James Benton
@jamesbenton.bsky.social
Tall, white male working on my privilege, listening more. Father of 3 boys, married to a genius academic. I like efficiency, but also like caring about people. Both are possible! Gen Xr who resents needing "readers" or "my" music labeled "classic!"
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Rep. Moskowitz: "Trump's name appears more times in the Epstein files than God's name appears in the book about God, by the way, this is the Trump Bible."
Bondi: "Nothing is funny about mocking the Bible and holding up a Trump Bible."
Bondi: "Nothing is funny about mocking the Bible and holding up a Trump Bible."
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Rep. Moskowitz: "Trump's name appears more times in the Epstein files than God's name appears in the book about God, by the way, this is the Trump Bible."
Bondi: "Nothing is funny about mocking the Bible and holding up a Trump Bible."
Bondi: "Nothing is funny about mocking the Bible and holding up a Trump Bible."
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Pamela Jo is in a contest with Jim Jordan as to who can yell the loudest in an indoor room.
February 11, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Pamela Jo is in a contest with Jim Jordan as to who can yell the loudest in an indoor room.
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Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"
February 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"
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Abolish ICE is the floor, not the ceiling.
You can't reform something which is completely broken and corrupt. You need to tear it down.
Democrats not on board with this aren't your allies. They will betray you and your communities in the future.
You can't reform something which is completely broken and corrupt. You need to tear it down.
Democrats not on board with this aren't your allies. They will betray you and your communities in the future.
January 26, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Abolish ICE is the floor, not the ceiling.
You can't reform something which is completely broken and corrupt. You need to tear it down.
Democrats not on board with this aren't your allies. They will betray you and your communities in the future.
You can't reform something which is completely broken and corrupt. You need to tear it down.
Democrats not on board with this aren't your allies. They will betray you and your communities in the future.
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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Mike Johnson, John Thune, and guys like this should not be able to walk into the Capitol without being bombarded with media questions about why they are not fulfilling their oaths & why they are allowing the lawless authoritarianism to continue. And yet, every day, total 🦗🦗...
January 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Mike Johnson, John Thune, and guys like this should not be able to walk into the Capitol without being bombarded with media questions about why they are not fulfilling their oaths & why they are allowing the lawless authoritarianism to continue. And yet, every day, total 🦗🦗...
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Being America first means sending money to Venezuela and Greenland instead of New York and supporting Iranian protesters, but not American ones.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Being America first means sending money to Venezuela and Greenland instead of New York and supporting Iranian protesters, but not American ones.
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This needs to happen, and the only way it happens is if we're prepared to treat as null and void the inevitable blanket pardons. A coherent account of how and why they're invalid, and the political will to do what it takes to make that stick.
"Should the opposition ever regain power, it should commit to prosecuting members of this regime at every level to the fullest extent of the law."
The Distance Between Renee Good and Ashli Babbitt Is Fascism
It’s not a hypocrisy. It’s a coherent worldview.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
This needs to happen, and the only way it happens is if we're prepared to treat as null and void the inevitable blanket pardons. A coherent account of how and why they're invalid, and the political will to do what it takes to make that stick.
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The woman murdered by an ICE agent today is the *seventh* person shot by immigration officials since September, and the second killed.
January 7, 2026 at 10:02 PM
The woman murdered by an ICE agent today is the *seventh* person shot by immigration officials since September, and the second killed.
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Dear Military members,
I know you know this already, but you are not supposed to follow illegal orders.
Dear Pete Hegseth,
Demote me.
I know you know this already, but you are not supposed to follow illegal orders.
Dear Pete Hegseth,
Demote me.
January 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Dear Military members,
I know you know this already, but you are not supposed to follow illegal orders.
Dear Pete Hegseth,
Demote me.
I know you know this already, but you are not supposed to follow illegal orders.
Dear Pete Hegseth,
Demote me.
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Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer...
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer...
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
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This morning the very evil President of the USA very predictably mocked the death of a good man. He did so to distract from his crimes, but also because he’s evil and can’t help rejoicing over the murder of his critics.
Go ahead, Donold. Have your fun, when life is done, a nightmare waits for you.
Go ahead, Donold. Have your fun, when life is done, a nightmare waits for you.
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This morning the very evil President of the USA very predictably mocked the death of a good man. He did so to distract from his crimes, but also because he’s evil and can’t help rejoicing over the murder of his critics.
Go ahead, Donold. Have your fun, when life is done, a nightmare waits for you.
Go ahead, Donold. Have your fun, when life is done, a nightmare waits for you.
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Extremely cold air affects millions of people across the United States every winter. This Arctic air, together with brisk winds, can lead to dangerously cold wind chill values, which can cause your body to lose heat quickly.
Learn more: weather.gov/safety/cold-wind-chill-chart
Learn more: weather.gov/safety/cold-wind-chill-chart
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Extremely cold air affects millions of people across the United States every winter. This Arctic air, together with brisk winds, can lead to dangerously cold wind chill values, which can cause your body to lose heat quickly.
Learn more: weather.gov/safety/cold-wind-chill-chart
Learn more: weather.gov/safety/cold-wind-chill-chart
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Only one person in today's Jeffrey Epstein photo dump is an adjudicated rapist who refused to give his DNA in that case and has over two dozen accusations of sexual assault including one from his first wife. It's also the same guy who bragged about sexual assault on a hot mic.
It’s this pos👇🏼
It’s this pos👇🏼
December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Only one person in today's Jeffrey Epstein photo dump is an adjudicated rapist who refused to give his DNA in that case and has over two dozen accusations of sexual assault including one from his first wife. It's also the same guy who bragged about sexual assault on a hot mic.
It’s this pos👇🏼
It’s this pos👇🏼
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🔥Rep. Bennie Thompson to Noem: “You have put your own interests ahead of the department and violated the law. You are making 🇺🇸 less safe. I call on you to resign— do a real service to the country. That is, if Trump doesn’t fire you first.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🔥Rep. Bennie Thompson to Noem: “You have put your own interests ahead of the department and violated the law. You are making 🇺🇸 less safe. I call on you to resign— do a real service to the country. That is, if Trump doesn’t fire you first.”
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.”
- US Supreme Court
- US Supreme Court
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.”
- US Supreme Court
- US Supreme Court
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Trump was getting very, very sleepy at his Cabinet meeting
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump was getting very, very sleepy at his Cabinet meeting
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Megyn Kelly said she thinks “there’s a difference between a 5 year old and a 15 year old” when it comes to sexual abuse. Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter. Megyn Kelly is going to Hell.
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Megyn Kelly said she thinks “there’s a difference between a 5 year old and a 15 year old” when it comes to sexual abuse. Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter. Megyn Kelly is going to Hell.