Ben Sperduto
@bensperduto.bsky.social
Author of weird fiction in assorted forms. BLACKSPIRE (2020). MFA candidate (USF). He/Him/His. https://benjaminsperduto.com
I'm serving as managing editor and fiction editor for the 20th anniversary issue of Saw Palm, a Florida-themed literary journal published by the University of South Florida. Submissions are open until October 1, 2025! Send us your best (or weirdest) work related to Florida!
September 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I'm serving as managing editor and fiction editor for the 20th anniversary issue of Saw Palm, a Florida-themed literary journal published by the University of South Florida. Submissions are open until October 1, 2025! Send us your best (or weirdest) work related to Florida!
First genuine laugh I’ve had all day
April 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
First genuine laugh I’ve had all day
My takeaway from this is that investors are idiots driven completely by the belief Republicans are good for business and Democrats are bad for business and are willing to act on any rumors or inclinations that confirm those priors despite any evidence to the contrary. apple.news/AZdZOz_rQThK...
Dow slides more than 300 points as Trump tariffs rattle stocks for a third day — CNBC
Trump posted on Saturday to Truth Social for people to
apple.news
April 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
My takeaway from this is that investors are idiots driven completely by the belief Republicans are good for business and Democrats are bad for business and are willing to act on any rumors or inclinations that confirm those priors despite any evidence to the contrary. apple.news/AZdZOz_rQThK...
As if we needed more proof, but the fact that the markets are wildly swinging based on online rumors should tell you everything you need to know about the “realist,” “clearheaded” thinking of financial experts.
April 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As if we needed more proof, but the fact that the markets are wildly swinging based on online rumors should tell you everything you need to know about the “realist,” “clearheaded” thinking of financial experts.
Listening to “When the Clock Broke” by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social and I’m having 2 reactions so far:
1: I’d forgotten how unbelievably shitty Pat Buchanan was.
2: The fact that anybody took anything fucking William Buckley ever wrote seriously deserves to have their head examined.
1: I’d forgotten how unbelievably shitty Pat Buchanan was.
2: The fact that anybody took anything fucking William Buckley ever wrote seriously deserves to have their head examined.
April 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Listening to “When the Clock Broke” by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social and I’m having 2 reactions so far:
1: I’d forgotten how unbelievably shitty Pat Buchanan was.
2: The fact that anybody took anything fucking William Buckley ever wrote seriously deserves to have their head examined.
1: I’d forgotten how unbelievably shitty Pat Buchanan was.
2: The fact that anybody took anything fucking William Buckley ever wrote seriously deserves to have their head examined.
Oh my god, this is absolutely insane…
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Oh my god, this is absolutely insane…
As a former history teacher, I feel like we’re reaping the consequences of not teaching students that a huge factor in American economic success post-WW2 was the reality that the industrial and financial capacity of peer countries was literally destroyed in the war and took decades to recover.
April 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
As a former history teacher, I feel like we’re reaping the consequences of not teaching students that a huge factor in American economic success post-WW2 was the reality that the industrial and financial capacity of peer countries was literally destroyed in the war and took decades to recover.
The free pass this guy gets for comments like this is crazy. Carter was pilloried mercilessly for encouraging Americans to wear a sweater instead of turning up the heat during the 70s energy crisis and that earnest comment was a millstone around his neck for the rest of his life.
April 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The free pass this guy gets for comments like this is crazy. Carter was pilloried mercilessly for encouraging Americans to wear a sweater instead of turning up the heat during the 70s energy crisis and that earnest comment was a millstone around his neck for the rest of his life.
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Reason number 223.06 on why not to privatize social security.
April 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reason number 223.06 on why not to privatize social security.
