Ben McKee
@benmckee.bsky.social
Denver. Yep, it's another online me.
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.
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Let’s help keep two rural public radio stations on the air despite budget cuts due to federal defunding. Next viewers have raised $50,000 for KRZA in the San Luis Valley and @ksutpublicradio.bsky.social in the Four Corners. I’ll match the next fifty $5 donations: cfssc.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
August 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Let’s help keep two rural public radio stations on the air despite budget cuts due to federal defunding. Next viewers have raised $50,000 for KRZA in the San Luis Valley and @ksutpublicradio.bsky.social in the Four Corners. I’ll match the next fifty $5 donations: cfssc.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
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COMMENTARY: Hundreds of Denverites may drop off their kids for the first day of school next Monday then lose their jobs hours later. The goal for the Mayor and his administration should be compassion and competence in handling these mass layoffs. #copolitics
August 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
COMMENTARY: Hundreds of Denverites may drop off their kids for the first day of school next Monday then lose their jobs hours later. The goal for the Mayor and his administration should be compassion and competence in handling these mass layoffs. #copolitics
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Lucy Ends Uncertainty With Promise Regarding Football, Charlie Brown Says
Columbia ends uncertainty with Trump deal, head says
Columbia ends uncertainty with Trump deal, head says
Columbia University's agreement to pay over $200 million to the U.S. government in a settlement with President Donald Trump's administration to resolve federal probes and restore most of its suspended federal funding ends a period of "institutional uncertainty," the university's acting president said.
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July 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Lucy Ends Uncertainty With Promise Regarding Football, Charlie Brown Says
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McMenamins to Challenge Itself by Restoring Historic Tacoma K-Mart: tinyurl.com/2cfcx565
July 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
McMenamins to Challenge Itself by Restoring Historic Tacoma K-Mart: tinyurl.com/2cfcx565
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In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...
July 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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the best thing I learned from unionizing is that "we hate how things are" can be a starting point for a movement. But if you can't articulate a real, genuine belief that "things CAN be better", you're gonna fail again and again
I think win or lose the lesson from tonight’s nyc mayoral race is that the Democratic establishment are openly contemptuous of anyone that actually believes a better world is possible, will fight tooth and nail to stop anyone who does, and must be ousted before we can even hope to fight back.
June 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
the best thing I learned from unionizing is that "we hate how things are" can be a starting point for a movement. But if you can't articulate a real, genuine belief that "things CAN be better", you're gonna fail again and again
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In this house we call him Wasferatu.
June 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In this house we call him Wasferatu.
I didn't realize how big #MarioKartWorld was until I played vs mode. Every track (other than Rainbow Road) can connect to a bunch of other courses as your race. You decide, and it creates the course for you - a distinct highway and beginning/end of the race. Game changing! #NintendoSwitch2
June 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I didn't realize how big #MarioKartWorld was until I played vs mode. Every track (other than Rainbow Road) can connect to a bunch of other courses as your race. You decide, and it creates the course for you - a distinct highway and beginning/end of the race. Game changing! #NintendoSwitch2
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Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.
June 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.
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Target's bold "Pride" collection this year features a colorless hoodie with the words "Out Loud & Proud" written teeny tiny only the string.
May 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Target's bold "Pride" collection this year features a colorless hoodie with the words "Out Loud & Proud" written teeny tiny only the string.
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I've done my own research and I'd like the SARS-CoV-2 booster.
May 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I've done my own research and I'd like the SARS-CoV-2 booster.
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if you know anything about a "crystal horse head" decoration that was apparently in the lobby of Nintendo of America in the late 90s, please reach out to me. contact info is in my bio.
May 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
if you know anything about a "crystal horse head" decoration that was apparently in the lobby of Nintendo of America in the late 90s, please reach out to me. contact info is in my bio.
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Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 10 NA eShop codes (Switch) for Star Wars: Grand Collection (9 games total) courtesy of @aspyr.com. Giveaway ends on May 18th, 6PM PT
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May 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 10 NA eShop codes (Switch) for Star Wars: Grand Collection (9 games total) courtesy of @aspyr.com. Giveaway ends on May 18th, 6PM PT
Store page: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Store page: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
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Hi BlueSky, I created another guide to help you and your pals pick which #WNBA team to support this year: no stats, just vibes. As the title suggests, it is incomplete & biased.
(Thread, obvi)
(Thread, obvi)
May 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Hi BlueSky, I created another guide to help you and your pals pick which #WNBA team to support this year: no stats, just vibes. As the title suggests, it is incomplete & biased.
(Thread, obvi)
(Thread, obvi)
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Stephen Miller always sounds better in the original German.
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding ... we're gonna make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."
May 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Stephen Miller always sounds better in the original German.
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This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!
“You are directed … to dismiss the pending charges in United States v. Adams, No. 24 Cr. 556 (SDNY)…. The Justice Department has reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based”
![Memorandum from the Acting Deputy Attorney General
Dismissal Without Prejudice of Prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams
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Of The Federal Government. These actions and the underlying case have also improperly interfered with Mayor Adams' campaign in the 2025 mayoral election. See Justice Manual § 9-
85.500, entitled Actions that May Have an Impact on an Election.
Second, the pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior Administration. We are particularly concerned about the impact of the prosecution on Mayor Adams' ability to support critical, ongoing federal efforts "to protect the American people from the disastrous effects of unlawful mass migration and resettlement," as described in Executive Order 14165.' Accomplishing the immigration objectives established by President Trump and the Attorney General is every bit as important—if not more so as the objectives that the prior Administration pursued by releasing violent criminals such as Viktor Bout, the "Merchant of Death."? Accordingly, based on these additional concerns that are distinct from the weaponization problems, dismissal without prejudice is also necessary at this time.
' Your Office correctly noted in a February 3, 2025 memorandum, *as Mr. Bove clearly stated to defense counsel during our meeting [on January 31, 2025], the Government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal case for Adams's assistance on immigration enforcement."
2 According to an October 2024 Wall Street Journal article, Bout has already started to participate in arms deals again, including negotiations with representatives of Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis. https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putins-merchant-of-death-is-back-in-](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreidtbdebawe7yluohx6ktbosdjqfdcf7ukryaemdjtgcpygzklaefe@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!