ilanagain's profile picture. PhD candidate in English at Brown, studying new media, alternative realities, and intersubjective time. Formerly @BuzzFeed Politics.

Ilan Ben-Meir

@ilanagain

PhD candidate in English at Brown, studying new media, alternative realities, and intersubjective time. Formerly @BuzzFeed Politics.

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You’re fucking kidding, right? We say “Never again,” not “Please pick darker people next time.” Only one of you and @AOC is disgracing the memory of my murdered ancestors — and it isn’t @AOC.


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Reliance on OLC advice will immunize unlawful conduct from prosecution. But there are two big reasons to doubt that OLC protection will be available here: (1) OLC evidently issued its opinion on boat strikes 3 days after this incident. (2) That opinion reportedly says that laws…

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.…



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Olivia Nuzzi is objectively a disgrace to the profession but at least some of the outrage should be directed to Vanity Fair’s new editor Mark Guiducci, who is averaging a scandal a month a few months in and hasn’t gotten nearly enough negative attention for it


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The pentagon has green lit the transfer of Tomahawks to Ukraine, the decision is solely on Trump to approve them. For reasons best known to himself and the Kremlin, he is refusing to sign them off.


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This coward’s name is Bill Ferguson His handle is @SenBillFerg His office’s email address is [email protected] His office’s phone number is 410-841-3600 Flood his inbox, voicemail & mentions If you’re interested in primarying him, I’ll consult for you for free

Maryland’s state Senate leader rejects call to redistrict, weakening Dems’ chances to redo maps “The Senate is choosing not to move forward with mid-cycle redistricting,” he writes. politico.com/news/2025/10/2…



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🎂It’s our birthday! BSci was founded on a simple principle: the world’s toughest challenges deserve thoughtful, interdisciplinary design. We’re celebrating the researchers, engineers & communities who make that possible & inspire us every day. Here’s to another year!💡

block_science's tweet image. 🎂It’s our birthday!

BSci was founded on a simple principle: the world’s toughest challenges deserve thoughtful, interdisciplinary design.

We’re celebrating the researchers, engineers & communities who make that possible & inspire us every day.

Here’s to another year!💡

Either Platner will be forced out of the race before November by a different scandal, or he’s going to be Maine’s next Senator. My money’s on the latter.


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This is worse than some deleted old social media posts. This actually matters for how she would be in the Senate.

admcrlsn's tweet image. This is worse than some deleted old social media posts.

This actually matters for how she would be in the Senate.

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hot take?? i eagerly welcome a Democratic primary in Maine. i say this as a Platner-pilled stan. he will beat Mills! but, in the process, any and all oppo research will be unearthed. he will (i predict) survive it. and then he’ll be that much stronger in the general.

"People are angry, people are frustrated. People feel so alienated from the political system. And I do not think that the answer to that is the exact same kind of politics and the exact same kind of campaign...that we’ve been running year after year after year." - Maine Senate…



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In another post in 2010, Platner took aim at musician Ted Nugent, a conservative activist. “As a combat veteran, that m*therf**ker makes me want to puke when he spews his warmongering macho bullshit. Suck a d*ck, Ted.” “To be fair,” Platner told CNN. “I’m not really regretful…

CNN: Graham Platner once called himself a “communist,” dismissed “all” police as bastards, and said rural white Americans “actually are” racist and stupid according to now deleted posts. cnn.com/2025/10/16/pol…



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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie. apnews.com/article/myanma…


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A senior White House official is caught on tape accepting $50K in cash in a paper bag in exchange for steering contracts, and that person will go to work on Monday, and the entire GOP will be fine with it.


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Acceptance of violence as a means to an end is abhorrent. We should not have to say this; but I do find more and more people defending violence to advance their goals. We need to look inward and recenter our morality. In the meantime, my sincere condolences to his family.


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I do not appreciate everything Susan Collins has been doing.

When asked if she thinks Senator Susan Collins has done enough to push back against things like tariffs, Mills said Collins is in a tough position. "She's in a tough position. I appreciate everything she is doing," Janet Mills said.



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In a normal country, the president having this sort of relationship with the most infamous child sex trafficker of our time would bring the government to its knees

🚨🚨HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist. Trump talks about a “wonderful secret” the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files!

OversightDems's tweet image. 🚨🚨HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist.

Trump talks about a “wonderful secret” the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files!


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Nancy Mace really should resign from public office after the shit she just pulled. She could have gotten an innocent person killed.


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It says everything about the state of our leadership and values that Samantha Power, who won a Pulitzer for her book on genocide and developed a doctrine on the moral responsibility to intervene, has nothing to say about Gaza.


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3 of the 4 governors of blue states that have a viable path to redrawing their maps pre-2026 (Newsom, Pritzker, Moore) clearly have presidential aspirations. And none of them want to face questions of “why didn’t you fight harder to stop Trump from stealing the House” in 2028.

Wes Moore confirms that he's considering retaliating against Republican gerrymandering by redrawing the maps in Maryland to eliminate the state's one Republican seat



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Again, the Tl;dr of the coverup Trump is trying to carry out is that he fired the prosecutor who would represent the interests of the victims, then sent his personal defense attorney to negotiate a cooperation deal to spring Ghislaine Maxwell from prison. emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/tru…


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There’s something so incredibly damaging in those files that Trump would rather nuke his base, in a desperate effort to get everyone to move on, than publicly release the information.

justinamash's tweet image. There’s something so incredibly damaging in those files that Trump would rather nuke his base, in a desperate effort to get everyone to move on, than publicly release the information.

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incredible that the republicans are going to absolutely destroy Medicaid and also build a fucking secret police and concentration camps and Dems as spending all of their time attacking zohran instead of doing anything about it


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