Jenny Benny
@jennybenni.bsky.social
coffee drinker, lawyer, language learner. Formerly toastie twitter. Professionally boring. she/her.
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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
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If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...
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Everything.
Everything is up for grabs
And be ANNOYING ABOUT IT
They are on the ba k foot and people are voting yo the LEFT of the Dem platform
Ask for what you WANT not just what you think you can get
Everything is up for grabs
And be ANNOYING ABOUT IT
They are on the ba k foot and people are voting yo the LEFT of the Dem platform
Ask for what you WANT not just what you think you can get
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Everything.
Everything is up for grabs
And be ANNOYING ABOUT IT
They are on the ba k foot and people are voting yo the LEFT of the Dem platform
Ask for what you WANT not just what you think you can get
Everything is up for grabs
And be ANNOYING ABOUT IT
They are on the ba k foot and people are voting yo the LEFT of the Dem platform
Ask for what you WANT not just what you think you can get
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pretty much no reasonable person actually expected Democrats to outright win this election in Tennessee, folks
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
pretty much no reasonable person actually expected Democrats to outright win this election in Tennessee, folks
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Note that these lines quite deliberately divide Black majority precincts among the districts. This map would never have passed scrutiny under the pre-Roberts Voting Rights Act.
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Note that these lines quite deliberately divide Black majority precincts among the districts. This map would never have passed scrutiny under the pre-Roberts Voting Rights Act.
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i've had a couple of whiskeys so either i'm going to have more and get into details or have more and avoid details but
the GOP and GOP-aligned groups continue to flail in local/state elections that they have openly invested in, deeply, and when they win by inches it's a huge sign of actual loss
the GOP and GOP-aligned groups continue to flail in local/state elections that they have openly invested in, deeply, and when they win by inches it's a huge sign of actual loss
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
i've had a couple of whiskeys so either i'm going to have more and get into details or have more and avoid details but
the GOP and GOP-aligned groups continue to flail in local/state elections that they have openly invested in, deeply, and when they win by inches it's a huge sign of actual loss
the GOP and GOP-aligned groups continue to flail in local/state elections that they have openly invested in, deeply, and when they win by inches it's a huge sign of actual loss
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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We are as a cultural completely forgetting how to grey rock and what successful bystander intervention is
"Sources in the Trump administration have previously told Zeteo that officials will at times intentionally use popular music from vocally anti-Trump performing artists, in order to trigger a negative response from a famous liberal and provide further amplification of their pervasive culture war,"
NEWS: The Trump-Vance White House is attacking Sabrina Carpenter.
In a new statement, the White House — led by Trump, a liable sexual abuser mired in scandal for ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — suggests Carpenter is "stupid" and is defending pedophiles and rapists.
@swin24.bsky.social reports:
In a new statement, the White House — led by Trump, a liable sexual abuser mired in scandal for ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — suggests Carpenter is "stupid" and is defending pedophiles and rapists.
@swin24.bsky.social reports:
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We are as a cultural completely forgetting how to grey rock and what successful bystander intervention is
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Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.
What a racist piece of shit.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.
What a racist piece of shit.
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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You may have heard that DOGE is dead.
Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
You may have heard that DOGE is dead.
Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
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This piece hit hard for me, as it tracks with why my daughter stopped playing soccer at recess. The boys wouldn't let the girls play with them--only against them and with fewer players. But when girls scored anyway, some boys would cheat and play to hurt the girls, to the point where it wasn't fun.
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This piece hit hard for me, as it tracks with why my daughter stopped playing soccer at recess. The boys wouldn't let the girls play with them--only against them and with fewer players. But when girls scored anyway, some boys would cheat and play to hurt the girls, to the point where it wasn't fun.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites
The Gallatin City-County Health Department has confirmed a second case of measles in Gallatin County, with the latest case identified on Dec. 1, 2025.This foll
nbcmontana.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
The OP had a follow-up post with another AI rendering that is also bad
December 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The OP had a follow-up post with another AI rendering that is also bad
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they're literally just LARPing as the federal government i hate them all so much
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
they're literally just LARPing as the federal government i hate them all so much
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and trying very hard to get everyone to use it interchangeably with "Latino"
A minor point lost in all this is that "narcoterrorism" was nominally coined to describe people like Pablo Escobar who were literally using their drug enterprises to commit bombings/mass murder but the DoD is just using it interchangeably with trafficking
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
and trying very hard to get everyone to use it interchangeably with "Latino"
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I think it’s significant that right after the line that Andrew Solender and his Axios editor turned into a headline, Jeffries noted that the statute of limitations will run out long after Trump is out of office. We’ve been asking them to say this. That’s not mentioned in this piece.
In fairness to Jeffries, the headline makes it seem worse. He said specifically "Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor of the House of Representatives, and we know that's the case." He's not wrong.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I think it’s significant that right after the line that Andrew Solender and his Axios editor turned into a headline, Jeffries noted that the statute of limitations will run out long after Trump is out of office. We’ve been asking them to say this. That’s not mentioned in this piece.
This one's my favorite so far
I named my fists Shawn and Gus or Gus and Shawn. I've heard it both ways.
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This one's my favorite so far
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I named my fists Shawn and Gus or Gus and Shawn. I've heard it both ways.
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
I named my fists Gilbert and Sullivan because they are slaves to duty
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I named my fists Shawn and Gus or Gus and Shawn. I've heard it both ways.
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There's an old 'joke' that's not a joke and I don't recall who came up with it
but it was said that anyone who decided they must launch weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear weapons
should be required to knife to death the person with the codes to get those codes, because it's that serious.
but it was said that anyone who decided they must launch weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear weapons
should be required to knife to death the person with the codes to get those codes, because it's that serious.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
There's an old 'joke' that's not a joke and I don't recall who came up with it
but it was said that anyone who decided they must launch weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear weapons
should be required to knife to death the person with the codes to get those codes, because it's that serious.
but it was said that anyone who decided they must launch weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear weapons
should be required to knife to death the person with the codes to get those codes, because it's that serious.
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things are going to get worse before they get worse
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
things are going to get worse before they get worse
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PLEASE I can't stress enough how important this is.
PRO TIP
If you have YouTubers you like and follow and watch their videos a lot
leave innane/positive comments on their videos. The algo is all fucked up for YT creators and a lot of videos get sent to the void for whatever reason.
I hate doing it, but I've been trying to do it.
If you have YouTubers you like and follow and watch their videos a lot
leave innane/positive comments on their videos. The algo is all fucked up for YT creators and a lot of videos get sent to the void for whatever reason.
I hate doing it, but I've been trying to do it.
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
PLEASE I can't stress enough how important this is.