Ben

Mama always said Twitter's like a box of chocolates: you never know whatcha gonna get.

Ukraine has a right to exist

[Ben @BeckstromBen]

@Ukraine @Russia 2017: the year trolling became a geopolitical tactic.

[Ben @BeckstromBen]

@dan_gaffa @reschultzed I think after current house member it should go through state constitutional officers in seniority in order of the state’s acceptance into the Union and then after former it should be territorial officers

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

As our nation celebrates #Juneteenth, we remember and honor the end of slavery as well as when General Gordon Granger and his soldiers arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865, to deliver the good news of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. 

I was proud to work with the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee to pass a bill establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday so that all Americans can join Texans in marking this day, which has been observed as a state holiday in the Lone Star State for nearly 50 years.

[Seattle Police Department @SeattlePD]

The 99 NB tunnel is blocked because a driver flipped their Prius. Find alternate routes.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

“i don’t know why the president of the united states behaves like this towards his allies: it is not the first time. i can only say it is disappointing that he does not show the same determination with the enemies of the west and of the united states, whose leaders he instead treats with far greater indulgence.”

- italy pm georgia meloni, saying publicly what most us allies are saying privately

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

netanyahu losing his election because of trump’s iran deal would be the biggest favor the united states could do for israel.

[QuoProQuid @TNOQuoProQuid]

very typical that the woke, liberal media won’t give our president credit for filling the reflecting pool with delicious, refreshing Mountain Dew

[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

“Questions of just how much reading and writing students actually do, which had hardly come up during my time in Gainesville, are uncomfortable, but they concern the essence of education.”

Ann Manov on civic centers and the future of the liberal arts.

https://t.co/3aGdPPNQhw

[Isaac Chotiner @IChotiner]

New Interview: https://t.co/q70izhbZSj

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Unless you're an brain-wormed partisan, "Iran is an evil regime," "this preventive war was stupid and should never have been launched," and "this peace deal is a US humiliation" are three perfectly true things you should be able to believe at the same time.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

he knew that Palpatine was the Sith Lord but didn’t say anything out of respect for the office and separation of powers

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Bob Odenkirk has returned as Saul Goodman in a new video celebrating 250 years of America.

[Ben @BeckstromBen]

@Plough @fxxfy Brandon Sanderson obviously

[Ben @BeckstromBen]

@theaveragef2p Born in the Caul Saul

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

It’s very funny that Hegseth spends 100 percent of his time talking about how masculine and traditional and warrior are ethos he made the military, then his band of Real Men just speed ran a nearly unprecedented military failure

[Miles Greb @Goldrushcomic]

My favorite onion story.

[Haydn Belfield @HaydnBelfield]

The 1860s was the 'Decade of Blood and Iron' in which seven massive unification wars reshaped the state system completely:
- India (Mutiny, from Company-State to Raj)
- Germany (Bismarck's wars)
- Argentina (War of the Triple Alliance)
- Japan (Meiji Restoration)
- Italy (Risorgimento)
- USA (US civil war)
- China (Taiping Rebellion - the great de-unification war)