Bennet Kelley
@bennet.bsky.social
Internet lawyer, award-winning political columnist, and sports and history blogger. Native Rhode Islander, DC Refugee living the dream in SoCal with dog Gidget.
I will always remember the feeling of hope and pride from that day. Sadly, as Minneapolis and Trump's confederate presidency demonstrate, we still live in a nation where people are judged by the color of their skin, ethnicity, or language and not the content of their character. #MLKDay #Trump #Obama
January 19, 2026 at 11:03 AM
I will always remember the feeling of hope and pride from that day. Sadly, as Minneapolis and Trump's confederate presidency demonstrate, we still live in a nation where people are judged by the color of their skin, ethnicity, or language and not the content of their character. #MLKDay #Trump #Obama
Trump always says how the US is not respected abroad under Dems but is under his watch. It is just the opposite. Support among #NATO allies plummeted to below #China and int'l visitor spending in the US fell $12.5B - the only country to suffer a loss in 2025. #trump #internationalstanding
January 19, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Trump always says how the US is not respected abroad under Dems but is under his watch. It is just the opposite. Support among #NATO allies plummeted to below #China and int'l visitor spending in the US fell $12.5B - the only country to suffer a loss in 2025. #trump #internationalstanding
I saw so many moving posts tonight coming out of #Minnesota that I thought I would share some of the heartbreaking pleas from the residents who feel brutalized by #ICE and nobody is helping. They stress, this is not just a Minnesota thing. bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/t... #immigration
Tales of Heartbreak from Minneapolis: “This is not just a Minnesota thing.”
I saw so many moving posts tonight coming out of Minnesota that I thought I would share some of the heartbreaking pleas from the residents. What is more troubling, however, is that the Twin Cities&…
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January 18, 2026 at 11:34 AM
I saw so many moving posts tonight coming out of #Minnesota that I thought I would share some of the heartbreaking pleas from the residents who feel brutalized by #ICE and nobody is helping. They stress, this is not just a Minnesota thing. bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/t... #immigration
Shout out to #ashleythebarroness and @ravenreveals.bsky.social for putting the #ICE raids in proper historical context - its history comes from both the #Confederacy and the #Gestapo. It has happened and is happening here. bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/i...
Is Trump the Second Confederate President, the American Fuhrer or a Confederatzi?
Upon taking office for a second term, I have repeatedly called Trump the Second Confederate President for his white supremacist policies and actions restoring Confederate monuments and military bas…
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January 18, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Shout out to #ashleythebarroness and @ravenreveals.bsky.social for putting the #ICE raids in proper historical context - its history comes from both the #Confederacy and the #Gestapo. It has happened and is happening here. bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/i...
Proud to support @bethmacy.bsky.social in her run for Congress. We need fighters like her in Congress. #bethmacy #va6th #dopesick
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Epilogue: Dopesick Author Beth Macy Running for Congress from VA-6
In 2018, it was my great honor to interview Beth Macy, author of the bestseller “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America” which was a groundbreaking work on the origi…
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December 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Proud to support @bethmacy.bsky.social in her run for Congress. We need fighters like her in Congress. #bethmacy #va6th #dopesick
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OTD 1956: #BLOODINTHEWATER, THE LAST BATTLE OF THE HUNGARIAN UPRISING. #Hungary faced the Soviet Union in a violent and bloody semifinal match in the Olympics, crushing their occupiers 4-0 en route to their 4th gold medal. todaypast.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/d...
Dec 6: Blood in the Water at the Melbourne Olympics
Blood in the Waters at the Melbourne Olympics Throughout the Cold War, tensions between the Soviets and other nations frequently spilled over into the Olympics. This was especially true with the 1…
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December 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
OTD 1956: #BLOODINTHEWATER, THE LAST BATTLE OF THE HUNGARIAN UPRISING. #Hungary faced the Soviet Union in a violent and bloody semifinal match in the Olympics, crushing their occupiers 4-0 en route to their 4th gold medal. todaypast.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/d...
