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benjamin-garland.bsky.social
Pro-democracy. Anti-authoritarian. benjamingarland.substack.com
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submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

The vile cruelty of this pig and the Supreme Court. The SC cleared the way on Friday for Trump to begin mass deportations. 500K immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela were protected, and now the targets, plus an additional 350,000 Venezuelans. That's nearly 1 million immigrants.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

open.substack.com/pub/theratio...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes, Joni Ernst is a genuinely bad human being who is callous toward people dying because of a lack of health insurance and thinks it's fun to joke about that. She should be voted out of office. www.huffpost.com/entry/joni-e...

submitted 20 hours ago • 25 comments

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."  —Louis Brandeis

submitted 14 hours ago • 158 comments

open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

submitted 30 days ago • 2342 comments

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

submitted 34 days ago • 346 comments

Will Trump save Canada?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

It’s Election Day, Canada. Go vote Canada Strong.

submitted 34 days ago • 957 comments

A monkey with a machine-gun.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This is what happens when your entire politics is revenge, retribution, and anger. You can never build anything because building requires dreaming and dreaming requires joy.

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

has anyone studied this

submitted 38 days ago • 195 comments

Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.

submitted 38 days ago • 102 comments

The milk might have tuberculosis in it, but as long there’s no Yellow No. 5…

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

I’m a bit worried that this even has to be said tbh

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

“I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours.” Day 100:

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason

submitted 38 days ago • 214 comments

Remember when Trump promised he would beg Putin to please stop the war “on day 100”? This is what true leadership looks like.

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submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

submitted 39 days ago • 1277 comments

Anyone figure out how to save democracy yet?

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

“Hegseth Crossing the Delaware” By @knecessary.bsky.social For more Kevin’s cartoons, go here: open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

submitted 40 days ago • 141 comments

Name one Trump voter that wouldn’t have been a Hitler supporter

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Bringing us back to the good old days of McKinley with a quickness

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

The thing is, this is entirely possible, even likely.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"The first great strike in American history was so large and so dramatic it could almost be considered a second civil war." New article is up!

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Pete is always drunk

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

I’ll take ‘what happens when coup plotters are allowed to go unpunished’ for $200, Alex.

submitted 182 days ago • 16 comments

Unfortunately, I doubt they are going to have much trouble.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I will never not be amazed at how shockingly off-putting and unlikable Pete Hegseth is.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I always look forward to funerals too. Good times.

submitted 41 days ago • 5740 comments

Someone get this angry Oompa Loompa away from the children.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Pete Hegseth’s second wife kept the code word for when he abused her more secret than he does our country’s war plans.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t tell if Hegseth is uniquely terrible or just uniquely terrible at hiding how terrible he is.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I mean, ya, he was elected to end democracy and basic civil rights plus deport every moderately brown person in America because this is what he promised and the stupid people elected him.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Loving each other is the answer 🙏

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes I wonder if the main reason Trump won is because people subconsciously prefer danger and chaos over boredom.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I figured this goofball wouldn’t last long.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs - By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone needs to be reading Zimmer.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.

submitted 45 days ago • 600 comments

Really feel like we all have to talk more explicitly and repeatedly about Stephen Miller as the actual Shadow President because that is what he is, he is almost certainly running the vast majority of day-to-day stuff and is responsible for much of the worst of it

submitted 44 days ago • 539 comments