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@tombendel.bsky.social

Retired military officer, Dad and grandpa. Dog dad. Expatriate.

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Just sayin’

22.11.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 991    πŸ” 157    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.

So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

12.11.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4627    πŸ” 1026    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 66

I closed social media for like three hours and the Pope threw a rave, MTG resigned, and Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did? Now accepting bribes to close social media for all of next week

22.11.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2209    πŸ” 290    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 18
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In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as β€œpotentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.

Fire.
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β€œThe changes came only after the White House and Department of Homeland Security had falsely claimed The Post’s reporting was inaccurate, with DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin calling the story β€˜fake crap.’” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

21.11.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.

21.11.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 299    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

21.11.2025 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9709    πŸ” 2636    πŸ’¬ 245    πŸ“Œ 120

The best part of "peace plan" is part of Russian seized assets go to "developing US-Russia trade".

Which is euphemism for "Donald takes his bribe".

21.11.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 786    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 5
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

20.11.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 20121    πŸ” 8397    πŸ’¬ 1014    πŸ“Œ 1060

The month the Cybertruck was released I immediately saw two of them in my part of the city, always driven by the same two guys. I was shocked. "People are actually buying this thing!"

Almost two years later, I have never seen a third.

21.11.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 382    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 8

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

21.11.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7515    πŸ” 1866    πŸ’¬ 203    πŸ“Œ 100

Why is ICE only focusing on poor immigrants? Can we get rid of some of the Russian oligarchs that live here?

20.11.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 12344    πŸ” 2175    πŸ’¬ 531    πŸ“Œ 123

This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.

20.11.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5788    πŸ” 1341    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 36
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Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

20.11.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 23625    πŸ” 8938    πŸ’¬ 870    πŸ“Œ 781
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Always, always, ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY!

19.11.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 649    πŸ” 206    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 6

I don't care if Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton or Jesus Christ himself is implicated in the Epstein files. Anyone who committed such crimes should burn. I believe that because I'm not in a cult.

25.07.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 14962    πŸ” 2708    πŸ’¬ 348    πŸ“Œ 154

Note for Democratic politicians: you don't have to start your condemnations of ICE raids with "We all want to catch violent criminals, but..." Just say "These raids have nothing to do with catching criminals and everything to do with terrorizing innocent minority groups."

20.11.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6983    πŸ” 1946    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 94

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a β€œchild sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a β€œdisgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism

20.11.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3544    πŸ” 721    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 20

It looks like Lindsey Halligan misled a grand jury, prosecutorial conduct equivalent to committing perjury, in order to manufacture an indictment against James Comey for…

wait for it…

perjury.

19.11.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 15200    πŸ” 3690    πŸ’¬ 516    πŸ“Œ 163

It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres

19.11.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4231    πŸ” 999    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 41

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

20.11.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3186    πŸ” 879    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 18

Sure. "The Grand Jury did not see the operative indictment" is the kind of fuckup where lawyers literally don't actually know what happens next because it SO fundamental a thing that it is LITERALLY possible nobody had even thought of this as a thing that could happen.

19.11.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2422    πŸ” 433    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 38

Chicago has had one 9/11 worth of people disappeared since the attacks began in September. Los Angeles has had two 9/11s since June.

18.11.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 586    πŸ” 305    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

I feel like a savvy politician could run on β€œthe headlights are too bright” and they’d get like 70% of the vote.

19.11.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

If I had the Epstein Files I'd leak it to Marisa Kabas

19.11.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 577    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

I fear that many more of us will find ourselves asking the same question unless we can end this nightmare soon.

19.11.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3686    πŸ” 1089    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 17

I think the word you’re looking for is β€œkept”

19.11.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9903    πŸ” 1590    πŸ’¬ 99    πŸ“Œ 24

There are like 3 β€œTrump helps pedos” stories JUST THIS WEEK

18.11.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 918    πŸ” 278    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

Rep. Thomas Massie calls out Trump: "He can release these files without the Senate acting."

18.11.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2803    πŸ” 557    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 21

This really needs to be stressed, as it seems obvious Trump is going to let them vote to release it and then pretend his hands are tied.

He’s had the power to release them all along, and still does. It’s just his excuses that are changing.

17.11.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2096    πŸ” 585    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 11

Why the fuck are Democrats trying to make Marjorie Taylor Greene a Democrat?

Maybe they should spend a bit more time accepting that Zohran Mamdani is in their party before going off about welcoming nazis.

17.11.2025 07:05 β€” πŸ‘ 482    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 2

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