BentoniusRex
@bentoniusrex.bsky.social
Retired from Dept. of English at Eastern Oregon University. Author of “Sailor” and “The Book of Sympathetic Magic.” Navy vet, and unapologetic liberal. Please, no DMs
Then now would be a good time to ramp up some contempt charges . . . Then enforce them.
This Is Good, But ICE Will Ignore It….
HUGE VICTORY: A judge just ruled EVERYONE picked up by ICE is entitled to a bond hearing in front of a judge – no more disappearing people into indefinite detention, for no reason. 👏 GOOD.
HUGE VICTORY: A judge just ruled EVERYONE picked up by ICE is entitled to a bond hearing in front of a judge – no more disappearing people into indefinite detention, for no reason. 👏 GOOD.
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Then now would be a good time to ramp up some contempt charges . . . Then enforce them.
They do. But the plain fact is you can’t teach writing in a semester. Your experience shows that you were a motivated student. Congratulations for your success. 👍🏼
Do they not do assessment testing and remedial courses anymore? As a high school dropout, I didn't know how to write when I got to college either, but they deduced that and helped me to correct it.
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
They do. But the plain fact is you can’t teach writing in a semester. Your experience shows that you were a motivated student. Congratulations for your success. 👍🏼
The whole chain is guilty. From Hegseth to the sailor who pushed the button. “Just following orders “ is not a defense.
Someone (almost certainly multiple people) in the US Navy's chain-of-command clearly committed murder as defined by both international law and US military code. Was it Trump? Was it Hegseth? Admiral Frank Bradley? Subordinates? Do not let this go.
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The whole chain is guilty. From Hegseth to the sailor who pushed the button. “Just following orders “ is not a defense.
It’s not the first time we’ve had a war criminal at the helm, but never one this pathetically, recklessly stupid.
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It’s not the first time we’ve had a war criminal at the helm, but never one this pathetically, recklessly stupid.
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Obscenity
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Obscenity
Do it. Name and shame all perps.
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Do it. Name and shame all perps.
I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly shared state voter-registration data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite earlier assurances to state election officials that the information would only be used for routine voter-list maintenance. Beginning in May 2025, DOJ
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
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Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.
While we’re at it, can we ban headlines the use the words “bombshell” or “all hell breaks loose .”
'Tis the season never to write "'Tis the season" in any headline, ad copy, whatever.
Burn it like a Yule log.
Burn it like a Yule log.
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
While we’re at it, can we ban headlines the use the words “bombshell” or “all hell breaks loose .”
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This is the smartest thing I've read in ages. By the end I was practically cheering. Every word.
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is the smartest thing I've read in ages. By the end I was practically cheering. Every word.
Chip Roy was soooo close. Yes, Chip, the problem is that insurance companies are rakin' in the bacon, so isn't the solution to cut out the middleman and just get to single-payer like every other civilized country? It's about health CARE, not health INSURANCE.
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Chip Roy was soooo close. Yes, Chip, the problem is that insurance companies are rakin' in the bacon, so isn't the solution to cut out the middleman and just get to single-payer like every other civilized country? It's about health CARE, not health INSURANCE.
What was that? Like, two or three hundred people? It’s nice, but let’s not get in front of our skis here.
WOW: California Gov. Gavin Newsom gets a rock star welcome in Houston, Texas — greeted by cheering crowds lined up outside his rally today.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
What was that? Like, two or three hundred people? It’s nice, but let’s not get in front of our skis here.
That would be ideal.
Johnson: "If we lose the majority… They will try to end the Trump administration. He won't have 4 years. He'll have only 2, because they will move to impeach him, probably on the first day of the new Congress in January 2027 and try to systematically unwind all the important reforms that we've done"
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
That would be ideal.
So no mention of Texas, Missouri, etc?
Mike Johnson on California's Prop 50: "It was a sign of desperation on the Democrat Party. It was a game to rig the election."
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
So no mention of Texas, Missouri, etc?
I got heat from my deeply Republican family for referring to it as “the Cheney administration.” I stand by that characterization.
Cheney, who served under President George W Bush, is widely considered as the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney Dies At 84
Cheney, who served under President George W Bush, is widely considered as the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.forbes.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I got heat from my deeply Republican family for referring to it as “the Cheney administration.” I stand by that characterization.
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The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.
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I know atheists who act more Christian than people who call themselves Christian, but cut SNAP funding.
I'm so disappointed in THIS America right now.
I'm so disappointed in THIS America right now.
November 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I know atheists who act more Christian than people who call themselves Christian, but cut SNAP funding.
I'm so disappointed in THIS America right now.
I'm so disappointed in THIS America right now.
Exactly.
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Exactly.
I doubt he’ll make it to the end of this term.
Senator Tuberville Says Trump ‘Might Be Able To Go Around the Constitution’ To Serve Third Term
www.mediaite.com
Senator Tuberville Says Trump ‘Might Be Able To Go Around the Constitution’ To Serve Third Term
twp.ai
October 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I doubt he’ll make it to the end of this term.
Given all the things he should know about but doesn’t, he has to be the most pig-ignorant speaker we ever had.
Q: What's your reaction to yesterday's purge of senior ICE officials? When is it time for Congress to do some oversight?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Given all the things he should know about but doesn’t, he has to be the most pig-ignorant speaker we ever had.
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Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor!
October 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor!
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
I was JUST thinking the same thing.
Thought experiment, how much of the White House could the president tear down before anyone in power did anything meaningful to stop it? Like if he just kept going?
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I was JUST thinking the same thing.
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