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Ben Franklin’s ghost

@ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social
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New England bioscience guy. The scientific method is my religion. We’re all in this together. No DMs. "God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Courage to change the things I can change, and the Wisdom to know the difference."

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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 23h
Yet.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 23h
Pay-per-view yet?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 23h
As Secretary of State, it’s Rubio’s job to know what US ambassadors are into. By now, Rubio certainly looked into allegations regarding Guilfoyle. If he found no evidence of wrongdoing, he would surely stand up for her and say so. If he confirmed the allegations, he would do this.
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Chrys Thalassa @chrysthalassa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just a reminder that its been 323 days since a bipartisan bill requiring the DOJ to publicize unredacted Epstein files within 30 days passed the House 427–1 and the Senate unanimously. And we still haven't seen them.
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amstermom.bsky.social @amstermom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Replacing American workers with foreign workers so you don't have to pay Americans a decent wage is actually peak Capitalism, but this answer just proves that "Socialism" means "Everything that I don't like."
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wtaf?!?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎯🎯
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Perhaps Pete needs to up his dosage of Testosterone.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump is absolutely the most despicable man alive. But he is no genius, he’s no physical specimen. He is a dumb, weak, blustering blowhard, who without his enablers is simply a doddering old fool.
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Grampa Simpson: Old Man Yells At Cloud Meme
ALT: Grampa Simpson: Old Man Yells At Cloud Meme
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One more example that God hates Trump: Gas prices are a key issue facing Trump’s Republican candidates. 3 weeks before the election, a hurricane is going to hit the Gulf of America that could impact oil production and cause another spike in prices. God wants Trump and the GOP out, Jesus people!
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The difference between law enforcement and domestic terrorism is that law enforcement requires warrants and due process. ICE uses neither. ICE is not law enforcement, ICE is state-sponsored terrorism
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An oath is not legally binding (except where it’s connected to legal testimony). An oath of office or an oath of allegiance is an honor statement- an “I give you my word”. Our society has reached a point where your word as a public official means squat, being sworn in is merely performance art.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fortunately, education is much better. The student loans I have on my kids’ behalf cost me the same as my mortgage. All money leaving the economy.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So I guess that was also the case with Obama in ‘16, Biden in ‘21-‘24, and whoever we elect in ‘28.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And?
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No need to send out an advisory when an email to a Congressional GOP mailing list would cover it.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In another week, the cases will be down to zero. They just go away. I recall that’s how deadly contagious diseases work.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
All the dickheads standing around him just stand there and acquiesce. That makes THEM worse than he is.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎯I'm so done with this fucking shit. Have we learned nothing at all from the Me Too Movement and the Epstein Files? 🤬
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unfortunately, THEY learned a lot from the Me Too Movement and the Epstein files.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The only way that is remotely true is if there were 8 instances where Trump wanted to obliterate some country and was talked out of it.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump’s had 7 months to end his war. Republicans have had 2 years to lower prices, improve healthcare, cut YOUR taxes, fight corruption, preserve our international standing, release the Epstein files. If you trust ANY Republican to make any change as of November 4, you’re an idiot. There’s no $5000
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
PSA: any Republican candidate for state or federal office that’s running FROM Trump and not running ON Trump is lying to you. They won’t push back on tariffs, they won’t end Trump’s War, they won’t clamp down on corruption, they won’t make housing and healthcare more affordable. They’re all in.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is no Republican candidate for any state or federal office that can act as an agent of change for war, tariffs, healthcare, or corruption even if they wanted to. Those who could have have all been purged. If they’re running from Trump and not running on Trump, they’re lying to you.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
John Sununu in NH is doing the same thing - advocating change in Congress to improve healthcare and lower costs. The one thing Republicans have shown over the last 10 years is that ANY Republican left in state or federal government carries Trump’s water. Through consent or cowardice, they’re all in
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hilarious. Mike Rogers is now running against … Donald Trump.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Citizens United paved the way and ensures you won’t get it back.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DSA like Mamdani are showing what’s possible when government works for the people. You don’t need to become DSA, but you should take away that a government funded by corporations and special interests with dark money, lobbyists, and legal bribery will never work in the people’s best interests.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hegseth is purging the military of non-loyalists in an attempt to make it a military arm of the Republican Party. Patriotic youth will no longer join, making way for saturation with right-wing ideologues (just like scotus). The “enemies” of the party are domestic. They will deploy accordingly.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The function of ICE has been corrupted. It doesn’t do what it was created to do. In addition, as a federal “law enforcement agency” that defies and ignores constitutional protections, ICE cannot be reformed. ICE must be defunded and dismantled. And rebuilt to proper scale and with strict oversight.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The GOP has already purged itself of free thinking candidates. Anyone left in the GOP is supporting Trump either by choice or by cowardice - one is as bad as the other. If ANY GOP candidate is not running on Trump’s accomplishments, they’re lying to you about what they can or will do in office.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The other 4% seem to be votes where her vote is irrelevant - they already have numbers so her vote doesn’t matter.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If people want the federal government to work for us, the people must take control back from the wealthy, the corporations, and special interests. Rejecting the GOP, Trump, and Project 2025 in 2026 and 2028 is existential. 86ing Citizens United is top priority, then general election reform.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jimmy Kimmel nails it. 🔨
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
MAGA Logic - we rebranded Defense as War, inject our “warfighters” with testosterone to ensure aggression, and bombard countries 10,000 miles away to bring peace. Just how stupid do they think MAGA are?
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has NO BUSINESS touching ANY US citizen. Ever. And only non-citizens when there is reason to believe they’ve violated immigration law. And those reasons are laid out in a warrant. There is never a reason this would not be true.
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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I believe it will be found that the form of government which holds those entrusted with power in the greatest responsibility to their constituents the best … for free men. A free government can only exist where the … people are virtuous, and where property is pretty equally divided” - Centinel
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“If it were not for the stability and attachment which time and habit gives to forms of government, it would be in the power of the…aspiring few…, at any time to destroy the best establishments, and even make the people instruments of the own subjugation.” - Centinel
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Which is why we rebranded it the Department of War. It’s all about peace.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It would be so, so easy to refute these NYT claims with verifiable pics of a full arena and the crowds of people being turned away. Surely Natalie’s phone can take pics and video.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If there was a credible imminent threat from Iran requiring immediate action, the administration has now had 7 months to share that intel with Congress, the American people and our allies. Where is it? Also wouldn’t have taken weeks to settle on a justification. 1st was regime change, remember?
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Smaller price to pay: airfare, hotel, ground transport, and per diems for a handful of IAEA inspectors every couple months as they perform their duties under the JCPOA.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Everything the government does should answer these 6 questions: 1) what problem are we trying to solve? 2) why are we trying to solve it? 3) how does this act contribute to the solution? 4) how will we measure success? 5) what follow-up or maintenance is needed? 6) are the costs worth the benefit?
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They're terrified that the few remaining Republicans who still have morals and ethics might not vote for the mendacious pedophile who's causing a global economic crisis.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, spare me the bullshit redemption tour. Everyone knew what this was going to be. “Thom Tillis calls his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his “biggest regret” and says Hegseth should resign.” apnews.com/article/thom...
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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Republicans in Congress are too scared to stop Trump or have no interest in stopping Trump? One is just as bad as the other. I don’t want fascists OR cowards in Congress. Vote them all out.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fortunately for Trump, his audience is too stupid to realize how stupid he is.
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