Ben Craft

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Ben Craft

Ben Craft

@ben_craft

Professional policy advocate and communicator. Mourner of American civics. Amateur—everything else. Guy who wants youth sports to be sane and fun again.

Longmeadow, MA, USA Katılım Mart 2012
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Henry Burke
Henry Burke@burkehenryt·
The cancer at the heart of American governance from the municipal to federal level is just an unwillingness to stop scams. Gambling companies pretending they're investment firms? Fine. Airport taxi scammers? Whatever. Scam callers bankrupting boomers? What are we going to do?
constans@constans

They operate so brazenly and openly at JFK Arrivals and NO ONE DOES ANYTHING ABOUT THEM. We can tell staff at JFK, “hey, there are taxi scammers around,” and staff acts powerless to do anything.

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Ben Craft@ben_craft·
@Canes My son and I are Canes fans from Massachusetts. We came down to Raleigh a couple years ago for a game and ended up watching warmups next to Courtney. She could not have been more kind and engaging. Love this.
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ProPublica
ProPublica@propublica·
The Trump administration lowered the authorization level for lethal force, broadened target categories, inflated threat assessments and fired inspectors general, according to more than a dozen current and former national security personnel. propublica.org/article/trump-…
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Multiple women alleged to prosecutors that they were sexually assaulted by high-profile associates of Jeffrey Epstein, according to the recently released Epstein files. None of the men was charged. on.wsj.com/4cjV6d5
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ProPublica
ProPublica@propublica·
Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms. propublica.org/article/electi…
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The Wall Street Journal
U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information say the Trump administration’s assertions about threats from Iran are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong. on.wsj.com/4sFNWF5
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Ted Lieu
Ted Lieu@tedlieu·
Dear @AGPamBondi: Since you creepily spied on the unredacted Epstein files I read, you know I read this one. Witness calls FBI’s NTOC and reports girl, later found dead, told him Trump and Epstein raped her. DOJ NEVER INTERVIEWS WITNESS. When will DOJ interview this witness?
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Andrew Solender@AndrewSolender

NEW: Dems are apoplectic over the DOJ allegedly "spying" on members They're talking legal action, policy changes & investigations. Even GOP is unsettled. Mace called it "disturbing." Comer told @axios he's going to inquire about it. w/ @kate_santaliz axios.com/2026/02/12/pam…

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ABC News Politics
ABC News Politics@ABCPolitics·
President Trump's tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. abcnews.link/0Qrywz9
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Jim Acosta
Jim Acosta@Acosta·
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Pennsylvania Governor's Office
Pennsylvania Governor's Office@PAGovOffice·
Since @DHSgov is once again trying to politicize a tragedy, let's set the record straight here.   Every commercial driver’s license issued by PennDOT is cleared by the federal SAVE database... administered by Kristi Noem.   This person had legal status in Noem's database when the license was issued, and actually still shows as eligible to receive a license *as of today.*   @Sec_Noem — you should probably get your own shop in order, because your operational failures seem to match the scale of your moral failures.
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FOUR PEOPLE KILLED BY ILLEGAL ALIEN SEMI-TRUCK DRIVER. On February 3, Bekzhan Beishekeev, an illegal alien from Kyrgyzstan, was traveling on an Indiana highway when he allegedly failed to brake for a slowed semi-truck in front of him. Police say he swerved into the westbound lane and slammed into a van carrying up to 15 passengers. Four people were killed in the crash. Beishekeev illegally came to the United States using the Biden administration’s disastrous CBP One app and was released into the United States. Even worse, Josh Shapiro’s Pennsylvania issued him a commercial driver’s license. Sanctuary politicians must STOP issuing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens before another American is killed.

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ArchaeoHistories
ArchaeoHistories@histories_arch·
Is this one of the most legendary things a historical figure has ever said? It was December 1944, deep into World War II. The Battle of the Bulge was raging, and American forces were fighting desperately in Belgium as German troops tried to crush them. Creighton Abrams, a young U.S. Army tank commander, was leading men through some of the most brutal fighting of the war during the push to relieve Bastogne. At one point, Abrams and his unit found themselves boxed in, outnumbered, and taking heavy fire. Most men in that situation would have felt fear or hopelessness. But Abrams looked at what was happening and delivered one of the coldest lines in military history: “They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.” Not panic. Not surrender. Just pure confidence. And then they kept moving. That’s the kind of mindset that makes history. © MilitaryHistoria #archaeohistories
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David J. Bier
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier·
Today @CatoInstitute published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew
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Megan Johnson
Megan Johnson@megansarahj·
Seeing as the world is HEAVY, thought I should mention: my family's organization hosts FREE mental health education for people who have lost loved ones to suicide or want to help those who have, and the next one is Thurs. Run by pros (not me lol) honorconnor.org
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Ben Craft@ben_craft·
@RepMcGovern Thank you. Any of your colleagues in the Mass. delegation coming along for this important ride?
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Rep. Jim McGovern
Rep. Jim McGovern@RepMcGovern·
This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
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Vince Mpls
Vince Mpls@vincempls·
In case you missed it, at this moment US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding 73,000 men, women and children in detention centers, the most in its history. In August 1939, just before the start of World War II, German concentration camps held 21,000.
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John Mitnick
John Mitnick@JohnMitnick·
I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department. I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty. Impeach and remove Trump—now.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway3d

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him. The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood. There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump. Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration. It's not about enhancing public safety. It's about destroying any sense of that safety—to intimidate political opponents, and to punish dissent. It's about a corrupt, out-of-control regime's effort to provoke citizens in order to justify the violence it desires to commit against them so that it can expand and retain its power. That is fascism. It is tyranny. It is governmental criminality. And the ultimate legal check the Framers of our Constitution provided to stop this kind of tyranny and criminality in the executive branch is impeachment and removal of the executive. Congress needs to do its job. Now. Before it's too late.

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Larry @Tom & Marty's
Larry @Tom & Marty's@tomandmartys·
More on this. During Covid wing prices skyrocketed. A 40 pound case went for around $80 to $240. So places HAD to raise their prices. So wings went from $8 a dozen to like $18 a dozen. They started offering 10 instead. And people paid. After things settled down in say late 2021 prices returned to pre-covid levels, but places didn’t want to give up the revenue. So the switch to bigger wings started occurring. A bit more expensive sure, but still far more profitable. You are now being ripped off. I myself kept them around $12 a dozen, which is fair. But what pisses me off is that bigger wings simply aren’t nearly as good. Too much meat. Not as crispy. The skin became secondary. Wings aren’t a meal, they’re an appetizer, something you eat with a few beers. So now getting wings means you pay far too much for a product that’s simply not as good. It ends now. MAKE WINGS GREAT AGAIN!
Larry @Tom & Marty's@tomandmartys

The national movement begins NOW. Starting at Toms. Tired of how big Buffalo Wings have gotten. They are not meant to be like fried chicken. The skin/sauce/meat ratio is all wrong. The ONLY reason they are like this is to justify the $20 for 10 bullshit so many places charge. Secured a steady supply of regular OG sized wings and charging $9.75 a dozen as god intended.

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