Benj

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We are contumacious diodes with mercurial biases, and we are transfixed by our borealis. PNW, Go Hawks

Old Maxell High-fidelity tapes advertisement of a man sitting in a chair in front of a speaker taking in a cacophony of sound so loud, crisp & clear that its blowing the lamp shade, his hair, and clothing back.
Revealed result: Zohran Mamdani
Revealed results: Johan Mamdani
A head that looks like someone stopped shaving it partway through...
Cat, speaking into a microphone. Saying: Would
Jon Caramanica, music editor of Vibe, at 2007 Pop Conference, Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington. Photo has been manipulated a bit (sharpening and blurring) to emphasize Caramanica rather than the people behind him
(Likely, but not fully identified, afaik) ICE or CBP of brownish skin, but unknown heritage, wearing a gator to conceal his face, pointing a gun out his car window for no reason, at people unseen behind the camera taking his picture. Its a semi famous image because no one was doing anything, no officers stopped, no one was arrested fir anything and no one was even heard saying anything provocative. Just a self loathing, hyper aggressive, unelected bureaucrat, contemplating killing american citizens fir no reason other than hes a fucking idiot who bought all the propaganda.
Text from a US passport, in the "Important Information" section admitting that visitors are the subjects of laws, within whatever nation they're in.
Old photo of my now 13 year old Marley, when she was a pup. Blue Heeler, Australian Shepherd, Border Collie, Staffordshire Pit mix. Mearle coat, mostly white, with black and brown patches, tall alert ears, hoof-like paws, proud, and completely unaware of how adorable she looks
10th birthday card from a friend of my 11yr old. hey Lulu, happy b-day. your the best friend I could ever ask for. you've been there for me whe people wern't. you made me feel like I was a part of somthing when really was'nt. When someone says to me "Whos your best frend your name always comes to mind. just want to remind you how amazing you are. I've seen you so much and you always find a way to keep going, there no one like you. you've been my ride or die, my go to person and the one who just gets me without me having to say , much. to the best times and active line asked. I just want to thank Sting for being my best friend and thankyou for everythinghappy birthday Lulu.
80s guitar player, sick in bed, was my only prompt, lol. Not too f@cking far off, tbh😂
Trending topics right now: UFC attendance UFC event UFC fight NASA women AEW wrestling As US/IRAN war negotiations collapse & the president & SoS attend a sporting event.
An 20mos old(?) baby/toddler in a relatively normal idea living room, screaming like a madman into the cellphone at his ear, in "King Kong destroys the world" posture resembling a hungry gorilla on the loose outside a closed burger King.
Graph showing the expansion of installed Iranian nuclear centrifuges since trump violated the JCPOA agreement. (Its massive: from essentially zero, to nearly 15,000) All details found in linked article.
Graph with exponentially differentiating columns, showing China installing renewable energy at 7.5x the rate of the US.
However, earlier this year the new, US-aligned Syrian government launched a swift military campaign to take control of the country’s north that included attacks against ISIS and pushing out Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces. Facing that campaign, Kurdish forces evacuated and stopped guarding the ISIS prisons when US forces pulled out of the country. In January, the US’ Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said that the purpose of the US’ alliance with the SDF had “largely expired.”
Old post from twitter, says: So, just to be clear Trump/Jared admin: Reneged/revoked JCPOA (10years of work, millions of manhours) Sanctioned Iran, Causing S.K. to confiscate Billions of Iranian $ Changed decades off/ policy (recognized Golan Heights) and Moved Embassy Assassinated Iranian icon/top General Sokumani Left Palestinians out Of Abraham Accords Javanka local profiteering Trump: I take no responsibility 7:39 PM. 19 Mar 24. 142
T'he reason Republicans on the court spent so much time yelling at one another over this doctrine that didn't actually decide the case is because the major questions doctrine has a critical flaw: Iit's entirely made-up. It's not written down anywhere-not in the Constitution, not in the Declaration of Independence, not in the Magna Carta. not in the Bible or the Mahabharata. It's just not a historical thing. Nobody currently on the court learned about maior questions doctrine in law school because it hadn't been invented back when they were in law school. Conservative law professors essentially concocted this "doctrine' circa 2014 (they say necessity is the mother of all invention. and the existence of a Black president certainly seemed to necessitate the invention of ways of curtail Barack Obama's powers) as they were trying to find some way to limit the effectiveness of...
