Francesca

Writer, occasional opinionator.

[Francesca @francescaopines]

@jrpsaki what is up with this clickbait? Really frustrating total lie.

Surely you don’t know about this… or else the graphics dept needs serious oversight!

This kind of thing makes us all lose trust in remaining reliable media. We don’t have much trust left to lose!

[Francesca @francescaopines]

But no—Apple is unapologetically buggy. The worms won & former Mac fanatics now in market for an alternative to overpriced bugs. Glad I kept my CD’s.

Today, my choices are researching self-dealing Apple system or listen to my own music on YouTube. Happy Sunday, Tim Cook!

[Francesca @francescaopines]

@Apple sucks for destroying my carefully curated musical ecosystem, as well decades of customer faith and loyalty. System “upgrades” undid lovingly created and PAID FOR playlists years ago + require hours to try to fix “bugs” which, incidentally, keep prompting me to subscribe…

[Francesca @francescaopines]

mention your new buggy upgrades pushing glossy, new and often trivial features while break important basic functionality. Siri says “Thanks for making me stupid!”

In no universe does it make sense to push new “features” over basic functionality. ABOVE ALL, tech needs to WORK….

[Francesca @francescaopines]

@SenWarren They also keep raising prices by a dollar or more on small products. 30+ percent at a pop.

And, to the helpful man child who responded to my mild feedback with “that’s where we’re at,” thanks for the uber obvious utter lack of concern for customer feedback. So we go public!

[Francesca @francescaopines]

@superwhisper still getting hallucinations and maybe other peoples text (!) in my so called transcriptions.

This didn’t happen for the first few months now it’s nearly every time I use it.

We have to reprocess several times. Why? Bummed we prepaid.

[Francesca @francescaopines]

@amazon anti-service gets worse and worse.

2026 Returns a total PITA.

At least 16 clicks per item & now have to wait for “ai” to ask multiple invasive questions / write an essay to get return label.

Zero respect for customers. Were out!

#AmazonisEvil

[NCPA @Commpharmacy]

👏 👏 👏 "If the American patient experience is to become better and more cost effective, we must rein in massive federal spending on deeply fraudulent and wasteful PBMs like CVS Caremark," wrote Sen. @MarshaBlackburn to CVS Health CEO David Joyner, requesting that he respond to questions about "the company’s lengthy record of fraud and regulatory violations at taxpayers’ expense and the role the company has played in driving up health care costs." https://t.co/IN9fQ0X1oZ

[Francesca @francescaopines]

Great! @Caremark is truly a bully. They now block your ability to screenshot transactions!

Why NOT allow customers to verify/prove settings and transactions?

Out of control!

[Real Doc Speaks @realdocspeaks]

This barely made the news — but it’s huge. Eli Lilly just dropped CVS Caremark as its PBM. If Big Pharma starts cutting out the middlemen, everything changes. #healthcare #pbm #pharma

[Francesca @francescaopines]

Now the @AmazonAlexa app won’t let us play Hulu, not to mention join the (large numbers) posting negative feedback. The submit button is conveniently broken.

@amazon = broken promises, crappy tech, lost benefits, lies & coercion.

#Worstcompanyever
#classaction

[Francesca @francescaopines]

Don’t buy/trust @AmazonAlexa!

We paid $$$ for Echo display “assistants” 2 yrs ago and now our HOME is constantly INVADED with ads that “cannot be removed.”

Feedback ignored.
No privacy.
No respect.

@JeffBezos, We want a refund for 3 devices!

#classaction

#Amazon lies!

[Francesca @francescaopines]

@GovPressOffice Sir, what great, big, beautiful maps, sir! (Tears rolling down my face!)

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

📺 ICE’s acting director says he’s demanding Americans stop criticizing ICE.

Let me remind you: the First Amendment doesn’t ask for permission. It guarantees it.

If you don’t want political backlash, maybe stop doing things that spark it.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Trump refused to call in the National Guard when it was most needed. Let that sink in.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Donald Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles over the objection of California leaders is an abuse of power and a dangerous escalation.

It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop.

Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Trump is trying to manufacture a crisis in LA County — deploying troops not for order, but to create chaos.

Don’t take the bait. Never use violence or harm law enforcement.

[Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine]

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors.

This ain’t about law and order.

This is what authoritarianism looks like.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

So what we have learned is that the Republican budget bill:

- increases wealth for the richest 10%
- decreases wealth for the poorest 10%
- adds $3.8 TRILLION (greater than the total size of many foreign economies) to the deficit.

What a f---ing disaster.