D. Earl Stephens
@dearlstephens.bsky.social
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📌Republicans are tough on crime unless you are a traitor, pedophile, tax cheat, toxic racist, or serial sexual abuser.
Be good if that was reported more often …
Be good if that was reported more often …
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
📌Republicans are tough on crime unless you are a traitor, pedophile, tax cheat, toxic racist, or serial sexual abuser.
Be good if that was reported more often …
Be good if that was reported more often …
📌The average age of the eight Dems who betrayed their party and America is 70 -- including John Fetterman, who at 5 years old is big for age.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
📌The average age of the eight Dems who betrayed their party and America is 70 -- including John Fetterman, who at 5 years old is big for age.
📌I'm in Virginia doing some reporting, and came across this paper today in Waynesboro, a can-do Red town in the center of the state.
Read the headline.
I've talked with Democrats here who are furious the party they finally voted with caved to Republicans just five days later.
It is disgraceful.
Read the headline.
I've talked with Democrats here who are furious the party they finally voted with caved to Republicans just five days later.
It is disgraceful.
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
📌I'm in Virginia doing some reporting, and came across this paper today in Waynesboro, a can-do Red town in the center of the state.
Read the headline.
I've talked with Democrats here who are furious the party they finally voted with caved to Republicans just five days later.
It is disgraceful.
Read the headline.
I've talked with Democrats here who are furious the party they finally voted with caved to Republicans just five days later.
It is disgraceful.
📌In case you are wondering what state-run media is feeding their viewers in the wake of Republicans’ drubbing at the polls Tuesday.
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
📌In case you are wondering what state-run media is feeding their viewers in the wake of Republicans’ drubbing at the polls Tuesday.
📌Always nice catching up with my MAGA readers ...
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
📌Always nice catching up with my MAGA readers ...
🇺🇸 Five years ago today on the Capital Square in Madison, Wisconsin.
🇺🇸 Joe Biden had just been projected the next President of the United States of America.
🇺🇸 Eight weeks later, we were violently attacked by the son of a bitch who is president now, and it will NEVER make any damn sense to me ...
🇺🇸 Joe Biden had just been projected the next President of the United States of America.
🇺🇸 Eight weeks later, we were violently attacked by the son of a bitch who is president now, and it will NEVER make any damn sense to me ...
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
🇺🇸 Five years ago today on the Capital Square in Madison, Wisconsin.
🇺🇸 Joe Biden had just been projected the next President of the United States of America.
🇺🇸 Eight weeks later, we were violently attacked by the son of a bitch who is president now, and it will NEVER make any damn sense to me ...
🇺🇸 Joe Biden had just been projected the next President of the United States of America.
🇺🇸 Eight weeks later, we were violently attacked by the son of a bitch who is president now, and it will NEVER make any damn sense to me ...
This is what he does:
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This is what he does:
📌The greatest acquittal since sliced bread?
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
📌The greatest acquittal since sliced bread?
📌Our economy is tanking, air travel is in peril, parts of our White House have been demolished, healthcare is in jeopardy, food to our children eliminated, and humans beings assaulted by masked marauders in our streets.
This so-called presidency has been an unmitigated, anti-American disaster.
This so-called presidency has been an unmitigated, anti-American disaster.
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
📌Our economy is tanking, air travel is in peril, parts of our White House have been demolished, healthcare is in jeopardy, food to our children eliminated, and humans beings assaulted by masked marauders in our streets.
This so-called presidency has been an unmitigated, anti-American disaster.
This so-called presidency has been an unmitigated, anti-American disaster.
🇺🇸 On this day in 2008, Barack Obama was elected in a landslide to become our nation's first Black president.
(In case you are looking for a good omen today.)
(In case you are looking for a good omen today.)
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🇺🇸 On this day in 2008, Barack Obama was elected in a landslide to become our nation's first Black president.
(In case you are looking for a good omen today.)
(In case you are looking for a good omen today.)
📌Dick Cheney helped push W. Bush into an illegal war based on lies that resulted in the killing and wounding of hundreds of thousands of innocent troops and civilians, and then profited handsomely off of it.
He was one of history's worst people. Don't dishonor the dead by honoring this monster.
He was one of history's worst people. Don't dishonor the dead by honoring this monster.
November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📌Dick Cheney helped push W. Bush into an illegal war based on lies that resulted in the killing and wounding of hundreds of thousands of innocent troops and civilians, and then profited handsomely off of it.
He was one of history's worst people. Don't dishonor the dead by honoring this monster.
He was one of history's worst people. Don't dishonor the dead by honoring this monster.
📌NEW: WaPo/ABC-News Poll shows the grotesque Trump failing at EVERYTHING.
📌His level of disapproval is the highest since his January 2021, attack on America.
📌His level of disapproval is the highest since his January 2021, attack on America.
November 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
📌NEW: WaPo/ABC-News Poll shows the grotesque Trump failing at EVERYTHING.
📌His level of disapproval is the highest since his January 2021, attack on America.
📌His level of disapproval is the highest since his January 2021, attack on America.
📌Our government is being run by the people who stood up and defended a violent attack on America January 6, 2021, because there isn't a single terrible thing that white privilege can’t get away with in this country.
November 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
📌Our government is being run by the people who stood up and defended a violent attack on America January 6, 2021, because there isn't a single terrible thing that white privilege can’t get away with in this country.
🇳🇱 Tonight, the Dutch and their center-left party, Democrats 66, have voted against racism and hate, and knocked the far-right, ill-named Party for Freedom out of power.
🇳🇱 This was a blow to fascism, a nod to democracy, and some much-needed light in the darkness ...
