Elaine

Elaine

@elainebennett.bsky.social

On your feet, or on your knees! Vive la Résistance Pro-Choice. Love my animals, the Beatles, the Dodgers, & Science ☮️ Freedom from Religion 🍄 Expand your mind 🌿 #Antifa #ACLU

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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." -George Orwell's '1984'

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JUST IN: Judge Shah in Illinois has blocked the Trump admin from yanking $600m in public health funds from four blue states, saying it appeared to be a “contrived” and illegal effort to punish them for sanctuary immigration policies storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Why are you the only person saying this.. that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war …

FYI this is NY Times reporter Shawn McCreesh

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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

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And it seems like the US has switched Presidents without informing anyone...

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If there were credible allegations against a Democratic president that he had punched a 13 yr old girl in the face after she bit his penis while he was raping her, Fox would be running that shit on a loop 24/7 and calling for his arrest/execution let alone his impeachment.

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AIPAC sure got their money’s worth from these 4 Dems today

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MASSIE: “Iran is not Venezuela. The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leader… 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 turned him into a martyr, expended billions, 6 🇺🇸 families must now lay to rest their sons & daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a straight answer.”

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Kristi Noem Ran DHS Into the Ground. That’s Not Why She Got Fired. Kristi Noem just found Trump’s red line, becoming the first cabinet member to be fired in his second term. But it wasn’t for the reasons you’d think.

“Kristi Noem tried to upstage the President. And Trump would never stand for that. You can run an agency into the ground, and trample all over Americans’ constitutional rights, and use government funding like it’s your own personal slush fund. But you absolutely cannot steal Trump’s spotlight."

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Donald Trump does not care about affordability for the average American family.

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Trump fired Kristi Noem.

It wasn't because her immigration agents murdered American citizens. Or the repeated violations of due process. Or even her mismanagement of FEMA.

No, Noem was fired because she upstaged Trump. He wants to be on Mt. Rushmore, after all.

This is the mind of our president.

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Hey, all you disingenuous Republicans claiming what the United States is currently engaging in Iran isn't a war:

Last year, the Department overseeing operations [illegally] changed its name to "The Department of WAR," not "The Department of Limited Defensive Engagements."

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PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell?

COLBY: Defer to you

R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war'

C: Defer to you

R: That was actually you

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They claim to have been planning this for months, to allegedly keep Americans safe, but had no plan to evacuate any Americans from the region because it happened too quickly.

Weird.

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We need to pass a House rule or law that requires them to work a certain number of days to get paid. Since Mike Johnson took over these people hardly ever work. When they finally come back after weeks off they work 2 days and he sends them home for 2 more weeks. It’s ridiculous.

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Pic of a MAGA hat with soldiers going in the front and coming out in caskets draped with the American flag. The back of the cap says Make Israel Great Again.

Wow. Powerful political cartoon by:
Carlos Latuff - Mondoweiss.

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Who got us into "a situation like this?"

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*Brutal but absolutely fair and accurate
*Gives a new meaning to "special government employee"
*Yeah, thats her husband listening to all of this

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Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

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Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

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BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

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Former Middle East adviser at the US Department of Defense, Jasmine El-Gamal, has it exactly right.

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Mark Zuckerberg Dropped $170 Million for an Waterfront Estate on Miami’s Indian Creek Island The Meta CEO's purchase has set a record as the most expensive home ever sold in Miami-Dade County.

Every click, every post, every ad we endured built Zuckerberg’s fortune. Now he buys a $170M private resort in Florida and pushes his property empire toward $660M in a state with no income tax because god forbid any of these Oligarchs pay back to society what we helped them achieve.

#EatTheRich

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if I ever need a lawyer, somebody call this lady

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literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

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FYI Markwayne Mullin is not
A war veteran and never served

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It actually doesn't matter whether this war is unpopular or not if you have a party that clearly has no intention of getting re-elected through democratic means.

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#SendBarronToWar

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