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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 6h

Never forget the old world adversaries stirring this pot behind the scenes. A nudge here, a poke there, just the right misinfo in just the right spot.

We didn't get here alone. We were HERDED, like fucking SHEEP, by ancient grinning oversea jackals sharpening their teeth and measuring our entrails.

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 6h

that's not true you fucking foreign bot. get the fuck out of our politics you fucking satanic robo-mud-bitch. #bot

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 6h

The shoe.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 8h

Tracking down and unmasking these people will be the life’s work of many great Americans. The next generation of Nazi Hunters will have been raised on video games and online dating. Your masks will barely slow us down, motherfuckers.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 8h

hey, can you do me a favor and answer the parenthetical question that I just asked her?

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 8h

even coworkers who hate each other still have to text each other for (oh and btw aruac3po?) normal work related stuff. do you think they should be cussing each other out while they text each other to ask if that parking spot is taken or is the bathroom still out of order?

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 9h

american history students in the future will read excerpts of these transcripts for homework

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19h

Remember when the Boston Globe ran this supposedly over-the-top front page to attack the idea of Trump ever being president, and now this is just the news every day? We've fallen so, so far because of this man

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 9h

he's like a bitchy HOA committee chair who is abusing roberts rules to keep new people from being able to speak at his meetings.

what does whether the senate is voting on something matter to the house? you're supposed to be two independent legislative bodies.
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Speaker Mike Johnson is not planning to allow Democrats’ newest congresswoman-elect to be sworn-in until her party agrees to end the government shutdown, despite telling CNN earlier Tuesday that he wo...

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 9h

Hey @Europe. When this happened to y'all, 75+ M people died. We're doing okay so far in comparison - we still have freedom of speech and assembly, for now, and we're using them - but we wouldn't mind your help over here. Send journalists and maybe shutdown assistance, yeah? Food, rent, legal aid?

Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 10h

rUab0t

Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 10h

y'all, Nick Freitas in Culpeper used to compare us to Stalin just for supporting the medicaid expansion.

Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 10h

the VAGOP is about to spend seven figures whining about their AG being compared to stalin, hitler, and pol pot.

All while the news coverage is dominated by the anti-obamacare shutdown, Stephen Miller's face, masked secret police rounding up the UnAmericans, and Texan militiamen invading Chicago.

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 10h

so Bernie made the same joke in 2018. It was in the Office. it goes at least as far back as the 1950s Dodgers about a guy who's now in the Hall of Fame. It's a nothingberger. If anything, it's a back-handed compliment.

The child-murder stuff I frankly don't believe. Too many bots spreading it.

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