Benjamin Carter Hett
@benjamincarterhett.bsky.social
Ink-stained wretch. Historian. If you voted for Trump please think about your life choices. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні
Hey ICE, you mass murdering fascist filth, go ahead and fuck with my rights. I can't wait to get you into court. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
wsj.com
The question troubling me is this: does this say more about the blessings of AI, or about the blessings of a super- capable administration like that led by Donald Trump?
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
OMG, ICE agents might just be racist goons? I am so disillusioned. abcnews.com/US/ice-agent...
ICE agents used racial slurs to refer to Latinos, videos and texts appear to show
ICE agents in Los Angeles used slurs to refer to Latinos, body camera footage released in court filings appears to show.
abcnews.com
The response really writes itself…
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
Here's today's pet peeve. I get a lot of fundraising e-mail from Democratic political candidates, whether or not they are anywhere near where I live. Of course, up to now they have almost all been about primary races. But here is my peeve: they never say that . . .
The absolutely funniest phishing e-mail I regularly get: posing as @harvardpress.bsky.social about my royalty statement. When I published my first book with HUP and tried to negotiate for a royalty, the editor told me "I am pulling the project until you decide you're serious." No royalty.
Remember that general in "Dr. Strangelove" who worried about "our vital fluids?" It's not just comedy anymore . . . Hegseth Plans to Screen All Troops, Including Women, for Low Testosterone www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
Hegseth Plans to Screen All Troops, Including Women, for Low Testosterone
Pete Hegseth, as defense secretary, has sought to cultivate an image as a manosphere-friendly leader.
nytimes.com
We clearly have a crisis here, probably the result of poor training: we desperately need ICE officers who can murder the correct person. www.cbsnews.com/news/maine-s...
Man fatally shot by ICE in Maine was not intended target of warrant, lawmakers say
Maine Sen. Angus King said he told Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin that he wanted a transparent investigation into the shooting in Biddeford.
cbsnews.com
Maybe you haven't noticed, Congressman, but the pedophile traitor you grovel to supports Putin, not Ukraine, and none of this will happen until you stop groveling to him. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/o...
Opinion | The West Has Let Russia Off the Hook. Time to Tighten the Screws.
nytimes.com
The New York Times' Independence Day flashback quiz: not bad for a Germanist.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Also irritating is the schizophrenia of messages, usually on the same day from the same campaign: "Rush money!! Poll shows us ahead!" and then "Rush money!! We are getting clobbered!!" . . . . www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/o...
Opinion | This Pathetic Groveling Is No Way to Rebuild a Party
nytimes.com
😂😂😂😂😂 Fox News can’t hide that Trump’s state fair project is a flop so now they’re raging at the state officials that didn’t participate.
Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · last mo.Fox host Emily Compagno says that officials who refused to take part in Trump’s state fair/vanity project should be disqualified from higher office. Read more: www.thedailybeast.com/fox-host-emi...
159 years ago today, facing security and economic threats from the US, three British North American colonies were merged into a bigger one called Canada-a weak and poor country clinging precariously to the edges of two empires. I think the country that emerged since has done okay. Happy Canada Day!
Trump is going to destroy the algae's civilization, and then give them $300 billion. wapo.st/4vWAPAW
Reflecting Pool algae bloom is one of biggest recorded in years after $14M renovation
An analysis of satellite imagery of the Lincoln Memorial shows algae levels spiked days after a $14 million renovation was completed.
wapo.st
I’m not much of a basketball fan, but I am a big fan of my adopted city and I am thrilled at the effect this playoff run has had on New York. Way to go Knicks, and thank you!
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo agoKNICKS IN FIVE! The New York Knicks rallied to win Game 5 in San Antonio, beating the Spurs 94-90 to win New York's first NBA championship since 1973. https://wapo.st/4uEvvBd
Jupiter and Venus having their planetary smooch over Queens last night.
Ben once told me Hemingway’s phrase that courage is grace under pressure and this whole piece is an embodiment of that statement @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Stunt Pilot Hunting Russian Drones
A Ukrainian flying ace is leveraging his aerobatics skills to protect his countrymen from nightly attacks.
newyorker.com
Even at a D-Day commemoration Hegseth can't help letting it slip out which side he's really on. He probably needs to keep his right arm permanently strapped down, like Dr. Strangelove.
Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · 2mo agoHegseth at Normandy: "Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not."
Hegseth aligning himself rather directly with the soldiers *defending* the beaches at Normandy, who were, and you might find this surprising, not the Americans or Canadians or British, but rather, and this is interesting, the
Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · 2mo agoHegseth at Normandy: "Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not."
Wouldn't he have had to serve in it, though?
Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦@drrobthompson.com · 4mo agoBut for which side? For which side!?
Big Downfall energy in today’s WSJ “At the same time, the president sometimes loses focus, spending time on the details of his plans for the White House ballroom or on midterm fundraisers”
Or else just sing "Get a job, na na na na, na na na na na, get a job."
Biblioraptor, PhD@biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 4mo agoEverything smacks of gender
