mbbendt
@bendts2cents.bsky.social
American Studies PhDStudent: squeamishly fascinated by religion, capitalism, energy/environment, and critical regionalism.
Mom of 2 young adults, 2 cats, about 102 plants.
God-stalker. Grace-freak. Rebel. Union member.
Coffee, chocolate, cheese & chile.
Mom of 2 young adults, 2 cats, about 102 plants.
God-stalker. Grace-freak. Rebel. Union member.
Coffee, chocolate, cheese & chile.
How comforting, it only took 8 weeks for the campus warning siren to be tested after September's failed test drill. Let's see if it actually works or if it's just a text scam again.
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
How comforting, it only took 8 weeks for the campus warning siren to be tested after September's failed test drill. Let's see if it actually works or if it's just a text scam again.
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If I have to know this, so do you:
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If I have to know this, so do you:
The tax rate on a trillion dollar paycheck needs to be like 99.9999999999%
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The tax rate on a trillion dollar paycheck needs to be like 99.9999999999%
Grief attack missing my best friend something fearsome tonight.
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Grief attack missing my best friend something fearsome tonight.
Little thief in my bed taking my nap. While I'm over here slogging away on the writing.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Little thief in my bed taking my nap. While I'm over here slogging away on the writing.
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I am always grateful for students who take their writing assignments seriously. It's a joy to read their work.
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I am always grateful for students who take their writing assignments seriously. It's a joy to read their work.
Corrupt to the core.
A 2022 tip warned BCSO of a deputy allegedly taking a bribe to dismiss a DWI, but the claim was deemed “unfounded.” Now that same deputy has pled guilty in a decades-long Albuquerque DWI bribery scheme.
Emailed tip from 2022 surfaces alleging DWI corruption on part of Bernalillo County deputy
www.abqjournal.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Corrupt to the core.
I finally had a chance to ask a jeep person what was with the dashboard full of ducks and it isn't even interesting. Question answered, answer boring.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I finally had a chance to ask a jeep person what was with the dashboard full of ducks and it isn't even interesting. Question answered, answer boring.
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The hardest part of cooking is waiting for it too cool enough to cut into it.
This is how cats feel five minutes before dinner time.
This is how cats feel five minutes before dinner time.
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The hardest part of cooking is waiting for it too cool enough to cut into it.
This is how cats feel five minutes before dinner time.
This is how cats feel five minutes before dinner time.
If Rs wanted to REALLY breaks Ds, all they'd have to do is offer an actually good universal healthcare plan. Pushing through a high-quality single-payer healthcare policy that demolished for profit insurance would crush dems for a generation.
We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
If Rs wanted to REALLY breaks Ds, all they'd have to do is offer an actually good universal healthcare plan. Pushing through a high-quality single-payer healthcare policy that demolished for profit insurance would crush dems for a generation.
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I think that superhero movies have done a number of human beings conditioning some people to believe that extraordinary actions are what matter. And if one can't be a superhero, then simple, ordinary efforts aren't worth doing.
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I think that superhero movies have done a number of human beings conditioning some people to believe that extraordinary actions are what matter. And if one can't be a superhero, then simple, ordinary efforts aren't worth doing.
Ok. Fine. I'll play.
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Ok. Fine. I'll play.
I'd be totally fine with it if we let the ACA go
and replaced it with full single-payer universal healthcare.
and replaced it with full single-payer universal healthcare.
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I'd be totally fine with it if we let the ACA go
and replaced it with full single-payer universal healthcare.
and replaced it with full single-payer universal healthcare.
The hardest part of cooking is waiting for it too cool enough to cut into it.
This is how cats feel five minutes before dinner time.
This is how cats feel five minutes before dinner time.
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The hardest part of cooking is waiting for it too cool enough to cut into it.
This is how cats feel five minutes before dinner time.
This is how cats feel five minutes before dinner time.
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Why do all bot and spam accounts have some version of “No DMs” in their bio? Genuine question. Do they think it makes them look more authentic? It’s a dead giveaway to me.
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Why do all bot and spam accounts have some version of “No DMs” in their bio? Genuine question. Do they think it makes them look more authentic? It’s a dead giveaway to me.
Will they never get over the obsession with other people's reproductive bits?
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Will they never get over the obsession with other people's reproductive bits?
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
Someone online once asked me if we even have trees in New Mexico.
November 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Someone online once asked me if we even have trees in New Mexico.
That would be a waste of tomatoes. May I suggest throwing dirty diapers instead? And chanting "poop for the poopy-heads/the rich want our blood/off with their heads/let them eat mud!" while doing it?
It's incredible that we let billionaires bloviate about their policy views without throwing tomatoes at them. We know what they want, they want policies that work for a few dozen people and immiserate the other 300 million. Not interested!
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
That would be a waste of tomatoes. May I suggest throwing dirty diapers instead? And chanting "poop for the poopy-heads/the rich want our blood/off with their heads/let them eat mud!" while doing it?
Spent the morning outside doing fall stuff and 11/10 rating.
Turned leaf litter into garden mulch. Watered the trees. Spread a batch of compost. Picked tomatoes. This is The Life.
Turned leaf litter into garden mulch. Watered the trees. Spread a batch of compost. Picked tomatoes. This is The Life.
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Spent the morning outside doing fall stuff and 11/10 rating.
Turned leaf litter into garden mulch. Watered the trees. Spread a batch of compost. Picked tomatoes. This is The Life.
Turned leaf litter into garden mulch. Watered the trees. Spread a batch of compost. Picked tomatoes. This is The Life.
OK ladies, this guy *volunteers to clean litterboxes* on Saturday. Maybe we can find a good home for him soon?
Worked this morning but went to the cat shelter this afternoon.
Mostly just cleaned a *ton* of litter boxes. But here’s one really sweet lil baby who’s up for adoption.
Mostly just cleaned a *ton* of litter boxes. But here’s one really sweet lil baby who’s up for adoption.
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
OK ladies, this guy *volunteers to clean litterboxes* on Saturday. Maybe we can find a good home for him soon?
I did once manage to ruin a superbowl bet between my stepdad and my first husband. Pure gold when they had to pay up, to me, the girl who didn't even watch the game.
Frankly women aren’t ruining enough things. Let’s ruin sports betting. Let’s ruin underwear companies that don’t account for people having butts. Let’s ruin trucks so big their fronts are taller than our heads. Let’s ruin the prison industrial complex. I believe in us!
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I did once manage to ruin a superbowl bet between my stepdad and my first husband. Pure gold when they had to pay up, to me, the girl who didn't even watch the game.
I don't eat much meat so tonight's dinner was giving me heartburn and I had to go eat an apple and now I feel much better. Dinner was delicious chicken enchiladas, no complaints, but reminded me why I have nearly reverted to my vegetarian ways.
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I don't eat much meat so tonight's dinner was giving me heartburn and I had to go eat an apple and now I feel much better. Dinner was delicious chicken enchiladas, no complaints, but reminded me why I have nearly reverted to my vegetarian ways.