Ben Koch
@benkoch3000.bsky.social
Trying to love, every day.
Biologist.
Biologist.
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The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
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Hi fellow #Costco members
Just got off the phone with them.
1-800-774-2678
I said I understood that people are being abducted at warehouse property in #LA and asked what their policy was on allowing agency actions on their properties.
They told me a policy will be announced in 2-3 days.
Just got off the phone with them.
1-800-774-2678
I said I understood that people are being abducted at warehouse property in #LA and asked what their policy was on allowing agency actions on their properties.
They told me a policy will be announced in 2-3 days.
January 12, 2026 at 10:20 PM
With all their tactical gear, it’s as though they’re looking for a battle. And yet she’s the one backing them up. Therein lies our power.
🚨"F*ck you! Evil! Where's the f*cking humanity? Why don't you back the f*ck up off our people? Stop f*cking killing us! You guys are evil mother f*ckers! You should be marching with us!" -Minneapolis ICE protester screams at ICE agents as they point guns at her. Via our Jon Farina ⬇️
January 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM
With all their tactical gear, it’s as though they’re looking for a battle. And yet she’s the one backing them up. Therein lies our power.
Good job to all y’all baking cookies ‘n shit today.
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Good job to all y’all baking cookies ‘n shit today.
Congratulations Kate!
Really honored to share that my public health fiction ‘Quarantine’ was shortlisted for the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize. I have loved Dzanc’s work across the years.
Congratulations to winner David Nikki Crouse and all the other honorees!
www.dzancbooks.org/blog/ssc-sho...
Congratulations to winner David Nikki Crouse and all the other honorees!
www.dzancbooks.org/blog/ssc-sho...
Short Story Collection Prize Short- and Longlist Honorees — Dzanc Books
It’s been our immense pleasure to read such talented entries this year, and we had a deeply difficult time choosing between them. Below are our short- and longlist honorees.
www.dzancbooks.org
December 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Congratulations Kate!
Everybody already knows they cheat and you’re dead wrong about who loses. It’s ordinary American people who have lost, who will lose, and who will continue losing so long as incompetent ‘leaders’ like you won’t fight these fuckers for all you’re worth.
That December vote is a huge moment we can turn into a victory. People are watching. Good bill, we win; they cheat, they will lose. If we fight united.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Everybody already knows they cheat and you’re dead wrong about who loses. It’s ordinary American people who have lost, who will lose, and who will continue losing so long as incompetent ‘leaders’ like you won’t fight these fuckers for all you’re worth.
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Democrats ran the table on Tuesday at state and local levels, getting not just its base excited but “normies” fed up over the last 10mo, so of course national Democrats want to do everything to pop the air in the balloon.
At this point, it’s clear that the Hamburglar, Dr Evil, and Sideshow Bob are advising Chuck Schumer.
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Democrats ran the table on Tuesday at state and local levels, getting not just its base excited but “normies” fed up over the last 10mo, so of course national Democrats want to do everything to pop the air in the balloon.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Tell me you’re gonna cancel my flight without telling me you’re gonna cancel my flight.
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Tell me you’re gonna cancel my flight without telling me you’re gonna cancel my flight.
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Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
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let's take stock here:
(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.
Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷♀️ YOLO?
(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.
Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷♀️ YOLO?
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
let's take stock here:
(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.
Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷♀️ YOLO?
(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.
Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷♀️ YOLO?
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i wrote about what it feels like to live in the collapse of the american empire
"a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth"
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
"a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth"
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Writing into the Wreck
I, for one, never asked to live in a collapsing empire. The feeling of what you thought to be solid ground turning to a shower of scree under your feet, the...
buttondown.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
i wrote about what it feels like to live in the collapse of the american empire
"a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth"
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
"a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth"
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
My latest fave reggae track. And perhaps a request for this week’s show @soundsofthecaribbean.com ?
