Ben Calabretta
@calabretta.bsky.social
Dad. Runner (injured). Board gamer. Lifelong Idahoan. Director of WSU Center for Civic Engagement.
MAGA are the snowflakiest of all snowflakes.
Cracker Barrel rebranded by removing the cracker. And the crackers in MAGA a big mad.
August 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
MAGA are the snowflakiest of all snowflakes.
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Thing I think about a lot
How long does it take people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?
How long does it take people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?
July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thing I think about a lot
How long does it take people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?
How long does it take people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?
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I’ll never forget when some dipshits on Twitter were ranting about Rage Against the Machine “going woke” like bro what the fuck machine did you think they were raging against?
July 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I’ll never forget when some dipshits on Twitter were ranting about Rage Against the Machine “going woke” like bro what the fuck machine did you think they were raging against?
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left without comment
July 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
left without comment
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I see this stuff all the time: Young guys insisting Democrats - who just last year had a football coach running for vice president - are telling men not to watch sports.
Just completely made up.
Just completely made up.
June 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I see this stuff all the time: Young guys insisting Democrats - who just last year had a football coach running for vice president - are telling men not to watch sports.
Just completely made up.
Just completely made up.
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Public Lands. What we all lose if sold off: access to your favorite trout stream, your elk camp, freedom to hike & roam, make a wilderness camp & watch the aurora borealis, listening to a wolf pack howling at first light, gathering morels & huckleberries. List goes on & on. KEEP IT PUBLIC!!!
June 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Public Lands. What we all lose if sold off: access to your favorite trout stream, your elk camp, freedom to hike & roam, make a wilderness camp & watch the aurora borealis, listening to a wolf pack howling at first light, gathering morels & huckleberries. List goes on & on. KEEP IT PUBLIC!!!
I guess the “women are too emotional to lead” stuff was all bullshit?
June 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I guess the “women are too emotional to lead” stuff was all bullshit?
My daughter has been joining us for a few trail runs on Moscow Mountain recently and it’s been awesome!
June 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
My daughter has been joining us for a few trail runs on Moscow Mountain recently and it’s been awesome!
This is a Christ Church sub-skeet
** Evidence You Might Be In A Cult **
You follow one charismatic Leader.
In your Leader’s mind, your Leader can do no wrong.
In your mind, your Leader can do no wrong.
Your Leader demonizes dissidents & outsiders.
Loyalty's the ultimate measure of your devotion.
You don't know you're in a Cult
You follow one charismatic Leader.
In your Leader’s mind, your Leader can do no wrong.
In your mind, your Leader can do no wrong.
Your Leader demonizes dissidents & outsiders.
Loyalty's the ultimate measure of your devotion.
You don't know you're in a Cult
May 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is a Christ Church sub-skeet
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NEW: This small North Idaho town kept to itself. Then a church asked the U.S. government to intervene.
“I sent an email to the Justice Department,” said Matt Meyer, an elder in the Christ the Redeemer church. “I said, … ‘I think I’m being discriminated against.’”
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
“I sent an email to the Justice Department,” said Matt Meyer, an elder in the Christ the Redeemer church. “I said, … ‘I think I’m being discriminated against.’”
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
This small North Idaho town kept to itself. Then a Christian nationalist church asked the U.S. Government to intervene
TROY, Idaho – The streets are usually calm in this town of less than a thousand people a dozen miles east of Moscow.
www.spokesman.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
NEW: This small North Idaho town kept to itself. Then a church asked the U.S. government to intervene.
“I sent an email to the Justice Department,” said Matt Meyer, an elder in the Christ the Redeemer church. “I said, … ‘I think I’m being discriminated against.’”
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
“I sent an email to the Justice Department,” said Matt Meyer, an elder in the Christ the Redeemer church. “I said, … ‘I think I’m being discriminated against.’”
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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Voting for good folks in Latah County
May 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Voting for good folks in Latah County
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Just got word that our AmeriCorps programs (in Washington) are terminated. On a Friday night. Cowards.
April 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Just got word that our AmeriCorps programs (in Washington) are terminated. On a Friday night. Cowards.
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April 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Frantically watching the end of Trading Places to learn about the stock market!
a man in a suit and tie is surrounded by other people .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is surrounded by other people .
media.tenor.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Frantically watching the end of Trading Places to learn about the stock market!
Turns out the odds were not good…
What are the odds that enough Supreme Court Justices believe we shouldn't put people in foreign torture prisons without due process & especially when the government misrepresents the evidence it has in briefs it submits to the Court?
April 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Turns out the odds were not good…
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me, an american, watching yet another country hold a criminal leader accountable
March 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
me, an american, watching yet another country hold a criminal leader accountable
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I’m going to be angry for a very long time about how this time in history made it feel like being a good person was somehow political
March 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I’m going to be angry for a very long time about how this time in history made it feel like being a good person was somehow political