Ben Harding
@blhiiii.bsky.social
Outlive the bastards. Edward Abbey
Oh Lord, lead me to utter words that are soft and sweet for someday I may have to eat them. Mo Udall
Moderate drinker with a cycling problem; Reality-based life form; not a hater. Curious.
Oh Lord, lead me to utter words that are soft and sweet for someday I may have to eat them. Mo Udall
Moderate drinker with a cycling problem; Reality-based life form; not a hater. Curious.
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@blhiiii.bsky.social
· Oct 12
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
cmarmitage.substack.com
#SoftSecession resources.
I’ll keep adding things as I come across them.
Let’s start here:
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
I’ll keep adding things as I come across them.
Let’s start here:
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
Very few people would buy a fixed-price pass for each of several toll segments, when they would use them intermittently. I might use a toll segment every couple of months.
Why can’t I buy a single Pay-as-I-Read pass to Substack, and even other news sources. I don’t want to pay for 10 or 20 subs.
Why can’t I buy a single Pay-as-I-Read pass to Substack, and even other news sources. I don’t want to pay for 10 or 20 subs.
December 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Very few people would buy a fixed-price pass for each of several toll segments, when they would use them intermittently. I might use a toll segment every couple of months.
Why can’t I buy a single Pay-as-I-Read pass to Substack, and even other news sources. I don’t want to pay for 10 or 20 subs.
Why can’t I buy a single Pay-as-I-Read pass to Substack, and even other news sources. I don’t want to pay for 10 or 20 subs.
What. The. Actual Fuck?
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
What. The. Actual Fuck?
Reposted by Ben Harding
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Ben Harding
Notable that POTUS is posting a Fox News story about the USCG disabling and interdicting a vessel suspected of carrying drugs.
Demonstrates his awareness of alternatives to blowing up suspected drug boats.
And that killing people is very much a deliberate and completely unnecessary choice.
Demonstrates his awareness of alternatives to blowing up suspected drug boats.
And that killing people is very much a deliberate and completely unnecessary choice.
December 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Notable that POTUS is posting a Fox News story about the USCG disabling and interdicting a vessel suspected of carrying drugs.
Demonstrates his awareness of alternatives to blowing up suspected drug boats.
And that killing people is very much a deliberate and completely unnecessary choice.
Demonstrates his awareness of alternatives to blowing up suspected drug boats.
And that killing people is very much a deliberate and completely unnecessary choice.
Still pissed off that the USSR had a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
The Russian government represents Putin and his cronies. Musk represents himself.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Still pissed off that the USSR had a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Class, what is the operative word in this sentence?
“Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon secretary, stands behind Admiral Bradley, 100%.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon secretary, stands behind Admiral Bradley, 100%.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration is ‘selling out’ admiral to shield Hegseth over boat strikes, officials say
White House names Adm Frank M Bradley as officer who ‘directed the engagement’, distancing Hegseth from accountability
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Class, what is the operative word in this sentence?
“Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon secretary, stands behind Admiral Bradley, 100%.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon secretary, stands behind Admiral Bradley, 100%.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#PlaceboEffect but delivered by a scary-dangerous treatment.
Anyone old enough to remember the Apollo 1 fire would never get into one of these.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Anyone old enough to remember the Apollo 1 fire would never get into one of these.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
#PlaceboEffect but delivered by a scary-dangerous treatment.
Anyone old enough to remember the Apollo 1 fire would never get into one of these.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Anyone old enough to remember the Apollo 1 fire would never get into one of these.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Even if your state prohibits the federal government from accessing drivers license and ID photos, they’ll still tie your facial image to your name whenever you fly.
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Even if your state prohibits the federal government from accessing drivers license and ID photos, they’ll still tie your facial image to your name whenever you fly.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised… But holy shit!
It seems that you just can’t be too cynical nowadays. Isn’t that part of the game plan.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It seems that you just can’t be too cynical nowadays. Isn’t that part of the game plan.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘serious ethical concerns’
Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised… But holy shit!
It seems that you just can’t be too cynical nowadays. Isn’t that part of the game plan.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It seems that you just can’t be too cynical nowadays. Isn’t that part of the game plan.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Ben Harding
Himes: "The end result was two individuals without any weaponry, without any tools of any kind, clinging to a wrecked boat ... the decision was taken to kill them and that is in fact what happened. And that was pretty hard to watch."
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Himes: "The end result was two individuals without any weaponry, without any tools of any kind, clinging to a wrecked boat ... the decision was taken to kill them and that is in fact what happened. And that was pretty hard to watch."
Hmmm, and I thought this was GenX or so.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Hmmm, and I thought this was GenX or so.
Who took the shot?
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Who took the shot?
@audenschendler.bsky.social, if I wished to offset my life, how would I calculate my debt, how much of your methane would I have to buy and for how much?
coloradosun.com/2025/12/03/p...
coloradosun.com/2025/12/03/p...
