Francesca Fiorentini

Correspondent, comedian • Host of @BitchuationPod, Subscribe on YouTube: • IG: @franifio

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

When you see Gov. Whitmer (D-Blue Cross) try to stop @AbdulElSayed, remember:

Whitmer’s dad was Blue Cross’s CEO, she appointed a Blue Cross CEO co-chair of her transition & raked in more Blue Cross cash than any Mich candidate ever — as Blue Cross denies 1 in 6 medical claims.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Whitmer is the daughter of the former longtime CEO of health insurance giant Blue Cross & she's been bankrolled by Blue Cross.

Her endorsing against the pro-Medicare For All candidate Abdul El-Sayed is extremely on brand.

This is corporate power trying to protect its power.

[Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem]

Exactly how it’s done, Brazil.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Brazil has denied visas to two senior State Department officials that the Trump administration planned to dispatch on a mission to cast doubt on the fairness and integrity of the country’s electoral system before Brazil’s presidential election this fall. https://t.co/v84AF1hK4G

[Kenneth Mejia, CPA @kennethmejiaLA]

Let's talk about LA Mayoral power in the context of homelessness.

There’s a common misconception that the Mayor has little power in LA.

Having been blocked from auditing the Mayor’s homelessness efforts and programs, I can tell you that the Mayor has ENORMOUS POWER.

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[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Men posed as ICE agents and detained and assaulted a woman… and Tom Homan is telling everyone that they just have to comply with this.

A woman was driving on Highway 211, in Oregon, when a vehicle with flashing red and blue lights pulled behind her.

Believing she was being stopped by law enforcement, she pulled over.

Two men approached her vehicle, one was carrying a rifle, and they claimed to be ICE agents and told her she was being detained.

They pulled her out of her car, searched her, and put her in the back of their vehicle.

Then, a third man… who remained inside the vehicle… assaulted her.

He told her he was the “guard.”

The men were wearing tactical vests labeled “POLICE,” carrying fake badges, and wore face coverings.

They held her for nearly 20 minutes before telling her she was free to go… and then she drove herself to the hospital.

And while she was there, she reported that she started receiving text messages from someone claiming to be a law firm offering legal representation for her detention.

Federal authorities later confirmed this was NOT an official ICE operation… These were people pretending to be federal agents.

And this is exactly why Tom Homan telling people to “comply” with anyone claiming to be ICE is so incredibly dangerous.

Because what is a person supposed to do when someone in a tactical vest, carrying a gun, pulls them over with flashing lights and says they are federal agents?

Just trust them?

This is not about telling people to resist legitimate law enforcement.

This is about the government normalizing a system where anyone can look like an armed federal agent, claim to have authority over you, and expect you to obey without being able to verify who they are.

That doesn’t make people safer.

It makes everyone more vulnerable to being kidnapped, assaulted, or killed by criminals who know they can pretend to be ICE.

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

The prosecutor was taken off the case three days before. They still had to murder her. And there is no mystery to the "they". This kind of hit comes down from shit palace itself.

[Camila Lourdes Galarza @sovietwithsazon]

The prosecutor investigating US boat strikes and torture allegations in Ecuador was assassinated.

We uncovered NASA images and videos of the US Coast Guard that corroborates the victims’ testimonies. Then, the prosecutor working the case was shot and killed in broad daylight.

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

@sovietwithsazon This is incredible work. Enraging story

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Deeply disturbing story. Survivors of US boat strikes allege they were kidnapped and tortured for days by the US military. The prosecutor investigating the claims was just assassinated.

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

@SenAdamSchiff my offer on a striped Trader Joe's tote bag stands if you vote NO on the NDAA and reconciliation budget. It's not what you're used to but please consider it.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Journalist Liz Oliva Fernández reports from inside Cuba's oil crisis. From a woman walking nine kilometers to work because there's no transport to people living next to piles of uncollected trash – this is what life is like in Havana.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

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[The Bell House @BellHouseNY]

JUST ANNOUNCED! @franifio and @mattlieb return to The Bell House on Thursday, October 15!

Comedians and podcast hosts Francesca Fiorentini and Matt Lieb bring their brains, wit, and chaos back to Brooklyn this fall!

Tickets on sale now: https://t.co/SNMgO14b4c

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

letting saudi arabia have nukes as long as they formally recognize israel without palestinian statehood 25 years after 9/11 is wild. but ofc his cult is too busy yelling at zohran for being muslim instead!!

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

Venezuela has effectively been turned into a personal piggy bank for Trump cronies:

[Maine @mainey_maine]

They really kidnapped Maduro and his wife and just holding them hostage. I don’t think people realize how insane that is

[Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare]

FWIW, climate activists fighting for a just transition have a real opportunity here to build solidarity with these workers against a common enemy. BP creates terrible, dangerous working conditions, and now is locking out 800 workers in Indiana. https://t.co/kVwOoIQzCr

[GONZALO MARULL @GONZALOMARULL]

La campaña Anti Argentina:
"Debe ser la sociedad más fracasada de los últimos 70 años" Mauricio Macri
"Argentina solo produce dulce de leche y biromes" Javier Milei
"Siendo un país bananero" Adrian Ravier
"El problema de Argentina son los argentinos" Federico Sturzenegger.

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

@hasanthehun Rest up friend

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Shameful six