I hate the fact that Democrats chose not to pursue more extensive reforms post 2008 because they were afraid of what these people would say about them. It was all bullshit predicated upon their (correct) belief that Democrats don’t want to appear hostile to business. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
‘Everyone is terrified’: Business and government officials are afraid to cross Trump on tariffs
While lobbyists, business leaders, and lawmakers are worried about Donald Trump’s tariffs, there’s a culture of fear in Washington preventing many from speaking out.
www.politico.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I hate the fact that Democrats chose not to pursue more extensive reforms post 2008 because they were afraid of what these people would say about them. It was all bullshit predicated upon their (correct) belief that Democrats don’t want to appear hostile to business. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
This isn’t being pointed out nearly enough.
I don’t even think I’m exaggerating to say that if a Democratic president tanked the stock market, bragged about doing it intentionally, and then went golfing for the weekend, a mob would lynch them on the golf course.
April 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This isn’t being pointed out nearly enough.
Who is responsible for this decision? 1992 called and somebody needs to put it back into the grave.
April 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Who is responsible for this decision? 1992 called and somebody needs to put it back into the grave.
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
Good god, these people…
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Good god, these people…
Good god, the quotes in this story betray a shocking level of magical thinking. None of these people should be managing anyone’s money. apple.news/AcaDSb7b9Ri6...
Dow futures tumble 1,000 points on fear Trump's tariffs will spark trade war — CNBC
Wednesday saw further volatility roil markets as tensions ran high ahead of Trump's announcement, but stocks ultimately ended the session in the green.
apple.news
April 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Good god, the quotes in this story betray a shocking level of magical thinking. None of these people should be managing anyone’s money. apple.news/AcaDSb7b9Ri6...
I really can’t get over how utterly bizarre it is to see the Speaker of the House having a full blown meltdown over a rule change that would allow new mothers in Congress vote remotely while on maternity leave, especially when the proposal is coming from a reliably rabid member of his caucus.
April 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I really can’t get over how utterly bizarre it is to see the Speaker of the House having a full blown meltdown over a rule change that would allow new mothers in Congress vote remotely while on maternity leave, especially when the proposal is coming from a reliably rabid member of his caucus.
This is obviously disgusting and unAmerican, but if you lived through the post-9/11 era, this sentiment will sound very familiar. This authoritarian, anti-dissent impulse runs deep among many conservatives.
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is obviously disgusting and unAmerican, but if you lived through the post-9/11 era, this sentiment will sound very familiar. This authoritarian, anti-dissent impulse runs deep among many conservatives.
What the hell is wrong with these people?
March 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
What the hell is wrong with these people?
These best part of this (aside from the bystander not being killed or maimed by a wayward axe) is how a guy who constantly puffs himself up as a “big prime alpha manly man warrior” completely misses the target at like 10 paces.
Look, we are talking about a dipshit who almost killed someone with axe on live TV.
March 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
These best part of this (aside from the bystander not being killed or maimed by a wayward axe) is how a guy who constantly puffs himself up as a “big prime alpha manly man warrior” completely misses the target at like 10 paces.
Oh, what a shock. What will Chuck Schumer think of this? 🙄 www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump to sign order Thursday dismantling Education Department
Several Republican governors, including Greg Abbott of Texas, Mike Braun of Indiana, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Mike DeWine of Ohio, are expected to be at the signing.
www.politico.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Oh, what a shock. What will Chuck Schumer think of this? 🙄 www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
But tell me again how progressives are out of touch, centrist media pundits…
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
But tell me again how progressives are out of touch, centrist media pundits…
This is the best political take I’ve heard in a while. And it’s a damning indictment of our former presidents.
The American tradition of former presidents just melting away into the set dressing once their done is a hindrance right now
March 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is the best political take I’ve heard in a while. And it’s a damning indictment of our former presidents.
More of this, please.
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March 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
More of this, please.
This situation with the Senate really exposes the core problem with Democratic leadership: they simply don’t believe they have the ability to shape public opinion in any way. There are myriad arguments they could have been making against the CR to convince people that it’s terrible, but they didn’t.
March 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This situation with the Senate really exposes the core problem with Democratic leadership: they simply don’t believe they have the ability to shape public opinion in any way. There are myriad arguments they could have been making against the CR to convince people that it’s terrible, but they didn’t.
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Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
March 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed