Ben Mishiev
@benmishiev.bsky.social
Teacher | Past: some non-profits and journalism | movies, books, video games etc.
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This is a very flat campaign message. Dislike of Goldman is not going to be so strong due to his lack of opposition of Trump; it’ll be due to his donors and support of Israel.
Lander should still win, but this style of campaigning can blow it.
Lander should still win, but this style of campaigning can blow it.
I'm ready to be the type of Democrat the Democratic Party has needed this entire time. The type of Democrat who will fight Trump’s authoritarianism by showing up, not with strongly worded letters.
The type of Democrat who will fight, not fold.
The type of Democrat who will fight, not fold.
December 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This is a very flat campaign message. Dislike of Goldman is not going to be so strong due to his lack of opposition of Trump; it’ll be due to his donors and support of Israel.
Lander should still win, but this style of campaigning can blow it.
Lander should still win, but this style of campaigning can blow it.
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One good thing about me is that my brain works and I don't fall for Orwellian, propaganda nonsense like this.
The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).
The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).
December 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
One good thing about me is that my brain works and I don't fall for Orwellian, propaganda nonsense like this.
The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).
The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).
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After Israel sealed Gaza’s borders, a 12-year-old girl who suffered from celiac disease spent months seeking food and care. “I needed to be a millionaire to keep her alive,” her father said.
One Gazan Girl’s Fight to Survive Extreme Hunger
After Israel sealed Gaza’s borders, Hoda Abu al-Naja, 12, who suffered from celiac disease, spent months seeking the food and care she needed to combat malnutrition.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
After Israel sealed Gaza’s borders, a 12-year-old girl who suffered from celiac disease spent months seeking food and care. “I needed to be a millionaire to keep her alive,” her father said.
Using ChatGPT for all her email correspondence with her staff won’t keep her from getting more and more annoyed with having a real job and with people who are going to happily leak shit she’s doing there.
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Using ChatGPT for all her email correspondence with her staff won’t keep her from getting more and more annoyed with having a real job and with people who are going to happily leak shit she’s doing there.
Last week, I wrote about one of my favorite Michael Mann movies, “Heat,” that also celebrated its 30th anniversary.
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What to Watch #2
December: the 30th Anniversary of Michael Mann's 'Heat' and More!
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December 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Last week, I wrote about one of my favorite Michael Mann movies, “Heat,” that also celebrated its 30th anniversary.
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New: Months before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, her outlet The Free Press was joking about the megaprison Trump has lawlessly deported people to.
"The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen."
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
"The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen."
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
zeteo.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
New: Months before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, her outlet The Free Press was joking about the megaprison Trump has lawlessly deported people to.
"The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen."
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
"The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen."
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
Bari Weiss got the poet Refaat Alareer killed in Gaza by putting a target on his back.
I have no doubt she’s collaborated with Netanyahu & Trump. She’s obscuring the crimes of the authoritarian Bukele in El Salvador.
She needs to be put behind bars, not a newsroom.
I have no doubt she’s collaborated with Netanyahu & Trump. She’s obscuring the crimes of the authoritarian Bukele in El Salvador.
She needs to be put behind bars, not a newsroom.
December 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Bari Weiss got the poet Refaat Alareer killed in Gaza by putting a target on his back.
I have no doubt she’s collaborated with Netanyahu & Trump. She’s obscuring the crimes of the authoritarian Bukele in El Salvador.
She needs to be put behind bars, not a newsroom.
I have no doubt she’s collaborated with Netanyahu & Trump. She’s obscuring the crimes of the authoritarian Bukele in El Salvador.
She needs to be put behind bars, not a newsroom.
I watched the first third elsewhere. Anyone claiming this is not a newsworthy doesn’t deserve to work in a news company on any level.
Weiss is a disgusting and vile individual. Leni Riefenstahl of today. She should be in The Hague.
Weiss is a disgusting and vile individual. Leni Riefenstahl of today. She should be in The Hague.
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I watched the first third elsewhere. Anyone claiming this is not a newsworthy doesn’t deserve to work in a news company on any level.
Weiss is a disgusting and vile individual. Leni Riefenstahl of today. She should be in The Hague.
Weiss is a disgusting and vile individual. Leni Riefenstahl of today. She should be in The Hague.
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.
www.thefp.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
Need a Sorkin-Newsroom show, but have it be about the Bari Weiss run CBS.
