Benjamin Not Ben 🍉

The “my child died when they said they were trans“ stuff is so bizarre. Did you really enter parenthood not expecting that your child would surprise you somehow?

My review of John Cage's 4′33″? No notes.

Flat Stanley is a book about a kid who is flattened to half-inch thick and lives his whole life that way and the most unrealistic thing about it is that a cop apologizes

10yo is reading The Power Broker, which puts him decades ahead of most people who have claimed they have read The Power Broker

I mean so is Trump. The other things about him matter!

If the Naomi be Klein... forget the old rhyme 🫠

“To labor unions, everywhere.” - Noah Wylie, accepting his Actor award

The Tom Holland lip sync is just ok

A really difficult aspect of leftist organizing in the US is that we rarely have the funds to institutionalize our movements, and as a consequence our wisdom is rarely institutionalized and preserved.

It's hard watching this happen over and over again when it comes to talking about war.

“Third-culture kid” just say rich

If the Naomi be Klein... forget the old rhyme 🫠

I mean so is Trump. The other things about him matter!

I understand the easy interpretation, but that's not my takeaway. (I think he's just talking about super-rich, unaccountably powerful people) But the clip shows that Platner is basically a dumb guy who, because he's mastered certain platitudes, unfortunately maps onto the left. Which really sucks.

What do we do with Hitler's spaceship? What's the plan for Ho Chi Minh's invisibility cloak?

taking offensive action for an ostensibly defensive purpose is just what war is, man

Yes

My religious studies people, who is doing work on the AI generated Christian content?

Eh maybe

the next ayatollah should be a woman of color

A lot of us despise the Trump regime, Per, doesn’t mean I want the elementary school in my town vaporized.

Not that I expect any better but it is so poisonous that the value of Iranian lives never warrants a mention in posts like these

the democratic party in one quote

Why I Got Thrown Out of a Jasmine Crockett Rally The crowd was fired up. The candidate was on her game. And I was escorted out by armed guards.

Jasmine Crockett's team threw an Atlantic reporter out of a rally because they don't like what she writes.

I write for the Guardian, and I've never been thrown out of a Trump rally. This petty bullshit is disqualifying. Fuck Crockett.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This. I can pretty much guarantee those of you w/ IR friends are all stressing over the power vacuum that's been caused by this, and trying to calculate what happens next.

Thinking about @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's drive to bring back *shame* in light of the NYPD's snowball meltdown. They could have joined in & gotten great PR, but their only value is domination; to them it's their job. Grown men with guns should be *ashamed* of being such crybullies! It's shameful!

Loser shit

Jessica Tisch:

What stands out to me is treating productive capacity as a political variable(!)

Moving from 500 to 1,400 shovelers at $30/hr is a real foray into capacity expansion organized around a clear public standard, instead of letting the “how do we pay for it?” frame set the ceiling in advance.

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Milkshake puck

JKR