Ben Miller

Do you want to study writing with me? I'm teaching Nonfiction II this fall with @berlinwriters.bsky.social –– some experience required, contact me if you have any questions! berlinwritersworkshop.com/events/2026/...

asking independent scholars to pay a registration fee for the privilege of doing several days of free work at an academic conference...

no amnesty

Sadness face.

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

I’m waiting for us to start talking about the soft antivax on the left that so often leads people to the right or far right: woo woo influencers talking about toxins, ideological denial of vaccine effectiveness by people who seek to advocate for other health interventions.

My President

This is who we're destroying the welfare state to fight.

Kombiniert mit der Vehemenz, mit der die Vergesellschaftung diskreditiert wird, zeigt das schon: irgendwie geht es gerade ums Prinzip

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

they organized to beat the algorithm

Lula Goes HARD

Figlio impuro di Bolsonaro, parli tu di disonore? Meretrice indegna e oscena, in te cada il mio rossore. Profanato è il soglio brasiliano, vil bastardo, dal tuo piè!

Banning online gambling and giving people an extra day off

the immortal science of marxism-lulaism

DEU LULA

new from prof. dr. boyfriend! 🔥🔥🖤🖤

if you’re still pulling the “i’m not one of those PRETENTIOUS LITERARY TYPES” reverse snobbery acts in the age of AI slop …

Islamogauchism is the Judeobolshevism of the 21st century, and Merz and Macron our Von Papens and Hindenburgs.

“The images from France” that shock me are of cops tear gassing preteens point blank and a President stripping citizens of their freedom of assembly and protest by decree.

„Die Bilder aus Frankreich“ ich kann’s nicht mehr hören. Hier sind völlig legitime und wichtige Demos am Laufen. Gestern war ne Demo der Interfac von Hôpital bis Bastille, die Macron verbieten wollte aber von Gerichten erlaubt wurde. Völlig normale Demo, nix passiert.

ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

A collective statement from the board of the Schwules Museum on the raid against Casa Kuà www.schwulesmuseum.de/presseaktuel...

I go back and forth on whether the ruling classes are cynically trying to instrumentalise a voter base who's departed from reality or if they themselves have departed from reality

A fun reminder of who Franziska Giffey is and what she stands for: asked about the new Berlin government's plans to extend voting rights to non-EU foreigners after five years of living here, she said "the shocking images from France should warn us" against doing so.

Null überrascht, dass die Person, die gerade in der U-Bahn in Neukölln aus dem Nichts eine Gruppe queerer Frauen belästigte und, als ich dazwischenkam, sie und mich mit dem Tod bedrohte, ein blonder, gewöhnlich gekleideter junger Mann mit akzentfreiem Deutsch war.

Durchsuchung in Berlin-Kreuzberg: Polizei razzt queeres Zentrum Ich hätte da sein können, ich bin eine dieser gefährlichen Personen. Death before detransition

Losing loser warns: "winning has grave effects."

The most important sentence in the Berlin Sondierung paper. It's up to us to make it true.

All three of Die Linke's headline campaign promises have made it into the potential coalition agreement.

Liebe CDU, lieber Bodo – Vanessa Emde ist weder Hitler noch ein rechtsradikaler Siedler, der eine 64-jährige Journalistin fast zu Tode prügelt. Diese Hetze gegen eine Lokalpolitikerin erreicht ein Niveau, das Gewalt gegen ihre Person begünstigen kann.

Berlin‘s new governing coalition set to socialize 150,000 units of housing 👀

Lula has tied the race up as he passed the shortened Brazilian workweek. Bolsonaro is now suing to block 50 union leaders from social media! paydayreport.com/as-lula-pass...

stackslop: tenured academics shitting on a cliche version of the academy while abandoning the fight to reproduce their disciplines or secure dignified working conditions for their junior colleagues, all the while disdainfully accusing others of being insufficiently Marxist

girl what ?

the death toll of antivax

her mind….

i’ve always wanted to ask Franzi the Bianca Del Rio question: “What do you do successfully? Quickly.”

Franzi ready to put the SPD down like a horse with a broken leg

Franzi when the SPD falls below the 5% threshold to enter federal parliament on her watch: “Well the voters have given us a Denkzettel, and the answers are to be found in the Mitte. I plan to continue as leader, of course,”

The federal SPD is considering making Franziska Giffey, who has spent the past five years losing, in succession, her federal ministry, her doctor title due to plagiarism allegations, her position as mayor, her spot on the party list, and her seat in state parliament, its new leader.

it's always either The Colleague Who Annoys You or The People In Grad School You Hated Most and like you can literally go outside and touch grass