Benjamin Franklinstein

I saw them open for Robyn Hitchcock in 1989

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

"'Hello,' he lied."

They should have named him Villain Blackheart. That way we'd know he was the baddie.

1. Everybody pushes the "Accept All" button to get past the TOC.
2. In 2026, given everything that's happened in the 21st century, anyone joining up is there because they want to blow something up or kill someone.

The US is actively choosing Israel over US servicemen it is placing in harm's way, US citizens who it has left stranded and unsafe with no support, and US allies who it has business, military, and security interests with.

The US is actively choosing Israel over all of us.

I'll give you a 2X2

The title track and Wild is the Wind from Bowie's Station to Station, and Kid Charlemagne and the title track from Steely Dan's The Royal Scam

Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s. (Any century!)
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

Being from Holyoke, MA, I keep getting hung up every time I see the cover of that book. I'm going to have to pick it up, I guess.

Spy was where my favorite moniker for him, "short-fingered vulgarian", came from.

After years of saying it's not worth our efforts to insult regular Republicans, the guy in the oval office is throwing the biggest insults at them and they're eating it up like JD Vance in a pig pen.

For example, this is one of those inextricable entanglements of the willfully careless deployment of the AI that we actually got in the context of the software and corporate industrial decision-making practices in-decline that we already had.

Another way out: All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands As people across the U.S. left react to attacks on Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, canned rhetoric and sectarianism remain the priority.

"We do not know what's best for the rest of the world just because we're from the U.S., and hegemony makes our output and opinions hypervisible."

Authority "comes from praxis, not leftist identity, followers, and proselytizing."
#USA #Venezuela #Iran #Cuba #Media #Military

Farmers roll their tractors down the highway en route to Athens.

Among the line of tractors outside Syntagma, one displays a sign reading ‘No Farmers, No Life!!!’ in its window.

Farmers take to the streets, heading for Syntagma Square.

Farmers stand in solidarity before the Parliament at night.

NEW: Farmers across Greece mobilized at Syntagma Square in Athens on February 13 after a nationwide committee organized roadblocks. Their demands were clear: urgent government reforms, including reductions in production costs and the immediate disbursement of subsidies.

Mar'kwayne Mull'n was a Trandoshan bounty hunter active during the New Republic era

Gene Shalitt voice: After mullin' it over, it's noe-ma'am.

It’s important to remember that billionaires are parasites with a vested interest in persuading you they are predators.

1-800-LWR-GUN$

Oh no, I've developed Poaster's Blindness.

Infographic with text: Only 4% of the world’s women and girls live in the United states, but the U.S. confines 25% of the world’s incarcerated women and girls. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women/2025.html

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate for women in the world.

This #WomensHistoryMonth, we're thinking of all the women locked behind bars, away from their families. They can't get lost in the fight to end mass incarceration.

Hey, waitaminnit, you were just saying we can't give up, we have to push back like two days ago. What's it gonna be?

900 people is a rounding error.

Ben Stiller in full Severance mode doing Tim Powers' Declare.

Rose Glass adapting Laird Barron's Tiptoe.

Any horrible faces of crumpled linen?

Are You There God? It's Me, DOOM

Arborist/schoolteacher/partisan/helicopter assembler on my mom's side and I don't know on the other side.

I'm not a fan of his slashers but I love his supernatural tales. Tremendously excited for this one.

I wish someone would write a global history of anti-American/anti-imperialist movements within our Cold War/GWoT allies, groups like November 17 in Greece. Give the anglophone world an overview of the ideologies of resistance during that era.

Mortal Kombat voice: PRIMARY HIM

This dingleberry can't tell a panopticon from a pan dulce