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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The five-year-old: “Why did the Jews put lamb’s blood on the door?” The seven-year-old: “So Jesus wouldn’t kill them.” May need to go over a couple things before the next Seder.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Plenty of flabbergasted pieces on Mamdani (including previous articles from the NYT) skip over this basic key to his success: For a year now, he has been actively reaching out, listening, and talking to absolutely every group he can to understand their concerns and see how they can work together.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This is exactly how I feel about my cookbooks -- I love flipping to a favorite recipe and seeing smears and stains from previous attempts, my olive-oil fingerprints pressed into the margins where I had once hastily turned the page.

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da light jacket aficionado @swizzard.pizza · 03/10/2025

shout-outs to the best bathroom heating system of all time, A Hot Tube

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Particularly infuriating: weekends are the best time for electeds to work with the groundswell of activists trying to oppose rising authoritarianism. Instead, Dem leadership seems committed to hiding from these grassroots movements in desperate need of support.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Imagining this being vandalized with just… direct quotations of Charlie Kirk.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Shana Tovah! Will be making a cardamom apple challah tomorrow, but today the masses demanded garlic-mozzarella monkey bread.

A monkey bread cools in a Bundt pan on a wire rack.

A close-up of the texture of an herby, cheese-filled monkey bread.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Riding To the airport listening to the Hot 97 drivetime DJs explaining to their audience how media conglomeration is aligned with the rise of authoritarianism and the curtailing of free expression. What a time to be alive.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

fuck off you did this

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We should, in fact, deepen our divisions with ardent ethnonationalists. We should not make space for them or normalize them or laud them for their dedication to *spirited debate* about whether Black people are mentally deficient or gay people should be stoned to death.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This is really shameful and pathetic, even for Kash Patel. Maybe have qualified law enforcement people head the FBI instead of professional shit posters.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I *wish* this were the Democratic Party’s job. Unfortunately, its primary role is to *reelect incumbent Democrats,* which is why it focuses on amassing cash and moderating rightward rather than representing the interests of its party members from whom it derives little guidance.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 16/09/2025

Rather than offering a real alternative to the status quo, this crop of candidates is repackaging the boring, moderate politics of the Democratic establishment with inauthentic videos and forced rhetoric.

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Beware the Centrist Dweebs Trying to Ape Zohran Mamdani

All over the country, young Democratic candidates are running seemingly Mamdani-style campaigns. But check the fine print.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

At my kids’ elementary school PTO meeting. The update on the upcoming active shooter drill, where our kids are taught to huddle silently in the dark, is between announcements about the cellphone policy and fall carnival, because preparing children for these horrors is just mundane and normal now.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

huh, guess he really did love Charlie Kirk like one of his sons.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

By 2:15 PM today, people started lining up in front of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse to get a seat for Luigi Mangione’s courtroom appearance tomorrow. The blue tents are paid line-sitters who apparently make about $25/hr.

A view of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse from across the street, where a line has formed.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

No, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, New Yorkers are asking why NY electeds who claim to be Democratic “leadership” are getting lapped by a Maryland Senator. Jeffries and Schumer look weaker and less relevant every day they don’t endorse the Democratic nominee for Mayor over a sex pest and a crook.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Got to screen print a bunch of Jews For Zohran swag ahead of their 200-person JVP/JFREJ canvass in Brooklyn!

Three t-shirts screen-printed with “NYC Jews For Zohran” in the shape of a Z surrounded by the text, “CHILDCARE FOR ALL — FAST FREE BUSES — FREEZE THE RENT”

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It seems like a foregone conclusion we'll soon have our first (known) mass shooting where the perpetrator is instructed and encouraged by AI.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/09/2025

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Take notes, folks.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Trump is just saying “yeah we got the guy and we’ll talk about it later” which all but guarantees the suspect‘s background and politics are *deeply inconvenient* to Trump and MAGA.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Hey remember every time people said defended Congressional Democrats’ inaction because they couldn’t just ignore the filibuster if they felt like it? so yeah

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Kirk said “Jewish communities have been pushing the... hatred against whites they claim to want people to stop using against them,” that "Jews are... financing cultural Marxism," that Jews control "colleges... nonprofits... Hollywood... all of it." This is the "debate" Charlie Kirk engaged in.

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

As predicted, the right wing zionist hasbara machine is hurrying to make Charlie Kirk a hero to Jews.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

when I was at summer camp someone graffitied my bunk, B-12. the graffiti said "B-12 rules, B-11 drools" or something like that. one of the counselors looked at it and said, "the B-12 kids are do smart to do this, and the B-11 kids are not smart enough to do this." he was right, it was a staffer.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Here is the entirety of this story which you must register for at least a free account to even read past the second graph which I foolishly did do bc I was sure they would have printed what the words were in the story under where they fade the print out in a way that makes u think they will do that

Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.

