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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 05/05/2026
The chart on the left, published by the State Economist of Maine, shows the share of population by race/ethnicity. The chart on the right is the same data with a more honest y-axis. Maybe something to think about when you criticize “the Democrats” for being indifferent to Graham Platner’s tattoos?
A bar chart titled "Share of Population by Race/Ethnicity, 2024". American Indian/Alaska Native, 0.7%. Asian, 1.3%. Two or More Races, 2.1%. Hispanic/Latino, 2.4%. Black/African American, 2.5%. White, Non-Hispanic, 91.3%. The 2.5% bar is about one quarter of the height of the 91.3% bar.A bar chart titled "Percent of Total Population vs. Population Group". American Indian/Alaska Native, 0.7%. Asian, 1.3%. Two or More Races, 2.1%. Hispanic/Latino, 2.4%. Black/African American, 2.5%. White, Non-Hispanic, 91.3%. The bars are proportional, so that the 91.3% towers over the others.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 05/05/2026
“2024 Population Estimates by Age, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity” on maine.gov doesn’t include a population estimate by race. Instead, a chart shows that a mere 3,412 people increased the state’s Black population by nearly 11%! Maybe this is related to Maine's indifference to Graham Platner’s tattoo?
A bar chart titled "Annual Percent Change, 2023 to 2024".

American Indian/Alaska Native, 0.9%
Asian, 3.9%
Black/African American, 10.9%
Hispanic/Latino, 4.8%
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, 1.9%
Two or More Races, 2.5%
White, 0.0%
White, Non-Hispanic, -0.1%

That chart's legend states that the bar's color reflects the size of the population change, with -729 at the low end and 3,412 at the high end.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 28/02/2026
Well, it crashed and I had to restart a few times, but I’m proud to say I finally completed the test!
Screenshot of Maniac Mansion, with the root of a mushroom cloud where the titular mansion once stood, captioned "The house and everyone within a 5 mile radius..."Screenshot of Maniac Mansion, with the root of a mushroom cloud where the titular mansion once stood, captioned "...have been destroyed in a massive nuclear meltdown."Screenshot of Maniac Mansion, with the root of a mushroom cloud where the titular mansion once stood, captioned "THE GAME IS OVER"
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 23/02/2026
I have not been a consistent voter in Cornell’s alumni trustee elections, but it’s easy to do and important these days when higher education is under attack by Republicans. And it makes me feel good how much democracy is baked in to the school where “any person can find instruction in any study”
round "sticker" with text "I voted in Cornell's Alumni Trustee Election"
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 16/02/2026
She ran so far to the right of Biden that she was advocating for more pathways to citizenship, a famously right-wing policy proposal!
POLITICO

Notably on Friday, Harris declared her support for "comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship" — referencing a policy compromise that was at the heart of every past immigration negotiation over the past two decades until the recent Senate talks.

That is a nod to immigration advocates who have been dismayed at Biden's willingness to pursue border security measures without dealing also with the status of undocumented immigrants already in the country.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 02/02/2026
The last good Republican?
statue of Abraham Lincoln in Union Square Park, New York City
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 17/01/2026
State Rep. Weinberger renamed a road and now she’s describing herself as triumphant in a great struggle. Did someone really tell her she couldn’t do it? The she should refer that person to the Florida Attorney General for a retaliatory criminal investigation.
"When I first filed the language, I was told it wasn't allowed, that we couldn't do this," Republican Florida state Rep. Meg Weinberger, the sponsor of the naming bill, said as she introduced Trump. She said it required "determination" to get the measure approved in a larger bill that included road renamings across the state.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 16/01/2026
The responders found Ms. Good
unresponsive inside her Honda S.U.V. on Jan. 7, and after they removed her from the vehicle, she was not breathing and had an irregular pulse, according to one of the reports. She also had a possible gunshot wound to the left side of her head. By the time the workers took her out of her vehicle, she had no pulse, and they performed CPR on her as she was rushed to a hospital, the report said.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 08/01/2026
All are welcome! There will be a candlelight vigil to honor Renee Nicole Good and other victims of ICE, Friday at 6 p.m. in #Harlem at the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building Plaza.
please join Indivisible Harlem and other groups for
a candlelight vigil
to honor Renee Nicole Good
and other victims of ICE

On January 7, 2026, Renee
Nicole Good was murdered by
ICE agents despite complying
with their orders. Please join
us as we remember her and
more than 30 others who lost
their lives in the past year.

This is a vigil, not a protest.
We come together to mourn
and to support each other.
Bring a candle or other light.
Check the weather, you may
also want an umbrella.
All ages welcome.

Adam Clayton Powell State
Office Building Plaza
163 West 125th Street
just east of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd
(Seventh Avenue)

Friday, January 9
6 p.m.

