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Ben Temchine

@abuasher.bsky.social
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"Let men become the servile pawns of their masters in the factories of the land and there will be destroyed the bone and sinew of resistance to political dictatorship." Sen. Robert Wagner #joinaunion #dcstatehood

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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
as a trade unionist and jewish activist who stayed in jewish spaces, spoke the word genocide and fought for change without ceding jewishness, this is just a weird take. I don't give a shit why or how long it takes: I'you dont turn away anyone who joins. who believes they have too many allies?
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Then you hit the “good” phase and that’s all you hear. That phase starts at age13 lasts four years and comes right after the extremely brief -in this house- bro phase.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Having real flashbacks to "rosenior's chelsea" that first half. that sucked.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a crucial essay from Doctorow about AI, rights and the technofascist regime under construction. pluralistic.net/2026/09/02/s...
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Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sounds like me up through my 40s. Why Yes I do have ADHD thanks.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think, like me, every Chelsea fan is happy they didn’t give Enzo that honor the Gareth
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
no amnesty
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"we will send you to endless war, keep you on a deteriorating ship for 11 months, and deport your father" is the kind of thing you read about emperors doing moments before the fleet mutinies bsky.app/profile/cjci...
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is like saying harvesting punishes farming. Taxation to support the conditions that make success possible -order, laws, infrastructure, education, health, etc.- is how you have future harvests. this is so stupid it barely requires a response.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This, more than anything else, is what Woke 1 was: Right-wing chuds claiming victimhood when their employers launch investigations, then being quietly cleared without major censure a few months later.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What do you all make of Gallagher? I loved that kid at Chelsea; I thought selling him was a huge mistake. But I watched him come up and I am not rational. I figure you all…might be?
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Is xavi the one bullet Chelsea dodged? Is he back?
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’m a union guy. Fuck these guys. Excellent reporting. Thanks.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Promise!
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Critical context I came here to share. media has found another floor in hell.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
just called ICE and told them MS 13 gang members have Mrs. Dalloway tattoos
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
huge design flaw in adulthood: no one claps when you do the right thing.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
All of these Natalie Harp stories are leaking for one reason: Someone in the West Wing is sick of Harp’s shit. Probably just a coincidence that it’s all happening as Leavitt is leaving.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
more fake bold takes from The Atlantic. A shit and predictable take from a publication that continues to be a parody of itself.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I remember four years ago (or was it a thousand?) talking with friends in DC about what an obvious Trojan horse the girl’s sports issue was and being baffled that everyone did not see what a sham it was. I didn’t feel smart seeing through it. It baffles me that some still don’t.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I guess it’s cheaper than paying reporters, which must be a concern for bezos in these straitened times.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hahhhaa. It’s funny to mock the desperation and fury of Americans who watched people they love die because we have an inhuman health care system. You owned them with this clever hip hop reference. we now know the system works.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
What about his performance as a human and/or as president makes you need to explain his stupidity by overseas influence or vague suggestions of the Jews? He is his own man with terrible backwards ideas all of his own and the domestic Republican Party completes the set. Such a weird time.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
lol- Oberlin in the 90s, peace corps in Senegal, berkeley, Bay Area public radio and now organized labor. I’m woke in beta.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The largest form of theft- larger than all others combined- is wage theft. Shoplifting car jacking muggings etc- combined. The biggest thieves are our bosses and that shit never, ever, ever, ever… sigh. it makes me so mad, and proud I work for a union, and then sucks the wind out of me.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I don’t know you and I’ve never even heard of the guy but if we were in a bowling alley on a Friday and that guy said some shit, I would absolutely hop up to kick the shit out of him with you. DM me if you are w/in 25 miles of DC
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
lol. god can you imagine? No no no. Reacher is written for men who want to Play act being single. I feel like wife rejection is theme of the series. She would totally pick up on that and find the whole thing bemusing and a little insulting. it’d be like sitting down to watch your search history.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It was antifa!
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Being one of these this week with david brinkley power locator’s has to be the easiest fucking job in the world. No facts, just the a milkshake of opinions from the geriatrics you first met in diane rehm’s living room in 1996.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What is a fuck Jerry account?
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There are many ways to learn how to build and run effective organizing campaigns. Unions are one of the best places to because we have more resources (not just $) than many ngos and we have memory and teachers. You know a bad place to learn? College fucking democrats and an internship on the hill
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
And the trades have been working double and triple time for the last 20 years to make up for this calamitous failure. There is work to be done. But I also want to push back: this is 60 year old criticism and we are not the same. Why do you still think we are? How much has been spent to convince you?
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I work in the trades where this is fair and is a mistake we and all working class people are paying for. It was a disaster. It is not true in the other parts of the labor movement and those parts - the predominantly black brown and female parts- have been most hurt by the dems abandonment of labor.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Obama bailed out banks, corporations and SV & let labor die and he did it because look who he surrounded himself with. here is a fact: the only way white working class people learn about the power of left policies is through a union. Period. We do the hard hard work and they let us starve.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
And college dems have no expertise in the very hard work of organizing. They get elected in bureaucratic systems, excel in getting elite positions at elite organizations. They do not and cannot understand what it is to run and organize campaigns- worker, tenant, antipoverty, internal, external
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
All I would add is what I’ve learned working in labor unions. It was a choice to let organized labor get suffocated by regulation, laws and court decisions. The Democrats chose SV over labor. And they have been killed for it. Their elite doesn’t come from locals anymore, it comes from college dems.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They can’t. They hate you and they hate women. What a weird mission in life. Tiny unhappy people. Anyway- trans women are women and they can go fuck themselves.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is exactly the kind of line a Jewish doctor running in 1964 would have used to win the seat from Greenwich.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
its always been best to understand the trans panic as fear and hatred of all female bodies. it was always about making all women disappear. the scientific proof that trans women ARE women is that all trans panic resolves into misogyny.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
its always been best to understand the trans panic as fear and hatred of all female bodies. it was always about making all women disappear. the scientific proof that trans women ARE women is that all trans panic resolves into misogyny.
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
this is how i talk in my family
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i mean the 17 year old is somehow going to college. i will emotionally adjust to the laundry before i adjust to that mindfuck
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Ben Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i have an 13 and a 17 year old. the smell from their rooms.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/08/2026
It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.
Dr. Manhattan on mars meme
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