Ben Hamar
@kgkaktus.bsky.social
Watch Team Handball 🏐 on the Olympics. My fencing instructor turned me on to it. Her gift to me. My gift to you.
Non-denial denial of 'Did Trump spend hours at Epstein's house with a victim?'
Q: Can you address the substance of these Epstein emails? Did Trump ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein's house with a victim?
Leavitt: These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that Trump did nothing wrong.
Leavitt: These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that Trump did nothing wrong.
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Non-denial denial of 'Did Trump spend hours at Epstein's house with a victim?'
IMO Josh Marshall's right. Let's move on from how the shutdown ended.
Get rid of Dem lawmakers who oppose ending the filibuster, reforming the Supreme Court, autocrat-proofing laws that let POTUS use the military/NG to occupy states/cities that oppose him...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
Get rid of Dem lawmakers who oppose ending the filibuster, reforming the Supreme Court, autocrat-proofing laws that let POTUS use the military/NG to occupy states/cities that oppose him...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
IMO Josh Marshall's right. Let's move on from how the shutdown ended.
Get rid of Dem lawmakers who oppose ending the filibuster, reforming the Supreme Court, autocrat-proofing laws that let POTUS use the military/NG to occupy states/cities that oppose him...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
Get rid of Dem lawmakers who oppose ending the filibuster, reforming the Supreme Court, autocrat-proofing laws that let POTUS use the military/NG to occupy states/cities that oppose him...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
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This is 48 minutes long, and well worth that investment of time: a clear, detailed, easy to follow review that matches my understanding of the case (backed up with a lot of additional facts and expertise I don’t have).
July 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is 48 minutes long, and well worth that investment of time: a clear, detailed, easy to follow review that matches my understanding of the case (backed up with a lot of additional facts and expertise I don’t have).
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Texas found $11 billion for troops and razor wire at the border and migrant buses, even with oil-billionaire tax cuts. But its coffers went dry for warning sirens to confront a climate crisis it claims is made up
How Texas flood exposed warped priorities. My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
How Texas flood exposed warped priorities. My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Texas flood exposed America’s warped priorities | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, the CIA is caught lying about the JFK assassination.
www.inquirer.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Texas found $11 billion for troops and razor wire at the border and migrant buses, even with oil-billionaire tax cuts. But its coffers went dry for warning sirens to confront a climate crisis it claims is made up
How Texas flood exposed warped priorities. My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
How Texas flood exposed warped priorities. My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
There's always a tweet.
Here's an archive where you can look them up. Even the deleted ones.
www.thetrumparchive.com?searchbox=%2...
Here's an archive where you can look them up. Even the deleted ones.
www.thetrumparchive.com?searchbox=%2...
June 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
There's always a tweet.
Here's an archive where you can look them up. Even the deleted ones.
www.thetrumparchive.com?searchbox=%2...
Here's an archive where you can look them up. Even the deleted ones.
www.thetrumparchive.com?searchbox=%2...
Conservatism consists of one proposition:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Frank Wilhoit (the classical music composer, not the political scientist) slate.com/business/202...
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Frank Wilhoit (the classical music composer, not the political scientist) slate.com/business/202...
The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.
slate.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Conservatism consists of one proposition:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Frank Wilhoit (the classical music composer, not the political scientist) slate.com/business/202...
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Frank Wilhoit (the classical music composer, not the political scientist) slate.com/business/202...
MAGA = 24/7 victimhood & centering everything on yourself
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Trump demands apology after bishop asked him to 'have mercy' on LGBTQ+ people and migrants
President Donald Trump is demanding an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrants in the United States illegally during a pr...
www.pbs.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
MAGA = 24/7 victimhood & centering everything on yourself
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
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Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
November 17, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
What was "mocking and attacking" in the TPM essay?
I've seem some critics of 'identity politics' mock/attack trans activists as naive, etc... but Josh did none of that in the above.
I've seem some critics of 'identity politics' mock/attack trans activists as naive, etc... but Josh did none of that in the above.
November 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
What was "mocking and attacking" in the TPM essay?
I've seem some critics of 'identity politics' mock/attack trans activists as naive, etc... but Josh did none of that in the above.
I've seem some critics of 'identity politics' mock/attack trans activists as naive, etc... but Josh did none of that in the above.
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InfoWars is being sold off to repay Sandy Hook families. Great!
But Alex has been steering InfoWars listeners away from his own store to a front company set up by his daddy for supplements. For months.
fight.fudgie.org/search/show/...
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But Alex has been steering InfoWars listeners away from his own store to a front company set up by his daddy for supplements. For months.
fight.fudgie.org/search/show/...
1/2
September 30, 2024 at 4:17 PM
InfoWars is being sold off to repay Sandy Hook families. Great!
But Alex has been steering InfoWars listeners away from his own store to a front company set up by his daddy for supplements. For months.
fight.fudgie.org/search/show/...
1/2
But Alex has been steering InfoWars listeners away from his own store to a front company set up by his daddy for supplements. For months.
fight.fudgie.org/search/show/...
1/2
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Here's the video of Trump calling for the police to have "one violent day" because right now "police aren’t allowed to do their job." He's also repeating the lie that you can steal anything up to $950 in California.
September 29, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Here's the video of Trump calling for the police to have "one violent day" because right now "police aren’t allowed to do their job." He's also repeating the lie that you can steal anything up to $950 in California.
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Vance and his campaign are trying to move on from pet eating, instead now demanding the media cover “skyrocketing” communicable diseases in Springfield.
Except that’s also a xenophobic lie.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Except that’s also a xenophobic lie.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
September 18, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Vance and his campaign are trying to move on from pet eating, instead now demanding the media cover “skyrocketing” communicable diseases in Springfield.
Except that’s also a xenophobic lie.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Except that’s also a xenophobic lie.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Tim Walz has travelled to China 30 times. His knowledge would seem invaluable in light of the universal agreement in DC that China & east Asia must be the focus of US foreign policy.
The Idiocracy Party is attacking him for it.
The Idiocracy Party is attacking him for it.
August 18, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Tim Walz has travelled to China 30 times. His knowledge would seem invaluable in light of the universal agreement in DC that China & east Asia must be the focus of US foreign policy.
The Idiocracy Party is attacking him for it.
The Idiocracy Party is attacking him for it.
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My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.
I don't take the age thing seriously. THEY PICK A LIE ABOUT EVERY DEM, and the press knows it's some BS but plays along. They know that the other guy is worse in every way, especially his brain. They turned being a war hero into a liability against a fortunate son draft dodger.
July 5, 2024 at 8:28 PM
My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.