Benson Bay
@bensonbay.bsky.social
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fear. I’m holding on to the truth. I am holding on to hope.
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International survey on the suffering of fragrance-sensitive people
evaluationen-thu.limequery.com/689193?lang=en
Available in five European languages
Has been running for a while and closes on February 28, 2025
#MCS #Fragrance
evaluationen-thu.limequery.com/689193?lang=en
Available in five European languages
Has been running for a while and closes on February 28, 2025
#MCS #Fragrance
Survey on the suffering of fragrance-sensitive people
evaluationen-thu.limequery.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
International survey on the suffering of fragrance-sensitive people
evaluationen-thu.limequery.com/689193?lang=en
Available in five European languages
Has been running for a while and closes on February 28, 2025
#MCS #Fragrance
evaluationen-thu.limequery.com/689193?lang=en
Available in five European languages
Has been running for a while and closes on February 28, 2025
#MCS #Fragrance
Listening to Senator Kaine from Virginia pour his heart out over letters from federal workers during the Budget Director hearing. Then I go to his voting record. Yea after Yea after Yea for Trump nominees. www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
U.S. Senate
The Senate will consider more of President Trump's Cabinet nominations including Scott Turner to serve as Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary.
www.c-span.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Listening to Senator Kaine from Virginia pour his heart out over letters from federal workers during the Budget Director hearing. Then I go to his voting record. Yea after Yea after Yea for Trump nominees. www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
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Watch what they do. Not what they say. They took over the Treasury Bldg. and our country's checkbook. Gaza is a distraction.
February 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Watch what they do. Not what they say. They took over the Treasury Bldg. and our country's checkbook. Gaza is a distraction.
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14 memos
NEW: According to a source, the DoJ has sent out 14 memos in the last half hour including:
Reviving the death penalty
Sanctuary jurisdiction directives
Rescinding environmental justice directives
And restoring the integrity and credibility of the DoJ:
Reviving the death penalty
Sanctuary jurisdiction directives
Rescinding environmental justice directives
And restoring the integrity and credibility of the DoJ:
February 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
14 memos
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have cut off funding for half of the health centers that serve 400,000 Virginians, forcing some to close, which could mean up to 200,000 Virginians are suddenly without healthcare
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
Virginia community health centers close over federal funding access
Despite pause on federal funding freeze, centers unable to access grants
www.vpm.org
February 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have cut off funding for half of the health centers that serve 400,000 Virginians, forcing some to close, which could mean up to 200,000 Virginians are suddenly without healthcare
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
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Senate Dems still don't get it. 22 just YES on another Trump nominee. Where TF is the fight?
Bennet, Blumenthal, Cortez Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Gillibrand, Hassan, Heinrich, Hickenlooper, Kaine, Kelly, Klobuchar, Luján, Ossoff, Peters, Rosen, Schiff, Shaheen, Slotkin, Warnock, Welch.
Bennet, Blumenthal, Cortez Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Gillibrand, Hassan, Heinrich, Hickenlooper, Kaine, Kelly, Klobuchar, Luján, Ossoff, Peters, Rosen, Schiff, Shaheen, Slotkin, Warnock, Welch.
February 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Senate Dems still don't get it. 22 just YES on another Trump nominee. Where TF is the fight?
Bennet, Blumenthal, Cortez Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Gillibrand, Hassan, Heinrich, Hickenlooper, Kaine, Kelly, Klobuchar, Luján, Ossoff, Peters, Rosen, Schiff, Shaheen, Slotkin, Warnock, Welch.
Bennet, Blumenthal, Cortez Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Gillibrand, Hassan, Heinrich, Hickenlooper, Kaine, Kelly, Klobuchar, Luján, Ossoff, Peters, Rosen, Schiff, Shaheen, Slotkin, Warnock, Welch.
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It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
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Another .gov website DEI scrub victim: the HHS page on the ACA’s section 1557. The provision that protects against health coverage and care discrimination based on race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.
www.hhs.gov/civil-rights...
www.hhs.gov/civil-rights...
February 1, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Another .gov website DEI scrub victim: the HHS page on the ACA’s section 1557. The provision that protects against health coverage and care discrimination based on race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.
www.hhs.gov/civil-rights...
www.hhs.gov/civil-rights...
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This also feels very relevant today.
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NEWS: A Census employee tells me that the National Crime Victimization Survey—conducted for DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics—and National Health Interview Survey—conducted for the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics—have already been altered to fit with Trump's anti-trans censorship.
Breaking: Disappearing websites, data among the chaos as Trump's anti-trans censorship begins
A stark picture presented across the federal government, with particularly concerning information coming out of the Census Bureau and CDC.
www.lawdork.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This also feels very relevant today.
bsky.app/profile/chri... 7/x
bsky.app/profile/chri... 7/x
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As Jesus famously said, Love thy neighbor a bit less than thyself
I mean yes, there is such a concept in Christianity. It appears quite notably in the letters of Paul, for instance, where it’s a concept he *relentlessly* argues against, and in the Gospel where it’s a concept Jesus very much repeatedly scorns. So it is technically in there!
