Karen Dalton Beninato
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Karen Dalton Beninato
@kbeninato.bsky.social
Writer, words in The New Republic, NOLA, Huffington Post, Earth Island. Nonprofit co-founder. Was publicist for legendary Dr. John; now working with badasses artists including Grammy nominated Corey Henry. Grammy mentor.
https://karendaltonbeninato.com
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Here's to all the fresh New Year's Revolutions.
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In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
What's the German word for at least the people being so evil are terrible at it on every level?
February 13, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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Bring it on.
February 12, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!

New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
February 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Planetary death cult runs amok.
February 12, 2026 at 8:29 PM
An exclamation point !
BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
February 12, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Someone has reminded me that today is Charles Darwin's birthday. It also Abraham Lincoln's, of course. Both born OTD in 1809. SOMETHING big was going on then.
February 12, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 2:12 AM
"We got a pink one! The horror!"
February 12, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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OpenAI fired one of its top safety execs, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product.

OpenAI told her the term was related to her sexual discrimination against a male colleague.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Exclusive | OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination
Ryan Beiermeister, who served as the vice president leading OpenAI’s product policy team, had raised concerns about the upcoming launch of erotic content.
www.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
DOD on high alert against general reveal parties.
So the DOD started laser testing because they believed party balloons were drones, shut down all of El Paso airspace, and blamed it on Mexican cartels?
February 11, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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"I believe he was pardoned."
AG Bondi's response to whether or not a Jan 6th rioter who yelled "Kill 'em!" at Capitol Hill police now works for her.

The contempt by this administration for the law and basic human decency is nauseating.
February 11, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Everything is fine.

[Gallup's dog stares directly into the camera with a gun at its head.]
seems almost certain we’ll later find out they were coerced

thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.
February 11, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Same.
February 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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Bondi summed up: the stock market is up and every state has at least one horrible crime I can talk about so stop asking me questions about the DOJ!!!!!!!! (Yelled very loudly).
February 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM
💔
February 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Imagine how the jobs report would look if every businessman and politician in the Epstein Files was fired and replaced. Jobs galore.
February 11, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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I know it's cringe to be like "we are going to win" but when you have career DOJ prosecutors flipping sides and being like "I quit two weeks ago and I'm ready to burn this bitch to the ground" I don't know what else to say
Don Lemon hires ex-U.S. prosecutor who quit amid concerns over investigation into Renee Good's killing
Joseph H. Thompson left as an assistant U.S. attorney based in Minnesota amid concerns over the Trump administration's handling of the investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE off...
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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This is Minneapolis:
February 11, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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"The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening, in which the press is absolutely a structural part of this," says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, award-winning investigative journalist
(Democracy Now, 2/10/26)
February 11, 2026 at 1:31 AM