Ben Harding

Ben Harding

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Outlive the bastards. Edward Abbey Oh Lord, lead me to utter words that are soft and sweet for someday I may have to eat them. Mo Udall Moderate drinker with a cycling problem; Reality-based life form; not a hater. Curious.

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Ben Harding
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“Some…believe that it’s better for pets to get immunity from the disease itself than from a vaccine.” I don’t know whether to 🤣 or 😢. Rabies is not a good way to die, for your pet, you or _me_. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/s...

nytimes.comVaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too (Published 2025)Anti-vaccine sentiment is spilling over into veterinary medicine, making some owners hesitant to vaccinate their pets, even for fatal diseases like rabies.
Ben Harding
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Zero.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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In 2020, Jared Kushner was senior advisor to the president of the United States, a full-time employee of the United States government, and was subject to numerous disclosure requirements and ethical restrictions under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

Vanity Fair@vanityfair.com

Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers

vanityfair.comThe Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in TransfersAn exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former sen...
Ben Harding
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I’m against the death penalty, but I support Testosterone Pete’s move to stream the execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad IF… EVERY AMERICAN IS FORCED TO WATCH IT. With the sound on. And, replayed in slow motion.

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Jason Koebler
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A woman went to jail because someone used her stolen SSN/personal details to open a Cash App account. That scammer then committed fraud using that account, so she's been blamed for it. The woman can't get details from Cash App bc they say the account isn't hers www.404media.co/amanda-smith...

404media.coSomeone Opened a CashApp In Her Name. She Faces Years in PrisonAmanda Smith spent three nights in jail after a Facebook Marketplace scam led to a CashApp account in her name. She says she didn't make it.
Ben Harding
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Boy, is he good. One way to evaluate a speaker is to turn down the sound and watch the body language. Do it. He wants the ball.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

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Bruce Little
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IRS refuses to publish report. Ahead of the midterm elections, the Trump regime is withholding detailed information that illustrates how King Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act hurt millions of Americans. The data from the IRS was originally scheduled to be released in July & updated in September.

newrepublic.comTrump Hides IRS Report on How His Tax Cuts Have Ruined AmericaThe IRS is refusing to publish a report on the real impacts of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Ben Harding
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It’s the journey, not the destination. “He mourned, he added, ‘the path not taken, and the opportunities lost in the frantic race to develop this technology.’” Opportunities lost in the perigranations of a mathematician trying to find a way to a proof. Those are what has been mined by OpenAI. 🎁

nytimes.comTerry Tao Is on the Front Lines of the Debate Over AI and the Future of Math (Gift Article)The Fields Medalist Terence Tao is on the front lines of a debate about artificial intelligence and the future of his field.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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“Today I was brutally attacked by … at least 50 masked men and slingshots …. “I was attacked, pushed to the ground. … Luckily I had my flak jacket and helmet; otherwise I probably wouldn't even be here because they kept kicking me and kicking me, probably like 50 times.”

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social

Heidi Levine in the hospital recounts the settler attack this morning (Video: West Bank Activist Andrey X)

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Helen
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At 16, Corion Evans jumped into the Pascagoula River after a car carrying three teenage girls plunged into the water. He rescued all three, then swam back out to save a police officer who was also struggling. In one night, he helped save four lives.