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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 19m

I should probably qualify this. I don't think everyone who voted for Republicans is a racist. There's a ton of misinformation out there. But anyone who works in politics and is a Republican is 100% a racist.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 26m

Thinking all Republicans are racist has long been a go-to example of woke overreach for opinion columnists. Unfortunately, it also happens to be entirely correct.

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 19m

I should probably qualify this. I don't think everyone who voted for Republicans is a racist. There's a ton of misinformation out there. But anyone who works in politics and is a Republican is 100% a racist.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 26m

Thinking all Republicans are racist has long been a go-to example of woke overreach for opinion columnists. Unfortunately, it also happens to be entirely correct.

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 43m

Local NJ media not impressed by Booker's nonsensical non answers and whataboutism on Israel-Palestine

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 47m

It won the subject line in today’s newsletter from down-the-middle New Jersey monitor. Doubt he’ll comment further. His answer to any question of consequence is always “I’m too busy doing THE WORK to answer that” and meanwhile “the work“ seems to be just going on IG live saying he’s doing the work.

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Cory Booker: The hosts of podcast I've Had It grilled Sen. Cory Booker over his support of Israel during the war in Gaza and found something that personally irks myself and many other members of the press:
Some politicians refuse to answer a yes-or-no question, and with Booker there's a particular way he refuses to answer a straight question that frustrates. Here's the first part of that exchange:
Jennifer Welch (host): "Do you think he's a war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu? Do you think he's a war criminal?"
Booker: "I, again, these are questions that a lot of people think are the important litmus tests that are loaded and hot. My urgency is to be an effective leader in bringing an end to this crisis. And I get these questions all the time that, to me, undermine my urgency."

It undermines his urgency, ladies!!! Welch then expressed frustration that the Democratic Party's leaders don't answer yes-or-no questions, even on that particularly loaded topic. Booker interrupted her to say this: "Here's the yes-or-no that you want. Do I think Netanyahu's worse than Trump? Yes." You should listen to the whole segment. I look forward to the next time Booker gives a reporter from New Jersey 40 minutes of his time (lol).

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 10h

It's interesting to watch right after Take Shelter, which is also a film that seems in love with and horrified by a certain type of masculinity as it relates to resource extraction (the main character works for a sand mining company).

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1h

So many good lines!

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1h

I love the line about bullets as death seeds. "You plant them, and watch something die."

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, wow. Did not know about this.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 10h

Glad I included Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) in Ecocinema. I assigned it because I thought students would like it, but now I'm also reminded it's a fascinating depiction of petromasculinity, which it both reviles and adores. Hoping it'll set up the later session on petrocultures well.

The Bullet Farmer from Mad Max, wearing a ridiculous wig made out of high caliber bullets.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h

I wish everyone talked to all of them like this all the time

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 10h

Time does go by fast!

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 10h

It's interesting to watch right after Take Shelter, which is also a film that seems in love with and horrified by a certain type of masculinity as it relates to resource extraction (the main character works for a sand mining company).

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 10h

Glad I included Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) in Ecocinema. I assigned it because I thought students would like it, but now I'm also reminded it's a fascinating depiction of petromasculinity, which it both reviles and adores. Hoping it'll set up the later session on petrocultures well.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 16h

Mine, but for film (stolen from Walter Benjamin): The experience of laughing, crying, or screaming with an audience full of strangers is a model form of solidarity. We just need to be sure we're laughing at rich people being beaten/humiliated; screaming at their horrors; and crying at their triumphs

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 15h

Obviously this is a bit of an oversimplification. Fascism, for instance, often asks us to mock rich people for being effete, globalists (i.e. gay Jews).

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 16h

Mine, but for film (stolen from Walter Benjamin): The experience of laughing, crying, or screaming with an audience full of strangers is a model form of solidarity. We just need to be sure we're laughing at rich people being beaten/humiliated; screaming at their horrors; and crying at their triumphs

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 22h

The DSCC is excited to announce its new lineup of candidates!

Dust with a smily face from Dracula: Dead and Loving It

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h

"The case is proceeding."

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says the US-backed agreement to end Israel's war on Gaza will have no bearing on his country’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/xhyzpq

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 21h

“It’s a crisis that there are liberals on campuses that don’t want to be friends with conservatives.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 22h

Fun fact: Cuba has free trans healthcare, including surgeries, for 17 years now.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 22h

The DSCC is excited to announce its new lineup of candidates!

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1d

Today is In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000) day in Intro to Film. One of the great pleasures of teaching this class is introducing it to students year after year.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 1d

Q for the sci-fi fans - what would say are the biggest Malthusian-themed mid-20thc works (e.g. on overpopulation). As non-fan I’d default to Logan’s Run & Soylent Green but sure I’m missing good stuff. Pref film but books OK (both =perfect). 1945-1980. #HistSTM

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