Ben Burgis
Host at Give Them An Argument
Columnist at Jacobin
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1 week ago |
jacobin.com | Ben Burgis
In December, Luigi Mangione was arrested for shooting health insurance executive Brian Thompson. Last week, Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, announced that she was seeking the death penalty. It’s a highly unusual announcement, since Mangione hasn’t even been indicted yet on a federal level.
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4 weeks ago |
jacobin.com | Ben Burgis
On Monday, Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg broke some bizarre news. He’d been accidentally included in a group chat on the messaging app Signal where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Vice President J. D. Vance, and other high-level figures in the Trump administration were discussing their plans to bomb Yemen.
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1 month ago |
jacobin.com | Ben Burgis
Two years ago, J. D. Vance wrote for the Wall Street Journal endorsing Donald Trump on the grounds that Trump was antiwar. In the op-ed, Vance brought up the Abraham Accords between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates in a way that suggested Trump had brought peace to the Middle East by brokering that […] Sorry, but this article is available to subscribers only. Please log in or become a subscriber. Password Login Email Code Google Account
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1 month ago |
rsn.org | Ben Burgis
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest is a cut-and-dry free speech issue that makes two things clear. First, the Right was always disingenuous when it claimed to care about free speech. Second, the Left should never have ceded the issue. Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was one of the most visible leaders of the student protests last year against Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. He has a green card, and he’s married to a US citizen who’s eight months pregnant.
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1 month ago |
everydayanalysis.co.uk | Ben Burgis
Trump: Not Fascist, but Dangerously AuthoritarianBen Burgis14 March 2025This was delivered as a guest lecture for Global Labour University alumni on “The Rise of Authoritarian Regimes in Uncertain Times” on February 15th.
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When I debated Tim Pool three years ago he was (unconvincingly) presenting himself as a champion of dissent and free thought. Interesting to see him be given this fun little treat as a favored sycophant of the most nakedly authoritarian administration in recent American history.
First question of the briefing comes from Tim Pool https://t.co/fPMnLIv68O
RT @RepJayapal: Mahmoud Khalil missed the birth of his first child because Donald Trump is holding him in jail for constitutionally protect…
RT @ryangrim: The 53rd child has starved to death in Gaza while food waits just meters away behind a fence, blocked by Israel
