Ben Van Bloem

Ben Van Bloem

@bambooboy.bsky.social

Lifetime learner

128 Followers 400 Following 43 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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The Trump administration just opened operations against Iran’s strategic Kharg Island. I wonder where they got that idea!? www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

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2 days ago

We cannot stop mass deportations without seriously reckoning with the American obsession with arrests and prosecutions.

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4 days ago
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Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People? — Assigned An analysis of its coverage reveals a pattern of misrepresentations, deceptions, distortions, the exclusion of trans voices, and the endorsement of contempt.

The New York Times coverage of trans issues has repeatedly resulted in experts and others complaining that their words were twisted and misrepresented... but only those quoted from on trans supportive side have that complaint.

Coincidence or eliminationism? @billiejsweeney.bsky.social dives in.

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6 days ago

The political movement that can’t stop talking about “goyslop” and “goonbait” is somehow struggling with messaging

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1 week ago

Finally finished this 🧶

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Trump is already spending $1 BILLION PER DAY on his illegal regime change war of choice in Iran.

Now, he's going to ask Congress to give him up to $50 BILLION MORE.

My vote: hell NO.

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a grey onesie featuring the new york post’s “red apple” front page

finally big enough to wear the hottest merch of the season

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my first book (2020) was about online neonazis and my second book (2024) was about christian theocrats. they gained strength, voltronned and became a government. my third book (2027) is going to be a history of notable sandwiches so i hope this means we will be governed by sandwichocracy

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had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

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I really did think the Riyadh Comedy Festival would help bring peace to the Middle East

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transphobia is just as much of an animating force for the right-wing as racism. it stands to reason that if they’re kidnapping and deporting anyone who looks brown enough, they’re doing detransition torture to trans people too. but you don’t need a comparison; they said they would do stuff like this

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so, torture. they’re torturing them as federal policy. entirely predictable, but that doesn’t make it any less evil

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🔥

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DONE.

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2 weeks ago

At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

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2 weeks ago

once again reminding everyone to funnel your emotions into organizing and building solidarity in your community and not pointless doomscrolling

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright giving a sermon in 2003 where he said “No, no, no, not God bless America. God damn America!”
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Her License Was Invalidated For Being Trans — Assigned “I wish I could convey to them that the people they’re hurting are real human beings,” says Juniper, 24, of Witchita Kansas.

Many news outlets are reporting that some trans Kansans received letters warning that their licenses were being invalidated overnight.

This morning, Evan Urquhart spoke with a trans woman who found out on Bluesky that it would be illegal to drive her car.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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2 weeks ago

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

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2 weeks ago
Kalshi

Prediction markets need insider trading, despite what they say
aftermath.site/kalshi-mrbeast...

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2 weeks ago

the chips are down. an administration on the ropes. the legitimacy of a regime hanging in the balance. donald j trump has one last desperate shot to turn this whole thing around with an epic speech

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2 weeks ago

This movie is single-handedly responsible for my fear of single lane mountain roads in the backwoods

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Out Of The Furnace Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Christian Bale Movie HD YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Trailers

This movie is SO UNDERRATED
youtu.be/Gw0qH34cbRE?...

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2 weeks ago

Some incredible Psycho Woody Harrelson work in this one

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3 weeks ago

Oh my god, excuse me. It's THE Lesbian HOMIE. I'm ashamed.

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3 weeks ago

i don't think it would ever occur to a mets fan to make this

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1 month ago
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CBS Evening News inverts its network's own reporting on ICE arrestees’ low rates of violent criminal histories

Shameful stuff

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