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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 6d

📌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 · 3h

President Bone Spurs — the grotesque SOB who attacked us — is repulsive and a traitor to his country.
As a vet, I am long past disgusted that my service meant NOTHING.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act isn’t new, but it’s getting louder and from all directions!

We had years of warnings.
He told us what he’d do. Project 2025 laid it out, but too many shrugged.

How much is “enough” for everyone to start getting loud with one voice before it’s too late?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

When the right loses both Joe Rogan and Marjorie Taylor Greene on the issues in the same week, you know it’s going to get rough for Republicans.

Joe Rogan on ICE: “The way it looks is just horrific.”

QAnon queen MTG on the economy: “I’m just living in reality from here on out.”

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 7h

📌During his campaign in 2015, Trump said he would replace Obamacare with, quote: "something terrific, phenomenal and fantastic" that would "save money and result in better health care."
Ten years later, he's still got nuthin' and has decided to kill the entire United States government instead.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 13h

🖊️ Dear Rest of the World: We're deeply sorry -- but we could also use a little help here ... Great grandpa has fallen and he wants to take everybody down with him ...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "You have Canada. That's so great to have, in fact. The president called and he wanted to know if it's worth -- well he knew exactly what it is. He knew the importance. Where's Canada, by the way? Where are you? He knew the importance of this."

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 13h

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 14h

Bring DOWN the temperature?
Shit, I will keep turning it UP until this racist, America-attacking, woman-attacking, environment-attacking, healthcare-attacking, truth-attacking grotesque excuse for a man is long gone ...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

GOP hypocrisy: “bring down the temperature” when it comes to Dems calling out Trump.

Meanwhile, he’s cranking up the heat, falsely painting Democrats as violent radicals with zero evidence in order to justify sending troops into LA, Chicago, DC, and Portland. It’s all part of the Project 2025 plan.

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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!
America is winning the Measles Champions!

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country.

Thank a Republican in your state.

www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

www.npr.org

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 16h

📌Imagine how different the optics would be if Joe Biden shut down the United States Government, fired workers, jeopardized healthcare, ordered troops into our streets, threatened NATO allies, and then escaped to Israel looking for people to kiss his ass.

He'd be endlessly pilloried by the press.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 16h

🇺🇸 I am a proud, anti-fascist vet who served on the USS Trenton LPD-14 as an assault boat coxswain in the '70s.

🇺🇸 We defended our country from America-attacking, suckers and losers like Trump.

🇺🇸 So Happy 250th, Navy! Remember: You are to protect us from fascist enemies like Trump, not appease them.

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

More like Code Stink.
People like this are absolutely appalling.
I reckon it's self hate.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Kamala is all out of f*cks and I’m here for it 🔥

We see you, @codepink.bsky.social

Your paid performative agitators pop up on her book tour like they think we don’t know the VP’s job.

The VP doesn’t set Middle East policy, the President does. The VP’s role is to support the President, period.

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

Go away, Andrew.

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

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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

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Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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

Thank you for sharing those words, and for your activism.

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One Sassy Liberal @onesassyliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @dearlstephens.bsky.social

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

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Shelby Kent-Stewart @shelbykstewart.bsky.social · 1d

Genital fetishist Nancy Mace (R-SC01) and her Republican colleagues can shove their thoughts and prayers up their NRA-loving asses.

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4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on the idyllic South Carolina island of St. Helena left four people dead and at least 20 injured.

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

Highly recommend your Substack, Chris.

Just placing this here because it goes to your clarion call about the dangers of white, toxic masculinity.

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

I’m Gen X. So as a kid, my summers meant getting shoved out of the house. Playing outside until dark. We swam, scraped our knees, fought, made up, and met girls. You had to make friends in the flesh. No choice.

I have a lot more to say, so check my video write-up.
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

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

I really appreciate that, Shelby.
Have a great Sunday.

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Shelby Kent-Stewart @shelbykstewart.bsky.social · 1d

This all day with heartfelt thanks to @dearlstephens.bsky.social for always telling it like it is.

TRUE STRENGTH
open.substack.com/pub/dearlste...

TRUE STRENGTH

A tribute to the woke ...

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

-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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