Ben
@benhixon.bsky.social
Gay married southern liberal with woods and pets. Welcome to my livejournal.
If I haven’t independently verified your identity then I will assume you’re an LLM.
If I haven’t independently verified your identity then I will assume you’re an LLM.
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I don’t even really think this is the problem. The Constitution prohibits basically every terrible thing Trump has done. The problem is that our institutions have decided to ignore the Constitution. Can’t fix that by changing what it says.
This regime is making the best arguments possible that we need to fix the foundations of our democracy if we want to keep it.
November 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I don’t even really think this is the problem. The Constitution prohibits basically every terrible thing Trump has done. The problem is that our institutions have decided to ignore the Constitution. Can’t fix that by changing what it says.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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This story is the reason why it was necessary for six members to say what they said about carrying out unlawful orders and it's exactly why the Trump administration responded so aggressively.
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This story is the reason why it was necessary for six members to say what they said about carrying out unlawful orders and it's exactly why the Trump administration responded so aggressively.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
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an ICE agent points a lethal firearm into a crowd of unarmed protesters this morning. The St. Paul police department arrived to support the ICE agents, assaulting unarmed protestors with chemical agents and physical force.
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
an ICE agent points a lethal firearm into a crowd of unarmed protesters this morning. The St. Paul police department arrived to support the ICE agents, assaulting unarmed protestors with chemical agents and physical force.
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This is a win for due process.
The Trump administration was keeping immigrants with ZERO criminal records locked up in detention for weeks and months on end. A judge just ruled that these individuals must be entitled to bond hearings. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tho...
The Trump administration was keeping immigrants with ZERO criminal records locked up in detention for weeks and months on end. A judge just ruled that these individuals must be entitled to bond hearings. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tho...
Thousands of immigrants could be eligible for bond hearings, striking down DHS policy: Judge
The decision could potentially allow thousands of immigrants who have been subject to mandatory detention to be released.
abcnews.go.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is a win for due process.
The Trump administration was keeping immigrants with ZERO criminal records locked up in detention for weeks and months on end. A judge just ruled that these individuals must be entitled to bond hearings. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tho...
The Trump administration was keeping immigrants with ZERO criminal records locked up in detention for weeks and months on end. A judge just ruled that these individuals must be entitled to bond hearings. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tho...
or just learn to cook a good turkey? it doesn't have to be dry. thaw in fridge for a week, brine in salt water and ACV overnight, butter under the skin, more fat outside the skin (i like to use mayo), 450 for 30 minutes then low and slow until done. use a meat thermometer and check frequently.
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
or just learn to cook a good turkey? it doesn't have to be dry. thaw in fridge for a week, brine in salt water and ACV overnight, butter under the skin, more fat outside the skin (i like to use mayo), 450 for 30 minutes then low and slow until done. use a meat thermometer and check frequently.
to be clear, I oppose the death penalty - there's certain things the government should never be able to do to its own people and that's one of them. But a govt. should never be able to break your car window and drag you out and arrest and torture you b/c of your skin color either, so there's that.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
to be clear, I oppose the death penalty - there's certain things the government should never be able to do to its own people and that's one of them. But a govt. should never be able to break your car window and drag you out and arrest and torture you b/c of your skin color either, so there's that.
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Trump’s people legitimately should hang for this. Treason. Going to Russia and taking orders on how to help Russia destroy and undermine allied nations.
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Trump’s people legitimately should hang for this. Treason. Going to Russia and taking orders on how to help Russia destroy and undermine allied nations.
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AI bot got me so mad I yelled at it, put that in your machine learning dickhead
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
AI bot got me so mad I yelled at it, put that in your machine learning dickhead
Cantor. The set of all binary strings (and hence real numbers) is uncountably infinite. It's mathematically impossible to count them all one by one. To see why, assume you could. Put them all in a table. Uh-oh, the NOT of the diag isn't in the table. QED.
An LLM could NEVER have thought of that.
An LLM could NEVER have thought of that.
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Cantor. The set of all binary strings (and hence real numbers) is uncountably infinite. It's mathematically impossible to count them all one by one. To see why, assume you could. Put them all in a table. Uh-oh, the NOT of the diag isn't in the table. QED.
An LLM could NEVER have thought of that.
An LLM could NEVER have thought of that.
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Democrats should be the party of America restoration, focused on sweeping away every last vestige of Trump's seedy third-world tyranny and exacting cold retribution against people who have betrayed our country and its Constitution for their own self-enrichment
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Democrats should be the party of America restoration, focused on sweeping away every last vestige of Trump's seedy third-world tyranny and exacting cold retribution against people who have betrayed our country and its Constitution for their own self-enrichment
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I mean, I certainly do. Unrelenting opposition to corruption, prosecution and jail for Trump traitors, full-throated defense of the underprivileged, and celebration of America as a diverse and open nation where immigrants are welcomed, minorities are protected, and the government follows rules
Ok but the Dems need to run on a platform that signals a break with the status quo and the need to do big things and if you have another idea for that besides Dem socialist policies I'm all ears but I don't think you do so yeah Dems should be running on that platform.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I mean, I certainly do. Unrelenting opposition to corruption, prosecution and jail for Trump traitors, full-throated defense of the underprivileged, and celebration of America as a diverse and open nation where immigrants are welcomed, minorities are protected, and the government follows rules
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Just because you weren’t alive the last time these diseases killed hundreds of thousands of children doesn’t mean they won’t kill hundreds of thousands more.
Please, if you love your children, get them vaccinated.
Please, if you love your children, get them vaccinated.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Just because you weren’t alive the last time these diseases killed hundreds of thousands of children doesn’t mean they won’t kill hundreds of thousands more.
Please, if you love your children, get them vaccinated.
Please, if you love your children, get them vaccinated.
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oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
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Also, when you say people saying "Dems would win everywhere with a Mamdani-style platform," I think it's important to remember that that platform delivered the most charismatic candidate in recent history a whopping 50.4% of the vote against a street vigilante and actual vampire, in New York City
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Also, when you say people saying "Dems would win everywhere with a Mamdani-style platform," I think it's important to remember that that platform delivered the most charismatic candidate in recent history a whopping 50.4% of the vote against a street vigilante and actual vampire, in New York City
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The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
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Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
"sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law"
I'm sorry to barge in on the love fest but look, this was just not good. it is simply NOT the government's job to try to police what a church or synagogue "promotes." He needs to either clarify or apologize.
I'm sorry to barge in on the love fest but look, this was just not good. it is simply NOT the government's job to try to police what a church or synagogue "promotes." He needs to either clarify or apologize.
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law"
I'm sorry to barge in on the love fest but look, this was just not good. it is simply NOT the government's job to try to police what a church or synagogue "promotes." He needs to either clarify or apologize.
I'm sorry to barge in on the love fest but look, this was just not good. it is simply NOT the government's job to try to police what a church or synagogue "promotes." He needs to either clarify or apologize.
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Peter Thiel is calling Pope Leo the Antichrist. Honestly, that sounds like something the Antichrist would say.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Peter Thiel is calling Pope Leo the Antichrist. Honestly, that sounds like something the Antichrist would say.
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Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea