James Benjamin
@ajbenjaminjr.bsky.social
Psychology professor, music lover, and amateur photographer. I study aggression and authoritarianism. Lifelong Democrat. Taking life a day at a time.
Pronouns: he/him/his #NAFO 🐱🇺🇦
Pronouns: he/him/his #NAFO 🐱🇺🇦
Trump's 'irrefutable fact' about Thanksgiving costs subjected to brutal fact check
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Trump's 'irrefutable fact' about Thanksgiving costs subjected to brutal fact check
President Donald Trump was slapped with a fact-check after claiming that prices for Thanksgiving dinner were substantially lower this year.The president posted Thursday morning on Truth Social that th...
www.rawstory.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Trump's 'irrefutable fact' about Thanksgiving costs subjected to brutal fact check
www.rawstory.com/cost-of-than...
www.rawstory.com/cost-of-than...
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We're losing something that cannot be recovered.
Most people don't understand what we are losing.
There's a lot wrong with academia, but burning it all down is not the best answer. 🧪
Most people don't understand what we are losing.
There's a lot wrong with academia, but burning it all down is not the best answer. 🧪
The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We're losing something that cannot be recovered.
Most people don't understand what we are losing.
There's a lot wrong with academia, but burning it all down is not the best answer. 🧪
Most people don't understand what we are losing.
There's a lot wrong with academia, but burning it all down is not the best answer. 🧪
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May the odds be ever in your favor
November 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
May the odds be ever in your favor
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A Comment article in Nature Reviews Nephrology discusses how little attention has been given to how the termination of 2,100 NIH grants effect people who stand to benefit most from scientific discoveries: patients, care partners and community leaders. go.nature.com/47nCWmG #medsky 🧪
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
A Comment article in Nature Reviews Nephrology discusses how little attention has been given to how the termination of 2,100 NIH grants effect people who stand to benefit most from scientific discoveries: patients, care partners and community leaders. go.nature.com/47nCWmG #medsky 🧪
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Digging up more pictures of the WH garden (East Wing) that has been now completely destroyed
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Digging up more pictures of the WH garden (East Wing) that has been now completely destroyed
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This photo?
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This photo?
Quotable (for those who remember the character Britta Perry from "Community"): "We're the colony so high maintenance the British gave up. We're so obnoxious the French sent us a statue. Nobody tells us to shut up."
#sixseasonsandamovie #nokings
#sixseasonsandamovie #nokings
October 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Quotable (for those who remember the character Britta Perry from "Community"): "We're the colony so high maintenance the British gave up. We're so obnoxious the French sent us a statue. Nobody tells us to shut up."
#sixseasonsandamovie #nokings
#sixseasonsandamovie #nokings
#NoKings Fort Smith (AR) style. I can't believe I am pushing 60 and I am back at protests. I really thought I was done with all of that after the anti-Apartheid protest as a college student 35-40 years ago. Here we are. Democracy should be non-partisan and non-negotiable.
October 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
#NoKings Fort Smith (AR) style. I can't believe I am pushing 60 and I am back at protests. I really thought I was done with all of that after the anti-Apartheid protest as a college student 35-40 years ago. Here we are. Democracy should be non-partisan and non-negotiable.
Revenge of the “Lib Tard:” Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/16/r...
Revenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal - emptywheel
After fuck-up after fuck-up, Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors got an embarrassing acquittal in their effort to jail Sydney Reid for filming an ICE arrest.
www.emptywheel.net
October 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Revenge of the “Lib Tard:” Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/16/r...
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She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.
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ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks
ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks
WASHINGTON—In response to legislation that would ban officers from obscuring their identities during arrests and raids, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed Thursday that beneath their m...
theonion.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks
Is there anyone here who read the original Millennium Trilogy (starting with "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")? The series continued after Larrson's death. The latest ("The Girl With Ice in her Veins") almost reads like it was written by AI. Definitely a bit of a letdown.
September 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Is there anyone here who read the original Millennium Trilogy (starting with "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")? The series continued after Larrson's death. The latest ("The Girl With Ice in her Veins") almost reads like it was written by AI. Definitely a bit of a letdown.
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🚨 Federal prosecutors have indicted Naasón Joaquín García, the “apostle” of La Luz del Mundo and leader of 5 million followers, on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
September 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🚨 Federal prosecutors have indicted Naasón Joaquín García, the “apostle” of La Luz del Mundo and leader of 5 million followers, on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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Didn’t the Soviets build Bagram?
September 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Didn’t the Soviets build Bagram?
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“But why aren’t American women having more babies?”
Such a conundrum.🙄
Such a conundrum.🙄
"St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will close its labor and delivery unit next month...
"The closure is one of Georgia's first casualties of the GOP budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the 'big beautiful bill'...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rura...
"The closure is one of Georgia's first casualties of the GOP budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the 'big beautiful bill'...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rura...
Rural Georgia hospital plans to close its labor and delivery unit, in part due to Medicaid cuts
St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will discontinue its maternal health services next month as its parent company moves to consolidate OB/GYN services to one location, the hos...
www.newsfromthestates.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“But why aren’t American women having more babies?”
Such a conundrum.🙄
Such a conundrum.🙄
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currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
September 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
Not surprised. That thug is corrupt as f*ck
🚨 Tom #Homan, who was later named Trump’s #border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in #cash in an #undercover #FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by #Trump administration officials.
Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Not surprised. That thug is corrupt as f*ck
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First, they blamed immigrants, taking jobs, etc.
Then they stripped women of medical care.
Then they targeted LGBTQ, crying about marriage.
Then they gut universities, crippling science.
Now they are silencing media, punishing journalists and comedians.
When will enough, be enough?
#ProudBlue
Then they stripped women of medical care.
Then they targeted LGBTQ, crying about marriage.
Then they gut universities, crippling science.
Now they are silencing media, punishing journalists and comedians.
When will enough, be enough?
#ProudBlue
September 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
First, they blamed immigrants, taking jobs, etc.
Then they stripped women of medical care.
Then they targeted LGBTQ, crying about marriage.
Then they gut universities, crippling science.
Now they are silencing media, punishing journalists and comedians.
When will enough, be enough?
#ProudBlue
Then they stripped women of medical care.
Then they targeted LGBTQ, crying about marriage.
Then they gut universities, crippling science.
Now they are silencing media, punishing journalists and comedians.
When will enough, be enough?
#ProudBlue
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.