Caitlin Benedetto
@caitlinb.bsky.social
Puzzle enthusiast and amateur baker (she/her)
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."
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A YouTuber with sub-175k followers did a far more extensive dive into the white supremacist right-wing influencer they profiled, his manufactured controversy and falsehoods, and the broader context than the NYT. Come on youtu.be/iZAdiZEIuMM?...
February 3, 2026 at 10:15 PM
A YouTuber with sub-175k followers did a far more extensive dive into the white supremacist right-wing influencer they profiled, his manufactured controversy and falsehoods, and the broader context than the NYT. Come on youtu.be/iZAdiZEIuMM?...
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Even if they release body cam footage, take off their masks, get more training, they are still responsible for detaining and deporting thousands of our family, friends & neighbors every day.
ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.
ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.
Contracted ICE employee pleads guilty to sexual abuse of female detainee
An contracted employee has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a female detainee at a Louisiana ICE processing center. He now awaits sentencing.
www.shreveporttimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Even if they release body cam footage, take off their masks, get more training, they are still responsible for detaining and deporting thousands of our family, friends & neighbors every day.
ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.
ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.
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Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN
Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
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Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
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PSA: they are not the "American Gestapo" b/c this vicious, lawless, death-squad behavior is NOT an import. it's homegrown, as Black and Indigenous writers on here have been pointing out. "Abolish ICE" is a radical solution in the sense that it goes to the root.
$0 for abduction, torture, killing.
$0 for abduction, torture, killing.
January 25, 2026 at 4:03 AM
PSA: they are not the "American Gestapo" b/c this vicious, lawless, death-squad behavior is NOT an import. it's homegrown, as Black and Indigenous writers on here have been pointing out. "Abolish ICE" is a radical solution in the sense that it goes to the root.
$0 for abduction, torture, killing.
$0 for abduction, torture, killing.
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Hey friends, it's -15 degrees outside! In temps like this, exposed or improperly insulated skin can get frostbitten in as little as 10 minutes. Here's how you care for it if it happens.
First, you need to identify what level of frostbite you have!
First, you need to identify what level of frostbite you have!
January 23, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Hey friends, it's -15 degrees outside! In temps like this, exposed or improperly insulated skin can get frostbitten in as little as 10 minutes. Here's how you care for it if it happens.
First, you need to identify what level of frostbite you have!
First, you need to identify what level of frostbite you have!
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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I would like to vote for someone promising to remove the armed militias terrorizing our communities and children from our streets and prosecuting the offenders
An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol goons came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
January 8, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I would like to vote for someone promising to remove the armed militias terrorizing our communities and children from our streets and prosecuting the offenders
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there is no reason for ICE to exist. immigrants aren’t doing anything wrong by trying to live and work and provide for their loved ones. I don’t care how people got here. if they want to be here that’s good. leave them alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:22 AM
there is no reason for ICE to exist. immigrants aren’t doing anything wrong by trying to live and work and provide for their loved ones. I don’t care how people got here. if they want to be here that’s good. leave them alone.
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I WANT LEADERS AS ANGRY AS WE ARE
January 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I WANT LEADERS AS ANGRY AS WE ARE
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As far as I can tell, that person died trying to comply with orders to get out of the way, but even beyond that, I am from Chicago, where people have tailed and blocked ICE vehicles and very intentionally gotten in the way, and you know what? They shouldn't be free to kill us for resisting fascism.
January 7, 2026 at 8:24 PM
As far as I can tell, that person died trying to comply with orders to get out of the way, but even beyond that, I am from Chicago, where people have tailed and blocked ICE vehicles and very intentionally gotten in the way, and you know what? They shouldn't be free to kill us for resisting fascism.
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DHS and MAGA are spreading propaganda claiming the Minneapolis driver tried to run over ICE. That claim is completely false. Multiple videos from different angles (recorded by people on the scene) clearly show that this did not happen. ICE killed a US citizen. Justice is required for this killing.
January 7, 2026 at 8:58 PM
DHS and MAGA are spreading propaganda claiming the Minneapolis driver tried to run over ICE. That claim is completely false. Multiple videos from different angles (recorded by people on the scene) clearly show that this did not happen. ICE killed a US citizen. Justice is required for this killing.
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I wish for a world where Minneapolis does not have to repeatedly be a flashpoint for the most grotesque acts of fascist state violence. My heart breaks for the people of a city that deserves more than taxpayer-funded knees on necks and federal bullets through windshields.
January 7, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I wish for a world where Minneapolis does not have to repeatedly be a flashpoint for the most grotesque acts of fascist state violence. My heart breaks for the people of a city that deserves more than taxpayer-funded knees on necks and federal bullets through windshields.
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Bad news: we're to the stage of fascism where masked gestapo feel the license to just lean over and shoot civilians in the face.
Good news: Americans aren't putting up with it. The fascists are not ready for what's coming.
Good news: Americans aren't putting up with it. The fascists are not ready for what's coming.
January 7, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Bad news: we're to the stage of fascism where masked gestapo feel the license to just lean over and shoot civilians in the face.
Good news: Americans aren't putting up with it. The fascists are not ready for what's coming.
Good news: Americans aren't putting up with it. The fascists are not ready for what's coming.
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The shooter and Bovino have to be arrested. ICE murdered someone in broad daylight.
January 7, 2026 at 6:07 PM
The shooter and Bovino have to be arrested. ICE murdered someone in broad daylight.
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The most beautiful part about being an American is that my 9th great grandmother coming over on the fucking mayflower doesn’t make me any more American than anyone else.
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The most beautiful part about being an American is that my 9th great grandmother coming over on the fucking mayflower doesn’t make me any more American than anyone else.
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Since there seems to be a flurry of Yglesias discourse on here today, here is my take. He recently joined the moral panic over teaching about race--on the side of the racists. And he gets critical race theory wrong because he superficially engages with it.
A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Since there seems to be a flurry of Yglesias discourse on here today, here is my take. He recently joined the moral panic over teaching about race--on the side of the racists. And he gets critical race theory wrong because he superficially engages with it.
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*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...
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Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
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I‘ve been listening to Sarah Marshall’s The Devil You Know and it’s so great. She knows this stuff inside out and weaves a tale of so many subjects; the satanic panic (duh), evangelicalism, the patriarchy, media, so much more. Highly recommend.
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I‘ve been listening to Sarah Marshall’s The Devil You Know and it’s so great. She knows this stuff inside out and weaves a tale of so many subjects; the satanic panic (duh), evangelicalism, the patriarchy, media, so much more. Highly recommend.
I have been waiting so long for this day
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have been waiting so long for this day
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You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.