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.

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

Hey, did you know Alyssa and Ben are on Substack? Subscribe here: alyssajmilano: open.substack.com/pub/alyssajm... benjacksonwrites: benjacksonwrites.substack.com

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.

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...

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!

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

Antifa.

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!)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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...

Okay okay I know the Epstein files are bad, but does nobody remember that the Black guy wore a TAN SUIT?!

Never once in history have the "good guys" starved children to death.

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.

Arrest Tulsi Gabbard

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

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?

Man QAnon got REAL quiet about saving the children, didn't they?

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 [email protected]

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.

Not for nothing but Bastille Day is coming up soon.

On my first Fourth of July owning a dog, I'm very much about to tea party some asshoelsmon the next block

I love my doggo so much

Weird that Ofdonald and her husband Jared Kushner have been so silent this term. I guess they are just too busy cashing Saudi checks to speak.

We are going to take back congress and the presidency- with people who will actually do something more than change the name of a bill and somehow think it's a flex-and erase trumpism from the law. The only question is how many people will die because of Trumpism before we delete it.

Do not recommend moving. 0/5 stars. Requires effort. Much sweat. And now my Ben hurts.

Trump voters in 6 months: I CAN'T BELIEVE BIDEN CLOSED THE ONLY HOSPITAL WITHIN 100 MILES

When we say billionaires shouldn't be allowed to exist in America, it's because 1 in 5 children in the US live in hunger and the government is desperately trying to cut those childrens' healthcare and food assistance to keep billionaires happy.

Know what has absolutely nothing to do with the NYC Mayoral election? The Israel/Hamas war.

The lesson Democrats need to take from this is not to put up people with Zohran's politics on every ticket. Rather, it should be to put up the *right* candidates for each election. We can win in Omaha, but not with Zohran. We can win in NY but not with Cuomo. We're not a monolith.

Listen all I'm saying is that you have to be very very specific about your meaning when you say Matt Gaetz is expecting a child.