Ben K.
@benjaminkabak.com
Lawyer.
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Legitimately “should be institutionalized” insane.
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Legitimately “should be institutionalized” insane.
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He's insane.
January 19, 2026 at 5:34 AM
He's insane.
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This drives me insane. There is exactly one privilege reserved for natural-born citizens: the right to be the president. But other than that, there is one citizenship in the United States, naturalized or natural born.
Speaking of fuckwits, the idea that naturalized citizens are inherently suspicious persons who must be made to justify themselves to armed agents of the state as necessary is the central premise of the Kavanaugh Stop.
There are not two kinds of citizens, 'naturalized' and 'born' or 'heritage' or whatever bigoted nonsense they have.
There is one kind of citizen: citizen.
That's it. We're one group. You wrongly arrested a citizen.
You fuckwits.
There is one kind of citizen: citizen.
That's it. We're one group. You wrongly arrested a citizen.
You fuckwits.
January 18, 2026 at 9:02 PM
This drives me insane. There is exactly one privilege reserved for natural-born citizens: the right to be the president. But other than that, there is one citizenship in the United States, naturalized or natural born.
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Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
January 19, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
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I appreciate foreign commentators really leaning in to say that dem leadership is dogshit because it is going to make the campists become even more neurotic
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 19, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I appreciate foreign commentators really leaning in to say that dem leadership is dogshit because it is going to make the campists become even more neurotic
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What’s a problem here is that they will deliver on nothing as long as Trump is President, and they need to frame what their role is as an opposition.
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:13 AM
What’s a problem here is that they will deliver on nothing as long as Trump is President, and they need to frame what their role is as an opposition.
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Schumer and other Dem leaders may, if they step outside; be sensing a massive enthusiasm gap forming between median Dem and gop voters rn, and while they really really really care about those things, what does he think is creating that energy today
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Schumer and other Dem leaders may, if they step outside; be sensing a massive enthusiasm gap forming between median Dem and gop voters rn, and while they really really really care about those things, what does he think is creating that energy today
All of the teams I was rooting for this weekend lost. Clean sweep.
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 AM
All of the teams I was rooting for this weekend lost. Clean sweep.
Bad news. The Pope is fallible after all.
January 19, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Bad news. The Pope is fallible after all.
Mandate of Heaven but literally.
January 19, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Mandate of Heaven but literally.
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The absolute accuracy of this.
January 18, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The absolute accuracy of this.
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thinking about the pope pacing back and forth in his apartment at 3:30 am yelling at the tv
January 19, 2026 at 2:21 AM
thinking about the pope pacing back and forth in his apartment at 3:30 am yelling at the tv
Playoff football is either incredibly great or awful. There’s just no in between.
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Playoff football is either incredibly great or awful. There’s just no in between.
We’re not being hysterical when we say Chuck Schumer is extremely bad for America.
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 18, 2026 at 11:16 PM
We’re not being hysterical when we say Chuck Schumer is extremely bad for America.
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Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.
This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.
January 18, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.
Replaying the 2015 Super Bowl this year, eh?
January 18, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Replaying the 2015 Super Bowl this year, eh?
The DOJ is not investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a top official said Sunday.
The top DOJ official confirmed that an investigation is underway into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
The top DOJ official confirmed that an investigation is underway into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
Justice Department says it has no plans to investigate ICE agent who killed Renee Good and confirms Walz, Frey probe
Frey and the governor’s office both said Sunday that the DOJ has not contacted them about the investigation.
bit.ly
January 18, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Bullying and/or invading our allies to placate the whims of a mad king who’s been Grima Wormtongue’d into taking Greenland but networks state lunatics isn’t actually in our national interest.
Ted Cruz Goes Hard to Bat for Trump On Greenland: ‘Overwhelmingly in America’s National Interest’
Ted Cruz Goes Hard to Bat for Trump On Greenland: ‘Overwhelmingly in America’s National Interest’
Ted Cruz went all in with his enthusiastic support for Donald Trump's desire to acquire Greenland on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo.
The post Ted Cruz Goes Hard to Bat for Trump On Greenland: ‘Overwhelmingly in America’s National Interest’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Bullying and/or invading our allies to placate the whims of a mad king who’s been Grima Wormtongue’d into taking Greenland but networks state lunatics isn’t actually in our national interest.
Jentleson is infected with Twitter brain. His book on the filibuster was good; he knew when to jump ship on Fetterman; but he’s been marinating in the remnants of X for too long.
Losing my mind at the Dems with their billionaire backers and powerful friends who have come up with the brilliant strategy that the party should adopt the policy positions of the avg MAGA voter — apparently ignoring that independents and swing voters even exist. Is this what $40 million gets you??
January 18, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Jentleson is infected with Twitter brain. His book on the filibuster was good; he knew when to jump ship on Fetterman; but he’s been marinating in the remnants of X for too long.
Watching Stancil Derangement Syndrome set in among a group of terminally online posters who are going to cower behind their couches when ICE comes for their towns and cities in the coming weeks and months really is fascinating.
January 18, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Watching Stancil Derangement Syndrome set in among a group of terminally online posters who are going to cower behind their couches when ICE comes for their towns and cities in the coming weeks and months really is fascinating.
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a novel obscenity
Judge Kacsmaryk writes to say that the First Amendment only protects "public discourse necessary to self-government," as he slurs drag and holds it not protected.
January 18, 2026 at 3:14 AM
a novel obscenity
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(this is why one of Democrats' first priorities and a public commitment should be completely overhauling the federal judicial system to end this kind of nonsense)
Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's LGBQT club to drag show ban, saying the First Amendment doesn't protect "self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine 'expressive conduct' absolutism envisioned" by the group. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #168 in Spectrum WT v. Wendler (N.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00048) – CourtListener.com
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW (Ordered by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on 1/17/2026) (vls)
storage.courtlistener.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:00 AM
(this is why one of Democrats' first priorities and a public commitment should be completely overhauling the federal judicial system to end this kind of nonsense)
Are you kidding me? So the refs handed Denver a game for no reason?
Broncos QB Bo Nix is out for the rest of the season after breaking a bone in his ankle on the second-to-last play of the game against the Bills, Sean Payton announced.
Jarrett Stidham will start against the winner of Texans-Patriots next Sunday.
Jarrett Stidham will start against the winner of Texans-Patriots next Sunday.
January 18, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Are you kidding me? So the refs handed Denver a game for no reason?
@pincheesq.bsky.social oh man.
NEW: This week, Daily Show host Jon Stewart introduced his audience to Jenin Younes, describing her as a courageous civil rights attorney who had been canceled by both the right and left and therefore “must be doing something right.”
Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.
Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.
Jon Stewart Praises Attorney Behind Years of Anti-Vaccine and Anti-Lockdown Lawfare
“You’re a civil rights attorney who has been canceled by both the right and the left, which means you must be doing something right.”
www.importantcontext.news
January 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM
@pincheesq.bsky.social oh man.
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NEW: This week, Daily Show host Jon Stewart introduced his audience to Jenin Younes, describing her as a courageous civil rights attorney who had been canceled by both the right and left and therefore “must be doing something right.”
Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.
Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.
Jon Stewart Praises Attorney Behind Years of Anti-Vaccine and Anti-Lockdown Lawfare
“You’re a civil rights attorney who has been canceled by both the right and the left, which means you must be doing something right.”
www.importantcontext.news
January 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
NEW: This week, Daily Show host Jon Stewart introduced his audience to Jenin Younes, describing her as a courageous civil rights attorney who had been canceled by both the right and left and therefore “must be doing something right.”
Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.
Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.