William Bennett
@wirab.bsky.social
Retired physician. Reading “Troilus and Cressida.” Somerville, Mass.
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Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵
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If pressed, Cotton would be fine with naval drone strikes on Arkansas drug dealers.
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If pressed, Cotton would be fine with naval drone strikes on Arkansas drug dealers.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
MS NOW is complicit in this corrosion, repeatedly broadcasting the snuff films.
Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
MS NOW is complicit in this corrosion, repeatedly broadcasting the snuff films.
Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
There is no excuse for MSNOW to show the videos of the bombed boats. We know what it looks like. By now, it is just snuff porn.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
There is no excuse for MSNOW to show the videos of the bombed boats. We know what it looks like. By now, it is just snuff porn.
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It is revolting that the DoD footage of boat strikes is being repeatedly shown on All in with @chrislhayes.bsky.social. It is virtually snuff porn
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
It is revolting that the DoD footage of boat strikes is being repeatedly shown on All in with @chrislhayes.bsky.social. It is virtually snuff porn
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There's also "Don Snoreleone"...
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
There's also "Don Snoreleone"...
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"Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that
immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and
inquire about immigration status. If the person is a US
citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that
individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."
immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and
inquire about immigration status. If the person is a US
citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that
individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."
December 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that
immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and
inquire about immigration status. If the person is a US
citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that
individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."
immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and
inquire about immigration status. If the person is a US
citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that
individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."
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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
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This three-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza celebrated her birthday on the rubble of what was once her home.
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This three-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza celebrated her birthday on the rubble of what was once her home.
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I don’t think we talk enough about how U.S. made guns show up in every part of the immigration equation. Including guns made right here in my home state of Massachusetts, where I lead the work to prevent gun violence. So I wrote about it. 2/2 open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
We cannot talk about immigration to the U.S.
Without talking about U.S. guns
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I don’t think we talk enough about how U.S. made guns show up in every part of the immigration equation. Including guns made right here in my home state of Massachusetts, where I lead the work to prevent gun violence. So I wrote about it. 2/2 open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
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U.S. made guns are driving the violence that causes people to flee their countries, and guns are used to terrorize immigrants here in the U.S. And now a shooting by an immigrant is being used as a reason to further terrorize immigrants.
We can’t talk about immigration without talking about guns. 1/
We can’t talk about immigration without talking about guns. 1/
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
U.S. made guns are driving the violence that causes people to flee their countries, and guns are used to terrorize immigrants here in the U.S. And now a shooting by an immigrant is being used as a reason to further terrorize immigrants.
We can’t talk about immigration without talking about guns. 1/
We can’t talk about immigration without talking about guns. 1/
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Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
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If it is the stance of this administration that drugs are weapons in armed conflict … shouldn’t my right to bear those arms not be infringed?
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If it is the stance of this administration that drugs are weapons in armed conflict … shouldn’t my right to bear those arms not be infringed?
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For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
For the AIDS Dead The plague that you have thus far survived. They didn't. Nothing that they did in bed that you didn't. ...
www.divasofverse.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
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Stalling on releasing the Epstein files and pardoning some drug dealers while killing others makes perfect sense through the lens of Trump Inc being a traditional organized crime family with branches in gambling, drugs and prostitution. He’s killing his rivals right out in the open.
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Stalling on releasing the Epstein files and pardoning some drug dealers while killing others makes perfect sense through the lens of Trump Inc being a traditional organized crime family with branches in gambling, drugs and prostitution. He’s killing his rivals right out in the open.
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This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
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Not if, it's when the next super storm hits NYC.
Our infrastructure isn't ready: www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi...
Our infrastructure isn't ready: www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi...
Video: New York City’s Next Super Storm
What’s a worst-case scenario for hurricane flooding in New York City? Our reporter Hilary Howard, who covers the environment in the region, explores how bad it could get as climate change powers incre...
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Not if, it's when the next super storm hits NYC.
Our infrastructure isn't ready: www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi...
Our infrastructure isn't ready: www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi...
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Average folks kettled ICE
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Average folks kettled ICE
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Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
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Tom Stoppard has died aged 88. His masterpiece is undoubtedly Arcadia - which is being revived early next year at The Old Vic - but for our delight and dazzlement, please can someone revive his blissfully funny The Real Inspector Hound?
Meanwhile, rewatch Brazil for which he wrote the screenplay.
Meanwhile, rewatch Brazil for which he wrote the screenplay.
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Tom Stoppard has died aged 88. His masterpiece is undoubtedly Arcadia - which is being revived early next year at The Old Vic - but for our delight and dazzlement, please can someone revive his blissfully funny The Real Inspector Hound?
Meanwhile, rewatch Brazil for which he wrote the screenplay.
Meanwhile, rewatch Brazil for which he wrote the screenplay.
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I feel like people are much more motivated by negativity than by positivity.
Hating on bad politicians: yay everyone's down!
Supporting good politicians: ehhh I'm just not Excited
Boycotting to hurt a company: wheeee!
Supporting their indie competitors: mehhh overpriced
Hating on bad politicians: yay everyone's down!
Supporting good politicians: ehhh I'm just not Excited
Boycotting to hurt a company: wheeee!
Supporting their indie competitors: mehhh overpriced
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I feel like people are much more motivated by negativity than by positivity.
Hating on bad politicians: yay everyone's down!
Supporting good politicians: ehhh I'm just not Excited
Boycotting to hurt a company: wheeee!
Supporting their indie competitors: mehhh overpriced
Hating on bad politicians: yay everyone's down!
Supporting good politicians: ehhh I'm just not Excited
Boycotting to hurt a company: wheeee!
Supporting their indie competitors: mehhh overpriced