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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3m

Top Hops closing at Essex Market on Monday. Probably a rent issue, but another red flag that craft beer is on the down side of its peak.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 8m

The Tigers' offense is unwatchably bad. Has it been this bad all season?

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 21m

I keep wanting to say Houston, but it’s the people in Texas who don’t pronounce it exactly as it looks.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 57m

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 28m

I'm sorry this is crazy

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 39m

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30m

Am I have a stroke?

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 39m

Complete nonsense from Secretary Rubio.

The Trump administration is engaged in lawless, premeditated killings without any congressional authorization.

Schiff-Kaine resolution moves to stop that lawless killing.

The resolution would not affect authority to defend against real armed attacks.

The Schiff-Kaine resolution is up for a vote in the Senate today.

This resolution aims to strip President Trump of his constitutional authority to protect Americans by authorizing military strikes against narco-terrorists, the Houthis, and other Iranian proxies. This is dangerous — it puts our children, citizens, soldiers, and allies at risk.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 34m

Far too much managing happening the this Tigers/Mariners game right now.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 46m

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Ben Wetzler @voteben.nyc · 51m

Not loving this trend where pop culture that treats racists as villains is considered "too political."
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1h

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 2h

Everything about this homer is incredible. The wind! One foot! Clang.

slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 4h

Aaron Judge on his home run last night, jokingly (after noting the wind):

“I guess a couple ghosts out there helped kind of keep that fair”

Judge’s home run was pushed 1 foot to the right by wind, creating a home run, per Statcast

👻 looking out for the 👨‍⚖️

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 2h

So DoD now has a preferred pronoun equivalent but Sean Duffy is creaming his pants over a rainbow crosswalk being bulldozed. Such stupid times we live in.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 2h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 2h

i'm not sure how you can claim to cover things fairly and fully when you're using the bootleg name that is officially only a "secondary name" for the department

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 2h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 29d

NEW: Nine months ago, Elon Musk's nascent, DOGE effort killed off a beloved pediatric cancer initiative in the govt funding fight. I circled back to see where those bills now stood. What I discovered was less scandalous but no less depressing.

www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...

Elon Musk Torpedoed a Beloved Pediatric Cancer Bill. It’s Yet to Recover.

Sometimes, a good piece of legislation fails to become a law for one simple, stupid reason: congressional inertia.

www.thebulwark.com

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3h

Awful un-American people

Mark Z. Barabak @markzbarabak.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: When a judge's home burned down, the head of the Justice Dept civil rights division responded not with care or concern but on-line snark.

Harmeet Dhillon displays the administration's us-vs-them approach to the law -- and a lack of basic decency

www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Commentary: At Trump's Justice Department, partisan pugnacity where honor, integrity should be

Harmeet Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division responds to personal tragedy with a lack of civility, reflecting an administration that deems half the country its enemy.

www.latimes.com

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

In Trump I, Bondi's failure to secure this case would have resulted in her dismissal (even if there was never a chance she'd win this case), but in Trump II, I wonder if he's too senile to care.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 4h

Prosecutors investigating Comey found that a key witness poses “likely insurmountable problems,” offering contradicting claims central to the shaky case.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

Every angle of this defies belief.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

I can't get over the pitch location, pitch speed and the fact that he pulled his hands in, turned on it, walloped the ball and kept it fair.

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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 4h

i too am glad about judge's "moment" last night, and while i don't think we need to lie about his postseasons, we also don't need to lie in the other direction. he also did this in a pretty big spot last year:

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

Still thinking about the rubes who were all like "at least Trump will do anti-trust right" a few months ago. There's no universe where Paramount Skydance should also own Warner Brothers Discovery.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 4h

Chucky has sauces inside Paramount Skydance, which is not at all surprising.

Anyhow, they're looking to get PE involved in the WBD bid.

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance talking to Apollo, buyout firms to join possible $60B Warner Bros. Discovery bid: sources

“These companies bring a lot to the table since they own stakes in Hollywood properties and have a lot of money,” said one source.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

I guarantee anyone that Bad Bunny is far more popular in the U.S. than any single Republican politician.

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 4h

"Our only three options are violence, acquiescence, or economic sanctions. I don’t want violence, and acquiescence is out of the question. So let’s kick them where it hurts: right in the economy."

I don't want violence, either. Good ideas here: economic sanctions, denial of infrastructure, etc.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5d

The American cities Trump has vowed to invade one by one produce 90% of this country's GDP. We must withhold these funds, and our infrastructure, from the United States Government, until these invasions stop

If you only read one thing I've ever written, please make it this

The Point Of No Return

We Are At War, Whether We Want To Be Or Not

www.bannedinyourstate.com

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innersunshine.bsky.social @innersunshine.bsky.social · 4h

The two chain stores likely to gain a billion dollar PR bonus for supporting a union, REI and TraderJoe's, still can't see the benefit.

Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 5h

My assumption is union busting.

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Rebecca Baird-Remba @thecitywanderer.bsky.social · 5h

REI soho closing is pretty bad for anyone who loves buying outdoor gear in the five boroughs. I know their c-suite is retrenching and cost cutting but I think folding up their NYC presence entirely is a huge mistake www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

It's just "be mad for a news cycle" thought. They don't think beyond the next 25 minutes.

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