Kyle Benshoof
skimmington.bsky.social
Kyle Benshoof
@skimmington.bsky.social
Writing to survive, posting to post
skimmington.substack.com
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They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.

The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Don’t forget that there’s still no evidence that these boats were transporting drugs.

Don’t let the debate over the illegality of the strikes loop you into thinking these are actually drug boats.

MAGA saying, “my car goes 800 miles an hour” might just be trying to get you believe they own a car.
Sen. Roger Marshall defends Hegseth: "Look, we're losing 200 Americans every day to drug poisoning from these drug lords. This is a war. And it's ugly. War is never pretty ... that strike probably saved thousands of American lives."
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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It’s sort of infuriating to watch liberals all of the sudden be able to identify war crimes because Trump is doing them
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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i tell you what, if Democrats win the elections in 2026 and 2028, one of the biggest mistakes they could make is to talk about uniting the country by not prosecuting all of the lawbreakers and corruption of Trump administration officials. One reason we are here today is Ford's pardon of Nixon.
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
grok is the Thanksgiving Dinner Quotient convertible to Gini Coefficients
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
so adhd meds work I guess
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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how do you even gather this data accurately?
not gonna say "internet is officially dead" because much like a beached whale, even though the corpus is itself deceased it is fizzling with bacterial life.
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”

-Ta-Nehisi Coates
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 27d
USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Trump is appealing the judicial order to pay full SNAP benefits by tomorrow.

He’s spending tax payer dollars going back to court to try and avoid giving folks money they are legally owed.

He’s starving 42 million people because to him they are leverage.

It’s enraging.
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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the mainstream taking betting and gambling companies as seriously as journalism is one of the greatest evils of modern society
November 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Sometimes we envision that these are just more abstract lies the Trump Admin is putting out.

But these lies are going to destroy families. These lies are going to obliterate the stability and finances of so many gullible people with kids.

They know they’re lying too.

They do not give a shit.
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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It is insane how irresponsible this is.

Families who believe this piece of human garbage are going to budget for their healthcare costs going up by $13. They aren’t going to plan for the future.

This is going to absolutely devastate gullible families & leave them without coverage.

It’s evil.
Q: Unless ACA subsidies are extended, the average plan will increase by somewhere around 115%

DR OZ: Where'd you get that number?

Q: Kaiser Family Foundation

OZ: They retracted that. Here's the truth. The average American who's on ACA is gonna pay $13 more than this year. That's not a big issue
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Proof that the U.S. government social media accounts are in fact white nationalist propaganda accounts, funded by our tax dollars.

You’ve got to see this…
October 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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the next democratic president should refer a significant portion of the current administration to The Hague for crimes against humanity
October 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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trumps thugs see someone defenseless and think

Oooo....OPPORTUNITY

all I can say, is there better be a 🔥HELL🔥 because it's the only hope I have left to keep me going
October 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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This is one of those posts I think about a lot now. Especially on a day when the White House press secretary replied "your mom" to an earnest question about peace negotiations.
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
October 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM