Donna Benenson
@donnabenenson.bsky.social
Mom & sometime writer & pet therapy volunteer with my rescue Virgil Caine (found in Dixie “hungry and barely alive” but no Confederate) Wellesley PBK ‘74 CT/NYC
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News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.
News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.
December 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.
News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.
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This is painful to listen to.
Trump is just making shit up right now, and he thinks the American people are still going to buy it. We’re done.
Everyone knows he’s lying.
Trump is just making shit up right now, and he thinks the American people are still going to buy it. We’re done.
Everyone knows he’s lying.
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is painful to listen to.
Trump is just making shit up right now, and he thinks the American people are still going to buy it. We’re done.
Everyone knows he’s lying.
Trump is just making shit up right now, and he thinks the American people are still going to buy it. We’re done.
Everyone knows he’s lying.
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Trump is bragging about creating peace in the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years with the Gaza ceasefire. This is today:
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...
Updates: Israeli attacks wounds 11 Palestinians in Gaza City
Israel has continued to launch attacks across Gaza in violation of the ceasefire with Hamas, injuring at least 11 people
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Trump is bragging about creating peace in the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years with the Gaza ceasefire. This is today:
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...
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OK, this is just a "Donald said he wanted to be on TV" thing.
December 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
OK, this is just a "Donald said he wanted to be on TV" thing.
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If the House passes a 3 year extension of the ACA tax credits - which they now have the votes to do - then @LeaderJohnThune has to call it up for a vote in the Senate.
GOP leaders have tried as hard as they can to hurt families, but the dam is breaking. Let's get this done.
GOP leaders have tried as hard as they can to hurt families, but the dam is breaking. Let's get this done.
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If the House passes a 3 year extension of the ACA tax credits - which they now have the votes to do - then @LeaderJohnThune has to call it up for a vote in the Senate.
GOP leaders have tried as hard as they can to hurt families, but the dam is breaking. Let's get this done.
GOP leaders have tried as hard as they can to hurt families, but the dam is breaking. Let's get this done.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
![Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kok4aqdr3qnsj6ktfkq76kqz/bafkreibv56orcjfhjc2czd5kkydlzapnuem3xkzbhna4fia27pyajprzvq@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
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The unitary executive theory presents the perfect con: Vought and Miller exercise sovereign power through an empty vessel while the Court launders it as constitutional philosophy. A compromised Court won't challenge it - they've already been bought.
December 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The unitary executive theory presents the perfect con: Vought and Miller exercise sovereign power through an empty vessel while the Court launders it as constitutional philosophy. A compromised Court won't challenge it - they've already been bought.
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Fabulous Bouie analysis of the Roberts’ Court’s perversion of our democratic republic, below in a gift link to the Times. Corollary reading in the current issue of @motherjones.com.
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Fabulous Bouie analysis of the Roberts’ Court’s perversion of our democratic republic, below in a gift link to the Times. Corollary reading in the current issue of @motherjones.com.
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Built for $250 million with a $750 million skim with kickbacks to Trump. He's in his element, taking bribes and stiffing sub contractors
December 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Built for $250 million with a $750 million skim with kickbacks to Trump. He's in his element, taking bribes and stiffing sub contractors
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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It turned out that the Convicted FElon & his sons got the Tates Brothers free, who both were charge with underage sex trafficking, rape, assault & child pornography.
Once again, a criminal help released REAL criminals. A pedophile release Pedophiles.
youtu.be/m-3cpDz2ATI?...
Once again, a criminal help released REAL criminals. A pedophile release Pedophiles.
youtu.be/m-3cpDz2ATI?...
Barron Trump's ties to accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate exposed in NYT report
YouTube video by MS NOW
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December 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It turned out that the Convicted FElon & his sons got the Tates Brothers free, who both were charge with underage sex trafficking, rape, assault & child pornography.
Once again, a criminal help released REAL criminals. A pedophile release Pedophiles.
youtu.be/m-3cpDz2ATI?...
