benden

he/him. national high speed railway advocate.

[benden @OGWalrusJohnson]

9-6-16 ❤️

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Ridiculous headline from @nytimes about a U.S. Congressman getting detained by ARMED Israeli militants.

The subhead sounds like they’re criticizing him for being there instead of the illegal OCCUPIERS.

[benden @OGWalrusJohnson]

“Women on the left make me think about the role the U.S. plays in the world rather than singing and dancing to make me feel better about myself”

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Happy 250th birthday to the best country on earth! I was reading a book the other day and was struck by this paragraph. I don’t know who the author was but I thought it was brilliant and perfectly said…🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[onion person @CantEverDie]

we're genuinely 10 years into the donald trump era and people are still trying to do the "erm did you see the tweets" type politics. this just doesn't work

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Pretty revealing that what galvanized “centrist” Dems was losing to a couple DSA candidates not for example, losing to a bunch of corrupt fascists who want to end Democracy.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

What happened to strongly worded letters?

[Taniel @Taniel]

.@syracusedotcom reports two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday to demand that she take down an Insta post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). https://t.co/WIB1hbqx5W

[Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta]

Crashing out because the weather channel is reporting… the weather…

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

This is insane:
• UofM cracks down on and arrests anti-genocide student protesters
• Ann Arbor prosecutor Eli Savit declines to prosecute
• UofM recruits MI AG and Zionist lunatic Dana Nessel to personally prosecute the case—HIGHLY unusual for such low-level charges
• Nessel forced to drop all charges to preempt court finding her unable to fairly prosecute the case due to her bias against Arabs and Muslims as well as her ties to Zionist extremist groups caught attempting to influence the court
• Nessel (a Democrat!) turns to Trump DoJ and Kash Patel to bring felony conspiracy charges against the students

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Beyond parody.

[benden @OGWalrusJohnson]

At some point the country will have to reckon with the fact that safe neighborhoods and the desire “to be left alone” are largely contradictory in practice. You don’t get to be a recluse and have blind faith in the security of your neighborhood.

[31stCenturyCombat @faithandheresy]

People are trying to gaslight you into thinking that little Hoovervilles full of shotgun shacks are in fact Totally Fine and not a symptom of the US being a backwater banana republic.

[benden @OGWalrusJohnson]

How many times and in different ways are these companies gonna pay celebrities to say “AI is here, get over it” before they realize it is a fundamentally depressing sentiment? “Yeah we know you’ve heard all the downsides but you might as well just take it”

[Variety @Variety]

Dwayne Johnson on AI:

“I’ve always been an advocate for embracing big change—after taking a hard look at it. We can either stick our heads in the sand and be afraid, or we can say, ‘Okay, we’re here. Let’s see. Let’s explore.’"

https://t.co/EfIn65MYWU

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

[benden @OGWalrusJohnson]

Republicans have been calling California commiefornia for decades but the early vote breaks Republican and suddenly the right thinks it’s in play? How do you even move forward as a nation with this whining? He gets to cry and storm off and it’s justified cause CA is going blue??

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WOW -- Trump crashes out and cuts his interview with Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged

"You're either crooked or you're stupid. Let's call it quits. Because I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her."

"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Straight theft. A future administration should claw this back and prosecute everyone involved.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Reporter: “To what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal? [with Iran]”

Trump: “Not even a little bit…. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation”

[Chris Towler @blkprofcct]

The fact that almost EVERY former confederate state is moving to completely eliminate Black representatives almost immediately after the SCOTUS decision should be more than enough proof that voting rights still need protection and racism is far from gone in this country.

[benden @OGWalrusJohnson]

@Mr_Correckt @EmmaVigeland This only works if your playbook is unchanged between seasons. If your argument is that Dems can’t release the autopsy due to them not changing strategy then we have some serious problems on the horizon

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

BRO WHAT JUST HAPPENED