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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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I will not watch the wannabe dictator's scheduled lying and self-aggrandizing infomercial tomorrow night, and neither should anyone else.

16.12.2025 22:57 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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.

16.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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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...

13.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Nobody. The answer is nobody stands with us.

11.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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...

10.11.2025 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

10.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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...

09.11.2025 12:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I just wish Dick Cheney was alive to see this. 😢

05.11.2025 16:14 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In 3 years we'll find out the only things left in the east wing when fuhrer Trump destroyed it were the epstein files.

23.10.2025 20:17 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, did you know Alyssa and Ben are on Substack? Subscribe here:

alyssajmilano: open.substack.com/pub/alyssajm...
benjacksonwrites: benjacksonwrites.substack.com

20.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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.

16.10.2025 13:14 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Story Not Sorry Submission Manager Submit to Story Not Sorry (a project of Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.

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...

14.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 86    🔁 21    💬 16    📌 0

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!

14.10.2025 02:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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First Flash Friday - "Dangerous Crosswinds," Memoir Even a brief glance can reveal unexpected things.

New free post on my Substack. Give it a read, won't you?

10.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Antifa.

29.09.2025 01:26 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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!)

23.09.2025 21:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

New rule: you can't ban drugs if you can't pronounce them. #tylenol #autism

23.09.2025 00:40 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

New rule: you can't ban drugs if uou can't pronounce them.

23.09.2025 00:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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.

11.09.2025 01:03 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

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.

10.09.2025 23:33 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A remake of Twin Peaks but Leland is Mike Johnson and Killer BOB is RFK Jr.

06.09.2025 15:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

May RFK Jr and the people he loves experience every consequence of his deadly actions. #rfkjr #maha

05.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm just saying maybe it's time to release Sirhan Sirhan.

28.08.2025 21:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There is NO act that can justify the mass slaughter and starvation of civilian populations as a weapon of war.

29.07.2025 12:05 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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.

29.07.2025 11:48 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

All war criminals must be held accountable for their crimes against humanity.

27.07.2025 12:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Even against enemy forces, the use of starvation is a war crime under the Geneva conventions.

ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...

27.07.2025 12:21 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Inflicting starvation on a population is a war crime.

ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...

27.07.2025 12:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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

International law defines intentional starvation of a civilian population as genocide.

academic.oup.com/jicj/article...

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