Benjamin Cossel

Three Reasons You Should Collect Vinyl Records And Sound Quality isn’t one of them!

Three Reasons You Should Collect Vinyl Records
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No, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are not cool The manosphere doesn’t care about your ideals

Lets not try to redefine “cool” but rather strive to give young people as “worthy” of virtues.

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The Right Builds Power. The Left Hosts Rallies. That's Why We Lose. Lessons from a Former Bernie Organizer and AOC Staffer

We must build an alternative political infrastructure.

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we have never been human Multi-Species Agreement

The solution isn't to "protect nature" - we are nature. The path forward requires recognizing ourselves as one species among many in Earth's living systems. Not superior, not separate, but intricately connected through every breath, every bite of food, every drop of water.

We Have Never Been Human

Collapse Awareness is Just the Beginning: How to Adapt and Live Well Inside It We know the world is changing fast.

In uncertain times, we must learn to take action. Hope is not a strategy but neither is despair.

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The Middle Class Is A Myth It literally doesn't exist anymore

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I want to believe this is a sign your calls are working.

Please continue to call Congress and share what you know.

You know things Congress doesn’t.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the billionaires. How to resolve wealth inequality before it destroys us all.

That’s me in the corner… thats me saying the same thing I’ve been saying for years.

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Democrats Can’t Stop Trump—Because They Don’t Really Want To The Quiet Consensus Destroying America

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How Seriously Should We Take the Sale of Federal Lands? Very Seriously, Experts Say There is a major push within the second Trump administration, Congress, and certain Western states to dispose of federal public land. It's a real threat.

This has been the plan all along.

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Garry Kasparov is right, I’m afraid: they are breaking everything so quickly even though it’s unpopular, because they never expect to face real elections again.

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People think Trump wants martial law? Ok, "Challenge Accepted." As always, my admonition is this - "Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens."

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Engineered Collapse of the Middle Class The Elites are doing a smash and grab

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Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong. Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.

Oh shit. I have often beat my hed against the wall trying to make square what the government numbers were saying vs. my lived experience. This makes so much sense. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

One of the gravest mistakes we humans made is thinking we were above something we've always been a part of.

Hey California, maybe take a look at this...

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

U.S. Forest Service will fire roughly 3,400 federal employees.

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

They told us this was coming....

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Homesteading with a Planet on Fire The role of hobby farming in a greater agricultural context

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You Will Never Be a Billionaire You Stupid Fuck Show some fucking class.

Absolutely everything about THIS.

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Uninsurable Futures Adapting to a constrained American dream.

To deny the reality of the climate catastrophe we’re in is to doom us to the path of assured destruction.

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The GOP’s 60-Year Conspiracy to Kill Our Democracy: None Dare Call It Treason—But I Will It all traces back to billionaire-backed fearmongering in the 1960s—weaponizing panic around socialism and communism to crush unions, cut taxes, and hoard profits...

Worth reading and considering - the seeds of this rotten fruit we currently call a government were planted many seasons ago.

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Elon Musk’s Revolutionary Terror The evisceration of U.S.A.I.D. isn’t a policy fight—it’s an execution designed to strike fear in our own government.

This column is @sbg1.bsky.social at her best. Come for the comparison to America's shambolic takeover of the Iraqi government. Stay for her scooplets on what's going on inside DOJ. She's a clarion voice right now. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

I think too many of us discount the number of German citizens that remained loyal to the ideas of the Nazi party even after the end of WWII ... If anyone thinks your fellow countryman is suddenly going to come around, you're in for a rude awakening.

Elon Musk Demands Firing of ‘Disgusting and Cruel’ WSJ Reporter Who Uncovered DOGE Employee’s Racist Tweets Elon Musk suggested that The Wall Street Journal reporter responsible for uncovering a DOGE employee's racist tweets should be fired on Friday.

Still in denial that was a Sieg Heil?

If you still think the GOP will never destroy Social Security and Medicare, Roe v Wade would like a word.

Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.

One thing I've learned from studying social justice movements is that much of the work is dull, and requires patience and discomfort. There is little glory and often zero timely or visible payback.

I hope folks are clear-eyed about this.