Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Sad.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Sad.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
But Hitler Mk II is also in the primary!
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
No democrat actually talks like this. Even the ones that represent a state or district where they believe using these words would be no political risk. Any politician that takes this advice seriously would be letting everyone know they are not a serious person.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Look, either we get rid of the senate - which we should - or we make more states - which we could. If your telling me that DC is more populace than two states, your basically agreeing they should have two senators.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay!
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Just make the capitol and the government buildings ‘dc’ and let the actual city full of millions of people be a state.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Driving drunk *does* get you to work faster, so…
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social)
I was away from social media for a bit this summer, and I’m really disheartened and sad to come back here and see rampant copium.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
To be clear - I 100% expect him to simply retain power. Not ‘running for a third term’ doesn’t exclude claiming an emergency and just staying in power.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Friendly reminder he’s a liar who has a compulsive need to fill the air with bullshit.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you think it ever could be a reliable partner in our care an keeping? Or do you think that’s just not how it could ever be, even in the best of circumstances?
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it’s not a luxury to consider supporting newsom in a primary, let alone a general. It’s part of the process for the politically engaged. In this moment, it’s nice that he is saying he will fight fire with fire re congressional districts, but he is and has always been a gross piece of shit.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social)
This is an act of war. The Republicans have started, in earnest, a second civil war. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted
Newsom has proved that he will set aside every liberal ideal you think he holds for the sake of power. You simply can’t trust him. I don’t object to him forcefully opposing Trump where he can, but the reason people qualify their support is that he’s a snake.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Folksy resignation which makes people accept the stupidity and cruelty as a necessary evil.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Not that this is an excuse, but the amount of death threats they probably have been getting has likely sky rocketed over the last ten years.
Andrey X (@theandreyx.bsky.social) reposted
Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s ordering a coffee!
Kari Dru (@karidru.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The thing is that there are a lot of stages. And if you can't call out the early stages for what they are, a lot of people won't, and didn't, take them seriously as early stages of something worse, at all. Also a lot of early stages are intentional, not incidental, harm.
Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com) reposted
The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
Thor Benson (@thorbenson.bsky.social) reposted
Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops
Brad Lander (@bradlander.bsky.social) reposted
Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
All the tools until ‘AI’ didn’t steal my shit.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
How?
blueskyjism (@hoovybaby.bsky.social) reposted
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
This fucking guy loves his fucking ‘two weeks’ shit
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, don’t worry about those anymore!
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah - I don’t have to use it. But I can’t turn off the suggestions or the panels and I can’t make Adobe stop hustling me. Never seen that before in 30 years of software *I’m paying for* to do creative work. I also have to assume it’s stealing my work to feed the machine which I hate.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s a full court press - my school district is constantly trying to get me to use this crap in the classroom, and Adobe - which I pay a subscription fee for - will not let me turn it off in my projects.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey! Go fuck a couch you fascist pig!
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social)
defector.com/against-the-...
Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley.substack.com) reposted
Israel is a rogue state - don’t let it drag us into World War III
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Good lord why is he so achingly circumspect?
David Earl Williams III (@dewforpolitics.bsky.social) reposted
20-year-old U.S. citizen Adrian Andrew Martinez was swarmed by ICE in Pico Rivera while defending someone. He never hit back—just struggled—before being slammed into a CBP van. No records. No lawyer. His mom can’t find him. This is abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
Celeste Ng (@pronounced-ing.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It's amazing how many people are all "marketplace of ideas!!1!" until people choose not listen to them, and suddenly they're like "you know what market we should have? The company store"
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s also very thematically appropriate to use against racist white colonialism trying to ethnically cleanse America of the descendants of the Aztecs.
Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social) reposted
Stockton, CA: Heavily armed masked kidnappers drove up in an unmarked car and pulled a landscaper out of his truck and kidnapped him. When the landscaping company owner asked the men what they were doing, the kidnappers assaulted him and pulled out a metal baton.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social)
“You don’t hear about sanctuary cities in our heartland” is a “we had to destroy the village in order to save it” level utterance.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for articulating what I was feeling - I’ve almost bailed on it and haven’t recommended it, but I enjoy it!
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social)
I’ve seen versions of this for decades now - basically, ‘don’t play into their hands.’ The problem is they just lie. Doesn’t matter what you do. They lie. Even if they didn’t, if you’re always choosing your actions based on fear of your adversaries’ countermoves, you will never have the initiative.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
The only violence I see being committed is state violence in the name of white supremacy.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
This is wildly inaccurate framing at best and a lie at worst. And it won’t stop the GOP from defunding you.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Terry got it at least!
