@thebennifactor.bsky.social
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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Shhh, don't tell the Mexicans but it appears Ted Cruz is in Puerto Vallarta this weekend. Shhh.
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Shhh, don't tell the Mexicans but it appears Ted Cruz is in Puerto Vallarta this weekend. Shhh.
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In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.
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all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
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i will never forgive sam altman for how much damage he’s inflicted upon the em dash enjoyer community
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
i will never forgive sam altman for how much damage he’s inflicted upon the em dash enjoyer community
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I think it's cool how the concept of nice food has completely dissolved into food with some sort of weird or elaborate presentation that costs a lot more
I had this inflicted on me on tumblr and now I have to share it with my Canadian friends here because WHAT.
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I think it's cool how the concept of nice food has completely dissolved into food with some sort of weird or elaborate presentation that costs a lot more
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The whole idea of a tent is it's supposed to keep blood-sucking insects out
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The whole idea of a tent is it's supposed to keep blood-sucking insects out
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with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
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can’t say what’s going through my head right now
But something about US history, Black women, Native women, and Nazis
But something about US history, Black women, Native women, and Nazis
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
can’t say what’s going through my head right now
But something about US history, Black women, Native women, and Nazis
But something about US history, Black women, Native women, and Nazis
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Mfs do not have the appropriate human level of fear re: 1) making a mortal enemy and then 2) commanding that mortal enemy to cook food for you.
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Mfs do not have the appropriate human level of fear re: 1) making a mortal enemy and then 2) commanding that mortal enemy to cook food for you.
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
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Like it fascinates me as folks are scrambling to glaze MTG …
Adelita Grijalva who was purposely kept out and was the actual deciding voice in the Petition
Is connected to her area and a legacy Dem gets nothing
abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...
Adelita Grijalva who was purposely kept out and was the actual deciding voice in the Petition
Is connected to her area and a legacy Dem gets nothing
abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...
Democratic Rep. Grijalva sworn in after 7 weeks, becomes key signature on Epstein files petition
Grijalva will join a discharge petition that would force an Epstein files vote.
abcnews.go.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Like it fascinates me as folks are scrambling to glaze MTG …
Adelita Grijalva who was purposely kept out and was the actual deciding voice in the Petition
Is connected to her area and a legacy Dem gets nothing
abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...
Adelita Grijalva who was purposely kept out and was the actual deciding voice in the Petition
Is connected to her area and a legacy Dem gets nothing
abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...
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Either MTG's single Amtrak ride was enough to make her woke or these are all cynical and calculated moves in preparation for a possible 2028 Presidential run.
November 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Either MTG's single Amtrak ride was enough to make her woke or these are all cynical and calculated moves in preparation for a possible 2028 Presidential run.
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I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him.
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’
The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist
english.elpais.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him.
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
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The dolphins are getting Alzheimer’s from algae blooms
caused by warming waters and toxic runoff
and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan
from space.
The cobalt is mined by children
and the music is made by robots
and the grownups are wondering
where the fireflies went.
caused by warming waters and toxic runoff
and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan
from space.
The cobalt is mined by children
and the music is made by robots
and the grownups are wondering
where the fireflies went.
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The dolphins are getting Alzheimer’s from algae blooms
caused by warming waters and toxic runoff
and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan
from space.
The cobalt is mined by children
and the music is made by robots
and the grownups are wondering
where the fireflies went.
caused by warming waters and toxic runoff
and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan
from space.
The cobalt is mined by children
and the music is made by robots
and the grownups are wondering
where the fireflies went.
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“whatever they are legally entitled to” is the tell here - they’re going to hold back the worst of it and come up with some bullshit as to why
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“whatever they are legally entitled to” is the tell here - they’re going to hold back the worst of it and come up with some bullshit as to why
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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"I know what you did last fall"
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"I know what you did last fall"
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Do republicans yelling at us about Bill Clinton realize most of us were children during his administration and legally prohibited from voting? lol
This is supposed to be some kind of gotcha? If he did bad things throw him in jail. I do not have Bill Clinton flags in my boat. (I do not have a boat).
This is supposed to be some kind of gotcha? If he did bad things throw him in jail. I do not have Bill Clinton flags in my boat. (I do not have a boat).
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Do republicans yelling at us about Bill Clinton realize most of us were children during his administration and legally prohibited from voting? lol
This is supposed to be some kind of gotcha? If he did bad things throw him in jail. I do not have Bill Clinton flags in my boat. (I do not have a boat).
This is supposed to be some kind of gotcha? If he did bad things throw him in jail. I do not have Bill Clinton flags in my boat. (I do not have a boat).
Nauuurrrr
Netflix cancels The Ultimatum: Queer Love after two seasons
Netflix cancels The Ultimatum: Queer Love after two seasons
According to Variety, Netflix axed The Ultimatum: Queer Love after its second season failed to reach the streamer’s global Top 10.
www.gaytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Nauuurrrr
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@kenniejd.bsky.social i need you to pleaseeeee go over “the ultimatum: queer love” season 2…..i was looking it up and was so disappointed that i haven’t gotten your commentary 🥹
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
@kenniejd.bsky.social i need you to pleaseeeee go over “the ultimatum: queer love” season 2…..i was looking it up and was so disappointed that i haven’t gotten your commentary 🥹
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For a very particular reason, ALAN DERSHOWITZ, I’m thinking about how the Harvard Law Faculty, which Dersh is a member of, were VERY vocal about how Harvard’s mee Obama-era title IX standards were too stringent and “unfair” to accused perpetrators
To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
For a very particular reason, ALAN DERSHOWITZ, I’m thinking about how the Harvard Law Faculty, which Dersh is a member of, were VERY vocal about how Harvard’s mee Obama-era title IX standards were too stringent and “unfair” to accused perpetrators
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Ben Shapiro is a failed screenwriter.
years ago an emmy-winning comedy writer posted this in a DM group and I’ve thought about it literally every day since (anonymized and shared with permission)
November 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Ben Shapiro is a failed screenwriter.
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Happy “Why the fuck doesn’t The Onion own Infowars” day for those who celebrate!
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Happy “Why the fuck doesn’t The Onion own Infowars” day for those who celebrate!
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
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I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1