Ben Samuels

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan

join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice

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I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

Sonny leaving the pitch after his last game for Spurs 🤍🤍

a man holds a flag in front of a banner that says to dare is to d Alt: Sonny scoring his wonder goal against Burnley - runs the length of the pitch with the ball, beats 9 defenders, scores.

Possibly my all-time favourite athlete across all genres and disciplines. He always seemed to play like he couldn't quite believe his luck - like this all might be a dream and his best tactic to stave off waking - was joy.

Flaco Jimenez, Texas accordionist who expanded popularity of conjunto and Tejano music, dies at 86 | CNN Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of conjunto, Tejano and Tex-Mex music, died Thursday. He was 86.

Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of conjunto, Tejano and Tex-Mex music, died Thursday. He was 86.

A Brazilian woman with long curly hair, wearing a long green dress, walks across a small stage. Behind her is a projection of a palm frond, and faintly visible in the projection is the white outline of another woman.

Amazons - written and performed by Gaël Le Cornec, directed by Uncle Ben of @limbiktheatre.bsky.social. Second Preview tonight! @summerhallarts.bsky.social @edfringe.bsky.social

I know it’s not the inner American in me because American values are much more around how massacres are okay when you have any justification no matter how concocted or weak. I think it’s gotta be more a belief that we as Jews just don’t do this. It is flatly unacceptable to me as a Jew.

AMERICANS ALL IMMIGRANTS ALL SAY! CAN YOU SEE BY THE DAWNS EARLY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFICE OF EDUCATION

t2 US Department of the Interior reposted Secretary Doug Burgum ... • 7/17/25 • • • Spent the day on Alcatraz Island, a @NatlParkService site, to start the work to renovate and reopen the site to house the most dangerous criminals and illegals. This administration is restoring safety, justice, and order to our streets. @Interior & @TheJusticeDept are following Show more 1.2K 17 2.3K 8.7K Ill 196K

Left: US Department of the Interior, 1939
Right US Department of the Interior, 2025

Tom Lehrer, Musical Hero gave away his songs before he passed. Even more reasons to love this man.

"All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been permanently and irrevocably relinquished, and therefore such songs are now in the public domain. " tomlehrersongs.com

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

to Jews, on the Gaza famine an open letter: we have been commanded

I just sent this out.

The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.

It is a choice not to heed them.

Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

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People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

En route to Norwich with a bunch of gear and a gammy knee.

Book cover for "You dreamed of Empires" by Álvaro Enrique, it's hallucinogenic green with a whirling blue strip, out of which a horse emerges

Holy shit this was amazing!

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Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times

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Fascism for dummies

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

Hi guys. I have just been handed official Alligator Alcatraz merch. I repeat, this prison has merch. Things are going insanely well.

Nazi officers and auxiliaries at Solahütte.

Same energy.

86 fucking years old.

Many years later, as he faced the editorial board, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani was to remember that distant afternoon when his father told him to abolish ICE