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home of ben firke, america’s first and only socialist playwright
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“parthenope” asks the bold question: what if the hottest woman in Italy…was also…smart?!

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I always describe my plays as skin-crawling satires of life under capitalism, but they are also all about 2 other things: 1) Friendship Is Magic 2) Be Nice To Your Mom

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if you live in NY-17 (mike lawler’s district), our new job is to make his life a living hell. make him justify trump&musk’s bullshit in town halls. if we don’t flip his votes in the house, we bind him to trump which makes his inevitable run for governor as a centrist harder

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another perfect show. I love my life

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when a stranger says something weird in my mentions

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It’s vital that we shift the conversation from “if they come for X group then they could come for the rest of us next” to “an attack on any group IS an attack on all of us.”

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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sorry. im too busy with Literature

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hey folks we still have tickets for my play TONIGHT AT 7! come see the psychedelic meltdown of the year! www.eventbrite.com/e/rich-beyon...

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don’t meet your heros. i finally saw the critters from redwall irl and they don’t even talk. they’re just pissing and shitting everywhere.

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

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saw parthenope and the wikipedia plot summary is the most AI-ass bullshit i’ve seen on there

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well guess who looks like Stockstradamus now

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i’d argue this was the most prescient essay of the 2010s. I reread it a few times a year and it always holds up

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the Nazis obviously did every overtly villainous trope you can think of, but they also told jokes and sang songs and got drunk. göring famously was self effacing about his weight. evil doesn’t always present itself as humorless darkness with skull logos and black boots

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new fascistic common signage dropped

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It's at Clarkson and Nostrand if any concerned citizens want to do something legal and put this flier on the windshield! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood

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Q: Oh and 007? Do try not to break your Spy Wrist Watch Secret Watch Concealed Laser Best Watch For Spies Operatives Thieves Students Smart Watch Time Piece

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anyway if you like my Posts you're gonna love seeing my play, Rich Beyond Our Wildest Dreams, tomorrow (sat the 22nd) at 7 PM, university settlement, NYC. www.eventbrite.com/e/rich-beyon...

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ok to be clear—when I talk about stock trades that’s just something I do for a little extra side money to finance productions of my plays. (yes I am aware of the irony of funding my little communist shows this way. engels owned a factory. shut up!!!!) please do not take anything I say seriously

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