Ben Mendelsohn

i can't even imagine the freakout if like mamdani or ilhan omar had ever refered to lenders as "shylocks." but unlike them, trump actually has a very long history of making disparaging remarks about jews

He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.

Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.

You’ve been sold a giant myth when it comes to improving your health Diet and exercise will only get you so far, but there is a magic bullet that could make us all live longer, says professor of global public health Devi Sridhar

”We are obsessed with personal choices – diet, exercise – and ignore the most important determinant of our health.

”Public health measures like universal healthcare, drinkable water, clean air and safe roads have a much bigger impact on our health than any number of gym sessions or kale smoothies.”

tfw your social media policies are more stringent than your sourcing standards

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

more and more people are saying!

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

Trump Administration Finds Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law

Trump administration continues to use Jews as human shields in its war on academic freedom.

Trump Administration Finds Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...

"The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship...At least one person has already been denaturalized...June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns."

www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

Can’t really articulate how furious it makes me to see gentile politicians wield fake charges of antisemitism against Mamdani. It’s not just the plain Islamophobia, it’s the fact that they’re needlessly stoking tensions in a way that puts Jewish New Yorkers at GREATER risk.

if i’m a middling democrat who’s part of a do-nothing house minority i would join forces with the first political leader in years who’s galvanized voters and is young and hot and cool, but that’s just me!

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

The most widespread and normalized antisemitic dogwhistles in American culture, by far, take the form of anti-communist, anti-integration, and anti-queer rhetoric.

Reactionary politics are built around the specter of greedy nebbish urban marxists who want to emasculate civilization & force white families to live in black neighborhoods. It's extremely transparent antisemitism, which is why they need to overcompensate with their own accusations of prejudice.

the way that no act of right-wing violence ever seems to change the media or political elite of this country's world view is just fucking maddening

Mira Nair doing the classic desi mother cheek-pull right on camera as her kid is on stage after a political victory.

I will never understand this and I don’t know how it ends.

Education has been taken over by corporate interests and edtech. The Trojan horse or APT that we let in happily. But we don’t do this for other areas, where they insist on PhD or experience. The hype machine is fearsome

sorry i knew i wanted to be a writer since i was six and could physically write and sometimes it's hard and shitty as i work through my ideas and sometimes it's the purest narcotic joy of finding the right words and you want me to involve a lying theft robot? what's wrong with you?

Twenty years in education and I have seen so many things that were going to "save teachers time" and then it got weaponized into "if you don't use this, you're ruining your students' future" and usually when that mindless zealousness comes around it's less than a year for that tech to collapse.

People are like, "Wow, so the Supreme Court can just decide what medical care you get instead of you and your doctor?" Yeah man. That was Dobbs. They don't give a fuck about us, about precedent, the actual text of the law, the intent of the law, or anything else. The law is fake.

cannot believe this man is employed

Graph showing that as jail incarceration rates increase, so do county death rates.

Incarceration has deadly consequences for everyone – even those who are not behind bars:

has sarita endorsed !?

Apropos of nothing in particular, Mississippi Masala is streaming on Criterion.

if there is currently no way to prevent AI from ingesting any writing I put online, and I really don't feel like starting a newsletter, maybe I really should start an #othernetworks zine...would it be laughably hipster if I used a typewriter to write it all up? and mimeograph to make copies?

I’m going to say it again, generative AI and the push for it to be used in every Avenue of learning and education is because generative AI literally is a weapon for knowledge destruction not a knowledge creation tool and silicon valleys goal is to monetize and gate off all of human knowledge

You don't have to pay to arm these people. You don't have to pay for their cars, their tanks. You don't have to pay for their prisons or jails. This is all entirely optional, but we keep making the wrong choice.

Spend five minutes on any law enforcement or prison guard social media page and you'll encounter the same level of fascist bloodlust as you would expect on a neonazi forum like Stormfront.

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

Against Technofeudal Education Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech