

⬇️

(Appropriated from @beingliberal.bsky.social on threads)

Reposted by

Frank 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️

New post by Randy Evans: Iowa Supreme Court justices typically avoid harsh or overzealous language in their decisions, so two dissenting opinions on last week's abortion case jumped out. www.bleedingheartland.com/2024/07/02/a...

Abortion ruling raises questions—lots of questionswww.bleedingheartland.com Randy Evans: Iowa Supreme Court justices typically avoid harsh language, so two dissenting opinions on an abortion case jumped out.

Reposted by

Frank 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️

It's more important than ever to prevent unwanted pregnancies or confirm them quickly, now that the Iowa Supreme Court has held that only the government's interests matter, and what pregnant Iowans want or need counts for nothing. How to help: www.bleedingheartland.com/2024/07/04/f...

Five ways to help Iowans who are about to become less freewww.bleedingheartland.com Laura Belin outlines concrete ways to help pregnant Iowans exercise their rights after a near-total abortion ban goes into effect.

«In Federalist #77, … Hamilton wrote the Constitution conferred on the presidency “all the requisites of energy,” but also considered the need for “responsibility.” He wrote that … a chief executive was also constrained by the potential for “subsequent prosecution in the common course of law.”»

I dissent. So would the Founders.open.substack.com Also, a big announcement from the Iowa Writers Collaborative

@hcrichardson.bsky.social and @karaswisher.bsky.social in ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ conversation—a must listen especially if you have been in despair of democracy: my head is exploding because of the guy who wants to take a flamethrower to the country and the media is calling for the other guy to step aside?

‎On with Kara Swisher: July 4th Special: Why Heather Cox Richardson Still Has Hope for American Democracy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show On with Kara Swisher, Ep July 4th Special: Why Heather Cox Richardson Still Has Hope for American Democracy - Jul 4, 2024

Az former Retrumpiqan Gov finally figures out that the rhetoric about rigged elections actually is harmful 🤔 Gee, ya think? Now hilariously, ostracized for believing in stopping the cuckoo conspiracy theories and supporting democracy. 🤯

‘The claims are just outrageous’: Republican ex-governor condemns Arizona election lies www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

‘The claims are just outrageous’: Republican ex-governor condemns Arizona election lieswww.theguardian.com Jan Brewer has had it with election denialism – and she’s speaking out to defend poll workers across the political divide

JFC: «In 2023, [Kevin] Roberts brought the Heritage Foundation into a formal partnership with Hungary’s Danube Institute, a think tank overseen by a foundation that is directly funded by the Hungarian government…» Project 2025 : Putin-Orbanization of America

July 4, 2024open.substack.com Monday, July 1, was a busy day. That morning the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Donald J. Trump v. United States that gives the president absolute immunity for committing crimes while engagin...

«In 124 days, each of us has the chance to defend democracy again. This is the America I celebrate today. This is the America we can make sure still exists, 125 days from now. » @connieschultz.bsky.social

Onward, Americaopen.substack.com The morning after last week’s presidential debate, I clipped on my Women of Steel lapel pin and headed out the door to a rally full of activist women. I highly recommend this if you’re looking for a w...

From @godpod.bsky.social

If the past few days have convinced you of nothing else, it should 100 percent confirm that you are voting to change the composition and course of the US Supreme Court ⚖️ more federalist society POSs or more Ketanji Brown Jacksons ⚖️ Joe is old, but 🍊🤡💩 will elevate Eileen Cannons

Sorry for posting a meta item here, but this is brilliant and passionate and worth watching ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Trae Crowder (@officialtraecrowder) on Threadswww.threads.net On America Havin Kings Now

Allison Gill @muellershewrote.bsky.social really nailed it—

Joe has my back, and I've got his.open.substack.com Let's talk about the debate, and the media's weird and unhelpful reaction

One of the best @jojofromjerz.bsky.social essays ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Once again, for me - this election is deeply personal.open.substack.com It was about my kids in 2016, and it’s about my kids now.

How did Thomas and Alito come up with an originalist interpretation that the president is a monarch? IDK Seems contradictory to what Madison and Hamilton might have thought at the time of the drafting.

🍊🤡💩 “indicted, impeached, convicted loser again.”

From Nancy Pelosi’s mouth to God’s ears please. www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...

Nancy Pelosi Delivers Blistering 5-Word Trump Predictionwww.huffpost.com The former House speaker slammed the former president’s rhetoric after she was asked about her husband’s recovery from a 2022 hammer attack.

It might be time to enter an official presidential order to seal team six to render the 🍊🤡💩 to a black site?

«“... it’s government’s role to provide a good public education ... If you want to send your kid to private school, then you should pay for it.”» «Demonizing public education in the abstract is one thing. But it’s quite another when the target is the school where you went, where your kids went.»

Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Voucherswww.propublica.org School choice advocates are intent on expanding the availability of vouchers to fund private education at the expense of public schools, but rural residents of these targeted states are putting up som...