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James Bennett

@ubernostrum.bsky.social

The man with the plan and the pocket comb. Joe Biden was a good President who did good things, and Kamala Harris would’ve been even better. Here: politics, baseball, Tolkien memes. Sometimes in that order. @b-list.org for the tech side of me. he/him

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This is such a fundamentally basic point about how elections work and congressional terms work that a reporter who doesnt understand/know that is basically asking you to not take anything else they say on the subject seriously.

10.02.2026 00:45 — 👍 57    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

I am the descendant of a ton of people who said "farming sucks, actually, I would rather be doing literally anything else"

10.02.2026 02:51 — 👍 167    🔁 21    💬 8    📌 3

'teen focused financial app'
"The all-in-one fintech app to borrow, bank, and build credit."

okay I'm about to make a Southern Baptist preacher sound calm

10.02.2026 03:21 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

[leftistly] "trump doesn't care about the law! he can do anything!! we've already lost!!!"

meanwhile

10.02.2026 01:50 — 👍 451    🔁 80    💬 3    📌 2

The Secretary of Agriculture is an imbecile and unfit to milk a cow, yet she's giving info to the WH rapist on beef. He's now importing more beef from other countries.
Once again, America is last. Beef ranchers voted for this. They got so much more than they bargained for. Good luck idiots.

09.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 462    🔁 169    💬 35    📌 8
A kindle with Donald L. Miller's "Vicksburg" on it

A kindle with Donald L. Miller's "Vicksburg" on it

Read theory

10.02.2026 00:15 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

“Let me bring in my guy who’s an expert on Starpath units”

…some time later…

“Yeah, best I can do is five hundred credits”

10.02.2026 00:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Closer to home, this is a serious problem for baseball. One reason why MLB is so full of sons of former players now is how expensive and demanding the process of being a young prospect in the US has become.

It’s an interesting contrast with Caribbean countries where it *is* a way out of poverty.

09.02.2026 23:23 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That’s the story he would spread publicly, yes. But I’m 100% certain he has a mountain lair where he sips Schnapps and plans the next move of his long-running rivalry with Commander Bond.

09.02.2026 23:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Like, you can’t tell me Swiss champion downhill skier Franjo van Allmen isn’t actually an aristocratic James Bond villain. He probably has a monocle collection, with a name like that.

09.02.2026 23:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Olympics always feature a bunch of people from affluent backgrounds who could afford equipment and training and facilities and tutors in order to become a world-class athlete rather than having a childhood.

Some of the sports are even stereotypical rich people stuff (Alpine skiing for example).

09.02.2026 23:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is the kind of thing that D voters think about but shouldn’t be.

In 2024 there were lots of people worried about Elon hacking the machines and very little “hey is the right wing just buying time to lie on every Spanish language media outlet”

09.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 110    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 3
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I tRiED tO WaRN U

09.02.2026 20:10 — 👍 314    🔁 57    💬 19    📌 15
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Oh my gosh, the immediate about-face is just hilarious. I guess a tankie like him couldn't find it in himself to defend someone like Chomsky anymore.

09.02.2026 04:36 — 👍 49    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 5

The funny thing is that he already got his big sci-fi win by having a biohacking daughter and he hates it.

09.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 293    🔁 20    💬 7    📌 0

FDR also had a super majority and four terms to get it done.

Unfortunately voters, white voters in particular, keep voting for Republicans, that chip away at any reforms and tie Dems hands, then bitch about it.

We go two steps forward and three back because of stupidity and impatience of people.

09.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 46    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 0
09.02.2026 20:19 — 👍 80    🔁 16    💬 7    📌 0

This is a character in a Kevin Smith movie and you cannot convince me otherwise.

09.02.2026 20:24 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

the era of trump’s political relevance is about to turn 15 so they’re going to lose interest soon

09.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 45    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

Kash Patel stopped FBI agents from investigating Renee Good’s killing because the findings might’ve contradicted their narrative that she was a “domestic terrorist.”

We cannot trust a word coming out of this Admin.

DHS must allow Minnesotan authorities to investigate, NOW.

08.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 966    🔁 321    💬 25    📌 6
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Maxwell can clear Trump's name in Epstein probe in exchange for clemency, attorney says Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell appeared virtually for a closed-door House deposition and pleaded the Fifth. Follow for live updates.

So let me get this straight: a convicted child sex trafficker is going to clear the name of the adjudicated rapist mentioned 38,000 times in the child sex trafficking ring documents?

Could there by any more obvious offer of a bribe in American history?

www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

09.02.2026 18:59 — 👍 81    🔁 43    💬 7    📌 4
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Fuck The Onion, Fuck the Owner, Fuck his Carpetbagger girlfriend.
Fuck anyone who thinks this is funny.

09.02.2026 18:35 — 👍 169    🔁 44    💬 22    📌 8

So where’s the goalpost moving to now?

09.02.2026 05:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Megabill reading wraps up after nearly 16 hours Debate now begins after Democrats forced the delaying tactic.

They did force a reading. You’d know that if you actually cared.

They did try to hang amendments on it. You’d know that if you actually cared.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

09.02.2026 05:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A group of men who regularly rape children decided to ruin the public's perception of trans people in this country for shits and giggles and every time I think about that my heart clenches into a blood-red fist of rage.

And I can't stop thinking about it.

07.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 1390    🔁 384    💬 1    📌 20
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Ms Thompson won the Leander, Texas mayoral race FLIPPING it blue. Congress Ms. Thompson.

09.02.2026 03:44 — 👍 100    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 0

Just spitballing here, but maybe we should celebrate all this beautiful stuff and have a better country?

09.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 1858    🔁 225    💬 21    📌 2
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Tell me, how does a party with 45 members and two semi-reliable independents magically defeat a party with 53 members?

You apparently know how they could do this. Why do you withhold the secret knowledge? Do you want the Republican agenda to pass?

09.02.2026 05:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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