Elon Musk Didnโt Blow Up Washington, but He Left Plenty of Damage Behind
The obits for the tech mogulโs time at the Department of Government Efficiency are, justifiably, vicious.
A toxic combination of entitlement & ignorance, vastly overstated claims, and a move-fast-and-break-things ethos whose wreckage will take years to fully assess.
Poll: Which drug-addled billionaire is this talking about?
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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#resistance
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Ann Telnaes, who quit The Washington Post in protest, wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary.
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Congratulations @anntelnaes.bsky.social
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I made todayโs Bongo! Proceed with abandon. Or snacks.
Bongo is a new game from Puzzmo where your job is to fill up a 5x5 board with these letters and try to get the high score.
Give it a go and let me know how you do! ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐ฅ
www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-... @puzzmo.com @sethgodin.bsky.social
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๐ Join @therichbenjamin.bsky.social (author of TALK TO ME) and Andrรฉ Aciman for an evening of literary conversation on capturing history through personal narrative.
๐๏ธ May 7 | 6:30 PM
๐ McNally Jackson Seaport
๐๏ธ RSVP: mcnallyjackson.com/seaport-events
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Thank you Kelly ๐ฅ๐๐พ๐
29.03.2025 22:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Teresa is a retired labor organizer in LA. I hope she likes my grandfatherโs story.
#AWP25 Conference and Bookfair! 10,000 writers, writing professors, readers, editors, and publishers. 600 Exhibitors and Book Booths.
#AWPwriter #memoir #books
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Thank you, Patrick!
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Tnank you Mike! ๐๐พ๐
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Thank you, @iriemoe55.bsky.social ๐๐พ๐๐พ
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Thank you so much. I love your handle name. ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐
27.02.2025 14:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I just finished #Talktome, reposting for later.
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Thank you Shaunessy
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A Family Forged By Haiti's Coup : Fresh Air
Rich Benjamin's grandfather, Daniel Fignolรฉ, was a popular Haitian labor leader who became Haiti's president in 1957. After just 19 days in office, he was overthrown by a military coup, and was sent t...
Iโm in Book Worm heaven. It was such a thrill to talk TALK TO ME with Terry Gross on โFresh Airโ. Sheโs a phenemnal interviewer, conversationlist, host. Toughest, most intimate interview Iโve ever done. Thank you @nprfreshair.bsky.social
#books #memoir #writing
www.npr.org/2025/02/20/1...
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Thank you Brian!
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TONIGHT at 7pm ET: @therichbenjamin.bsky.social and Jason Stanley.
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Thank you, Kate! I hope you enjoy. To parents, including Joe and Kit. ๐ฅ๐๐พ
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Thank you, Matt. Hope you enjoy.
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Join @therichbenjamin.bsky.social on tour for his new book, TALK TO ME! ๐๐
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To me, a book event is like a lovely dinner partyโamong friends & strangers. I canโt think of a better group to include at a dinner party w/ you. I'd be so thrilled if you visited one of these book events. Thank you @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
#books #author #memoir
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โจBook Tourโจ
To me, a book event is like a lovely dinner partyโamong friends and strangers. Thank you @pantheonbooks.bsky.social for organizing this circle of gatherings.
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๐๐พ Thank you, Amy
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Germans are intelligent, honest and national socialists. Too bad they are never all three of those things at the same time. ๐คญ
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Are we getting free eggs and $1 a gallon gas in Whitopia before or after a new, bigly, better, cheaper health care plan?
On a serious note, this book by @therichbenjamin.bsky.social is worth your time.
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i was wondering myself
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Michael Conditt. The Unabomber. Timothy McVeigh. Kyle Rittenhouse. Mansion. Meanwhile, Jordan Neeley, struggling with his mental health, was killed in a chokehold. The country doesnt give a shit who he really was.
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Mayor-Elect of New York City
New York Times features writer, https://emmagoldberg.work/
Author of LIFE ON DELAY | Contributing Writer at The Atlantic | Working on a doc! | johnhendrickson.org
Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourselfโฆ Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
Department Chair of Integrated Studies; Writing and Rhetoric, American Lit; Higher-Ed Pedagogy; OER advocate
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / ็คพไผ็งๅญฆ
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Writer, community college writing teacher, obsessed with AI in education, #OER advocate, author of HowArgumentsWork.org.
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Writer and environmentalist. Find me on Medium: https://medium.com/@johnpearce650
Author of:
"The Little Green Book - A Guide to the Green Revolution"
โGaia โ A Faith for the Futureโ
โThe Medium Story โ The Ultimate Guide to Medium"
Writer, Blue Check X-pat, moderate Ex-Republican, ex-corporate leader, defender of Democracy. See charlespattonbooks.com for thoughtful books.
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son/caregiver, EFL author, occasional artist, advocate for democracy and the rule of law - EN|DE|FR
Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. ๐ก๐ก๐ฎโจ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst ๐ธ๐ค
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Writer; dean of faculty @GothamWriters. she/her I live in NYC but still say gapers' block.