Activists capturing and burning methane at an abandoned Colorado coal mine as a “macro solution” for the climate
The methane destruction project above Paonia could be a global model for reducing emissions of a potent greenhouse gas
coloradosun.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
@audenschendler.bsky.social, if I wished to offset my life, how would I calculate my debt, how much of your methane would I have to buy and for how much?
coloradosun.com/2025/12/03/p...
coloradosun.com/2025/12/03/p...
Kristi Noem and Tom Homan hiring the best and the brightest for their new ICE Army. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by Ben Harding
And so it begins.
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
And so it begins.
It is simply not politically or economically tenable for California and New York to fund the federal government while Trump tries to kneecap the states.
In January, Donald Trump looked me in the eye on the tarmac, promising Angelenos that he'd help rebuild after the firestorms.
11 months later, he still hasn't delivered.
That's why I'm headed to D.C. to push for a long-overdue federal aid package for survivors.
11 months later, he still hasn't delivered.
That's why I'm headed to D.C. to push for a long-overdue federal aid package for survivors.
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Reposted by Ben Harding
Don’t think it’s a coincidence that Ireland isn’t in NATO.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Don’t think it’s a coincidence that Ireland isn’t in NATO.
#QuestionsforVoters
A few good questions that could be posed to voters next year.
What is your top priority regarding healthcare, making it affordable, or a nationwide abortion ban?
What are yours?
A few good questions that could be posed to voters next year.
What is your top priority regarding healthcare, making it affordable, or a nationwide abortion ban?
What are yours?
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
#QuestionsforVoters
A few good questions that could be posed to voters next year.
What is your top priority regarding healthcare, making it affordable, or a nationwide abortion ban?
What are yours?
A few good questions that could be posed to voters next year.
What is your top priority regarding healthcare, making it affordable, or a nationwide abortion ban?
What are yours?
#QuestionsforVoters
A few good questions that could be posed to voters in 2026:
Which is more important to you, treating addiction and reducing the flow of drugs into the United States, or pardoning convicted billion-dollar drug smugglers?
What are yours?
A few good questions that could be posed to voters in 2026:
Which is more important to you, treating addiction and reducing the flow of drugs into the United States, or pardoning convicted billion-dollar drug smugglers?
What are yours?
December 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#QuestionsforVoters
A few good questions that could be posed to voters in 2026:
Which is more important to you, treating addiction and reducing the flow of drugs into the United States, or pardoning convicted billion-dollar drug smugglers?
What are yours?
A few good questions that could be posed to voters in 2026:
Which is more important to you, treating addiction and reducing the flow of drugs into the United States, or pardoning convicted billion-dollar drug smugglers?
What are yours?
#QuestionsforVoters
A few good questions that could be posed to voters next year:
Who has taken away your job, some dirt, poor guy from Honduras, flea and gang violence, or Donald Trump?
What are your questions?
A few good questions that could be posed to voters next year:
Who has taken away your job, some dirt, poor guy from Honduras, flea and gang violence, or Donald Trump?
What are your questions?
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
#QuestionsforVoters
A few good questions that could be posed to voters next year:
Who has taken away your job, some dirt, poor guy from Honduras, flea and gang violence, or Donald Trump?
What are your questions?
A few good questions that could be posed to voters next year:
Who has taken away your job, some dirt, poor guy from Honduras, flea and gang violence, or Donald Trump?
What are your questions?
These angry Republicans should be showing gratitude… to the seven who caved:
The best outcome for the country would’ve been if the Republicans had ended the filibuster & pushed through their budget bill
“Now, angry that they will have to run in 2026 with little to show for their House majority...”
The best outcome for the country would’ve been if the Republicans had ended the filibuster & pushed through their budget bill
“Now, angry that they will have to run in 2026 with little to show for their House majority...”
December 3, 2025
Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
These angry Republicans should be showing gratitude… to the seven who caved:
The best outcome for the country would’ve been if the Republicans had ended the filibuster & pushed through their budget bill
“Now, angry that they will have to run in 2026 with little to show for their House majority...”
The best outcome for the country would’ve been if the Republicans had ended the filibuster & pushed through their budget bill
“Now, angry that they will have to run in 2026 with little to show for their House majority...”
By the way, if sending people to Honduras troubles you, send some money to these brave, hardworking folks.
If sending people to Honduras doesn’t trouble you or gets your rocks off, then sell everything you own and send all your money to ASJ, or you will rot in Hell.
asjhonduras.com/webhn/home/
If sending people to Honduras doesn’t trouble you or gets your rocks off, then sell everything you own and send all your money to ASJ, or you will rot in Hell.
asjhonduras.com/webhn/home/
Home - ASJ Honduras
We are an organizationof Brave Christians The Association for a More Just Society is a Christian Organization focused on the fight against corruption and violence in Honduras. More Information Shape F...
asjhonduras.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
By the way, if sending people to Honduras troubles you, send some money to these brave, hardworking folks.
If sending people to Honduras doesn’t trouble you or gets your rocks off, then sell everything you own and send all your money to ASJ, or you will rot in Hell.
asjhonduras.com/webhn/home/
If sending people to Honduras doesn’t trouble you or gets your rocks off, then sell everything you own and send all your money to ASJ, or you will rot in Hell.
asjhonduras.com/webhn/home/