Ben Kesslen
@benkesslen
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freelance reporter with bylines in nyt, nymag, nbc news, slate, and mit tech review. working on a novel. they/them. [email protected]
Joined May 2017
RT @ZohranKMamdani: The cowardice of private hospital executives and our disgraced Mayor does not speak for this city. When anyone’s right…
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RT @daniel_lefferts: New short story from me in The Baffler. It features rich Hudson Valley gays, a disastrous hookup, and a cameo by Aliso…
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it's always really funny when someone important tweets something about being a nazi or a racist and then a historian retweets it and goes "im a professional historian. and i need you to know how bad this is"....like wow i didnt realize. thank u, professor.
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"she got so close I could smell her shampoo"....no bro thats her hair mask!!
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her being Stephanie ruhle’s wario…
Mace: I tell my colleagues across the aisle: take your salty tears and sit right back down
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i don’t know anything about film but i know i got nauseous watching it
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RT @JanellePierzina: @Slaygio Maybe because I don’t live on twitter like you jobless nerds do?
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cant concern myslf with microplastics...this is out of my control. i will have two to three spoons in my brain by the time i die and that's just how it will be
im having an extreme body horror experience after reading this i want the spoon removed how can i get the spoon out i need to get the spoon out
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RT @chayesmatthew: The rabbi who held up the referenced sign (“MR. MAYOR: SHOW MERCY TO OUR IMMIGRANT FRIENDS!”) is from a Manhattan synago…
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RT @jackmirkinson: Such a good piece in @thenation today from @emotrophywife about the current campaign of anti-trans terror—and why polici…
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RT @emotrophywife: I wrote about the right to bathrooms, trans rights, executive orders, personhood, the history of politicizing peeing, Su…
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@AreisReising yeah im sure they are. but many hospitals are already pausing this care and i can see private hospitals finding ways to get out of providing youth GAC altogether. even with ny's new law. i think its gonna get very messy and places like nyu won't be trying to do the right thing
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@AreisReising i think the bigger issue is nothing is stopping these providers from scrapping care for trans kids. they don't need to do it and they seem happy to drop it
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