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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 · 6h

My friend’s cat

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 7h

As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.

The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 7h

Heritage wants one party & one party only.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

“They’re all Antifa now”

Laura Ingraham screenshot that reads: THEY'RE ALL ANTIFA
NGL
NOW
DEMS MELT UNDER PRESSURE
THE ANGLE ALERT

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

Hello?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27d

I'd list all the things Jack Posobiec is known for, but I think it would get me banned on Bluesky in the current environment of automated moderation.

Let's just say he has an extensive page at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Anyway, CBS News is talking with Posobiec about his friend Charlie Kirk.

YouTube screenshot of Face the Nation from CBS News: Jack Posobiec reflects on the life of his friend Charlie Kirk

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Sickening.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 7h

Just a reminder that Jack published a book last year called “unhumans” that makes the argument that all Democrats and anyone left of Francisco Franco should be rounded up and murdered en mass for the rest of the populations entertainment.
Jack is a Nazi and hell bent on the murder of his opponents

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 10h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 8h

Coming around to the theory that they're Truman Showing him

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h

Hamas and Israel have agreed to implement the first phase of the Gaza peace plan. Qatari media says that includes the release of the 20 living hostages in one go. Sky News Arabia says it will also include an Israeli withdrawal from 70% of the Gaza Strip.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 7h

This is not appropriate behavior. And I realize many of you who are fans of Katie Porter are very frustrated by what feels like a sexist double standard in how her anger is covered vs. Trump, but you can't tell me this is appropriate behavior toward staff.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

Porter in the July 2021 video call exclusively obtained by POLITICO also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social · 7h

To him, they were.

www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/episode-38...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 9h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

Jack Posobiec made his name popularizing the Pizzagate scandal. Nothing he says should be taken seriously.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h

Jack Posobiec speaks at the "Antifa Roundtable" and immediately references the Weimar Republic. He's a nazi.

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 10h

Speak up, Mister President. We have. Why haven't you?

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 9h

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 10h

That smile ain’t shy

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 13h

Tapirs are horse-adjacent, but are often underestimated because a) they're pretty shy in the wild, and b) their legs are much shorter so they appear small, though they're the biggest native land animal in the Americas, south of Mexico City.

Photo of Chupi, a lowland tapir. It's mainly his head that's visible, as he looks over a partition in his stall, eyeing a half-eaten breakfast sandwich (biscuit with cheese and egg?) in a person's hand, in the foreground. Chupi has a long snout, and large white teeth are visible as his lips are pulled back a bit.
Photo by Chupi's keeper, bobrossfanclub15
https://www.reddit.com/r/tapirs/comments/cu1xut/when_youre_eating_a_nutritious_breakfast_but/

Chupi's keeper notes that Chupi found a package of Pop Tarts in their pocket and has been checking for snacks ever since.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Attorney General Pam Bondi: “Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa. Destroy the entire organisation from top to bottom. We're going to take them apart."

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11h

We mention concerns around this last week covering the Heritage Foundation's push to classify "transgenderism" as an indicator of terrorist threat. How many FBI agents can they get to stop digging into ideologically aligned bad guys?

www.wired.com/story/herita...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 13h

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 13h

Producing narrative footage

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13h

MAGA is freaking out & splintering over a leaked text chain—which TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet says is real—where Kirk wrote “Just lost another Jewish donor…Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot & will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” 1/

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 14h

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 14h

It is a Miller production after all.
We watch as they performatively haul away a Governor on federal charges?
We watch as troops stay longer than what the law allows?
Sue them? Write your congresspersons?

Protest

A Governor tho, what’s he to do? Bend to the extortion? He’ll be in jail.Self exile?