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@juliebenningfield.bsky.social
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I don't even know anymore. I do #ServiceNow for work. I live in Texas. I hate Greg Abbott. I hate AI.

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Vecchio Pensionato @librarianly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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JB @juliebenningfield.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I am waiting for my pre-ordered copy of #Daggerbound to arrive in my mailbox. A new book from @tkingfisher.com is the only thing that might help ease my grief this week for #Dollyparton and #TimCurry.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 02/04/2026
I swear every morning these people wake up, and immediately start thinking "what is the shittiest thing I can do today?"
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It’s actually pretty revealing that the Democrats aren’t opposing the war and are just demanding an explanation. What fascism does is eliminate the need for a cover story or narrative to launder bloody imperialism and destruction. What they want back is the veneer of morality.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 28/02/2026
"The reason why I chose to run for state government … [was because] state government was stopping us from being innovative, was stopping local government from governing. And the state government seems to be, on whole, pretty comfortable with devolving into a survival of the richest."
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Sarah Eckhardt Wants to Return the Texas Comptroller to the Bob Bullock Era
The Democratic candidate hopes to bring the statewide accountant’s office back to its rightful role—independently enforcing good government.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Man, we are led by some of the most evil and corrupt and sadistic and stupid motherfuckers.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/02/2026
Mexico promises food support for Cuba as US stifles the island’s fuel supply aje.news/0yrnpv
Mexico promises food support for Cuba as US stifles the island’s fuel supply
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This week has been a lot. It’s overwhelming. But what is in those files the DOJ released today is a scandal of monumental proportions. People fear that it is “too big to fail.” Maybe. But Congress must act. Yes! we need all the files. But what has been released is already a four-alarm fire.
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JB @juliebenningfield.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Maybe now isn't the best time to be reading post-apocalyptic fiction.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
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Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Texas A&M issued a statement insisting that Plato isn't banned, "only the faggy parts." (We are paraphrasing slightly) Texas Plato Massacre www.wonkette.com/p/texas-plat...
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Texas Plato Massacre
It's the Platonic ideal of rightwing dickishness.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“The problem here is that he didn’t follow the rules” is the only argument you can really make when almost no one in your coalition is anti-war in any meaningful sense.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I have seen better fights in a Steak n Shake parking lot at 2 AM.
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JB @juliebenningfield.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is Edwin. My old manager found him in her garbage bin and has been kind of taking care of him, but she's not a cat person (even though she named him). He's coming to live with us tomorrow. #stray #straycat #catdistributionsystem
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
To quote Peggy Noonan, “is it irresponsible to speculate? No, it’s irresponsible *not* to.”
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
Kristi Noem sits on a horse wearing a cowboy hat. In the background is Mount Rushmore.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13/11/2025
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Virginia Republicans have learned the difference between having a one-mile flood barrier that's 20 feet high and a ten-mile flood barrier that's 2 feet high. But while you celebrate, don't forget that their reaction won't be "We need to change" but "This is why we gotta stop having real elections."
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JB @juliebenningfield.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Let's play Clue! Colonel Mustard in the new ballroom with a gold-plated candelabra. #TeamDead
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is what Leadership Culture gets you: people in charge with no skills, no knowledge of the thing they’re supposedly in charge of, and no incentive to mitigate risk, betting the future of the institution and everyone in it on whatever shiny objects they recognize from skimming Forbes.
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The man betting everything on AI and Bill Belichick | TechCrunch
UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts is making big bets on AI and Bill Belichick, and he sounds like a Silicon Valley CEO while doing it.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
It is estimated that early 7 million people took part in demonstrations across more than 2,700 cities and towns making it one of the largest single-day nationwide protests in U.S. history. Scenes from Chicago. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/10/2025
@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com are you going to write about the president of the United States posting a clip of himself literally dumping shit on Americans, or is it nbd?