Matt Hooper from Jaws (1975) facial expression of excruciating pain, with a shark FleshLight (do your own "research" on what a fleshlight is please) pictured above
In terms of partisan affiliations. Trump has cultivated immigratior security forces as political allies an effort that appears to have been successful. In 2016, the union that represents ICE officers endorsed Trump's campaign with support from more than 95% of its voting members. Today, ICE recruitment efforts increasingly rely_on far- right messaging to appeal to political supporters Both ICE and CBP have been deployed against political opponents in nonimmigration contexts, including Black Lives Matter protests in Washington D.C., and Portland,_Oregon, in 2020. They have also gathered data, according to political scientist Elizabeth F. Cohen, to
Google search return of 1st 3 articles 2021- Trump grants Venezuelans temporary legal status on his... 2025- Supreme Court again allows Trump to strip protections fro.... 2019- Why Trump may protect one group of immigrants (sub-head- to help win over Hispanic voters)
Among the lucky recipients: a man whose daughter had given millions to a Trump-backed super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico, a former F.B.I. agent who had pleaded guilty in a political corruption case and a California woman whom the president had granted relief once before The woman, Adriana Camberos was initially convicted in 2017 for her role in a scheme to sell millions of counterfeit bottles of the caffeinated drink 5-Hour Energy After her sentence was commuted by Mr. Trump in 2021, she was convicted again in 2024 in an unrelated fraud. When she was pardoned in the new case this week. it marked the second time Mr. Trump had opened the prison gates for her
Among the lucky recipients: a man whose daughter had given millions to a Trump-backed super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico, a former F.B.I. agent who had pleaded guilty in a political corruption case and a California woman whom the president had granted relief once before The woman, Adriana Camberos was initially convicted in 2017 for her role in a scheme to sell millions of counterfeit bottles of the caffeinated drink 5-Hour Energy After her sentence was commuted by Mr. Trump in 2021, she was convicted again in 2024 in an unrelated fraud. When she was pardoned in the new case this week. it marked the second time Mr. Trump had opened the prison gates for her
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Caption from video: And the most important statements of the US president
Same animals as above, only Ruby is playfighting.
Marley (Australian shepherd, blue heeler, border collie, staffordshire pit mix), Timber (some kind of rescue cat, lol, bottom), and Ruby (sister, top)
Crow approaching a cat with the caption: Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior Edgar Allan Poe?
Split image meme: Left, a man (Willen Defoe) in bright casual clothes crouches by water, labeled "Making a sandwich." Right, the same man in dark formal attire by a lighthouse, labeled "Putting all the stuff back.
Armed militia at Michigan Capitol screaming in the faces of state police
Clip from OP article: into park, causing it to lurch forward slightly. The reports indicate the federal agents did not like this—so much so that an agent threatened to shoot and arrest the driver. The driver, frightened, asked why. An agent, according to the reports, responded that the driver had attempted to hit him with the ambulance. “I was still in such shock,” the driver later wrote, “that they were not only accusing me of such a thing, but crowding and cornering me in the seat, pointing and screaming at me, threatening to shoot and arrest me, and not allowing the ambulance to leave the scene. This was no longer a safe scene, and in that moment, I realized that the scene had not actually been safe the entire time that they were blocking us from exiting, and that we were essentially trapped.”
Kid Rock in his heas-to-toe red and silver flaming chicken outfit he wore to the oval office like a month before the president & vice-president berated Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit.
Old black & white photo outside the tv station: WTAF TV 29 studios
5 lines of color spectrum lettering on black background reading: That didnt happen So hard it U happened other Things that Actually happened.
Katie Hopkins tweet of a photo of herself wearing a fake gun target on her forehead. Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins: This is how it feels to be a white conservative woman. Unknown person QT response: i actually love this metaphor because it's a fake target, and you've put it there yourself.
