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James Benjamin
@ajbenjaminjr.bsky.social
Psychology professor, music lover, and amateur photographer. I study aggression and authoritarianism. Lifelong Democrat. Taking life a day at a time.

Pronouns: he/him/his #NAFO 🐱🇺🇦
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January 21, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Scenes from occupied Minneapolis: "3 SUVs ICE officers driving down 21st to 42nd street. The ice officer rolled down his window and took a photo of me and said 'I got you motherfucker'. I am just a home owner going outside to see what was going on."
January 21, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Minneapolis activists disrupted a church service where David Easterwood serves as a pastor, according to lawyer and activist @nekimal - Easterwood is also the acting field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in St. Paul, Minnesota.

I'm LIVE from Minneapolis right now 🤝🏾
January 18, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Men who defend Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good are not safe to be around. End those relationships.
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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“It absolutely benefits us”

Russian state TV celebrating Trump going after Greenland and destroying NATO

Coincidence? We think not

Video (from @juliadavisnews.bsky.social ): www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ThS...
January 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Denmark's military intelligence service has recommended that the country's authorities refrain from using Bluetooth devices due to risk of US espionage. Other European intelligence services have directed similar memos.
January 19, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
When Donold says there is no written record of Denmark's interests in Greenland, he is full of it as usual. There is at least one document going back to 1916.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Trump says ‘no comment’ when asked if he would seize Greenland by force – Europe live
The US president said he would “100%” push ahead with his plans to hit European nations with tarrifs if he doesn’t get Greenland
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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It‘s both astounding & disturbing that 1 sociopath, demented old man Trump, can destroy decades of relative global stability in just a few weeks
January 18, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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He’s definitely the winner of this trophy
January 17, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen.

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.

Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out.

Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Worth every second
January 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM
About those Epstein files: When are the rest released?

About the affordability crisis: why is inflation still above target? This was supposed to be solved day 1. 🤣

What's the plan for healthcare now that it's even less affordable than before?

These clowns in the White House are afraid to answer.
January 13, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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Oh, I definitely will remember…
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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Original sane washed edition, left, transcript which reveals it is even more a confession of psychological illness than NYT tried to sane wash, right.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
January 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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There is a greater than zero number of times I have imagined something similar happening to me at my home, whether it was a neighbor or someone ICE or MAGA or whoever looked sideways at, and while more than zero may sound weird, it's only because that is level of fear we are in in this country now.
January 9, 2026 at 11:49 PM