Photo https://flic.kr/p/bkraJf
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 01/10/2025
There is a certain kind of Army officer who, after the excitement of company command, finds his career stalled, and who perhaps leaves the service as a major in the National Guard filled with bitterness and resentment.
He may then dream of one day being in a position to make all the superior officers who failed to appreciate his leadership qualities, his insight, his sheer fitness stand to attention and hear him lay down the law about what it is to be an officer, and threaten to fire those who do not meet his standards. In this respect, and this respect only, on that stage Pete Hegseth was living the dream.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 21/09/2025
From Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan
In the dreary late winter of early 1860, no one could predict what would happen over the next few years. Not that they didn't try. At the start of a presidential campaign, in a culture enthralled by technological progress, among people who were often devout believers in an imminently arriving Messiah, and in a nation that muttered anxiously about civil war, it was tempting to try to guess what was coming. The era's funniest humorist used that anticipation in a routine in which he awoke a few centuries into the future to see what insanities America's schoolhouses were teaching about the 1860s.}
People usually predicted the future they wanted. Those with visions of disruptive change were often the young, the radical, those wanting a better place for themselves or eager for a fight, hoping to bring the change they augured. James Garfield, then a handsome young schoolteacher with bright-blue eyes and brighter ambitions, was certain that "the old race of leaders and lights, religious and social and political, are fast fossilizing and fast becoming extinct." Those who had already grown stout with power forecast more stability. The eminent editor and poet William Cullen Bryant wrote that while many liked to debate the possibility of disunion, "No-body but silly people expect it will happen."* One thing almost no one predicted was the end of slavery. Few institutions in American life seemed more permanent. The economy might
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 03/09/2025
Drama queens! I think Cuomo will be a really bad mayor but I don’t think any of the candidates threaten the very existence of New York City (400 years old this month)
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Cuomo, Richard Azzopardi, praised Walden for
"putting aside ego and ambition," adding that the decision "underscores the existential
threat our city faces in Zohran Mamdani."
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 22/08/2025
whoa, this bird just tried to bribe me!
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 09/07/2025
Zohran is smart. He’s got more ideas than just making the buses free, but he knows if he didn’t put forward a very clear, simple idea, nobody would talk about transit at all. People on here are debating the merits of free bus policy as if he didn’t have anything else on his website:
Zohran won New York’s first fare-free bus pilot on five lines across the city. As Mayor, he’ll permanently eliminate the fare on every city bus – and [begin emphasis] make them faster by rapidly building priority lanes, expanding bus queue jump signals, and dedicated loading zones to keep double parkers out of the way. [end emphasis] Fast and free buses will not only make buses reliable and accessible but will improve safety for riders and operators – creating the world-class service New Yorkers deserve.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 16/06/2025
a headline but also a rallying cry
screenshot of a New York Times headline: “No More Local Endorsements by The New York Times”
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 24/04/2025
I’m willing to bet Trump posted this before receiving an invitation, as a form of insurance. If the Vatican said he’s not invited, he could claim they were playing games. Without the tweet he’d be complaining about not being invited, and that looks weak.
Social media post by Donald J. Trump:
“Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome. We look forward to being there!”
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 06/04/2025
What’s really sweet about these comments is that, as a kid, I really did enjoy making signs and imagining I’d become a sign maker, but when it was time to go to college computer science seemed a lot more practical.
screenshot of reddit post, photo of me holding up sign “hands off working COBOL code”

comment by Mohavor:
“That's some nice lettering”

comment by MrMastodon:
“If being a software dev doesn't work out for him he could be a sign painter.”
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 25/03/2025
Do the kids know what is happening here?
a frame from the film Ghostbusters, a man in a suit (captioned "Elon Musk") is aggressively confronting a man with unruly hair and glasses (captioned "U.S. Civil Service")
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 25/02/2025
New prompt: movies where it's wild that they were based on the same source material.
Poster for the film "Idiocracy"Poster for the film "RoboCop"
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 23/02/2025
ATL #SkyTrain terminal is filling up while the train just sits on the tracks. Is this a common occurrence? Anyone know what’s happening?
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 14/02/2025
new twitter logo just dropped
twitter's X logo, inside a white circle, on a red background
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 14/02/2025
They’re not sending their best:
screenshot of article: Two different web development experts who asked to remain anonymous because they were probing a federal website told 404 Media that doge.gov is seemingly built on a Cloudflare Pages site that is not currently hosted on government servers. The database it is pulling from can be and has been written to by third parties, and will show up on the live website.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 13/02/2025
Try This One Weird Trick: ask a conservative to supply one specific piece of information. Their heads explode!
screenshot of facebook comments 

name redacted: a link

name redacted: A very interesting survey click and read

Benjamin Ragheb: A Facebook post is
not a survey. Can you name one thing the Department of Education does that you think should be eliminated?

