Steve Mark
@stevesdropper.bsky.social
Proud community college professor, ravenous reader, Little Free Librarian, poetry proponent, passionate progressive, yogi, certified yoga and meditation teacher, doting dog dad, happy husband 🏳️🌈
Only the now near-pathologically out-of-touch NY Times could turn a pedophile sex trafficker's emails into a sort of wistful love letter for a "protected realm [that] vanished into the mists of time."
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Only the now near-pathologically out-of-touch NY Times could turn a pedophile sex trafficker's emails into a sort of wistful love letter for a "protected realm [that] vanished into the mists of time."
The schadenfreude is real, folks. 😏😎
Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️🌈
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The schadenfreude is real, folks. 😏😎
This article is an excellent takedown of the ridiculously reductive “both sides” approach that has brought us to this terrible moment.
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This article is an excellent takedown of the ridiculously reductive “both sides” approach that has brought us to this terrible moment.
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing next to a woman in a dress at a party .
ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing next to a woman in a dress at a party .
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
So on brand for this would-be emperor and his callous cronies.
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
So on brand for this would-be emperor and his callous cronies.
This "therapy," widely discredited by medical professionals, is literally killing queer kids. As Schraeder Rodriguez notes, "Queer youth who have been threatened with or subjected to conversion efforts are twice as likely to have suicidal ideation."
Opinion: The Trevor Project's report reveals the devastating impact of conversion therapy on LGBTQ+ youth. As the numbers rise, so does the urgency to protect and affirm these vulnerable young lives, argues Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez.
I survived conversion therapy. Now it's coming back in softer words
Opinion: The Trevor Project's report reveals the devastating impact of conversion therapy on LGBTQ+ youth. As the numbers rise, so does the urgency to protect and affirm these vulnerable young lives, argues Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez.
bit.ly
October 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This "therapy," widely discredited by medical professionals, is literally killing queer kids. As Schraeder Rodriguez notes, "Queer youth who have been threatened with or subjected to conversion efforts are twice as likely to have suicidal ideation."
THISSSSSSSS
Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
THISSSSSSSS
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Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
October 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
Same
October 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Same
October 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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In protesting peacefully we reclaim our cities and communities from state brutality. These are our spaces, our homes.
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
In protesting peacefully we reclaim our cities and communities from state brutality. These are our spaces, our homes.
October 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.
Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
October 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.
A friend sent this important reminder to me this morning in honor of my birthday, James Baldwin once again speaking necessary truth across the years, in a time when showing compassion, care, and love, to “magnify each other’s light” is critical work. #hopeinthedark #wisdom #inspiration
October 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A friend sent this important reminder to me this morning in honor of my birthday, James Baldwin once again speaking necessary truth across the years, in a time when showing compassion, care, and love, to “magnify each other’s light” is critical work. #hopeinthedark #wisdom #inspiration
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Underreported in most of the stories about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel, Sinclair Broadcasting has snapped up hundreds of local stations with an eye toward promoting conservative talking points pre-packaged as "news." Media consolidation is a key tool of autocratic governments.
September 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Underreported in most of the stories about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel, Sinclair Broadcasting has snapped up hundreds of local stations with an eye toward promoting conservative talking points pre-packaged as "news." Media consolidation is a key tool of autocratic governments.
So funny, and not funny at all.
Many Americans will miss comedy, now that it has been canceled along with free speech. Hopefully we can vote these freedoms back before too long! In the meantime, here's a goodbye laugh from @colbertlateshow
September 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
So funny, and not funny at all.
A little something to soothe the soul in these crazy, crazy times.
September 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A little something to soothe the soul in these crazy, crazy times.
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We're three lines into "First they came..."
September 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We're three lines into "First they came..."
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On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.
August 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.
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"Life in the United States is profoundly changing, is profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge."
Rachel Maddow, August 4, 2025
Rachel Maddow, August 4, 2025
August 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"Life in the United States is profoundly changing, is profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge."
Rachel Maddow, August 4, 2025
Rachel Maddow, August 4, 2025