Ben Pulver
@benpulver.bsky.social
Michigander, Chef, Husband, and Dad. Fierce Pappa Bear to the “Pulver Bears”. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Small democratic values - Capital D Democratic politics
Better a bleeding heart than none at all.
Small democratic values - Capital D Democratic politics
Better a bleeding heart than none at all.
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Ben Pulver
@benpulver.bsky.social
· Jul 17
Nurse says Meshawn Maddock’s anti-trans attacks involving her children ‘crossed the line’ • Michigan Advance
An Oakland County-based health care professional says social media posts involving her children by former Michigan GOP Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock have “crossed the line.” Julia Pulver is a career nurse ...
michiganadvance.com
2 Years ago today Michigan’s Republican Party launched a harassment campaign against our family. It came out of nowhere and it was targeted not at my wife @japulver.bsky.social who had been a candidate, but specifically at our minor children. Here’s my thoughts 🧵
michiganadvance.com/2023/07/25/n...
michiganadvance.com/2023/07/25/n...
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring
January 14, 2026 at 11:10 PM
McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
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Don't bother arguing about whether ICE is a police force or a military force. It's neither. It behaves as a disorganized, violent mob, cursing, shouting contradictory orders, and attacking unarmed citizens on a whim. It is deployed to create fear and chaos, not to enforce laws or establish order.
January 13, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Don't bother arguing about whether ICE is a police force or a military force. It's neither. It behaves as a disorganized, violent mob, cursing, shouting contradictory orders, and attacking unarmed citizens on a whim. It is deployed to create fear and chaos, not to enforce laws or establish order.
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There's no reason for ICE agents to have guns. Nobody is shooting at them.
January 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
There's no reason for ICE agents to have guns. Nobody is shooting at them.
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Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."
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Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
January 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
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It’s becoming increasingly hard to tell the difference between ICE operating in Minnesota and the FSB operating in Russia. It all makes much more sense when you think about it. Here is the FSB in Russia:
January 12, 2026 at 5:55 AM
It’s becoming increasingly hard to tell the difference between ICE operating in Minnesota and the FSB operating in Russia. It all makes much more sense when you think about it. Here is the FSB in Russia:
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Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days.
End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days.
End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
Renee Good’s murder has white people waking up to what POC experience - that interactions with authorities can turn from routine to deadly without warning.
And men realize what women have taught themselves for survival - that hurting men’s fragile egos activates our hair trigger anger and violence.
And men realize what women have taught themselves for survival - that hurting men’s fragile egos activates our hair trigger anger and violence.
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Renee Good’s murder has white people waking up to what POC experience - that interactions with authorities can turn from routine to deadly without warning.
And men realize what women have taught themselves for survival - that hurting men’s fragile egos activates our hair trigger anger and violence.
And men realize what women have taught themselves for survival - that hurting men’s fragile egos activates our hair trigger anger and violence.
So we’re clear: the MAGA, 2A, Stand Your Ground, Don’t Tread On Me crowd says if you’re a 37 year old mother, you just dropped off your 6 yr old kid at daycare, when masked men pull weapons on you and attempt to reach in your car…you should just comply ‘cause the masked men can’t control themselves.
a man in a red shirt is walking through a destroyed building with the words mental gymnastics above him
ALT: a man in a red shirt is walking through a destroyed building with the words mental gymnastics above him
media.tenor.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:33 PM
So we’re clear: the MAGA, 2A, Stand Your Ground, Don’t Tread On Me crowd says if you’re a 37 year old mother, you just dropped off your 6 yr old kid at daycare, when masked men pull weapons on you and attempt to reach in your car…you should just comply ‘cause the masked men can’t control themselves.
I’m just going to put a pin in this one.
I’m not a gambling man, but I’d bet they’re going to conflate this agent’s previous experience being hit and dragged by a car to justify this state killing yesterday.
theintercept.com/2026/01/08/i...