The older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle was discovered in the woods near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting at Utah Valley University, wrapped in a towel with a spent cartridge still in the chamber, the sources said. There were also three unspent rounds in the magazine, all with wording on them.

Kirk, 31, was onstage going back and forth with a student about mass shootings involving transgender people when he was targeted, according to videos of the attack. The student has not been publicly identified.

The first two paragraphs, but the second paragraph fades into invisibility by the end lol

Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.

The older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle was discovered in the woods near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting at Utah Valley University, wrapped in a towel with a spent cartridge still in the chamber, the sources said. There were also three unspent rounds in the magazine all with wording on them

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Charlie Kirk was a fascist. His murder was another example of the continuous political violence woven into the fabric of this country, violence Kirk spent his life defending and promoting. Addressing this violence means pushing against everything Kirk stood for. We don’t need to pretend otherwise.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2025

Deseret news reporter stating that the Utah speaker confirms that Charlie Kirk has died.

A tweet from Brigham Tomco (@BrighamTomco, marked as a paid account) posted on September 10, 2025. The tweet reads: "Utah Speaker Mike Schultz confirms Charlie Kirk is dead." It includes a quoted tweet from the same user saying: "Someone just shot at Charlie Kirk at his Utah Valley University 'Prove Me Wrong' tour stop. The crowd saw Charlie Kirk fall out of his chair." The tweet shows it was last edited at 4:13 PM and has 142.5K views.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Happy Sunday from our local elementary school garden where the kids and their grown-ups are training trellis vines, replanting strawberries, and cleaning up berries before the school year starts next week.

A pile of bright red berries sit in a pile in a pink wheelbarrow.

A small, brave vine clings tenaciously to a wooden trellis.

A four-year-old with incredible hair in a braid that flows from the back of a Brooklyn Cyclones hat moves soil with a trowel into a strawberry bed.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This was certainly true of slavery and Jim Crow, plus the reservation system - the genuine American forms of authoritarianism that were so unevenly distributed that people still grow up thinking of this as a country that has never had authoritarianism before

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

There’s also this endless focus on silver-bullet messaging, as though the right sentence is going to give voters a head-asplode epiphany. The reality is that education and persuasion take a much longer time—as does building up trust in the messenger, which this sort of study cannot measure.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I spend more time on LinkedIn than any person should for work, and this AI-driven mental “erosion” is increasingly a topic of discussion. By and large, LinkedIn is *very* bullish on AI, and yet many new AI users quickly report blunted creativity and greater difficulty performing some basic tasks.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Shabbat Shalom from Bristol, Maine.

The sun sets pinkily and orangily over a Maine harbor full of boats.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

more of this please, like a hundred more would not be too many

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

For those just tuning in, Mamdani got his apartment by: 1. Going on StreetEasy 2. Finding an apartment he liked 3. Applying for it 4. Signing a lease Half of NYC rental apartments are stabilized. This is the nonnest non-issue imaginable. This is all in absurdly bad faith.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The many benefits of bringing endless imperial wars home include: - shorter commutes - no need to learn new language to verbally abuse, intimidate - oppressed sponsor their own oppression with tax dollars - decades of propaganda have left many still believing these are the good guys ... and more!

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is so sad, and is going to get so much worse soon when AI can render audio and video in close to real time, burning down forests to feed people’s growing psychoses.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This response to America’s descent into fascism by a governor is so woefully inadequate it may have been better if Moore had said nothing. The issue is that federally controlled troops are marching in the streets of America’s cities, not that they haven’t gone through the right training seminar.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The week he resigned, Cuomo’s net favorability rating in New York City was only down to -3. It’s one reason I was concerned about him running for Mayor: it was actually upstate, not NYC, that pushed him out. Turns out I didn’t need to worry. patch.com/new-york/was...

A news article excerpt which reads,

“Cuomo has an underwater favorability rating with City voters, 37-54%, and an even worse 29-61% favorability rating with statewide voters, the worst ever favorability rating for Cuomo in a Siena poll. In fact, among Democrats statewide, Cuomo’s favorability rating is 36-56%, down from 51-39% in March," Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

safety rope tester at the punji stick warehouse

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

In case anyone was wondering whether Zohran Mamdani can throw a punch. Absolutely brutal (and 100% accurate). Cuomo should have lurched off back into the shadows when he had a chance.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Cuomo: Some might call St. Louis the “Gateway to the West” but looking at its citizens I think we can safely say it’s the gateway to “ugly asstown”, my father was Mario, my grandfather was Andreas, vote for me this November

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I follow a lot of races, and I have never seen a candidate try to simultaneously move *and* punch left in an attempt to run a city he transparently doesn’t give a shit about. It’s really something.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Cuomo is doing his part to address the housing crisis by not living in New York City in the first place. Not to worry, though, Andrew: about the same time you move to Florida, Mamdani’s apartment will be vacant when he moves out of Astoria and into Gracie Mansion.

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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This is absolutely ghoulish and completely fucked up.

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