Ben Luoma
@revlucky.bsky.social
Interfaith Minister, Chaplain, always curious.
This is the best pitch the Democrats have right now. Next week, I expect fundraising emails titled "it's not what it looks like" and "please, baby, we can change!"
August 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is the best pitch the Democrats have right now. Next week, I expect fundraising emails titled "it's not what it looks like" and "please, baby, we can change!"
From Cuomo in New York to Newsom in California, it's nice to see Democrats have taken a hard look at the losses in 2024 and decided to double down on the strategy that got them here.
July 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
From Cuomo in New York to Newsom in California, it's nice to see Democrats have taken a hard look at the losses in 2024 and decided to double down on the strategy that got them here.
I worked at Rhode Island Hospital where Doctor Alawieh works, for 6 years. I don't know her personally, but I recognize her photo and I know one of the other doctors quoted in the article. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know.
A court order that would have delayed the deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh was issued while her plane was on the tarmac, but it took off anyway.
www.providencejournal.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I worked at Rhode Island Hospital where Doctor Alawieh works, for 6 years. I don't know her personally, but I recognize her photo and I know one of the other doctors quoted in the article. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
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Oh wow
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Oh wow
So this popped up on recommended jobs on Indeed yesterday:
February 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So this popped up on recommended jobs on Indeed yesterday:
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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): "Seven times my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate...Representing our Commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. I will not seek this honor an eighth time. My current term in the Senate will be my last." youtu.be/dIsl-vXuNwM
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Announces Retirement
YouTube video by C-SPAN
youtu.be
February 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): "Seven times my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate...Representing our Commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. I will not seek this honor an eighth time. My current term in the Senate will be my last." youtu.be/dIsl-vXuNwM
Insight for today: if you've been touch typing long enough, typing with just your non-dominant hand feels a little like freestyling sonnets in Piglatin.
February 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Insight for today: if you've been touch typing long enough, typing with just your non-dominant hand feels a little like freestyling sonnets in Piglatin.
Here's a political reality that I haven't heard many people reflect on. Trump's xenophobia appeals to people left behind by the free trade economy, but free trade left people behind partly because it didn't relax immigration policy.
February 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Here's a political reality that I haven't heard many people reflect on. Trump's xenophobia appeals to people left behind by the free trade economy, but free trade left people behind partly because it didn't relax immigration policy.
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Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
ProPublica’s Supreme Connections Database Updated With New Alito, Thomas Filings
Our database of the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections now includes Samuel Alito’s deferred 2023 filing and eight previously missing disclosures from Clarence Thomas dating back to the 1990s.
propub.li
February 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
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If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.
February 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.
Thank you, The Advocate, for pointing out at the top of the article that EOs are not laws, no matter what Trump says. We've got to stop letting him pretend they are.
Before signing the order, Trump delivered a more than 30-minute long rambling speech filled with incendiary rhetoric, falsely claiming that "men are beating up, injuring, and cheating our women and our girls."
BREAKING: Donald Trump bans transgender athletes from playing sports
He signed the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order in a televised signing ceremony spectacle from the East Wing of the White House.
www.advocate.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Thank you, The Advocate, for pointing out at the top of the article that EOs are not laws, no matter what Trump says. We've got to stop letting him pretend they are.
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Let "no Nazi bullshit" be your mantra for today.
These Nazi fucks are EVERYWHERE, in every walk of life.
Cut them off at the knees. I love this knife guy's reaction.
Cut them off at the knees. I love this knife guy's reaction.
January 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Let "no Nazi bullshit" be your mantra for today.
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Cis friends, please read this.
There'll be another post coming shortly.
There'll be another post coming shortly.
“should trans people flee, should we stay?” idk chat, i think about the horror stories of my family who decided to stay and fight.
they are all dead. every. last. one.
many great-great aunts and uncles ended up in the camps and not a one of them were lucky enough to survive. not one.
they are all dead. every. last. one.
many great-great aunts and uncles ended up in the camps and not a one of them were lucky enough to survive. not one.
January 31, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Cis friends, please read this.
There'll be another post coming shortly.
There'll be another post coming shortly.
I do hope this is true.
January 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I do hope this is true.
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This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
January 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
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Short but worth a read. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Turns Out Everyone Was Wrong About the “Resistance” to Trump This Time
This is not shaping up to be the kind of regime that you want to be remembered for collaborating with.
slate.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Short but worth a read. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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