This is "I Put Up Tariffs" 🎶- perhaps the first ever parody song (?) to make reference to the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930. It's based on #BobMarley's legendary "I Shot the Sheriff" and sung from the point of view of #Trump, unleashing his frenzy of #tariffs on the USA & the world.
youtu.be/_DyNjjSxO8s
youtu.be/_DyNjjSxO8s
"I Put Up Tariffs" - Marsh Family adaptation of Bob Marley and the Wailers, "I Shot the Sheriff"
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
April 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
My latest fave reggae track. And perhaps a request for this week’s show @soundsofthecaribbean.com ?
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A reporter should ask Trump if we're having midterm elections next year so we can just get him to say "no" already.
Right now, elected Democrats are using the assumption that elections will proceed normally as a shield to avoid treating this as an emergency.
Right now, elected Democrats are using the assumption that elections will proceed normally as a shield to avoid treating this as an emergency.
March 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A reporter should ask Trump if we're having midterm elections next year so we can just get him to say "no" already.
Right now, elected Democrats are using the assumption that elections will proceed normally as a shield to avoid treating this as an emergency.
Right now, elected Democrats are using the assumption that elections will proceed normally as a shield to avoid treating this as an emergency.
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Firings happening right now at the NSF.
February 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Firings happening right now at the NSF.
@aoc.bsky.social is just about the only elected official on the national stage who is actually meeting this moment. I’m grateful for that… But also shocked: wtf is up with the rest of the Democratic Party rn? How is a fire not blazing under their asses? It’s perplexing, disheartening, & terrifying.
Had an awesome time chatting with Jon Stewart & @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social talking about how to fight the dumpster fire.
Gear up. It’s time to brawl.
Gear up. It’s time to brawl.
. @aoc.bsky.social on the dangers of a newly normalized Trump and his billionaire feeding frenzy.
New pod out now! #JonStewart #TheWeeklyShow
New pod out now! #JonStewart #TheWeeklyShow
January 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
@aoc.bsky.social is just about the only elected official on the national stage who is actually meeting this moment. I’m grateful for that… But also shocked: wtf is up with the rest of the Democratic Party rn? How is a fire not blazing under their asses? It’s perplexing, disheartening, & terrifying.
Appreciate the nice article about our recent research on #AntimicrobialResistance by Abigail Kessler of the Arizona Daily Sun:
shorturl.at/NSLnG
🧪 💉
shorturl.at/NSLnG
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NAU study looks at potential effects of growing antibiotic resistance
The model predicted an increase in sepsis deaths within 5 years of the introduction of a hypothetical pan-resistant strain of E. coli.
azdailysun.com
January 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Appreciate the nice article about our recent research on #AntimicrobialResistance by Abigail Kessler of the Arizona Daily Sun:
shorturl.at/NSLnG
🧪 💉
shorturl.at/NSLnG
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For some uplifting post-holiday reading, check out our paper projecting future impacts of pandrug-resistant bacteria on sepsis deaths
Out today in Communications Medicine rdcu.be/d4QZP
🧪 💉 #AMR #MicroSky #AntimicrobialResistance #Superbugs #PublicHealth #HealthResearch #SciArt
Art: Victor Leshyk
Out today in Communications Medicine rdcu.be/d4QZP
🧪 💉 #AMR #MicroSky #AntimicrobialResistance #Superbugs #PublicHealth #HealthResearch #SciArt
Art: Victor Leshyk
December 26, 2024 at 11:52 PM
For some uplifting post-holiday reading, check out our paper projecting future impacts of pandrug-resistant bacteria on sepsis deaths
Out today in Communications Medicine rdcu.be/d4QZP
🧪 💉 #AMR #MicroSky #AntimicrobialResistance #Superbugs #PublicHealth #HealthResearch #SciArt
Art: Victor Leshyk
Out today in Communications Medicine rdcu.be/d4QZP
🧪 💉 #AMR #MicroSky #AntimicrobialResistance #Superbugs #PublicHealth #HealthResearch #SciArt
Art: Victor Leshyk
Newly planted Doug fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
November 19, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Newly planted Doug fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)