Ben Henry
@benhenry.com
Progressive strategist, storyteller, songwriter. Thinking out loud about justice, working-class politics, and building a better future — together.
My daughter’s first-grade class sang for Veterans Day…
and one line from the pledge hit me harder than I expected.
“One nation. Indivisible.”
Maybe it’s time we remember what that actually means.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
and one line from the pledge hit me harder than I expected.
“One nation. Indivisible.”
Maybe it’s time we remember what that actually means.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My daughter’s first-grade class sang for Veterans Day…
and one line from the pledge hit me harder than I expected.
“One nation. Indivisible.”
Maybe it’s time we remember what that actually means.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
and one line from the pledge hit me harder than I expected.
“One nation. Indivisible.”
Maybe it’s time we remember what that actually means.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
If the loudest voices and the cheapest lies can divide us…
then what exactly are we pledging allegiance to?
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
then what exactly are we pledging allegiance to?
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If the loudest voices and the cheapest lies can divide us…
then what exactly are we pledging allegiance to?
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
then what exactly are we pledging allegiance to?
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
We keep hearing “a nation divided.”
But maybe we’ve just forgotten how to do the math.
One nation. Indivisible.
That’s the equation.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
But maybe we’ve just forgotten how to do the math.
One nation. Indivisible.
That’s the equation.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We keep hearing “a nation divided.”
But maybe we’ve just forgotten how to do the math.
One nation. Indivisible.
That’s the equation.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
But maybe we’ve just forgotten how to do the math.
One nation. Indivisible.
That’s the equation.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
Tearing down the people’s house… for a ballroom.
If anyone else had done that, we’d call it an attack.
So what have we been fighting for — if this is what it comes to?
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
If anyone else had done that, we’d call it an attack.
So what have we been fighting for — if this is what it comes to?
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Tearing down the people’s house… for a ballroom.
If anyone else had done that, we’d call it an attack.
So what have we been fighting for — if this is what it comes to?
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
If anyone else had done that, we’d call it an attack.
So what have we been fighting for — if this is what it comes to?
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
Leadership isn’t a reality show.
And this… isn’t how any of this should work.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
And this… isn’t how any of this should work.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Leadership isn’t a reality show.
And this… isn’t how any of this should work.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
And this… isn’t how any of this should work.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
We say “indivisible”… but look around.
This is how division became our national pastime.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
This is how division became our national pastime.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We say “indivisible”… but look around.
This is how division became our national pastime.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
This is how division became our national pastime.
#SexyDadJokes #Storytelling #Indivisible
I had a revelation at my first-grade daughter's assembly. Four generations of my family served believing in “one nation, indivisible.” This Veterans Day, I asked what happened to that promise — and how we find it again.
🎥 Watch the full video: Link in comments.
#Indivisible #Unity #VeteransDay
🎥 Watch the full video: Link in comments.
#Indivisible #Unity #VeteransDay
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I had a revelation at my first-grade daughter's assembly. Four generations of my family served believing in “one nation, indivisible.” This Veterans Day, I asked what happened to that promise — and how we find it again.
🎥 Watch the full video: Link in comments.
#Indivisible #Unity #VeteransDay
🎥 Watch the full video: Link in comments.
#Indivisible #Unity #VeteransDay
There’s no “trans crisis.” No “immigration invasion.” The real crisis is loneliness — people who just want to be seen. Even a fish in a tuxedo wants that.
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
There’s no “trans crisis.” No “immigration invasion.” The real crisis is loneliness — people who just want to be seen. Even a fish in a tuxedo wants that.
After two years away, I brought back Sexy Dad Jokes.
Not because I missed the mic — but because we’ve forgotten how to talk to each other.
It’s raw. Imperfect. Human.
We don’t have to agree to care.
Let’s disagree agreeably.
🎧 Full episode → youtu.be/KEzNHv7-Jl8
Not because I missed the mic — but because we’ve forgotten how to talk to each other.
It’s raw. Imperfect. Human.
We don’t have to agree to care.
Let’s disagree agreeably.
🎧 Full episode → youtu.be/KEzNHv7-Jl8
The Return of Sexy Dad Jokes: Finding Unity in a Divided America
YouTube video by Sexy Dad Jokes
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November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
After two years away, I brought back Sexy Dad Jokes.
