Ben S
@mxytx.bsky.social
USA seems to be in the midst of social collapse 2025.
berkeleyearth.org: USA +1.7C now but +3.8C by 2100.
Add +1C planet-wide every 25 years, even higher over terrain. Not pretty for humans.
Sun, Wind, ideas like MEER.org can help.
berkeleyearth.org: USA +1.7C now but +3.8C by 2100.
Add +1C planet-wide every 25 years, even higher over terrain. Not pretty for humans.
Sun, Wind, ideas like MEER.org can help.
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
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Here's Greg Bovino lying and saying the US citizen arrested by unidentified ICE agents in MN should have been carrying "immigrantion documents per the INA", which is FALSE.
The INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) does NOT require U.S. citizens to carry proof of citizenship.
The INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) does NOT require U.S. citizens to carry proof of citizenship.
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Here's Greg Bovino lying and saying the US citizen arrested by unidentified ICE agents in MN should have been carrying "immigrantion documents per the INA", which is FALSE.
The INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) does NOT require U.S. citizens to carry proof of citizenship.
The INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) does NOT require U.S. citizens to carry proof of citizenship.
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Lawless, criminal behavior
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Lawless, criminal behavior
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
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After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained.
He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
trib.al/p9Edy6F
He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
trib.al/p9Edy6F
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained.
He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
trib.al/p9Edy6F
He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
trib.al/p9Edy6F
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🔴 A grandfather in northern Gaza says Israeli soldiers shot his 16-year-old grandson yesterday & then drove a tank over the child “four or five times,” crushing him in the street.
He says the family hasn’t known a moment of calm: “There are quadcopters every day and every night.”
X: @sahatenglish
He says the family hasn’t known a moment of calm: “There are quadcopters every day and every night.”
X: @sahatenglish
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🔴 A grandfather in northern Gaza says Israeli soldiers shot his 16-year-old grandson yesterday & then drove a tank over the child “four or five times,” crushing him in the street.
He says the family hasn’t known a moment of calm: “There are quadcopters every day and every night.”
X: @sahatenglish
He says the family hasn’t known a moment of calm: “There are quadcopters every day and every night.”
X: @sahatenglish
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Trump’s new executive order tries to eliminate state AI laws—in both red and blue states—that are protecting Americans from harmful deepfakes, scams, and online exploitation. We shouldn't remove the few protections Americans have as Congress fails to act.
December 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trump’s new executive order tries to eliminate state AI laws—in both red and blue states—that are protecting Americans from harmful deepfakes, scams, and online exploitation. We shouldn't remove the few protections Americans have as Congress fails to act.
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Why are being terrorized?
Why are we suffering price spikes & a #RepublicanHealthCareFailure & #ICELawlessness, with
masked men brutalizing & destroying families & massive job losses & loss of freedom & an eroding democracy?
It's because of an uninformed electorate.
Inform your friends.
Share. 🧵
Why are we suffering price spikes & a #RepublicanHealthCareFailure & #ICELawlessness, with
masked men brutalizing & destroying families & massive job losses & loss of freedom & an eroding democracy?
It's because of an uninformed electorate.
Inform your friends.
Share. 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Why are being terrorized?
Why are we suffering price spikes & a #RepublicanHealthCareFailure & #ICELawlessness, with
masked men brutalizing & destroying families & massive job losses & loss of freedom & an eroding democracy?
It's because of an uninformed electorate.
Inform your friends.
Share. 🧵
Why are we suffering price spikes & a #RepublicanHealthCareFailure & #ICELawlessness, with
masked men brutalizing & destroying families & massive job losses & loss of freedom & an eroding democracy?
It's because of an uninformed electorate.
Inform your friends.
Share. 🧵
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What would you do if you saw a child being attacked for no reason other than the color of their skin?
There are predators roaming the streets & brutalizing & abducting women & children. They work for our government. You're effin paying them to do this!
Stop #ICELawlessness
Congress: 202-224-3121
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There are predators roaming the streets & brutalizing & abducting women & children. They work for our government. You're effin paying them to do this!
Stop #ICELawlessness
Congress: 202-224-3121
🧵
December 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What would you do if you saw a child being attacked for no reason other than the color of their skin?
There are predators roaming the streets & brutalizing & abducting women & children. They work for our government. You're effin paying them to do this!
Stop #ICELawlessness
Congress: 202-224-3121
🧵
There are predators roaming the streets & brutalizing & abducting women & children. They work for our government. You're effin paying them to do this!
Stop #ICELawlessness
Congress: 202-224-3121
🧵
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Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that
the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else
continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
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"Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza have suffered another wet miserable night in makeshift shelters and there's worse to come.. Israel is still severely restricting humanitarian aid, including shelters, in breach of the ceasefire it agreed to 2 months ago"
December 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza have suffered another wet miserable night in makeshift shelters and there's worse to come.. Israel is still severely restricting humanitarian aid, including shelters, in breach of the ceasefire it agreed to 2 months ago"
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#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
December 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Tuesday - ICE agents used pepper spray to push through a crowd that blocked their vehicles as they checked IDs in a Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis.
The Trump administration is targeting this community and they know it.
The Trump administration is targeting this community and they know it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Tuesday - ICE agents used pepper spray to push through a crowd that blocked their vehicles as they checked IDs in a Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis.
The Trump administration is targeting this community and they know it.
The Trump administration is targeting this community and they know it.
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Nearly 40% of newly minted billionaires this year received their wealth through inheritance.
This is the highest figure since UBS started releasing its annual billionaire wealth report in 2015.
Another reminder that the myth of the "self-made" billionaire is just that, a myth.
This is the highest figure since UBS started releasing its annual billionaire wealth report in 2015.
Another reminder that the myth of the "self-made" billionaire is just that, a myth.
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Nearly 40% of newly minted billionaires this year received their wealth through inheritance.
This is the highest figure since UBS started releasing its annual billionaire wealth report in 2015.
Another reminder that the myth of the "self-made" billionaire is just that, a myth.
This is the highest figure since UBS started releasing its annual billionaire wealth report in 2015.
Another reminder that the myth of the "self-made" billionaire is just that, a myth.
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Look at this chart.
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Look at this chart.
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
the horror
In order to show their commitment to the ceasefire, Israel gunned down a child then ran him over with a tank today in Gaza
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
the horror
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AP: “Hundreds of immigrant children lingered in federal detention beyond a court-mandated limit, some more than five months… Attorneys highlighted the government’s own admissions to longer custody times, contaminated food, lack of medical care…” apnews.com/article/immi...
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
AP: “Hundreds of immigrant children lingered in federal detention beyond a court-mandated limit, some more than five months… Attorneys highlighted the government’s own admissions to longer custody times, contaminated food, lack of medical care…” apnews.com/article/immi...
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Israeli forces abducted at least 30 Palestinians, most of them former prisoners, during a nighttime raid on Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
December 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Israeli forces abducted at least 30 Palestinians, most of them former prisoners, during a nighttime raid on Nablus in the occupied West Bank.