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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 13d

Give this man a drug test. On a ‘roid rage bender, dude?

To go after a woman like this, odd are he’s done it before.

This is thuggery, not professional law enforcement.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 19d

"The United States is coming to an end. The question is how. Every government, every business, every person alive will be affected by the answer."

That's the opening to Stephen Marche's "The Next Civil War."

Click below for our conversation.

Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 20d

Join us today at 2 PM ET as @stuartpstevens hosts Stephen Marche, columnist for Esquire magazine. They will be discussing Stephen’s book, The New Civil War.

Click the link below to watch live! See you in the chat!

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 19d

“I lived in a fallout shelter with Matthew Dowd for a year-and-a-half.”

My thoughts on an old friend.

Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 19d

He spoke truth to power. In Trump's America, that's a fireable offense.

Read the latest from @stuartpstevens.bsky.social for @lincolnsquare.media

www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-matthe...

The Matthew Dowd I Know

He spoke truth to power. In Trump's America, that's a fireable offense.

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Kate McClanaghan @katemcclanaghan.bsky.social · 19d

I Saw How Russia Killed Media Freedom
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I Saw How Russia Killed Media Freedom

Censorship is central to the story of Russia’s descent into KGB dictatorship.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 21d

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 20d

Join us today at 2 PM ET as @stuartpstevens hosts Stephen Marche, columnist for Esquire magazine. They will be discussing Stephen’s book, The New Civil War.

Click the link below to watch live! See you in the chat!

open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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Claudia-in-tucson❌👑 @claudia-in-tucson.bsky.social · 23d

Stuart Stevens on Family, Ole Miss Football, and Finding Hope in a Divided America
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/live-with-...

Stuart Stevens on Family, Ole Miss Football, and Finding Hope in a Divided America

"I hope that our better angels will emerge."

www.lincolnsquare.media

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 23d

So Charlie Kirk’s murder is going to be the Republican Reichstag fire and Charlie Kirk will be their Horst Wessel.

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

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dlgarbern.bsky.social @dlgarbern.bsky.social · 24d

Stuart Stevens; "Whatever is in Brett Kavanaugh’s heart doesn’t really matter. It’s the evil that he has sanctioned that does. He should be ashamed. But I suspect shame is a foreign country that Brett Kavanaugh will never visit."

The Shame of Brett Kavanaugh

The justice green-lighted racial profiling by ICE, even though he would never be on the Supreme Court without Hispanics.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25d

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 29d

NEW: @therickwilson.bsky.social gives some advice that Democrats won't take on the looming shutdown fight.

Read his latest for Lincoln Square:

www.lincolnsquare.media/p/dont-you-d...

Don’t You Dare: Why Democrats Must Shut It Down

Some advice Democrats won't take on the looming shutdown fight.

www.lincolnsquare.media

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 26d

The same editors would have printed quotes from unnamed local law enforcement that Emmett Till raped a white woman.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26d

Shameful.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Wall Street Journal quietly walks back false claim Charlie Kirk shooter had pro-trans messages on his bullets

The paper had falsely claimed that the alleged shooter engraved messages consistent with “transgender ideology” on bullets recovered by law enforcement officials.

www.yahoo.com

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 26d

Yes, Trump trials should have moved forward faster, like Brazil.

Next time they will.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26d

Trump weighed in on how criminal cases should proceed. He said prosecutions should move more quickly and that the United States should become more like China. “We have to have quick trials,” he said on “Fox & Friends.” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump on Trials: How Our Legal System Shouldn't Work

Today, after Donald Trump announced it on Fox and Friends, law enforcement told the public it had apprehended a suspect who turned in after confessing to the murder of Charlie Kirk to his father, a fo...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26d

So what do we think, are they smart enough that this is intentionally a complimentary reference to BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) with wink-wink deniability they didn't mean it, or are they such goofballs they don't even know what they're saying?

The Free Press
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Charlie Kirk was murdered while practicing the very act that gave birth to this nation—and the only thing that will ensure its survival.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26d

New version:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 26d

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 27d

Brett Kavanaugh would not be on SCOTUS if Bush had lost.

Hispanic voters put Bush in office.

Hispanics put Kavanaugh on the Court.

Now He Okays ICE Targeting Them.

Read the latest from @stuartpstevens.bsky.social Stevens for the New Republic:

newrepublic.com/article/2002...

Hispanics Put Kavanaugh on the Court. Now He Okays ICE Targeting Them.

An open letter to a man I sometimes crossed paths with back in my Republican days.

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · Sep 7

Clearly there needs to be a class action suit against a state policy that will cripple and kill citizens.

Hopefully a criminal case can also be prosecuted to hold those responsible accountable.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 7

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be?

LADAPO: Absolutely not

T: You didn't even do a projection?

L: It's an issue of right & wrong

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Sep 6

Someone needs to tell CBS that at some point you bend the knee so far that you are just kneeling.

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · Sep 6

"Chris Wright, the energy secretary, also said, “We don’t want to be in the race for the most expensive electricity in the world."

And that's why we are shutting down construction on an 80% complete generation facility with zero marginal cost in a region that relies on expensive LNG

John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · Sep 6

The anti-science wingnuttery of RFK Jr is horrifying and destructive, but Energy Secretary Chris Wright is a real contender for doing as much damage in the long run. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change

www.nytimes.com

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · Sep 5

Man murders parents.

Begs mercy as an orphan.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 5

You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · Sep 5

This guy Kennedy has taken enough steroids to alter the outcome of the last ten Super Bowls. He was jacked on steroids yesterday.

He can't respond like a normal human being because he's in a perpetual state of 'roid rage.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 5

i am watching clips from the kennedy hearing and one thing that comes across is his petulance at being challenged. he is like an overgrown baby (if that baby were a hot dog you grilled too long)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 5

"I was at the bottom of my class. I started doing heroin, and I went to the top of my class. Suddenly I could sit still and I could read."

We’re not doctors but it kinda seem like this should’ve been disqualifying 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Donna Stowe @dstowe1.bsky.social · Sep 5

America was warned.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy

The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · Sep 5

Spent day on Mt. Washington and man, it’s a special place.

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