Benjamin McKean

Committed the most grievous Columbus faux pas imaginable and accidentally cut in front of Hanif Abdurraqib in the merch line at tonight’s USNWT soccer game

It's absurd and comic also also simply nauseating how thoughtlessly Rep. Landsman advocates for the deaths of human beings here. It's not like Chotiner is asking him tough questions; Landsman is just stepping in rakes from the start.

So glad that the US Congress thoroughly considered and publicly debated the costs of this war before voting to authorize it.

This is good to see, though it’s hard not to notice that the signees are almost all (a) retired (b) in the pros or (c) in the Ivy League. I assume someone like Ryan Day would sooner claim he can’t read than sign or comment on this letter.

Ohio’s congressional delegation is such a clown car, good lord

Cambridge is leaving X. Our policy order to take the city off the platform passed unanimously Monday night. Yesterday morning, the city posted a final farewell message—and then went dark.

Thread below on how we got here and what we do next

They won't call this murder, but it's murder

J-HARDEN Photo of James Harden holding up a glass of red wine BOTTLE SIGNING WITH JAMES HARDEN Friday, March 6th Speedway 880N Rocky Road Drive, Berea, OH 44017 James Harden Will Only Be Signing Bottles of J-Harden Wines

As someone who grew up in Los Angeles and also had to move to Ohio for work, I have never sympathized with James Harden more

Attacking a ship and killing 87 people based on what flag it's waving and not for any strategic or mission-related objective is pretty cut and dried

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, ap...

The existence of ICE is incompatible with a free society

The betrayal of his family’s legacy is now complete lol

Even putting aside the implications for the laws of war, someone who describes mass killing in this way is not well, nor is the society that empowers that person to kill.

Sorry, holding onto my copy of this in the face of exorbitant offers is the closest I will ever come to being one of those millionaires who turns down a super billionaire’s ridiculous overbid to buy my beachfront property in Miami

“even a fun accent in reptile enclosures”

The existence of this class of billionaires is plainly incompatible with the survival of the rest of us. They don’t care about climate change because buying homes worth hundreds of millions that will be underwater in a few decades is “just a rounding error” to them. That’s what our lives are to them

Ulysses Jenkins, Los Angeles artist and pioneer of Black experimental video, dies at 79 Ulysses Jenkins, the L.A.-born artist who pioneered Black experimental video, has died at 79: 'A true video griot whose work and spirit touched many.'

Ulysses Jenkins, Los Angeles artist and pioneer of Black experimental video, dies at 79

An immense loss: Ulysses Jenkins has passed away. He was one of the great video artists. TWO ZONE-TRANSFER, for instance, is a phenomenal sublimation of the minstrel into the soulful. Many of his films were on @criterionchannl.bsky.social (I hope they're added back soon).

Great, deleted my post so you don’t get superfluous inquiries

I hope the Teamsters’ endorsement of this fraud at least got them an invitation to her illegal birthday party

Authoritarians of all stripes hate and fear human pluralism and diversity

This is it exactly. As @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social and I wrote in a piece out today--even as these states deny the existence of trans identity, they build administrative systems to track us-- an expanding architecture of surveillance and control. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl...

Anti-trans hostility to people making the simple request that they be called the name they prefer to be called is such a huge tell as to the indecency of their project.

Ohio State faculty excellence initiative launches with appointment of chief judge The Ohio State University announced today that it is appointing a chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals and one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars to the Moritz College of Law, kickin...

I see Ohio State is continuing to cater to the reactionaries in the legislature, now touting the hiring of a retiring judge who’s ruled against gay marriage and trans rights as its new exemplar of “faculty excellence”

Have these been claimed yet? Happy to boost and circulate if not

“Those selected for interviews will meet with a 2025 Liberty graduate working as a Policy Advisor as well as ‘the White House Liaison Office.’ Interviews ‘will be a combination of traditional and political questions (i.e., did you vote for Trump? Do you disagree with the President on anything?)’”

Necessary for mass advertising. Connects to my theory that per-click ads wrecked society by diving ad costs to basically zero

If a union won't provide good working conditions for its own staff, it can't be trusted to fight for the working conditions of its members. I support the WGSU strike just as much as I supported the WGA one.

Epstein Island drawing inspiration from Easton is too on the nose.

Fighting back works. Please take notes university leaders.