Reposted by Ben Pankojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2026i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP. 149122461620
Reposted by Ben PankoAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment? 321851377
Reposted by Ben PankoAlex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 22/12/2025One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself 1513112392
Reposted by Ben Pankorev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/12/2025it is just incredible how far bari weiss got without ever having an audience other than the rich men she flatters 659146
Reposted by Ben Pankojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/12/2025not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades. 33181961005
Reposted by Ben PankoHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati... 18676463318
Reposted by Ben PankoBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Think about how Marjorie Taylor Greene was actually dumb enough to believe that the Epstein files mattered to Trump, and her disillusionment. There were people dumb enough to believe that the right-wing “free speech movement” was actually about free speech. 438864
Reposted by Ben PankoBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/12/2025I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today 966142624
Reposted by Ben PankoHeather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 01/10/2025There are five hundred and ten (510) days until the next mayoral election in Chicago, set for Feb. 23, 2027. 47115
Reposted by Ben PankoDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025My fav quote in here is from Sen. Gallego: 18615110
Reposted by Ben PankoMelissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...people.comICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-HaulsOvernight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ... 361133845693
Reposted by Ben PankoJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/10/2025so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...404media.coICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t... 731163726930
Reposted by Ben PankoSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025i genuinely do think a big part of triangulation discourse is people avoiding that inflation was the biggest pain point for swing voters 1028329
Reposted by Ben PankoMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 22/09/2025i really have not seen yglesias et al reckon with the fact that kamala ran exactly the campaign they would have suggested and lost. 30978104
Reposted by Ben PankoReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13/09/2025it is remarkable how they apparently have been scared off blue city/blue state approach 1148494
Reposted by Ben PankoPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Just you wait until Bari Weiss hears about this, she and the free speech absolutists at The Free Press are gonna be STEAMED 421552
Reposted by Ben PankoJonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Amazing headline. 49805144
Reposted by Ben Pankorev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/09/2025right now, the Supreme Court's approvals are upside-down without anyone attacking them. 31199
Reposted by Ben PankoRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 08/09/2025The root problem with this piece is that the people tweeting Luigi memes not only don't vote for democrats, they don't vote. 717013
Reposted by Ben Pankojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2025it’s great too that when district courts follow the law as written, one of the chuds on the Supreme Court pops up to scold them for not treating trump like a very special boy 5657661177
Reposted by Ben PankoLawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Three SCOTUS stories before lunch on a Monday when the court isn't even in session perfectly encapsulates how the increasing importance of the shadow docket has completely reoriented how the court operates and what captures the public's attention. 372213632
Reposted by Ben PankoBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...latimes.comSupreme Court upholds 'roving patrols' for immigration arrests in Los AngelesThe Supreme Court says immigration agents may stop and question people they suspect are here illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin. 20731931518
Reposted by Ben Pankothe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 08/09/2025very easy to overindex vibes here and elsewhere but it really feels like the bottom is going to fall out towards the end of the year 1628124
Reposted by Ben PankoAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2025It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah. 517129184391
Reposted by Ben PankoNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 04/09/2025There's a increasingly wide gulf between what you might call "local abundance"—which largely consists of liberal and progressive activists and local electeds trying to do YIMBY-type things—and "DC abundance," which hosts conferences where Oren Cass is a speaker for some reason. 16971156
Reposted by Ben Pankorev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/08/2025looking good, king! 1742030
Reposted by Ben PankoMike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Do I think he's dead? No way. Do i think his health could have taken a sharp downward turn? It's possible. And if it did, the White House would furiously cover it up while decisions are made. Anyway, he'll probably be golfing in the morning. But we can have a little fun before that. 3347441
Reposted by Ben PankoWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/08/2025I just saw what he’s posted on here for the first time in a while and while it started off deliberately meant to be offensive now it’s just normal twitter reposts. The Vice fucking president lead a forum raid that failed and is now just a regular poster here lmao. 935835
Reposted by Ben PankoBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 30/08/2025A fun thing about Star Wars is that every background character not only has an expanded universe book written about them but since Disney declared stuff non-canon every background character now has two distinct histories (legends and new EU) and yes absolutely I need this for the werewolf in the bar 1132619
Reposted by Ben PankoFirefox @firefox.com · 29/08/2025if you don't have at least 3 random beverages on your desk and 36+ open tabs with no memory of having opened them, are you even browsing? 2136323
Ben Panko @btpanko.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Politico did a big article about this coordination among the AGs earlier this year. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...politico.com23 Dem AGs think they’ve cracked the code to fighting TrumpDemocratic state attorneys general have been planning their lawsuits for a year. 010
Reposted by Ben PankoWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/08/2025a very bleak development in terms of my view of the world in the last few years has been both ‘the Israeli govt is much worse than I thought and deserves an enormous amount of criticism’ and ‘yeah a lot of people geniunely are just low-grade antisemitic’ both apparently being true. 552274403
Reposted by Ben PankoJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/08/2025First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out (because the message test performed at a low percentile rank compared to other messages in our testing bank for non college men who opt into online surveys through various consumer reward programs) 111350276
Reposted by Ben PankoYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 24/08/2025Today, Philadelphia’s transit system SEPTA is cutting service by 20% & eliminating 32 bus routes, since GOP state legislators failed to agree to fund the agency www.washingtonpost.com/transportati... What’s going to happen? A death spiral: Worse service ➡️ fewer riders ➡️ less revenue ➡️ worse service 8283108
Reposted by Ben Pankojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2025we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues. 31479401682
Reposted by Ben Panko+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 21/08/2025Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...972mag.comIDF database suggests 83% of Gaza dead were civiliansClassified intelligence reveals Israel killed 8,900 militants by May, indicating an almost unparalleled proportion of civilian slaughter. 501042659
Reposted by Ben PankoMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 21/08/2025They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say 423197352954
Reposted by Ben PankoBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Just got handed a manilla envelope full of chips rather than my usual bribe money from Eric Adams, tf. I wonder where that went. 277086
Reposted by Ben PankoDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025One beat I wanted to hit in my DC pieces: Crime was already declining, and not as bad as it looked on Fox, so takeover was obviously going to "work." You already see RW influencers walking tourist streets that were clean last month and thanking Trump for cleaning up. www.semafor.com/article/08/1...semafor.comHow Trump’s DC takeover divided the city’s DemocratsIn Muriel Bowser, the president has found an unlikely partner for his crackdown on crime in the capital. 319036
Reposted by Ben PankoOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 18/08/2025An obvious, natural consequence of outlawing abortions: Forcing women to endure excruciating stillbirths. interactives.dallasnews.com/2025/texas-a...interactives.dallasnews.com‘A walking coffin’: Under Texas abortion laws, some women are forced to endure stillbirthA San Antonio woman had no choice but to continue a pregnancy after her baby stopped growing. He became her third stillbirth. 416663
Reposted by Ben Pankothe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18/08/2025so just like Joe Biden, Evo Morales doomed his country to fascism, squandering a near miraculous chance to avert it, because he was an old man who just refused to step down gracefully and preserve his legacy 719116
Reposted by Ben Pankoplease be nice to patrick @nicetopatrick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025this is so funny because it also means some rich dipshit didn't bother to buy a few pallets for kindling to make williams feel better 2122
Reposted by Ben PankoLostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier” 169263606769
Reposted by Ben PankoMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 06/08/2025it’s cool that they did exactly what dems are doing now: strategized around a poll tested moderate who looked great on paper and a charismatic young guy stomped on him. perhaps there’s a lesson in all this, oh well 529319