Ben

he/him Hurry! The pain only stops if we close Twitter! There isn’t a second to lose!

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

computer, enhance

[Ben @BenEllmann]

@WSJ God I love how terrified Republicans are of Graham Platner 😂

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Between this and USAID, Elon has done more damage and caused more death than the vast majority history’s worst dictators

[iza @izamamaa]

Wasn’t her husband assassinated in broad daylight here in the U.S. while Trump was president?

[iza @izamamaa]

22 years ago, Pepsi dropped its legendary Gladiator commercial starring Britney Spears, Beyoncé, and P!nk (with Enrique Iglesias as emperor).

[iza @izamamaa]

Mamdani closed a $12B deficit in 132 days, fixed 100K+ potholes, protected gig workers, fined corrupt landlords millions, raised snow workers’ pay to $30/hr and drove violent crime to historic lows.

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

Reminder that 80% of the American workforce is considered "unskilled labor." This common misconception is used to pay workers poverty wages without basic benefits and protections. https://t.co/YEORELmjDr

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New York City just had its safest first 5 months of a year in recorded history.

Murders plunged 21%, and major crime overall is down 11%.

[Jack Cocchiarella 🌹 @JDCocchiarella]

Xavier Becerra truly is just a trench coat full of corporations

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “Xavier Becerra’s a machine politician, I will not vote for him, he’s fucking bullshit. He has been getting hundreds of millions of dollars from every single corporation. People will be like Tom Steyer made his money off this or that. Bitch, all of those companies are spending tens of millions against Tom Steyer right now, what the fuck are you talking about?“

[Ben @BenEllmann]

@ChrisCadence_ This is satire, right? It's a belated April fools joke?

What about policy? 😂 What about taxing the Epstein class? What about the big picture? How are we gonna do that without a Dem senator from Maine? How can kneecapping MAGA be pro-MAGA??

Please make it make sense 😭

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Apparently Harvard is great for their kids but it’s too woke for your kids

[jønny @jonnycollage]

This is what the "creative and artistic vision" of conservativism looks like.

[Ben @BenEllmann]

@doescomputing @mattvanswol @davidhogg111 "The ability to absorb and understand information about the world is inherently unkind" is a fascinating line of defense 🔬🧐

[Ben @BenEllmann]

@doescomputing @mattvanswol @davidhogg111 Kindness is a social contract. If you *violate* the terms of the contract, *it doesn't cover you.*

I promise it won't take you much googling to discover examples of Miller *violating the contract* with policies and rhetoric.

Take your time. I know you can put it together. ❤️

[Ben @BenEllmann]

@poetrypainter @RealLiberalDA @Orig1NewTChalla @esjesjesj There are many ways to violate the social contract

Kirk may or may not have been a pedo, but his bigoted rhetoric was certainly fascist-adjacent

Political violence is uncivilized. Also, Kirk deserves to be made fun of forever for his outspoken political beliefs

Both are true.

[Ben @BenEllmann]

@mattvanswol @davidhogg111 This isn't a gotcha.

"Kindness" is a social contract. If you violate the terms of the contract, it doesn't cover you.

Miller violated the contract, so he deserves to be called an ugly fuck.

Also, he is objectively ugly.

Hope this helps!

[Ben @BenEllmann]

@poetrypainter @Orig1NewTChalla @esjesjesj Trump campaigned on releasing the files, then *sat on them* until Congress compelled the release.

Except he *still hasn't released them*, not to the degree that the Epstein Files Transparency Act mandates, because they show he raped and murdered children.

So that's his fault.

[Ben @BenEllmann]

@poetrypainter @Orig1NewTChalla @esjesjesj Biden could not unilaterally release the files because that would have violated standing federal privacy laws/DOJ protocols

Trump signed the release bc a nearly unanimous Congress passed a law, legally stripping the DOJ of its ability to keep the 3.5 million pages hidden

[Ben @BenEllmann]

@poetrypainter @Orig1NewTChalla @esjesjesj The government was *already actively investigating it* during those years, so our cares were already being addressed

But then Trump immediately *ended that investigation* when he resumed office, so we started talking about it again.

Aren't you curious about why Trump did that?