Conservationist working to make a better world. Building the next generation of America’s conservation movement with @unitedbynature_.
Arizona, USA
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Benji Backer retweeted
"When the election is over there needs to be a bipartisan reckoning for Mr. Trump’s budding alliance with the Kremlin against Ukraine, Europe and American interests."
-WSJ Editorial Board
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Benji Backer retweeted
“we will pay any price….to assure the success and survival of liberty.” Is this still true? Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own.
Benji Backer retweeted
There are certain decisions that will go down as history-defining moments. This is one of them. It's a terrible misjudgment of Putin, who has made it clear he wants to destroy the West. We shouldn't help him do it.
Trump waives many Russian sanctions, tariffs under new law backed by Lindsey Graham foxbusiness.com/politics/tru…
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I wrote this four years ago and it still applies. The people who run college football conferences don’t get the regular season *is* the sport and rivalries are more important than the tv markets. The playoffs should be additive to that, not replacing that. Sad.
America’s addiction to gambling & betting is an actual crisis, and not enough people are talking about it
Benji Backer retweeted
Crazy WSJ data. Between 2022 and 2025, wealth increased 37% for Americans 75 and older, while **decreased** 23% for people under 35.
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As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don’t have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop
Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said.
“People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. wapo.st/4hNxK0C
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Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it? Beyond disgusting. Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do. It should not be happening in America.
The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3, a Pentagon official said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Thursday the Pentagon planned to make the execution public.
Hasan's case could mark the military's first execution of an American service member since 1961.
Benji Backer retweeted
Our first #GreenBiz27 keynote announcement: @BenjiBacker, CEO of United by Nature!
“The middle is the future.” Join him Feb. 23 in San Diego for a conversation on working across party lines to advance conservation.
More speakers coming soon: buff.ly/aNVqZRy
Conservationist.
#EllaLangley is getting MASSIVE backlash from old photos of her hunting from before she was famous. 😳👀
Thoughts on this?
Benji Backer retweeted
The president of the United States calling for The New York Times and other "artificial media outlets" to be *arrested* for publishing stuff that offends his ego is third-world country behavior, actually. It's hard to believe that MAGA ever claimed to be the free speech movement.
Benji Backer retweeted
Nobody actually needs a personal AI assistant. The average screen time in the US is 7 hours/day. people have plenty of time. There's no evidence that freeing up more will lead to anything but more tiktok scrolling
If anything daily life needs more offline friction
As an Arizonan, this is absolutely disgusting.
It has zero impact on illegal immigration, and a huge negative impact on the beauty of this country.
There’s nothing decent or right about this.
BREAKING: DHS contractors are toppling the last of four ancient cottonwoods to build double border walls across the San Rafael Valley.
The wall cuts through the key remaining wildlife corridor for endangered jaguars between Arizona and Sonora, where human border crossings are seldom seen.
A protest camp had occupied and protected this tree for more than 60 days, halting construction. The camp was raided and campers were arrested this morning.
This wall will effectively lock the remaining jaguars in the U.S. into solitary confinement, while permanently marring one of the last remaining wild places along the Arizona border.
Buying people’s votes. Inflating the government’s debt by trillions. Devaluing the U.S. dollar.
Immensely un-American in every way
If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 Midterm Elections, I’m going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America, $5,000! Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I look forward to signing those checks!
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This $5,000 “Trump Dividend” promise was first made in Sept. 2026. Similar prior DOGE and tariff check pledges have not been paid out. It would cost ~$1.2 trillion and require congressional approval.
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