BillBenda
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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal -- Vonnegut. Blondie/Debbie Harry, rock & roll, nature, history & other fascinating things.
Doris Miller is his name. I sure wish all discussions would name this hero. #USSDorisMiller
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 11h ago"The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor ... there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor Trump." www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
This should forever be Elon Musk's legacy. Not spaceships. Not electric cars. Starvation. Misery. Mass murder.
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 9h ago"The decision by Trump to dissolve USAID — once the world’s largest humanitarian donor — gutted maternal and neonatal care, decimated nutrition programs for millions of pregnant women and children, and left scores of birthing centers devoid of equipment and medicine..." apnews.com/article/usai...
Talarico: Ken Paxton is anti-puppy. I wish I was joking when I said that, but reports just came out revealing that Ken Paxton protected a research lab that was notorious for torturing and killing hundreds of puppies. I'm going to be a senator for all Texans, including our four-legged Texans.
Trump is a grotesque thug. He's trying to have a new Navy ship named after him rather than the Black war hero it was slated to be named after. Want to name it after Trump? Call it the "USS Bone Spur." www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump | CNN Politics
The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, three sources familiar wit...
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A democratic “strategist” can’t for me and told me I was racist for gently advising Dr Abdul El-Sayed on how to talk to Black people.. 🥴🤷🏾♂️
Parts of Indiana have been without power for 9–10 days due to storms. Tens of thousands are currently in the dark (peak was over 300,000). Puerto Rico has been rationing water for 13+ days due to severe drought. Trump has not said a word about either crisis. Not a tweet. A “Truth.” Nothing
All it took to get Trump and Melania back together for a few hours was a Jon Ossoff speech.
Governor Abbott's new claim in the Minnesota/ICE extradition case is that his office is looking into whether Castro "is a fugitive." One problem: #SCOTUS has held—over and over again—that governors in the "asylum" state don't have *any* discretion to make that kind of determination for themselves:
Bonus 244: Minnesota v. Abbott
Governor Abbott is ignoring his duty to extradite an ICE officer indicted in Minnesota. He has no viable legal claim, but may be trying to run out the clock.
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No matter what metric you use, Republicans have been worse for the economy than Democrats for a century now. And yet they’ll *still* point to the latest mess they created as an argument to elect them again. And half the media will happily help carry their water for them.
Helene Meisler@hmeisler.bsky.social · 10h agoI know Grassly is old but do you think he knows who is in charge in the 3 branches of government now?
The Navy may change the name of a warship to honor a brave black man who served honorably in the Pearl Harbor attack to the name of a cowardly draft dodger who is so ignorant he didn’t even know what happened at Pearl Harbor, according to his then Chief of Staff accompanying him on the visit
This would not be happening if people remained silent.
Renee Good's partner is not having the FBI's attempt to moot her attempts to get the vehicle back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#17 in Good v. Department of Justice (D. Minnesota, 0:26-mc-00025) – CourtListener.com
RESPONSE in Opposition re 16 MOTION to Dismiss/General for Mootness filed by Rebecca Good.(Berkman, Benjamin) (Entered: 08/19/2026)
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It's Day 577, and the "Day 1" people are still blaming Biden.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h agoFOX BUSINESS: What are you doing to bring beef prices down? BROOKE ROLLINS: Listen, what we are facing in America today is the direct result of the previous administration
Trump’s Treasury intervention was wiped out in 24 hours. Oil and diesel are surging. The debt crossed $40 trillion. Walmart is flashing a warning. And somehow, the rest of Thursday’s news gets even more absurd. Here’s your midday update:
Thursday Afternoon Updates: Did Trump’s Treasury Scheme ALREADY Fail?! – 8/20/26
It’s Thursday.
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In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...
Elections have consequences: New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed legislation that bars the state from extraditing individuals facing out-of-state investigations over reproductive or gender-affirming care. newjerseymonitor.com/2026/08/20/s...
Gov. Sherrill signs shield law aimed at protecting reproductive, transgender healthcare • New Jersey Monitor
The law aims to protect doctors performing reproductive and transgender health care, and their patients, from criminal and civil penalties.
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Yes, I oppose using any public dollars to subsidize pro sports venues. That's not me being obstinate, it's evidence-based intellectual consistency.
Irony alert: The Minnesota officials who charged an ICE agent for shooting a man through a door in Minneapolis and then lying about it say he may be planning to flee to Mexico and get legal residency there through a sham marriage. Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott is refusing to extradite.
Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor to compel extradition of ICE agent for trial
Minnesota’s attorney general sued the governor of Texas on Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged with wounding a man and then lyin…
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This connected with America First Policy Institute. Their goal is to drill everywhere on Federal lands for oil and gas. The same America First Policy Institute helped get Dr. Heidi Overton the position for FDA Commissioner.
The picture is from this morning at Assateague Island National Seashore. Truly a bucket list event in my life to see those horses and now I come home and read about yet another depraved act from Trump and his merry band of sociopaths. It’s just too much some days.
This government is so incredibly corrupt and evil. Evil.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 14h agoThe Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of mustangs around the U.S. and quietly selling them on the cheap to buyers who are exporting them for slaughter abroad, an examination of government records by The New York Times found. nyti.ms/4grb8Co
Step 1: Donald Trump made Elon Musk an SGE which he used to cut important govt programs and reverse regulation on himself. Step 2: None of that saved any real money. Step 3: The GOP gave Elon a huge tax cut and cut your healthcare. Step 4: The US' debt has skyrocketed.
Every time I think I've heard the most ignorant comments from these creeps, this guy, who I never heard of before, comes on and says something completely idiotic.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h agoBessent on the latest bad jobs report: "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs"
I still don't know who he is, lol. Don't care.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterdayCBS: You campaigned with Hasan Piker during the primary. Dem Senate candidate, while images of Piker flash on the screen: I didn’t campaign with him, and I don’t know where that came from. CBS: Ah well… would you want to campaign with him in the general? Candidate: I don’t really know who he is.
last Thursday was the first time in over 15 years that American prisons executed 3 people on the same day i did a lil digging and was confused at first to find that executions are at a modern high, even tho public support for the death penalty is at a modern low ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How Republican Politicians and Conservative Judges Work Together to Preserve Capital Punishment
Public opposition to capital punishment is growing. But more people are being executed.
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From the other day--a detail of the MN-15 docs that has gotten less notice. DOJ opened its investigation into the anti-ICE community in February, pointing to alleged assaults of ICE goons. Those alleged assaults were almost all fabricated & cases have been dropped. emptywheel.net/2026/08/18/d...
DOJ Used Pam Bondi's Trophy Arrests as an Excuse to Spy on Minnesota's Anti-ICE Community - emptywheel
In his filing showing a grand conspiracy theory DOJ is attempting to concoct, Isaac Sant also showed how the trumped up assault defendants Pam Bondi paraded as trophies served as the excuse to predica...
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