TommyBen
@tbapple.bsky.social
Nihilist in the kitchen, humanist in the bedroom and an actor at work, in the role of civil servant.
Live long and prosper.
Live long and prosper.
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TommyBen
@tbapple.bsky.social
· Dec 5
The battle between burn it all down billionaires and status quo billionaires has begun.
The scenes in Iran are why Trump isn’t being allowed to invoke the insurrection act.
Iran’s “success” in shutting down the protests would be unrecoverable for America.
Example: cutting off internet an cell service nationwide is certainly outside Trump’s power.
Iran’s “success” in shutting down the protests would be unrecoverable for America.
Example: cutting off internet an cell service nationwide is certainly outside Trump’s power.
January 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM
The scenes in Iran are why Trump isn’t being allowed to invoke the insurrection act.
Iran’s “success” in shutting down the protests would be unrecoverable for America.
Example: cutting off internet an cell service nationwide is certainly outside Trump’s power.
Iran’s “success” in shutting down the protests would be unrecoverable for America.
Example: cutting off internet an cell service nationwide is certainly outside Trump’s power.
ICE is just state sanctioned European Football Hooliganism.
Roaming from town to town, drunk and disorderly, beating up any home fan hapless enough to run into them outnumbered.
Roaming from town to town, drunk and disorderly, beating up any home fan hapless enough to run into them outnumbered.
January 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM
ICE is just state sanctioned European Football Hooliganism.
Roaming from town to town, drunk and disorderly, beating up any home fan hapless enough to run into them outnumbered.
Roaming from town to town, drunk and disorderly, beating up any home fan hapless enough to run into them outnumbered.
That this pathetically insecure, unhappy, ignoramus is President is sorta funny and gives me Schadenfreude at his miserable existence.
Reporter: Why would you want someone else’s Nobel Prize?
Trump: She offered it to me.
Trump: She offered it to me.
January 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM
That this pathetically insecure, unhappy, ignoramus is President is sorta funny and gives me Schadenfreude at his miserable existence.
Mamdani with Tisch are keeping ICE from big time events in NYC.
Credit where credit is due.
Credit where credit is due.
January 16, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Mamdani with Tisch are keeping ICE from big time events in NYC.
Credit where credit is due.
Credit where credit is due.
Police in smalls town have boring jobs. Big towns need competence and citizen cooperation.
Guys who couldn’t cut in either are now trying to bully the citizens in the big towns.
Competent big town police are going to get impatient with out of town hooliganism.
Guys who couldn’t cut in either are now trying to bully the citizens in the big towns.
Competent big town police are going to get impatient with out of town hooliganism.
January 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Police in smalls town have boring jobs. Big towns need competence and citizen cooperation.
Guys who couldn’t cut in either are now trying to bully the citizens in the big towns.
Competent big town police are going to get impatient with out of town hooliganism.
Guys who couldn’t cut in either are now trying to bully the citizens in the big towns.
Competent big town police are going to get impatient with out of town hooliganism.
Self driving buses are a solution without a problem.
Does a driverless bus wait a few extra seconds while the bus drivers neighbors are waiting to cross a street for the bus stop?
Does a driverless bus wait a few extra seconds while the bus drivers neighbors are waiting to cross a street for the bus stop?
The U.S. Department of Transportation brought to D.C. an automated bus to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride.
One of those trips was interrupted when the bus got rear-ended by a Tesla.
One of those trips was interrupted when the bus got rear-ended by a Tesla.
Officials showed off a robo-bus in D.C. It got hit by a Tesla driver.
A Beep automated shuttle bus displayed by the U.S. Department of Transportation in D.C. this week got into a collision with a driver on H Street.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Self driving buses are a solution without a problem.
Does a driverless bus wait a few extra seconds while the bus drivers neighbors are waiting to cross a street for the bus stop?
Does a driverless bus wait a few extra seconds while the bus drivers neighbors are waiting to cross a street for the bus stop?
Mets are going to have the highest payroll ever for a Moneyball team.
BREAKING NEWS
Bo Bichette to sign a 3-year deal with the Mets, per Will Sammon.
Bo Bichette to sign a 3-year deal with the Mets, per Will Sammon.
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Mets are going to have the highest payroll ever for a Moneyball team.
Americans already can use 401k funds for home purchases. WSJ isn’t too good at this financial journalism thing.
President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday.
Trump Plan Would Let Americans Use 401(k)s for Down Payments on Homes, Official Says
President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday.
on.wsj.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Americans already can use 401k funds for home purchases. WSJ isn’t too good at this financial journalism thing.
Bluesky is just one guy posting “you’ve got a big head” every time they break up with you.
a woman wearing a necklace with a cross on it smiles for the camera
Alt: Julia Louis Dreyfus making a “You go” gesture with a pained smiled.
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Bluesky is just one guy posting “you’ve got a big head” every time they break up with you.
Oh to be rich enough that my employees make hundreds of millions of dollars.
Shohei Ohtani: 10 years, $700,000,000
Mookie Betts: 12 years, $365,000,000
Yoshinobu Yamamoto: 12 years, $325,000,000
Kyle Tucker: 4 years, $240,000,000
Blake Snell: 5 years, $182,000,000
Freddie Freeman: 6 years, $162,000,000
Will Smith: 10 years, $140,000,000
Tyler Glasnow: 5 years, $136,562,500
Mookie Betts: 12 years, $365,000,000
Yoshinobu Yamamoto: 12 years, $325,000,000
Kyle Tucker: 4 years, $240,000,000
Blake Snell: 5 years, $182,000,000
Freddie Freeman: 6 years, $162,000,000
Will Smith: 10 years, $140,000,000
Tyler Glasnow: 5 years, $136,562,500
January 16, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Oh to be rich enough that my employees make hundreds of millions of dollars.
