Joshua Benton (@joshuabenton.com on Bluesky)
@jbentonSenior writer + founder of @NiemanLab at Harvard. I write about (a) digital journalism and (b) southern U.S. history, mostly. Cajun.
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good news, the economy is great again (for americans that thought it was horrible a week ago)
People literally just wanted eggs to be cheaper and they're going to get Attorney General Humbert Humbert plus the return of polio.
Gov. Landry’s tax proposal gives massive tax cuts to the wealthiest Louisianans & big, out of state corporations. Meanwhile, (fake) Louisiana families like Huey & Rose save only $91—one-tenth the cost of the stock photo of Huey & Rose. Louisiana deserves better! #LaGov #LaLege
When Michelle Obama campaigned against obesity it triggered a huge backlash from conservatives who saw it as the government controlling what kids eat. RFK Jr is proposing a far more draconian nanny statism and I’m suddenly a RINO for saying it’s bad.
The Democrats, who claim to be all about health care have stood by watching other countries ban these poisons that make our kids sick. Enough is enough. President Trump and I are going to stop the mass poisoning of American children.
Whoa. This is Ben Domenech, editor at large of The Spectator World and co-founder of The Federalist, two very influential hubs of conservative thought:
you ever try to take one of those iq tests you are into?
Alright Trump is out of his mind. There was every sign in the world, I thought that he had enough of a sense of self-preservation to not go full MAHA. Like I thought he would just try to arrest his enemies, not abolish vacancies. New era of idiocy is upon us.
Very impressed by Recraft AI - a new image generation service that can generate editable vector graphics that you can export as SVG This seems massively more useful than tools that can only output raster graphics
RFK Jr. repeated 10th Grade at our school, then was asked to leave, so doubtfully completed it. But Harvard, where he was a prominent drug dealer & jerk. And - downhill from there.
Absolutely disgusting and insane. The @nypost obtained video from a recent RFK Jr. event where he suggested COVID is a Chinese bioweapon “ethnically targeted” to “attack Caucasians and Black people” and to spare “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people. He then falsely claimed the…
RFK Jr saying he never knew anybody who was autistic as a kid is particularly galling considering his aunt Eunice founded a day camp for kids with autism in 1962 and founded the Special Olympics in 1968 Just a completely dishonest POS
Reminder that Trump campaigned on letting RFK Jr do whatever he wants, including "health for women." We voted for this.
Trump on RFK Jr: "He's gonna do pretty much what he wants as far as I'm concerned. He wants health for women."
I’m reading the RFK news while sitting in a doctor’s office waiting for my flu shot and decennial tetanus shot and thinking about how they’re rolling with an actual anti-vaxxer is wild. This country is about to go full on Idiocracy.
An investigation into a suspicious insurance claim filed by four Los Angeles-area residents revealed a scheme where someone wore a bear costume and scratched up the inside of three cars, officials said. Get the details at abc7.com/post/4-la-area…
.@kadiagoba scoop: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul was detained by police at Dulles International Airport earlier this month in an incident that he described as “the result of a poor decision” to mix Ambien and alcohol. semafor.com/article/11/13/…
NEW GOP Congressman Michael McCaul, who serves as Chairman of House Foreign Affairs, was charged with being drunk in public at the Dulles International Airport, according to a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Full Story: bit.ly/3AHGjbO
I'm not done quiiiiite done with this place, but now would be a good time to go follow bsky.app/profile/joshua…
Let me clarify: Stand by for the funniest news you’ve ever heard in your life.
That we are just snoozing on the fact that Elon tweaked the @x algorithms to amplify the right and TikTok changed its algorithms to placate Trump is a dark time in American history. This is everything MAGA complained about: “shadow bans!” “Interference” “censorship!” “Free…
Roger Stone is reading a statement from Trump right now on Infowars saying Tulsi Gabbard will serve as director of national intelligence
1. This is true! The researchers were developing and validating a neurobiological model of PTSD, which could be used both to screen for risk and to develop pharmacological treatments for the condition. You can read it for yourself: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC64…
Why do we need a Department of Government Efficiency? In 2020, the U.S. government spent $4.5 million to spray alcoholic rats with bobcat urine.
OK, I’m back. -@PeteHegseth will spread racist lies to get attention. Once he did a segment where he went to Mpls’s West Bank (large Somali pop) and claimed it was a Sharia Law no go zone. That night, 10ft from where he filmed it, @atrupar and I drank beer and played bocce.
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