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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦

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Writer, words in The New Republic, NOLA, Huffington Post, Earth Island. Nonprofit co-founder. Was publicist for legendary Dr. John; now working with badasses artists. Grammy member. https://karendaltonbeninato.com

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 19d

Got vaxxed and took a Tylenol.

a woman in a pajama shirt is holding her hair in her hands and screaming .

Alt: Elaine devil ears. a woman in a pajama shirt is holding her hair in her hands and screaming .

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 3h

Welcome to the struggle, Sid and Marty Krofft.

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Harry Shearer @harryshearer.bsky.social · 7h

From the Washington Post:
“(Trump) has previously bragged about acing the (cognitive) test, suggesting it involved questions about various items including giraffes, televisions and whales. Experts have noted that there is no whale in the test"

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 8h

Current view outside the Broadview, around 50 or so people with lawn chairs, yoga mats sitting a listening to speeches from Jane Goodall.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13h

The Seventh Circuit has handed Trump yet another kick in the wingnuts.

Appeals court: Trump can't deploy National Guard on Chicago's streets

A ruling Saturday forbids the White House from actively using troops in Illinois.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 8h

Just one more thing...
#IndigenousPeoplesDay

Columbo saying, "Just one more thing... When you were 'discovering' America, was there anyone else there at the time?"

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 8h

Too gamey.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 9h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 10h

Sheer clownery.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

Many fired CDC employees began receiving emails communicating that despite the earlier notice, they would no longer be terminated. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
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"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 12h

Taysom Hill Saints touchdown - right after I shouted Put Taysom in! If only yelling at the TV worked for everything else...

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Mood.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 1d

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 1d

Now make it permanent! #WeekendUpdate

Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler SNL dream team.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 1d

Emmy worthy scowls.

Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 1d

Fey and Poehler are Noem and Bondi in: How Is This Our Country? #SNL

Fey and Poehler as dingbats Noem and Bondi.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 1d

Such a loss. One paper after another.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the trailer for the film:

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Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink – Official Trailer

YouTube video by Stripped for Parts

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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 1d

It is now totally sold out.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”