Kyle Franzen

Husband, father, Illini

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@chicagotribune He handled it great, but was it really a surprise?

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@GovPritzker This is great. Now Please work on lowering taxes in IL.

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@SpaceX Hope this happens to the stock price 😁

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@elonmusk No longer undocumented workers, they are now undocumented voters…so all good

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@RepMcGovern Shut up commie

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@GovPritzker Wait, nothing about Trump?

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@Polymarket @grok how much has ActBlue raised in Q2 2026?

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@JBPritzker Did you lower costs in IL today?

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@TRHLofficial Monetize it

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@SenatorDurbin And why wouldn’t we listen first and then judge?

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

POTUS PRIMETIME:

- I understand thousands of intelligence reports, emails and analyses have been reviewed in advance of the president's primetime address.

- As I previously reported, records and whistleblower complaints allege intelligence was suppressed in 2020 about China's sweeping Election Influence Operations

- China's "multi-domain" campaign was designed to denigrate Trump as a candidate and impede his re-election, an assessment disputed by a Chinese embassy spokesperson

- In at least one case, intelligence was struck from reports because, it's alleged, US government officials believed the information would help Trump's re-election

- I understand some track changes in the records make specific reference to 2020 domestic politics.

- The review has been described to me as a 24/7 operation

- The pace accelerated after DNI @TulsiGabbard's June declassification about the suppression of COVID-19 origins and directed energy attacks, known as Havana Syndrome.

- The review was designed to identify and release records where the alleged political bias is self-evident, clear and cannot be reasonably defended

I asked the White House for comment, and will update.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

Gerald Ford is the president America remembers as a klutz. Chevy Chase built a career on it. He fell down the stairs of Air Force One once and it followed him to the grave.

The man was probably the best athlete ever to hold the office. Starting center on Michigan's back to back national championship teams in 1932 and 1933, team MVP in 1934, and he turned down contract offers from both the Packers and the Lions to go be a coach and read law at Yale.

Then there is the fall nobody talks about.

December 1944. Ford is a lieutenant aboard the light carrier USS Monterey, somewhere east of the Philippines, when Halsey's Third Fleet sails into the middle of a typhoon. Not near it. Into it. Winds over 100 knots, seas the sailors describe as mountains, visibility zero. Three destroyers roll over and sink that night and roughly 790 men die. It remains one of the worst disasters in the history of the US Navy and no enemy was involved.

On the Monterey the aircraft break their tie downs. Loose planes, full of fuel, sliding around a closed hangar deck in the dark, striking sparks. The hangar catches fire. General quarters sounds and Ford heads for his station on the bridge, crossing the flight deck of a small carrier in a typhoon at night.

The ship rolls about 25 degrees. His feet go out from under him and he starts sliding toward open water.

What saves his life is a steel lip maybe two inches high running along the edge of the deck. It catches him just enough to spin him and drop him into the catwalk instead of over the side. In a sea like that, nobody would have found him. Nobody would have even known.

His own line about it later: I was lucky. I could have easily gone overboard.

He got up and went below to help fight the fire. Men died in that hangar. They saved the ship, barely. Monterey was so badly burned she had to be pulled out of the war entirely and sent back for repairs. Ford finished the war having gone from a physical fitness instructor who begged for sea duty to an officer aboard a carrier that collected 11 battle stars, and he left the Navy in 1946 as a lieutenant commander.

Thirty years later a comedian made him a national punchline for tripping.

The one time it actually mattered, he caught himself on two inches of steel in a hurricane, then walked into a fire.

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@Jason Interesting, so they empty their prisons and sent the bad folks to the US. I feel like I've heard that recently.

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@SenDuckworth Pass the defense bill

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@Awake_IL He worked hard for that money

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@SenSanders You hate democracy too

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@unusual_whales @grok did Lockheed donate during the Biden administration and did they receive pentagon contracts then too?

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@McFaul @grok did the US have anything similar to Election Assistance Commission before 2002?

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@CREWcrew @grok did lockheed donate anything during the biden presidency and if so, did they receive any pentagon contracts during that same time period

[Kyle Franzen @kfranz2]

@GovPritzker American people and the cook county machine