Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
Well she's a British right wing professional victim so 🤷🏼♀️
Michigan Democrat, trans-inclusive feminist Comms Chief for MI Secretary of State Whitmer, Stabenow, Durbin alum
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view profile on Bluesky Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
Well she's a British right wing professional victim so 🤷🏼♀️
Aunt Jules (@japulver.bsky.social) reposted
He seems awfully concerned about how people are honored & what their legacy ends up being lately, doesn’t he? 🤔
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
Ghosts of California/Yukon/Alaska gold prospectors discovering this morning that they're woke
public health guy (@publichealthguy1.bsky.social) reposted
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I get that a lot of people on the left wish that the only enemy was capitalism, but that's just not how it works. fascism is really popular. fascist conspiracy theories and fascist identities drive the gun cult, and that's why politicians hate gun control.
donni saphire (@donni.bsky.social) reposted
No offense, but things should get better, instead of constantly worse
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
Fleur de Lis makes me think Louisiana
Zach Goldberg (@zgoldberg.bsky.social) reposted
Jokes aside, if Biden was AWOL for four days and had nothing on his sked for a holiday weekend: -CNN would permanently show a running clock on the last time Biden was seen in public -Alex Thompson would publish multiple stories a day on Axios -Chris Cillizza would crank out 56 "But His Age" stories
Craig Harrington (@craigipedia.bsky.social) reposted
The year is 2024, President Joe Biden has not interacted members of the press in several days, his visibly bloated figure can only be occasionally glanced through telephoto lenses as he shuffles secretively in and out of the White House. The Beltway press is unbothered by the situation.
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
lol at "the old country" it's just perfect 💙
That Artist (@thatmouthybroad.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It’s not like he isn’t normally up at this hour..
Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I've got Jacobin clocked for the first "how dare you be happy Vance is worse"
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
the one as big as me?!???
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
we've earned this!
Malice Walker (@humblecore.bsky.social) reposted
Personally I don’t care if it’s really happening, this is the best this place has been in months and months
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
"Sir..."
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
Many people are saying
Patrick (@pjos.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
‘Are the people cheering for me?’ ‘In a way Mr President, in a way’.
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
ok yes
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
I need to go to sleep! But I can't look away! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
RH^2 (@goaskascientist.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"Optimistic for a very specific future event"?
Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) reposted
dc public safety ppl send out a silver alert I dare you
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want share.google/5O6JhT8Y3a82...
Zach Goldberg (@zgoldberg.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Sorta weird that Tapper and Thompson stopped reporting on the health of the sitting president on January 20, 2025
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
I will find my jr high band flute and tweedle in the streets
Florida Chris (@chrislongview.bsky.social) reposted
I'm petty enough to survive this mess solely for the purpose of revenge.
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
No the fuck you are not Stay strong, Chicago 💙
Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) reposted
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
Also coming around to the idea that this is a prison planet and Im serving time for another lifetime's crimes
Chris Person (@papapishu.bsky.social) reposted
I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
Meeeee I never believed in literal evil forces until last summer
ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) reposted
"If you asked someone in your life about the National Guard deployment and they replied by talking about the price of cars, you would probably think there was something medically wrong with them, which is incidentally how most Americans view the Democratic Party." slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hank Green (@hankgreen.bsky.social) reposted
Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
hey take me with you
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
over/under on when ICE shows up at the scene of a school shooting to haul away parents & kids?
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
🎶 yeah it's a lot but it's what we've got wel-come to hell! hey!🎶
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
Christmas is going to be interesting this year
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
Best Documentary Short 2025
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
One year ago today pundits were huffily telling us we were overreacting and repeating Trump's lies about not planning to do anything from Project 2025
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
They just run circles around us with this kind of messaging A handful of organizations or individuals will use terms like "chest feeding" and the Right will use their unpopularity to beat Dems to death on trans rights. Then we acquiesce and scold and appease. Use the lesson and turn the tables!
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
Ok we're 10 years into this - every time a poll is released WAY too many people jump over to "how can 38% approve of this terrible thing?!?!!!" completely diluting the public argument You want to Do Something? Shout it from the rooftops how unpopular this shit is, how much he's overstepped!
maura quint (@mauraquint.bsky.social) reposted
This is absolutely what is happening -- as part of my work, we've been doing events across the country and people are scared and angry and worried and pissed the fuck off. Instead of reflecting that, the pundits and entrenched beltway figures have made up a guy to represent.
Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted
Prosecution: Let's have a look at the footage Prosecution: ok
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
I really dislike it when people try to push the next season - life is short! Stop wishing time away!
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
the complete strategic incompetence of Stephen Miller is strangely a source of hope for me - he's so soulless/ignorant he can't understand the consequences of normal people reaching their breaking point
bmazing.bsky.social (@bmazing.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
I'm totally sure that these Guard soldiers are super psyched to have to leave their lives/jobs/families back home to play King's gardener
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't Bread On Me
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
Imagine if Obama did this
Sam Youngman (@samyoungman.bsky.social) reposted
I’m sure glad the fucking idiots who lost their shit over a Cracker Barrel sign are also driving our vaccine policies
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted
Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.
Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social) reposted
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow.bsky.social) reposted
I think Trump was hoping for riots this summer and when they didn't happen he just went ahead and deployed the Guard anyway.
AnneCW (@annecw.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
There is absolutely no reason for Trump to militarily occupy American cities. No city is so overrun with crime that they require Trump's order to occupy them militarily. The story is that Trump is engaged in a military takeover of cities that vote for Democratic presidential candidates.
Alyssa Harad (@alyssaharad.bsky.social) reposted
*reading column on the US tipping into authoritarianism* Pop up box: Are you enjoying this post? Subscribe now!
-𝚖𝚘𝚡 (@moxiest.art) reposted
call us old fashioned but, this account finds newsom's "check out my rock-hard AI nipples. they're absolutely glistening" platform less inspirational than pritz's "you fascists bring that shit here and I will personally fuck your asses up."
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
This is the way
luke steuber (@lukesteuber.com) reposted
What the fuck is it with people not taking this seriously? “That seems a stretch?” Are you a fucking idiot?
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
They extrapolated an entire (false) Parkinson's diagnosis from White House visitor logs! The double standard is so insulting
Dustin (@dustinn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
So much of these complaints are based on that one interview clip about trans prisoners, and I’m sorry but if your standard for comms is “never have a statement that can be clipped to make you look bad to centrists” you’re just asking pols to never talk
Dave Karpf (@davekarpf.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
If your posting does much better on X than it does here, then I can understand the pragmatic decision to stay. But (a) that says something profoundly unsettling about your posting, and (b) don’t kid yourself about what the site has become.
Mike Drucker (@mikedrucker.bsky.social) reposted
hell yeah, man, watch him work that elementary school playground
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
fucking doofus
Jeremy C. Shipp (@jeremycshipp.bsky.social) reposted
LLM-style AI: "Dogs are crustaceans." "There are four B's in the word blueberry." "Here are some real sources to prove my point that are definitely real and not hallucinations." Tech bros: "We're geniuses."
It's Going Down (@igd.bsky.social) reposted
Everything Trump does is a shitty version of what Alex Jones has been saying "the Left" is going to do to conservatives for 20 years.
The Pumpkin Dipshit (@pumpkinpal.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
pretending that every democrat has been saying the most outlandish and therapy-speak-addled versions of whatever internet poisoned discourse the online right stumbles upon or makes up is an important part of Third Way's tireless work collaborating with the fascists
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok I love her
Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted
Why are 90% of op-eds scolding liberals for the way they talk about threats to democracy rather than scolding conservatives for threatening democracy
Nick (derogatory) ✨ (@slothropsmap.bsky.social) reposted
The reason it doesn’t make sense to give in to MAGA grievance at any stage, for any reason, is that their hatred is insatiable. You cede an inch or hold the line, it doesn’t matter. They will continue to be ludicrous bigots because that’s who they are.
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
evergreen skeet
Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted
It's striking how quickly political journalists drop the "savvy" act when it comes to the Trump administration. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Lupita Nihongo (@otsumamiboy.bsky.social) reposted
I hope this helps someone: Regardless of your intention when using AI, it doesn't change the processes involved in using it, which include excessive consumption of water & other finite energy sources and data centers that are placed in vulnerable communities, polluting both people and land.
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
Hahahaha whyyyyyy would you let this air on TV holy shit dude
Scott Lemieux (@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social) reposted
Vance is accidentally telling the truth here — when they say “crime” they mean “possibility you might see a homeless person”
Anjali Enjeti (@anjalienjeti.bsky.social) reposted
Keep boycotting Target. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
Christmas is going to suck! I love their wrapping paper and seasonal stuff. But they did this to themselves
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
I looooved Target but have not been to one since January. Fix your hearts or die!
Ingomar girl (@ingomargirl.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I haven’t been in a Target since the election. I am saving money.
Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) reposted
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
Absolutely disgusting
Ryan Enos (@ryanenos.bsky.social) reposted
A dictator came to the United States and praised Donald Trump for his attempts to overthrow the democratic order, and Trump bragged about it.
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social)
look at this queen right here with her chicken 👑👑👑
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
The showmanship!
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
the lack of enthusiasm from that announcer is criminal! more like "OMG Yesssssssss thank you for blessing us with this, chicken jockey!!!!!"
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.
I'm Jorts (@lethaljorts.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
remember when there was a political assassination in america like 2 months ago?
Richard Waite (@waiterich.bsky.social) reposted
Remember all of the “food prices are too high” social media posts from 2024? Grocery price inflation is higher now than it was then
8thDegreeSavage (@actuallymossman.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
My haters will say it’s photoshopped
Angela Benander (@abenander.bsky.social) reply parent
That Succession episode - Boar on the Floor
Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I gotta know what happened at this meeting. Even the Fox reporter was like "yeah it was bad"
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted
glad we spent millions of dollars and probably gave away priceless intelligence for no other purpose than to invite vladimir putin to come shit on our lawn, be smug about it, then leave
Npw123 (@npw1234567.bsky.social) reposted
Any update king?
Roman Sheremeta (@rshereme.bsky.social) reposted
Americans don’t like Putin. Republicans don’t like Putin. Democrats don’t like Putin. Independents don’t like Putin. Nobody likes Putin, except Trump.