Ben Pulver
@benpulver.bsky.social
Michigander, Chef, Husband, and Dad. Fierce Pappa Bear to the “Pulver Bears”. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Small democratic values - Capital D Democratic politics
Better a bleeding heart than none at all.
Small democratic values - Capital D Democratic politics
Better a bleeding heart than none at all.
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Ben Pulver
@benpulver.bsky.social
· Jul 17
Nurse says Meshawn Maddock’s anti-trans attacks involving her children ‘crossed the line’ • Michigan Advance
An Oakland County-based health care professional says social media posts involving her children by former Michigan GOP Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock have “crossed the line.” Julia Pulver is a career nurse ...
michiganadvance.com
2 Years ago today Michigan’s Republican Party launched a harassment campaign against our family. It came out of nowhere and it was targeted not at my wife @japulver.bsky.social who had been a candidate, but specifically at our minor children. Here’s my thoughts 🧵
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ICE is too busy harassing children to pick up the criminals our sheriffs are asking them to take.
www.fox9.com/news/mn-sher...
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MN sheriff says ICE was too busy in Twin Cities to pick man accused of sex crime
"Wholly inaccurate." The Cottonwood County Sheriff is firing back after ICE accused them of ignoring a detainer. The sheriff says they called ICE, but agents said they were too busy in the Twin Cities...
www.fox9.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:55 PM
ICE is too busy harassing children to pick up the criminals our sheriffs are asking them to take.
www.fox9.com/news/mn-sher...
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Hey if you have a problem with the White House sharing A.I. generated photos of their political enemies great reminder to not also do that
January 23, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Hey if you have a problem with the White House sharing A.I. generated photos of their political enemies great reminder to not also do that
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"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said.
"Two of them are high-schoolers.
"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
"Two of them are high-schoolers.
"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:50 PM
"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said.
"Two of them are high-schoolers.
"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
"Two of them are high-schoolers.
"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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I can't even keep up with the lies in Jim Jordan's opening statement, but I find it interesting that he's complaining about toll record warrants obtained by a judge, while this administration has determined judicial warrants aren't needed to enter our homes.
January 22, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I can't even keep up with the lies in Jim Jordan's opening statement, but I find it interesting that he's complaining about toll record warrants obtained by a judge, while this administration has determined judicial warrants aren't needed to enter our homes.
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SEEING IS BELIEVING
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
January 22, 2026 at 4:44 AM
SEEING IS BELIEVING
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
If you’re not from the area, you might not know Willow Run was the home of “Rosie The Riveter”, the women who built B52 bombers to help us win in WWII.
I have a 103 year old resident where I work who prides herself as being a Rosie. I’m not telling her how they’re using Willow Run.
I have a 103 year old resident where I work who prides herself as being a Rosie. I’m not telling her how they’re using Willow Run.
January 22, 2026 at 12:34 PM
If you’re not from the area, you might not know Willow Run was the home of “Rosie The Riveter”, the women who built B52 bombers to help us win in WWII.
I have a 103 year old resident where I work who prides herself as being a Rosie. I’m not telling her how they’re using Willow Run.
I have a 103 year old resident where I work who prides herself as being a Rosie. I’m not telling her how they’re using Willow Run.
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According to the ICE Flight Monitor, a project by the organization Human Rights First, ICE used Willow Run as a stop for flights, usually to major immigration detention hubs in the South, regularly throughout the second half of 2025.
Story from @kdailey.bsky.social
Story from @kdailey.bsky.social
Advocates demand Wayne County Airport Authority halt ICE flights out of Willow Run airport • Michigan Advance
Activists called on airport officials to halt the flights by ICE out of Willow Run Airport near Ypsilanti during the public comment period of the Wayne County Airport Authority board meeting on Wednes...
michiganadvance.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:14 PM
According to the ICE Flight Monitor, a project by the organization Human Rights First, ICE used Willow Run as a stop for flights, usually to major immigration detention hubs in the South, regularly throughout the second half of 2025.
Story from @kdailey.bsky.social
Story from @kdailey.bsky.social
I go on Facebook because that’s where friends and family are. But when I started sharing and commenting on articles about ICE targeting Native Americans, I noticed how prepared MAGA was. The bots and the talking points were ready to go to justify demanding papers and detaining NATIVE AMERICANS.
a picture of a girl with the words it was n't an accident netflix
ALT: a picture of a girl with the words it was n't an accident netflix
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January 22, 2026 at 12:08 PM
I go on Facebook because that’s where friends and family are. But when I started sharing and commenting on articles about ICE targeting Native Americans, I noticed how prepared MAGA was. The bots and the talking points were ready to go to justify demanding papers and detaining NATIVE AMERICANS.
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Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.
January 21, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.
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A reminder how ICE treats priests.
January 20, 2026 at 9:19 PM
A reminder how ICE treats priests.
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Lately there has been a lot of people on BlueSky demanding that Americans to go turn violent on ICE agents.
I’m sure that some of them are genuinely just frightened and misguided.
But some of them are actively trying to insight violence because that is what is called for in project 2025.
I’m sure that some of them are genuinely just frightened and misguided.
But some of them are actively trying to insight violence because that is what is called for in project 2025.
January 19, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Lately there has been a lot of people on BlueSky demanding that Americans to go turn violent on ICE agents.
I’m sure that some of them are genuinely just frightened and misguided.
But some of them are actively trying to insight violence because that is what is called for in project 2025.
I’m sure that some of them are genuinely just frightened and misguided.
But some of them are actively trying to insight violence because that is what is called for in project 2025.
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Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
January 20, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring
January 14, 2026 at 11:10 PM
McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
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Don't bother arguing about whether ICE is a police force or a military force. It's neither. It behaves as a disorganized, violent mob, cursing, shouting contradictory orders, and attacking unarmed citizens on a whim. It is deployed to create fear and chaos, not to enforce laws or establish order.
January 13, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Don't bother arguing about whether ICE is a police force or a military force. It's neither. It behaves as a disorganized, violent mob, cursing, shouting contradictory orders, and attacking unarmed citizens on a whim. It is deployed to create fear and chaos, not to enforce laws or establish order.
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There's no reason for ICE agents to have guns. Nobody is shooting at them.
January 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
There's no reason for ICE agents to have guns. Nobody is shooting at them.
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Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."
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Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
January 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
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