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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 · 6h

hehe, i know, i know — i like to think we're both old souls who are young at heart.

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

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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 3d

"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."

Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.

Join us: www.equator.org

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Lu 💙 @ladyinred50.bsky.social · 1d

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

when it comes to opinion polling about a 21st-c. earth butlerian jihad, count me as "persuadable." —

AI and the Total Destruction of Trust
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AI and the Total Destruction of Trust

Generating fake videos, ripping the social fabric, and what comes next

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 12h

lol, a right-wing conspiracy theory that the dimwit-in-chief promoted. i wrote that entirely tongue-in-cheek because i woke up feeling old and creaky and wouldn't have minded a session in one, if they existed. which they do not.

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/28/p...

Trump shares apparent AI video promoting ‘medbed’ conspiracy theory | CNN Politics

The video, which was intended to resemble a Fox News segment on the show hosted by the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, featured an AI version of Trump promising access to new medical technolog...

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 13h

wtb a medbed this morning.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 13h

@petchary.bsky.social Flashback for October 11, 2025

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Play here:
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Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Oct. 11, 2025

Can you sort 8 historical events?

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Ken Struck @kenstruck.bsky.social · 1d

Beware Antifa!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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

yeah i certainly hope they (fans and teams) don't — maximum embarrassment to the regime

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

no idea what's going to happen — infantino's been cozying up to him with all the subtlety of a bunker-buster (fifa office in trump tower even), and as you could see from the club world cup, trump is determined to make every event about himself. i have no clue what to expect other than ugliness.

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

ooof, that's a bad loss.

this isn't a world cup you want to be at though. i keep hoping there will be boycotts, though i know better.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` i 'm tired , boss . ''

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` i 'm tired , boss . ''

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

high-five! www.nytimes.com/shared/v2/ne...

Did you follow the news this week? - Oct. 10, 2025

See how well you stack up with other Times readers.

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

this — Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump open.substack.com/pub/jaredyat...

Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump

Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

One thing we've learned from the American judicial system: The first 34 felonies are on the house*.

*Terms and conditions may apply. See prosecutors for details if you're not white. Or rich.