Benton

Benton

@bentonb.bsky.social

Leftist at UC Davis Political Affairs Director with the Davis College Democrats Politics, Film and whatever else I feel like talking about CA/MT 🇺🇦🇵🇸

149 Followers 147 Following 219 Posts Joined Aug 2023
1 week ago
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[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

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CPT Josephine Guilbeau
Marine Corps veteran arrested inside the Senate Armed service committee hearing and then attacked by Senator Sheehy protesting war for Israel.
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1 week ago

i think basically that I wouldn't care about the war if it was just a matter of gas prices going up by a dollar right now and six american soldiers dying. This sort of rhetoric just makes it so easy to not give a shit, it encourages total political apathy

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Headline: Moskowitz, Gottheimer oppose Iran war powers resolution, breaking with most Dems. (official portraits of Moskowitz and Gottheimer). Subhead: They should just rename it the Ayatollah Protection Act because that’s what it does Rep. Jared Moskowitz said

If you don't want a vote on matters of war and peace, gtfo of congress, because that's literally your job.

If you think it's better to leave those matters to the likes of Trump and Hegseth, gtfo of Democratic politics.

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California Democrats back establishment candidates despite progressive pushback California Democrats endorsed aging incumbents and party insiders over grassroots challengers, disappointing progressives.

California Democrats back establishment candidates despite progressive pushback

California Democrats endorsed aging incumbents and party insiders over grassroots challengers, disappointing progressives.

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3 weeks ago

a legitimately insane thing to level at a guy who came to prominence by fleeing the state to build awareness of Texas gerrymandering and set off a massive backfire of mid-decade redistricting for the GOP

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3 weeks ago
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

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1 month ago

The unintended consequences here could be catastrophic.

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1 month ago

Dems, Leftists are telling you, now, while there's ample time, who we straight up will not vote for.

So do not run them. Do not give them the nom.

We will not vote for them. Period.

We gave you decades of your demands. Now you listen to us.

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1 month ago

You’re amazing! Run against Warner!

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1 month ago

I hope she runs against one of them and kicks them out

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2 months ago

what do you mean the stranger things documentary shows them writing the script on a computer with 3 chat gpt tabs open

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2 months ago

you should read this story. they should run this fuckin guy through an electronics shredder

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2 months ago

Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol

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2 months ago

No they’re not you propaganda rag

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2 months ago

This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!

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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

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2 months ago

What the holy hell is this

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Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.

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2 months ago

You’d think a Democrat wouldn’t be stupid enough to back more government control over the internet under this fascist administration under the pretense of “save the children,” but Dick Durbin has a rock tumbler for a brain.

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3 months ago

God, When It Happens there's going to be dancing in the streets, and we should staple-gun this post to the face of anyone complaining about that

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3 months ago

Opinion | The 2024 election was always about pardoning Honduran drug kingpin Juan Orlando Hernández. If Kamala Harris and the Democrats didn't understand that, shame on them.

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3 months ago

Neither Montana nor California have legalized in-app gambling and the fact that those two very different states agree on this should be a signal to everywhere else.

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3 months ago

wtf is going on in trumps head

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4 months ago

Don't want to unfairly dunk on this guy, because pro-Eisenhower propaganda has convinced people that he was George McGovern with an R next to his name, but Eisenhower was an awful President for anyone who considers themselves a friend of progress, and in this thread, I'll cover why. 🧵

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4 months ago
Screenshot of text:

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini
Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!
Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?
Open your gdrive (web OR app)
Settings > Manage Apps
Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)
Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

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4 months ago
Zohran Mamdani victory speech

"The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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