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Benjamin راغب
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State Rep. Weinberger renamed a road and now she’s describing herself as triumphant in a great struggle. Did someone really tell her she couldn’t do it? The she should refer that person to the Florida Attorney General for a retaliatory criminal investigation.
"When I first filed the language, I was told it wasn't allowed, that we couldn't do this," Republican Florida state Rep. Meg Weinberger, the sponsor of the naming bill, said as she introduced Trump. She said it required "determination" to get the measure approved in a larger bill that included road renamings across the state.
January 17, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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The responders found Ms. Good unresponsive inside her Honda S.U.V. on Jan. 7, and after they removed her from the vehicle, she was not breathing and had an irregular pulse, according to one of the reports. She also had a possible gunshot wound to the left side of her head. By the time the workers took her out of her vehicle, she had no pulse, and they performed CPR on her as she was rushed to a hospital, the report said.
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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All are welcome! There will be a candlelight vigil to honor Renee Nicole Good and other victims of ICE, Friday at 6 p.m. in #Harlem at the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building Plaza.
please join Indivisible Harlem and other groups for a candlelight vigil to honor Renee Nicole Good and other victims of ICE On January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE agents despite complying with their orders. Please join us as we remember her and more than 30 others who lost their lives in the past year. This is a vigil, not a protest. We come together to mourn and to support each other. Bring a candle or other light. Check the weather, you may also want an umbrella. All ages welcome. Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building Plaza 163 West 125th Street just east of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd (Seventh Avenue) Friday, January 9 6 p.m. Photo https://flic.kr/p/bkraJf
January 8, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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There is a certain kind of Army officer who, after the excitement of company command, finds his career stalled, and who perhaps leaves the service as a major in the National Guard filled with bitterness and resentment. He may then dream of one day being in a position to make all the superior officers who failed to appreciate his leadership qualities, his insight, his sheer fitness stand to attention and hear him lay down the law about what it is to be an officer, and threaten to fire those who do not meet his standards. In this respect, and this respect only, on that stage Pete Hegseth was living the dream.
October 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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From Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan
In the dreary late winter of early 1860, no one could predict what would happen over the next few years. Not that they didn't try. At the start of a presidential campaign, in a culture enthralled by technological progress, among people who were often devout believers in an imminently arriving Messiah, and in a nation that muttered anxiously about civil war, it was tempting to try to guess what was coming. The era's funniest humorist used that anticipation in a routine in which he awoke a few centuries into the future to see what insanities America's schoolhouses were teaching about the 1860s.} People usually predicted the future they wanted. Those with visions of disruptive change were often the young, the radical, those wanting a better place for themselves or eager for a fight, hoping to bring the change they augured. James Garfield, then a handsome young schoolteacher with bright-blue eyes and brighter ambitions, was certain that "the old race of leaders and lights, religious and social and political, are fast fossilizing and fast becoming extinct." Those who had already grown stout with power forecast more stability. The eminent editor and poet William Cullen Bryant wrote that while many liked to debate the possibility of disunion, "No-body but silly people expect it will happen."* One thing almost no one predicted was the end of slavery. Few institutions in American life seemed more permanent. The economy might
September 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Drama queens! I think Cuomo will be a really bad mayor but I don’t think any of the candidates threaten the very existence of New York City (400 years old this month)
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Cuomo, Richard Azzopardi, praised Walden for "putting aside ego and ambition," adding that the decision "underscores the existential threat our city faces in Zohran Mamdani."
September 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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whoa, this bird just tried to bribe me!
August 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Zohran is smart. He’s got more ideas than just making the buses free, but he knows if he didn’t put forward a very clear, simple idea, nobody would talk about transit at all. People on here are debating the merits of free bus policy as if he didn’t have anything else on his website:
Zohran won New York’s first fare-free bus pilot on five lines across the city. As Mayor, he’ll permanently eliminate the fare on every city bus – and [begin emphasis] make them faster by rapidly building priority lanes, expanding bus queue jump signals, and dedicated loading zones to keep double parkers out of the way. [end emphasis] Fast and free buses will not only make buses reliable and accessible but will improve safety for riders and operators – creating the world-class service New Yorkers deserve.
July 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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a headline but also a rallying cry
screenshot of a New York Times headline: “No More Local Endorsements by The New York Times”
June 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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I’m willing to bet Trump posted this before receiving an invitation, as a form of insurance. If the Vatican said he’s not invited, he could claim they were playing games. Without the tweet he’d be complaining about not being invited, and that looks weak.
Social media post by Donald J. Trump: “Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome. We look forward to being there!”
April 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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What’s really sweet about these comments is that, as a kid, I really did enjoy making signs and imagining I’d become a sign maker, but when it was time to go to college computer science seemed a lot more practical.
screenshot of reddit post, photo of me holding up sign “hands off working COBOL code” comment by Mohavor: “That's some nice lettering” comment by MrMastodon: “If being a software dev doesn't work out for him he could be a sign painter.”
April 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Do the kids know what is happening here?
a frame from the film Ghostbusters, a man in a suit (captioned "Elon Musk") is aggressively confronting a man with unruly hair and glasses (captioned "U.S. Civil Service")
March 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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New prompt: movies where it's wild that they were based on the same source material.
Poster for the film "Idiocracy" Poster for the film "RoboCop"
February 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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ATL #SkyTrain terminal is filling up while the train just sits on the tracks. Is this a common occurrence? Anyone know what’s happening?
February 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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new twitter logo just dropped
twitter's X logo, inside a white circle, on a red background
February 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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They’re not sending their best:
screenshot of article: Two different web development experts who asked to remain anonymous because they were probing a federal website told 404 Media that doge.gov is seemingly built on a Cloudflare Pages site that is not currently hosted on government servers. The database it is pulling from can be and has been written to by third parties, and will show up on the live website.
February 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Try This One Weird Trick: ask a conservative to supply one specific piece of information. Their heads explode!
screenshot of facebook comments name redacted: a link name redacted: A very interesting survey click and read Benjamin Ragheb: A Facebook post is not a survey. Can you name one thing the Department of Education does that you think should be eliminated? name redacted: massive amount of funding ...no results, take it away from the feds..give oversight and control to the states .. screenshot of facebook comments Benjamin Ragheb: I did read the comments. They are all as vague as you are being. What funding are you talking about? Giving how much money to who for what purpose? Just name one thing! name redacted: the border, :funding immigrants vs Veterans.. would you live next to a sanctuary city, or in Eagle pass Texas prior to a "secure border" what about SS Payments going to people who have been dead for decades. What about Biden defying the supreme Court and forgiving student loans? Defund the police? Take down statues so our students can't learn from our history. Would you like to find out that someone you love had a secret sex change? screenshot of facebook comments Benjamin Ragheb: I just asked you to name one Department of Education program that you think should be eliminated. How on Earth did we get from there to secret sex changes?
February 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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please stop promoting the lie that there are no protests, like this:
screenshot of Dr. Andrea Chandler’s profile, latests post is repost of Maria Popova’s post claiming there are no protests
February 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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hear me out, I think this is the T-shirt that’s going to heal our divisions and unite the country #impeach #elonmusk www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/7202...
T-shirt with the text "IMPEACH ELON MUSK" on the front
February 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Here's a graph of the number of federal employees since 1939.