Andrei Glukhov (character from Chernobyl (miniseries))
Andrei Glukhov (Character from the miniseries Chernobyl)
both the Trump and Biden administrations to inject trillions into the economy, primarily in the form of grants or forgivable loans. Return on investment However, Trump and Biden's intervention during the pandemic differed greatly n their impact. For example, both presidents took minor equity stakes in their emergency relief programs to airlines, but they pale in comparison to the total package cost. In fact, President Trump, the self-proclaimed "great dea| maker" gave away six times as much as the TARP program under President George H. W. Bush, and 10 times more than President Biden's $50 billion CHIPS Act, through his more than trillion in pandemic relief funds. President Biden's CHIPS Act, which passed on a narrow but bipartisan vote, injected more than $50 billion to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors. The program catalyzed over $500 billion in private sector commitments, promising a more than 10x
Meme by DemCast from Twitter about 2020: CPAC where GOP banner announced "We are all domestic terrorists." Saturate the airwaves with the terminology, desensitize the audience to it, hijack it, sensationalize and glorify it, adopt it, commidify it, direct aggression towards those who bismirch it. Indoctrination. @splatterthought
Febryary 10, 2024 Twitter post from NYTs and my response Trump Says He Gave NATO Allies Warning: Pay In or He'd Urge Russia to do whatever the hell they want Replying to @maggieNYT On this day, private citizen started a kc new Arms Race. Book it. An aggressive US adversary aunched a full-scale ground invasion into a sovereign nation & S/EU ally. Inprovoked. A former US POTUS said he'd ncourage them to do whatever they want, even if it's war they want.
Kid Rock in the Oval office, dressed exactly how you'd think someone who goes by kid rock would dress...
A banner from 2020 GOP CPAC reads: We are all domestic terrorists My reply, captured by Demcast: Saturate the airwaves with the terminology, desensitize the audience to it, hijack it, sensationalize and glorify it, adopt it, commidify it, direct aggression towards those who bismirch it. Indoctrination. @splatterthought The Republican Party is now openly embracing being domestic terrorists
The appeals court issued a “temporary administrative stay” in the case way back in April, pausing the contempt proceedings undertaken by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who had found probable cause that the Trump administration had committed criminal contempt by violating his emergency order barring removals under the Alien Enemies Act. The lengthy delay in the appeals court ruling was unusual. In the time it took for it to issue its ruling, the AEA detainees – all Venezuelan nationals – were repatriated from CECOT in El Salvador and Emil Bove, the Trump DOJ official who allegedly ordered the removals to continue despite Boasberg’s order, was nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate to a lifetime seat on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
The biggest beneficiaries have been large ech companies, such as Chinese PC- maker Lenovo Inc. and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., with that L$ sector avoiding more than billion in ariffs. Others come from a wide range of ndustries, including oil and gas, bitcoin nining operations and medical device nakers. Importers of pharmaceuticals, ncluding UK-listed generic drugmaker Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc and Germany's Fresenius SE & Co., collectively saved at least $3.8 billion.
Media Mismatch Coverage about shootings outweigh the number of incidents Number of shootings < Number of times shootings were mentioned in media Graph shows mentions of crime increased 6 fold (appx) while murder basically remained unchanged.
Though he entered the United States legally at the San Diego border, appeared for an appointment the U.S. government gave him, and passed an initial credible fear interview, federal agents cited his 2 tattoos- -crowns reading mom and "dad"---as alleged proof of membership in the Tren de Aragua gang, something his lawyers continue to deny. He had no criminal record.
Common, man stands alone in defiance, meme.
What's most important is the organizing we do after Election Day and our bility to fight the capitalist class by strengthening our unions, mobilizing millions people to fight injustice, and electing socialists to all levels of government.
far right, his works have never made much of a dent in mainstream (or even just normal "conservative") political discourse. If you spend a few minutes reading those works you will quickly get a sense of why that is. In the 1960s, even quite conservative public figures like Barry Goldwater and William Buckley,. 1 Jr. kept Skousen at arms length. J. Bracken Lee, the right wing mayor of Salt Lake City, called Skousen *an incipient Hitler" in 1971. In October 2009 conservative commentator Rod Dreher-who is now a very far right, Soros-obsessed, pro-Tucker Carlson and pro-Viktor Orban anti-globalist- wrote this op-ed mocking Glenn Beck for r endorsing the "ooga-booga world" conjured in Skousen's writings. Dreher warned his fellow conservatives that following the lead of an ""nhinged buffoon" like Glenn Beck or Cleon Skousen would be the leath knell for the GOP. That was just one of many things Dreher got wrong in this column.
