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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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You may ask "Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?" Well, we stay because America is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: covfefe!

06.08.2025 00:09 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A President on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of America, you might say every one of us is a President on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple life without breaking his neck. It isn't easy.

06.08.2025 00:09 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

If you all think trans people should lose their rights to make a very important point to the libs about capitalism or Palestine or whatever, stop being cute and just fucking say it.

05.08.2025 23:10 — 👍 95    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 0
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Arguing that vaccines dont work so everyone has to stay masked is anti-vax.

Yes.

05.08.2025 23:01 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

had Biden randomly wandered on the White House roof shouting at reporters about nuclear weapons, Jake Tapper would drop everything to pitch a new series of books and Hannity would anchor ongoing special coverage until 2029

but when Trump does it it's just Trump being Trump!

05.08.2025 16:08 — 👍 7787    🔁 1923    💬 302    📌 101
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'We're Going for the Full Conquest': Netanyahu War Cabinet Confirms Full Takeover of Gaza | Common Dreams Israel's plan to fully occupy Gaza is a dangerous strategy, leading to more deaths and suffering. With innocent Palestinians starving and dying, will the international community stand by as Netanyahu ...

Wow.
Even more congratulations are due to Rashida Tlaib, Layla Elabed, and all the Abandon Harris activists.

Your wishes are all coming true.

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-n...

05.08.2025 22:59 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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prince is sitting on a couch in a black and white photo with his eyes closed and a chain around his neck . ALT: prince is sitting on a couch in a black and white photo with his eyes closed and a chain around his neck .

Black AAPI candidate with boobies and a hoo-ha, dual degrees in ECONOMICS and POLI SCI AND a JD:
“dude is going to build camps, tank the economy, snatch folks off the street, FASCISM!FASCISM!”

You: “😴”

Y’all and Colbert is still cancelled:

“THIS WILL NOT STAND! LET’S STORM THE BASTILLE! “

Me:

05.08.2025 23:00 — 👍 24    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

One I’ve noticed is the about of left wingers who don’t actually seem to like Mandani or admit to him having any political skills. He’s purely a stick to beat The Democrats with

05.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 63    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 2

People think Mamdani is some sort of electoral genius when really his main strength is "pleasant to be around and right on the issues." The guy can talk about left policy positions without sounding like a self-righteous asshole. Its, sadly, a lot rarer of a skill than it should be.

05.08.2025 16:14 — 👍 477    🔁 71    💬 14    📌 6

Republicans killed a bunch of Texans.

Forbes wants to beat around the bush, but this is a full on acknowledgement that REPUBLICANS KILLED A BUNCH OF TEXANS.

05.08.2025 22:41 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Let’s die America!! Special thanks go out to those who found every reason imaginable to convince people that neither Joe Biden or Kamala Harris should be president. Trump was just waiting there at the open door, and while many of us tried to slam it in his face, you left it open for him. Happy now?

05.08.2025 22:42 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 3

Hey congrats to everyone who took the soft anti-vaccine stance of “mRNA vaccines aren’t 100% effective and aren’t useful against future variants so the mRNA vaccines aren’t good, we need to mask forever”, your stance has been noted by RFK Jr. to kill mRNA technology in America.

05.08.2025 22:40 — 👍 596    🔁 108    💬 6    📌 16

sad to see someone else failing to appreciate the perspective of hard-working American viruses. you wouldn't believe the way polio's eyes lit up when Trump made good on his promises and appointed RFK to run HHS.

05.08.2025 22:43 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Vaccines are like the one exception to the rule that government policy has tradeoffs

05.08.2025 22:30 — 👍 84    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 0

mRNA vaccines are so close to magic as to be basically indistinguishable, and the administration is stopping them because they worship death.

05.08.2025 22:10 — 👍 836    🔁 232    💬 22    📌 11
The former vice president has been talking to rich people about income inequality a lot lately.
"People feel like they're being completely left out and they are," Biden said during a recent fundraiser at the Washington, DC, home of a former ambassador, to a group that included lobbyists and former Sens. Chris Dodd and Evan Bayh. "We just stopped talking to these folks."

The former vice president has been talking to rich people about income inequality a lot lately. "People feel like they're being completely left out and they are," Biden said during a recent fundraiser at the Washington, DC, home of a former ambassador, to a group that included lobbyists and former Sens. Chris Dodd and Evan Bayh. "We just stopped talking to these folks."

"I could take about $400 [billion] away, and it wouldn't change your standard of living one tiny little bit — not even an iota," Biden told donors.

"I could take about $400 [billion] away, and it wouldn't change your standard of living one tiny little bit — not even an iota," Biden told donors.

"I mean, we may not want to demonize anybody who has made money," the former vice president said at the Carlyle fundraiser. "We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it's all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one's standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change."

"I mean, we may not want to demonize anybody who has made money," the former vice president said at the Carlyle fundraiser. "We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it's all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one's standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change."

Choice quotes from Biden:

05.08.2025 22:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Joe Biden has been talking about income inequality a lot lately — to his rich donors Biden has done more fundraisers than campaign events so far this year.

For useful reference, here's a story with the direct quotes from Biden's speech. Though even this one hems and haws and hedges and tries to find alternative interpretations to avoid just admitting that Biden was saying the things they worship Bernie for saying.

www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

05.08.2025 22:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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GOP Senate chief changed consent law as relative faced rape charge involving 13-year-old The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. Newsweek reported a Salt Lake City Tribune piece that Senate President J....

The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. www.rawstory.com/utah-republi...

05.08.2025 20:50 — 👍 14    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 1

You’d think voters would learn by now.

05.08.2025 20:57 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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The ‘Big, Ugly Law’ will kick 17 million people off their healthcare, including nearly 2 million Floridians.

Hospitals will close. People will die.

My Democratic colleagues and I are committed to always fighting for Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and healthcare for all.

05.08.2025 20:57 — 👍 31    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 2

And y’all was pissed off at Biden/Harris. Got it.

05.08.2025 20:58 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Tulsi Gabbard is a threat to our national security and should be fired.

05.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 1508    🔁 322    💬 99    📌 20
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Save Medicaid. Stop abortion bans.
 
If we want to actually do that, we need to make sure everyone knows about Trump's Big Ugly bill.
 
I was in Seattle today to help make sure people understand Republicans are the reason why hospitals will close, wait times will be longer, and costs will skyrocket.

05.08.2025 20:55 — 👍 111    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 0

Leftists told me that SCOTUS wasn't important in 2016. One of them ended up working for Bernie Sanders's 2020 campaign because she argued this.

05.08.2025 20:37 — 👍 28    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah but that only matters if it's a Democrat.

05.08.2025 20:37 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Grok, what's the status of the evidence Matt Taibbi sexually assaulted women while living in Russia and passed boasting accounts of it off as "satire"?

05.08.2025 20:47 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Are the Epstein files on the roof?

05.08.2025 16:44 — 👍 428    🔁 99    💬 26    📌 7

period reminder that incomprehensible piece of shit jerry falwell helped invent the evangelical objection to abortion so that they could gain enough political power to claw back gains made by Black Americans and other marginalized groups achieved during the Civil Rights era of the 1960's

04.08.2025 22:41 — 👍 2437    🔁 578    💬 51    📌 28

This, by the way, was what Joe Biden was actually saying when he said "nothing will fundamentally change". He was literally telling rich people their lives would go on even when their taxes went up.

05.08.2025 19:46 — 👍 75    🔁 20    💬 7    📌 2

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

05.08.2025 02:17 — 👍 3250    🔁 1743    💬 207    📌 141

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