Ben Sessoms
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Ben Sessoms
@bensessoms.bsky.social
Chattanooga Times editor @timesfreepress.bsky.social. Opinion writer. bsessoms@timesfreepress.com
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like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Riveting stuff happening on the Senate floor while the government is shut down
October 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As with this administration's other actions, the killing of Charlie Kirk is just another pretext for authoritarianism
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Opinion: MAGA’s insatiable thirst for power | Chattanooga Times Free Press
What should be a moment of mourning for the conservative movement — following the assassination of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk two weeks ago — has instead become a moment of retribution...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
As mentioned in this piece, I found this ChatGPT poem posted on M4L's Chattanooga chapter Facebook page. Quite odd
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September 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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shit ain’t over til it’s over
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children
New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.
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September 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.
In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.
September 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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what this sounds like to me is the administration is cutting money for efforts to support integration and sending some of the cash over to HCBUs, under the view that this is where black students ought to go www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
September 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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It's also "political violence" to steal years off people's lives by depriving them of shelter, stripping away health care, and gutting environmental protections — while funneling more and more wealth to the ultra-rich.
September 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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definitely something to this www.unpopularfront.news/p/when-trump...
When Trump's Brain Broke
Sometime Around 1989
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August 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.
An Ohio City Faces a Future Without Haitian Workers: ‘It’s Not Going to Be Good’
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August 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Newspaper readers will vote Dem." Not according to the reader emails I get
My theory of politics in 2024: “people have ideas and beliefs about the world, which today are heavily informed by media exposure, which means that we’ll see people vote largely in accordance with their media consumption. E.g., newspaper readers will vote Dem while TikTok scrollers will go Trump.”
August 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The plan? Change none of Pete Buttigieg's policies but give him a beard and run him again in 2028
August 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM