Benjamin T. Wiesinge

A passionate foodie who loves experimenting, an immigrant advocate and civil rights attorney, devoted husband and father.

[Mat Ishbia @Mishbia15]

Losing is never easy, but I feel really good today about our team and am already thinking about where we go from here. I’m so proud of this season and want to thank every single person who made this year possible. First, thank you to the fans who supported our team every single day... and the players, coaches, front office, and entire organization who worked so hard to give our community a team to be proud of. So many fans have told me how much they loved cheering on this team and were proud of how we competed for 48 minutes every game. This season introduced a new era of @Suns basketball and we have a lot more work to do, which I am truly excited about, and we are just getting started!

[Mat Ishbia @Mishbia15]

I am 100% behind Devin Booker here. Last night was not a good look for our league. Let me be clear, we didn’t lose because of officiating, but that doesn’t make last night any less important. If the referees are going to demand respect from the players - as they should - then the players should demand respect from the referees. When a referee is missing calls and clearly disrespecting the players, almost mocking them, they must be held accountable. Nobody who loves this game enjoyed watching that last night. They want to see the players compete at the highest level. The league needs be far more aggressive about this kind of thing. All players and all fans deserve it.

[Benjamin T. Wiesinge @BenWiesinger]

@brahmresnik Let me know if she needs an attorney

[Benjamin T. Wiesinge @BenWiesinger]

What could possibly go wrong??? Kudos to NYT for calling it out, but it sounds like Michigan is digging its rightous heels in even further...

The University of Michigan Doubled Down on D.E.I. What Went Wrong? https://t.co/VGLHCbtBc3

[Thomas Horrocks @thomaslhorrocks]

In light of Louisiana’s recent decision to require that the 10 commandments be posted in every public classroom, I’m reminded of this astute observation from Kurt Vonnegut.

[Kiefer Sutherland @RealKiefer]

With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.

[SportsGrid @SportsGrid]

@Dbacks 🐝🐝🐝

[David Karim @davidkarim]

This is what I think about the Dolphins game being televised exclusively on Peacock. #MIAvsKC

[PHNX Sports @PHNX_Sports]

Tonight’s most valuable player for the Lakers:

[Benjamin T. Wiesinge @BenWiesinger]

#nba ref Tom Washington is on the take.

[Benjamin T. Wiesinge @BenWiesinger]

@MoGoldman Some people call him the Space Cowboy…

[Benjamin T. Wiesinge @BenWiesinger]

Yes! And it’s awesome!

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

Offensive?

[Benjamin T. Wiesinge @BenWiesinger]

@AndrewLeezus Our bench is better than I thought and they still haven’t played enough together to solidify the rotations. We will be scary good at the end of the season if everyone stays healthy!

[Benjamin T. Wiesinge @BenWiesinger]

A must read! People please educate yourselves about history!

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

Why are there even places called “refugee camps” in Gaza? And why are two thirds of the people living in Gaza, who were born there and lived there their entire lives, called “refugees” from a war that ended more than seven decades ago? The answers to these question unlock the core of the conflict. Here they are (Part 1; Part 2 in the first comment):

1.The 20th century has been marked by a transition from empires to states. We begin the 20th century when much of the world is divided between empires. We end it when much of the world is divided between states. When lucky, those states were based on the self determination of a people who share a common history, language, ethnicity, background religion and connection to a territory. (Zionism emerged in this context based on the idea of self determination for the Jewish people in the only territory to which they were ever connected as a people). When unlucky those new states were artificially created by receding empires drawing boundaries, forcing different peoples to share one state, leading almost always to civil war, dictatorship, or both. This transition has been bloody. It involved two world wars and numerous regional and civil wars. In the bloody process of empires receding and new states emerging to replace them, tens of millions of people were displaced, fleeing across newly created borders, typically to new countries with an ethnic makeup similar to their own. This was true of Hindus and Muslim, Ukrainians, Poles and Germans, Bulgarians, Greeks and Turks and Arabs and Jews. This was not unique.

