Ben Thair
@bmichaels.bsky.social
Retired attorney living in the PNW. Tennis is fun. 🎾 History buff. Books are my friends. Support local bookstores
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If you have family & friends in Tennessee, please encourage them to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social ! This whole country needs her to win!
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If you have family & friends in Tennessee, please encourage them to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social ! This whole country needs her to win!
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Officials Criticize Biden Vetting, But Afghan Shooting Suspect Was Granted Asylum Under Trump
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Officials Criticize Biden Vetting, But Afghan Shooting Suspect Was Granted Asylum Under Trump
The alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Trump, according to a U.S. government file seen by Reuters.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Officials Criticize Biden Vetting, But Afghan Shooting Suspect Was Granted Asylum Under Trump
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Self explanatory
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Self explanatory
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“Some days are a crystalized scream. They tell us in no uncertain terms that we have been taken hostage by a malignant force that rejects not only our laws and values, but our history and memories.”
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Confronting the Ongoing Onslaught
Trump's East Wing demolition, demands for $230 million and the ongoing murders in the Caribbean Sea are the latest reminders that we must remain vigilant and push back
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October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“Some days are a crystalized scream. They tell us in no uncertain terms that we have been taken hostage by a malignant force that rejects not only our laws and values, but our history and memories.”
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Tim Walz: "We're in a massive misinformation campaign. The president himself tweeting out AI videos of fake news reports on healthcare. This is really dangerous. I cannot express to you the concern and absolutely bafflement and fear of our European allies asking me, 'Is this stuff really going on?'"
October 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Tim Walz: "We're in a massive misinformation campaign. The president himself tweeting out AI videos of fake news reports on healthcare. This is really dangerous. I cannot express to you the concern and absolutely bafflement and fear of our European allies asking me, 'Is this stuff really going on?'"
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Stephen Miler and Russ Vought are actually running the country. Both are evil Incarnate. Miller screams all the time and Vought acts more mild-mannered but both are full-on psychopaths! One day karma will come their way. Maybe in the way of a modern day Nuremberg trial. #FuckMAGA #impeachTrump
October 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Stephen Miler and Russ Vought are actually running the country. Both are evil Incarnate. Miller screams all the time and Vought acts more mild-mannered but both are full-on psychopaths! One day karma will come their way. Maybe in the way of a modern day Nuremberg trial. #FuckMAGA #impeachTrump
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Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.
October 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.
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The damage this man has done is incalculable.
August 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
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Meiselas: It seems that the outcome that Republicans want is whatever the worst possible outcome could be. More disease, more deaths, more murders, a horrible economy. And let’s literally pick the worst people for each possible position at every level.
August 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Meiselas: It seems that the outcome that Republicans want is whatever the worst possible outcome could be. More disease, more deaths, more murders, a horrible economy. And let’s literally pick the worst people for each possible position at every level.
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#Pinks #ProudBlue
If you live in GA., you better make sure you’re still registered to vote. Hundreds of thousands have been taken off the voter rolls, especially young black people. GOTV. ✊💙
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If you live in GA., you better make sure you’re still registered to vote. Hundreds of thousands have been taken off the voter rolls, especially young black people. GOTV. ✊💙
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Georgia concludes latest mass voter registration cancellation • Georgia Recorder
One of Georgia’s largest mass voter cancellations is wrapping up as election officials seek to purge outdated registrations from the state’s voter rolls.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
#Pinks #ProudBlue
If you live in GA., you better make sure you’re still registered to vote. Hundreds of thousands have been taken off the voter rolls, especially young black people. GOTV. ✊💙
georgiarecorder.com/briefs/georg...
If you live in GA., you better make sure you’re still registered to vote. Hundreds of thousands have been taken off the voter rolls, especially young black people. GOTV. ✊💙
georgiarecorder.com/briefs/georg...
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We stand with Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker and every other American willing to stand up to fascism and take back our country.
August 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
We stand with Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker and every other American willing to stand up to fascism and take back our country.
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And who pays, the farmers. When will Americans learn that the GOP does not care about them. The farmers, the unions, the poor, the retirees…their disdain does not stop.
August 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
And who pays, the farmers. When will Americans learn that the GOP does not care about them. The farmers, the unions, the poor, the retirees…their disdain does not stop.
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NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Grand jury declines to indict man who threw a sandwich at federal officer in D.C.
The former Justice Department attorney who threw a sub at federal officers in Washington, and came to be known as "Sandwich Guy," was not indicted on a federal felony charge.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
August 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism.
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Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
August 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states