Ben Harris
@benharris1.bsky.social
Resident of the 51st State via Ohio. Lover of 🌶️ 🎸 🏔️ and 🐕.
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I wish [redacted] would [redacted].
July 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I wish [redacted] would [redacted].
Any media outlet that doesn’t portray this as an illegal, grossly unhinged and utterly deranged event is gaslighting you.
January 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Any media outlet that doesn’t portray this as an illegal, grossly unhinged and utterly deranged event is gaslighting you.
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January 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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This feels too on point
January 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
This feels too on point
I have zero faith Democrats are going to pursue this strategy, but every faith they will try and fundraise off of it.
Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.
January 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I have zero faith Democrats are going to pursue this strategy, but every faith they will try and fundraise off of it.
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My country has been at war for 80% of my post-college life.
June 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
My country has been at war for 80% of my post-college life.
Me, waking up and logging into the news:
bart simpson is giving a speech at a podium while homer simpson is standing in the doorway
Alt: Abraham Simpson entering, then promptly leaving, an establishment.
media.tenor.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Me, waking up and logging into the news:
Improvements in bus operations have been significant and represent huge improvements. But the biggest issues—frequency and reliability—remain a problem far too often.
This is a tremendous point.
Only ten or so years ago, buses could be a huge usability challenge for new riders. Routes weren't clear, vehicle arrivals were unpredictable, and even knowing where to get off if you weren't a regular rider was surprisingly difficult.
Only ten or so years ago, buses could be a huge usability challenge for new riders. Routes weren't clear, vehicle arrivals were unpredictable, and even knowing where to get off if you weren't a regular rider was surprisingly difficult.
One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
January 2, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Improvements in bus operations have been significant and represent huge improvements. But the biggest issues—frequency and reliability—remain a problem far too often.
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I was given no choice here
January 2, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I was given no choice here
This is the saddest, most depressing thing. What are we doing here? The bottom can’t fall out of this industry quickly enough.
January 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM
This is the saddest, most depressing thing. What are we doing here? The bottom can’t fall out of this industry quickly enough.
Just add to the list of things to unceremoniously rip his name off of the moment he leaves office.
NEWS: The Trump administration has canceled the 50-year lease given to the National Links Trust to manage the D.C. golf courses at East Potomac Park, Rock Creek, and Langston. The group won the leases five years ago, and had started work renovating the Rock Creek course.
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Just add to the list of things to unceremoniously rip his name off of the moment he leaves office.
Some winter scenes at dusk in the Blue Ridge on this first winter evening of 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Some winter scenes at dusk in the Blue Ridge on this first winter evening of 2026.
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January 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!/BLWYDDYN NEWYDD DDA!
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
HAPPY NEW YEAR!/BLWYDDYN NEWYDD DDA!
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Normal service has resumed on the Green Line, and the Yellow Line now extends to Greenbelt! 🚇
Starting tomorrow, every other Yellow Line train will extend to Greenbelt. Enjoy 4-minute peak and 6-minute off-peak service frequencies north of Mt. Vernon Sq! 🚇 🟡 We’re always improving Metro for our customers.
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December 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Normal service has resumed on the Green Line, and the Yellow Line now extends to Greenbelt! 🚇
Yeah, I dunno, but it can both be true that the BlueSky-ariat is by all accounts significantly more informed than your average U.S. voter, and also that Trump was exceedingly forthright about what he intended to do. Voters were either willfully ignorant of his goals, or willing to overlook them.
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Yeah, I dunno, but it can both be true that the BlueSky-ariat is by all accounts significantly more informed than your average U.S. voter, and also that Trump was exceedingly forthright about what he intended to do. Voters were either willfully ignorant of his goals, or willing to overlook them.
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As we close out 2025, it’s important to check how we’re doing on improving roadway safety.
⚠️ Roadway fatalities ⬇️ 52%.
This is the lowest number of roadway fatalities since DC adopted Vision Zero in 2014.
⚠️ Major roadway injuries ⬇️12%.
Great progress, but more to be done!
⚠️ Roadway fatalities ⬇️ 52%.
This is the lowest number of roadway fatalities since DC adopted Vision Zero in 2014.
⚠️ Major roadway injuries ⬇️12%.
Great progress, but more to be done!
December 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
As we close out 2025, it’s important to check how we’re doing on improving roadway safety.
⚠️ Roadway fatalities ⬇️ 52%.
This is the lowest number of roadway fatalities since DC adopted Vision Zero in 2014.
⚠️ Major roadway injuries ⬇️12%.
Great progress, but more to be done!
⚠️ Roadway fatalities ⬇️ 52%.
This is the lowest number of roadway fatalities since DC adopted Vision Zero in 2014.
⚠️ Major roadway injuries ⬇️12%.
Great progress, but more to be done!
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The past year has been terrifying. Really, the past two—I lost a lot of sleep in 2024 over the promises of the Trump campaign, promises they immediately sought to make good on. But at the end of the first year of his would-be dictatorship, I am calling it: we are going to win.
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The past year has been terrifying. Really, the past two—I lost a lot of sleep in 2024 over the promises of the Trump campaign, promises they immediately sought to make good on. But at the end of the first year of his would-be dictatorship, I am calling it: we are going to win.
We’ve got to destroy the Kennedy Center to save it.
“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating,” he said in an email.
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
We’ve got to destroy the Kennedy Center to save it.
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If you want to see how skewed the construction of affordable housing has been in D.C., see the graph below on where it was built since 2019. (Now, it can also be true that building affordable housing in more expensive areas is less cost-effective for public dollars.)
December 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you want to see how skewed the construction of affordable housing has been in D.C., see the graph below on where it was built since 2019. (Now, it can also be true that building affordable housing in more expensive areas is less cost-effective for public dollars.)
I think I’m an astronaut trying to figure out why the moon turned into cheese. (Courtesy of @scalzi.com’s When the Moon Hits Your Eye)
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think I’m an astronaut trying to figure out why the moon turned into cheese. (Courtesy of @scalzi.com’s When the Moon Hits Your Eye)
Prestigious? There literally used to be a bowl game called the Poulan Weedeater bowl.
College bowl games used to be prestigious, Keith O'Brien writes. Then the college football playoffs arrived.
The Slow, Inevitable Death of the Bowl Game
For college-football fans, the playoffs are now everything.
bit.ly
December 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Prestigious? There literally used to be a bowl game called the Poulan Weedeater bowl.
Come hang out with me and @seriousllama.bsky.social at the bar for some scintillating conversations.
List of obsolete units of measurement - Wikipedia
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December 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Come hang out with me and @seriousllama.bsky.social at the bar for some scintillating conversations.