Bennett Smith

Splitting time between the farm and Saint Paul. Lake swimmer. 🌈Farm kid. Tweets my own, RT not endorsement.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Bennett Smith @Bennett_R_Smith]

@StephenRubis @lukehellier Really makes ya think.

[Bennett Smith @Bennett_R_Smith]

@SenatorCollins @USCCB Are you concerned?

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

I hate to contradict Third Way but I’m gonna go out on a crazy limb and say it’d probably be more electorally valuable for every Dem to spend the next two weeks hammering this line rather than debating what we all think about Hasan Piker.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

Real talk: The reason this wasn’t done permanently a long time ago is money in our politics. There’s a handful of powerful politicians who have massive oil and gas interests in their state who don’t want to talk about why they oppose cheaper, cleaner fuel.

Wish it hadn’t taken spiking gas prices to finally do this, but still fantastic news for farm country. Let’s make it permanent and stop shilling out for Big Oil.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Today I called on the Administration to allow for year round E-15. Increasing the amount of biofuels in our fuel supply is common sense. With gas prices skyrocketing and a war in the Middle East, we must be doing everything we can to bring down prices and decrease volatility.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

Same goes for Bovino by the way

[Bennett Smith @Bennett_R_Smith]

@tptAlmanac @UofStThomasMN @mlahammer You guys said "James J. Polk" in your card about Minnesota becoming a territory in 1849. It's actually James K. (Knox) Polk. @CathyWurzer @mlahammer

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Tommy Brennan shares his take on ICE deployment in his home state of Minnesota

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Please stop sharing this

[Bennett Smith @Bennett_R_Smith]

@GreggMuehler This is a pretty pathetic attempt at official correspondence, even coming from someone who's caught a few folding chairs in the WWE.

[Bennett Smith @Bennett_R_Smith]

@GreggMuehler No, the opposite.

[Bennett Smith @Bennett_R_Smith]

@MattH_4America -40?

[Bennett Smith @Bennett_R_Smith]

@GreggMuehler Walz was already reaching out to federal investigators, FBI, etc before this. That's over three years ago at this point.

[Bennett Smith @Bennett_R_Smith]

@GreggMuehler This is from 2022, when a judge threatened to hold the Walz department of education in contempt of court of they didn't resume payments.
Judge, Walz administration clash over Feeding Our Future payments | MPR News https://t.co/M3D6D5uxFf

[Bennett Smith @Bennett_R_Smith]

@GreggMuehler That is actually so contrary to reality it's laughable. They have been working on this, with federal assistance, for years. And the Walz administration had to fight courts who wanted them to keep making payments. I'm glad he was there, or it could have been even worse!

[Bennett Smith @Bennett_R_Smith]

@GreggMuehler What are some concrete examples of that? Because I know a fair number of folks in both the Governor & AG's office who have been working hard to put a stop to fraud. They're the ones who initially reported these crooks to the feds. To say nothing is being done is false.

[Winter @deenafaywinter]

Actually Minneapolis PD hired so many people this year they blew their budget by almost $20 million: https://t.co/F3O19yhXEP