PaulaBehnken
@phbehnken1234.bsky.social
Retired journo/writer, nana, NE based with ties to the EU. Just sledding through, trying to avoid the muck. I foolishly believed we were old enough to know better than this! Warning: No profile/no posts=no folo. No starterpax! 🇺🇲🇳🇱🇫🇷🇩🇪
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PaulaBehnken
@phbehnken1234.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Next time, let's vote for someone who has shared the same ups/downs in life as 99% of us and is not a lawbreaker, cheater, thief, fraud, con artist, woman hater or convicted sex assaulter who has never shopped, spent his own money, played w/kids, raised a dog or read a book.
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As a reminder, Joe Biden was the jobs president. But I live in an ungrateful nation with millions of fools who never learn, even the hard way. The midterms are our last chance. Don't f%ck it up.
"Widespread job losses, with declines in employment among manufacturers, construction companies and professional services firms. Losses were concentrated among small businesses..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
Private Employers Cut Jobs in November, the Latest Sign of a Slowdown
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
As a reminder, Joe Biden was the jobs president. But I live in an ungrateful nation with millions of fools who never learn, even the hard way. The midterms are our last chance. Don't f%ck it up.
My stepkids took over my demented (but nice) husband's care once a year so I could get time off. I think they expected me spend it lunching w/gal pals and shopping. No. I went to France and NL for a few weeks to get as far away from brain damage as possible. They didn't get it. Maybe they do, now.
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My stepkids took over my demented (but nice) husband's care once a year so I could get time off. I think they expected me spend it lunching w/gal pals and shopping. No. I went to France and NL for a few weeks to get as far away from brain damage as possible. They didn't get it. Maybe they do, now.
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I didn't take the photo on my profile page today, but could have. I just drove by there and it looks the same.
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I didn't take the photo on my profile page today, but could have. I just drove by there and it looks the same.
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He'll put out a tweet on truth social today about how the US has the hottest economy ever and unemployment is at all time lows and rw media will run it all day every day for a week.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
He'll put out a tweet on truth social today about how the US has the hottest economy ever and unemployment is at all time lows and rw media will run it all day every day for a week.
Does MAGA really believe you can have boats in the water without people running them? Jobs without people working in the them? When you destroy infratructure, you destroy jobs and people, figuratively and often literally. If it's okay to blow up boats, it must be okay to blow up people on them.
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Does MAGA really believe you can have boats in the water without people running them? Jobs without people working in the them? When you destroy infratructure, you destroy jobs and people, figuratively and often literally. If it's okay to blow up boats, it must be okay to blow up people on them.
An UNEXPECTED LOSS of jobs. What are you talking about? Trump promised it, Musk slashed and bashed his way through federal agencies, GOP stopped funding hundreds of academic and research centers, HHS has all but halted what used to be normal public health measures. How is any of this unexpected?
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
An UNEXPECTED LOSS of jobs. What are you talking about? Trump promised it, Musk slashed and bashed his way through federal agencies, GOP stopped funding hundreds of academic and research centers, HHS has all but halted what used to be normal public health measures. How is any of this unexpected?
Well, he is and always was incompetent, lacking in humanity and morality, a cheat liar, coward, thief, a rapist, overindulged buffoon, an illiterate and unforgiveable sloth, but he's so much fun to ridicule! Whole industries have grown up overnight to mock him. What will we do without him!
December 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Well, he is and always was incompetent, lacking in humanity and morality, a cheat liar, coward, thief, a rapist, overindulged buffoon, an illiterate and unforgiveable sloth, but he's so much fun to ridicule! Whole industries have grown up overnight to mock him. What will we do without him!
Wait a minute! Where are the Epstein files? Why aren't they out in the open?
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Wait a minute! Where are the Epstein files? Why aren't they out in the open?
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
No, no one has ever heard of it before. Nor have they ever heard of Valentine's Day (whatever that is) or Halloween or Veteran's Day. Thank you for enlightening all of us ignoramuses. What would we do without you to lead us as we tumble through this dreary life?
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
No, no one has ever heard of it before. Nor have they ever heard of Valentine's Day (whatever that is) or Halloween or Veteran's Day. Thank you for enlightening all of us ignoramuses. What would we do without you to lead us as we tumble through this dreary life?
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If you don't think that"I was following orders,"defense doesn't work. Read up on the Mỹ Lai Massacre investigation.
Officers didn't abide by rules of engagement established after Nuremberg.
Our government tried to cover it up & then glossed over it.
Corruption allows a lot of 💩 & still does.
Officers didn't abide by rules of engagement established after Nuremberg.
Our government tried to cover it up & then glossed over it.
Corruption allows a lot of 💩 & still does.
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you don't think that"I was following orders,"defense doesn't work. Read up on the Mỹ Lai Massacre investigation.
Officers didn't abide by rules of engagement established after Nuremberg.
Our government tried to cover it up & then glossed over it.
Corruption allows a lot of 💩 & still does.
Officers didn't abide by rules of engagement established after Nuremberg.
