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Chad Benner

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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 18/09/2025
Yes on 50 signs are now available at most Democratic local offices for a small donation. Polling shows a large number of undecided voters on this proposition, and with a month and a half to go, we need to make sure they go Yes. #YesOn50 #CA03
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 18/09/2025
I thought they were all about free speech?
cnbc.com
ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' off air 'indefinitely' over Charlie Kirk comments
Jimmy Kimmel suggested that Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, was aligned with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 04/09/2025
From last night’s South Park. You don’t need context, just enjoy the visuals. And don’t forget the lower-third. #SouthPark
Cartoon Hannity on Fox News set, lower third says “TRUMP CONFIRMED FATHER OF SATAN BUTT BABY,” and the upper graphic says “BREAKING NEWS - CONFIRMED: DONALD TRUMP IS F*CKING SATAN!”
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 29/08/2025
Fellow Californians - it’s time we flex our proverbial muscle and counter Texas’ actions. I’ve already received mailers against it, so make sure people have accurate information and encourage them to vote YES on #Prop50. Vote November 4th like the country depends on it. Because it might.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 14/06/2025
Good morning America, June 14th marks two birthdays - one of service, one of self. One sworn to defend the Republic, the other sworn to himself. On this day, we rise not against a date, but a delusional man. Be peaceful but loud. Do not be intimidated. #NoKings
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 13/06/2025
Iranian counterattack incipient. Good thing we have more combat troops in LA County than we do in Iraq and Syria.
nbcnews.com
Israeli military conducts airstrikes on Iran
Two U.S. officials said there is no U.S. involvement or assistance. The Trump administration has been in talks with Tehran on a possible nuclear deal and argued against such a step.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 12/06/2025
Now they’re asserting that federal troops can DETAIN US citizens “until law enforcement arrives for arrest.” So soldiers with zero training on the California Penal Code will have detention powers without the ability to even identify what’s illegal. That earlier Pentagon purge makes sense now.
youtube.com
Commander Says Troops In LA Can 'Temporarily Detain' People
YouTube video by Newsweek
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 10/06/2025
Don’t watch his petty birthday parade, go out and show the authoritarian where power actually lies - with us. Assemble peaceably and loudly. And to paraphrase an orange narcissistic asshole, if we don’t fight like hell, we won’t have a country anymore. Weird. He was right about something.
nokings.org
No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 23/05/2025
Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, personally donated $1M to his inauguration, I assume in hopes of avoiding tariff hits. That’s proved to be a great investment, Tim. Guess what? You can’t appease madmen. Stop trying. Fight him on everything, everywhere.
apnews.com
Trump threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% penalties on Apple as his trade war intensifies
President Donald Trump is threatening a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union as well as a 25% tariff on Apple products unless iPhones are made in America.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 18/05/2025
This fire season is off to a bang, and it’s only mid-May. If you live in any of the yellow states above and deal with wildfire threat, check out Watch Duty. It’s an indispensable tool with both free and paid memberships. www.watchduty.org
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 08/05/2025
Today is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. We take for granted that the outcome of that war was not known in the moment, just as we do not know the outcome of the fight for democracy in this moment. I hope good prevails now as it did then. #VEDay
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 01/05/2025
Small plane crash in Grass Valley, CA on Idaho-Maryland Road at Whispering Pines Road. FAA and NTSB have been notified and radio traffic appears to indicate one fatality. Traffic in and around the area affected. #grassvalley #planecrash
kcra.com
Plane crashes in Grass Valley near Nevada County Airport
A plane crashed Thursday morning in the Grass Valley area, officials said.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 26/04/2025
Ninety-two years ago today, the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s secret police, was formed under the leadership of Hermann Göring. They were responsible for the disappearing, incarceration, and death of countless people across the homeland and occupied territories. History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.
en.wikipedia.org
Gestapo - Wikipedia
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 25/04/2025
Yet another Rubicon crossed. Judges are not low hanging fruit - they’re part of an entire branch of our government. The fact that they feel emboldened to do this should send a shiver down everyone’s spine that’s read a book on Europe in the early 20th century.
apnews.com
FBI director says a judge accused of helping someone evade immigration agents has been arrested
FBI Director Kash Patel says a Wisconsin county judge accused of helping a man avoid immigration enforcement has been arrested.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 20/04/2025
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once Russia’s richest man—until he crossed Putin. Arrested, assets seized, a decade in prison. A reminder to billionaires cozying up to the regime: authoritarian leaders use you until you’re a threat. Then they crush you. Wealth can protect you for a time. Then it can’t.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 18/04/2025
Lots going on tomorrow. Here’s a handy spreadsheet with map of all events taking place across the country.