Donald Barr, Dalton's headmaster and father of Attorney General Bill Barr, hired Epstein O teach math and science. ERTIN; Jeffrey Epstein, math, science Epstein is pictured here in Dalton's 1975 yearbook. He taught high schoolers. (Yahoo Finance) *What we've been wondering.," one of Epstein's former students said, "is how did this guy get his job in the first place, without degree." Epstein was without a college degree when he was hired, but Barr, thought of as no nonsense," saw promise in zhe young man who was in his early 20s at the time. Dalton's yearbooks from 1975 and 1976 show Epstein sporting a s
Text from article: "...June Board meeting that professors' political donation histories are sufficient evidence to track viewpoint diversity at the University. He claimed that there is an inadequate balance of ideologies at the University vith... Tect continues with this part i highlighted: ...95 per cent of faculty donations going tO Democratic candidates and campaigns - though Sarah Turner, University professor of economics and education, noted that 84 percent of University faculty do not make political donations. Here is a look at Board members' political donations M all but one of whom has records of political donations which are overwhelmingly to Republican candidates and campaigns."
Image text from article: "...June Board meeting that professors' political donation histories are sufficient evidence to track viewpoint diversity at the University. He claimed that there is an inadequate balance of ideologies at the University vith... Text continues, with the part I highlighted: ...95 per cent of faculty donations going tO Democratic candidates and campaigns - though Sarah Turner, University professor of economics and education, noted that 84 percent of University faculty do not make political donations. Here is a look at Board members' political donations M all but one of whom has records of political donations which are overwhelmingly to Republican candidates and campaigns."
Dan Rather QT response to a Tommy Tuberville speech from Twitter in 2022: "This is racism." And my (full text) response to Dan Rather: This is authentic racism. Legacy racism. This is "bloodline" racism, this is educated" racism, this is "fine" racism, this is "white power" racism, this is "states rights" racism, this is "visceral" racism, this is 'experienced" racism. This is "American" racism. This is pure. Plutonium (Full image of text response shown in next image)
Clip from OPs article: "It didn't matter to Mr. McGee what they wrote, as long as they wrote something. Each time a premium user - who pays at least $8 per month for special features - interacted with his posts, he earned a little bit of money under X's revised revenue program."
Man in vitruvian form standing in a desert with his junk inserted into Penis Tanning machine advertised on a Tucker Carlson segment.
An image of trump, er... a toddler, his demeanor resembling a mix between a gorilla and a tyrannosaurus rex, intensely screaming into a cellphone.
She was just geting warmed up. "I don't think that those that have gone through West Point expected to have their commander in chief address them and start talking about trophy wives, or start talking about how he had so many investigations," she added. "What a great reminder that you are not qualified to be the person that potentially will command uS as troops to go into war. Like that is not instiling confidence whatsoever. And honestly, our troops deserve better. Our graduates deserve better. We as a country deserve better. And frankly, if we are going to ever be seen as the world leaders that we historically have been, the world deserves better."
Inflation rates over 4 years at a glimpse. In October 2024, the inflation rate was 2.4. I've linked to the data.
Various search results for ISIS, contradicting Trump's claims to have "100% wiped them out." Without a Caliphate, But Far from Defeated: Why Da'esh/lS.. Apr 7, 2025 - Since the fall of S self-proclaimed caliphate in 2019, ISIS remains a persistent threat in Syria. As of 2025, according to US estimates,.. U.S.Department of Defense (.gov) https://www.defense.gov Defeat-ISIS Group Adapts to Continue Pressure on Islamic... Oct 11,2024-The vast territory Of, Islamic State of Irag and Syria claimed has been liberated thanks in large part to the U.S.-led... Institute for the Study of War www.understandingwar.org The Islamic State's Global Long Game and Resurgence in Syria Jan 9, 2025 - The Islamic State has evolved and expanded globally since the territorial defeat of Icie in Iran and Cvria in90in
From wiki... Noem attended Northern State University from 1990 to 1994, but did not graduate. Her daughter, Kassidy, was born on April 21, 1994. Noem left college early to run the famnily farm. She added a hunting lodge and restaurant to zhe family property. Her siblings also moved back O help expand the businesses.l5 Noem subsequently took classes at the Watertown campus of Mount Marty College and at South Dakota State University, and online classes from the University South Dakota.[5[7][9] She obtained a Bachelor Of Arts f degree with a major n political science from south Dakota State University in 2012l10! while serving as a U.S. representative [11] The Washington Post dubbed her Capitol Hil's 'most powerful intern" for receiving college intern credits from her position as a member of Songress.[12]