Ben Steele
@bensteele.bsky.social
Seattleite, mentally ill, just wanting to make the world a little better.
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
I had to scrub through the Trust music video to properly respond to this. youtu.be/CE1xD5dqBcg?...
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I had to scrub through the Trust music video to properly respond to this. youtu.be/CE1xD5dqBcg?...
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The essential item here is the TV crew.
We need to understand that the administration's policy is driven by an optimization function that weights aesthetics over everything.
To be powerful is to be seen being powerful.
We need to understand that the administration's policy is driven by an optimization function that weights aesthetics over everything.
To be powerful is to be seen being powerful.
A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The essential item here is the TV crew.
We need to understand that the administration's policy is driven by an optimization function that weights aesthetics over everything.
To be powerful is to be seen being powerful.
We need to understand that the administration's policy is driven by an optimization function that weights aesthetics over everything.
To be powerful is to be seen being powerful.
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Government should do things.
"Things" includes actually taking white collar crime and sexual predation seriously.
"Things" includes actually taking white collar crime and sexual predation seriously.
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Government should do things.
"Things" includes actually taking white collar crime and sexual predation seriously.
"Things" includes actually taking white collar crime and sexual predation seriously.
Not only was the Kendzior ban the wrong move, but the punishment is so late that nothing @safety.bsky.app does can really be seen to block abuse.
If someone were brigaded off this site, it would take more than a month to start dealing with them. Ineffective and useless.
If someone were brigaded off this site, it would take more than a month to start dealing with them. Ineffective and useless.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Not only was the Kendzior ban the wrong move, but the punishment is so late that nothing @safety.bsky.app does can really be seen to block abuse.
If someone were brigaded off this site, it would take more than a month to start dealing with them. Ineffective and useless.
If someone were brigaded off this site, it would take more than a month to start dealing with them. Ineffective and useless.
Bad policy design. Federal pensions I believe base payments on your five highest years of pay. NYC has set up the worst incentives it can to stop runaway police budgets.
NYC cops retire after 20 yrs at 50% salary. Pension am't calculated on final yr.
Say a boss makes $150k with lots of OT at protests, he makes $230k. Retire now? Pension = $115k.
2026, under ZM, OT goes away, income = $170k. Retire next year? Pension = $85k.
He must retire after highest year. Now.
Say a boss makes $150k with lots of OT at protests, he makes $230k. Retire now? Pension = $115k.
2026, under ZM, OT goes away, income = $170k. Retire next year? Pension = $85k.
He must retire after highest year. Now.
"Hundreds of New York City police officers are ready to leave the force in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) election victory, with some openly weeping after the cop-hating socialist seized the city’s mayoralty earlier this month"
(Note: This story has 3 sources, who wouldn't go on record)
(Note: This story has 3 sources, who wouldn't go on record)
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Bad policy design. Federal pensions I believe base payments on your five highest years of pay. NYC has set up the worst incentives it can to stop runaway police budgets.
Goodbye, Eric Kim cookies. I definitely screenshotted a few on the way out.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Goodbye, Eric Kim cookies. I definitely screenshotted a few on the way out.
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The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
I think watching Chinatown last weekend was about the ideal time to watch a movie about elite impunity.
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I think watching Chinatown last weekend was about the ideal time to watch a movie about elite impunity.
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as much as anything, Andrew Cuomo's campaign represents the bipartisan consensus at the top that consequences and standards are for other, lesser, working class plebes. destined to suffer what they must for the outcomes others merely would prefer. But No Kings should mean No Nobles either.
June 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
as much as anything, Andrew Cuomo's campaign represents the bipartisan consensus at the top that consequences and standards are for other, lesser, working class plebes. destined to suffer what they must for the outcomes others merely would prefer. But No Kings should mean No Nobles either.
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The US invaded a country on pretenses now widely acknowledged to be basically fraudulent, not to talk of the many coups of the 20th century. this fact barely merits an "oops" from the many actors, elected and otherwise, who promoted it, most of whom are watercoloring into the sunset to this day
June 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The US invaded a country on pretenses now widely acknowledged to be basically fraudulent, not to talk of the many coups of the 20th century. this fact barely merits an "oops" from the many actors, elected and otherwise, who promoted it, most of whom are watercoloring into the sunset to this day
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Current ambassador to Turkey btw.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Current ambassador to Turkey btw.
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Once again I must ask, how much use of military force makes for no ceasefire, rather than a “strained” or “tested” ceasefire?
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Once again I must ask, how much use of military force makes for no ceasefire, rather than a “strained” or “tested” ceasefire?
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
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Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free?
Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.
Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...
Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.
Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free?
Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.
Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...
Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.
Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...
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Neutrality and objectivity are not the same thing and are, in fact, often contradictory goals. The objective truth is often not neutral in its political implications, and it would be a useless exercise if it was.
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Neutrality and objectivity are not the same thing and are, in fact, often contradictory goals. The objective truth is often not neutral in its political implications, and it would be a useless exercise if it was.
Inside my personal laptop there are two wolves:
• The conversation on public contracts and local market entrants for publicly owned commercial real estate
• Being followed up with by a guy from Folsom who is currently figuring out who the men in his phone are from a K hole
• The conversation on public contracts and local market entrants for publicly owned commercial real estate
• Being followed up with by a guy from Folsom who is currently figuring out who the men in his phone are from a K hole
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Inside my personal laptop there are two wolves:
• The conversation on public contracts and local market entrants for publicly owned commercial real estate
• Being followed up with by a guy from Folsom who is currently figuring out who the men in his phone are from a K hole
• The conversation on public contracts and local market entrants for publicly owned commercial real estate
• Being followed up with by a guy from Folsom who is currently figuring out who the men in his phone are from a K hole
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More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, about how their army’s two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods without pretext of...
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, about how their army’s two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods without pretext of...
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I know people have a lot on their plates right now, but the opposition candidate who Erdogan most wants to avoid running against is being threatened with a jail sentence of over 2000 years.
apnews.com/article/turk...
apnews.com/article/turk...
Prosecutor seeks 2,352-year jail term for Istanbul's jailed mayor over alleged corruption
Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor has filed a sweeping indictment against the city's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.
apnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I know people have a lot on their plates right now, but the opposition candidate who Erdogan most wants to avoid running against is being threatened with a jail sentence of over 2000 years.
apnews.com/article/turk...
apnews.com/article/turk...
America suffers daily for the sins of racism. It is essential to continue to bang the drum and show how MAGA and other segregation revival ideologies will harm generations into the future to sway our neighbors into rejecting their own destruction as part of this hate.
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
America suffers daily for the sins of racism. It is essential to continue to bang the drum and show how MAGA and other segregation revival ideologies will harm generations into the future to sway our neighbors into rejecting their own destruction as part of this hate.
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“Rina Sawayamanaemonesia” - my boyfriend whom I love
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
“Rina Sawayamanaemonesia” - my boyfriend whom I love
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Millions of Americans can’t read past a fourth grade level 😔
I'm never trying to speak again.
Femininonmonogamummy…
Nonmonogamummanaemonesia…
Femininonmonogamummininominamanaemonesia
Nonmonogamummanaemonesia…
Femininonmonogamummininominamanaemonesia
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Millions of Americans can’t read past a fourth grade level 😔
I'm never trying to speak again.
Femininonmonogamummy…
Nonmonogamummanaemonesia…
Femininonmonogamummininominamanaemonesia
Nonmonogamummanaemonesia…
Femininonmonogamummininominamanaemonesia
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I'm never trying to speak again.
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Anyway. This is how I’ll always remember Bruce Harrell.
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Anyway. This is how I’ll always remember Bruce Harrell.