2.What was unique is that one group only of refugees from that time and those wars were allowed to maintain themselves as endless refugees in anticipation of one day winning a war they had lost. Those were the Arab refugees from the war of 1948, later to be known as Palestinians. All other refugee groups, except the Palestinians, were presented with a clear message: “it’s tough, it’s tragic, move on”. There was a clear understanding that in the most fundamental sense there is no going back - not in place and not in time (thus, there was no such thing as “a right of return”). To seek to go back would mean endless war. And so the message was forward looking and future facing. Tens of millions of refugees and displaced persons, among them millions of Jews, would build new lives in the new countries to which they fled.

3.Except Palestinians. The war that the Arabs of the land and the surrounding countries waged to prevent a Jewish state from emerging and gaining independence failed to achieve its goals. Despite the violent onslaught of 1947-49, Israel emerged as a sovereign state. But the Arabs of the land, sustained by broader Arab support, refused to accept this outcome. They proceeded to undo it through a variety of means, including repeated wars, economic boycotts, international condemnations and a complete refusal of the refugees themselves to be settled, as it would effectively mean accepting that the war was over.

https://t.co/NY8E4ecoBH that end of keeping the war of 1948 alive until its goal of undoing the Jewish state could be achieved, a temporary agency established to resettle the refugees - UNRWA (initially called REWA, but the Arabs insisted on the letters UN so that it would appear to enjoy international legitimacy) - was hijacked by the Arab refugees. As a result of this hijacking UNRWA effectively became a Palestinian entity devoted singularly to sustaining and stoking the idea that uniquely among the world’s refugees, Palestinians don’t need to move on and can keep insisting on “return”, both in space and in time, to a time when there was no Israel. UNRWA thus became the mechanism by which the Jewish people alone were denied the right to to consider their hard won self-determination and sovereign statehood as a done deal.

(Part 2 continues in the first comment:)

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

Shut it down. Yes we can. The FBI has a ~35,842 person staff. 56% of the bureau that are professional bureaucrats should be fired immediately. Just 44% of FBI employees are special agents & intelligence analysts—these 15,770 specialists should be reassigned to serve under the narrow focus of other federal law enforcement agencies doing the same specialist work.

Reassignments:

US Marshals Service (821 specialists/analysts transferred)
- Crimes against children

Department of Commerce
- Cyber crime > Bureau of Industry and Security (1860 specialists/analysts transferred)

Department of Defense
- Counter-intelligence > Defense Intelligence Agency (4,159 specialists/analysts transferred)

Department of Homeland Security (4,663 specialists/analysts transferred)
- National Security
- Terrorism

US Secret Service (856 specialists/analysts transferred)
- Political corruption

Department of Justice, within a specialized sub-agency rather than a sprawling investigative bureaucracy (2,555 specialists/analysts transferred)
- Civil rights
- Organized crime
- Violent crime
- Science & Technology, including crime laboratory analysis across agencies

Department of the Treasury
- White collar crime > Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (856 specialists/analysts transferred)

[Benjamin T. Wiesinge @BenWiesinger]

Slow down, Mike! 🤣😎

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

This Bobby Knight story about coaching Michael Jordan in the 1984 Olympics is fantastic. RIP Coach Knight:

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

The Cool Runnings cast 30 years later. A tremendously underrated movie.

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it’s bobsled time!

[Mat Ishbia @Mishbia15]

Had an awesome time Saturday night at our @Suns home opener! It was a great win by our team and we had an amazing crowd cheering them on. Over 60 former players came back to Phoenix to enjoy the game as well, including 14 of our 15 Ring of Honor members. In order to have a bright future we have to honor and celebrate our past, and Saturday was a great start in doing this in Phoenix.

[Gal Gadot @GalGadot]

at this moment there hundreds of kidnapped or missing innocent Israelis.
I am using my platform to share their names. their faces, their information.
please share their photos, share the stories.
And help us scream to the world, Hamas #BringThemBack!

if you have any information or if your loved one is missing please contact us
https://t.co/82PiL5CV1n