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@stephensben.bsky.social

Brit living in Chicago – professional copywriter, occasional improviser, happily weaning off Tw*tter.

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I know the NYT headline writers aren’t allowed to use the word “shitshow” but they could have gotten closer than this.

08.10.2025 00:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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07.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Noem and influencers” Ugh.

07.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“We’re going to take care of our people.”

This empty little gangster.

07.10.2025 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would like every heterosexual member of the Supreme Court to tell me how much therapy and torture it would take for them to become gay.

07.10.2025 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are you in a “leftist group”?

You’ll find out the answer to that question when the heavy-knuckled knock at the door comes.

07.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Overton Window has now shifted to a point where “My political opponents are radical terrorists in league with Satan” is something a sitting president can say with an absolute straight face and no fear of consequences.

07.10.2025 00:20 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump certainly puts the “pedo” in “torpedoing the American economy for absolutely no reason.”

07.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The one tiny upside of all this shit is that it will keep terrified redhats away from our awesome city.

07.10.2025 02:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The one tiny upside of all this shit is that it will keep terrified redhats away from our awesome city.

07.10.2025 02:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Riyadh really feels like a generational moment – like, a line has now been drawn with Riyadh comics on one side of it and non-Riyadh comics on the other side.

07.10.2025 00:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Overton Window has now shifted to a point where “My political opponents are radical terrorists in league with Satan” is something a sitting president can say with an absolute straight face and no fear of consequences.

07.10.2025 00:20 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump certainly puts the “pedo” in “torpedoing the American economy for absolutely no reason.”

07.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hey “Black people in Chicago” — curious to know if you agree with Stephen Miller’s characterization of your feelings about what’s going on. Sound off in the replies.

06.10.2025 19:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Distance yourselves all you like — the rest of us remember exactly what you did, and know exactly who you are.

We all saw this coming, and you should have too. It’s not like any of it was hidden in any way.

06.10.2025 20:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

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Hey “Black people in Chicago” — curious to know if you agree with Stephen Miller’s characterization of your feelings about what’s going on. Sound off in the replies.

06.10.2025 19:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Just daily torpedoing the US Economy and signing his every announcement like a building manager grumpily reminding tenants not to use the freight elevator after 9pm.

06.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Overton Window has now shifted to a point where “My political opponents are radical terrorists in league with Satan” is something a sitting president can say with an absolute straight face and no fear of consequences.

06.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh hey I thought political language inciting violence was bad?

06.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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About bloody time. #Fall

06.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bloody Sunday is very good. I mean, Greengrass is extremely good at the thing he does.

06.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bourne aside, it’s pretty much all he’s done. This would be his sixth time.

06.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s a phase he’s been in for quite a while,

06.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

50 legal experts weigh in.

06.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Question to my fellow straight people: how much counseling could get you to change to being gay?

06.10.2025 15:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If Biden had said anything close to this he would have been dragged and questioned endlessly until finally issuing an apology.

With Trump it barely registers because he said it just after taking a big dump on stage and just before eating it with a dessert spoon.

06.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh hey I thought political language inciting violence was bad?

06.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My personal view is that what makes a place a “War Zone” is the presence of the military.

06.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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