OTD 1989: #GENDERCIDE IN MONTREAL. A gunman kills 14 women at Ecole #Polytechnique because, he claimed, feminism had ruined his life. In Canada, this massacre is commemorated as "Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women". todaypast.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/d...
Dec 6: Remembering Gendercide in Montreal and Calling for Action on Domestic Violence
On December 6, 1989, a 25-year-old Montreal resident entered the École Polytechnique in Montreal and shot and killed 14 women and wounded 10 others because, he claimed, feminism had ruined his life…
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December 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
OTD 1989: #GENDERCIDE IN MONTREAL. A gunman kills 14 women at Ecole #Polytechnique because, he claimed, feminism had ruined his life. In Canada, this massacre is commemorated as "Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women". todaypast.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/d...
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OPINION: We surveyed 849 professional Santas who live across the U.S. and interviewed 53 of them, collecting data between 2018 and 2021. We identified three types of professional Santas: prototypical, semi-prototypical and nonprototypical.
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What makes a true Santa is inside – and comes with the red suit
(The Conversation) — A survey of 849 professional Santas found that one-third of them don’t match the usual image of a roly-poly bearded white man.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
OPINION: We surveyed 849 professional Santas who live across the U.S. and interviewed 53 of them, collecting data between 2018 and 2021. We identified three types of professional Santas: prototypical, semi-prototypical and nonprototypical.
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It is fitting that today's vote fell on the same day as the UN day dedicated to ending abuse and promoting healing for victims.
#EndChildSexAbuseDay, #Nov18WorldDay, #PreventionHealingJustice #epstein #trump #releasethefiles
#EndChildSexAbuseDay, #Nov18WorldDay, #PreventionHealingJustice #epstein #trump #releasethefiles
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It is fitting that today's vote fell on the same day as the UN day dedicated to ending abuse and promoting healing for victims.
#EndChildSexAbuseDay, #Nov18WorldDay, #PreventionHealingJustice #epstein #trump #releasethefiles
#EndChildSexAbuseDay, #Nov18WorldDay, #PreventionHealingJustice #epstein #trump #releasethefiles
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If the trump campaign in 2016 didn’t coordinate with Russia,
Why did Marco Rubio say Russia worked to get trump elected as detailed in RUBIO’S Volume 5 of the Senate Intel report?
Why did Putin admit to helping him get elected?
Why did the CIA conclude this?
If the trump campaign in 2016 didn’t coordinate with Russia,
Why did Marco Rubio say Russia worked to get trump elected as detailed in RUBIO’S Volume 5 of the Senate Intel report?
Why did Putin admit to helping him get elected?
Why did the CIA conclude this?
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
@raskin.house.gov
If the trump campaign in 2016 didn’t coordinate with Russia,
Why did Marco Rubio say Russia worked to get trump elected as detailed in RUBIO’S Volume 5 of the Senate Intel report?
Why did Putin admit to helping him get elected?
Why did the CIA conclude this?
If the trump campaign in 2016 didn’t coordinate with Russia,
Why did Marco Rubio say Russia worked to get trump elected as detailed in RUBIO’S Volume 5 of the Senate Intel report?
Why did Putin admit to helping him get elected?
Why did the CIA conclude this?
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GOOD ONE!
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
GOOD ONE!
If Epstein was using his files to blackmail people and now Trump holds those files - are they doing the same? Whether it is for political leverage or financial gain? #epstein #trump #blackmail #PamBondi #blackmail
two men are posing for a picture and one has a pink tie on
ALT: two men are posing for a picture and one has a pink tie on
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November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If Epstein was using his files to blackmail people and now Trump holds those files - are they doing the same? Whether it is for political leverage or financial gain? #epstein #trump #blackmail #PamBondi #blackmail
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On this Epstein stuff, just a reminder that multiple contestants in the Miss Teen USA pageant - to repeat, TEENAGERS - said that when Trump owned it, he would walk into the dressing room so he could watch them changing clothes
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Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing
“Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”
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November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
On this Epstein stuff, just a reminder that multiple contestants in the Miss Teen USA pageant - to repeat, TEENAGERS - said that when Trump owned it, he would walk into the dressing room so he could watch them changing clothes
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kend...
