If you would like to understand Benny's principles, here's a story. While at IJR on the day of the 2015 Roanoke shooting, Benny cried in the newsroom. Not because of the shooting itself, but because we told him he wasn't allowed to post the video of the murder on the website.

"Benny Johnson stands out, even among this collection of cranks, grifters, propagandists, and sycophants. He is the Jesse Watters of the streaming set, someone who has parlayed having absolutely nothing to add to any conversation into a lucrative career as a shill for President Donald Trump."

Why are billionaires buying up media outlets? As a media mogul, you can effectively hedge against democracy by suppressing criticism of yourself and other plutocrats and discouraging any attempt to tax away your wealth. Here's what we need to do about it. robertreich.substack.com/p/billionair...

Be advised that with only three viewing experiences, we have the sum total of what the American entertainment industry has to say about Thanksgiving. 1. Planes, Trains & Automobiles in full. 2. The camp play carnage in Addams Family Values 3. The clip below. After that, it's all just football.

"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole." -𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%

Wait, so he’s *not* a genius businessman who can apply that genius to improving the American economy?

Sunken Lane https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/11722

Landscape with Waterline, 1879 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12075

After campaigning on banning congressional stock trading, one of Congress' top stock traders, Rob Bresnahan, sold up to $130,000 in stocks from four Medicaid providers before voting for huge cuts to the program. #PA08

“Trump taking out his adversaries is nothing new. Relatives of Trump Casino executives who died in a rental helicopter crash in New Jersey, will tell you that, as some of them once did to me personally.”

“Even a mild glance at the circumstances surrounding that situation leaves one with the impression of a well-planned mob hit - to take out folks who were talking to the federal authorities investigating money-laundering in his Atlantic City casinos.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

There is a dawning realization, even within the Trumpian swamp of grift, that Kash Patel is turning out to be a clueless, ethically-tone deaf cretin. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.

Republicans and Democrats are standing together, clearly saying that Members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks. We get sensitive, classified information. We should be trusted with that to help our constituents, not pad our wallets.

We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way to get rid of Citizens United. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

The Brothel - 1887 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14180

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Travelling Circus https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/the-travelling-circus

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

There is no debate -- “An order requiring the performance of a military duty or act may be disobeyed when such act is unlawful.” Manual for Courts-Martial United States (2024), Part IV, ¶ 14.c.(2)(a)(i) www.sja.marines.mil/Portals/135/... #HOLDFAST

The Scream 1910 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25603

After Rob Bresnahan campaigned on banning congressional stock trading, he decided to corruptly and hypocritically sell out his constituents instead of doing what he promised to the voters in #PA08.

Keep this story in the news. "Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney" www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

JD Vance Cries In Bathroom After Trump Uses ‘Piggy’ Nickname On Someone Else https://theonion.com/jd-vance-cries-in-bathroom-after-trump-uses-piggy-nickname-on-someone-else/

Since the disastrous Citizens United ruling in 2010, billionaires have increasingly had more political influence. And their corrupting influence comes at a cost to working Americans through higher prices, weaker protections, and a government that answers to the wealthy.

The basic truths that escape “both sides.”

At the Opera Ball

A Trump quote without his face or voice - Trump without Trump. The quote is unedited and 100% accurate. This is from the McDonald's Impact Summit on November 17, 2025 - The drip drip water.

Child with Orange - 1890 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14742

Portrait of Père Tanguy (1887) places a paint dealer in front of Japanese prints. The backdrop isn’t decoration—it’s a map of Van Gogh’s influences.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

NIght Cafe in Arles (Madame Ginoux) https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12410

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

@desilydic.bsky.social is back to break down GOP plastic surgery trends. Today's refreshed Republican: Mike Johnson!

Charlie Kirk was a tool. I mean that literally. He was useful to the American right for organizing and propaganda, then they thought they could use his death to silence and persecute people they don't like, which worked a bit but fizzled, and then he was no longer of use to them so they moved on.

Portrait of Victor Chocquet, 1877 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11942

Karen Attiah said it best: "[Trump] could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi. But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile. Every time this [admin] hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open. Cretin behavior." 🤬

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

Stauber voted against this project he’s now taking credit for, as Republicans do constantly.

Barn and Silo, Vermont - 1927 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104028

You've probably seen Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on the airwaves denouncing the "toxic politics" in the United States. Let's look at who helped make these politics so toxic.

Riding the high of Trump's latest tax cuts, corporations are seeing record profits and will make over $1.1T in stock buybacks this year — an all-time high. Meanwhile, layoffs have totaled 1.1M so far in 2025 — the highest level since the pandemic. "New Golden Age" for whom?

Brazil https://www.wikiart.org/en/keith-haring/brazil-1989

Every day, a fresh, astounding obscenity from the trash that we elected to govern our nation and the filth that they've gathered around them to enjoy power. Every fucking day,.