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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now the #HHN stream is looping the same 12 seconds… Then finally shows us Stanky’s PP goal
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💙💛Deranged Pixie 🏳️‍⚧️ @edwardreese.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Other bridges close when the air raid alarm is on. It's on for hours during the day. russians try to paralyze daily life in the capital, to kill not only our people but also our economy. Next, they will continue torturing us with cold and darkness. Does your media speak about this? #ukrainianview
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Slavin to Bussi, with a smile, “About that first period…”
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hopefully it’s safe to say this now: Bussi has redeemed himself after that horrible first period
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That was kind of heavy for a lottery commercial #Canes
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not Bussi’s night #Canes
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did we all miss that goal?
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Here’s a fun fact for you: More cops have been arrested for stalking women using Flock cameras than there are trans athletes in sports."
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
That’s a stretch, Wayne
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Should have used Jank’s line on the 5 on 3
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Stepping up!
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Did they know they were on the air for that last bit? #Canes
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This period has been a whole game #canes
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I am so angry. Two Durham, NC kids - 11-year-old Genesis and 6-year-old Denis of Burton Elementary Magnet School - were taken by ICE at their regular asylum case appointment, and immediately deported without due process. Follow SiembraNC on IG or FB or @siembranc.bsky.social for next action steps.
Screenshot of sophiafornc from Threads: This is eleven year-old Genesis and six year-old Denis, two Durham elementary school students whose families came here to seek asylum. On Monday, they were detained by ICE and immediately sent back to Honduras without due process. Don't you dare tell me that this is making our country safer.
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PaulyMac 🇨🇦 @mrpaulymac.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
To be fair, he doesn't know what day of the week it is.
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Why does she hate that she can’t keep this a secret? And why can’t she keep it a secret?
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Hellebuyck and Slavin are the only reason Canada doesn’t already have the Gold
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Wouldn’t it be wild if USA and Canada play each other, only they’re playing for Bronze?
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
After one: Dostal > Binnington Cosby has a PPG in 99.9# of timelines Neither team can afford to take penalties #Olympics #Canada vs Czechia
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Since the beginning of the year, how many goals has Svech assisted on, percentage wise? And on power plays? #CarolinaCulture
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onion person @junlper.beer · 31/01/2026
we absolutely need to know who he sent this to. how is this something the public is being kept in the dark on???
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Sandy @sanwil.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/01/2026
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...
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And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like.
Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is
"well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order.
And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny.
You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.
"Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Bill @sporb.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
stolen
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Is it just me or is FanDuel freezing every 5 seconds for everyone?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I wonder if anyone will revisit their charitable interpretations of Elon’s definitely-not-a-Nazi-salute
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Nothing against Tripp, but I’d rather see the replays of the Canes goals full size than see Tripp in the truck. #Canes #CarolinaCulture
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It feels like Eric Robinson has more than 8 goals this season @CarolinaCulture
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/12/2025
ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The Greensboro Gargoyles “Monster Mash” jerseys. Its currently 6-5 GSO late in the third
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Go IcePack! #RaiseUp
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Nikishin gets caught out of position, but still gets back in time to stop the 2 on 1 #Canes
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
After 20 in GSO it’s 0-0 SOG 15-8 Gargoyles #CarvedInStone #Canes
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
First game ever! #Canes #CarolinaCulture #Grargoyles
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Nikishin was thinking breakaway all the way on that one @Canes
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I hope Nikishin yelled “Nyet!’ when he blocked Hamilton’s shot
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Mindy @mindygirl.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
My letter to the #canes (1/?) I’m deeply disappointed by the recent reports suggesting that the Hurricanes are considering signing Michael McLeod or other players associated with the 2018 Hockey Canada World Junior team — and the sexual assault allegations that have surrounded that group.
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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
So, news writers: If you don’t know why clopping is kind of gross, why “frens” are white supremacists, and why “clown world” is fascist accelerationism, either sit this one out or ask someone what the symbols actually mean. Don’t fucking wing it. 6/6
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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
One of the disturbing successes of the online fascist movement was their realization that if they make their symbols just fucking stupid, the “legitimate” media won’t explain them because explaining it makes you sound stupid. 1/
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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Bingham County Idaho. This CHILD RAPIST was sentenced to 180 days in jail for raping a 7 year old for 5 years. Part of his plea deal was that he would not have to register as a sex offender. So, what do y’all say we make him as famous as Brock Turner? Meet Candon Dahle. Let’s make him famous.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Destroy the little bit of a safety net we still provide as you give more money to those who already have it, all while giving unprecedented funding to federal law enforcement in the midst of a president seeking to unconstitutionally and illegally use federal law enforcement. What could go wrong?
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
here's some help for everyone still fussing over terminology newrepublic.com/article/1975...
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The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
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BungalowBILL @bungalowbillcom.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
You see, the reasoning is that if you take money away from rich people they will not work. If you take money away from poor people they'll be more productive. Maybe they can take all the money from the rich so that they'll be incentivized to work harder.
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I just switched back to the #SCF right in time to see the #Panthers PPG to make it 3-0
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Ed Benson @edbenson.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I solved today's Redactle (#878) in 86 guesses with an accuracy of 70.93%. Played at redactlegame.com/game/redactl...
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Redactle - Wordle | A puzzle game
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