Dave Benforado
@1848badgerdave.bsky.social
Husband, Father, Senior Community Services Mgr, @MGEMadison; Board Member, Sustain Dane; Member, Madison Lakeway Project Partners/Design Committee; Former Pres., Village of Shorewood Hills WI. Posts are my own.
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY: Let’s find VANCE BOELTER, the right wing dirtbag wacko who assassinated a MN Legislator and her husband in their home, and attempted the same with another MN Legislator, earlier today in the greater Mpls area.
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June 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY: Let’s find VANCE BOELTER, the right wing dirtbag wacko who assassinated a MN Legislator and her husband in their home, and attempted the same with another MN Legislator, earlier today in the greater Mpls area.
www.fbi.gov/wanted/law-e...
www.fbi.gov/wanted/law-e...
Hey Wisconsinites! Spot on editorial in today’s WI State Journal endorsing Susan Crawford in the April 1 Election for WI Supreme Court. Crawford will make an outstanding member of the Court. Please join me in supporting her on your April 1 ballot.
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March 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hey Wisconsinites! Spot on editorial in today’s WI State Journal endorsing Susan Crawford in the April 1 Election for WI Supreme Court. Crawford will make an outstanding member of the Court. Please join me in supporting her on your April 1 ballot.
#RuleOfLaw
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“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.”
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
What Does Defiance Look Like?
A Saturday Prompt
www.americaamerica.news
February 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.”
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
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Trump got Mexico to send the same 10,000 troops to the border that Biden already got them to commit.
Trump got Canada to agree to the same measures to fight fentanyl that Biden already got them to agree to six weeks ago.
Wow. What a dealmaker!
Trump got Canada to agree to the same measures to fight fentanyl that Biden already got them to agree to six weeks ago.
Wow. What a dealmaker!
February 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Trump got Mexico to send the same 10,000 troops to the border that Biden already got them to commit.
Trump got Canada to agree to the same measures to fight fentanyl that Biden already got them to agree to six weeks ago.
Wow. What a dealmaker!
Trump got Canada to agree to the same measures to fight fentanyl that Biden already got them to agree to six weeks ago.
Wow. What a dealmaker!
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If you took everyone saved by USAid's immunization work and put them in the Superdome, it would be full. And require 37 more Superdomes. Each year.
A look at what's at risk when Musk and Trump blindly rip through the government for applause.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
A look at what's at risk when Musk and Trump blindly rip through the government for applause.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | What’s at risk when the federal government also is
The sudden stop in federal funding reminded Americans how vital the government is in people’s lives.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
If you took everyone saved by USAid's immunization work and put them in the Superdome, it would be full. And require 37 more Superdomes. Each year.
A look at what's at risk when Musk and Trump blindly rip through the government for applause.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
A look at what's at risk when Musk and Trump blindly rip through the government for applause.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
#ClarenceThomas must resign. His only allegiance must be to the #USConstitution, not his benefactors who pay for his luxury vacations.
#JudicalEthics
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THE infamous painting of Clarence Thomas hanging out with his billionaire buddies and benefactors appears to hanging in the hallway of his foyer.
January 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#ClarenceThomas must resign. His only allegiance must be to the #USConstitution, not his benefactors who pay for his luxury vacations.
#JudicalEthics
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“DO SOMETHING!” she yelled from the balcony of the State Capitol. Spot on editorial in this morning’s 1/26/25 WI State Journal, echoing the words of the mother of a suicide by gun victim, the gun purchased a mere 2 hours before the suicide.
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#GunSafetyReform
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January 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“DO SOMETHING!” she yelled from the balcony of the State Capitol. Spot on editorial in this morning’s 1/26/25 WI State Journal, echoing the words of the mother of a suicide by gun victim, the gun purchased a mere 2 hours before the suicide.
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#GunSafetyReform
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#GunSafetyReform
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Rescinding the cap on insulin at $35 only makes pharmaceutical richer and everyday Americans, including MAGA voters, seriously poorer.
So why does Trump do it? Because all he wants is to destroy anything Biden achieved, no matter how much damage it causes.
That what sociopathy looks like.
So why does Trump do it? Because all he wants is to destroy anything Biden achieved, no matter how much damage it causes.
That what sociopathy looks like.
January 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Rescinding the cap on insulin at $35 only makes pharmaceutical richer and everyday Americans, including MAGA voters, seriously poorer.
So why does Trump do it? Because all he wants is to destroy anything Biden achieved, no matter how much damage it causes.
That what sociopathy looks like.