🇳🇱 Congrats!
🇳🇱 This was a blow to fascism, a nod to democracy, and some much-needed light in the darkness ...
🇳🇱 Congrats!
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
🇳🇱 Tonight, the Dutch and their center-left party, Democrats 66, have voted against racism and hate, and knocked the far-right, ill-named Party for Freedom out of power.
🇳🇱 This was a blow to fascism, a nod to democracy, and some much-needed light in the darkness ...
🇳🇱 Congrats!
🇳🇱 This was a blow to fascism, a nod to democracy, and some much-needed light in the darkness ...
🇳🇱 Congrats!
📌Given the devastation our Jamaican friends are dealing with tonight, I share this photo with context.
This is the residue of a vicious nor'easter that is still blowing through the Outer Banks, N.C., tonight. That is sea foam. One of the more amazing things I have ever seen ...
This is the residue of a vicious nor'easter that is still blowing through the Outer Banks, N.C., tonight. That is sea foam. One of the more amazing things I have ever seen ...
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
📌Given the devastation our Jamaican friends are dealing with tonight, I share this photo with context.
This is the residue of a vicious nor'easter that is still blowing through the Outer Banks, N.C., tonight. That is sea foam. One of the more amazing things I have ever seen ...
This is the residue of a vicious nor'easter that is still blowing through the Outer Banks, N.C., tonight. That is sea foam. One of the more amazing things I have ever seen ...
“I have been on my knees in prayer.”
-Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness
Melissa is a Cat 5 hurricane packing 175 mph winds and is bearing down on Jamaica with a 13-ft. storm surge.
They have never faced a storm with this kind of catastrophic intensity.
Please keep them in your thoughts.
-Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness
Melissa is a Cat 5 hurricane packing 175 mph winds and is bearing down on Jamaica with a 13-ft. storm surge.
They have never faced a storm with this kind of catastrophic intensity.
Please keep them in your thoughts.
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“I have been on my knees in prayer.”
-Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness
Melissa is a Cat 5 hurricane packing 175 mph winds and is bearing down on Jamaica with a 13-ft. storm surge.
They have never faced a storm with this kind of catastrophic intensity.
Please keep them in your thoughts.
-Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness
Melissa is a Cat 5 hurricane packing 175 mph winds and is bearing down on Jamaica with a 13-ft. storm surge.
They have never faced a storm with this kind of catastrophic intensity.
Please keep them in your thoughts.
A little sporty out here in Kills Devil Hills, N.C., this afternoon ...
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A little sporty out here in Kills Devil Hills, N.C., this afternoon ...
🖊️ "When you're going through hell, keep going."
-Winston Churchill
-Winston Churchill
October 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
🖊️ "When you're going through hell, keep going."
-Winston Churchill
-Winston Churchill
📌In the wake of Trump's demolition of the East Wing of the WH, he released a list of smarmy billionaires who helped pay for it.
📌One of those was the grotesque Jeff Bezos, whose paper then spun a fawning propaganda piece scolding America for not bowing to the king.
📌They really have no shame ...
📌One of those was the grotesque Jeff Bezos, whose paper then spun a fawning propaganda piece scolding America for not bowing to the king.
📌They really have no shame ...
October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📌In the wake of Trump's demolition of the East Wing of the WH, he released a list of smarmy billionaires who helped pay for it.
📌One of those was the grotesque Jeff Bezos, whose paper then spun a fawning propaganda piece scolding America for not bowing to the king.
📌They really have no shame ...
📌One of those was the grotesque Jeff Bezos, whose paper then spun a fawning propaganda piece scolding America for not bowing to the king.
📌They really have no shame ...
Train derailment outside Richmond, Va., Saturday.
HO-LY-HELL ...
HO-LY-HELL ...
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Train derailment outside Richmond, Va., Saturday.
HO-LY-HELL ...
HO-LY-HELL ...
😢 Betty Ford once said that "if the White House West Wing is the mind of the nation then the East Wing is the heart.”
Well, it's gone now, because we have a grotesque president who is sick in the mind, and was born without a heart.
To hell with him -- and soon, please.
Well, it's gone now, because we have a grotesque president who is sick in the mind, and was born without a heart.
To hell with him -- and soon, please.
October 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
😢 Betty Ford once said that "if the White House West Wing is the mind of the nation then the East Wing is the heart.”
Well, it's gone now, because we have a grotesque president who is sick in the mind, and was born without a heart.
To hell with him -- and soon, please.
Well, it's gone now, because we have a grotesque president who is sick in the mind, and was born without a heart.
To hell with him -- and soon, please.
🌹I admittedly hadn't given June Lockhart much thought in decades until learning of her death tonight.
She was a part of my life watching one of the four channels we had growing up. She was elegant, smart, and as it turns out, a champion of liberal causes.
100 yrs. of grace. A life to be celebrated.
She was a part of my life watching one of the four channels we had growing up. She was elegant, smart, and as it turns out, a champion of liberal causes.
100 yrs. of grace. A life to be celebrated.
October 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
🌹I admittedly hadn't given June Lockhart much thought in decades until learning of her death tonight.
She was a part of my life watching one of the four channels we had growing up. She was elegant, smart, and as it turns out, a champion of liberal causes.
100 yrs. of grace. A life to be celebrated.
She was a part of my life watching one of the four channels we had growing up. She was elegant, smart, and as it turns out, a champion of liberal causes.
100 yrs. of grace. A life to be celebrated.
📌The New York Times just out-New York Timed itself ...
October 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
📌The New York Times just out-New York Timed itself ...