I am devastated to hear the results of the historic flooding in TX. While authorities continue to help the community - it is our civic responsibility to ask how and was it preventable. The answer to both is yes. The people of TX who want better need to vote better - www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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Benjamin H.
@beingbenh.bsky.social
Father | Educator | Learner. AZ is home. Posts on politics (Dem 💙🇺🇸) and sports.
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This is exactly the level of incompetence that Dems warned America about during the 2024 election - www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
Current Budget Bill logic - “people will spend more in the future and it will all be American made” Reality is they are con artists with a grift to sell us - www.axios.com/2025/06/17/r... Consumers spending drops in May as tariffs fuel anxiety
It’s not just Measles. JFK Jr is destroying the very foundation of scientific medicine. He has destroyed our medical progress and we will pay the price for decades. Every single confirmation vote should be ashamed - www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/p...
When governing relies only on one man’s delusional opinion - that isn’t a democracy, that is authoritarianism. We told you this was coming. And too many didn’t believe it. Now you can see it on the news every night. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8M71nMQ/
As districts around the country struggle to support their students in several ways, the SoE wrestles with the concept that guidance counselors aren’t doing a good job, and continues to defund them. This is the wrong path, yet again. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MxES91/
@thetnholler.bsky.social once again gets it right. It’s highly plausible… www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MHT5D8/
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I need conservatives to stop telling others about how they care about fraud, Medicare, or the rule law. Here is another example of how that is false: amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Remember when MAGA Congressmen/women rudely attacked President Biden during the SOTU for him calling them out on how they were going after SS and Medicare? Where are those loud voices now? www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe...
@aoc.bsky.social - how do we get DOGE accountability into the storms last night? My family in KY said they heard no warning sirens! Americans dying is not the way www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86pUNcw/
This is the “pain” you heard the elected administration talking about. Why didn’t they just say this last year?
🚨 WALMART RAISING PRICES DUE TO TARIFFS “We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible but given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week, we aren’t able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins,” Walmart CEO says.
Johnson - “I spent years obstructing Biden personally and professionally on meritless grounds in an effort to appease Trump.” Reporter - “Trump is openly scamming the world” Johnson - “I refuse to acknowledge that” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86X5C9v/
“Shifting funding” is political/corporate speak for cutting off resources for Americans in need. In AZCD5 - that is 111,000 people who could face impacts, or 1/8 people in the district. #WhereIsAndy www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86Xr11w/
Corruption “out in the open” is still corruption, Mr. Speaker. Seems like you had this as your lane for one President but not another. Congress is part of the problem in America today.
WATCH: Speaker Johnson defends Trump’s corruption because it’s “out in the open” (it isn’t), pretends not to know anything about his billion-dollar crypto scam. 🤷🏼♂️ #SwampForceOne ✈️
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NPR reports there are three Trump officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a man described by federal prosecutors as a "Nazi sympathizer," and a prominent Holocaust denier. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-house-antisemitism
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Everyday it seems like his plan is to financially bankrupt half of America while morally bankrupting the other half. Biden didn’t attempt either - www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86aMBmL/
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A federal court says Alabama can't use a congressional map it found unconstitutional. The ruling comes in a voting rights case that resulted in the state getting a second Black member of Congress.
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In a time when public school teachers are woefully underpaid, chronically underappreciated, and tragically under attack by this Administration, it’s more important than ever that we support them. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/heres-why-... #TeacherAppreciationWeek
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Chaotic tariffs don’t bring jobs back to America—they raise prices for working families. It’s takes smart, sustained investments to create jobs. Look at what’s happening here in Arizona. Trump should be looking to build on the success of the bipartisan CHIPS Act. www.azfamily.com/2025/05/07/a...
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So many of Arizona is with you in this Governor Hobbs. Fake elector Jake Hoffman can’t be gone soon enough! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86YCTTW/
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they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
The art of the con to get elected. Another promise failed. US Pulls Out of Peace Talks with Ukraine and Russia www.standard.co.uk/news/world/u...
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Y’all — OKLAHOMA is going to require their schools to lie to their kids that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. popular.info/p/new-oklaho...
In other words, for Jim Jordan, “it’s not a problem when MAGA actually does what they used to accuse everyone else of when it comes to wrongdoing.” Oh, and notice how all the past investigations and corruption events disappeared since Nov 2024. I thought they were seeking justice?
Raskin: Our chairman… How does one go from a libertarian railing about the deep state and the fbi and the doj coming down on the rights of the people to becoming a supine submissive authoritarian who votes against providing basic due process rights for the people against the government?
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Brookings has been tracking federal expenditures and so far for 2025 the US government is spending more than last year. I've heard MAGA chumps say, 'adjusted for inflation it's not as high', yes it is, the inflation rate is around 2.5% and the increase in fed expenditures is around 5.4% higher.
Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Mesa, San Tan Valley! Time is back to keep the pressure up on this administration and our elected officials. Come protest with me!
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