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Brooklyn Ben

@thebenmiller.bsky.social
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Democratic Socialist, Trans ally, sports enjoyer, multiverse champion, wannabe philosopher, comedian Ask me about lottocracy

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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Oh You're a Nirvana Fan? Name Three Steps on Noble Siddhartha's Fourfold Path to Enlightenment 

[pic of monk]
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As is typical with Tennessee, the main takeaway from the failed execution is that we have layered stupid upon stupid upon stupid.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026
i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can’t help but think Will Ferrell would have been an amazing Odysseus in Nolan’s Odyssey
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m not so naive to think people aren’t getting the wrong message from currents event but a lot of this stops point blank when Israel stops committing a genocide, and a lot of this stops when AIPAC stops spending $60million to take out Israel’s critics from our politics
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was a crazy story. Democrats would do a coup same as republicans if they had power long enough which is exactly what happened in Brooklyn. This is what should’ve happened if our supreme court was functional
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now Ashley Moody. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026
Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...
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New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN
A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Tennis legend Althea Gibson died #OTD in 2003. * First Black player to win a Grand Slam title (1956) & #Wimbledon (1957) * Female Athlete of the Year (AP), 1957 & 1958 * 11 Grand Slam wins * First Black woman to compete on the LPGA Tour, 1964 #SportsHistory
A composite black-and-white image features two historic photographs of Althea Neale Gibson (1927–2003), the trailblazing Black athlete who helped shatter racial barriers in professional sports. On the left, an action shot captures Gibson mid-match on a grass tennis court, charging forward with fierce intensity and physical prowess. She wears a classic, pristine white tennis dress with a pleated skirt billowing around her legs, paired with matching white socks and tennis shoes. Her face is focused in deep concentration as she extends her right arm back, gripping her racket tightly while her left arm balances her athletic frame. An out-of-focus crowd fills the stands in the background. On the right, a triumphant celebration portrait shows Gibson holding the iconic Venus Rosewater Dish after her historic victory at Wimbledon. Shrouded in a heavy white collared track jacket or robe, she beams with an enthusiastic, wide-toothed smile, her short, naturally textured hair neatly styled. In her left hand, she holds a massive, intricately detailed circular silver trophy plate facing the camera, while a massive, vibrant bouquet of celebratory flowers stands at her right hip. An older woman in a wide-brimmed hat smiles warmly from just behind her left shoulder amidst a blurring crowd. The overall mood shifts dynamically from intense, powerful athletic determination to proud, historic joy. This poignant layout encapsulates her barrier-breaking journey to becoming the first Black athlete to win a Grand Slam title.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hollywood has suffered the most in the AI era—with the movie & TV industry losing more than 100k jobs, nearly one-third of the sector’s total employment, over the last four years. Total employment in video production is approaching the fthe lowest levels in 30 years
a graph of US movie & TV production employment
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s like the Rams are paying for every ref call they’ve had in the mcvay era. 2018 nfccg no-call and the 2021 super bowl when they kept letting the rams try again until they got a TD
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A real text I sent minutes before Stafford threw a backbreaking pick six
A text (green bubble) in which i write:

“I didn’t watch the second half but I know the Rams didn’t run the ball enough
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To all the cowboys fans, remember week 2 last year??? NOT SO FUN ON THE OTHER SIDE, is it? Hahahahahahhahahahahahahaghahahahhhahhahhahahahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahahahahhahahabababahababababhahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahajajahahahahahahanababanananbaanananananhahahahahahaha
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me pointing at everyone in my feed: Streisand Effect? Streisand effect? Streisand effect?
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a lesson in skeeting right here from two people who posted about the same thing at the same time
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Incredible opening montage for LSU-Ole
Miss from ESPN there.

