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Ben Mendelsohn

@benmen.bsky.social
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researcher-filmmaker-educator-aspiring drummer assistant professor of film and digital culture, portland state university

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
i can't even imagine the freakout if like mamdani or ilhan omar had ever refered to lenders as "shylocks." but unlike them, trump actually has a very long history of making disparaging remarks about jews
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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them. Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
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Maija Tervola @maijatervola.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
”We are obsessed with personal choices – diet, exercise – and ignore the most important determinant of our health. ”Public health measures like universal healthcare, drinkable water, clean air and safe roads have a much bigger impact on our health than any number of gym sessions or kale smoothies.”
newscientist.com
You’ve been sold a giant myth when it comes to improving your health
Diet and exercise will only get you so far, but there is a magic bullet that could make us all live longer, says professor of global public health Devi Sridhar
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
tfw your social media policies are more stringent than your sourcing standards
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/07/2025
more and more people are saying! www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
liberalcurrents.com
We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Trump administration continues to use Jews as human shields in its war on academic freedom. Trump Administration Finds Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
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Trump Administration Finds Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship...At least one person has already been denaturalized...June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns." www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...
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DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Can’t really articulate how furious it makes me to see gentile politicians wield fake charges of antisemitism against Mamdani. It’s not just the plain Islamophobia, it’s the fact that they’re needlessly stoking tensions in a way that puts Jewish New Yorkers at GREATER risk.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
if i’m a middling democrat who’s part of a do-nothing house minority i would join forces with the first political leader in years who’s galvanized voters and is young and hot and cool, but that’s just me!
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/06/2025
I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The most widespread and normalized antisemitic dogwhistles in American culture, by far, take the form of anti-communist, anti-integration, and anti-queer rhetoric.
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Reactionary politics are built around the specter of greedy nebbish urban marxists who want to emasculate civilization & force white families to live in black neighborhoods. It's extremely transparent antisemitism, which is why they need to overcompensate with their own accusations of prejudice.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
the way that no act of right-wing violence ever seems to change the media or political elite of this country's world view is just fucking maddening
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Mira Nair doing the classic desi mother cheek-pull right on camera as her kid is on stage after a political victory.
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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I will never understand this and I don’t know how it ends. Education has been taken over by corporate interests and edtech. The Trojan horse or APT that we let in happily. But we don’t do this for other areas, where they insist on PhD or experience. The hype machine is fearsome
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
sorry i knew i wanted to be a writer since i was six and could physically write and sometimes it's hard and shitty as i work through my ideas and sometimes it's the purest narcotic joy of finding the right words and you want me to involve a lying theft robot? what's wrong with you?
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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/06/2025
Twenty years in education and I have seen so many things that were going to "save teachers time" and then it got weaponized into "if you don't use this, you're ruining your students' future" and usually when that mindless zealousness comes around it's less than a year for that tech to collapse.
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
People are like, "Wow, so the Supreme Court can just decide what medical care you get instead of you and your doctor?" Yeah man. That was Dobbs. They don't give a fuck about us, about precedent, the actual text of the law, the intent of the law, or anything else. The law is fake.
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Ben Mendelsohn @benmen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
cannot believe this man is employed
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 17/06/2025
Incarceration has deadly consequences for everyone – even those who are not behind bars:
Graph showing that as jail incarceration rates increase, so do county death rates.
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Apropos of nothing in particular, Mississippi Masala is streaming on Criterion.
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 16/06/2025
if there is currently no way to prevent AI from ingesting any writing I put online, and I really don't feel like starting a newsletter, maybe I really should start an #othernetworks zine...would it be laughably hipster if I used a typewriter to write it all up? and mimeograph to make copies?
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
You don't have to pay to arm these people. You don't have to pay for their cars, their tanks. You don't have to pay for their prisons or jails. This is all entirely optional, but we keep making the wrong choice.
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Spend five minutes on any law enforcement or prison guard social media page and you'll encounter the same level of fascist bloodlust as you would expect on a neonazi forum like Stormfront.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech
theamericanvandal.substack.com
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Hard to think of an album that sounds more like the Sixties coming apart at the seams than 'There's A Riot Goin' On.' RIP Sly.
Sly & The Family Stone, There's A Riot Goin' On (1971)
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/06/2025
In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders. trib.al/O1jiyie
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The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat
How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 05/06/2025
it’s fun when centrists complain about “the left” being mean to them online, completely disregarding this country’s 100+ years of specific persecution of communists and anarchists
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"They also said they now feel overwhelmed by economic anxiety, making “traditional milestones,” like buying a home or saving for kids’ college, “feel impossible,” an analysis of the research said." what gets me: no one pretends to have or want solutions to these www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
politico.com
Democrats set out to study young men. Here are their findings.
A widely mocked project to get under the hood about why Democrats are losing young men has sobering results.
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
To see everyday people standing up to heavily armed agents of ICE, FBI, every police state agency, just going out on the street & yelling at them & saying shame on you, get out of our neighborhood, & then they do, they turn around & leave, in this case the shouting beats back the weapons💥
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“The government gets to render people it doesn’t like stateless” is not a position that has historically worked out well for the Jews.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/06/2025
reading @leahlitman.bsky.social’s great new book and really struck (as i sometimes am) by the fact that antonin scalia was just a run of the mill gutter bigot
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/05/2025
i continue to think it is newsworthy that the vice president is at the absolute best nazi-adjacent in his view of humanity
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
lol I just got momentarily hysterical thinking about the fact that the New York Times got its managing director for communications to confirm on a Saturday that it is standing by its reporting that young women in China have tiny hands and this is why Apple has its factories there
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Coming out soon: www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/
cover banner for AI and the Environment episode of Machine Ethics podcast
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
These pieces never really seem to mention the number of AI boosters in academia who keep going on about how everyone needs to get on board with it and students will suffer and fail if they don't.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Abolish ICE is the compromise position. We need to abolish the entire Department of Homeland Security, which was created after 9-11 with the express purpose of terrorizing immigrant communities, activists, and ordinary people in a sickening display of security theater that does not make anyone safer
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Ben Mendelsohn @benmen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
every “try bringing chatgpt into your teaching” chud is nothing but a good old fashioned scab
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
For those excited about what AI means for the humanities, I'd like to hear a serious prediction of what happens in the future when no one is producing knowledge to feed into the AI Oracles and we have recalibrated thinking, writing, and reading to be something mediated by a chat interface.
newyorker.com
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many
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Ben Mendelsohn @benmen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
leaked photos of trump’s afrikaners
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