Doctor Benway
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- Reposted by Doctor Benway1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."
- Leader of millennia old religion with 1.5 billion followers is pro-religion, pro-religion followers.
- Reposted by Doctor Benway"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayAlina Habba, Trump’s personal lawyer and now the interim U.S. attorney for NJ, announces that the Trump administration has arrested the mayor of Newark at an private prison that ICE had decently contracted as a detention center. His arrest is seemingly for trespass.
- Reposted by Doctor Benwaywe are seeing levels of winging it previously only theorized by our top scientists
- Reposted by Doctor BenwaySeveral Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayReally pushing the limits of the "we can't call him racist because we don't know what's in his heart" media defense.
- "Before the first Trump administration, refugee resettlement took an average of 18 to 24 months...The Afrikaners, however, had to wait no more than three months." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayPirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
- This is why I’ve gotten aggressively into the NBA this year. The problem is that now every game feels like the end of the world.
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayGenuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you
- Reposted by Doctor Benwaya Chris Murphy-retweeting pope. The ResistLibs really do have the Mandate of Heaven
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- Reposted by Doctor BenwayFor the uninitiated, and for those of us who watch it every few months: youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y?...
- Egregiously distastefully piggy backing on the nuclear discourse, is Triumph the best posse cut of all time? I’m not a hip hop head and I have home town bias but it’s gotta be up there right?
- Omens and fucking portents dude
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- Reposted by Doctor BenwayVance: "Which regime in the world has civil nuclear power and enrichment without having a nuclear weapon? The answer is - no one." Germany, Netherlands, Brazil and Japan all have civil nuclear power and the ability to enrich uranium. None have nuclear weapons.
- Reposted by Doctor Benwayhonestly between Carney and The Houthis I genuinely think he likes people who he thinks are fighters
- Detached irony is how we got American Beauty. Do you really want another American Beauty?
- Trump answers media questions like he’s at a deposition
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- Reposted by Doctor BenwayRemember if you’re a Cardinal you’ve got to STAY IN LINE. NO MATTER WHAT THEY TELL YOU, STAY IN LINE!
- Gonna save this to show to my students when they don’t understand that the words can be boring so long as you say them the right way.
- Reposted by Doctor Benwaymy man tells this story like a goddam Gil Scott-Heron performance
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- Reposted by Doctor BenwayI’m voting in the Democratic primary in 2028 for whomever promises to put this pencil neck in prison the longest.
- DOGE guy at the CFPB owned verboten stocks. He was explicitly warned by ethics lawyers that he wasn’t permitted to take any action that could benefit those companies — and him. He then helped fire workers anyway. Including the ethics lawyers who warned him. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayHe also manually blocked life saving food and aids drugs in Africa, already leading to people dying. It should never go unmentioned that he and Luke Farritor murdered people on Elon Musk’s orders.
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayI want to remind you that yesterday, Trump's Secretary of Transportation went on Fox to say he can't get in touch with Trump's Pentagon to prevent plane crashes.
- Reposted by Doctor BenwaySeriously: bring back the DEI people and fire the Trumpy idiots from TV.
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayAwful, awful news. So sorry for all the decorated members of the military who are going to be kicked out and treated like garbage by this administration.
- BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump's anti-transgender military ban to go into effect while litigation proceeds. The stay of the district court's injunction was issued with no reasoning and over the objections of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson. More to come: www.lawdork.com
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayThis is a good time to learn the history of Reconstruction and in particular how the KKK worked with the "Redeemer" movement to roll back Reconstruction in the Deep South using a combination of extreme violence, intimidation, and judicial/legalistic maneuvering.
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayVisitors be advised that the White House also doesn't believe that you have due process rights while you are here watching the World Cup either.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki discourse is popping off again so I’ll take this as an opportunity to say Godzilla Minus One is a fun movie but what if you made a film about a cowardly Wehrmacht soldier who found redemption by fighting the physical manifestation of Germany’s defeat and humiliation.
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayAmid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayYou didn’t have this problem when the DEI was running it
- Reposted by Doctor BenwayWe should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...
