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Ryan M Benton
@courtesytone.bsky.social
Kansas native. drums+recording+mixing @CourtesyTone
Here to join communities with people who value facts, science, history, and humility.
Maybe stop calling them “federal agents” when there’s not a single shred of identifiable evidence to support that title?
June 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The hardware version of Truth Social. With this he’ll be able to communicate directly with his cult members. He will no longer use the media to deliver his Nazi marching orders.
CNBC - A company owned by President Trump announces it own branded Trump Mobile cell phone service and will sell a "T1" smartphone, featuring gold-colored metal case etched with an American flag. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/trump-mobile-phone-plan.html
June 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
oops my gestapo was taking my slaves
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Private prison companies arresting duly elected officials. The people no longer run our own country, they're treating us like occupied territory after we lost a war
Alina Habba, Trump’s personal lawyer and now the interim U.S. attorney for NJ, announces that the Trump administration has arrested the mayor of Newark at an private prison that ICE had decently contracted as a detention center. His arrest is seemingly for trespass.
May 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I knew when we booked the flight to see Soul Coughing in Nashville last month that it would likely be our last flight for a good long while…because….*gestures wildly*

I am SO grateful I was able to see that show! Thank you @soulcoughing.bsky.social It was incredible!
Federal transportation safety officials were investigating on Friday after two commercial flights aborted landings because an Army helicopter had entered the airspace around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, where helicopter traffic has been restricted since a fatal collision in January.
2 Planes Abort Landings as Army Helicopter Flies Near D.C. Airport
The episode followed a fatal collision between a military helicopter and a commercial jet in January, and prompted concern and outrage among officials.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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April 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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It’s Election Day, Canada.

Go vote Canada Strong.
April 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
how is there a career rapist convict thug kidnapping and disappearing kids with cancer? i mean seriously how in the actual fuck?
April 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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with gratitude for the opportunity to share the urgency of this moment—
April 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It is and has been transnational organized crime.
April 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Tech Fascists: We shall weaken the nation, destroy the economy, replace the dollar with crypto, replace people with AI, and create new Network State cities everywhere.

Normie Journalists: Folks, this is total chaos and incompetence with no structure or plan.
April 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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If we were conquered and under hostile occupation, what would the government do differently? Would an occupation government that wanted to crush the United States as a vibrant, prosperous country with influence around the world do anything differently?
April 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing.

But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.
March 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
These fuck face klansmen know they would lose every single election if everyone that wanted to vote could vote easily and have their ballot fairly counted.
Kansas voters lose grace period for late-arriving mail ballots after Republicans override Gov. Kelly’s veto.
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
March 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
March 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Talked with @andersoncooper360.bsky.social about what is, and what IS NOT, DEI. And what Trump & his confederates are trying to accomplish with erasing the accomplishments of non-white people, women and LGBTQ people.
March 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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israel is committing genocide against palestine and the foundation of the united states is being torn apart to punish the people who think this is bad.
March 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
How would one describe a government shutdown if everyone in the government has already been fired?
March 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Standard & Poor’s index just means everyone being poor will be standard.
March 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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❗️Cover of the Slovak magazine Týždeň
March 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Meme in real life
March 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Bear in mind, when reading Alito's petulant dissent, that the monies involved are payment owed for work already completed. In this sense, I guess I "lost forever" the money I paid to have my bathroom remodeled.

It's a very Trumpian move to stiff contractors after they've already done the work.
March 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A small joy is shouting “I’LL GET IT!!” real loud when your kitchen timer goes off like 80’s/90’s dads did when the land line rang.
March 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM