Ben Phelps
@thisisbenphelps.bsky.social
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Musician and self-declared public intellectual
Important to note that the bipartisan abundance housing "supply bill" is now a housing killer and must be opposed
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14 days ago
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - โWhen your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.โ
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In Montreal, bracing for the storm of the century apparently
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So Ron Johnson's attempted defense of his war powers vote on NPR this morning is something else. He basically said we can't vote on the war, it's too unpopular.
19 days ago
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Brandon Friedman
20 days ago
If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.
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Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion
The cloud giant holds convertible notes in Anthropic. As the AI startup raises more money, this debt converts to equity.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-bet-anthropic-soars-61-billion-valuation-2026-2
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It's a very good *political* argument that "we're paying a billion dollars a day to bomb Iran instead of paying for universal healthcare" but it's not based in *economic* reality. We can actually do both.
20 days ago
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Dems seem confused about messaging again I think the correct message is "Donald Trump should be impeached for starting an illegal war"
20 days ago
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Mad king.
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21 days ago
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Going to war without congressional approval is impreachable
25 days ago
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leak drip drip
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28 days ago
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what did the robot tell them to do
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about 1 month ago
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Invading Iran without congressional assent should be impeachable one would think
about 1 month ago
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trying to punish the elites I guess (I admit to having global entry)
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about 1 month ago
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Patrick Siegman
about 1 month ago
Weโre back, baby!
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think how much happier we'd all be if we were all dead and AI just did everything
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about 1 month ago
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LOL 15% is the maximum he can do, for 150 days.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...
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about 1 month ago
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I starting to think the left should come around to the major questions doctrine.
about 1 month ago
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Elevator reform in Washington killed by the elevator lobby
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about 1 month ago
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Surprising no one, Joshua Bell is in the Epstein files (in this unexplained video without sound, I'm sure he was playing quite well)
jmail.world/jefftube/wat...
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Jefftube
Jefftube archive frontend inside Jmail suite.
https://jmail.world/jefftube/watch/EFTA01197585
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Missing The Point
about 1 month ago
โYou're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.โ
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I have seen a couple "now that the tariffs have been canceled get ready for a rolling fiscal crisis" takes from people that should know better.
about 1 month ago
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We really need to do something about the president thinking about starting a war with Iran without congressional approval
about 1 month ago
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Because you, citizens and Judges, have been EXTREMELY UNGRATEFUL for all the good work I've been attempting to do for you, YOU WILL HEREBY BE PUNISHED WITH AN ACROSS THE BOARD 10% TAX INCREASE. Please vote for me in November!
about 1 month ago
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Expatriot
about 1 month ago
Jesus christ.
www.narativ.org/p/breaking-j...
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BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein Sold Howard Lutnick a Mansion for $10
New details from the Epstein files reveal the Commerce Secretary's ties to money laundering, offshore shell companies, and the Russian Mafia
https://www.narativ.org/p/breaking-jeffrey-epstein-sold-howard
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Who is Kristi Noem's husband and what does he think of all this
about 1 month ago
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The real way authoritarianism happens is when the leader gains control over the power of the purse
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just waiting for a visionary politician to seize it
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about 1 month ago
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Honestly the Epstein files destroying all these creeps is great and hilarious, even some of the worst have still avoided accountability
about 1 month ago
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interesting
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about 1 month ago
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I really worry about Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. and I REALLY worry about the Ellisons doing it. We need to stop this!!
about 1 month ago
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I know it's like we're about to invade Iran but it feels like Trump has been oddly quiet anhybody seen him the past few days?
about 1 month ago
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hmm
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about 1 month ago
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Finally checked out a Claude Code demo and I'm freaked out
about 1 month ago
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given all the wonky policy nerd types a decent percentage of which must live in New York City how is there not a full-time NY Tax state tax reform policy account
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about 1 month ago
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Just do it Mamdani
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about 1 month ago
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New York should absolutely raise its property taxes instead of its income taxes. This article is all over the place and the problem is nobody really understands (including me, a guy that has gone down the rabbit hole a bit on this) how fucked up NYCs taxation is.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...
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Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/nyregion/budget-mamdani-property-taxes.html
about 1 month ago
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these storms we're getting this year are f-ing crazy
about 1 month ago
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Karen Bass needs to go
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about 1 month ago
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derek guy
about 1 month ago
Your honor, I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future.
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Well, it looks like part of Project 2028 is going to be adding a statutory directive to the EPA to regulate greenhouse gasses
about 1 month ago
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I just really wish the billionaire tax were actually well designed
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The California way: never do anything if instead you can order a study report about whether or not you should do anything
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about 1 month ago
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ok so as a student of the modern world I guess we must discuss this important question: Was Jeffrey Epstein good at emails?
about 1 month ago
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The classical music Epstein beat
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about 1 month ago
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No.
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about 1 month ago
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Stan Oklobdzija
about 1 month ago
It would be amazing if there were some kind of deliberative body that made laws and was apportioned according to the nation's population. Until that time, however, we have no choice but to be governed by a 9 member council of wizards whose composition only moves when a wizard dies of old age.
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Joe Cohen
about 1 month ago
"โWe need more housing, and housing follows the laws of supply and demand. If you don't have more supply and you still have a lot of demand, the cost of housing is going to go up."
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So far Arellano and Steve Lopez have weighed in on Nithya and neither of them seem to get it at all (probably generational).
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about 1 month ago
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oh Nithya's announcement has given me such new purpose
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