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benjamenwalker.bsky.social
@benjamenwalker.bsky.social
Podcast maker/ http://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/propaganda/ /theoryofeverythingpodcast.com
/radiotopia.fm Audio fiction author http://adbl.co/Convolution
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Last night the kid read me the story of Unus from his Marvel Masterworks book and then I read AB #14! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Russia / America / Just the beginning...
www.youtube.com/shorts/6J1eM...
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Two books I devoured this weekend. Paired together they illuminate the close knit relationship that has always existed between the Post WWII Security State and the 'Free' Press
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
www.amazon.com/Challenging-...
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I am a pretty cynical human, it’s rare that you can say something about the US that I think is too harsh, but the claim that the vast majority of Americans would agree with Alan Dershowitz is where I draw the line
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Tucker back in his Twin Peaks era?
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
@bethmacy.bsky.social Started reading Paper girl this morning while the kid was at music class (enraptured), came home and learned you are running for office! Amazing!
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Vance knows he has never ever ever been looked at like this
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Press play was so fun last year and this one looks amazing too @pioneerwork.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/programs/pre... this session though feels like a dare rather than an invitation!!
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
yikes
November 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Boss AI
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
whats up with the Red Room photo?
Writer Michael Wolff was an unexpected star in Congress’s document dump—appearing to serve as a kind of unofficial consigliere to Jeffrey Epstein on.wsj.com/4oTfQvB
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
this article is training AI video software on how to generate authentic looking wind swept hair. I don't think it does anything else.
Olivia Nuzzi's memoir is a combustive portrait of America, President Trump and the scandal with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that upended her career.

In an exclusive interview with The New York Times, she recalls the infatuation that consumed her, Kennedy’s use of psychedelics and much more.
Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
yesterday I read an issue of @lrb.co.uk from the summer that I still hadn't opened... and this happened:
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I decided that the only comment I would make to parents at drop off is an enthusiastic "AFRICANA STUDIES MAJOR!!!"
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I think I know the guy who voted for Adams!
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I <3 my city!
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
tonight! I will be introducing the First US screening for over six decades of Kenneth Tynan’s We Dissent.

WHEN: Tuesday 21 October 2025, 7pm
WHERE: Various/Artists, 19 Essex Street (between Canal Street & Hester Street).
Free, drinks, open to all, no booking needed
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Iwent on the excellent Years of Lead podcast to talk about all this. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
Fascist Hobbits? A conversation with Hari Kunzru
Podcast Episode · Years of Lead Pod · 02/29/2024 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
this is an incredible FOIA request
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Come this Thursday!
as.nyu.edu/departments/...
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM