Notices by Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️ (kbeninato@mstdn.party)

Strom Thurmond had a black daughter Essie Mae Washington-Williams he never acknowledged, born in 1925. And he spent a lifetime trying as hard as he could to take away her rights. There's still a Senate room named after him.

Maybe make it the Cory Booker room. He's earned it if anyone has.

"I'm not here to break the record of the man who tried to stop the rights on which I stand. I'm not here to stop his speech. I'm here in spite of his speech. As powerful as he was, the people were more powerful."

And with that, Senator Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond's filibuster record.🔥🔥🔥

At the last Jazzfest, Mick Jagger said Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry was trying to take the state back to the Stone Age. Tonight all four of Landry's amendments were defeated by the voters. Suck it, Guv.

Trump getting the White House Correspondents Association to fire Amber Ruffin should end NerdProm.

They told her to target both sides, but she told the Daily Beast podcast that the administration is “kind of a bunch of murderers” and both sidesing “makes them feel like human beings, but they shouldn’t get to feel that way, cause they’re not." And that got her fired from the gig.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wh-correspondents-fire-comedian-after-insult-on-beast-podcast/

Trump just told reporters he hadn't heard anything about the US troops killed in Lithuania.

Is he on ANY of the group chats?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/4-american-soldiers-killed-while-training-in-lithuania-nato-leader-says

me in the national security team group chat

Picked the right day to stop sniffing Cybertruck glue.

It doesn't even work.

Tesla's recalling 46,000 Cybertrucks because the stainless steel is falling off, thanks to "efficiency" expert Elon Musk.

Those two astronauts are going to want to go right back to outer space.

Happy Ides of March!

Putin, Zuckerberg - Why does Elon Musk keep tweeting about trying to wrestle men he barely knows? Is this a DH Lawrence novel?

Happy International Women's Day. #InternationalWomensDay

The Democrats should all go to the State of the Union in full drag and stare Donald and Elon down. If you're going for a gesture, go big.

RIP to the last of the New York Dolls, and a hell of a Ghost of Christmas Past, David Johansen.

White House Reporter Q: What if Putin breaks the deal?

Trump: "What if anything? What if a bomb drops on your head? Putin went through a lot with me. Russia, Russia, Russia. A Democrat Hunter Biden scam. He had to go through that."

To President Zelensky: "You're not acting at all thankful. And that's not a nice thing...

"This is going to be great television!"

Worst thing I've ever heard out of Trump's mouth, and that's a high bar to pass.

Fire experts.
Watch planes fall from sky.
Beg them to come back.

Art of the deal!

Elon Musk tells Cabinet he accidentally cancelled ebola prevention.

Time for a snap election. Works for other countries that realize after a month everyone will be dead in four years under these mooks.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-doge-ebola-prevention-trump-cabinet-meeting-2025-2

The US House just passed a bill gutting social programs we've paid into for our lifetimes. The cruelty is the point, leaving no safety net for any of us. All for billionaire corporate tax cuts.

And that hurts like hell to know.
https://www.cbpp.org/press/statements/house-budget-would-increase-costs-and-hardship-for-many-while-providing-huge-tax

“We will go out and find the conspirators - yes we are going to come after the people in the media," New FBI Director Kash Patel, who has called for jailing US citizens he considers "the enemy." Feels like the last scene of an end of democracy montage.

Guardian: This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts.

[Almost more accurate to say this WAS a coup, because it happened and no one stopped it.]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/trump-musk-government-cost-cutting-coup