Benjamin Ryan
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SCOOP: Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application 🧵⬇️I report with @DanaRubinstein and @NPFandos for @NYTimes: Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the…
Amid all the noise, it can be hard to figure out the facts of the Epstein-Trump relationship. Here is a year-by-year timeline thread summarizing their connections (with sourcing and documentation) from 1990 until present. 🧵 1/17
Today would have been my dad’s 74th birthday. This season carries gravity. Father’s Day, his birthday, and the anniversary of his passing all fall within 60 days. For me, grief has no straight path. It revisits, reshapes, and rises when I least expect it. But alongside it…
Scoop: A WSJ reporter was slated to be part of the travel pool this weekend when Trump travels to Scotland. After the paper's Epstein story last week, the WH booted them from the pool. w/ @iriesentner politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
If you want to understand Trump & the puzzling moves he's making re: Epstein, read @maggieNYT's definitive biography "Confidence Man." This, from the prologue, is like a Rosetta Stone for understanding Trump's seemingly chaotic or unpredictable behavior. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/668293/c…
This is what intense chemo and being pumped with steroids did to me in just three months three years ago. I hope that Chris bounces back as well as I did. (Although I have neuropathy as a permanent reminder of that long, difficult summer.)
Here’s a little snapshot of what intense chemo and being pumped with steroids daily has done to me in just 3 months. Small price to pay to get your life back though.
A large study including more than 130,000 people in the U.S. revealed that the shingles vaccine (Shingrix) and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine (Arexyv) are associated with a reduced risk of dementia. sciencealert.com/huge-study-rev…
Better yet, it was hosted by Eric from Real World New York.
MTV had a show in the early 90s called The Grind that was just people dancing to music
Cash on hand as of June 30: Republican National Committee: $80.8 million Democratic National Committee: $15.2 million
Amanda is very wise.
You are not your reputation. Your reputation matters the way your bank balance matters: it affects your possibilities in life. But if you mistake yourself for your reputation, you will suffer.
Trump has just posted an AI clip of Obama getting arrested in the Oval Office while Trump looks on—to the tune of “YMCA.”
I’m sad for youth who will inevitably outsource their writing to ChatGPT. It will impoverish their minds and in turn the world at large.
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
i laughed so hard i had an asthma attack when i read this tweet
This is misinformation about #monkeypox. The outbreak is occurring almost entirely among men who have sex with me. Public health experts agree that sexual contact is the principle driver of transmission and have asserted that risk to kids remains *very low*.