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ok ESPN using Fleetwood Mac for the LSU/ Ole Miss lead in video is excellent
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I too have also donated millions to Gaza. I sincerely hope ABC News Australia publishes that headline like they did for Mr Kraft (who solicited prostitutes in Florida with impunity) without verifying it
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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The Liberty Pear @thelibertypear.com · 17/09/2026
🚨 This interview never aired on TV. Jimmy Kimmel sat down with James Talarico, but after FCC pressure, the segment was pulled from television and posted online instead. So let’s share it! thelibertypear.com/2026/09/12/j...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You to See (Video)
Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico never aired on television after threats from the FCC — so they posted it online instead.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16/09/2026
OPINION: "Tasia (Fortune) was a mother of four, and somewhere beyond all the headlines and social-media posts are children and a family waiting for answers. They deserve facts, not speculation," Duvalier Malone writes. www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-why-...
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Opinion | Why Black Mississippians Are Asking Questions About Tasia Fortune’s Death
Duvalier Malone writes about why Black Americans may have had questions when first hearing about the manner of Tasia Fortune’s death.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
LEGENDARY
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Re: the ed Sheeran thing. Even if you don’t support palestine (i do) this is now a freedom of speech issue. Musicians kinda care about that!! Also goes to show when we let people take other’s rights away, it’s just a matter of time til they come for ours. Well done artists! Keep speaking out and up
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 15/09/2026
On Monday night, New York City's leftworld gathered for a screening of "Who Moves America," a documentary about the 2023 labor organizing among UPS workers across the U.S. that almost led to a strike. hellgatenyc.com/who-moves-am...
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Can a Documentary Show Workers How to Fight Amazon and UPS?
"Who Moves America" chronicles a near-UPS strike, and got attendees—including Mayor Zohran Mamdani—excited about a New York City worker protection bill.
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How the hell did we end up in a nightmare timeline where groceries have become both a luxury item AND a health hazard.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This guy got canceled from Hollywood for lying about 9/11. He was on a tv show about fantasy football. Yet the guy with the nuclear football still has a job
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From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL that in 2015, Steve Rannazzisi (Kevin from “The League”) was caught and admitted to lying about being in the World Trade Center and narrowly escaping on...
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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Marta Kostyuk will be a top 10 player for the first time when the new rankings come out She will be the 2nd Ukrainian woman in history to reach the top 10 With Elina Svitolina already there, it also means 2 Ukrainian woman will be in the top 10 for the first time as well 🇺🇦💙
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han is a great read
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What weird fucking day is the NFL opening on this year
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! We’re out in Nashville to remind everyone that Starbucks has become the poster child for corporate greed. If you support workers, it’s time to BOYCOTT STARBUCKS until they stop stonewalling the over 12,000 union baristas fighting for a fair contract!
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It should be a law of the universe that halloween decorations cannot go up until the Jets season is over, which is roughly around week 4
Two old decrepit serial killer-esque life-sized dolls stand beside a chucky doll and the bride of chucky doll. In between them all is a jets banner. These are halloween decorations in brooklyn, which are up before labor day for some reason
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I don’t agree with the claim “trans rights are ai rights” because they are different, but I agree with the premise that if people held the stance that more rights for more beings and entities is usually good that THAT would benefit trans activists and every other oppressed group of people
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I was today years old when I learned Rain Man was a sequel to Shane
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The Hounds of Basquiatball @basquiatball.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
People love to tell you to follow your dreams until you tell them your dream is to open a pizza restaurant that replaces the tomato sauce with yellow mustard.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/09/2026
Rain or shine, sun or snow, you can now break bread outdoors year-round. Thanks to @cmrestler.bsky.social’s work, our favorite restaurants will no longer have to tear down and rebuild their setups each year. It’s official: Outdoor dining is here to stay.
Mayor Mamdani and Council Member Lincoln Restler celebrate the signing of the outdoor dining bill. Caption: New York — we have good news on the menu. Year-round outdoor dining is here to stay.
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
To answer this (admittedly rhetorical) question: It’s easy to be unified in opposition of anything good ever happening. But to solve complex problems? People are going to disagree on method and priority. So, there’s one easy way to be wrong and hundreds of uncertain, controversial ways to be right
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If I wasn’t only hearing about this now, I would’ve won
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A glacier collapses in Nepal. Villages disappear. Hundreds are dead. More are missing. Somewhere else it's fires. Somewhere else drought. Somewhere else floods. And every time we treat it as another isolated disaster. Climate collapse isn't coming. We're living through the fucking thing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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Lincoln P. @lpoldervaart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.yahoo.com/news/politic... We let children play co-ed sports in this country. We have girls who wrestled boys. Girls who played football with boys. The trans debate in sports is the most pointless debate we've had and one that has caused real harm. Democrats, stop trying to meet MAGA halfway.
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Seth Moulton’s anti-trans rhetoric comes back to haunt him in Senate debate with Ed Markey
"I deeply recognize your trauma, and I'm sorry if my comments hurt you," the congressman said.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Anyone else watching The Hawk?
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh, so there was a coup in Brooklyn yesterday
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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/08/2026
A majority Black community in Indiana is frustrated by persistent power outages caused by storms nearly two weeks ago.
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Some homes and businesses in Gary, Indiana, still without power 13 days after storms
A majority Black community in Indiana is frustrated by persistent power outages caused by storms nearly two weeks ago.
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Incredible work! Can’t begin to say how valuable an exhaustive and complete list like this helps to leave no room for climate denialism to stand on
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.
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Brooklyn Ben @thebenmiller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I need more Camp Miasma discourse in my timeline
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