In 1970, there were about 3 million federal employees for 204M Americans.

Today, there are about 3 million federal employees for 341M Americans.

This isn't what I'd expect to see if the civil service had a lot of fat to trim.
February 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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I don’t know about that. Check out the photo he voluntarily selected to put on the home
page of his campaign website. This is his best photo!
February 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Sticker Mule CEO is running for Congress on a platform of “I refuse to think for myself” #NY21 www.wamc.org/news/2025-01...
Excerpt from article: “Constantino, who owns Amsterdam-based Sticker Mule, says he has talked with several county chairs who have expressed concerns about the possible imposition of 25 percent tariffs. Although he supports whatever the president decides, Constantino said he would be in the best position to explain the potential impact on the district.”
February 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Bootlickers: “Well actually the tariffs are only a TEMPORARY measure once the negotiations are done they will be removed and everything will be—“

Daddy Trump:
Trump post: “The Tariffs, and Tariffs alone, created this vast wealth for our Country. Then we switched over to Income Tax. We were never so wealthy as during this period. Tariffs will pay off our debt and, MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY AGAIN!”
February 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Marrying a US citizen doesn’t automatically make you eligible. People in general think our immigration laws are more straightforward and fair than they actually are.
screenshot of article: Jaime's best chance to become a legal U.S. resident was a new program for immigrants like himself, people who were married to U.S. citizens and had lived in the country for at least 10 years without committing any crimes. But, just a few days earlier, that program had been struck down by a Trump-appointed federal judge.
December 16, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Missing? That seems like the whole point to me. If you don’t think so then what do you think @joshtpm.bsky.social is trying to say?
Screenshot of article text: What puts a finer point on the matter is that Democrats often find themselves carrying the water of institutions which do them no favors or are even affirmatively hostile.
December 2, 2024 at 4:11 PM