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benschatzel.bsky.social
Actor, Writer, Autism Acceptance Activist 3rd grade spelling bee runner-up Chicago, IL
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she made the greatest posting mistake you can make, acknowledging a dunk on you like this

submitted 19 hours ago • 402 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2144 comments

It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

submitted 1 day ago • 4207 comments

Saw a follower of mine made a post about the biggest political gift the left gave to conservatives is saying people shouldn’t say “the r word” and I just blocked the guy because I don’t fuck with people saying that word and everyone who does sucks and is a 50 year old southpark guy

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Listen to this clown! Markwayne Mullin had to listen to it “over and over again”—desperately searching for a way to spin the fact that Donald Trump called President Zelenskyy a ‘dictator’ and the aggressor. There’s no debate here. Russia invaded Ukraine. Period!

submitted 2 days ago • 390 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 2 days ago • 843 comments

Elon Musk is a self-identifying anime villain who is making a desperate overreach for global domination and our honest to god best bet may be finding some radical teenagers crazy enough to stop him.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 3 days ago • 568 comments

Spitballing from the rafters here, but if “Democracy was on the ballot” then how come the Dems didn’t illustrate any ideas for expanding Democracy? Talk about ranked-choice voting, talk about Citizens United, talk about voter suppression. Try and win a damn argument sometimes. This shouldn’t be hard

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I am enough of a sicko that I actually read this damn thing and I kid you not that 90% of this is just listing stuff that Trump/Musk are doing and it contains no detail or strategy outside of “we want workers to vote for us”. If I turned this in as an essay outline in middle school I’d get an F.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8248 comments

This is a really big deal. Trump's FTC and DOJ are keeping the Lina Khan/Jonathan Kanter framework for merger review in place. Wall Street was wrong in assuming it would be thrown out.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

submitted 4 days ago • 251 comments

In addition to everything else that needs to be dealt with, are the Democrats going to do anything about the planes crashing or are we just gonna ride this additional crisis to the end of the line?

submitted 4 days ago • 328 comments

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 8 days ago • 558 comments

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

submitted 8 days ago • 419 comments

Sen. Schatz (D-HI) is right, no procedural gimmick can thwart a majority. But @schatz.bsky.social is missing that many don’t expect magic, they want opposition. Act like the crisis is a crisis, not like things are basically normal, Dems have some policy disagreements, but want to do bipartisanship.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

So is Kamala Harris going to show up in any meaningful way or did she just say, “hard work is good work, it’s time to roll up our sleeves” just to disappear for the next 3 years? (Just like she did for the last 3 years.)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 8 days ago • 1781 comments

It’s so funny to me that people are like wow I can’t believe Kendrick did all that with Trump in attendance as if there were any thoughts happening in Donald’s head other than “Quid pro quo? I remember that one!”

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Hard to imagine a better test of political judgment than which Democrats are willing to criticize their wildly out-of-touch party leadership right now. Seems like a layup

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments