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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

Far-right propagandist Christopher Rufo is inside the Department of Education headquarters and said to far-right operative Mike Benz that it “needs to be razed to the ground”:

Christopher F. Rufo X
@realchrisrufo
I'm going in.
[photo of DOE HQ]
10:56 AM • 2/5/25 • 141K Views

Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo
Entering the inner sanctum. Stand by.
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12:13 PM • 2/5/25 • 13K Views

Christopher F. Rufo X @• 31m Incredible vibes. Fantastic buzz.
There is so much energy behind education reform and the president has brought in top-notch appointees: comms, policy, legal, all of it. This is going to be the team that advances a generational agenda. Can't wait for the show to get started.
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Things will start to move fast, but here's a tidbit I can share now: I will be launching a new campaign to expose ideological corruption at the Department of Education beginning next week. The permanent bureaucracy must—and will—be held to account.
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Eyes are wide open, this place needs to be razed to the ground
12:32 PM • 2/5/25 • 2.8K Views

February 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Big Dill

@b1gd1ll.bsky.social

#MikeBenz #MAGA

A man wearing glasses and a MAGA hat cries while yelling, "Epstein wasn't a pedophile, he was a ephebophile!"

March 9, 2026 at 7:15 AM

AllMyKidsHavePaws (#SlavaUkraini)

@allmykidshavepaws.bsky.social

#MikeBenz a Russian propagandist was on the Russian propagandist @joeroganexperiance.bsky.social podcast!
Hey Joe...how much is Putin paying you to be a traitor?

December 5, 2024 at 10:31 PM

Tina Says #VoteOutTheCorruption

@trcfwtt.bsky.social

Block it, new friends. #MikeBenz

November 25, 2024 at 5:30 AM

emadscifi.bsky.social

@emadscifi.bsky.social

theliberum.com/snake-eyes-t...
#assassination #conspiracy #charliekirk #snakeeyes #patsy #jfk #rfk #nicholascage #briandepalma #sirhansirhan #kimiversen #robertheinlein #ufos #mikebenz #fletcherprouty #aliens #cia #roswell #palestine #israel

Snake Eyes Charlie Kirk

Fellow online journalists (including George Galloway and Kim Iversen) have stumbled onto Brian De Palma’s conspiracy flick Snake Eyes (1998), which almost prophesied what happened to Charlie Kirk, qui...

theliberum.com

October 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM

Rich Burroughs

@somewhattolerable.com

I guess @e-MikeBenz was already taken.

November 1, 2023 at 3:23 PM

pietypoet.bsky.social

@pietypoet.bsky.social

fuck the confetti n streamer nerds .. stockholmers, paper tigers and houses of tikkie tacky credit cards .. learn to count specks of dust and ground that shit .. if you can't get it/that yet .. try the #MikeBenz approach to big data ... and if all else fails, over the top Jonathan Couey to the riskU

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Sep 20

Having AI crammed down our throats is bullshit, but machine learning has some real uses in science. This awesome page shows experimental cyclone track forecasts from Google DeepMind and Google Research's AI weather models, along with forecasts from ECMWF. 😍

deepmind.google.com/science/weat...

A dark-themed weather tracking map from Google Weather Lab: Cyclones (Preview) showing hurricane/cyclone models in the Atlantic Ocean as of Friday, September 19, 2025, at 08:00. The map includes ensemble forecast tracks and storm markers extending from the mid-Atlantic toward Western Europe. Multiple colorful lines (green, orange, blue, purple, yellow) represent different storm model ensembles and possible tracks, with clusters of paths pointing toward Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal. The cyclone originated east of the Caribbean, with its projected paths fanning northeastward across the Atlantic. Colored circles mark storm intensity along the tracks, numbered (e.g., 1, 2, 6) corresponding to categories. A second storm is visible off the Pacific coast of Mexico with clustered ensemble markers. The left panel lists model options (Observed, Our experimental model, WeatherNext Gen, WeatherNext Graph, ECMWF ENS, ECMWF HRES), a legend for storm markers, tracks, ensemble tracks, cones, and wind speed colors. At the bottom, sliders indicate initialization time (Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 08:00) and lead time (+6 days, Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 02:00). The background map highlights North America, the Atlantic Ocean, Western Europe, and parts of Africa.

October 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM

The Truth

@thetruthnews.bsky.social

Elon Musk's tweet in favor of Imran Khan
#ImranKhan #ElonMusk #donaldtrump #justice #marinelepen #breakingnews #calingeorgescu #matteosalvini #jairbolsonaro #mikebenz

youtu.be/U9TFPixaZlA

Elon Musk's Tweet in Favor of Imran Khan

YouTube video by The Truth

youtu.be

April 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

@cryptadamist.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy

the #maga chudfluencer and #joerogan guest possibly most responsible for destroying #usaid has recently started "liking" a lot of my posts about #epstein and crypto and i'm not happy about it

#epsteinfiles #uspol #mikebenz

February 19, 2026 at 5:02 PM

TracingVRL

@tracingvrl.bsky.social

Distributed at "the laundromat" of conspiracy myths, also known as the Joe Rogan experience. tracingvrl.substack.com/p/tracing-br... #MikeBenz #USAID #JoeRogan

Tracing Brief: Two Realities on U.S.A.I.D.

A man named Mike Benz claimed Trump probably lost the 2020 election due to content monitoring from the likes of U.S.A.I.D. and other groups

tracingvrl.substack.com

September 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM

SocialFactCheck.com

@socialfactcheck.bsky.social

PowerfulJRE: Fact Checked - video: "Joe Rogan Experience #2237 - Mike Benz" www.socialfactcheck.com/videos/rrJhQ...