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Need a Sorkin-Newsroom show, but have it be about the Bari Weiss run CBS.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
I think Weiss ends up leaving this position relatively quick. Not because she’ll be forced out, no no, but more because she’s a lazy dumb dumb who can’t miss the opportunity to talk about how she was cancelled at CBS.
CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I think Weiss ends up leaving this position relatively quick. Not because she’ll be forced out, no no, but more because she’s a lazy dumb dumb who can’t miss the opportunity to talk about how she was cancelled at CBS.
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And there it is...
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
And there it is...
Everyone should be required to watch The Insider.
December 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Everyone should be required to watch The Insider.
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I wonder how she's feeling about her political career. She sold out everything she once valued, debased herself, placed herself on the side of evil, all in a crude grasp at power, and in return, she got shunted to the side & forgotten. Pathetic, richly deserved, but also, wooooof.
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I wonder how she's feeling about her political career. She sold out everything she once valued, debased herself, placed herself on the side of evil, all in a crude grasp at power, and in return, she got shunted to the side & forgotten. Pathetic, richly deserved, but also, wooooof.
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Computer, enhance
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Computer, enhance
A chant that’s directed at a country’s brutal 80 years occupation, but let’s try a different tact.
If any other ethnic or religious group were saying “please stop this country from ethnically cleansing us from our land & committing a genocide against us” would you go out of your way to smear them?
If any other ethnic or religious group were saying “please stop this country from ethnically cleansing us from our land & committing a genocide against us” would you go out of your way to smear them?
I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology.
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
December 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
A chant that’s directed at a country’s brutal 80 years occupation, but let’s try a different tact.
If any other ethnic or religious group were saying “please stop this country from ethnically cleansing us from our land & committing a genocide against us” would you go out of your way to smear them?
If any other ethnic or religious group were saying “please stop this country from ethnically cleansing us from our land & committing a genocide against us” would you go out of your way to smear them?
My take on NY-10 is Lander will probably win, but Aviles would have ran a much better campaign and probably also would have won. I feel like the “Mr. Roger’s“ campaign is a misread and not a sharp contrast, but he’s well liked so he should be fine.
December 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My take on NY-10 is Lander will probably win, but Aviles would have ran a much better campaign and probably also would have won. I feel like the “Mr. Roger’s“ campaign is a misread and not a sharp contrast, but he’s well liked so he should be fine.
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Britain threatened to cut off ICC funding over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor
Britain threatened to cut off ICC funding over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor
Karim Khan makes allegation in court submission while defending move to prosecute Israeli prime minister in 2024
The British government threatened to defund the international criminal court and leave the Rome statute that set it up if it pressed ahead with plans to issue an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, the ICC’s prosecutor, has claimed.
Karim Khan made the allegation in a submission to the court defending his decision to prosecute Israel’s prime minister. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Britain threatened to cut off ICC funding over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Just to clear some things up about this person:
✅ she has called just about every election in the last ~20 years fraudulent
✅ is supportive of Trump & his murders off the coast of Venezuela
✅ supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Western institutions continue to debase themselves.
✅ she has called just about every election in the last ~20 years fraudulent
✅ is supportive of Trump & his murders off the coast of Venezuela
✅ supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Western institutions continue to debase themselves.
The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who is thought to have been living in hiding in her country, will travel to Norway next week to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a Norwegian official.
Venezuela’s Nobel Winner Will Go to Norway for Peace Prize, Official Says
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Just to clear some things up about this person:
✅ she has called just about every election in the last ~20 years fraudulent
✅ is supportive of Trump & his murders off the coast of Venezuela
✅ supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Western institutions continue to debase themselves.
✅ she has called just about every election in the last ~20 years fraudulent
✅ is supportive of Trump & his murders off the coast of Venezuela
✅ supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Western institutions continue to debase themselves.
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Yet another Biden administration official admits, after the fact, that the Biden administration's and more broadly America's policy of supporting Israel unconditionally does not work and needs to change.
The End of the Israel Exception
A new paradigm for American policy.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Yet another Biden administration official admits, after the fact, that the Biden administration's and more broadly America's policy of supporting Israel unconditionally does not work and needs to change.
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Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
Israel has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture”, according to a new UN report covering the past two years, which also raised concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes.
The UN committee on torture expressed “deep concern over allegations of repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, waterboarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report