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Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, Air Mail, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: Dara Kaye WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · Aug 18

I have a new piece up @thenation.com on Billy Wilder, the Holocaust, survivor's guilt, and confronting the limits of Zionism. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Billy Wilder’s Battle With the Past

How the fabled Hollywood director confronted survivor’s guilt, the legacies of the Holocaust, and the paradoxes of Zionism.

www.thenation.com

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 1h

If Trump Mr. Magoos his way into a two-state solution that ends the occupation, f'n give it to him.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1h

Despite his lobbying campaign, the US president is still seen as an outsider in the race — although stranger things have happened

The five Norwegians with Trump’s Nobel prize dream in their hands

www.thetimes.com

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 6d

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 4h

thanks, john!

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Gerry Duggan @gerryduggan.bsky.social · 15h

Falling In Love On The Path To Hell readers -- register your interest over here, please...
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Falling in Love on the Path to Hell - A Fistful of Inks

GERRY DUGGAN (Deadpool, X-Men) and GARRY BROWN (Babyteeth) present an 8" x 12" oversized hardcover of their groundbreaking series, shining a spotlight on the incredible inks of Garry Brown! ***EARLY ...

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss is a Jewish married lesbian. If she was liberal, The Free Press would call this a DEI hire.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

JUST IN: CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news

CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 1d

I mean ... bsky.app/profile/maxt...

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Look I think there is a limit to what mockery practically achieves but it fucking rules that the American Himmler had to go on TV to sputter about how he’s not actually under five feet tall

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller responding to AOC calling Miller a clown and saying he is angry that he is 4’10”: We knew her brain didn't work—now we know their eyes don't work.

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss is a Jewish married lesbian. If she was liberal, The Free Press would call this a DEI hire.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

JUST IN: CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news

CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

n.pr

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 1d

“I voted for a Riyadh payday and they asked Tim Dillon. Trump is dead to me!”

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 3d

thanks!

ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 3d

they still do it

ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 3d

huh -- both takes on those songs are the same thing, turning what they were into soaring romantic anthems.

ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 3d

“I told the Crown Prince, I’ve committed crimes in the United States. I’ve held women against their will and sexually abused them. And he said, ‘Yes, ok, but what crimes did you commit?'” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/l...

Louis C.K. Defends Performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival: “Feels Like a Good Opportunity”

"The fact that that’s opening up and starting to bud, I wanna see it, I wanna be part of it. I think that’s a positive thing," he said on the latest episode of 'Real Time.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 4d

You'll get there, Josh. Don't give up on the dream!

ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 4d

I knew it. I told my wife, "15 minute standing ovation in Venice -- that's a ten minute standing ovation movie at best."

ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 5d

nope, that’s another ben. thanks!

ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 5d

thank you!

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 5d

thanks, bill!

ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 6d

NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. Please take this down, advocating violence is the worst possible response.

ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 6d

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 7d

Count Chocula is and has always been a vampire, a prince of milk chocolate darkness. Cap'n Crunch, tho, was once a good man, a trusting man with a soul. Kinda tragic thinking of him in those last moments.

The image is a scene in screenplay format of the moment when Dracula knocks at Cap'n Crunch's door asking to be let in ...

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 7d

He's the only comic who could go to Riyadh and not sell out.

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 8d

Hey guys, I found out what happened to the captain of the Demeter!

The image shows Captain crunch on a Halloween themed box of Captain crunch cereal. The Demeter was the ship that brought Dracula to England. It’s crew mysteriously vanished before it could reach its destination.

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 8d

Hey guys, I found out what happened to the captain of the Demeter!

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 10d

my guess: goonorrhea

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