Ben Sessoms

Freelance journalist and writer based in Chattanooga, TN.
Proton: [email protected]
Signal: [phone]

[Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ @FreightAlley]

The Times Free Press is one of the only newspapers that has a liberal and conservative opinion section.

We plan to maintain this.

Why? Because it is good business. It increases our Total Addressable Market (after all both Republican and Democrats both subscribe to newspapers).

Don't like it?

Don't read those sections or unsubscribe. I don't care.

[Ben Sessoms @bensessoms]

TFP, the everything newspaper

[Chattanooga Holler @NoogaHoller]

🎯CHATTANOOGA — @TimesFreePress editor @bensessoms: “IRAQ, BUT DUMBER… It took only three days into the new year for Trump to continue the unmitigated mayhem of 2025, to further shame the country and Constitution he swore to protect and defend.” https://t.co/KC6Ulj6QRs

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@TnCoNews1 🎻

[Tennessee Conservative News @TnCoNews1]

Imagine that. A corporately funded broadsheet that pushes a leftist liberal agenda.

While they are allowed into Cameron Sexton's press conferences, our Conservative news outlet is banned. Tells you everything you need to know, really...

[Ben Sessoms @bensessoms]

@MarshaBlackburn

[Sen. Marsha Blackburn @MarshaBlackburn]

It is absurd that the @TimesFreePress would reach out requesting comment on a sham “townhall” that is being organized by radical left wing activists without disclosing that one of the organizers is a former reporter at the same outlet.

Political stunts like these are why trust in the media is at an all-time low.

[Ben Sessoms @bensessoms]

My Sunday column this week: Police’s troubled past with informants highlights need for transparency
https://t.co/SyVrMETZ0Q

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My recent column on what a "progressive agenda" would look like in Tennessee
https://t.co/08PeMRuBD9

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My latest column on Chattanooga's public transit
https://t.co/rLBLLaNMNe

[Ben Sessoms @bensessoms]

My latest Sunday column on Christian nationalism in Chattanooga
https://t.co/rPZvI4WRhG

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have cried a dozen times trying to post this video, deleting it, and trying again.

This is the park where my kids played.
The restaurant where I fell in love.
An art studio of a dear friend.

It’s a video of Asheville to you, but it’s home to me.

Please don’t forget us.

[Ben Sessoms @bensessoms]

My latest on non-voters
https://t.co/Q8OL7AkCCt

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My thoughts on the Hamilton County District Attorney's rhetoric concerning crime in Chattanooga
https://t.co/K6rGd5DKjZ

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My latest column on a Hamilton County School Board member wanting to remove transportation for students to the polls
https://t.co/KxZ2pwefFf

[Ben Sessoms @bensessoms]

Kamala is about to win PA in a landslide

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My presidential endorsement
https://t.co/KGx5khmuOa

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My take on MTG's laser hurricane theory
https://t.co/axCQ5FscRc

[Ben Sessoms @bensessoms]

My first opinion piece
https://t.co/JNizokQzJ1

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

A Haitian nonprofit in Springfield files criminal charges against Donald Trump, JD Vance https://t.co/eNmgXVKQJQ

[Ben Sessoms @bensessoms]

Thank you, landlord

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

"40 Acres and a Mule" remains the nation's most famous attempt to provide reparations.

Finally, there's been a specific accounting of the 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were actually given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers.

https://t.co/30ilodrV0N