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.

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?

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Nobody. The answer is nobody stands with us.

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...

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.

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...

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:

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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.

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!

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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!

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?

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.