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
If you’re having car trouble I feel bad for you, son
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
And now they are completely unchained.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social)
ICE needs to be destroyed root and branch. We created a police force to treat a non crime as a crime. Through ever increasing draconian methods of enforcing this lie, we trained them to be ultra nationalist thugs.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s an ethnicity and a nation. Double whammy.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social)
Supporters of this think or know someone else will be the wage slave.
Gwendolyn Corvid (@gwen-corvid.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans want you to be wage slaves. www.yahoo.com/news/u-secre...
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Into the RICE
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
The working class is everyone who has a job or two or four they depend on.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
At this point, the dens can’t make that argument. They have not reduced harm, and they seem to be standing idly by (or worse) as the harm increases to extremely destructive levels.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Why would you discourage reps from going to El Salvador? That’s both morally wrong and bad politics. Not to mention dangerous. Unless of course deporting people to foreign gulags without due process is an option you hope to have one day.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
The gravitas of president blow job
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh so *this* is a narrow victory, but trump has a mandate for fascism because of the electoral college count?
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
You should keep making these ads for the online version
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Sharing obviously fake ‘evidence’ as an excuse for throwing someone in a gulag is absolutely terrifying.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social)
The dems need to put up articles of impeachment now.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Quislings. That’s what NPR is now.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone needs to put the music and side crawl over the video of this.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Hopefully, this murders Cuomo’s political career.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Also - you get tied to the whipping post. Nobody just whips the whipping post.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Hi, Chris Deluzo here from the planet dumb ball.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
I literally wondered of this was a screenshot from Helldivers
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Just because the nazis turned the dial to 11 doesn’t mean we don’t have authoritarian government at 6.
näirb (@brnpttmn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I emailed chuck's office last week asking for a donation to help me fight the administration.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
“Hostile to you about what?” *Goose increases speed*
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
This fucking guy.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
You moron.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Fine. Don’t own this fucking mess you dumb cowards!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) reposted
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
The Eugenicists!
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m confident I could convince Eamon Javers to give me his social security number.
Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted
Department of Government Efficiency
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
“These other billionaires are using their money to influence politics” is quite the complaint coming from this hunk of crap.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
No!!!
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
True, but to be fair, everyone’s career has a shelf life. Bill O’Reilly is gone too.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
If the goal is to just stay relevant/accepted enough in the chummy world of mainstream media, I’d say it worked for Beck. He was all over the place with his fake mea culpa, and only bob garfield had the guts to call him out.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
They can always do a Glen Beck.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
When birds land on a wire and shuffle for space/preferred neighbors, I start to feel terrible about how much I love chicken.
The Editorial Board (@editorialboard.bsky.social) reposted
Where are the big think pieces from high profile pundits about the federal government policing language and censoring speech? I saw approximately 10 million such pieces about critical race theory and cancel culture. Is the answer to this question not obvious?
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social)
Even the most divorced from reality people must experience the consequences of cause and effect - especially when their demagogue so singularly owns a particular course of action. The tariffs are all Trump. They can’t be rhetorically palmed off on anyone else. And the impact hurts his followers.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
The Grape of Wrath is about this one angry grape, you see.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Cuomo is a piece of shit and basically a republican.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe some part of your past relationship with them taught you the tools to hold their future selves accountable?
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
“I only want us all to work together to stop this if we can agree about exactly how bad America has always been.”
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social)
It’s crazy to live in the (completely interwoven) troika of 1.) the most advanced, effective and and wide-ranging medicine we’ve ever conceived of 2.) an utterly corrupt and untrustworthy medical business combine and 3.) batshit crazy dangerous woo woo ideologues making federal health care policy.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone ask that fuckface 5 things he did last week.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to mention celebrating brave sex workers!
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
DEI would have set up a jury duty-like system to get all citizens to eat lunch at Hooters at least once a year.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
Politico’s owner looks like an evil Huey Lewis
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
The crucial difference is that in a parliamentary system, the elected politicians form a coalition government *after* the election. In our system, you make a coalition of voters *before* the election.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
They want to make a nation in greenland?
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t think it’s ‘flooding the zone’ as some kind of tactic, I think they’re just doing lots of awful illegal things they want to do all at once, and the big press outlets have been useless for a while.
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
When kids are good like that, it really seems to me to be because they have good, stable attachment with a loving parent! :)
Ben Coccio (@bencoccio.bsky.social) reply parent
And your kids are insanely adorable!