Dan Benbow
Lifelong liberal realist/policy wonk into music, lit, writing, reflection, FBR, CBT, TIC, EBP, existentialism, dogs, photography, standup, conversation, fitness, art, Stanislavski, cities, Clare Torry, NBA, movement & people of soul & substance & good will
- Tonight on #BillMaher: NEW RULE: if u help fascists distract the public w/bs rants about wokeness, legitimate fascists by playing pattycake w/them on ur show & lecture libs who don't break bread w/fascists, u have no right to express concern when your fascist buddies kill Americans in broad daylight
- TITLE: 'Crown Our Prince' LOCATION: Minneapolis DATELINE: happier times (9/6/22) SETTING: a pristine fall day with warm temperatures, blue skies, and a president who respected the gravity of his decisions, appreciated the trust invested in him, and refused to use the Constitution as toilet paper
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- Today was not a good day for bothsiders, non-voters, self-hating Democrats and other #MAGA apologists
- photographed this in 2023 with the intention of posting it, but my better self won out. I strive to get along with others. I value positive vibes. But the state execution of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti has rendered the kumbaya in my soul inappropriate at best, if not downright morally suspect.
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- Date: January 6, 2021 Event: coup attempt Law enforcement dead: 5 Law enforcement injured: 140-174 Trauma caused to law enforcement: incalculable Cost to secure/refurbish Capitol: $2.1 billion Punishment: 4 more years to destroy democracy Location: The United States of Amnesia
- How does one maintain the spirit of Christmas while under the bootheel of Fascism?
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- Basic math (even for Trumpanzees): *Only 1 in 10,000 have serious adverse reactions to the COVID vaccine * The vaccinated are 74% less likely to die from COVID * COVID death rates in beet red counties have been 2-6X the rate of deaths in the bluest counties courtesy of @conormcl2025.bsky.social
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- "If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, be warmed and filled,' without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead." -James 2:15-17
- Welcome to the United States of the Irony-Impaired, where the staggeringly corrupt a$$hole at the top of this list based his first campaign on the assertion that his opponent was 'crooked' while he was a straight shooter who was too wealthy to be corrupted by The Swamp You can't fix stupid.
- Behold the worst 'Christians' you've ever met in your life: *A trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts *Big cuts to Medicare, CHIP, ACA subsidies & SNAP benefits (vets included) *11 MILLION more Americans uninsured by 2034 'Christians' who voted for this are free to keep their heads in the sand
- summertime lush
- Careerist media charlatans (from elite backgrounds) love to paint Dems as 'out of touch' with 'real Americans,' even though Dems are the ONLY party who represents real Americans' interests. The blame for Trump? It's the bigotry & political illiteracy, stupid. www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
- Remember when Combover Caligula told us multiple times that COVID will 'go away by the summer' of 2020 (as the first of 1.4 million Americans were dying from it) and was such a narcissistic fool that he insisted on leading daily briefings about complex scientific subjects he had 0 understanding of?
- Worse yet: tens of millions of women vote for their own (and their daughters,' and their granddaughters') oppression
- ...and the dopes who take Fox at face value wouldn't blink, even as they sat in front of the idiot box with their church clothes on* See: Sunday--the most hypocritical day of the week for RW evangelicals (*if they actually bothered to maintain the charade that they were 'practicing Christians')
- The San Francisco skyline A view from Dolores Park
- Trump fought the law and the law won (p.s. all-star resisters below; follow them and meet many, many more where that came from)
- damn straight.
- Futurism: Elon Musk Accidentally Wasted a Vast Sum of Taxpayer Money Due to His Staggering Incompetence The skinny: projected DOGE savings ($150 billion) cost to rehire workers ($135 bil) lost due 2 IRS firings ($500 b) + lawsuit payouts tinyurl.com/ycx24rdm
- Sticking it to the libs, one limb at a time
- ...or how nice it would be to have a voting populace that EXPECTED presidents to be exceptional, as befits the most powerful person in the world