docs.google.com
The Protest List
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 17/04/2025
There's a propaganda tactic called Accusations in a Mirror. It's exactly what it sounds like: accusing your opponents of doing exactly what you're doing. It's not just hypocrisy-it's a deliberate weapon to confuse, divide, and incite.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 15/04/2025
Bernie and AOC will be in Rep. Kevin Kiley’s district this week since he won’t face his constituents. CA-03 needs Placer County to go blue and get rid of Kiley. #CA03 #Folsom #PlacerCounty #FireKevinKiley
abc10.com
Folsom to close roads for Bernie Sanders, AOC rally. See where
The city expects heavy traffic at East Bidwell Street, Scholar Way and surrounding roads. The event will happen Tuesday at Folsom Lake College.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 14/04/2025
Let me get this straight - the US pays to have people incarcerated (illegally) in that foreign gulag, but at the same time we can’t get people back? I know there’s a lot to follow with this idiot, but watch this space closely. This could be where the Constitution breaks and he goes full autocrat.
apnews.com
Live updates: El Salvador’s president says he won’t release Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to US
President Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House. The nation is holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the U.S.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 09/04/2025
Apple has lost $1.26T in value since December. That’s roughly the cumulative market caps of Walmart, Proctor & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson. Here are revised price estimates for the 16 series; iPhone is their largest product share at 55.6%. Apple stock is held by many retirement accounts.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 09/04/2025
The House is taking this up for a vote on Thursday. Contact your elected representatives and let them know how you feel about millions of voters being disenfranchised. As with everything they do, vulnerable groups will be hit hardest.
padilla.senate.gov
Padilla Raises Alarm to State Election Officials on SAVE Act, Warns it Would Disenfranchise Millions of Americans - Senator Alex Padilla
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and California’s former Secretary of State, warned Secretaries of Sta...
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 09/04/2025
The “law and order” party sure have gotten rid of a lot of people that enforce law and order. It’s almost like they want certain crimes to be legal. Oh, wait…
reuters.com
US Justice Dept disbands cryptocurrency enforcement unit
The U.S. Justice Department is disbanding its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and ordering prosecutors to focus instead on criminal investigations involving cartels and terrorist groups that use digital currency to finance illicit business, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Hola Resisters! Hands Off! Roseville, CA today. We are slightly east and north of Sacramento, gateway to the Gold Country and North Lake Tahoe. My guess is about 2K showed up. Lined up to main thoroughfares, 1/2 mile each direction, both sides.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 05/04/2025
Great turnout today in Grass Valley. Our small rural community really showed up to have our voices heard. Let this be the first of many. United we stand, divided we fall. #CA03 #grassvalley #nevadacounty
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 05/04/2025
To anyone that lives in CA-03, there are three separate Hands Off! events today in Kevin Kiley’s district (Roseville, Auburn, Grass Valley). Make your voices heard, especially in Placer County. That’s where we need to cut away at his support. #handsoff #roseville #auburn #grassvalley #CA03
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 04/04/2025
I think this qualifies him for a position in the administration.
bbc.com
Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault
The 49-year-old has previously denied all allegations against him.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 04/04/2025
Nothing to see here, folks - just six B-2 bombers lined up at the remote island base at Diego Garcia. They don’t roll these out unless they need to hit a country with advanced air defenses (e.g. Iran). Or maybe they wanted to move $12B in planes for fun.
Satellite image showing six USAF B-2 bombers lined up on tarmac at Diego Garcia air station
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 03/04/2025
Seventy-three days to destroy everything that had been rebuilt since the pandemic.
apnews.com
Dow drops 1,600 as US stocks lead worldwide sell-off after Trump’s tariffs cause a COVID-like shock
Financial markets around the world reeled following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe set of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market took the worst of it.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 03/04/2025
Make this make sense. Mango Mussolini’s stock is listed on the NASDAQ, as are all the major tech companies. As of 12pm Pacific, every major NASDAQ stock is down, yet his is up? He caused this crash, yet he’s somehow making money on it? Am I missing something?
