Tom Benthin
@tbenthin.bsky.social
Graphic facilitator, French-Intensive Biodynamic gardener, activist. California Grassroots Alliance, Indivisible Sonoma County.
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Nine out of ten diplomats serving the United States say Trump’s approach is failing America. If any CEO was undermining his organization in the same way he would be fired
December 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Nine out of ten diplomats serving the United States say Trump’s approach is failing America. If any CEO was undermining his organization in the same way he would be fired
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One way to thank them? Wear a mask near them so you don’t get them sick on the job. You can be contagious and have zero symptoms.
This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
One way to thank them? Wear a mask near them so you don’t get them sick on the job. You can be contagious and have zero symptoms.
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LMFAO. OFC David Brooks is in the Epstein files. Ahahahahaha
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
LMFAO. OFC David Brooks is in the Epstein files. Ahahahahaha
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Brooks appears in three Epstein files photos released today 🤨
December 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Brooks appears in three Epstein files photos released today 🤨
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David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
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The appropriate response to this insane performance is that Trump clearly needs to step down.
Trump is so clearly insane. It’s a national emergency.
Lying. It’s all lies.
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The appropriate response to this insane performance is that Trump clearly needs to step down.
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We are nearing the end of the Trump era.
OMG Trump is so gone. We are in a dangerous place.
The appropriate response to this insane performance is that Trump clearly needs to step down.
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
We are nearing the end of the Trump era.
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There’s only one story tonight - Trump is unwell and unfit. Everything else is just detail.
We are nearing the end of the Trump era.
OMG Trump is so gone. We are in a dangerous place.
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
There’s only one story tonight - Trump is unwell and unfit. Everything else is just detail.
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If you want something done at the national level, the center point of all your organizing needs to be revolving around the United States Congress.
That’s the entire game right there.
That’s the entire game right there.
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
If you want something done at the national level, the center point of all your organizing needs to be revolving around the United States Congress.
That’s the entire game right there.
That’s the entire game right there.
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very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
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If the 25th amendment were triggered by any objective metric of presidential insanity or unfitness, Trump would have been launched out of the White House ten seconds into tonight’s speech. Or 11 months ago. Or daily since.
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
If the 25th amendment were triggered by any objective metric of presidential insanity or unfitness, Trump would have been launched out of the White House ten seconds into tonight’s speech. Or 11 months ago. Or daily since.
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I stand on business
I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I stand on business
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I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
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"Awareness carries a high cost these days. It’s exhausting. It’s meant to be exhausting, I think. This is how supremacy works. The costs of reparation are very high, and the cost of awareness comes first of all."
...yes.
...yes.
"Say I tell you 'My father is choking my brother.' What do you say to that?
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
Cult(ure) of Abuse
How do we deal with a culture of abuse? What is our part in ending it? How do we deal with an abusive cult of millions?
www.the-reframe.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Awareness carries a high cost these days. It’s exhausting. It’s meant to be exhausting, I think. This is how supremacy works. The costs of reparation are very high, and the cost of awareness comes first of all."
...yes.
...yes.
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Can’t believe he’s going to demean the Inaugural FIFA Peace Prize like this…
It gets worse. Trump also says straight out that an invasion of Venezuela "on land" is coming and says he'd expand all this to Mexico and Colombia. Incredibly, no one even bothers pointing out anymore that he is claiming authority to do all of this without Congress:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Can’t believe he’s going to demean the Inaugural FIFA Peace Prize like this…
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Yes but it is not enough.
You need to push for the people giving orders to do this to be thrown in prison.
You need to push for the people giving orders to do this to be thrown in prison.
You can hear Jose scream in excruciating pain as an ICE vehicle runs over his foot while he's being detained.
His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing.
He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.
His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing.
He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Yes but it is not enough.
You need to push for the people giving orders to do this to be thrown in prison.
You need to push for the people giving orders to do this to be thrown in prison.
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"Purity test' ....Party standard-bearers still use the phrase as a slur to trivialize legitimate questions from the left. It’s a petty and defensive move, and it comes across as a refusal to engage with the most obvious and urgent questions facing the country." newrepublic.com/article/2039...
No, Progressives Don’t Want “Purity.” They Just Want Some Courage.
When left-leaning Democrats complain about corporate influence, it’s not a “purity test.” It’s a demand for a better politics.
newrepublic.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"Purity test' ....Party standard-bearers still use the phrase as a slur to trivialize legitimate questions from the left. It’s a petty and defensive move, and it comes across as a refusal to engage with the most obvious and urgent questions facing the country." newrepublic.com/article/2039...
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Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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In my world (energy policy), to a first approximation, *everyone* underestimated how bad Republicans would be this time around.
So my basic question is: has anyone updated their priors? Revised their analytical categories? Learned anything from this? Will do things differently next time? Anyone?
So my basic question is: has anyone updated their priors? Revised their analytical categories? Learned anything from this? Will do things differently next time? Anyone?
December 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In my world (energy policy), to a first approximation, *everyone* underestimated how bad Republicans would be this time around.
So my basic question is: has anyone updated their priors? Revised their analytical categories? Learned anything from this? Will do things differently next time? Anyone?
So my basic question is: has anyone updated their priors? Revised their analytical categories? Learned anything from this? Will do things differently next time? Anyone?
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My previous lead fell through, so...
Does anyone in Western Washington have an electric piano with weighted keys that they no longer use and would be willing to give away?
I have a ten year old ADHD kid whose heart is set on one for Christmas but it's not in our budget this year.
Does anyone in Western Washington have an electric piano with weighted keys that they no longer use and would be willing to give away?
I have a ten year old ADHD kid whose heart is set on one for Christmas but it's not in our budget this year.
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
My previous lead fell through, so...
Does anyone in Western Washington have an electric piano with weighted keys that they no longer use and would be willing to give away?
I have a ten year old ADHD kid whose heart is set on one for Christmas but it's not in our budget this year.
Does anyone in Western Washington have an electric piano with weighted keys that they no longer use and would be willing to give away?
I have a ten year old ADHD kid whose heart is set on one for Christmas but it's not in our budget this year.
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So far the worst I can manage is “Make America Trickle Down Again”
I could have spent a year and would never have come up with a worse slogan than “Strong Floor, No Ceiling.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So far the worst I can manage is “Make America Trickle Down Again”
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“Strong Floor No Ceiling!” chant all the people who say they can’t support Defund the Police or Black Lives Matter because “they’re bad slogans that nobody understands.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“Strong Floor No Ceiling!” chant all the people who say they can’t support Defund the Police or Black Lives Matter because “they’re bad slogans that nobody understands.”
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No Change, Just Credit
Smiles Across Aisles
Now Isn’t The Time For That
Caution Before Safety
Smiles Across Aisles
Now Isn’t The Time For That
Caution Before Safety
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
No Change, Just Credit
Smiles Across Aisles
Now Isn’t The Time For That
Caution Before Safety
Smiles Across Aisles
Now Isn’t The Time For That
Caution Before Safety