French Teacher, Francophile, movie buff, one lucky husband, father, dog-lover, & believer in Christ. President of AATF-KY (@AATFKy) and member of LILL Cohort 5.

Kentucky
Joined September 2009
Ben Hawkins retweeted
Trump swaggered into Georgia right before the midterms, breathlessly announcing a huge new Audi factory, a massive win for the state he claimed. Here's the receipt: Audi had absolutely no such announcement, no plans to build a plant in Georgia, and no knowledge of this supposed commitment. This wasn't just campaign exaggeration; it was a bald-faced fabrication, invented out of thin air just days before an election, banking on voters not checking if a major international corporation actually agreed to a multi-billion dollar investment during a political rally. It perfectly illustrates how quickly reality gets benched for a headline grab, promising prosperity that only exists in a speech bubble, all while the people who supposedly value "truth" never question the actual facts. thehill.com/homenews/state-w…
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Ben Hawkins retweeted
The @GOP must be thrilled that 11 days before elections, we learn that the Trump family secretly orchestrated a deal to allow Russians to drill Alaska in exchange for a $25 billion "investment" funneled through their proxies.
And another. Trump isn’t just betraying Ukraine to the Kremlin, he’s selling out America too.
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Ben Hawkins retweeted
It’s time for a constitutional amendment to reform the pardon power. Trump has turned it into a pay to play debacle and a shield for his corruption. No more.
SCOOP: White House lawyers weigh preemptive pardons for large numbers of junior admin staff, as MAGA allies press for protections for lower ranking aides Under discussion is pardons everyone in certain policy, like deportation Does not seem imminent washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…
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Ben Hawkins retweeted
A good reminder that the disastrous war we are in is all goes back to Trump ripping up Obama’s nuclear deal
OBAMA: Iran didn't have nuclear weapons because I had put a deal in place and I didn't have to fire a missile to do it. I just had to engage in diplomacy.
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If you’re upset that Mayor Mamdani is ensuring that New Yorkers understand their constitutional rights, then you’re admitting that ICE is violating them. No one hates the US Constitution more than the Republicans who see it as a speed bump on their road to fascism.
It should be insulting to every American that the mayor of our largest city is a guy who became a citizen less than a decade ago and now spends his time coaching illegal aliens in a foreign language on how they can avoid being lawfully deported.
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Almost like there’s a pattern
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Ben Hawkins retweeted
Guy who has complained about George Soros for years has given 4x more than George Soros ever gave in a single cycle, the largest amount spent on a single election by an individual in history
🔴 News - Elon Musk donated another $76 million to support Republicans, raising his total contributions this cycle to over $442 million
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Ben Hawkins retweeted
No citizen or corporation should have this much power over any communications system or public information platform. It will only lead to Fkry as we have seen time and time again with Elon Musk and his hands on the scale for Russia. His massive political disinformation campaigns on X, causing chaos throughout the world, and his tampering and defunding of the agencies that have been investigating him, using his sham “Department of Government Efficiency”. londonlovesbusiness.com/cong…
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988,000 people bought into Trump’s crypto scam. Maybe start there.
Trump: If you think you may be a victim of a crypto scam, seek out help
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BREAKING: congressional intelligence committees say that they received an intelligence briefing that Russia has been waging a misinformation campaign against Democrats running in the midterms. This comes as Trump removes sanction on Russia AND turns on Ukraine. Yes… another Quid Pro Quo with Russia F-CKING VOTE!
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Unbelievable. The most corrupt president in U.S. history created a “fraud whistleblower program.” Ok. Let’s blow the whistle. Trump has: Illegally accepted a $400 million plane from Qatar Got $1.4 billion richer from crypto scams Used taxpayer money for TV ads That’s fraud!
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OH SO IT IS IRAN and not Ukraine huh?
President Trump complains that Iran is “doing everything they can to drive up the price of Oil prior to the U.S. Midterm Election.”
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Ben Hawkins retweeted
This is IT!!!
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Epstein, Trump, Max Miller, and now Amy Acton's mom...the Republican Party protects the pedophiles and the abusers, not you.
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Funny how Republicans have spent months telling you how great their tax cuts are, but suddenly the IRS data showing who actually benefited is months late. This information was supposed to be released in July. But here we are, three weeks out from an election and the Trump Administration still won’t release it. If the numbers are really as great as they keep telling us, why won’t they release them? Oh wait, I know. Because they know exactly what it shows: the tax cuts disproportionately benefited BILLIONAIRES and GIANT CORPORATIONS, not you. And Republicans paid for them by ripping away healthcare and food assistance from hungry families and exploding the deficit. That was not a tax cut for working people. It was a giveaway to the wealthiest people in the country, paid for by everyone else. politico.com/news/2026/10/14…
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Ben Hawkins retweeted
Share this widely.
Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
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A new survey reveals a record-high 92 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured. Why? Trump and Republicans made massive cuts to Medicaid and the ACA to pay for tax breaks for the 1%. Thousands will die because they can’t afford healthcare. We must pass Medicare for All.
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Ben Hawkins retweeted
Our bill to stop private equity from buying up homes is now law. Despite Donald Trump's refusal to sign it, his Administration must now implement it. We'll be watching closely to ensure it's done right.
The Treasury Department on Thursday proposed rules on new restrictions on large investors buying single-family homes, one of the first moves in the federal government to implement the bipartisan housing package that passed over the summer. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-…
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Oh look, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is exactly as corrupt as we all know he is. “More than $700 MILLION in transfers” — Saudi Arabia & UAE set up a multi-billion dollar slush fund for him. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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I’m old enough to remember when Fox News threw tantrums and Republicans called for endless hearings when Joe Biden received a $40,000 loan repayment check from his brother.
“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet. Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed. Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…
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