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Ben the Hammerhead

@benhammerhead.bsky.social

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Young Boomer-Old Gen Xer, polyglot, former exPat, multi-cultural. Love most shit posting snark & will otherwise call out bullshit. Also a news junkie. He/him cis gay(bi) partnered. +18 only I block crypto pushers on sight.

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · Jun 29

Want to know what will be the most common phrase going forward?

“We didn’t think they’d do that”

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 2h

Caveat being:

Except for when it comes to charging these goons from the DoJ with contempt of court

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h

NEWS: "Donald Trump is a pedophile who routinely raped young girls."

MAGA: "So boring."

NEWS: "Donald Trump is allowing Qatar to build an air force base in Idaho.”

MAGA: “This is IMMORAL! What an outrage!!! I will not stand for this wicked behavior!!!”

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Mr. Friend @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 2h

For all you who reference that we likely have Anne Franks in our country, allow me to remove all doubt.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 2h

Except for when Miller said “I” and “plenary” in the same interview

that wasn’t too secret

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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LauraD-in-Indy @laurad-in-indy.bsky.social · 2h

I've said it dozens of times. City government should put up live cams around the ICE facilities, the downtown area, and have them broadcast live feed, 24/7, on the city's website so people can go look for themselves whenever they wish.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

If I lived in Portland I’d be filming daily videos of the reality there and sending them to every single person in my contacts.

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 2h

Yup the Über-rich know now they are at that level of relative wealth that the concept of govt & law is meaningless to them

and they’re just starting to flaunt it, sincerely flaunting history’s lessons too.

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 3h

Oh shit, this is how they'll take over America

We borked our economic system so badly that the extremely rich have now become out-of-this-world rich. They're just going to buy up and wingify everything that matters.

Twitter cost nothing to Musk - he's destroyed 2/3 of its value and he's ecstatic

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 6h

Dominion Voting Systems, once at the center of 2020 election conspiracies, has been sold to a firm run by a former Republican elections official promising to “restore trust in voting.” Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to do it.

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 2h

I think this made me gag

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

Trump launched the TrumpRX website today.

It has a photo of Trump and an AI-generated family with too many fingers and mangled toes.

TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

AI art really has become the aesthetic of grifters and fascists.

gizmodo.com

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Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 2d

My decision,
Never yours,
Thank you for respecting this.

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 2h

The only glimmer in this is they are 4000 plus collateral & family voters

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 5h

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 3h

trump take xmas presents.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6h

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 2h

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

Already cooked. This is gonna be how they stop people posting about the genocide when Larry Ellison and the boys take over the US algorithm

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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I've got a dad back @dadback.bsky.social · 7d

French dudes be like Breaux

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h

Odd, how Laura Loomer has to speculate about what Hell must be like, whereas anyone who has ever had to spend time with her does not.

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 4h

He is the shadow president after all

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 4h

Great composition

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h

You know this was an AI call. I'm sure Miller and company did do this and Trump thought it was real. I don't even think he's lying. I think they're just feeding him a bunch of AI crap hour after hour.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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BooSlice👻🔪 @twosense.bsky.social · 4h

Unsolicited lick pic

Woman being licked across her eyes by a cow

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 4h

This has all the “Mission accomplished” aura

A statement, planned, scripted & scheduled for today penciled in back months ago

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 4h

He says what Miller tells him to say

Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 4h

a slightly bigger Chihuly, in Tacoma

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