Ben
@benfreemanokc.bsky.social
🐦 Twitter ex-pat (15 years)
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Chaotic neutral
June 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Chaotic neutral
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💰 $2.4 trillion
If you spent $1 million/day, every single day, it would take you 6,575 years to burn through $2.4 trillion.
With that, we could:
• Rebuild every public school in USA & fix every pothole.
• Fund universal pre-K & community college for the next decade.
• Or… tax cuts for the top 1%.
If you spent $1 million/day, every single day, it would take you 6,575 years to burn through $2.4 trillion.
With that, we could:
• Rebuild every public school in USA & fix every pothole.
• Fund universal pre-K & community college for the next decade.
• Or… tax cuts for the top 1%.
June 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
💰 $2.4 trillion
If you spent $1 million/day, every single day, it would take you 6,575 years to burn through $2.4 trillion.
With that, we could:
• Rebuild every public school in USA & fix every pothole.
• Fund universal pre-K & community college for the next decade.
• Or… tax cuts for the top 1%.
If you spent $1 million/day, every single day, it would take you 6,575 years to burn through $2.4 trillion.
With that, we could:
• Rebuild every public school in USA & fix every pothole.
• Fund universal pre-K & community college for the next decade.
• Or… tax cuts for the top 1%.
If I say “boys” 3 pets (2 dogs, 1 cat) will instantly start moving toward the back door to go outside.
I now have so many pets that hollering "LADIES!" at them like I'm a junior high volleyball coach is an effective way of getting 75% of them in the same frame for a photo (tipsy was in the room, but as per her uzsh, declined to participate because she is Above It All)
June 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If I say “boys” 3 pets (2 dogs, 1 cat) will instantly start moving toward the back door to go outside.
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Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
April 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
I’m getting really fed up with the trade deficit I have with my local coffee shop. I’ve spent thousands in there over the years and they haven’t bought a single thing from me!
Beginning tomorrow, I’m demanding a 25% surcharge added onto my coffee order. That’ll show ‘em.
Beginning tomorrow, I’m demanding a 25% surcharge added onto my coffee order. That’ll show ‘em.
April 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I’m getting really fed up with the trade deficit I have with my local coffee shop. I’ve spent thousands in there over the years and they haven’t bought a single thing from me!
Beginning tomorrow, I’m demanding a 25% surcharge added onto my coffee order. That’ll show ‘em.
Beginning tomorrow, I’m demanding a 25% surcharge added onto my coffee order. That’ll show ‘em.
I need Danny McBride to play JD when they inevitably make a movie about all this.
March 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I need Danny McBride to play JD when they inevitably make a movie about all this.
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Now that I am finished screaming into the void about schooling for kids with disabilities being assigned to RFK: understand what this means.
He’s lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education.
This is eugenics.
He’s lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education.
This is eugenics.
March 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Now that I am finished screaming into the void about schooling for kids with disabilities being assigned to RFK: understand what this means.
He’s lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education.
This is eugenics.
He’s lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education.
This is eugenics.
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Openly ignoring and defying the Judiciary.
Breaking his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States.
Granting himself unchecked power.
This is authoritarianism.
Breaking his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States.
Granting himself unchecked power.
This is authoritarianism.
March 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Openly ignoring and defying the Judiciary.
Breaking his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States.
Granting himself unchecked power.
This is authoritarianism.
Breaking his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States.
Granting himself unchecked power.
This is authoritarianism.
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The center of gravity in Evangelical theology is Jesus “paid a debt he didn’t owe.” He “went to the cross with you in mind as the ultimate sacrifice.”
If you genuinely believe that (and I believe many do) then you should loudly reject the “empathy is a sin/weakness” narrative with your whole chest.
If you genuinely believe that (and I believe many do) then you should loudly reject the “empathy is a sin/weakness” narrative with your whole chest.
March 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The center of gravity in Evangelical theology is Jesus “paid a debt he didn’t owe.” He “went to the cross with you in mind as the ultimate sacrifice.”
If you genuinely believe that (and I believe many do) then you should loudly reject the “empathy is a sin/weakness” narrative with your whole chest.
If you genuinely believe that (and I believe many do) then you should loudly reject the “empathy is a sin/weakness” narrative with your whole chest.
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More of this! We all know this won’t pass but this is a line in the sand and a great talking point.
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What a wonderful idea…👇
Let’s. Do. This. ✨
Let’s. Do. This. ✨
March 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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“I won’t forget” ?
March 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“I won’t forget” ?
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March 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
More accurate, fewer words;
"There are plenty of contractors going under".
A friend furloughed 75% of staff (furlough w/paying for health insurance for three months), 50% exec pay cut, 25% rest of staff to keep as many people w/salary.
PS: Wasn't 18F a government office, not a contractor.
"There are plenty of contractors going under".
A friend furloughed 75% of staff (furlough w/paying for health insurance for three months), 50% exec pay cut, 25% rest of staff to keep as many people w/salary.
PS: Wasn't 18F a government office, not a contractor.
March 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
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“DO YOUR JOB!”
TEXAS: @RepKeithSelf’s turn
TEXAS: @RepKeithSelf’s turn
March 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“DO YOUR JOB!”
TEXAS: @RepKeithSelf’s turn
TEXAS: @RepKeithSelf’s turn
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I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
March 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
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Yes
March 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Yes
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GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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James Donald Bowman cosplaying a tough guy™️ while berating and insulting an *actual* leader is just the thing my blood pressure didn’t need today.
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
James Donald Bowman cosplaying a tough guy™️ while berating and insulting an *actual* leader is just the thing my blood pressure didn’t need today.
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So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
February 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.