Ben

Ben

@benfreemanokc.bsky.social

🐦 Twitter ex-pat (15 years) 🔵 blue dot

109 Followers 336 Following 40 Posts Joined Jan 2025
9 months ago

Chaotic neutral

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9 months ago

💰 $2.4 trillion
If you spent $1 million/day, every single day, it would take you 6,575 years to burn through $2.4 trillion.

With that, we could:
• Rebuild every public school in USA & fix every pothole.
• Fund universal pre-K & community college for the next decade.
• Or… tax cuts for the top 1%.

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9 months ago

If I say “boys” 3 pets (2 dogs, 1 cat) will instantly start moving toward the back door to go outside.

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10 months ago

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

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10 months ago
A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

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11 months ago

I’m getting really fed up with the trade deficit I have with my local coffee shop. I’ve spent thousands in there over the years and they haven’t bought a single thing from me!

Beginning tomorrow, I’m demanding a 25% surcharge added onto my coffee order. That’ll show ‘em.

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11 months ago

I honestly wasn’t sure whether this was satire. It seems plausible. 😅

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11 months ago

She’d get my vote here in OKC!

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11 months ago

I need Danny McBride to play JD when they inevitably make a movie about all this.

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11 months ago

Now that I am finished screaming into the void about schooling for kids with disabilities being assigned to RFK: understand what this means.

He’s lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education.

This is eugenics.

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11 months ago
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11 months ago
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Openly ignoring and defying the Judiciary.

Breaking his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States.

Granting himself unchecked power.

This is authoritarianism.

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11 months ago
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Timeline cleanse.

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1 year ago

The center of gravity in Evangelical theology is Jesus “paid a debt he didn’t owe.” He “went to the cross with you in mind as the ultimate sacrifice.”

If you genuinely believe that (and I believe many do) then you should loudly reject the “empathy is a sin/weakness” narrative with your whole chest.

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1 year ago

No notes. 🤌

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1 year ago
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“I won’t forget” ?

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1 year ago
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1 year ago

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

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1 year ago

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start

Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

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1 year ago
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“DO YOUR JOB!”

TEXAS: @RepKeithSelf’s turn

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1 year ago

I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable.

2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.

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1 year ago
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1 year ago

Yes

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1 year ago

🔥🔥🔥

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1 year ago

James Donald Bowman cosplaying a tough guy™️ while berating and insulting an *actual* leader is just the thing my blood pressure didn’t need today.

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1 year ago

So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?

But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?

Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

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1 year ago

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. 

Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. 

Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

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1 year ago
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It’s obviously Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Wile E. Coyote.

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1 year ago
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Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.

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