Ben K.
@benjaminkabak.com
Lawyer.
Transit (@2avesag.as), baseball, politics, Yogi photos. Be loud for America.
Transit (@2avesag.as), baseball, politics, Yogi photos. Be loud for America.
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It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
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Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss
October 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss
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Congrats to all the dc pundit class who keep normalizing increasingly unhinged stuff.
Trump says the people who “thought Epstein was the greatest guy on earth, only to drop him like a dog when things got too HOT” are “sleazebags.”
Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?
Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?
December 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Congrats to all the dc pundit class who keep normalizing increasingly unhinged stuff.
What is compelling The Times to repeat the obviously stupid things Trump says? “Protect Christmas” is braindead propaganda.
December 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
What is compelling The Times to repeat the obviously stupid things Trump says? “Protect Christmas” is braindead propaganda.
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GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
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A. So glad my tax dollars paid for somebody to make this video
B. Weird they didn’t post this on their BlueSky account, are they saying something about (((us)))?
B. Weird they didn’t post this on their BlueSky account, are they saying something about (((us)))?
December 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A. So glad my tax dollars paid for somebody to make this video
B. Weird they didn’t post this on their BlueSky account, are they saying something about (((us)))?
B. Weird they didn’t post this on their BlueSky account, are they saying something about (((us)))?
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"an internet witch hunt"
Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official.
This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.
Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official.
This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.
December 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"an internet witch hunt"
Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official.
This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.
Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official.
This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.
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A Great Thing about this site is watching people live-post the Knicks games and 99% of the posts are variation of “this team sucks, the game is lost, KAT stinks, we’re cooked.” And the last 1% of posts are “Whew, what a win.”
December 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A Great Thing about this site is watching people live-post the Knicks games and 99% of the posts are variation of “this team sucks, the game is lost, KAT stinks, we’re cooked.” And the last 1% of posts are “Whew, what a win.”
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Because it is
Jimmy Kimmel appeared on British television screens on Christmas Day to deliver a so-called “alternative Christmas message,” in which he said tyranny was “booming” in the U.S.
Kimmel Tells U.K. Viewers ‘Tyranny Is Booming’ in America
Chosen by a British TV station to give an “alternative” to the king’s speech, Jimmy Kimmel said it had been a great year for the U.S. “from a fascism perspective.”
nyti.ms
December 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Because it is
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Christmas 2025 Discovery: Home Alone 2 and Act 1 of Rent take place on the same day in New York City.
December 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Christmas 2025 Discovery: Home Alone 2 and Act 1 of Rent take place on the same day in New York City.
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It's Christmas. You are attempting not to argue with your uncle who thinks Mossad plotted with undead John McCain and the Clintons to frame Trump for the Epstein stuff. Why not give him the gift of a new Congress that will make him totally fucking miserable?
alright, here's a slate of ten progressive House candidates from coast to coast and everywhere in between who I think could benefit from your cash:
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December 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It's Christmas. You are attempting not to argue with your uncle who thinks Mossad plotted with undead John McCain and the Clintons to frame Trump for the Epstein stuff. Why not give him the gift of a new Congress that will make him totally fucking miserable?
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This is John Roberts' America.
The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.
The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.
December 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is John Roberts' America.
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In NYC there are plenty of people who don't celebrate, and people who do, who dont have anywhere to go.
So as is our tradition, Anyone Comics in BK and Everyone Comics at Queensboro Plaza will be there to entertain from 12-5pm and handing out free books for those who feel left out!
So as is our tradition, Anyone Comics in BK and Everyone Comics at Queensboro Plaza will be there to entertain from 12-5pm and handing out free books for those who feel left out!
December 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
In NYC there are plenty of people who don't celebrate, and people who do, who dont have anywhere to go.
So as is our tradition, Anyone Comics in BK and Everyone Comics at Queensboro Plaza will be there to entertain from 12-5pm and handing out free books for those who feel left out!
So as is our tradition, Anyone Comics in BK and Everyone Comics at Queensboro Plaza will be there to entertain from 12-5pm and handing out free books for those who feel left out!
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Some have suggested not doing anything, while others push to do nothing.
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
Democrats divided over how to retake House, Senate majorities
Democratic lawmakers are battling among themselves over whether they need to review the lessons of the disastrous 2024 election as they hope to win back the House and possibly the Senate in next ye…
thehill.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Some have suggested not doing anything, while others push to do nothing.
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night
December 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night
It’s not entirely clear this is a made-up quote.
December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It’s not entirely clear this is a made-up quote.
Somehow Palpatine returned
New Rumor Claims the Third AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teaser Trailer Will Focus on a Very Surprising Character
New Rumor Claims the Third AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teaser Trailer Will Focus on a Very Surprising Character
The release of director James Cameron ’s sequel Avatar: Fire and Ash has brought the release of the first teaser trailer for Marvel’s highly anticipated Avengers: Doomsday . The first trailer was...
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Somehow Palpatine returned
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American voters after electing a Republican who promises to be a Republican in a very Republican sort of way: "I can't believe the Democrats didn't stop this."
December 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
American voters after electing a Republican who promises to be a Republican in a very Republican sort of way: "I can't believe the Democrats didn't stop this."
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There's a lot of people I respect who cannot come to terms with the fact that this is what the American people voted for, they're getting it good and hard, and there is little to nothing a minority party can do to stop it.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
This is outright Nazi stuff, and Democrats in Congress aren’t doing enough to try and stop it.
WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
There's a lot of people I respect who cannot come to terms with the fact that this is what the American people voted for, they're getting it good and hard, and there is little to nothing a minority party can do to stop it.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
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“Grace periods” for late-arriving mail ballots were not controversial until very recently. (Kansas lawmakers voted *163-1* for a grace period in 2017!)
But Trump wants them banned, so red states have lately rushed to help him. Ohio just joined the list:
boltsmag.org/ohio-ends-gr...
But Trump wants them banned, so red states have lately rushed to help him. Ohio just joined the list:
boltsmag.org/ohio-ends-gr...
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“Grace periods” for late-arriving mail ballots were not controversial until very recently. (Kansas lawmakers voted *163-1* for a grace period in 2017!)
But Trump wants them banned, so red states have lately rushed to help him. Ohio just joined the list:
boltsmag.org/ohio-ends-gr...
But Trump wants them banned, so red states have lately rushed to help him. Ohio just joined the list:
boltsmag.org/ohio-ends-gr...
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You'll be visited by three spirits
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
You'll be visited by three spirits