Matthew Bennell
@matthewbennell.bsky.social
"No one does it alone, not even the madness." — Nicholas Ray
If it's possible, it may happen. If it's impossible, it might happen.
"Shut your eyes and you'll burst into flames." — Log Lady
If it's possible, it may happen. If it's impossible, it might happen.
"Shut your eyes and you'll burst into flames." — Log Lady
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Rhodes: Trump should “call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing”
On The Gateway Pundit podcast, Stewart Rhodes announces he is relaunching the Oath Keepers
www.mediamatters.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Rhodes: Trump should “call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing”
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There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
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This needs to be the mood!! bsky.app/profile/andr...
🚨 The shutdown isn’t over. The Senate vote was a procedural step, not a deal. Nothing is reopening. Nothing is fixed. Eight Democrats helped move an old GOP bill while families go unpaid and SNAP stays frozen.
Flood the lines. Call your Senators.
☎️ (202) 224-3121
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Flood the lines. Call your Senators.
☎️ (202) 224-3121
🧵1/2
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This needs to be the mood!! bsky.app/profile/andr...
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I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.
Reposted by Matthew Bennell
Reposted by Matthew Bennell
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
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No one is seeing the silent suffers in this. A pet is family. A lot on snap budget what little money they have to make sure their pet is taken care of. It would break my heart to see shelters overwhelmed because of this. I also fear what happens when it gets desperate.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
Sarah Lungwitz has fretted over feeding not just her two teenage daughters with SNAP payments disrupted, but her family's cat and two dogs. Help has arrived for now, she says, after an Illinois nonpr...
www.yahoo.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
No one is seeing the silent suffers in this. A pet is family. A lot on snap budget what little money they have to make sure their pet is taken care of. It would break my heart to see shelters overwhelmed because of this. I also fear what happens when it gets desperate.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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The White House is proactively seeking solutions for #TheNodFather… 🤣
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The White House is proactively seeking solutions for #TheNodFather… 🤣
Don't we all feel better that Ghislaine Maxwell is happier!! 🤮
Now, about those Trumpstein files ...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Now, about those Trumpstein files ...
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Ghislaine Maxwell's prison emails show she is 'happier' at minimum-security Texas facility
Maxwell, a convicted sex offender connected to Jeffrey Epstein, was moved to a less restrictive federal prison this summer. Congress is investigating allegations of special treatment.
www.nbcnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Don't we all feel better that Ghislaine Maxwell is happier!! 🤮
Now, about those Trumpstein files ...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Now, about those Trumpstein files ...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Public health = your health. Project 2025 and Russel Vought are jeopardizing it.
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Wielding Obscure Budget Tools, Trump’s ‘Reaper’ Vought Sows Turmoil in Public Health - KFF Health News
Through shrouded bureaucratic maneuvers, White House budget director Russell Vought and DOGE have quietly upended outbreak response, HIV treatment, and dementia care in communities across America.
kffhealthnews.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Public health = your health. Project 2025 and Russel Vought are jeopardizing it.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
About that AI bubble —
"AI stocks head for more than $1 trillion in losses this week"
www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...
"AI stocks head for more than $1 trillion in losses this week"
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AI stocks head for more than $1 trillion in losses this week
The Nasdaq is on track to record its worst week since the April global market plunge tied to Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs.
www.nbcnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
About that AI bubble —
"AI stocks head for more than $1 trillion in losses this week"
www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...
"AI stocks head for more than $1 trillion in losses this week"
www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...
Call it what it is: Despotic oligarchy.
"Trump’s Economy Is Looking More and More Like Saudi Arabia’s"
"Top-down state capitalism is on the rise in both countries."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
"Trump’s Economy Is Looking More and More Like Saudi Arabia’s"
"Top-down state capitalism is on the rise in both countries."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Trump’s Economy Is Looking More and More Like Saudi Arabia’s
Top-down state capitalism is on the rise in both countries.
www.politico.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Call it what it is: Despotic oligarchy.
"Trump’s Economy Is Looking More and More Like Saudi Arabia’s"
"Top-down state capitalism is on the rise in both countries."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
"Trump’s Economy Is Looking More and More Like Saudi Arabia’s"
"Top-down state capitalism is on the rise in both countries."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
From the "Don't need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind's blowing" department —
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown
A University of Michigan sentiment survey showed a decline of 6.2% on the month and about 30% from a year ago.
www.cnbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
From the "Don't need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind's blowing" department —
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
"Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced"
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Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced"
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
"The 2024 Trump 'realignment' is already over"
"Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated"
"Every demographic group shifted left in 2025"
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
"Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated"
"Every demographic group shifted left in 2025"
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
The 2024 Trump "realignment" is over already
Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"The 2024 Trump 'realignment' is already over"
"Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated"
"Every demographic group shifted left in 2025"
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
"Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated"
"Every demographic group shifted left in 2025"
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
"US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say"
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say"
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Why aren't the Dems hammering away on the shutdown as simply Project 2025 in action? This has been the GOP plan all along.
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Why aren't the Dems hammering away on the shutdown as simply Project 2025 in action? This has been the GOP plan all along.
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"AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge"
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge"
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
But will data brokers truly comply?
"The privacy changes web browsers will be required to make under a new California law could set the de facto standard for the entire country, changing how Americans control their data when using the internet."
The bill:
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...
"The privacy changes web browsers will be required to make under a new California law could set the de facto standard for the entire country, changing how Americans control their data when using the internet."
The bill:
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...
Why a new California law could change the way all Americans browse the internet – The Markup
Legislation recently enacted in California will make it easier for consumers nationwide to protect their data
themarkup.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
But will data brokers truly comply?
"The privacy changes web browsers will be required to make under a new California law could set the de facto standard for the entire country, changing how Americans control their data when using the internet."
The bill:
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...
"The privacy changes web browsers will be required to make under a new California law could set the de facto standard for the entire country, changing how Americans control their data when using the internet."
The bill:
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...
The kids aren't all right with the media.
"84% of teens described news media with negative words — often characterizing media as intentionally deceptive or invoking negative emotional feelings."
Top five words: “Fake, “Crazy, “Boring, “Biased,” and “Sad.”
The report —
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"84% of teens described news media with negative words — often characterizing media as intentionally deceptive or invoking negative emotional feelings."
Top five words: “Fake, “Crazy, “Boring, “Biased,” and “Sad.”
The report —
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“Biased,” “Boring,” “Chaotic,” and “Bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.”
www.niemanlab.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The kids aren't all right with the media.
"84% of teens described news media with negative words — often characterizing media as intentionally deceptive or invoking negative emotional feelings."
Top five words: “Fake, “Crazy, “Boring, “Biased,” and “Sad.”
The report —
newslit.org/wp-content/u...
"84% of teens described news media with negative words — often characterizing media as intentionally deceptive or invoking negative emotional feelings."
Top five words: “Fake, “Crazy, “Boring, “Biased,” and “Sad.”
The report —
newslit.org/wp-content/u...