Ben Miller
@benwritesthings.bsky.social
writer, historian, @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027)
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BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027)
www.benwritesthings.com
www.badgayspod.com
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This week, ronald m. schernikau’s SMALLTOWNNOVELLA, a classic of west German gay liberation literature, is being published in English in Lucy Lee Jones’ brilliant translation for the first time. My afterword is out today in @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/innoc...
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Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
bought and paid for formaldehyde-infused gerontocrats who lack object permanence
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
bought and paid for formaldehyde-infused gerontocrats who lack object permanence
every single AI slop farm that tried to make you freak out about this while distracting you from the genuinely evil things going on can be unfollowed and blocked
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
www.inquirer.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
every single AI slop farm that tried to make you freak out about this while distracting you from the genuinely evil things going on can be unfollowed and blocked
Check in with your local Streeck-reading “anti-woke” NLR columnist today. They need to hear from you. They’re not okay.
Sahra Wagenknecht hat angekündigt, dass sie den Vorsitz der Partei Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) abgeben wird.
www.zdfheute.de/politik/sahr...
www.zdfheute.de/politik/sahr...
BSW: Sahra Wagenknecht gibt Parteivorsitz ab
Keine zwei Jahre nach Gründung ihrer Partei zieht sich die Namensgeberin zurück. Sie soll Vorsitzende der Grundwertekomission des BSW werden.
www.zdfheute.de
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Check in with your local Streeck-reading “anti-woke” NLR columnist today. They need to hear from you. They’re not okay.
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We can't vote Schumer out until 2028 but we can make him being the senate majority leader a litmus test for 2026 candidates. Every single Dem senate candidate should be forced to go on the record and state they will not vote for him as majority leader.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
We can't vote Schumer out until 2028 but we can make him being the senate majority leader a litmus test for 2026 candidates. Every single Dem senate candidate should be forced to go on the record and state they will not vote for him as majority leader.
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now trump gets to be like “we don’t know what the shutdown was about, democrats just held the country hostage for 2 months for no reason” and he would be sort of correct
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
now trump gets to be like “we don’t know what the shutdown was about, democrats just held the country hostage for 2 months for no reason” and he would be sort of correct
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all they’ve done is proven yet again that you should *never* listen to some chin-stroking wise elder who lectures you about how *your* priorities are foolish and counterproductive while *their* priorities are strategic and wise. because in the end, *they* won’t even fight for *their own* priorities
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
all they’ve done is proven yet again that you should *never* listen to some chin-stroking wise elder who lectures you about how *your* priorities are foolish and counterproductive while *their* priorities are strategic and wise. because in the end, *they* won’t even fight for *their own* priorities
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democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
the democrats, fresh off sweeping victories, ready to spit in your face and sell you to the highest bidder
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
the democrats, fresh off sweeping victories, ready to spit in your face and sell you to the highest bidder
reëlected to the board of directors at the Schwules Museum—the world’s largest independent museum and archive of queer history and visual culture—with more than 90% of votes.
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
reëlected to the board of directors at the Schwules Museum—the world’s largest independent museum and archive of queer history and visual culture—with more than 90% of votes.
anyone who doesn’t clearly promise to oust schumer should be primaried
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
anyone who doesn’t clearly promise to oust schumer should be primaried
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"They're killing everyone that moves"
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
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Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"They're killing everyone that moves"
this is the same method by which she writes novels!
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
this is the same method by which she writes novels!
mamdani is gonna implement shakira law. if your hips lie, prepare to be be indicted for perjury in multiple jurisdictions
mamdani is gonna implement shandalar law. if you want to add new cards to your deck, you have to wander the map and look for random wizard duels
Mamdani gonna implement Shaaloani law. All disputes settled via shootout duels using non-lethal rounds with all the authenticity of a spaghetti western directed by Japanese anime enthusiasts.
(This is a timely Final Fantasy XIV reference)
(This is a timely Final Fantasy XIV reference)
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
mamdani is gonna implement shakira law. if your hips lie, prepare to be be indicted for perjury in multiple jurisdictions
- Michel Fouzoh
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
- Michel Fouzoh
boomers are acting awfully confident about how they speak to and about the generations that will struggle to finance their retirements
Rowling and Liddle are both repugnant, hate-driven arseholes, and this stuff is saying that believing they are is some kind of wild extremist insanity that must be expunged. How long do we think these miniature Canutes can send back the incoming tide, do we think?
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
boomers are acting awfully confident about how they speak to and about the generations that will struggle to finance their retirements
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Berlin's daily newspaper of record thinks Cornell University is in New York City
First we take berlin mit unserem "everyone is hamas" krempel, and now tagesspiegel wants to take manhattan?
www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...
www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...
Emigrieren Juden nach Mamdanis Sieg?: Zum ersten Mal ist da der Gedanke, New York zu verlassen
Schon lange fällt New Yorks neuer Bürgermeister mit Israelkritik auf. Zwei Jüdinnen erzählen, wie sie seinen Wahlerfolg erlebt haben – und welche Konsequenzen sie ziehen.
www.tagesspiegel.de
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Berlin's daily newspaper of record thinks Cornell University is in New York City
ultras: not even once
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
ultras: not even once
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.
Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.