Michael Benson

Nuclear Engineer, LDS, dad

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Can we get an update on this?

[Meg Walter @MegMorleyWalter]

A column in which I try and convince Taylor Swift to hold her wedding in a cultural hall, and a column with a comment section I am too scared to read https://t.co/IFhyV3wTGs

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

A billion dollars spent on this stunt. Suicidal cruelty

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The Trump DOJ is now arguing in federal court that Elon Musk’s AI company should be allowed to run dozens of unpermitted gas turbines polluting a Black community in Mississippi. They also argued the federal government should have the power to shut down citizen lawsuits like this one entirely. 

This is the Justice Department intervening on behalf of a polluter, against the people breathing the air it’s polluting. 

That’s not protecting national security. That’s protecting Elon Musk. 

Elon Musk just became a trillionaire. The community next to his data center is breathing smog-forming nitrogen oxide and formaldehyde. 
 https://t.co/WUnVaV6yfX

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This is the stupidity we're talking about: She got an abortion after helping ban them. Blamed the democrats for the struggle she had to get one. And doesn't want interviews talking about it to be public.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “Real men don’t lie and cheat their way through life. They don’t enrich themselves by stealing from other people. They don’t sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves”

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Just thinking about the months-long freak out because Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden on the White House grounds. This is really really disgraceful stuff. Shameful and won't even get a mention in the press.

[Jared Cook @jkimballcook]

in the United States we owe a duty of loyalty to the constitution and the cause of liberty

loyalty to politicians is a vice, not a virtue

[Michael Benson @melmobenson]

@foxonabox_ https://t.co/PrBwNSApic

[Michael Benson @melmobenson]

@foxonabox_ One article I saw made it sounds like she filed. It sounds like he cheated.

[Michael Benson @melmobenson]

@AndrewDBailey Does the defense inherently come with the athleticism? Imagine the problem Luka is now with the explosiveness of Ausar just on offense.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Administration ending scandals for any other President come and go like a fart in the wind with Trump. It's really maddening.

[NKY Lefty @NKY_Leftist]

The 4th largest company in the world. It doesn't produce anything. It doesn't make money. It has no plans to make money. It wouldn't even have stayed afloat if not for taxpayer dollars. I mean y'all cannot be serious rn

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

We need to be clear about what is happening in this photo.

Rick Scarborough, former Southern Baptist pastor, got on stage at the Texas Republican Convention and told state DELEGATE Mohamed Hussein to convert to Christianity or leave the country. He was so upset that he cried. It was then and only then that Rick felt guilty, so he sat down and pretended to pray for him.

The only evil we need to expel from this state are the people who don’t believe in the CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT of freedom of religion.

📷 Manoo Sirivelu for @TexasTribune

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

OMG @JDVance doing the "Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way" meme in background briefings on the Iran War is so amazing.

[Jim Bennett @StallionCornell]

Can you imagine if Gerald Ford had transformed the Bicentennial into a campaign event?

You can’t. Because no other president would have or could have been this crass.

We’re so far out of bounds of what used to be normal that we may never make it back.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Again to be clear they stopped counting deaths at 800,000 in December 2025. It is well over a million now

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

I don’t want to jump to conclusions but I’m starting to think he doesn’t like Black people.