Is this guy ICE? Or why NYPD is gonna hate ICE.
A man was slashed across the face by an unidentified attacker who made anti-LGBTQIA+ remarks on a New York subway train on Saturday night, according to police. #crime
Man slashed in face after suspect makes anti-gay slur on subway: NYPD
A man was slashed across the face by an unidentified attacker who made anti-LGBTQIA+ remarks on a New York subway train on Saturday night, according to police.
www.newsnationnow.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Is this guy ICE? Or why NYPD is gonna hate ICE.
Whether it’s taxing the obscenely wealthy or reigning in rogue law enforcement, anything is anathema because success would set precedent for further obvious reform.
January 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Whether it’s taxing the obscenely wealthy or reigning in rogue law enforcement, anything is anathema because success would set precedent for further obvious reform.
Hey @mayor.nyc.gov
Idea: series of humorous PSAs about responsible public smoking.
“NYC - we know it’s legal, doesn’t mean we want to smell it”
Idea: series of humorous PSAs about responsible public smoking.
“NYC - we know it’s legal, doesn’t mean we want to smell it”
January 16, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Hey @mayor.nyc.gov
Idea: series of humorous PSAs about responsible public smoking.
“NYC - we know it’s legal, doesn’t mean we want to smell it”
Idea: series of humorous PSAs about responsible public smoking.
“NYC - we know it’s legal, doesn’t mean we want to smell it”
I’d make the deal but we become 4 provinces with Alaska joining the Yukon.
January 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I’d make the deal but we become 4 provinces with Alaska joining the Yukon.
This has to have been in a Star Trek episode.
The solution to this is going to be simple but expensive and politically difficult.
Plus we may accidentally prove Naomi Wolf correct on something.
Imagining a bio-beneficial aerosol released as a by-product of plane flight creating a reflective film in the upper atmosphere.
Plus we may accidentally prove Naomi Wolf correct on something.
Imagining a bio-beneficial aerosol released as a by-product of plane flight creating a reflective film in the upper atmosphere.
January 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This has to have been in a Star Trek episode.
Reposted by TommyBen
Democrats could go left, ie lower than Trump on Credit Card Rates but they won’t because they don’t want to win elections easily
12 Reasons Why
1. I think the Federal Reserve already has this power, call his stupid bluff and be perfectly positioned for the TACO trade either way
(1 of 6)
12 Reasons Why
1. I think the Federal Reserve already has this power, call his stupid bluff and be perfectly positioned for the TACO trade either way
(1 of 6)
January 12, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Democrats could go left, ie lower than Trump on Credit Card Rates but they won’t because they don’t want to win elections easily
12 Reasons Why
1. I think the Federal Reserve already has this power, call his stupid bluff and be perfectly positioned for the TACO trade either way
(1 of 6)
12 Reasons Why
1. I think the Federal Reserve already has this power, call his stupid bluff and be perfectly positioned for the TACO trade either way
(1 of 6)
I’m an Aaron Glen fan and hope he’s pulling a Jimmy Johnson, but I would not have blamed the Jets for pursuing Harbaugh.
Very, very discreetly.
Very, very discreetly.
Harbaugh should be trending here, and I’m a Jets fan.
January 15, 2026 at 11:42 AM
I’m an Aaron Glen fan and hope he’s pulling a Jimmy Johnson, but I would not have blamed the Jets for pursuing Harbaugh.
Very, very discreetly.
Very, very discreetly.
Just wait until the “per body” bounty $ amounts are leaked and we hear their racist jargon for these kidnappings.
Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
January 15, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Just wait until the “per body” bounty $ amounts are leaked and we hear their racist jargon for these kidnappings.
Harbaugh should be trending here, and I’m a Jets fan.
January 15, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Harbaugh should be trending here, and I’m a Jets fan.
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 15, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Ice normalizing demonizing masked law enforcement is a good development.
January 14, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Ice normalizing demonizing masked law enforcement is a good development.
Saks Fifth Avenue depends a lot on high end tourism.
January 14, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Saks Fifth Avenue depends a lot on high end tourism.
Non-zero chance of more criminals in ICE than criminals they have apprehended.
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...
bit.ly
January 13, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Non-zero chance of more criminals in ICE than criminals they have apprehended.
Grateful to @geneweingarten.bsky.social for bringing up a story of a murder in the Civil Rights era that I had never heard of, one that has particular relevance right now.
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...
This Has Happened Before
Viola Liuzzo was 39 years old when she was murdered. It was March 25, 1965.
geneweingarten.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Democrats could go left, ie lower than Trump on Credit Card Rates but they won’t because they don’t want to win elections easily
12 Reasons Why
1. I think the Federal Reserve already has this power, call his stupid bluff and be perfectly positioned for the TACO trade either way
(1 of 6)
12 Reasons Why
1. I think the Federal Reserve already has this power, call his stupid bluff and be perfectly positioned for the TACO trade either way
(1 of 6)
January 12, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Democrats could go left, ie lower than Trump on Credit Card Rates but they won’t because they don’t want to win elections easily
12 Reasons Why
1. I think the Federal Reserve already has this power, call his stupid bluff and be perfectly positioned for the TACO trade either way
(1 of 6)
12 Reasons Why
1. I think the Federal Reserve already has this power, call his stupid bluff and be perfectly positioned for the TACO trade either way
(1 of 6)