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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 4d

📌White, toxic masculinity is ruining America, and it’s about time white guys started speaking out about it.

📌This is a piece that has needed writing for years now, but I was finally spurred to action by a run-in with one of these dudes early this morning.

📌Man, I am sick and tired of these guys.

AMERICA'S PLAGUE: WHITE, TOXIC MASCULINITY

Since the rise of Trump, these grotesque, so-called 'men' are proliferating, and only they are better for it ...

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2h

-Strength has nothing to do with bulging muscles, and everything to do with proud, beating hearts.
-Strength is not measured in tough talk, but in raging compassion.
-Strength is not measured by how many people you step on, but by how many you lift up.

THEY are weak. WE are woke.

NEVER forget it.

TRUE STRENGTH

A tribute to the woke ...

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 3h

The death of America has coincided with the death of its newspapers.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 1d

Lived through this at a small paper. Every consultant pitch seemed like what someone would recommend if they didn't want any more newspapers.

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17h

Republicans 👇🏼

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

Republicans declare themselves patriots, then turn around and block the paychecks of the men and women who defend America.

And what’s really wild, some of those same troops keep voting red while getting screwed over again and again.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17h

😅 What a great memory ...

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 20h

📌The lovable Diane Keaton has died at 79, while the revolting 79-year-old Donald Trump lives ...

Man, I am sick of this world right now.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

Did people actually believe Trump during his campaign, or did they just love the permission he gave them to be racist?

Trump on loop: “They’re stealing your jobs.”

If that were true, why aren’t Americans lining up to take those so-called “stolen” jobs?

Every Trump voter needs to see this.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

-Neil Young is trending because he is a legend, who has filled the world with iconic, soul-clutching music infused with urgency that stands against corporate greed.

-Kid Rock is trending because he is a lowbrow hack, who has enriched himself by standing on a chair, and kissing Trump's ample ass.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

*This was never about lowering prices. It was about locking up brown people.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

1) WHY isn't this a bigger story? High food prices were cited time and again as a major 2024 campaign issue?

2) Democrats said said over and over again this was going to happen.

3) Why didn't the MSM take it more seriously, when trump LIED over and over again about bringing food prices down???

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is trying to deploy the National Guard to Oregon, claiming that the state is a battlefield and troops are needed to protect federal agents who are attempting to enforce immigration laws

Meanwhile, at the ICE facility in Portland, it’s

Cry “havoc” and let slip the axolotls of war

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

dang

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Not today, Satan‼️

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

He did rake in about $50 mil from Qatar today, though.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

🌊 Just seen on the beach …

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

📌The S&P 500 sank 2.7% in its worst day since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 878 points, or 1.9%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 3.6%, on this devastating news.

📌He is wrecking the U.S. economy.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

President Trump said that he’s placing an additional 100% tax on Chinese imports starting on Nov. 1 or sooner, potentially escalating tariff rates close to levels that in April fanned fears of a steep recession and financial market chaos.

Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1 or sooner

President Donald Trump says “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

Qatar Air Force facility to be built at USAF base in Idaho, Defense Secretary Hegseth says

Hegseth The Defense secretary made the announcement at a Pentagon press conference with Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's defense minister.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

And Moses Mike sent Republican House members on vacation.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

It’s happening…

Thousands more federal workers are getting pink slips. This is 100% Trump’s pressure play to make Democrats cave and give up the fight for our healthcare.

Reminder: Military members got their last paycheck today, and many federal workers only got a partial paycheck.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

📌As we were saying ...

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2d

WHEN will we call them what they are?
NAZIS

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