Reposted by BensonMumRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14mTime for this classic again. 2474156
Reposted by BensonMumArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 7hCircus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 12190801995
BensonMum @bensonmuum.bsky.social · 10h@musicologyduck.bsky.social at first I thought it said Going Fuhrer 000
Reposted by BensonMumDavid Bixenspan @davidbix.com · 11hSince WWE's trying to exploit PAC's death, it's time to talk about this: Remember how PAC suddenly had visa issues when AEW started? That's because, when the AEW trademarks were filed, WWE called USCIS to claim he walked out on his visa. After leaving him alone for a year and giving him his release. 561105494
Reposted by BensonMumA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hard to imagine what that would be like 22572141190
Reposted by BensonMumCasey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound. 642334456
Reposted by BensonMumJean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026SUUUUCK IT YOU SHITBIRDS \ 2613
Reposted by BensonMumAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 231759731
Reposted by BensonMumJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...static.klipy.comEuphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About UsAlt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us 202160536
Reposted by BensonMumAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook. 17750191649
Reposted by BensonMumPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 552967769
Reposted by BensonMume.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h... 412766430
Reposted by BensonMumsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Briefly detained” = beat half to death 7549261647
Reposted by BensonMumthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan 833746513
Reposted by BensonMumRick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed 754523774
Reposted by BensonMumJean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s not surprising public schools are often a mess. Republicans have been trying to destroy them since Brown vs the board of education. They starve them of resources, ban books, harass educators, rob them with vouchers, then complain they don’t work. No shit. 27818
Reposted by BensonMum"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The courts should block this. If they don't, we should tear it down on the very first day of the next administration. If possible, Trump should be made to watch the demolition. This, the ballroom, whatever he does to the Kennedy Center and all of the rest. Erase it all. Full damnatio memoriae. 43858156
Reposted by BensonMumNicholas Murray @njemurray.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Absolutely bonkers finish in El Clasico Nacional. #LigaMXEng 1418
Reposted by BensonMumAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation. 411463806
Reposted by BensonMumDisney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Truth About Kash and Dogs (2026) 216722
Reposted by BensonMumJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them. 401998530
Reposted by BensonMumNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Macklemore needs to keep politics out of his act. by Kid Rock 271502139
Reposted by BensonMumBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Editor: I'd like a story that combines Americans' hatred of artificial intelligence, their fears about the environment, their antipathy toward data centers, and their angst over inflation driven by dwindling fuel supplies. Reporter: Got ya covered, boss. Need anything else? 16917315
Reposted by BensonMumMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I hope this has the same effect that Trump trying to squash Jimmy Kimmel's interview with James Talarico had: Bring attention to it and then release it to YouTube where it will get a *much* bigger audience. 541403486
Reposted by BensonMumAnu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Paying ten bucks for one dollar is easily the most accurate metaphor for his entire economic agenda. 562509461
Reposted by BensonMum"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Like, by the time you are on week 6 and doing Bessent and treasury related bribery impeachment, you want John Q. Voter to be screaming "is *anyone* in this administration not a scumbag?" because the answer is 'no' and that's the lesson you want to impart, one impeachment at a time. 429328
Reposted by BensonMumRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 16/09/2026Across the country, private equity and corporations are buying up doctors' offices, leading to patients paying more for worse care. @repvalhoyle.bsky.social and I are introducing the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act to get Wall Street out of Americans’ doctors’ offices.wsj.comExclusive | Congressional Democrats Take Aim at Private Equity’s Role in MedicineA bill backed by Sen. Warren and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez would close ‘loopholes’ firms use to control physician practices 19470134
Reposted by BensonMumjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026pleasant surprise. i would like to read whatever deranged dissent alito and thomas have written. i’m sure it will be some version of “MAIL FRAUD IS REAL AND I SAW IT IN THE CLOSET MAKING A BABY AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME” 1065269683
Reposted by BensonMumCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026First time in history these words have been typed in this order 826615
Reposted by BensonMumMatthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 14/09/20261. This is the platonic ideal of a Union goal. While the results have changed under Richter, the game model has not. 2. Just holy shit, Cavan Sullivan. Running out of superlatives. 823640
Reposted by BensonMumHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13/09/2026My two favorite photos of Trump's trip to Ireland, where he seems not to have gotten his ass kissed like he expected. 411413286
Reposted by BensonMumSaag 900 Turbo @anhedonismbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026@jonbois.bsky.social watching baseball 14918176
Reposted by BensonMumHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Zelenskyy: The first drone deal with a country in the Americas will be with Canada. We looked at the drones that will be used under this agreement. Canada is ready to place large orders, and 30% of production will be transferred to Ukraine. Thank you, Canada, for a true partnership. 783515906
Reposted by BensonMumMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO 241789535
Reposted by BensonMumBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I don't do much 9/11 posting, but I always think about Bretagne, the last surviving ground zero search and rescue dog. When they took her to be euthanized in 2016, first responders saluted as she entered the clinic. She was later carried out in a flag-draped casket. www.chron.com/news/houston... 331148243
Reposted by BensonMumAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there. 127239521020
Reposted by BensonMumMatt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Title 18 US Code 597: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate...if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." 50745269
Reposted by BensonMumIt's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The world is broken but the dik-dik is perfect 411841327
