Benjamin Torbert

I can't help but think of Heather Heyer, the woman killed in Charlottesville during the first term.

What was then an act of white supremacist vigilante violence by a radicalized right winger has now escalated to official acts carried out by the state

Why home insurance is unaffordable, even in places without wildfires or hurricanes Some of the country's highest home insurance prices are in the central U.S., a region generally considered to be protected from climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes.

“It's to a point of unsustainability.” www.npr.org/2025/11/13/n...

As recently as a dozen years ago

Trans Images on Film November 17 & 24 | 11 Films

THE BROOD (1979) — 4:15 am ET — 1h 31m
(TCM Special Theme: Trans Images on Film)

Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle; directed by David Cronenberg

An estranged husband uncovers unsettling consequences of his wife's radical therapy.

#TCM #TCMParty

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Chapel Bill has lost the shark.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

With a mighty blow, the Wanamaker Organ marks the end of the Center City Macy’s era The enormous instrument — 28,750 pipes, 287 tons and snaked throughout the building — isn’t going anywhere. But Macy’s is, closing its showpiece store at 13th and Market Streets for good Sunday.

With a mighty blow, the Wanamaker Organ marks the end of the Center City Macy’s era www.inquirer.com/arts/wanamak...

YouTube video by Rep. Ayanna Pressley Ayanna Pressley Rallies Outside Treasury to Protest Elon Musk’s Unlawful Assault on Our Democracy

Behold, the queen!!! We need more of this.

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I'm purposely not following anyone over here who mainly talks politics/current events. I have enough of that everywhere else. One exception: @jemelehill.bsky.social

2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society Philadelphia Marriott Downtown–Jan. 10—The American Dialect Society, in its 35th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected rawdog as the Word of the Year for 2024. More than three hundred attendees took...

"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...

New bookstore alert: Leviathan Bookstore has a home (the former Zee Bee Market spot on South Grand) and a grand opening date (March 1). Exciting! www.stlmag.com/culture/Lite...