Our government tried to cover it up & then glossed over it.
Corruption allows a lot of 💩 & still does.
Nobody tells me anything!
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Nobody tells me anything!
If you haven't watched or listened to AZ Sen. Mark Kelly's presser, you should. He may be the precipitating factor we've all been hoping for. I forgot what courage was all about until he reminded me yesterday. www.youtube.com/live/J4sn6ud...
LIVE: AZ Sen. Mark Kelly remarks on Pres. Trump, Sec. Hegseth's allegations of misconduct
YouTube video by ABC News
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If you haven't watched or listened to AZ Sen. Mark Kelly's presser, you should. He may be the precipitating factor we've all been hoping for. I forgot what courage was all about until he reminded me yesterday. www.youtube.com/live/J4sn6ud...
I just listened to Mark Kelly's presser on MSNBC and would urge all of you to go to YouTube so you can watch it, as well. He just reset this country about 45 degrees toward the right direction. Be prepared to be inspired by real courage. #thankyoumarkkelly
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I just listened to Mark Kelly's presser on MSNBC and would urge all of you to go to YouTube so you can watch it, as well. He just reset this country about 45 degrees toward the right direction. Be prepared to be inspired by real courage. #thankyoumarkkelly
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Essential reading:
JUST SECURITY: “.. If actually issued, these orders irresponsibly and unlawfully placed all those involved in the attack in serious legal jeopardy. If the reporting is accurate, those orders should, as a matter of law, have been refused.”
@justsecurity.org
www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...
@justsecurity.org
www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...
Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors: An Expert Backgrounder
An expert backgrounder on the reported Hegseth "no quarter" order to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.
www.justsecurity.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Essential reading:
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Meanwhile in Italy....
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Meanwhile in Italy....
Suggest? Lawyers don't suggest killing people could be murder. They say it is murder. Quit obfuscating, NYT.
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Suggest? Lawyers don't suggest killing people could be murder. They say it is murder. Quit obfuscating, NYT.
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Re: ACA/GOP. If GOP wants to fix the ACA, they can rescind the ways they have tried to wreck it. This bipartisan plan was mostly workable, excluding the need to help people caught between certain income levels. Keep the mandate. Make it the patriotic thing to do. But fix the donut, to help all.
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Re: ACA/GOP. If GOP wants to fix the ACA, they can rescind the ways they have tried to wreck it. This bipartisan plan was mostly workable, excluding the need to help people caught between certain income levels. Keep the mandate. Make it the patriotic thing to do. But fix the donut, to help all.
Meanwhile, even those who have been here for years and have done everything right, are stuck waiting for their green cards to be renewed, their test and final interview to be held and even the date for their swearing-in ceremony to be announced. Millions are unnecessarily stressed over this. Why?
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Meanwhile, even those who have been here for years and have done everything right, are stuck waiting for their green cards to be renewed, their test and final interview to be held and even the date for their swearing-in ceremony to be announced. Millions are unnecessarily stressed over this. Why?
Easy peasy. Re-enact the mandate and subsidize those who can prove they can't afford it. If everyone pays in (something), the cost for premiums will go down. With more people getting prevention, # of incidents of serious disease should go down too, saving even more.
wapo.st/48caGFg
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GOP faces a familiar dilemma: What to do about Obamacare?
Republicans are racing to craft health-care plans ahead of a planned vote, as the deadline looms to act on soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies.
wapo.st
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Easy peasy. Re-enact the mandate and subsidize those who can prove they can't afford it. If everyone pays in (something), the cost for premiums will go down. With more people getting prevention, # of incidents of serious disease should go down too, saving even more.
wapo.st/48caGFg
wapo.st/48caGFg
Easy peasy. Re-enact the mandate and subsidize those who can prove they can't afford it. If everyone pays in (something), the cost for premiums will go down. With more pple getting prevention, # of incidents of serious disease should go down too, saving even more. GOP: Why didn't you think of this?
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Easy peasy. Re-enact the mandate and subsidize those who can prove they can't afford it. If everyone pays in (something), the cost for premiums will go down. With more pple getting prevention, # of incidents of serious disease should go down too, saving even more. GOP: Why didn't you think of this?
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Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
Woah! Let's hear it for the judge!Appeals court rules Trump prosecutor appointment violates law
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Appeals court rules Trump prosecutor appointment violates law
The first appeals court to rule on the issue of interim appointments of U.S. attorneys goes against Trump. The ruling could shape other cases pending nationwide.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Woah! Let's hear it for the judge!Appeals court rules Trump prosecutor appointment violates law
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
As I predicted, New Englanders are not going to let their best schools fail, no matter what MAGA does. There are few things more important to them than education. huntnewsnu.com/89867/campus...
How a coalition of alumni raised $1 million to save Northeastern’s law school - The Huntington News
When the Northeastern University School of Law opened its doors in 1898, it was far from prestigious.
huntnewsnu.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
As I predicted, New Englanders are not going to let their best schools fail, no matter what MAGA does. There are few things more important to them than education. huntnewsnu.com/89867/campus...