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Stephanie Benoit

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Mother, friend and builder of a life worth living. #scatterkindness

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...
al.com
Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This is fascism, pure and simple.
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David Laufman @davidlaufman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
When DOJ attorneys resign as a matter of principle, it underscores just how corrupt the administration of “justice” has become. Kudos to the Civil Rights Division lawyers who made this wrenching decision for their integrity and dedication to the rule of law. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
DOJ’s top civil rights prosecutors depart as office is cut out of key probes
Prosecutors resigned from the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota as well amid turmoil over an investigation into a shooting by an immigration officer.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/01/2026
Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
@aoc.bsky.social has this exactly right.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/01/2026
Q: When you renegotiate USMCA, how is that going to help autoworkers? TRUMP: I don't even think about USMCA. I want to see Canada and Mexico do well, but the problem is we don't need their product
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
So, the First Amendment is a thing of the past by the way. 😤🤯😡🤬 #Minnesota #ICE
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
But in a sense it's actually worse than a war crime, because there is no war. It's just a crime. It's a crime—murder—whether or not the aircraft can be identified as part of a military force.
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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
House Speaker Mike Johnson apparently doesn’t understand how our justice system works. He said if Fed Chair Jerome Powell is innocent, “then he can prove that.” No, Mikey, he doesn’t need to prove he’s innocent. His accusers need to prove he’s guilty.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I mean, sure, if there was a war and they snuck up on some soldiers by adopting the trappings of civil aviation, you might call it a war crime. But since there wasn’t one and they snuck up on some civilians who were probably fishermen and at worst drug dealers, it’s just fuckin murder.
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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
. They’re looking into her background to try to find a way to retroactively justify the guy shooting her in the face through her car in a lynching
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Spit take. 🤡
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/01/2026
Rep. Lieu: “Greg Bovino last night made a post that essentially called protesters, ‘cannon fodder.’ He needs to delete that post, or he needs to resign…If Greg Bovino and the administration doesn't turn down the rhetoric, it's going to cause more people to get killed.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
“The President of the United States is a criminal. He’s not just a convicted criminal. He should have been convicted for the crimes he led on January 6th. He is running the government like a mob operation.“
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime. Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"The Justice Department has fired the No. 2 official in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia after he declined to lead a controversial prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey..." www.ms.now/news/trump-d...
ms.now
Trump DOJ fires prosecutor who declined to pursue James Comey case
The prominent career prosecutor had become the No. 2 official in the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny - health care subsidies - seeing pronouns in an email - being suspended from a social media platform - pride month - baking a cake for a same sex wedding - legal rulings against donald trump - EV benchmarks
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
ms.now
A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Will never not be jarring to see armed goons demanding people’s papers on the street in the United States of America like it’s Nazi Germany. Fuckin nightmare scenes.
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Indivisible Rapid City @indivisiblercsd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
1-10-2026 When 300 people show up on a cold windy day to say ICE OUT FOR GOOD🇺🇸🦅 Indivisible Rapid City City Hall Rapid City, South Dakota *Thank You Rapid City Police Department for keeping us safe #IndivisibleRapidCity #SouthDakota #indivisible #reneenicolegood #icemurder
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“To settle this, it would be great if the White House would release the case files and any FBI recordings of Tom Homan’s meetings with undercover agents posing as businessmen...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
White House’s Homan deflects when pressed on Cava bag controversy
The FBI recorded Homan allegedly accepting $50,000 in cash as part of an undercover operation. Questions for the border czar haven’t gone away.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Kristi Noem stated over the weekend that Americans deserve what they get if they get in the way of law enforcement operations, including the murder of Renee Good. If people get injured or killed, it's on them. Then she is sending more agents to Minneapolis. This Regime wants us killed.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
JUST IN: Sen. Kelly is suing Secretary Hegseth -- precise details of lawsuit are not yet docketed.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 12/01/2026
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/01/2026
Q: “Did the president ever direct DOJ officials to open an investigation into Powell?” Leavitt: “No.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"The veteran said he saw volunteering as an ICE observer as another way of serving his country. 'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you... This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
They say they’re monitoring ICE arrests. Feds say they’re breaking the law.
The fatal shooting of Renée Good last week, as ICE officers and residents faced off on a Minneapolis street here, has brought new attention to ICE monitoring.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/01/2026
BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis. Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The president of the United States is extorting the Federal Reserve Board Chairman by threatening criminal prosecution if he doesn't lower interest rates. DOJ is compromised, legacy media is cowed and Big Law is AWOL. As I wrote last year: "We are on our own."
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We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
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Gail BK @weedlawyer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
Middle aged white lady carrying a blue poster board sign with the words SEE YOU AT NUREMBERG FUCKERS
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/01/2026
So let me get this straight. The man who tore down the East Wing of the White House in order to build an oversized ballroom that no one asked for has launched an investigation into Jerome Powell over renovations to the Federal Reserve headquarters. Did I get that right?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Forest Ln Hood @dallasguy23.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Seth Abramson is excoriating Elon over on "that platform." ~ 100 posts. Elon doesn't come out well.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I didn't get fooled by the fake Sean Duffy quote, but many did—and I can't blame them for it Why? Because surely you've noticed that members of the Trump administration say shit this stupid every single day? Distinguishing yesterday's incomprehensibly stupid shit from today's fake quote is *work*
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Folks this is not a candid shot of the man at 11PM on a weekend, this is what he was doing while sitting in the middle of an internationally broadcast major press conference in the Oval Office He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
They cannot pronounce the words "Mamdani" or "Kamala" and do not know the actual name of the party they oppose, but sure, I bet Mike Johnson has a solid lit-crit handle on what neo-Marxism is as he calls the retirement of an 85-year-old tellingly precipitous
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is without a doubt the worst possible timeline
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
No no no no no
independent.co.uk
Trump adds ‘Walk of Fame’ on facade of White House
Trump has made several aesthetic changes to the White House including renovating the Rose Garden to add a patio
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I would like to run for President of the United States on a one-issue platform: undoing every change Donald Trump has made to the White House and putting it back the way it was
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is a real post from a longtime journalist, presented here without comment other than to say that I know for a fact that there is indeed much worse for people to learn about Trump and Epstein than the already horrifying fact that there are photos of Trump with topless young girls
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Please note this: Raising the "salience" of immigration actually worked in Dems' favor in one of the most important swing counties in the country. This is more grist for the idea that attacking Trump is succeeding among the nonwhite working class (see thread below).
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
UPDATE: Thankfully the man is okay, though there is still some strange disagreement about who he actually is ( see the article below)
independent.co.uk
Official passes out in Oval Office while standing behind Trump during event
Pharmaceutical representative was part of a ‘major announcement’ to make GLP-1s more affordable
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I don't know who this guy is, but I certainly hope he is okay. That was hard to watch. I also want to agree with those who noted how bizarre it is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., seeing a tragedy unfold before him, hauled ass out of the room like George Costanza during a fire. What a nauseating man.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Of course they did, and as someone who's been in front of many juries as an attorney I'll tell you why: jurors hate government overreach more than anything, and this case was such a blindingly obvious instance of serious government overreach that everyone associated with it should probably be fired.
nbcnews.com
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It is possible that I have never seen a picture that better sums up a presidency.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I would definitely have no problem with it if someone won a major prize for that photograph
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