name redacted: massive amount of funding ...no results, take it away from the feds..give oversight and control to the states ..screenshot of facebook comments

Benjamin Ragheb: I did read the
comments. They are all as vague as you are being. What funding are you talking about? Giving how much money to who for what purpose? Just name one thing!

name redacted: the border, :funding immigrants vs Veterans.. would you live next to a sanctuary city, or in Eagle pass Texas prior to a "secure border" what about SS Payments going to people who have been dead for decades. What about Biden defying the supreme Court and forgiving student loans? Defund the police? Take down statues so our students can't learn from our history. Would you like to find out that someone you love had a secret sex change?screenshot of facebook comments 

Benjamin Ragheb: I just asked you to
name one Department of Education program that you think should be eliminated. How on Earth did we get from there to secret sex changes?
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 12/02/2025
please stop promoting the lie that there are no protests, like this:
screenshot of Dr. Andrea Chandler’s profile, latests post is repost of Maria Popova’s post claiming there are no protests
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 05/02/2025
hear me out, I think this is the T-shirt that’s going to heal our divisions and unite the country #impeach #elonmusk www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/7202...
T-shirt with the text "IMPEACH ELON MUSK" on the front
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 05/02/2025
Here's a graph of the number of federal employees since 1939. In 1970, there were about 3 million federal employees for 204M Americans. Today, there are about 3 million federal employees for 341M Americans. This isn't what I'd expect to see if the civil service had a lot of fat to trim.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 03/02/2025
I don’t know about that. Check out the photo he voluntarily selected to put on the home page of his campaign website. This is his best photo!
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 03/02/2025
Sticker Mule CEO is running for Congress on a platform of “I refuse to think for myself” #NY21 www.wamc.org/news/2025-01...
Excerpt from article: “Constantino, who owns Amsterdam-based Sticker Mule, says he has talked with several county chairs who have expressed concerns about the possible imposition of 25 percent tariffs. Although he supports whatever the president decides, Constantino said he would be in the best position to explain the potential impact on the district.”
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 02/02/2025
Bootlickers: “Well actually the tariffs are only a TEMPORARY measure once the negotiations are done they will be removed and everything will be—“ Daddy Trump:
Trump post: “The Tariffs, and Tariffs alone, created this vast wealth for our Country. Then we switched over to Income Tax. We were never so wealthy as during this period. Tariffs will pay off our debt and, MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY AGAIN!”
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 16/12/2024
Marrying a US citizen doesn’t automatically make you eligible. People in general think our immigration laws are more straightforward and fair than they actually are.
screenshot of article: Jaime's best chance to become a legal U.S. resident was a new program for immigrants like himself, people who were married to U.S. citizens and had lived in the country for at least 10 years without committing any crimes. But, just a few days earlier, that program had been struck down by a Trump-appointed federal judge.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 02/12/2024
Missing? That seems like the whole point to me. If you don’t think so then what do you think @joshtpm.bsky.social is trying to say?
Screenshot of article text: What puts a finer point on the matter is that Democrats often find themselves
carrying the water of institutions which do them no favors or are even
affirmatively hostile.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving from C__!
screenshot of email app showing two emails, first is from CVS Pharmacy with subject “Happy Thanksgiving from CVS!” second is from The Classical Theatre of Harlem with subject “Happy Thanksgiving from CTH!”
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 25/11/2024
I’ve seen the ax-throwing clip a hundred times, but barely anyone talks about Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s role in convincing Trump to pardon service members who straight-up murdered people. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Screenshot: Speculation that Trump might intervene in the three cases began last week after Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth said the president could take "imminent action" in the form of pardons, commutations or dismissals of charges.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 17/11/2024
but actually
poster for NBC’s Awake
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 13/11/2024
I love the intention, but replacing the Like button with this is a willful and malicious violation of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980.
screenshot of the sez.us equivalent of a like button, which is a set of five numeric scales and a text box
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 13/11/2024
I know *this* is supposed to be the cool site, but if I post the same material on Threads, people actually see it:
screenshot of a post on threads with 127 likes, 14 replies, and 13 reposts
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 23/10/2024
Is this what it feels like to manage a hedge fund?
screenshot of my inbox, all the messages are from camelcamelcamel with a subject line like "Price drop alert: $2.70 - Sins of the Fathers: A Gabriel Knight..." with the price decreasing by a few cents every day
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 14/10/2024
side by side pictures of Dana Bash (CNN) and Celia Mae (Monsters Inc)
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 13/10/2024
Small business signage or Halloween decoration?
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