Ben
@hbenjamin.bsky.social
Northern Minnesota resident. Chem Eng background. Sports, outdoors, and cooking enjoyer.
A clown gets up in front of people and tells them how making their lives and their jobs worse is good, and then has the audacity to feel aggrieved about it.
Project True North@projtruenorth.bsky.social · yesterdayMichelle Fischbach gets resoundingly booed while trying to defend Trump’s tariffs, and then complains to the moderator about it.
Trina Swanson on the destructive impact of Trump’s tariffs on Minnesota farmers: “We see our soybean farmers hurt because they can't sell their soybeans to China. We see Brazil step in to fill that gap."
"The pipeline that feeds young conservative talent into government jobs is defective — if not broken." The pipeline is working exactly as intended. None of these Republicans cared when they let overt fascists take over the party. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem
Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism.
politico.com
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
New reporting shows that a fire-prevention plan in place in the Superior National Forest to remove dead trees was delayed by DOGE. Trump and Elon Musk’s cuts reduced our ability to respond to the growing threat of wildfires.
Every Minnesotan Republican is beholden to these walking crimes against humanity.
Project True North@projtruenorth.bsky.social · 5d agoNew reporting shows that a fire-prevention plan in place in the Superior National Forest to remove dead trees was delayed by DOGE. Trump and Elon Musk’s cuts reduced our ability to respond to the growing threat of wildfires.
The only people who claim they were injured are MAHA cranks and right-wing cranks. So I am curious to know about the right-wing crank suic. epidemic.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Ron Johnson claims the the "injection injured" are committing mass suicide
Yellow, brown, spicy brown, dijon, honey for me is a minimum number Franks (or equivalent), Tapatio, and something that burns out the second end is the the bare minimum, too.
Preach
Alt: Preach
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geoffrey@parsnip.bsky.social · last wk.a kitchen should have no fewer than three hot sauces and four mustards at any given time
Scroll to about 4 hours and 35 minutes. Dr. Manly comes in with a great question. Our director gaslights her and the entire #NIH community. Pass this around. It is public. Don't let this continue. Hold Dr. Bhattacharya accountable.
NIH VideoCast - Council of Councils Meeting - May 14-15, 2026 - Day 1
The NIH Council of Councils advises the NIH Director on the policies and activities of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) in the Office of the Director ...
videocast.nih.gov
In case it's helpful, I snipped this exchange where Dr. Manly asks Dr. Bhattacharya to explain how cutting NIH grants that mention health disparities squares with his claims to be interested in improving life expectancy for all Americans. youtu.be/QL2xvh8Zbm0?...
Excerpt from NIH Council of Council meetings May 14-15, 2026
YouTube video by Mallory Harris
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS@tyk314.net · 2w agoScroll to about 4 hours and 35 minutes. Dr. Manly comes in with a great question. Our director gaslights her and the entire #NIH community. Pass this around. It is public. Don't let this continue. Hold Dr. Bhattacharya accountable.
He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
This man is a mass murderer on the level of any of history's most reviled monsters.
Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w agoHe's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
Hear me out. We build a 2-seater A-10 and charge a million a flight for some civilian to get fly in the second swar with control of the bbbbbrrrrrrrrr canon. They get to light up some disused vehicles on a range, and then after the flight they get explained to them how MANPADs work.
W'moreland, Aubrey@spacedeer.gay · 2w agocan we talk about the A-10 being stupid and bad
It's embarrassing that Mike Lindell, Lisa Demuth, Kendall Qualls, and the entire Minnesota GOP won't speak out against Trump targeting states like Minnesota simply because we didn't vote for him.
wisconsin fun facts: - any individual is allowed to drink alcohol as long as a parent/guardian is present and gives the ok - WI was a holdout state on adopting 21 as the drinking age despite not receiving DoT money as a consequence - the average OWI count for WI drivers is >1
Steve@iamtherealsteve.bsky.social · 2w agoWait what
Apologies if I sound angry, but it is a real problem that the 'smart' commentary on this war is trying hard to avoid the core lesson ("the president is a fucking moron") because it doesn't sound very clever when it is absolutely the most important takeaway from this debacle.
I'm comfortable saying that any person that says this is not a Democrat.
mrsomerton@mrsomerton.bsky.social · 2w agofucking bonkers opening to this piece, btw
Another exhibit in 'however bad you thought the campus chilling effect on speech was, obvious state repression of campus speech is much, much worse.' Anyone who made a big deal out of the former who isn't now greatly exercised by the latter was pretty clearly working in bad faith.
Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w ago“Two courses for the fall of 2026 were canceled outright, while several more had to alter their syllabi to comply. Professors teaching those courses told The Chronicle they weren’t provided with any rationale for why their “exception requests” were partially or fully denied.”
He should be airbrushed from every photo of this, and it should be a major faux paux to acknowledge the picture was ever changed.
Aaron Black@aaronblack.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat the fuck is Trump doing up there? He didn’t win the World Cup and the Spanish players obviously didn’t want to take a photo with him. Sad and pathetic!!!
The single most unethical reporter I ever dealt with- and as senator Kennedys press secretary I spent more time dealing with tabloids than just about any other flack on Capitol Hill
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3w agoProbably hard for people to grasp, but Solomon was once one of the most prominent bylines in the country working for the AP. He was always a hack, though it was considered poor form to say so. Back in the earlier Bush years I learned that he was known as the softest touch …
My proposed Minister for AI. "Wubwubwub. Dubstep dubstep. Wubwubwubwub DROP! Dubstep!"
Claptrap Robot Animation
Alt: Claptrap Robot Animation dancing to dubstep
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Tanja Bueltmann@tanjabueltmann.net · 3w agoMy proposed Minister for AI.
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
wired.com
I really hope the wildfire smoke doesn't affect the World Cup final, but that would be a fitting Trump Curse outcome.
Mike Lindell loved Donald Trump's speech tonight — "we're getting protected now, we have this one chance with this great President." The choice for Minnesota could not be more clear.