So why does Trump do it? Because all he wants is to destroy anything Biden achieved, no matter how much damage it causes.
That what sociopathy looks like.
NPR Exclusive: The Episcopal bishop of Washington spoke with NPR to discuss her sermon addressing President Trump and why she asked him to have mercy.
Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR 'I won't apologize' for sermon addressing Trump
The Episcopal bishop of Washington spoke with NPR to discuss her sermon addressing President Trump and why she asked him to have mercy.
www.npr.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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The American Red Cross of Wisconsin is currently on the ground, with a shelter in Pasadena, sheltering 500 people, partnering with local organizations to better serve those impacted.
Wisconsin American Red Cross aid California wildfire relief efforts
MADISON, Wis. -- The California wildfires continue as thousands have been displaced. It'll be all hands-on deck as people try to recover from the devastation.
www.channel3000.com
January 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The American Red Cross of Wisconsin is currently on the ground, with a shelter in Pasadena, sheltering 500 people, partnering with local organizations to better serve those impacted.
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There is a massive financial campaign behind Hegseth, targeting wavering Republicans. His team is also engaged in intimidating witnesses. One former employee decided not to testify after conservative newspapers identified her publicly.
January 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
There is a massive financial campaign behind Hegseth, targeting wavering Republicans. His team is also engaged in intimidating witnesses. One former employee decided not to testify after conservative newspapers identified her publicly.
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And here it is…. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025
www.documentcloud.org
January 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
And here it is…. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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President-elect Trump reprised familiar falsehoods in a news conference on Tuesday. Among them were inaccurate claims about the Jan. 6 attack, international affairs, trade and whale deaths. Here’s a fact-check.
Fact-Checking Trump’s Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago
The president-elect made inaccurate claims about his predecessor’s energy policies and repeated familiar falsehoods on a number of topics.
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
President-elect Trump reprised familiar falsehoods in a news conference on Tuesday. Among them were inaccurate claims about the Jan. 6 attack, international affairs, trade and whale deaths. Here’s a fact-check.
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Donald Trump wants to prevent the release of Jack Smith’s report, even though special counsel reports that serves his purposes were released. The lawyers making the ask are headed to Trump’s DOJ. Nothing here is normal.
January 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Donald Trump wants to prevent the release of Jack Smith’s report, even though special counsel reports that serves his purposes were released. The lawyers making the ask are headed to Trump’s DOJ. Nothing here is normal.
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NYT: “Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald J. Trump.”
January 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NYT: “Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald J. Trump.”
@anntelnaes.bsky.social, who has worked at the Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed by the paper — and now she has quit the paper.
January 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
@anntelnaes.bsky.social, who has worked at the Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed by the paper — and now she has quit the paper.
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December 11, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social
December 14, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social
In the wake of the horrific shooting at Abundant Life Christian School yesterday, County Executive Melissa Agard—who is also a mom—expressed outrage at the fact that gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens in this country.
December 18, 2024 at 1:50 PM
#NCGOP is stealing pages from #WIGOP playbook; “by hook or by crook”, both utilize outrageous anti-democratic schemes to legislative manuevers that take away powers of elected Dem leaders and #StealElections (eg, #ScottWalker’s 2018 knee cap welcome to newly elected WI Gov @tonyevers.bsky.social).
What’s happening in NC should be much bigger scandal: gerrymandered GOP legislature stripping power from Dem gov & AG in lame-duck session while Rs trying to throw out 60k votes to overturn Dem victory in state Supreme Court race www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A North Carolina judge won two recounts. Republicans are still trying to overturn her election.
"This is a non-violent version of January 6th."
www.motherjones.com
December 14, 2024 at 2:08 AM
#NCGOP is stealing pages from #WIGOP playbook; “by hook or by crook”, both utilize outrageous anti-democratic schemes to legislative manuevers that take away powers of elected Dem leaders and #StealElections (eg, #ScottWalker’s 2018 knee cap welcome to newly elected WI Gov @tonyevers.bsky.social).
Amid the backdrop that more than a dozen members of Trump's Cabinet are billionaires, a reminder that this is what happened to income inequality in this country once the tax rate for top earners was slashed after 1980. Trickle down does not work and top earners' priority is themselves.
December 8, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...
November 25, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...
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Trump has threatened to rely on the Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations. It would be an abuse of presidential power that the courts must block.
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans
He has promised to use presidential power to violate fundamental rights.
www.brennancenter.org
November 24, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Trump has threatened to rely on the Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations. It would be an abuse of presidential power that the courts must block.