Once again, a criminal help released REAL criminals. A pedophile release Pedophiles.
youtu.be/m-3cpDz2ATI?...
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Newsom trolls Trump with website tracking president's 'criminal cronies'
Newsom trolls Trump with website tracking president's 'criminal cronies'
Gov. Newsom has unveiled a website that tracks President Trump's controversial pardons, including Jan. 6 rioters, drug traffickers and fraudsters.
www.latimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Newsom trolls Trump with website tracking president's 'criminal cronies'
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Excluding covid, the unemployment rate is at its highest level in over 8 years.
The labor market is deteriorating particularly quickly for young workers, who are facing a 10.6% unemployment rate.
The labor market is deteriorating particularly quickly for young workers, who are facing a 10.6% unemployment rate.
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Excluding covid, the unemployment rate is at its highest level in over 8 years.
The labor market is deteriorating particularly quickly for young workers, who are facing a 10.6% unemployment rate.
The labor market is deteriorating particularly quickly for young workers, who are facing a 10.6% unemployment rate.
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"The clinic ... run by the Christian, Maryland-based humanitarian organization World Relief and funded by USAID, provided a key weapon in the fight: IV bags to stave off dehydration and death. The bags cost just 62 cents each, and in three months, the clinics had helped save more than 500 people."
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"The clinic ... run by the Christian, Maryland-based humanitarian organization World Relief and funded by USAID, provided a key weapon in the fight: IV bags to stave off dehydration and death. The bags cost just 62 cents each, and in three months, the clinics had helped save more than 500 people."
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And the same frame shows up in yesterday's piece about the 10th anniversary of the Paris climate treaty. There was pushback, which made me think about the Cajun Navy example again, about the space between all and nothing, best and worst.
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
And the same frame shows up in yesterday's piece about the 10th anniversary of the Paris climate treaty. There was pushback, which made me think about the Cajun Navy example again, about the space between all and nothing, best and worst.
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/gcWulzo
John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/gcWulzo
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🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
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The president destroyed the White House East Wing to build a facility that “violates numerous federal statutes,” the historical preservation nonprofit argues. https://bit.ly/4iQuul2
‘Should Be Immediately Halted’: National Trust Sues to Stop Trump Ballroom
The president destroyed the White House East Wing to build a facility that "violates numerous federal statutes," the historical preservation nonprofit argues.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The president destroyed the White House East Wing to build a facility that “violates numerous federal statutes,” the historical preservation nonprofit argues. https://bit.ly/4iQuul2
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TBH I wasn't sure why one wasn't issued immediately with the order of release. The danger the govt would try to rearrest him was pretty obvious.
You have to be VERY SPECIFIC with these monsters in telling them what they can't do. You can't expect them to infer the limits; they won't.
You have to be VERY SPECIFIC with these monsters in telling them what they can't do. You can't expect them to infer the limits; they won't.
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
Memorandum and Order – #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
www.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
TBH I wasn't sure why one wasn't issued immediately with the order of release. The danger the govt would try to rearrest him was pretty obvious.
You have to be VERY SPECIFIC with these monsters in telling them what they can't do. You can't expect them to infer the limits; they won't.
You have to be VERY SPECIFIC with these monsters in telling them what they can't do. You can't expect them to infer the limits; they won't.
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If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237144 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
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She is speaking the obvious, objective truth but we have so completely normalized the dysfunction and everyday horrors of this administration, that it’s shocking to hear.
And her remedy is so simple and to the point.
And her remedy is so simple and to the point.
Congresswoman Ramirez to Noem: "Your options are limited: resign, get fired or get impeached."
December 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
She is speaking the obvious, objective truth but we have so completely normalized the dysfunction and everyday horrors of this administration, that it’s shocking to hear.
And her remedy is so simple and to the point.
And her remedy is so simple and to the point.
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das right
NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions.
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
das right