Not because I missed the mic — but because we’ve forgotten how to talk to each other.
It’s raw. Imperfect. Human.
We don’t have to agree to care.
Let’s disagree agreeably.
🎧 Full episode → youtu.be/KEzNHv7-Jl8
Not because I missed the mic — but because we’ve forgotten how to talk to each other.
It’s raw. Imperfect. Human.
We don’t have to agree to care.
Let’s disagree agreeably.
🎧 Full episode → youtu.be/KEzNHv7-Jl8
⚠️ TW: Domestic Violence
Before anyone believed her, someone else had to die. Danielle Stovall lived to tell the story.
Full episode → youtu.be/maROJvrA2kQ
More on the march → riseupagainstdv.org
Before anyone believed her, someone else had to die. Danielle Stovall lived to tell the story.
Full episode → youtu.be/maROJvrA2kQ
More on the march → riseupagainstdv.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
⚠️ TW: Domestic Violence
Before anyone believed her, someone else had to die. Danielle Stovall lived to tell the story.
Full episode → youtu.be/maROJvrA2kQ
More on the march → riseupagainstdv.org
Before anyone believed her, someone else had to die. Danielle Stovall lived to tell the story.
Full episode → youtu.be/maROJvrA2kQ
More on the march → riseupagainstdv.org
I was just thinking that. Dude just flexed some serious emotional intelligence
Perhaps America needs to follow the path that Ukraine took. #Kimmel2028?
September 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I was just thinking that. Dude just flexed some serious emotional intelligence
Breaking News: Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show has returned to the airwaves. The late-night host gave a passionate defense of free speech in a monologue during which he both choked up and told jokes.
Follow live updates.
Follow live updates.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Kimmel Returns to Air as President Threatens Legal Action
nyti.ms
September 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Let’s not forget, the Raiders are a new team. Lotta hype, and it is indeed a new day w Pete. But Chargers have had a year to gel under Harbaugh. Huge advantage. Ashton will be fine. Geno is still the man. It’ll just take time to forge a new identity on the battlefield.
@minakimes.bsky.social
@minakimes.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Let’s not forget, the Raiders are a new team. Lotta hype, and it is indeed a new day w Pete. But Chargers have had a year to gel under Harbaugh. Huge advantage. Ashton will be fine. Geno is still the man. It’ll just take time to forge a new identity on the battlefield.
@minakimes.bsky.social
@minakimes.bsky.social
I don't think it helps the movement to be putting down magas.
August 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I don't think it helps the movement to be putting down magas.
Reposted by Ben Henry
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
Let’s be clear: This isn’t about “jobs data.” It’s about power.
Trump is trying to fire the independent referee because he doesn’t like the score.
Then he’ll install someone who will rig the game.
That’s not leadership. That’s authoritarianism 101.
And yes — we’re watching.
tinyurl.com/trumpisaclown
Trump is trying to fire the independent referee because he doesn’t like the score.
Then he’ll install someone who will rig the game.
That’s not leadership. That’s authoritarianism 101.
And yes — we’re watching.
tinyurl.com/trumpisaclown
Trump demands official overseeing jobs data be fired after dismal employment report
President Donald Trump said Friday that he has directed his team to fire the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures.
www.seattletimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Let’s be clear: This isn’t about “jobs data.” It’s about power.
Trump is trying to fire the independent referee because he doesn’t like the score.
Then he’ll install someone who will rig the game.
That’s not leadership. That’s authoritarianism 101.
And yes — we’re watching.
tinyurl.com/trumpisaclown
Trump is trying to fire the independent referee because he doesn’t like the score.
Then he’ll install someone who will rig the game.
That’s not leadership. That’s authoritarianism 101.
And yes — we’re watching.
tinyurl.com/trumpisaclown
The world feels like it’s on fire. Instead of turning down the temperature, our leaders keep cranking it up.
We could choose a different path.
One that’s smart. Compassionate. Evolved.
What would it look like if we actually got it right?
New blog: benhenry.com/the-world-is...
#TurnDownTheHeat
We could choose a different path.
One that’s smart. Compassionate. Evolved.
What would it look like if we actually got it right?
New blog: benhenry.com/the-world-is...
