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Benjamin Hart

@benjaminhart.bsky.social
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Writer/editor at New York Magazine.

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
this was really good and very depressing haha
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
breaking: XAI announces that they have used an unreleased grok model to solve a major open problem in the field of race science
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An ICE agent directed Emilio, a Venezuelan Deaf man, to get onto a bus. He asked for an interpreter and didn’t get one. When he saw a Mexican flag, he realized he was being deported to Mexico, sans passport. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity
An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
After insisting the correspondents' dinner was worth reviving, the WHCA handed Trump a nationally televised platform to smear the very journalists it exists to represent, effectively turn the stage into a Trump rally. It was a disgrace. My latest @status.news www.status.news/p/the-white-...
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The White House Correspondents’ Disgrace
The WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Congrats & Godspeed Dana, Julia, & Steve (& production wizards Ben & Daniel et al.) Best to ever do it, as the poet said
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Slate’s ‘Culture Gabfest’ Signs Off After 18 Years
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David Grann @davidgrann.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For a third of my life I've listened to the Culture Gabfest, a pioneering podcast with the perfect chemistry, wit, and insight. I'm so grateful to the hosts, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner & Dana Stevens, & hope their will be a reunion tour. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/a... @reggieugwu.bsky.social
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Slate’s ‘Culture Gabfest’ Signs Off After 18 Years
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Wow. A true “… and scene” moment for the creep that nearly weaseled his way into being Alex Trebek’s successor. Viva @kenjennings.bsky.social!
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
hope letting rfk out of committee haunts you for the rest of your life Bill
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Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trends don't have to continue, but these are national trends, and a few more years of declines like we've witnessed from 2022 to 2026 so far, would have homicide rates that look more like Canada. With it, I feel like we'd have substantially different politics.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I talked to my colleague Ben Hart about Mills dropping out. I've been away on book leave so I had a lot to get off my chest, enough that stuff got cut (Mills' data bad center veto; her also bad sealed criminal records veto; the impact of the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation on 2020) But nevertheless..
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Graham Platner Has Won the Battle. Can He Win the War?
Chatting with New York’s Rebecca Traister about Janet Mills’s primary exit and the next chapter in a blockbuster Maine Senate race.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Jamal is too nice to say "utter hypocrisy," but that's what this is. Today's #SCOTUS treats *all* coercive relief against the executive branch as imposing irreparable harm on the government. For that proposition, they cite a 2014 opinion by ... Chief Justice Roberts. Its absence here is deafening.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Good interview here with Rosemary Kelanic. nymag.com/intelligence...
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All of the Iran Attack Plans Are Bad. This One Is the Worst.
What Trump might do next in the Middle East.
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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
No lies told here.
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Jeff Wise @jeffwise.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Two pieces up on @intelligencer.com this morning (mine & this one by @benjaminhart.bsky.social) make an important point that's largely being overlooked: This war is going to hypermotivate Iran to get nuclear weapons. It's literally their only path to long-term security. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Israel Doesn’t Want to Beat Iran. It Wants to Break It.
The country is doing major damage to a mortal enemy, but at what cost?
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
If you are a client of a firm that folded in this fight, you should know that not only were they morally wrong, but they were also strategically dumb www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions
The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
You may find this illuminating... nymag.com/intelligence...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/02/2026
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Hire him!!! bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Ralph Abraham is a great anti-vaxxer and an even better colleague. HIRE HIM!! bsky.app/profile/eliz...
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Why does everyone involved with law enforcement call people "individuals"?
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The tariff decision is a distraction from Epstein
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Amaze your friends by telling them Jasper Johns is still alive.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Disgusting. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 12/02/2026
Matt Shumer, who wrote a viral post about AI’s threat to white-collar jobs, discusses the overwhelming reaction to his cri de coeur.
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The Guy Who Wrote the Viral AI Post Wasn’t Trying to Scare You
Matt Shumer, who wrote a viral post about AI’s threat to white-collar jobs, discusses the overwhelming reaction to his cri de coeur.
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Where are we on stopping Kony?
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Major downside of Bluesky: Not enough people arguing with Matt Stoller all day.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 09/02/2026
Why are fewer Americans killing each other? Crime data analyst Jeff Asher discusses his theories on a surprisingly mysterious question.
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Nobody Really Knows Why the Murder Rate Is Plummeting
Why are fewer Americans killing each other? Crime data analyst Jeff Asher discusses his theories on a surprisingly mysterious question.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Hey man. You work at a newspaper. Have some self respect and try to write at least one sentence that doesn’t feel like sandpaper on my eyeballs.
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
You want someone who gets the ins and outs of a third newsroom AND knows how to make a Super Bowl party entrance? Will Lewis is your man. HIRE HIM!!
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 06/02/2026
This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
go off jack white
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I need to know what America's foremost Bill Gates impersonator thinks of all this.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 04/02/2026
Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I can say without any fear of contradiction that I know as much or more than anyone in modern American journalism about the absolute, no excuses necessity of operating in the black. In many cases much more since if you’re a big player there are lots of creative ways to operate ….
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Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
. @adamserwer.bsky.social on ICE agents wearing masks. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Gee, Elliott Morris is wrong a lot. bsky.app/profile/matt...
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 03/02/2026
That Lindsey Vonn could even consider skiing on a torn ACL is both shocking and unsurprising, given her long history of battling through pain. Vonn insists she’s not reckless but calculated. Read a new interview with one of the all-time skiing greats.
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This Might be Lindsey Vonn’s Most Audacious Comeback Yet
The skiing great discussed her triumphant return to the sport at 41 — just before an injury imperiled her Olympic chances.
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Running for president on a platform of every movie being 20 minutes shorter and The New Yorker switching to a biweekly schedule.
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Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This was the single lowest month of homicides in New York City on record...ever.
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Not saying the Times copy desk is diminished, but I don't think "Jeffery" in the lead would have slipped by them a few years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/b...
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Wall St. Lawyer Brad Karp Says He Regrets Epstein Interactions
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2026
making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Yeah, instituting a policy that completely undermines your company's reason for existence will do that. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Alamo Drafthouse Faces Backlash After Ditching No-Phones Policy: “Just an Overpriced AMC Now”
Moviegoers, critics and even some industry insiders are blasting Alamo's new mobile ordering system which seems to go against decades of brand-building as a distraction-free cinema.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Holy crap. Minnesota police chief tracks down ICE agents in his car and de-arrests a woman who lives in his town.
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NPR @npr.org · 31/01/2026
NPR's Adrian Florido has been buying fruit from the same fruit-cart vendor in his LA neighborhood for years. On Tuesday, Florido was there when federal immigration agents whisked him away.
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Reporter's Notebook: He was my fruit vendor for years. I saw immigration agents take him
NPR's Adrian Florido has been buying fruit from the same fruit-cart vendor in his LA neighborhood for years. On Tuesday, Florido was there when federal immigration agents whisked him away.
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Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Epstein Files are a distraction from the Epstein Files
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