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benjamin-garland.bsky.social
Pro-democracy. Anti-authoritarian. benjamingarland.substack.com
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I don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact that almost half of the country willingly voted to have tens of thousands of armed thugs terrorize people in the street.

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I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

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Always a Loyalty Test. My latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/writekat...

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Modern technology has allowed all of the worst people to band together and somehow take over the country. This article is depressing as hell. What an absolute nightmare. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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

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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.

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

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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...

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"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

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

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

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

submitted 38 days ago • 345 comments

Will Trump save Canada?

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

submitted 38 days ago • 957 comments

A monkey with a machine-gun.

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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.

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has anyone studied this

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Anyone figure out how to save democracy yet?

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

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

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

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

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"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!

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Pete is always drunk

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

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

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

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I always look forward to funerals too. Good times.

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Someone get this angry Oompa Loompa away from the children.

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

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

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