January 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
As Jesus famously said, Love thy neighbor a bit less than thyself
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
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Our Defense Intelligence Agency says what? These creatures are so petty.
January 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Our Defense Intelligence Agency says what? These creatures are so petty.
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My statement announcing Colorado will sign on to a multi-state lawsuit challenge to the Administration’s freeze of federal funding.
January 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My statement announcing Colorado will sign on to a multi-state lawsuit challenge to the Administration’s freeze of federal funding.
Wack a mole. Can those who can switch to Mastercard?!? Nope they’ve got us with the points. Got to keep those points. Points before democracy I guess. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/t...
Elon Musk’s X Partners With Visa to Provide Financial Services
The social media company said it would start a peer-to-peer payments service, moving to expand the app’s abilities.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Wack a mole. Can those who can switch to Mastercard?!? Nope they’ve got us with the points. Got to keep those points. Points before democracy I guess. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/t...
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Senators’ phones have been ringing off the hook with nonstop calls from hospitals, police departments, volunteer firefighters, food pantries, drug treatment centers, on and on and on.
January 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Senators’ phones have been ringing off the hook with nonstop calls from hospitals, police departments, volunteer firefighters, food pantries, drug treatment centers, on and on and on.
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The attorneys general of CA, IL, MA, NJ, NY, and RI are set to make an unspecified announcement about the federal impoundments. It hasn’t started on schedule, but it should be here when it does kick off. ag.ny.gov/news-media/l...
Livestream
Livestream , Livestream , If you experience any issues with the livestream, please refresh the page to pick up the live feed. Attorney General Letitia James
ag.ny.gov
January 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The attorneys general of CA, IL, MA, NJ, NY, and RI are set to make an unspecified announcement about the federal impoundments. It hasn’t started on schedule, but it should be here when it does kick off. ag.ny.gov/news-media/l...
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2.2 million seniors get their food delivered to their doors from Meals on Wheels. And that just got cut off. Worst. Human. Ever.
Meals on Wheels America spox on OMB pause:
"the uncertainty right now is creating chaos for local Meals on Wheels providers not knowing whether they should be serving meals today. Which unfortunately means seniors will panic not knowing where their next meals will come from."
"the uncertainty right now is creating chaos for local Meals on Wheels providers not knowing whether they should be serving meals today. Which unfortunately means seniors will panic not knowing where their next meals will come from."
January 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
2.2 million seniors get their food delivered to their doors from Meals on Wheels. And that just got cut off. Worst. Human. Ever.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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The Trump Administration’s action to suspend all federal grants & loans will have a devastating impact on the health and well-being of millions of children, seniors on fixed incomes, and the most vulnerable people in our country.
It is a dangerous move towards authoritarianism.
It is a dangerous move towards authoritarianism.
January 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The Trump Administration’s action to suspend all federal grants & loans will have a devastating impact on the health and well-being of millions of children, seniors on fixed incomes, and the most vulnerable people in our country.
It is a dangerous move towards authoritarianism.
It is a dangerous move towards authoritarianism.
Let us remain forever outraged and never succumb to the normalization of fascism and its tenets of fear and hate. Our co-Nazi-in-chief “multiculturalism that DILUTES everything” m.youtube.com/watch?v=DvAb...
Elon Musk claims multiculturalism 'dilutes everything' at German far-right rally
YouTube video by The Independent
m.youtube.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Let us remain forever outraged and never succumb to the normalization of fascism and its tenets of fear and hate. Our co-Nazi-in-chief “multiculturalism that DILUTES everything” m.youtube.com/watch?v=DvAb...
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When there weren't enough bank examiners on the beat, SVB and Signature Bank failed, requiring big bailouts.
The FDIC should explain why it’s now axing even more examiners whose job it is to make sure big banks don't crash our economy.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The FDIC should explain why it’s now axing even more examiners whose job it is to make sure big banks don't crash our economy.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Banking regulator rescinds more than 200 job offers for examiners it needs
A government-wide hiring freeze is adding to a staffing shortage at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., complicating the agency’s efforts to oversee thousands of banks across the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
When there weren't enough bank examiners on the beat, SVB and Signature Bank failed, requiring big bailouts.
The FDIC should explain why it’s now axing even more examiners whose job it is to make sure big banks don't crash our economy.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The FDIC should explain why it’s now axing even more examiners whose job it is to make sure big banks don't crash our economy.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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IN 1956 NIKITA KHRUSCHEV
SAID
"We do not have to invade the USA we will destroy you from within"
SAID
"We do not have to invade the USA we will destroy you from within"
November 24, 2024 at 8:25 PM
IN 1956 NIKITA KHRUSCHEV
SAID
"We do not have to invade the USA we will destroy you from within"
SAID
"We do not have to invade the USA we will destroy you from within"