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Mike Bender ✊❌👑

@mikebendervo.bsky.social

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Your favorite voice actor! Retired USAF MSgt, TX antifascist & ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I *block* magatrolls & redhats, cryptobros & muskrats, jeezoids, wastoids, woowoos, weeaboos, ghosters, gamers, gamblers, Gambians, OF “models” & AI “art” #ChingaLaMigra #BLM #NoKings

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · Sep 18

Some things I believe:

Free speech is good.
Education is good.
Vaccines are good.
Nazis are bad.
Guns kill.
Black lives matter.
Women's lives matter.
LGBTQIA+ lives matter.
Immigrants make America great.
The rich should pay their share.
Government must serve the people.

I am ANTIFA 👊🇺🇸🔥

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 30m

Aaaaand she's back 🙄

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 47m

This is the way it has to be. Nonviolence is the only answer. And it destroys the narrative the right is trying to sell 🤓

Picture of John Lennon with this quote: "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you, pull your beard, flick your face, to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is nonviolence and humor"

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 2h

Great-looking recipe from my favorite YouTube chef 😋

youtu.be/A5rbzssqL9w

You’ve Never Had Chili Like This Before

YouTube video by ThatDudeCanCook

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 1d

Spotted in a bathroom stall at the San Antonio airport 🌭🤓

Sign with a picture of John Cougar and the caption "Do not serve this man a chili dog. Thank you, Tastee Freez management

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 1d

Yuck alert! 🚨
I wasn't wearing my reading glasses when I bought this "milk chocolate style bar" with no sugar added. Absolutely vile 😵🤢🤬

Lily's Salted Caramel Milk Chocolate Style Bar

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 1d

That's because it's AI-generated 🧐

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, it's very clearly AI 🧐

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 2d

This is where I was yesterday. I started near the stage at 3rd Street and eventually walked all the way back to 9th so I could get a feel for just how big it was. Amazing! 🤯

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: This is in Trump's back yard. Washington DC No Kings Day Protest. This is just the start of the day.

It is absolutely unbelievable how many people are turning out for this. I love how everyone is staying peaceful. It's exactly what Trump doesn't want.

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 2d

I was there, so I can tell you this is *not* a picture of the No Kings rally. We were on Pennsylvania Avenue, not the Mall. Still a huge crowd tho 😎

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 2d

So do I submit my expense voucher to my local Antifa shop steward, or do I have to send it to Soros corporate? 🤔

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

No evidence.

No riots.

Ted Cruz is deeply damaged, dishonest trash.

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for the recommendation! I've marked it to watch on Tubi 🤓

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 3d

"I stand relieved" 🫡

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 3d

None of my pictures of the DC #NoKings rally really did justice to the scope of the event. As a consolation prize, please enjoy this picture of me flipping off a hideous banner at the Department of Labor 🤓

Me flipping off the banner of Trump's face on the Department of Labor. The caption under his face says, "America's Workers First"

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 3d

The National Mall webcam is out of service 🤔

EarthCam.com site showing that the National Mall webcam is "offline"

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 3d

No Kings protest, 1776.

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 3d

Doing some reconnaissance this afternoon 🤔

My picture of the US Capitol, taken Oct 17, 2025

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 3d

Khruangbin (after the age of 60 🤯)

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 4d

I hope people turn out for the #NoKings events in numbers too big to ignore. I was so disappointed by the paltry turnout at the #Unite4Veterans rally in June. If this one doesn't get people motivated, I honestly don't know whether I have another one in me. And yes, I know that's a shitty way to be 🤷🏼‍♂️

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 4d

In DC for another rally. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in 🙄

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 4d

I love my country, but I really do hate *this* little asshole 🤬

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

Johnson: “They're going to descend on our capital for their much-anticipated so-called ‘No Kings’ rally. We refer to it by its more accurate description: 'The Hate America' rally. I'm not sure how anybody can refute that."

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 4d

…as if millions of Bloom County fans suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced 🤯

The New York Times Spelling Bee grid showing that MILOBLOOM is not in the word list

Milo Bloom from the Bloom County comic strip

Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 4d

We need clear statements like this from every single Democrat on every single issue 👊🇺🇸🔥

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 4d

Will this do? 🤓

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 5d

"Our parents aren't having children"

All parents have children by definition. People who are not having children are not parents 🙄

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Mike Bender ✊❌👑 @mikebendervo.bsky.social · 5d

The funny thing is that I probably wasn't even going to participate in a local #NoKings event until he starting talking this shit. And now I'm going to DC! 👊🇺🇸🔥

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson on CNBC: "I think it has a lot to do with the 'Hate America Rally' that's gonna be on the Mall on Saturday. You're gonna have all the antifa and BLM and pro-Hamas people, all the Marxists will be on the Mall."