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Lula has tied the race up as he passed the shortened Brazilian workweek. Bolsonaro is now suing to block 50 union leaders from social media! paydayreport.com/as-lula-pass...

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As Lula Passes Shortened Workweek, Polls Show Race Tied Up –- Bolsonaro Attacks Unions in Court

Electoral momentum allowed Lula to achieve a landmark workers' rights victory.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 7h

stackslop: tenured academics shitting on a cliche version of the academy while abandoning the fight to reproduce their disciplines or secure dignified working conditions for their junior colleagues, all the while disdainfully accusing others of being insufficiently Marxist

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i’ve always wanted to ask Franzi the Bianca Del Rio question: “What do you do successfully? Quickly.”

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Bianca Asks a Fair Question

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Franzi ready to put the SPD down like a horse with a broken leg

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Franzi when the SPD falls below the 5% threshold to enter federal parliament on her watch: “Well the voters have given us a Denkzettel, and the answers are to be found in the Mitte. I plan to continue as leader, of course,”

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The federal SPD is considering making Franziska Giffey, who has spent the past five years losing, in succession, her federal ministry, her doctor title due to plagiarism allegations, her position as mayor, her spot on the party list, and her seat in state parliament, its new leader.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

it's always either The Colleague Who Annoys You or The People In Grad School You Hated Most and like you can literally go outside and touch grass

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Indeed, why spend this much time focused on what people are yelling about and talking about on the Internet at all? Jane McAlevey showed the way: literally Just Do It instead of securing a sinecure on the podcast circuit (to accompany tenure) about how No One Is Doing It.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

More broadly speaking: whatever skill Liu sometimes has at correctly naming annoying things annoying, how are we supposed to apprehend the subliterate interpersonal resentments of the human embodiment of the professional-managerial class as some kind of radical critique?

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A viral Catherine Liu video making the rounds: Liu denounces AOC for freezing her eggs but allows that doing so would be okay "if public health care where all women could access this...were her goal." I know Temu Camille Paglia can't be bothered to read a a book, but what about a website?

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm looking for book PR based in NYC/USA. Independent, curious, smart grown-ups with experience. Has anyone worked with someone they'd highly recommend? DMs open.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The great Martina Arroyo just died. She's best known for her Verdi, but I've always had a soft spot for her luscious, brilliant reading of the Four Last Songs by Strauss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0epM...

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Four Last Songs Martina Arroyo Günter Wand Brilliant!

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Also die SPD und Grüne wollen eine Koalitionen aufbauen in dem Leaks auf der Springer-Presse wichtiger sind als geschriebene, veröffentlichte, gemeinsame Beschlüsse?

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

„Wir hätten Raus aus den Rückwarts gehen können, aber weil ein Koalitionspartner gleiche Rechte für alle wollte, haben wir stattdessen Stefan Evers zum Bürgermeister gemacht“ – das sollte beim nächsten Mal 4–6 % einbringen

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Emde hat eine ehemalig-Grüne Wahlkreis eindeutig gewonnen. Die Linke hat die SPD in Neukölln durchaus ersetzt. Vielleicht wäre Selbstreflection ein guter Anfang.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Weder Grünen noch SPD dürfen entscheiden ob menschen die 46.1% der erststimmen bekommen haben in unsere Fraktion sitzen. Es gibt Menschen in die Grüne und SPD Fraktion die ich sehr problematisch finden, wurde nie träumen dass ich die aus deren Fraktionen rauskicken dürfte.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Perhaps the trade unions, community and environmental groups, and civil society organizations near to the SPD and Greens will have something to say about this? Now would be the time.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If those parties’ leaders want to form a coalition of losers with a tiny, unstable majority to ram through unpopular cuts, that’s their right. Their members can decide whether to approve it and voters can decide whether they’re worth ever voting for again.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

SPD and Greens, who suffered massive losses in the most recent elections, have broken off coalition negotiations with Die Linke because the party refuses to ignore the vote to socialize housing, recognizes Palestine’s right to exist as well as Israel’s, and won’t exclude its MPs at their will.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The German state has arrested people and accused them of hating Jews for wearing Palestine-colored maps of Palestine/Israel that don’t show the borders between the State and the occupied territories. It funds conferences which advertise with identical, but Israel-colored maps.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Wie hier auch die eh schon problematische social-mediafizierung dieses furchtbaren Sophie-Scholl-Accounts mit AI-Slop zusammengebracht wird, weil man Jugendlichen nicht mehr zutraut, irgendwas empathisch - geschweige denn kritisch - zu verarbeiten, das nicht in ihrer (visuellen) Sprache daherkommt.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If the so-called leaders of the Democratic Party are not willing or able to defend one of their own elected officials from a racist witch hunt by a profoundly unpopular wannabe tinpot dictator then they have no reason to occupy their posts other than self-enrichment and love of pomp.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What seems likelier: that a TV star who was driven to a shop in her limo was rude or misunderstood something, or that a sales associate in a small store refused to make commission a $15,000 sale for fun?

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In a fight between a TV star and singer with millions of social media followers and a $23,000,000 annual salary and someone who works in a store, I take the side of the person working in the store unless there's a really good reason not to.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

haven’t the cleggs done QUITE ENOUGH

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Breaking: Franziska Giffey, who left her federal ministry, ran for mayor of Berlin, stopped using her doctor title because of credible plagiarism allegations, barely won, lost three years later, lost her party’s list nomination and just lost direct reelection, considers herself relevant. News at 11.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Other performance highlights include: Met revival, 1985: Price / Carreras / Battle Munich Festival, 1997: Meier / Hadley / Fleming Royal Opera, 2014: Mattila / Polenzani / Sierra

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Or for that matter when La Scala revived it in 1966, in Italian, with Moffo reprising her role opposite Magda Olivero and Carlo Bergonzi?

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Teresa Stratas ’ performance as Miss Claudia Caswell was noted for the coltish, almost panicked honesty she brought to the cavatina “Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?”

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Who doesn't remember the 1960 Metropolitan Opera premiere of Ned Rorem's opera All About Eve, with the following cast? Eleanor Steber as Margo Channing Anna Moffo as Eve Harrington Richard Tucker as Addison DeWitt Blanche Thebom as Karen Richards Leonard Warren as Bill Simpson

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026

Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message

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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Many Black and Germans of Color knew CDU and the CSU were fascists and have written about it. Yes, the released video helps, but their rhetoric and policies have already proven where their chips were laid.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

just found out that Anne Carson, who looks like this and translated Sappho, isn't gay...

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Similarly, in Berlin, you wouldn't believe which political party is being discussed as "antisemitic" in all media. Hint: it's neither the one whose leader employed someone whose apartment was full of Nazi memorabilia nor the one whose general secretary once raved about judeobolshevism.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The El-Sayed v Rogers debate featured Rogers repeatedly intoning George Soros’ name as if it should be scary and El-Sayed being asked about whether he’s a jew hater. That’s how this works, folks!

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Harry Deleiter-Woolley @harrytahini.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The idea that Germans are a rules following society goes out the window the moment you step on a ICE

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Germans: we need LAW and ORDER 😡😡😤😤 Germans: these FOREIGNERS are making our country UGLY and DIRTY 😡😡😤😤 Germans: Here are my bare feet directly next to you in shared public space because I refuse to keep my shoes on 🥺🥺🦶🦶

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Aisha 🇵🇸 @supernaut.info · 06/10/2026

The racism, misogyny and Islamophobia getting dumped on Elif Eralp is unsurprising, but it's also really upsetting experiencing the unrestrained virulence coming from white german men and women.

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