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BillBenda

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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal -- Vonnegut. Blondie/Debbie Harry, rock & roll, nature, history & other fascinating things.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 10h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14h
Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 18h
Hegseth likes to say “war is hell.” But keeping our troops at sea for over 300 days with dwindling supplies was a level of hell this Administration could’ve avoided, but didn’t. The toll this war has had on our troops and their families is too high. We need a public hearing now.
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Dr. Céline Gounder @celinegounder.com · 14h
What one abstract and one monograph tell us about a 28-year-old scientist's work in Irkutsk. Save and send to the person worried about the next pandemic: www.celinegounder.com/p/what-the-ir… Read & subscribe for free: celinegounder.com
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15h
A majority of Deep South voters oppose their states’ extreme restrictions on abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, exposing a disconnect between voters and the legislators who represent them. bit.ly/47HmTR3
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Southerners Are Misrepresented on Abortion
A majority of voters in the Deep South disagree with their states’ extreme restrictions, highlighting the disconnect between the public and the legislators who represent them.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h
The terrible crime of responding to a legal subpoena, facing questions under oath, and answering truthfully about a violent attack on the United States.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 14h
Donald Trump wants to handpick the lawyers defending children from his own deportation machine. Absolutely not. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump administration will have government lawyers representing unaccompanied immigrant children
The Trump administration cut ties with a nongovernmental organization that had managed 24,000 cases using a network of legal providers.
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 14h
Charles' track record on these sorts of estimates and projections is superb, so take this seriously...
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 15h
It seems apt that on an afternoon when Pew Research shows his approval rating nearing the 40-points-underwater threshold, Trump would try to salvage matters by shouting online: *Look! N––ers!!!*
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BillBenda @bendabill.bsky.social · 17h
I never realized at the time how important my early '80s high school Russian Society course was. Incredible.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
This is why, when Republicans use the word socialism to tag Democrats, it has no relationship with the actual definition of the word. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rubio in Greece: “the West came to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional. We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart... so we tore down our monuments…” Nazi, Soviet, and Confederate are the monuments the West tore down. Contra Rubio, defeating them is the achievement.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Next he’ll be agreeing to call it “Trump Intelligence.” The new robber barons know what they need to say to appease their master and keep the money flowing.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23h
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 23h
New frontiers in dudes sucking at parenting.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do Trump aides take three days to debate whether he means to destroy blue cities or prevent Iran from doing so, too? I mean, he literally did set out to destroy Los Angeles. He used paramilitaries, not nukes. But he did set out to destroy it.
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BillBenda @bendabill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This. Great read.
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
so shady 😎 "If you want to understand how Donald Trump has been able to hawk cologne, watches, smartphones, crypto coins and even bibles to a gullible fan base, look no further than to Jim Bakker, the televangelist and religious huckster who died Monday at 86"
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
how are we still fucking doing this
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Back to ICE, this time in Florida!
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Sarah @sawcat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is wild
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BillBenda @bendabill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Coward.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So I guess this is now a thing. He'll get people used to hearing it by repeating it over and over until it's perfectly normal to contemplate the mass destruction of American cities he despises. And MAGA is delirious with joy every time he says it. Just don't say it's deplorable.
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BillBenda @bendabill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lmao.
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BillBenda @bendabill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This ghoulish m'fer.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A summary of intercepted Kremlin documents describing Russia's influence campaign in Germany. Today the AfD/BSW coalition in Sachsen-Anhalt is implementing point 1. Source: inved.eu/insight/pres...
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BillBenda @bendabill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sure, Lucy, lol.
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In this same clip this motherfucker lies once again about paying more under Biden and I'm sorry but this whole line about missiles hitting West Coast cities really needs closer examination
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
VICTORY! A Georgia judge Wednesday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to restrict where Gwinnett County voters can return mail ballots, ruling the law allows the county to accept ballots at designated early voting sites. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia court rejects RNC bid to restrict mail ballot return access in state’s second-largest county
The ruling preserves an additional way for voters in Georgia’s second-most populous county to cast their ballots ahead of the November election.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.
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Evan @ereller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I dunno, this feels more antisemitic than anything Piker has said
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We live in the dumbest timeline with the dumbest, greediest, worst people in charge. It’s incredible.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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BillBenda @bendabill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
100%. Thank you.
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BillBenda @bendabill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Well, there are a few things you like that are made with artificial enhancers. This guy is such a pud.
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb
Fox Biz screencap that says: "$21 TRILLION INVESTMENTS POURING INTO THE US"
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump’s $50 billion tax on Americans and counting. And we got absolutely nothing for it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.”
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hahaha the Hatch Act is meaningless (if you’re a Republican just like every other rule, norm, and law). Good times. For some.
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This MFer appointed the past *two* Fed chairs. He’s about a month away from claiming Biden started the war in Iran.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
nearly a decade after he left office, Chris Wright blames Obama for record high diesel prices in October 2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The grift never ends. He just wants to be able to charge the government even when he’s out of office
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?
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Dr. Céline Gounder @celinegounder.com · 07/10/2026
Flu is rising early out West. Get a flu shot by Halloween. A new mRNA flu shot for 50+ works a bit better. It also has slightly more side effects. Send to someone 50+: www.celinegounder.com/p/mrna-flu-sh… Read & subscribe for free: celinegounder.com
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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.net · 05/10/2026
Michael Shellenberger appears to be preparing another piece falsely claiming that a conference of researchers studying disinformation is tantamount to a shadowy cabal of censorship. Spoiler alert: conferences, in fact, are the definition of free speech. My response to his questions is below.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If we have some kind of financial crisis, we’re going to be in deep shit www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The biggest target for antitrust—for whenever the US gets a government interested in rule of law again—is a defense contractor - space - satellite internet - social media network - electric cars - information services - personal robotics conglomerate owned by one person. But no need to do only one.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind.
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