#TurnDownTheHeat
The World Is on Fire. We Need to Evolve. » BenHenry.com
I’m sitting with something I can’t shake.
benhenry.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The world feels like it’s on fire. Instead of turning down the temperature, our leaders keep cranking it up.
We could choose a different path.
One that’s smart. Compassionate. Evolved.
What would it look like if we actually got it right?
New blog: benhenry.com/the-world-is...
#TurnDownTheHeat
We could choose a different path.
One that’s smart. Compassionate. Evolved.
What would it look like if we actually got it right?
New blog: benhenry.com/the-world-is...
#TurnDownTheHeat
They may try to break us, but the next generation is already rising. ✊🏽
#FiftyFiftyOne #SaveDemocracy #SeatacProtest #Protests
#FiftyFiftyOne #SaveDemocracy #SeatacProtest #Protests
April 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
They may try to break us, but the next generation is already rising. ✊🏽
#FiftyFiftyOne #SaveDemocracy #SeatacProtest #Protests
#FiftyFiftyOne #SaveDemocracy #SeatacProtest #Protests
Reposted by Ben Henry
If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.
March 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.
Gov: keeps planes in the sky, food safe, roads drivable
America: “Ugh, useless.”
Also America: panics when DMV closes for 2 hours
Y’all… government is just us in sweatpants doing miracles. Stop tearing it down — give it a rebrand.
America: “Ugh, useless.”
Also America: panics when DMV closes for 2 hours
Y’all… government is just us in sweatpants doing miracles. Stop tearing it down — give it a rebrand.
Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app
I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now
Thanks for your service to our country
I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now
Thanks for your service to our country
March 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Gov: keeps planes in the sky, food safe, roads drivable
America: “Ugh, useless.”
Also America: panics when DMV closes for 2 hours
Y’all… government is just us in sweatpants doing miracles. Stop tearing it down — give it a rebrand.
America: “Ugh, useless.”
Also America: panics when DMV closes for 2 hours
Y’all… government is just us in sweatpants doing miracles. Stop tearing it down — give it a rebrand.
We used to be the party of the working class. We’ve lost our way. Dems need to stop talking at people and start listening to them. Less jargon, more jobs. Less judgment, more respect. It’s time to reconnect.
March 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We used to be the party of the working class. We’ve lost our way. Dems need to stop talking at people and start listening to them. Less jargon, more jobs. Less judgment, more respect. It’s time to reconnect.
DOGE strikes again — turning living people into ghosts.
A Seattle man was wrongly declared dead by Social Security.
This is what happens when DOGE focuses on imaginary problems instead of fixing real ones.
How many more will get erased by this broken system?
#DOGE #Incompetence #SocialSecurity
A Seattle man was wrongly declared dead by Social Security.
This is what happens when DOGE focuses on imaginary problems instead of fixing real ones.
How many more will get erased by this broken system?
#DOGE #Incompetence #SocialSecurity
I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle
“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
www.seattletimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
DOGE strikes again — turning living people into ghosts.
A Seattle man was wrongly declared dead by Social Security.
This is what happens when DOGE focuses on imaginary problems instead of fixing real ones.
How many more will get erased by this broken system?
#DOGE #Incompetence #SocialSecurity
A Seattle man was wrongly declared dead by Social Security.
This is what happens when DOGE focuses on imaginary problems instead of fixing real ones.
How many more will get erased by this broken system?
#DOGE #Incompetence #SocialSecurity
The federal government is shutting down HUD’s Seattle regional office, cutting 50% of its workforce, and gutting housing programs nationwide. This will have devastating consequences for affordable housing and homelessness services across the Pacific Northwest.
#HUD #AffordableHousing #Homelessness
#HUD #AffordableHousing #Homelessness
HUD Is Being Dismantled. Seattle’s Regional Office Is About to Be Shut Down. » BenHenry.com
Trump’s Purge of Public Servants Is Hitting Home. What Happens When HUD Disappears?
benhenry.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The federal government is shutting down HUD’s Seattle regional office, cutting 50% of its workforce, and gutting housing programs nationwide. This will have devastating consequences for affordable housing and homelessness services across the Pacific Northwest.
#HUD #AffordableHousing #Homelessness
#HUD #AffordableHousing #Homelessness