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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
Thank you! I wish I could take the credit, but saw it on a sticker somehwere. Gotta love using ICAO to get a point across.
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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
What did that southern debutant do now? Congrats on the 4 years of sobriety, BTW.
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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
Understanding Accusations in a Mirror is crucial. It's not some fringe theory-it's a red flag of authoritarianism. We've seen this tactic before. We know where it leads. The question is, what do we do to stop it?
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 17/04/2025
It's not just projection-it's strategy. By accusing others of their own abuses, they deflect, confuse, and rally their base with a false sense of persecution. It's classic "mirror" propaganda. And it's dangerous.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 17/04/2025
Today, we're seeing this again-blatantly-from Mango Mussolini and his allies. They accuse people of things they themselves are openly perpetrating. He accused Biden of doing it, and is now openly doing it himself.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 17/04/2025
"Accusations in a Mirror" has appeared across history: Nazi Germany, Rwanda, the Yugoslav Wars. Always the same script: claim your enemies are guilty of the atrocities you intend to commit. Sow fear. Justify repression or violence.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 17/04/2025
The goal: create moral justification for violence. If "they're going to kill us," then "we have to kill them first." It flips the narrative, paints the aggressor as the victim, and the real victims as a threat. And it works terrifyingly well.
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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 · 17/04/2025
Understanding Accusations in a Mirror is crucial. It’s not some fringe theory—it’s a red flag of authoritarianism. We’ve seen this tactic before. We know where it leads. Naming it is the first step in breaking the spell.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 17/04/2025
It’s not just projection—it’s strategy. By accusing others of their own abuses, they deflect, confuse, and rally their base with a false sense of persecution. It’s classic “mirror” propaganda. And it’s dangerous.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 17/04/2025
Today, we’re seeing this again—blatantly—from Mango Mussolini and his allies. They accuse people of things they themselves are openly perpetrating. He accused Biden of doing it, and is now openly doing it himself.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 17/04/2025
“Accusations in a Mirror” has appeared across history: Nazi Germany, Rwanda, the Yugoslav Wars. Always the same script: claim your enemies are guilty of the atrocities you intend to commit. Sow fear. Justify repression or violence.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 17/04/2025
The goal: create moral justification for violence. If “they’re going to kill us,” then “we have to kill them first.” It flips the narrative, paints the aggressor as the victim, and the real victims as a threat. And it works terrifyingly well.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 15/04/2025
Handy logistical info if you’re planning on attending.
sacbee.com
How to get to Bernie Sanders’ Sacramento-area rally at Folsom Lake College
Parking on the Folsom Lake College campus will be limited and organizers recommend taking public transit, carpooling or ridesharing if possible.
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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 · 12/04/2025
Truly horrifying. I noticed Brian Tyler Cohen’s new book is on the list as well. Dystopian stuff.
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Chad Benner @chadbenner.com · 10/04/2025
Not to mention all the naval assets in / moving to the region.
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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
Audi just stopped unloading off the bulk carriers due to the uncertainty. Only the beginning, unfortunately.
reuters.com
Volkswagen's Audi holding cars in U.S. ports due to autos tariff
Volkswagen's Audi is holding its cars which arrived after April 2, when Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on autos imports, in U.S. ports, it said on Monday, as companies scramble to work out how they will be affected by the duties.
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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 · 06/04/2025
I have family in Grants Pass so I’m aware of how red it can be. I’m so happy to see both small and large communities come together on this. There’s a palpable energy.
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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
Thanks for including me as well!
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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
It freaked me out when I saw it. It’s a sea of red numbers, but one green - his. Maybe @stephruhle.bsky.social or someone smarter than me with the markets can shed some light.
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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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