Ben Jackson
@benjackson.bsky.social
Writer, producer, teacher, dad. Savannah . MFA Emerson ‘23. The Beardiest. Co-host, Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
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.
Because we all know what that means.
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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.
Because we all know what that means.
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...
open.substack.com/pub/benjacks...
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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...
open.substack.com/pub/benjacks...
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...
I try to give you a taste in this week's free Substack essay.
open.substack.com/pub/benjacks...
Flash Friday: Breaking up with Ken's
I loved my local steakhouse, and that's why I needed to leave it.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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...
I try to give you a taste in this week's free Substack essay.
open.substack.com/pub/benjacks...
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.
Me:
John Fetterman, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, Cathy Cortez Masto, Angus King, Tim Kaine, and Chuck Schumer.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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.
Me:
John Fetterman, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, Cathy Cortez Masto, Angus King, Tim Kaine, and Chuck Schumer.
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...
Give my latest Substack a read. It's free!
open.substack.com/pub/benjacks...
Flash Friday: Breaking up with Ken's
I loved my local steakhouse, and that's why I needed to leave it.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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...
Give my latest Substack a read. It's free!
open.substack.com/pub/benjacks...
I just wish Dick Cheney was alive to see this. 😢
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I just wish Dick Cheney was alive to see this. 😢
In 3 years we'll find out the only things left in the east wing when fuhrer Trump destroyed it were the epstein files.
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In 3 years we'll find out the only things left in the east wing when fuhrer Trump destroyed it were the epstein files.
Reposted by Ben Jackson
Hey, did you know Alyssa and Ben are on Substack? Subscribe here:
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October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hey, did you know Alyssa and Ben are on Substack? Subscribe here:
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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.
It's a whole other thing to watch so many of your fellow citizens cheer it on.
We are lost.
October 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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.
It's a whole other thing to watch so many of your fellow citizens cheer it on.
We are lost.
Reposted by Ben Jackson
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!
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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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October 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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...
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
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!
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!
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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!
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!
New free post on my Substack. Give it a read, won't you?
First Flash Friday - "Dangerous Crosswinds," Memoir
Even a brief glance can reveal unexpected things.
substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
New free post on my Substack. Give it a read, won't you?
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!)
September 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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!)
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
New rule: you can't ban drugs if uou can't pronounce them.
September 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
New rule: you can't ban drugs if uou can't pronounce them.
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.
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.
September 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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.
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.
A remake of Twin Peaks but Leland is Mike Johnson and Killer BOB is RFK Jr.
September 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A remake of Twin Peaks but Leland is Mike Johnson and Killer BOB is RFK Jr.
September 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm just saying maybe it's time to release Sirhan Sirhan.
August 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I'm just saying maybe it's time to release Sirhan Sirhan.
There is NO act that can justify the mass slaughter and starvation of civilian populations as a weapon of war.
July 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
There is NO act that can justify the mass slaughter and starvation of civilian populations as a weapon of war.
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.
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.
July 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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.
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.
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...
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...
No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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...
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...