Dave Benforado

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY: Let’s find VANCE BOELTER, the right wing dirtbag wacko who assassinated a MN Legislator and her husband in their home, and attempted the same with another MN Legislator, earlier today in the greater Mpls area.

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Hey Wisconsinites! Spot on editorial in today’s WI State Journal endorsing Susan Crawford in the April 1 Election for WI Supreme Court. Crawford will make an outstanding member of the Court. Please join me in supporting her on your April 1 ballot.
#RuleOfLaw
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#MUSK is a “Minister Without Papers”. Tell him to go pound sand and invite him to Court; he will lose.

What Does Defiance Look Like? A Saturday Prompt

“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.”
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills

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Trump got Mexico to send the same 10,000 troops to the border that Biden already got them to commit.

Trump got Canada to agree to the same measures to fight fentanyl that Biden already got them to agree to six weeks ago.

Wow. What a dealmaker!

Opinion | What’s at risk when the federal government also is The sudden stop in federal funding reminded Americans how vital the government is in people’s lives.

If you took everyone saved by USAid's immunization work and put them in the Superdome, it would be full. And require 37 more Superdomes. Each year.

A look at what's at risk when Musk and Trump blindly rip through the government for applause.
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Perhaps this particular section of Trump’s #Project2025 that he is implementing (even though he says he knows nothing about it) was written before Congress amended the “Inspector General Act of 1978” in 2022, with broad
bipartisan support, to include the 30 day notice to Congress …
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#ClarenceThomas must resign. His only allegiance must be to the #USConstitution, not his benefactors who pay for his luxury vacations.
#JudicalEthics
#USSupremeCourt
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“DO SOMETHING!” she yelled from the balcony of the State Capitol. Spot on editorial in this morning’s 1/26/25 WI State Journal, echoing the words of the mother of a suicide by gun victim, the gun purchased a mere 2 hours before the suicide.
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#GunSafetyReform

Rescinding the cap on insulin at $35 only makes pharmaceutical richer and everyday Americans, including MAGA voters, seriously poorer.

So why does Trump do it? Because all he wants is to destroy anything Biden achieved, no matter how much damage it causes.

That what sociopathy looks like.

#Mercy

Wisconsin American Red Cross aid California wildfire relief efforts MADISON, Wis. -- The California wildfires continue as thousands have been displaced. It'll be all hands-on deck as people try to recover from the devastation.

The American Red Cross of Wisconsin is currently on the ground, with a shelter in Pasadena, sheltering 500 people, partnering with local organizations to better serve those impacted.

Outside the public eye, Hegseth’s fixers have used questionable tactics against his opponents. Last week, the private employment records of a former employee of Hegseth’s who was a potential witness against him were leaked to the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative Web site, which published them in an apparent effort to undermine her. The Free Beacon’s chief financial supporter is Paul Singer, a New York hedge-fund billionaire who was also a major supporter of Vets for Freedom, a nonprofit that nearly went bankrupt under Hegseth in 2008, as NBC recently reported. The Free Beacon didn’t disclose its past ties to Hegseth. Instead, it publicly outed the previously anonymous witness, who had sought whistle-blower protection from the Senate Armed Services Committee. The same day, another version of the piece about the witness, along with her photograph, appeared in Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post.

There is a massive financial campaign behind Hegseth, targeting wavering Republicans. His team is also engaged in intimidating witnesses. One former employee decided not to testify after conservative newspapers identified her publicly.

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And here it is…. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Fact-Checking Trump’s Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago The president-elect made inaccurate claims about his predecessor’s energy policies and repeated familiar falsehoods on a number of topics.

President-elect Trump reprised familiar falsehoods in a news conference on Tuesday. Among them were inaccurate claims about the Jan. 6 attack, international affairs, trade and whale deaths. Here’s a fact-check.

Donald Trump wants to prevent the release of Jack Smith’s report, even though special counsel reports that serves his purposes were released. The lawyers making the ask are headed to Trump’s DOJ. Nothing here is normal.

NYT: “Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald J. Trump.”

@anntelnaes.bsky.social, who has worked at the Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed by the paper — and now she has quit the paper.

@anntelnaes.bsky.social

Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Thank you @melissaagard.bsky.social @momsdemand.bsky.social.
#GunSafetyReformNow

#NCGOP is stealing pages from #WIGOP playbook; “by hook or by crook”, both utilize outrageous anti-democratic schemes to legislative manuevers that take away powers of elected Dem leaders and #StealElections (eg, #ScottWalker’s 2018 knee cap welcome to newly elected WI Gov @tonyevers.bsky.social).

#FailedTrickleDownEconomics
#IncomeGapGrowing

#Grifters will grift.

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I’m shocked.

Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...

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Walmart Greeter.

Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans He has promised to use presidential power to violate fundamental rights.

Trump has threatened to rely on the Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations. It would be an abuse of presidential power that the courts must block.

Life Tenure for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Is a Global Oddity with Clear Costs Compared to other democracies, the United States is an outlier in granting life tenure to justices, producing diminishing returns and mounting costs.

The United States is an outlier when it comes to how long Supreme Court justices serve. That doesn’t translate into greater judicial independence, but it does increase the risk for a politically one-sided high court.