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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 28

Crazy. I definitely have a different perspective now… I got struck after I had already hunkered down for about 25 minutes and thought I was good to go. The first thing I noticed after peeling myself off the ground (besides pain) was the smell of the burning tree that was split in half next to me. 😬

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 28

The special part! It’s gorgeous and WELL MARKED. 😂 I also survived a lightening strike there last year. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 28

[insert Dinosaur Valley State Park here], just south of Fort Worth, Texas.

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 28

Strength train 2x/week. Run 3-4x/ week. All depends on how I’m feeling, and how the work schedule is dominating. 😂

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 28

On an off for 10 years, now that I think of it! 😳

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Jul 27

As the author of the law that empowers the U.S. government to sanction Chinese and other officials for cracking down on free speech in Hong Kong, I agree with Rubio.

Unfortunately, he has ZERO credibility after he locked up students in the U.S. for exercising free speech. (1/1)

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 26

😳

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 25

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 26

🎯

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 26

😂

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 26

Glad to see it!

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · Jul 26

Hundreds of protesters take to the streets in Scotland over Trump's golf visit www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Protesters Take To The Streets In Scotland Over Trump’s Golf Course Visit

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on the cobblestone and tree-lined street in front of the U.S. Consulate about 100 miles away in Edinburgh.

www.huffpost.com

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 26

Hundred percent.

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 26

Saturday swim lessons and donuts with our son are 2 of my most favorite things on this planet.

I guess not EVERYthing is getting worse by the hour.

Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 26

Dear lordt. 🙄

Nick Fish @nickfish.me · Jul 26

There are orders of magnitude more trans people than Republican legislators but this sort of shit seems to happen an awful lot more among the latter than the former. Weird.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Jul 26

Giovanni Capriglione, a right wing state rep in Texas who had an affair with a stripper, reportedly told his mistress that he wanted to ejaculate into batter for cookies that would be sold at his daughter's bake sale.

www.sacurrent.com/news/gop-tex...

Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 26

We don’t agree on everything, it on this we are 🤝

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · Jul 26

Why the relentless attacks on public schools and teachers? That question is what motivated me to write a book, WHY FASCISTS FEAR TEACHERS: Public Education and the Future of Democracy.

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 26

Everything is getting worse by the hour.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jul 26

The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.

US government is building a 5,000-person immigrant detention camp in west Texas

The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Jul 26

Scotland

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NOT TIM Boomer Sooner! @brandoneffdub.bsky.social · Jul 26

This reminds me of the old Christopher Hitchens quote about setting your watch and then waiting for a story like this to break.

Granted, he was talking about bible thumpers caught engaging or trying to get gay sex from somewhere, but this also applies here

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...

Ryan Walters' TV displayed "nude women" during a meeting. Now he's blaming the media.

The Oklahoma schools chief who crusades against smut now faces an investigation into his own explicit screen time

www.friendlyatheist.com

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Jul 26

😐 Here’s my surprised face.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Jul 26

It appears that the guy who is shoving bibles and the Ten Commandments into the curriculum in every classroom in Oklahoma and wants a "woke" test for teachers may have had his eyes wide open coveting other people's wives.

Oklahoma officials call for investigation after reports of nude images on Ryan Walters’ office TV

State officials are sounding off on allegations from State Board of Education members about nude images on a television in State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ office.

www.kgou.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 1

the constitution isn’t is a word game and the fact that you can abuse the language to produce an outcome does not mean the constitution allows that outcome. the 22nd amendment was ratified to restrict a president to two terms in office, period. that is what it does.

Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Mar 31

Anyone discounting a 3d Trump term per the 22d am + the 12th am is thinking magically: The 22d dsn’t bar *serving* a 3d term, only being *elected* 3 times. The 12th dsn’t bar running for VP unless “ineligible” to serve as Pres, but Trump isn’t ineligible. QED!

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term in Defiance of Constitution

In wide-ranging remarks to “Meet the Press,” Mr. Trump said “a lot of people” wanted him to serve a third term and vowed to impose tariffs on global rivals, according to a transcript of the interview ...

www.nytimes.com

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · Mar 31

I really enjoyed giving my political commentary today while it's still legal for women to make jokes.

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Ben @fakebenhall.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · Mar 26

Whenever I'm overwhelmed with everything, I do some deep breathing exercises and it does NOT help. I hope this helps.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · Mar 31

This is an absurd joke of a lawsuit that should be thrown out of court and every lawyer who had anything to do with the filing ought to be sanctioned by the Court and referred to the state bar for discipline.

Ryan Walters sues nonprofit that sent cease-and-desist letter over prayer in schools

State Superintendent Ryan Walters and the Oklahoma State Department of Education have filed a lawsuit against a nonprofit organization after receiving a cease-and-desist letter.

www.koco.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Mar 31

Can we permanently put to rest the myth that a businessman knows more how to manage the economy? Or do we have to wait for our economy’s collapse for some among us to grasp it?

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