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 03/04/2025
Four. Four Senate Republicans had the fortitude and resolve to acknowledge something that is blatantly stupid and wrong.
apnews.com
Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs as some Republicans vote to halt taxes on Canadian imports
The Senate has passed a resolution that would thwart President Donald Trump’s ability to impose tariffs on Canada.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 03/04/2025
I’m so glad that uninhabited islands made it onto the tariff list.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 02/04/2025
Want to understand the history of bad tariff policy in this country? Lawrence O’Donnell did a great story on it back in June of last year. It’s worth understanding this lesson as we seemingly careen towards it again.
youtu.be
Lawrence: Donald Trump is proposing the ‘worst economic policy in U.S. history’
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 02/04/2025
I’ll take all the wins we can get. How much did dumb-dumb throw away on this one? Congratulations, Wisconsinites!
apnews.com
Democratic-backed Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, cementing liberal majority
The Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court has won, defeating President Donald Trump’s endorsed challenger.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 28/03/2025
If you or anyone you know lives in Wisconsin, make sure you have a plan to vote. Deadline is rapidly approaching. Don’t let Leon buy this one, too.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 28/03/2025
This sounds similar to language an Austrian used in needing more “living space,” in Europe. What was that expansionist German concept? Ah, yes, Lebensraum.
bbc.com
Vance visits Greenland military base as Trump vows to 'have' the island - live updates
Plans for the US vice-president's visit to the Arctic territory has been scaled back in recent days.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 26/03/2025
I can’t wait to watch Republicans tie themselves into knots trying to explain this away. #firehegseth
apple.news
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal — The Atlantic
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 21/03/2025
Appeasement does not work with authoritarian governments. Ask Neville Chamberlain about it. Stop giving in. Fight. #resist
nbcnews.com
Columbia University agrees to Trump demands in effort to restore federal funding
The Trump administration — which canceled $400M in grants — had ordered the school to implement a mask ban, discipline protesters, reform admissions and more.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 21/03/2025
Skiing in Tahoe doesn’t constitute a “longstanding commitment,” congressman. Stop hiding and face your constituents. #CA03 #indivisible #kevinkiley
yubanet.com
Rep. Kevin Kiley's "long-standing commitments" for today reportedly include skiing and private meetings
Congressman Kevin Kiley (R-CA) was invited to an in-person town hall in Nevada City today, organized by Indivisible Nevada County. The town hall will take place, without the Roseville Republican. Orga...
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 19/03/2025
The last vestiges of winter. #tahoenationalforest
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 18/03/2025
Loving this campaign in Grass Valley, CA by @thesixpac.bsky.social. Plain messaging that cuts right to the core of an issue that affects both red and blue households alike. By the way, still waiting on that in-person town hall, Rep. Kiley ⏰ #CA03 #kevinkiley #grassvalley
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 18/03/2025
Mango Mussolini LOVES having his hand slapped. If we didn’t have a constitution crisis before, I think we will very soon.
apple.news
Chief Justice Roberts Criticizes Trump’s Call to Impeach Judges — The Wall Street Journal
Rare public statement comes hours after president called for removal of judge who sought to temporarily block some deportations
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 14/03/2025
Some good news on a day full of terrible news. #tedlasso #afcrichmond #believe
apple.news
Ted Lasso is coming back for season 4 — The Verge
After a season 3 finale that left open plenty of possibilities for a return, it’s now confirmed: Ted Lasso is coming back. The Apple TV Plus sitcom is getting a fourth season, though it appears to be ...
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 13/03/2025
If you happen to live in the Northern Sierra Foothills in CA-03 district, Indivisible is hosting a town hall on March 20th since Rep. Kevin Kiley is MIA. Make your voice heard! #CA03 #kevinkiley #whereskevin
mobilize.us
Town Hall · Indivisible
A local Indivisible event! California District 3 Representative Kevin Kiley has been invited to speak at Indivisible Nevada county's Town Hall. Even if he chooses not to show, we will have a program o...
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women’s Day. Profound words from a pioneering woman. #internationalwomensday
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 06/03/2025
Looking for an American EV alternative to the Swasticar? Both Rivian (SUV’s & trucks) and Lucid (sedans) are California-based, have much higher build qualities, and aren’t owned by Leon. rivian.com lucidmotors.com
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 04/03/2025
The same day we cut off military aid to Ukraine. And on the eve of a trade war with our two largest trading partners. I imagine if we remove Russian sanctions unilaterally, we’ll see some form of retaliation from our (current) European allies. Cool Monday. Can’t wait for Tuesday.
reuters.com
White House seeks plan for possible Russia sanctions relief, sources say
The United States is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as President Donald Trump seeks to restore ties with Moscow and stop the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 01/03/2025
#slavaukraini
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 23/02/2025
Nothing to see here, just the ousting of legitimate news agency from the department with the largest budget in favor of insane, right-wing outlets. I’m sure this is an error and they’re not looking to avoid legitimate scrutiny.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 22/02/2025
Since I no longer have faith in HHS, the CA Dept. of Public Health has great resources on the ongoing outbreak and their response.
cdph.ca.gov
California Department of Public Health
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 14/02/2025
Take time to appreciate nature.
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