Angela Benander
@abenander.bsky.social
Michigan Democrat, trans-inclusive feminist
Comms Chief for MI Secretary of State
Whitmer, Stabenow, Durbin alum
Comms Chief for MI Secretary of State
Whitmer, Stabenow, Durbin alum
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it's also fun that she's incinerating him in between cute cat posting while he's running around the sight weeping and insisting he has a soul.
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
it's also fun that she's incinerating him in between cute cat posting while he's running around the sight weeping and insisting he has a soul.
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Yes, their final words were “We are holding our own.”
Yes, poor Mr. Fitzgerald will never be remembered as the man who brought The Brewers to Milwaukee.
Yes, @lakesuperior.bsky.social holds enough water to cover North & South America with a foot of water.
Yes, poor Mr. Fitzgerald will never be remembered as the man who brought The Brewers to Milwaukee.
Yes, @lakesuperior.bsky.social holds enough water to cover North & South America with a foot of water.
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Yes, their final words were “We are holding our own.”
Yes, poor Mr. Fitzgerald will never be remembered as the man who brought The Brewers to Milwaukee.
Yes, @lakesuperior.bsky.social holds enough water to cover North & South America with a foot of water.
Yes, poor Mr. Fitzgerald will never be remembered as the man who brought The Brewers to Milwaukee.
Yes, @lakesuperior.bsky.social holds enough water to cover North & South America with a foot of water.
As we close out the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ---->>>
yes, November is a winter month
yes, we Michigan schoolchildren mourned the crew as if they were our own relatives
yes, the Great Lakes will kill you and anyone you know - but especially Lake Superior
💀💙🌊
yes, November is a winter month
yes, we Michigan schoolchildren mourned the crew as if they were our own relatives
yes, the Great Lakes will kill you and anyone you know - but especially Lake Superior
💀💙🌊
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
As we close out the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ---->>>
yes, November is a winter month
yes, we Michigan schoolchildren mourned the crew as if they were our own relatives
yes, the Great Lakes will kill you and anyone you know - but especially Lake Superior
💀💙🌊
yes, November is a winter month
yes, we Michigan schoolchildren mourned the crew as if they were our own relatives
yes, the Great Lakes will kill you and anyone you know - but especially Lake Superior
💀💙🌊
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If someone put a sign on the side of an industrial trash compactor reading "Portal Back to 2015 in the Canon Timeline", I'm jumping in. I'm taking that risk.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If someone put a sign on the side of an industrial trash compactor reading "Portal Back to 2015 in the Canon Timeline", I'm jumping in. I'm taking that risk.
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If a mob broke into my workplace and a number of them were vocal about wanting to kill me, I'd probably be more circumspect about assuming it was just business as normal. Particularly if the CEO encouraged the mob and excused them after the fact.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
If a mob broke into my workplace and a number of them were vocal about wanting to kill me, I'd probably be more circumspect about assuming it was just business as normal. Particularly if the CEO encouraged the mob and excused them after the fact.
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It’s especially galling that Durbin would cave while ICE is brutalizing the Chicago metropolitan area.
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It’s especially galling that Durbin would cave while ICE is brutalizing the Chicago metropolitan area.
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What makes this more frustrating is that Dems were winning.
They had public opinion
They had base enthusiasm
They had Trump making tactical mistakes every day
And they lose
They had public opinion
They had base enthusiasm
They had Trump making tactical mistakes every day
And they lose
This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
What makes this more frustrating is that Dems were winning.
They had public opinion
They had base enthusiasm
They had Trump making tactical mistakes every day
And they lose
They had public opinion
They had base enthusiasm
They had Trump making tactical mistakes every day
And they lose
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
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A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices
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Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
thank god
Peters is a no
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
thank god
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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I guess regular working class people are supposed to sympathize with the people who cave the second they might have to work weekends
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I guess regular working class people are supposed to sympathize with the people who cave the second they might have to work weekends
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I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
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Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
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Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"
“Um well there aren’t even any Senate Dem Press releases saying they support the deal”
Sen Tim Kaine: Hold my beer
Sen Tim Kaine: Hold my beer
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"
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Caving now means they literally did it for nothing and caused harm to people for nothing. Just absolute failure on every level.
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Caving now means they literally did it for nothing and caused harm to people for nothing. Just absolute failure on every level.
that's enough internet for today thanks
While women are fighting for basic reproductive rights, Silicon Valley is literally investing in guys who want their cum to race.
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More Bad News: Tech Bros Are Sperm Racing
While women are fighting for basic reproductive rights, Silicon Valley is literally investing in guys who want their cum to race.
www.jezebel.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
that's enough internet for today thanks
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Your body is a scam and it will kill you.
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Your body is a scam and it will kill you.
sweetest face but 8+ hours northwest of me (also husband and both cats have an anti-new cats coalition government in this house)
@abenander.bsky.social somewhere in michigan
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
sweetest face but 8+ hours northwest of me (also husband and both cats have an anti-new cats coalition government in this house)
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The single biggest question in American law today is:
Are lies a get-out-of-laws-free card? Can the government simply lie to grant itself new powers? And is everyone else under an obligation to act as if obvious lies are true, or at minimum, that they might have merit and deserve respect?
Are lies a get-out-of-laws-free card? Can the government simply lie to grant itself new powers? And is everyone else under an obligation to act as if obvious lies are true, or at minimum, that they might have merit and deserve respect?
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The single biggest question in American law today is:
Are lies a get-out-of-laws-free card? Can the government simply lie to grant itself new powers? And is everyone else under an obligation to act as if obvious lies are true, or at minimum, that they might have merit and deserve respect?
Are lies a get-out-of-laws-free card? Can the government simply lie to grant itself new powers? And is everyone else under an obligation to act as if obvious lies are true, or at minimum, that they might have merit and deserve respect?
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She looks like she will skin him alive right after that
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
She looks like she will skin him alive right after that
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The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.
I'm so happy for this Iguana
Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
November 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I'm so happy for this Iguana
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A weighted blanket, but it’s just someone dropping a grand piano on me.
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A weighted blanket, but it’s just someone dropping a grand piano on me.