Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms. 391144552918
Reposted by BenjaminMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/06/2026SPEECHLESS. LFGK 209196382186
Reposted by BenjaminMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/06/2026Next stop 34th Street 998923723
Reposted by Benjamin50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Holy New York. 504293677080
Reposted by Benjaminkoifishcassidy.bsky.social @koifishcassidy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026best friends for life <3 012
Benjamin @hobcaw.bsky.social · 24/01/2026As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. 000
Reposted by BenjaminGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 24/01/2026It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE. 61888092162
Reposted by BenjaminRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026They claim the right to kill us when we annoy, inconvenience, or oppose them They know perfectly well this is the principle they're fighting for 3527147
Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2025the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course. 13049291135
Reposted by BenjaminBenjamin @hobcaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2025I’ve always loved Du Bois’s characterization of Andrew Johnson 0175
Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/08/2025the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal. 214136833248
Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2025there are far too many mcclellans in the democratic party 1192715351
Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025it is the Imperial Judiciary when courts say that presidents can’t unilaterally overturn constitutional text, and the Proper Order of Things when courts say that your rights rest on the whims of who happens to be in office 1064138822
Reposted by Benjaminkoifishcassidy.bsky.social @koifishcassidy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025No kings, rain or shine. 021
Reposted by Benjaminkoifishcassidy.bsky.social @koifishcassidy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Huge turnout in D.C. today #handsoff 021
Reposted by BenjaminBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 16/03/2025The foreign policy of the United States is Nazism. Specifically, it is designed first to appease neo-Nazis and the post-right and then to encourage fascism abroad. The end of USAID is both signaling an end to liberal internationalism and one massive Aktion T4 on the poorest people in the world. 536696
Reposted by BenjaminTahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 09/03/2025There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now. The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers. 7176162131
Reposted by Benjaminrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/03/2025senator jamelle bouie, imo 2162252
Reposted by BenjaminGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/02/2025President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.apnews.comLive updates: Trump cuts short talks with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy after Oval Office blow upUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump in Washington, seeking backing for Ukraine's security against any future Russian aggression. 646246404554
Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025who told this pampered asshole he has the right to speak to anyone like this? 1057298373792
Benjamin @hobcaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025media.tenor.coma cartoon character says ah wallet inspector while standing next to another manAlt: From “The Simpsons” - a character says “ah, wallet inspector” while a group hands over their wallets 031
Reposted by BenjaminGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations. 84135372236
Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/02/2025a good bit of evidence that trump represents bona fide confederate government is that he keeps tripping every wire placed by the 14th amendment talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...talkingpointsmemo.comTrump Says Some Treasury Notes May Not Be RealI suspect this will just end up being something Old Man Trump... 1365059932
Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people 16756592110221
Reposted by Benjaminkoifishcassidy.bsky.social @koifishcassidy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Qing Bao or Bao Li? 151
Benjamin @hobcaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Could a simple majority of Congress remove Trump from office? My thinking is that because he violated his oath, Congress could pass a resolution that Trump is ineligible to serve as president under Amend. 14 Sec. 3. 120
Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...huffpost.comTrump Guts Key Aviation Safety Committee, Fires Heads Of TSA, Coast GuardThe committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. 796259966994
Reposted by BenjaminRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Let America be America again The land that never once has been And yet must be 29210
Benjamin @hobcaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2025It unfortunately seems Trump is declaring war on breakfast 111
Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/01/2025canceling the commissary — and i would assume, exchange — program is a one way ticket to getting a bonus army situation. for those unaware, the commissaries and exchanges are subsidized grocery and department stores for service members, veterans and their families. 56991322300
Reposted by BenjaminPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 25/01/2025No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration. 623375957553
Reposted by Benjaminjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/01/2025what would you do differently if you were trying to legalize discrimination? 29397722456