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JB @juliebenningfield.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It's not good. I'm starting to have that paralyzed feeling like I had the last time Trump was in and COVID got bad.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 10/09/2025
It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I am begging, literally on my knees, for people to stop doing this Michael Avenatti bullshit where anyone who trolls Trump gets turned into some kind of hero because it feels good and meanwhile the actual work of finding trustworthy leaders and coalition partners gets put on the back burner.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We’re literally at the point where businesses and public spaces are having to lock out and physically battle a secret police. This is an existential crisis. A crossroads. And thank god for the bravery and basic human decency people are showing. Lock in. We are in it.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
There’s a reason why establishment Democrats and corporate media are continually fearmongering and race-bating when it comes to Zohran Mamdani. They cannot attack his wildly popular agenda or allow democracy to take root. This frame is all they have. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/what-they-...
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What They Fear is Democracy: Audio From A Collapsing State
Discourse around Mamdani and the Supreme Court shares a simple theme: the powerful cannot stomach any conversation focused on democracy
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 13/06/2025
🧵 Since protests against immigration raids started in Los Angeles on June 6, the @pressfreedomtracker.us has been investigating dozens of incidents of violence and aggressions toward the news media. Here are some of the incidents we’ve documented so far ⬇️
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Incident Database
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is a database of press freedom incidents in the United States — everything from arrests of journalists and the seizure of their equipment to interrogations at the U.S. b...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Trump regime ICE troopers attacked an elderly woman (legal resident) selling tamales, they manhandled her so violently that she fainted, then threw her on the ground and stripped her, she had to be hospitalized. She received medical help after US citizens intervened. #StopICE
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
ICE officials require adequate time to dispose of bodies, disappear troublesome detainees, simulate marginally adequate conditions, put on shirts without visible burrito stains, etc.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We are a failed state if there isn’t some truth and reconciliation process on the other end of this that results in a lot of these people going to prison for a long time.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 14/06/2025
When politicians take away clinics, birth control, abortion access, and trusted community providers, they’re not saving lives. They’re putting people in danger. And disproportionately, they’re endangering Latinas.
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Why I Still Believe Texas Can Be Better
"Texas taught me contradiction. It taught me how to love a place that doesn’t always love me back."
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I see a lot of normal people around me (even not very political ones) who grasp this clearly, more clearly than a lot of their elected leaders who still seem to think everything’s 2002 Normal. These people want you dead. And they’re going to try because they think they can get away with it.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is so deeply concerning. The military serves the people, not a political party.
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Trump Gets U.S. Military Troops To Boo Democrats And 'Fake News' During Alarming Speech
This is extremely concerning.
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Comrade SaboCat🏴‍☠📎 @comradesabocat.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
If only there was someone in a country of 350 million with access to spray paint and a burning desire to paint a big white "Z" on all of them the night before Dipshit's "I Love Me" parade...🤔 HEY, #TAGGERS OF AMERICA! WANT A FUN NEW ART PROJECT?
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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The invasion of LA by federal forces is intensifying, even as protests dwindle, because the regime is hotpants to escalate into full-blown civil war / authoritarian takeover. Wonkette has your day five occupation updates. @marciej.bsky.social www.wonkette.com/p/david-huer...
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David Huerta Released, Battle For USA Not Under Military Occupation Goes On
Somebody wake up the Democrats, this is a big deal.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
There’s brutal irony in the fact that the man who gamed due process to escape justice for dozens of crimes is now using military force to silence protests about due process being denied while calling innocent people the criminals.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 10/06/2025
NOW: 500 LA solidarity protesters are trying to March from the Texas Capitol to the local ICE processing center three blocks away and are being blocked by Austin PD.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
If their goal was to disperse a crowd the strategy would be simply to wait, and people will filter away. But their actual goal is to assert authority, so they go in swinging to make sure everyone knows who’s untouchable. You saw it with the campus protests and you’re seeing it now.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If your first instinct to a community defending their friends, families, and neighbors from murderous fascists looking to kidnap them is to say, "Maybe they should be more polite about it," you're probably not on the side you think you are.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
SEIU California President David Huerta has apparently been charged with a federal crime--conspiracy to impede an officer. This is a felony that carries a sentence of six years in federal prison.
U.S. attorneys office in LA just sent an email saying David Huerta, president of SEIU California, has been charged with conspiracy to impede an officer. He’s been in jail since Friday and is expected to make his first appearance in federal court this afternoon
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JB @juliebenningfield.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/06/a...
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American Fascism and the End of the Empire
The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who ab...
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