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Is anyone else tired of bailing out idiots who vote to bankrupt themselves?
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Is anyone else tired of bailing out idiots who vote to bankrupt themselves?
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“The shift under Mr. Patel has struck directly at the Five Eyes relationship through the removal of senior agents who spent years fighting Islamic extremists or blunting counterintelligence threats alongside operatives from allied countries.”
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
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November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“The shift under Mr. Patel has struck directly at the Five Eyes relationship through the removal of senior agents who spent years fighting Islamic extremists or blunting counterintelligence threats alongside operatives from allied countries.”
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Trump DOJ has indicted a Palestinian-American Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, an influencer who is a rising star among progressives, for being a part of anti-ICE protests outside Chicago. #katmabu #katAbughazaleh #ICE #Chicago #trump bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Trump DOJ has indicted a Palestinian-American Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, an influencer who is a rising star among progressives, for being a part of anti-ICE protests outside Chicago. #katmabu #katAbughazaleh #ICE #Chicago #trump bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
We are now officially a banana republic, as Trump has banned Africa's first Nobel laureate from the US for calling him the "white version of Idi Amin with democratic disguise". bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
Trump Bans Nigerian Nobel Laureate From US Over Comparison to Idi Amin. We Are Now Officially a Banana Republic.
What is the point that we concede that the United States has moved past a slide towards authoritarianism/fascism, and recognize that we may already be there? In a move one would expect from a banan…
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October 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We are now officially a banana republic, as Trump has banned Africa's first Nobel laureate from the US for calling him the "white version of Idi Amin with democratic disguise". bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
I told #ROKForeignMinistry that I was deeply offended by the gift to President Trump which validated his worst impulses at a time when millions in America are fighting to preserve our democracy. #DesiLydic nailed it - #WTFSK? #SouthKorea #dailyshow www.tiktok.com/@thedailysho...
Hey South Korea, what the f**k are you doing?! #DesiLydic #DailyShow #Trump #SouthKorea
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October 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I told #ROKForeignMinistry that I was deeply offended by the gift to President Trump which validated his worst impulses at a time when millions in America are fighting to preserve our democracy. #DesiLydic nailed it - #WTFSK? #SouthKorea #dailyshow www.tiktok.com/@thedailysho...
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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones
We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating power, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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October 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Shortly before the shutdown, the USDA moved to scrap the Household Food Security Report, the nation’s primary tool for tracking food insecurity, and in doing so, stripped away the very infrastructure needed to remedy rising hunger in America.
The shutdown will worsen hunger—which the Trump administration just stopped tracking
Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Shortly before the shutdown, the USDA moved to scrap the Household Food Security Report, the nation’s primary tool for tracking food insecurity, and in doing so, stripped away the very infrastructure needed to remedy rising hunger in America.
RUFKM? This after he told CNN to lighten up on the East Wing coverage? #Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #Ballroom #CommissionofFineArts #Fascism #NoKings #TackyManFromQueens www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects
The move comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
RUFKM? This after he told CNN to lighten up on the East Wing coverage? #Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #Ballroom #CommissionofFineArts #Fascism #NoKings #TackyManFromQueens www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Cleveland sent troops in to protect Chinese immigrants from anti-immigrant violence, while Trump wants to use troops to stoke anti-immigrant violence. #trump #ice #nationalguard #militarization #immigration #chinese #Cleveland www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/p...
Analysis: Why one of Trump’s favorite presidents sent troops to US cities | CNN Politics
If there’s one former president whom Donald Trump has elevated during Trump 2.0, it’s Grover Cleveland.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Cleveland sent troops in to protect Chinese immigrants from anti-immigrant violence, while Trump wants to use troops to stoke anti-immigrant violence. #trump #ice #nationalguard #militarization #immigration #chinese #Cleveland www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/p...
President Donald Trump bluntly told a White House reporter on Thursday that he would continue circumventing Congress by fatally striking boats in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, saying, "we're just gonna kill people." His statement came after he had expressed frustration with the Nobel ...
'Bloodthirsty' Trump talks about extrajudicial killings after Nobel Prize snub
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October 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM