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66 year-old father, lawyer, teacher. Cleveland, Ohio USA he/him/his My father fought Nazis & so will I. Remember: breathe!

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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Sharing Another Creator's Important Thoughts on White Christian Nationalism.
YouTube video by Knitting Cult Lady
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Abolish The Death Penalty. And Reform The Prisons. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/abol...
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Abolish The Death Penalty. And Reform The Prisons. - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I don’t say much about prison reform, but it’s something that has bothered me for a long time. The reason I don’t say much about it is that it seems so hopeless. That wasn’t always true. Back in the 1...
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Dav Raye @davraye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's how this big government bureaucracy is going to keep millions of eligible voters from voting, nearly all because they have foreign or black sounding names. By the time they can prove they are citizens the election will be over. This is all very well planned, no accidents in US politics.
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Gospel of high yields: Inside Tim Tebow's favorite wealth seminar www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎁gift link🎁 From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle (Gift Article)
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of Our Greatest Writers Has Died. But Not for Me. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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One of Our Greatest Writers Has Died. But Not for Me. (Gift Article)
Annie Dillard died this week. But her voice — wild and holy and hilarious — continues to live in my head, my soul and, somehow, my dog.
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump killed an investigation into Susan Collins’s corruption www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/trum...
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Trump killed an investigation into Susan Collins's corruption - Lawyers, Guns & Money
And vice versa! Yet another game recognize game moment: Scott Reed, head of the Collins super PAC, was on a mission to close that gap. Reed was meeting that day with three executives from a Hawaiian d...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm going to start a company called Wealth Extraction Services, LLC. At WES, we don't claim to provide a useful product or service. In fact, we skip that step entirely and simply use all available legal means to quickly and efficiently transfer funds from your bank account to ours.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Turned on Giants game. An ad for the sports gambling app that sponsors the broadcast, in which one of the ESPN talking heads is practically begging me to place a bet, comes on. This is insidious and must be outlawed…but I am not holding my breath.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Melania Trump: "Together, we can move markets"
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Staff members and former Kennedy Center officials speculated that “Blue” was removed because Mr. Trump, who has said he considers much of modern art “a con,” did not like it." Dull-minded, paranoid, bullying, and certain that anything he doesn't like or understand must be a grift. Classic fascism.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vance Has a Twisted Idea of What It Means to Be American www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o...
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Opinion | Vance Has a Twisted Idea of What It Means to Be American (Gift Article)
I am a “heritage American,” too. How should that guide my life?
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
cool review of Easy Rider soundtrack from @paranoiacs.bsky.social: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Various Artists: Easy Rider (Music From the Soundtrack)
Read Elizabeth Nelson’s review of the album.
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Stephen Nein, Supervisor 827 @stephennein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"[Y]ou’re really just collecting the worst ideas from generations of the last century. You’ve got the authoritarianism of the ’30s, the racial panic of the ’50s, the religious crusading of the ’80s, and the grievance engine of the internet... That’s a greatest hits album of stupidity.”
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🇺🇸 J.D. Vance to voters: “Give us another chance, or a few more years, to continue doing the great things we’ve been doing over the past two years.”
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“THIS is why Bernie Moreno has been silent,” wrote Democratic strategist Ally Sammarco, in a social media post Friday on X. “In March 2024, the AP reported that he used a work email to create a dating profile looking for gay sex. Max Miller has some dirt on him.” www.rawstory.com/bernie-moren...
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Strategist floats bombshell theory for MAGA senator's silence on daughter's alleged abuser
Critics have increasingly questioned the silence of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) regarding reports that his daughter, Emily Moreno, was allegedly abused by her husband, Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), but on Fri...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Again: When Republicans like @marshablackburn say they've put money in your pocket - they're talking to their rich donors, not you
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
👇the extraction of as much wealth as possible as quickly as possible has become the ethic of our leaders in every field gift article 🎁https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/opinion/institutions-power-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVE.jqwS.8cbO7eAuZyx4&smid=bs-share
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@aarontimms.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/2116...
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Is SpaceX Really Worth Trillions? Let Grok Explain.
Elon Musk’s company isn’t being overvalued at a number that’s completely untethered to reality—it’s a lesson in how to be a business alpha
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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You cannot have bespoke candidates in coalition politics - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Since we are seeing some people on the left of the party suggesting that people not vote for James Talerico, and some people on the center-right of the party suggesting that people not vote for Abdul ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@lawgunsmoney.bsky.social: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/the-...
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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The problem is obviously far worse than anyone imagined - Lawyers, Guns & Money
How very true this statement from a Republican nominee for statewide office in Texas is: The photograph is of University of Texas students celebrating last night’s victory over the #1-ranked the Ohio ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I know more about formulas than anybody. I managed to go through six bankruptcies and stiff every single Bank along the way. My credit is so good I couldn't even find a Russian Bank that would loan to me. My credit is so strong I bankrupted a casino.
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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Has anyone considered how difficult life is for white men, what with zero racial barriers to overcome. You've got to make up problems, like HR ladies, and let your inner rural cracker out.
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 .
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Kushner is in fact an agent of the Russian state, and future historians will record him as one. Exactly how he became their agent in this process remains to be factually developed. bsky.app/profile/ones...
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Facts don't do what I want them to - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I wanted to follow up on Scott’s post about JD Vance’s gutter racist demagoguery at his 2028 presidential campaign debutante ball in Dallas last night. In a classic bit of fascist golden age mythologi...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/09/2026
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
our techbro oligarchs are clowns who think they're studs gift link🎁 www.nytimes.com/athletic/758...
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How Bill Ackman’s journey into tennis left him stranded on one of its most famous courts (Gift Article)
The hedge fund magnate described playing in a professional event as "humbling." His route to doing so had become an inevitability.
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Shut it all down until we can figure out what the F is going on. - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Just in case Donald Trump wasn’t providing enough uproar and confusion, the AI boys have weighed in. The sky is falling, the sky is falling! AI will take your job and then kill you! Biological warfare...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump announced 17 MONTHS AGO that everyone was going to get $5,000 checks because of DOGE cuts. You got $0.
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Meatwad Ron: Summer of Ron @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
cool thing is this opinion piece was written by a guy who works for an advocacy group committed to opposing government regulations and unionization that’s funded by “Amazon, Uber, Meta, Google, Apple, Twitter, StubHub, and other technology companies” so we can all just tell him to shut the fuck up
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Viewers of Rupert Murdoch TV are told roughly twenty times a day that all opposition to the tech bros data center projects comes from the Chinese Communist Party. In fact all the tech bros manufacture in China and have excellent relations with the CCP.
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
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Opinion | Blame Ronald Reagan (Gift Article)
We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s.
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jtickel STAND WITH UKRAINE @tickedoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
how dumb must one be to believe trump? requires Richter scale www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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Vance appears to walk back Trump’s offer of $5,000 ‘dividend’ if Republicans win midterms – US politics live
Vice-president suggests payment would not go to all and would be paid for by tariff revenues despite supreme court rulings against much of Trump’s program
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Does the NBA have an owner problem? Doesn't every sport? What else could you have with entire leagues owned by narcissistic, gilded age billionaires? @howardbeck.bsky.social:
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/09/2026
In my book, I wrote about research into what is called the "minority collusion" belief. bsky.app/profile/volt...
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
he can say absolutely anything and it doesn't matter to the media. the emperor is a fat, naked lying POS
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(((Pytor Ben))) @pytorben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.cnbc.com/2026/08/24/t...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/09/2026
A string of absolutely bonkers Truth Social posts from Trump in the span of about 10 minutes
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2:05 pm 2:21 pm @atrupar.com
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