Ben Silverstein ❌👑
@bensilverstein
I like burritos, dislike fascism, and do digital at @indivisible.org. Opinions my own.
What El-Sayed has actually said about his views on Israel/Palestine (vs. what others claim he believes) is quite good, so here it is:
Never seen an administration brag about how much the public opposes its dumb war and wants it to end
Brilliant tactician Donald Trump, coming off successive defeats by Iran and algae, threatening to keep his name off popular bipartisan legislation that'll become law in 10 days whether he signs or not.
Trump throwing millions of dollars into a literal hole in the ground to try to fix a problem nobody cares about and he actually created is a wildly on the nose visual for an admin that has an economic approval rating of 33%.
This isn't in the top ten most racist things he's said, but it's still... really....racist.
I thought calling Trump a wannabe king was seditious hate speech
Gorgeous look at the #NoKings demonstration in Savannah via @savindivisible.bsky.social
Washington, DC #NoKings Main event begins soon: freedcproject.org/event-list/n...
Trump had congressional Republicans block Dem efforts to fund TSA 11 times before killing an agreement that would have funded the agency. Then he realized he'd shit the bed so bad it was a national emergency. CNN headline:
If Trump believes he has the power to pay TSA now, it means he believes he's had this power from the start of the shutdown. It's an admission he could have tried this from day 1, but chose not to because he hoped making travelers suffer would pressure Dems to cave and fund Border Patrol and ICE.
It's not new for the US government to lie about wars. But it's not clear at this point if Trump is lying or living in his own hallucinated reality. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Imagine voting no on a war powers resolution when the president himself is out there saying this shit
Andy Ogles is a genocidal bigot who should be shunned from public life.
I genuinely don't know if DHS policies will be any different under Mullin (if confirmed). As long as Stephen Miller is calling the shots, I don't expect a big difference. But this was some of the most evil shit I've seen from a US official in my lifetime, so yeah - I'm thrilled she's gone.
No lefty memes mocking JD Vance are meaner than what the White House is doing
Or, hear me out, Republicans could back the Dem bill to fund all the parts of DHS that aren’t themselves terrorizing our communities and murdering Americans.
If you don't want a vote on matters of war and peace, gtfo of congress, because that's literally your job. If you think it's better to leave those matters to the likes of Trump and Hegseth, gtfo of Democratic politics.
The NRA is condemning *progressive politicians* for Border Patrol's murder of a citizen legally recording federal agents while carrying a permitted firearm.
Politico with more bonkers normalizing of an illegal attack on a sovereign nation, the kidnapping of a foreign leader, and the murder of civilians for the explicit purpose of extracting oil.
This man regularly sends innocent people to torture prisons.