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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹

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Insatiably curious bibliophile. Nerd of many colors. Seeker of peace, democratic socialist, cishumanist, decelerationist, up the #Arsenal! #LGBTQ+ #BLM #COYG #ForeverPrint. Anti-fascist.

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · Mar 23

remember: whether it's to a government or to a technology, you always have the right to say "no." you may pay a price for it, but your compliance is not foreordained. refusal is your right; sometimes, it is your obligation as a free human being.

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 10h

you're welcome to stay there. probably will feel right at home.

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 11h

i hope everyone @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social reads this and urges pres. beilock to tell trump where to shove his "compact."

Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · 1d

Penn historian Ben Nathans with an op-ed in our campus newspaper:

"No self-respecting university that values its autonomy and the integrity of its teaching and research should sign the compact."

Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience

Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

www.thedp.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 11h

while i share erin's quite legitimate concerns/terror about this, i also am laughing imagining undercover texans trying to insinuate themselves into nonexistent grps —
Texas AG Ken Paxton Announces Undercover Operations Into "Antifa," Citing "Transgenderism" www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-ag-k...

Texas AG Ken Paxton Announces Undercover Operations Into "Antifa," Citing "Transgenderism"

The announcement comes after a flurry of reports that Trump would weaponize the FBI against groups supporting LGBTQ+ people.

www.erininthemorning.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14h

The MAGA right’s cynical effort to rewrite the history of January 6 reached a new but seemingly inevitable low this week. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/cal...

Calls for retaliatory prosecutions are the next phase in the right’s rewriting of January 6

www.mediamatters.org

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 1d

good on you héctor! @4jinxremoving.bsky.social —

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 1d

let us hope and pray (he says as he posts on... social media.) —

www.ft.com/content/a072...

Have we passed peak social media?

As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

www.ft.com

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Poorly Drawn Arsenal @poorlydrawnarsenal.com · 1d

Variable pricing is one of the worst recent "inventions"

2026 World Cup price jumps kick in early, with FIFA raising costs amid high demand

The effects of variable pricing are already being felt on the World Cup ticket market

www.nytimes.com

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Emma Lewis @petchary.bsky.social · 1d

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“At one point, Adler says, he was singled out for being Jewish, ripped away by his ear, and forced to get on his knees to take a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir yelled into his face, calling him a terrorist.”

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

open.substack.com

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 1d

given our recent form, i do not have the good feels for today's match... but as always, come on you gunners!

Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 1d

conversion "therapy" is torture. full stop. but we don't have a problem with that anymore either.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 2d

this was marvelous — @petchary.bsky.social @nolafredo.bsky.social @erlkonigkid.bsky.social @goonlighting.bsky.social @4jinxremoving.bsky.social @kellywood.bsky.social

Tom Curren @tomoc.bsky.social · 2d

A story of belief, birthdays, and Viktor Gyokeres

If I speak

Don't say it. Not yet

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 2d

we are in hell. this is hell. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/t...

How Elon Musk Is Bringing Sexy A.I. Chatbots to the Mainstream

www.nytimes.com

Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 3d

it's disgraceful and cowardly

Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 3d

to reiterate — "Gestapo" = "Geheime Staatspolizei" = "Secret state police," which is just the literal description of ICE under trump. it's not a matter of "comparing" them to the Gestapo, when they are actually the American Gestapo.

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 4d

Just make sure you don't compare them to the Gestapo. That hurts their feelings

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 3d

we need david foster wallace and theodor adorno more now than ever.

Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 4d

that makes two of us. hehe, there's a hierarchy though, made easier by playoffs and separate leagues. like, the cubs are my baseball team, and if they were to play the mariners or red sox, i cheer for the cubs. but if the cubs are eliminated (the red sox already have been), i cheer for the mariners.

Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 4d

let's go mariners!!

Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 4d

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: Our Identities Have No Bodies
open.substack.com/pub/jaredyat...

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: Our Identities Have No Bodies

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part III: You cannot understand what is happening in our present crisis without wrestling with the effects of the corporate Internet

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 4d

@petchary.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/card/2025/10...

Oktoberfest’s New Drip

At Bavaria’s annual celebration of autumn and beer, new generations of partyers and new arrivals to Germany are adding their own twists to traditional fashion.

www.nytimes.com

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 4d

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