#MikeBenz #JoeRogan #FactChecked #Misinformation

FACT CHECKED - PowerfulJRE - "Joe Rogan Experience #2237 - Mike Benz"

The video contains 5 fully or mostly false claims, touching on topics such as U.S. involvement in foreign affairs, government influence on media, NATO's military strategy, and the disinformation indus...

www.socialfactcheck.com

December 8, 2024 at 3:06 PM

West Coast News

@westcoastnews.bsky.social

A coordinated narrative campaign on X, YouTube, TikTok & partisan sites, amplified by #ElonMusk, #MikeBenz & pro- #DOGE accounts, reframed #USAID aid & media funding as covert influence - undermining trust in aid programs & #IndependentNews.

#Journalism #Misinformation

pressone.ph/when-lifelin...

When lifelines are labeled as conspiracy: The toll on small and non-profit newsrooms

A collaborative investigation by journalists from Southeast Asia has uncovered a coordinated campaign that weaponized transparency to dismantle the world’s primary foreign aid apparatus and v…

pressone.ph

May 21, 2026 at 6:14 PM

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

@cryptadamist.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy

3/ weirder still... verging into all out MAGA civil war at this point if roger stone is calling #mikebenz a "weird little fucker" (tho tbf he's not even wrong)

#maga #uspol #uspolitics #epstein #epsteinfiles #magacivilwar #rogerstone

Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber
You can’t run on it during the election as the visceral central symbol of the system’s corruptions and cover-ups and then do the exact thing you trained us to believe was corruption and cover-up. You used it as a sword. There’s no shield now.

[Quoted]
Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber
Live by the Epstein, die by the Epstein

Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr
Spoken like someone who knows nothing whatsoever about American politics. Weird little fucker, too.

July 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM

Hunt4TheTRUTH

@hunt4thetruth.bsky.social

What's Really Haps in #EPSTEIN #BeingBenz @MikeBenzCyber @MikeBenz #epsteindidnotkillhimself @DOJ @FBI @DHS @DNI
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What's Really Haps in #EPSTEIN #BeingBenz

@MikeBenzCyber @MikeBenz #epsteindidnotkillhimself @DOJ @FBI @DHS @DNI

rumble.com

February 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Hunt4TheTRUTH

@hunt4thetruth.bsky.social

What's Really Haps in #EPSTEIN #BeingBenz, rumble.com/v6pv5b2-what...

What's Really Haps in #EPSTEIN #BeingBenz

@MikeBenzCyber @MikeBenz #epsteindidnotkillhimself @DOJ @FBI @DHS @DNI

rumble.com

February 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM

Hunt4TheTRUTH

@hunt4thetruth.bsky.social

@MikeBenz on ROMANIA CRISIS! 20yrs for Thought Crimes,
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@MikeBenz on ROMANIA CRISIS! 20yrs for Thought Crimes

#BeingPoso @jackrabbit The awesome Mike Benz cyber breaks down the color revolutions in Romania . The leading candidate for president of Romania and many of his supporters have been arrested today. He

rumble.com

February 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM

@ajnamdeplume #Resist ✊️🗽⚖️

@ajnamdeplume.bsky.social

#EndTheOligarchyMafia💰 #ResistFascism🚫卐
Why #ElonMusk came after #USAID, according to the theories he boosted, with the help of #MikeBenz.
youtu.be/0QkhD6l8ILA?...

Why Elon Musk came after USAID, according to the theories he's boosted

YouTube video by NBC News

youtu.be

February 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM

SoapBoxChamp

@soapboxchamp.bsky.social

rumble.com/v5y3j95-luig...
#Luigi #LuigiMangione #Russia #Ukraine #SoftPower #Drones #MikeBenz #JoeRogan #Propaganda #Trump #FBI #Texting #Sports #quotes #ElfOnTheShelf #WindowsXP #WindowsUpdate #podcast #news #politics #X

rumble.com

December 11, 2024 at 1:39 AM

HeilMeinTrumpler

@heilmeintrumpler.bsky.social

Brandy Zadrozny gets to the heart of what's behind President Musk's - and in turn his underling, Don The Con's - attacks on USAID.

#BrandyZadrozny #PresidentMusk #DonTheCon #USAID #MikeBenz #NBCNews

Why Elon Musk came after USAID, according to the theories he's boosted

Until recently, #elonmusk rarely posted about #USAID . But since the start of February, he has attacked the U.S. #foreign aid agency as “evil” and “criminal....

buff.ly

February 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM

Global Voters

@globalvoters.bsky.social

The #DOD Declares War on Americans: with #MikeBenz

The #DOD Declares War on Americans

with #MikeBenz

dlvr.it

August 9, 2024 at 3:34 PM

Global Voters

@globalvoters.bsky.social

Benz: Secret Service #Director Is a #Coverup Artist: with #MikeBenz

Benz: Secret Service #Director Is a #Coverup Artist

with #MikeBenz

dlvr.it

July 18, 2024 at 3:46 PM

Global Voters

@globalvoters.bsky.social

The #CyberWorld and Trumps Would-Be #Assassin: with #MikeBenz

The #CyberWorld and Trumps Would-Be #Assassin

with #MikeBenz

dlvr.it

July 16, 2024 at 6:18 PM

pietypoet.bsky.social

@pietypoet.bsky.social

after half an hour i am rocksolid sure Matt must have some kind of beef with #MikeBenz to the point he straight up lies and discredits himself. 'no whistleblowers' ... ??? Come on Matt, don't do THAT to yourself.
Perhaps it's time for an update,
let's have some 'bluntsport' .. a marathon debate.

March 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM