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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump’s Justice Department is reviewing if Nixon got a raw deal during Watergate. Don't hold your breath. It now also claims John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in self-defense.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In an interview on Fox & Friends, Melania Trump said her husband “is doing the best that he can.” That’s no consolation to the rest of us who could be doing better while doing the worst we can.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nothing beats good old common sense – so says my psychic and astrologer.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bernie Sanders announced new legislation calling for a permanent ban on superintelligent AI – and replacing it with gentleman’s C AI.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

ICE plans to deploy robot dogs built by Massachusetts’ Boston Dynamics in its mass deportation campaign. In a related story, an anti ICE group has released its first swarm of android fleas.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s Festival Season in Boston’s North End, which can mean only one thing: March of the Beefy White Guys.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Trump said Morocco is naming a 660-mile highway in the Western Sahara after him -- called Interstate 86-47.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Matt Damon says he's making a Karen Read movie. His only concern is that she'll back out of the project.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

You know the toughest thing about picking apples? Telling the other apples they haven’t been chosen

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Waking up too early has its advantages.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Trump's idea of a surprise attack is announcing it only a day before it happens.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A federal judge has ordered the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to “immediately” remove Trump’s name from the building – and also cancel an upcoming production of “Fiddler on the Roof of the Trump Tower.”

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Mass. Gov. Maura Healey said, while she’s “disgusted” by Maine senate candidate Graham Platner’s “behavior and antics,” she still supports him over Susan Collins. Collins immediately asked, “You mean all this time I could’ve been sexting people?”

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Admit it, if you received a text from Graham Platner, wouldn’t you be praying he was just asking for money?

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

First Trump lie: I'm postponing my decision whether I'll love you in the morning.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The musical lineup for Trump’s “Freedom 250” concert series keeps shrinking with two-thirds of the musical acts dropping out. Even the has-beens are now saying “never will.”

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The entire 13-member Springfield, MA City Council held an in-person meeting for the first time since the pandemic. Number one on the agenda? Whether to end remote attendance. Said one skeptical member: “I’ve come to realize I do my best thinking in the nude.”

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Trump said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche “is doing a great job. Because he kept me out of jail for years.” So did Al Capone’s lawyer, “Easy Eddie” O’Hare,

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The price of gas in Massachusetts has exceeded $4 a gallon – which probably explains why the most popular rental vehicle in this state is now the Toyota Rickshaw.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I prefer "It takes a village" over "I'm going to buy a village and name it after me."

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A life vest recovered from Titanic is on display at the Maine Mall in South Portland. Eventually, it will be tossed to the J.C. Penny store when it goes down for the final time.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Look, it's Trump's approval rating!

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A car crashed into a dental office in Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts. The driver crawled out of the wreckage, took a seat, was handed a magazine, and told the rescue squad would see him shortly.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Astronomers have discovered a “cosmic interstellar tunnel” linking our solar system to other stars. And the best part: It works with E-ZPass transponders.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

A Mass man won the State Lottery grand prize after playing the same numbers for 10 years that were stuck in his head. He said he plans to celebrate by trying to remember his wife’s birthday.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

According to a new Gallup poll, fewer Americans are calling themselves Republicans. In fact, more Americans now call themselves Fred and Janis.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The Pope said God ignores the prayers of leaders who wage war and have "hands full of blood." Rev. Franklin Graham told Trump in a private letter that his "soul is secure," and he is "bound for heaven" if he accepts Jesus Christ as God. Does Trump have the guts to ask a rabbi to break a tie?

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Because sometimes too much is not enough. benalper.substack.com/p/tmi-too-mu...

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TMI (Too Much Information) Podcast This Week

With Myles Morgan

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Pentecostal prayer at a Pentagon Christian service urging “overwhelming violence” against perceived enemies. We’re getting closer to the point where his next speech will turn out to be an intervention.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz claimed on Newsmax that Trump would have “prevented” the Holocaust if he’d been president in the 1930s. And who knows better than the guy who would’ve had no problem saying, “My client Adolf Hitler is innocent.”

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is encouraging the flow of Iranian oil while we’re at war with Iran. He also unveiled our troop’s new battle cry: “Don’t fire until the price of regular drops below 4 dollars per gallon!”

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"It's quarter to three There's no one in the place, 'cept you and -- ok, just me"

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Madison O’Rourke chairs the Spiritual Development department at the Learning Annex in Fort Worth, Texas. She is also the host of the cable-access cooking show, “Mexican Cuisine, the O’Rourke Way.” benalper.substack.com/p/ask-madiso...

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Ask Madison: Get An Inner Life Already!

Madison O’Rourke chairs the Spiritual Development department at the Learning Annex in Fort Worth, Texas.

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