I’m not a gambling man, but I’d bet they’re going to conflate this agent’s previous experience being hit and dragged by a car to justify this state killing yesterday.
theintercept.com/2026/01/08/i...
ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Nicole Good Identified as Jonathan Ross
Identifying the shooter in Minneapolis, The Intercept found a photo captioned “Jon Ross in Iraq” posted by a man noted in public records as his father.
theintercept.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I’m just going to put a pin in this one.
I’m not a gambling man, but I’d bet they’re going to conflate this agent’s previous experience being hit and dragged by a car to justify this state killing yesterday.
theintercept.com/2026/01/08/i...
I’m not a gambling man, but I’d bet they’re going to conflate this agent’s previous experience being hit and dragged by a car to justify this state killing yesterday.
theintercept.com/2026/01/08/i...
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We ALREADY have ICE concentration camps.
We are ALREADY so far gone.
Fuck the people who support this evil.
We are ALREADY so far gone.
Fuck the people who support this evil.
January 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM
We ALREADY have ICE concentration camps.
We are ALREADY so far gone.
Fuck the people who support this evil.
We are ALREADY so far gone.
Fuck the people who support this evil.
The Good Place
Parks And Recreation
30 Rock
Brooklyn 99
Breaking Bad (sorta)
Now I’m just really hoping that Severance will end well now that they’re dragging it out for so long.
Parks And Recreation
30 Rock
Brooklyn 99
Breaking Bad (sorta)
Now I’m just really hoping that Severance will end well now that they’re dragging it out for so long.
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 6, 2026 at 11:55 PM
The Good Place
Parks And Recreation
30 Rock
Brooklyn 99
Breaking Bad (sorta)
Now I’m just really hoping that Severance will end well now that they’re dragging it out for so long.
Parks And Recreation
30 Rock
Brooklyn 99
Breaking Bad (sorta)
Now I’m just really hoping that Severance will end well now that they’re dragging it out for so long.
All the fake leftists who didn’t support Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris because they were too hawkish gave us a Secretary of State Rubio who says he’s running Venezuela in order to take control of their oil.
a man is asking another man how did that work out for you
ALT: a man is asking another man how did that work out for you
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
All the fake leftists who didn’t support Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris because they were too hawkish gave us a Secretary of State Rubio who says he’s running Venezuela in order to take control of their oil.
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"If it wasn’t Shirley’s video, it would have been something else. If it wasn’t MN, it would have been somewhere else. If it wasn’t about daycare fraud, it would have been something else. Everything this administration does is about creating a fig leaf to justify its violent dismantling of democracy"
The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives
Privatization and a lack of oversight creates a vicious cycle.
www.publicnotice.co
January 2, 2026 at 6:58 PM
"If it wasn’t Shirley’s video, it would have been something else. If it wasn’t MN, it would have been somewhere else. If it wasn’t about daycare fraud, it would have been something else. Everything this administration does is about creating a fig leaf to justify its violent dismantling of democracy"
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Ladies and gentlemen, the brilliant mind who’s been called the “philosopher behind JD Vance”
January 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the brilliant mind who’s been called the “philosopher behind JD Vance”
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Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)
Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)
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A little over a year ago I and many others fled Twitter as it devolved into a full-blown cesspool.
A year later I have 50% *more* followers here than I did at my peak there.
I just wanted to thank everyone who chooses to follow my healthcare wonkery & puts up with my Dem fundraising link spam.
A year later I have 50% *more* followers here than I did at my peak there.
I just wanted to thank everyone who chooses to follow my healthcare wonkery & puts up with my Dem fundraising link spam.
January 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM
A little over a year ago I and many others fled Twitter as it devolved into a full-blown cesspool.
A year later I have 50% *more* followers here than I did at my peak there.
I just wanted to thank everyone who chooses to follow my healthcare wonkery & puts up with my Dem fundraising link spam.
A year later I have 50% *more* followers here than I did at my peak there.
I just wanted to thank everyone who chooses to follow my healthcare wonkery & puts up with my Dem fundraising link spam.
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