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Mike Bender

@mbender415.bsky.social
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He/Him. Leftist. Ex-evangelical. 🍉 MN n2 Swiftie. USMC vet. Infosec.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yuuuuup…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In case anyone is still unclear they put him over the country
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Make no mistake—this is Mike Rogers' position on data centers. He's got up to $2.6 million invested in companies cashing in on the data center boom, all while Michiganders watch their utility bills soar.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026
Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"
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Congressman Shri Thanedar @thanedar.house.gov · 09/01/2026
The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The ICE agent who shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago tried to goad her out of her car. He said “do something b*tch” and shot her 5 times. The ICE agent who shot Nicole Renee Good did the same thing. Stood right in front of her vehicle and yelled “f*cking bitch”. They hate women & it shows.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/01/2026
So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?
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Ashley 🐓🌱 @coyotebee.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Alpha "news" is a far-right propaganda rag, he shared this video with them because he thinks this vindicates him.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.
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Doomer Girl News @doomergirlnews.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Many Americans will internally validate another holocaust, they have no empathy, it's been trained out of them. Like all the people in the comments section of this video, for instance. Local news sites are always where the worst people seem to hang out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWsR...
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Graphic video shows ICE agent fatally shooting woman in Minneapolis
YouTube video by KSBW Action News 8
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VT Commons @vtcommons.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Son of a bitch is a blatant thief.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/01/2026
NEW: MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an act of self defense. I’ve seen the video myself and I want to tell everybody directly; that is bullshit.”
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Just saw a picture of stuffed animals in the woman's car and man...I really am struggling to find the words right now. This is all just so unspeakably devastating, and I don't know how we come back from it.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I wrote this piece about Kristi Noem back in 2024. I wish I had been wrong. I wasn’t. 😞 open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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Puppy killing to court the mob.
MAGA & the glorification of gratuitous violence.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/01/2026
Her vehicle's right front panel cleared the ICE agent who didn't open fire until after he was at the side of her vehicle. He used deadly force on a fleeing individual, which is against DHS policy. This is murder. He needs to be arrested.
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 08/01/2026
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Thinking about this old Tweet on this date for some reason...
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/01/2026
Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk's X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public. www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
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Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream
Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk's X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
They're going to invade Greenland, blow up NATO, and alienate all of our allies. bbc.com/news/article...
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US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House
It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark after renewed US insistence it must have Greenland.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Sidewalk chalk art that says deportation without due process is just called kidnapping
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
-Dropped or halted investigations into 100+ corporations -Gutted regulatory agencies and fired ethics watchdogs -Launched a crypto coin and offered an "intimate dinner" to top buyers -Turned the White House into a Tesla showroom to help his biggest donor "Drain the swamp."
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The Truth Of The Matter And They Are Not Bringing Jobs Back….
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/05/2025
Big yikes
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
There is NO "aborted fetal debris" in vaccines. They're resurrecting one of the most innacurate and outdated lies to trigger people not only into not trusting vaccines, but to make them angry at those who produce them. The cells used to produce a select number of vaccines are grown in a lab.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 30/04/2025
RFK Jr. says fluoride makes you “stupider.” Interesting take from a man actively proving it’s not the water…it’s the policy. This ain’t health care, it’s headline-chasing with a government badge.
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 30/04/2025
Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 30/04/2025
this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/04/2025
This is absolutely brutal
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Emphasizing again that Trump's claim that it would take "200 years" to give everyone a hearing in immigration court is made up. The immigration court's annual budget is just $840 million and in just the last six months judges have issued 200,000 removal orders and granted relief to 21,000 people.
Executive Office for Immigration Review Adjudication Statistics, FY2025 Decision Outcomes. Removal: 198,016, Removal - CAT Deferral Granted: 157. Removal - CAT Withholding Granted - 514. Removal - INA Withholding Granted - 1,132. Relief Granted - 19,980. Voluntary Departure, 6,647. Terminate/Dismissal: 141,284. Withdrawn, 94.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/04/2025
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 15/04/2025
Minnesota is a top state for health care, thanks in part to Mayo Clinic.   Now they’re building a $5 billion expansion in Rochester where the lifesaving health care innovations of the future are going to happen.   Inspiring to see the progress today.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“If we normalize this, there’s no end.” This is what @schumer.senate.gov said he was waiting for. Defying court orders. We are there. Now what?
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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