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Ben Jackson

@benjackson.bsky.social
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Writer, producer, teacher, dad. Savannah . MFA Emerson ‘23. The Beardiest. Co-host, Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The jungle primary advanced top two vote getters to the general. Right now two MAGA candidates are leading the polls because the democratic vote is split between several candidates.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
California is about to have to choose between two MAGA idiots for its next governor because it has an idiotic primary system and none of the democratic candidates are humble enough to drop out for the good of the people of California.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Hey friends. My pal @kaseylansdale.bsky.social has a book coming out in September. It's so good, and the cover dropped today. Dig crime fiction? You'll dig this. #firstchance
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Dan Crenshaw lost in his Texas primary. This is not a win. He was one of only a few GOP who criticize Trump. Steve Toth, the state rep who beat him one of the most extreme-right wingers of the Texas. He will win the general election in the Texas 2nd. That situation just got worse for us, not better
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I will not watch the wannabe dictator's scheduled lying and self-aggrandizing infomercial tomorrow night, and neither should anyone else.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The biggest troll Bill Clinton could pull now would be to release a statement that says, in its entirety, "I did not have sexual relations with that man." Because we all know what that means.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Last week’s Substack post contains the porniest paragraph I've ever written and it’s not even a little bit about sex. Give it a read, won’t you? open.substack.com/pub/benjacks...
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Nobody. The answer is nobody stands with us.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
With Thanksgiving coming, many of us are thinking about our weight. I know I am. I'm especially thinking about my GLP-1 drug and how it silenced food noise for me. I try to give you a taste in this week's free Substack essay. open.substack.com/pub/benjacks...
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Flash Friday: Breaking up with Ken's
I loved my local steakhouse, and that's why I needed to leave it.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Them: "Who radicalized you?" Me: John Fetterman, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, Cathy Cortez Masto, Angus King, Tim Kaine, and Chuck Schumer.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Have you ever experienced "food noise?" I ant to get a sense of what it's like and an understanding of what so many of us see as the true magic of GLP-1 medications? Give my latest Substack a read. It's free! open.substack.com/pub/benjacks...
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Flash Friday: Breaking up with Ken's
I loved my local steakhouse, and that's why I needed to leave it.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I just wish Dick Cheney was alive to see this. 😢
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
In 3 years we'll find out the only things left in the east wing when fuhrer Trump destroyed it were the epstein files.
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Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry @sorrynotsorry.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Hey, did you know Alyssa and Ben are on Substack? Subscribe here: alyssajmilano: open.substack.com/pub/alyssajm... benjacksonwrites: benjacksonwrites.substack.com
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It's one thing to watch your government plummet into fascism. It's a whole other thing to watch so many of your fellow citizens cheer it on. We are lost.
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Alyssa Milano @alyssamilano.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Writers! We want your best work for our seasonal series on the podcast. We're looking for fiction and essays that engage with the theme of "Finding meaning in a time of strife." Selected works will be recorded for our podcast and Ben and I will interview the authors! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
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Submit to Story Not Sorry (a project of Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Humans: I hate AI Literally every thinking human: AI slop is the worst. I am so sick of AI. Companies: MEET BRUSHY, THE AI-POWERED TOOTHBRUSH. IT'S POWERED BY AI TO TELL YOU WHEN YOU'VE BRUSHED. AI!
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New free post on my Substack. Give it a read, won't you?
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First Flash Friday - "Dangerous Crosswinds," Memoir
Even a brief glance can reveal unexpected things.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Antifa.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Please let the rapture take them all. (Also, when I see pics like this I realize just how much weight I've lost in the last year. Holy moly!)
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New rule: you can't ban drugs if you can't pronounce them. #tylenol #autism
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New rule: you can't ban drugs if uou can't pronounce them.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I will say this: Charlie Kirk was about his OWN free speech. His organization was very much trying to suppress free speech for college and university faculty. As a university faculty member, it's important to me that he is not celebrated as a champion of free speech. He was anything but.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk is not a hero. He is not a martyr. He is another damn statistic in the nonstop carnage of the gun lobby and its puppets. None of the 100-plus Americans who will die from gunshots today should have been shot. Any one of their lives is worth more than all of the guns together.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
A remake of Twin Peaks but Leland is Mike Johnson and Killer BOB is RFK Jr.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
May RFK Jr and the people he loves experience every consequence of his deadly actions. #rfkjr #maha
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I'm just saying maybe it's time to release Sirhan Sirhan.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
There is NO act that can justify the mass slaughter and starvation of civilian populations as a weapon of war.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and must meet the fate of war criminals at the order of international courts. He is a killer on the same moral scale as Pol Pot and the only thing preventing him from being a killer on the numerical scale of Pot is the size of the population of his victims.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
All war criminals must be held accountable for their crimes against humanity.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Even against enemy forces, the use of starvation is a war crime under the Geneva conventions. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Inflicting starvation on a population is a war crime. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
International law defines intentional starvation of a civilian population as genocide. academic.oup.com/jicj/article...
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The Purposes of Starvation: Historical and Contemporary Uses
Abstract. Mass starvation has throughout history been mis-categorized as a natural phenomenon, or an unfortunate side-effect of conflict and political oppr
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Israel itself now says there is no proof Hamas stole UN food aid-the claim it has used for two years to restrict food aid to Gaza The latest child to starve to death in Gaza was a 5 month old girl who weighed less at death than she did at birth. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/w...
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No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Is it somehow possible that you did not pick up on the sarcasm in my original post?
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Okay okay I know the Epstein files are bad, but does nobody remember that the Black guy wore a TAN SUIT?!
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Never once in history have the "good guys" starved children to death.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Guilt as in culpability not the emotion
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Donald Trump might APPEAR to have Obama Derangement Syndrome but what he REALLY has is Epstein Guilt Syndrome, the symptoms of which are desperately trying to distract from its own existence.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Arrest Tulsi Gabbard
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I've been reading @donwinslow.bsky.social's Cartel trilogy. Hot damn, it's good. I don't know how I slept on it but you shouldn't. This isn't meant to be a direct comparison but if you are a fan of Dennis Lehane you will like this. A lot. #amreading
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Gosh what reason could a man who uses his teenage son to hold him accountable to not watching porn have for dismissing the House before it could vote to release the #epsteinfiles?
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Associated press. NPR News. PBS NewsHoue. Reuters.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Man QAnon got REAL quiet about saving the children, didn't they?
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Ken Paxton is a massive piece of shit who worked with anti-abortion activists to find abusive men willing to sue over their ex’s abortions. I guess that’s my way of saying: if Ken Paxton got you pregnant, hit me up at tips@abortioneveryday.com
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
#epsteinlist
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I'm not the French.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
For the record: MeidasTouch, Occupy Democrats, and Democratic Underground are huge purveyors of dis and misinformation and you should not follow them. Lack of information literacy hurts all of us, and if you are okay with it if it aligns with your worldview, you're not that different from MAGA.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Not for nothing but Bastille Day is coming up soon.
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