Steward Beckham
@www.stewonthis.com
Son. Brother. Baltimorian. Marylander. American.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Gave centrist media like The Bulwark and Pod Save a long leash, and it looks like that leash led us into disaster for marginalized communities. The 2024 failure wasn’t “woke,” it was myopic strategy. @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @wajali.bsky.social are spot on!
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LIVE NOW: Trump's American Hunger Games
THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali on Substack
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December 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Gave centrist media like The Bulwark and Pod Save a long leash, and it looks like that leash led us into disaster for marginalized communities. The 2024 failure wasn’t “woke,” it was myopic strategy. @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @wajali.bsky.social are spot on!
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The Epstein stories from today are so gross and should make men really think about what women have to go through in this world.
Full video available on my page!
Full video available on my page!
December 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The Epstein stories from today are so gross and should make men really think about what women have to go through in this world.
Full video available on my page!
Full video available on my page!
Trump’s “down period” is a media fantasy. The gears of power, like militancy, donor loyalty, and global despotism, are turning just fine. I wrote about why we’re not in a news cycle. We’re in a slow coup.
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When the News Stops Mattering
BONUS: A personal-political journey through race, respectability, and the failure of the American center.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Trump’s “down period” is a media fantasy. The gears of power, like militancy, donor loyalty, and global despotism, are turning just fine. I wrote about why we’re not in a news cycle. We’re in a slow coup.
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Black joblessness ticked up. A reminder that people vote for hierarchy. It’s a hard truth but makes sense.
December 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Black joblessness ticked up. A reminder that people vote for hierarchy. It’s a hard truth but makes sense.
Wrote about Trump’s Reiner comments and what it means when a fading man becomes a lasting myth.
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On Trump, Reiner, and What Passes for Civic Discourse
BONUS: Are new lows the new normal?
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December 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Wrote about Trump’s Reiner comments and what it means when a fading man becomes a lasting myth.
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Trump the individual is becoming irrelevant. It’s Trump, the idea, the vessel for grievance, the power, and the fear that endures. And whether his actions are strategic or delusional, they shape the culture and the country in ways we’re only beginning to grasp.
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trump the individual is becoming irrelevant. It’s Trump, the idea, the vessel for grievance, the power, and the fear that endures. And whether his actions are strategic or delusional, they shape the culture and the country in ways we’re only beginning to grasp.
Jasmine Crockett brings fire. Centrist Dems bring a wet blanket. Then blame the base when democracy loses.
It’s a doom loop, and they keep spinning it.
It’s a doom loop, and they keep spinning it.
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Jasmine Crockett brings fire. Centrist Dems bring a wet blanket. Then blame the base when democracy loses.
It’s a doom loop, and they keep spinning it.
It’s a doom loop, and they keep spinning it.
Been thinking a lot about how centrist Never Trumpers spent the last year blaming “wokeness” and young people—when it was their own failed strategy that lost 2024. They chased a mythical middle, sidelined the base, and punched left harder than they did authoritarianism. Let’s talk about it.
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Been thinking a lot about how centrist Never Trumpers spent the last year blaming “wokeness” and young people—when it was their own failed strategy that lost 2024. They chased a mythical middle, sidelined the base, and punched left harder than they did authoritarianism. Let’s talk about it.
Is this a fair or unfair statement from my latest blog post?
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December 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Is this a fair or unfair statement from my latest blog post?
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Used to listen to Pod Save, The Bulwark, and all the “pro-democracy” brain trust. But over time, I couldn’t unsee how often marginalized voices were minimized or missing, especially when it came to race, hierarchy, and American power.
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America Continues to Declare War on International Multiculturalism
Plus: My experience being disillusioned with centrist and donor-driven media.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Used to listen to Pod Save, The Bulwark, and all the “pro-democracy” brain trust. But over time, I couldn’t unsee how often marginalized voices were minimized or missing, especially when it came to race, hierarchy, and American power.
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We won’t understand Trump 2.0 by defending the system that gave us Trump 1.0. The voices that told us ‘this isn’t who we are’ had their turn. Now we need truth-tellers, not myth-builders.
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We won’t understand Trump 2.0 by defending the system that gave us Trump 1.0.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
We won’t understand Trump 2.0 by defending the system that gave us Trump 1.0. The voices that told us ‘this isn’t who we are’ had their turn. Now we need truth-tellers, not myth-builders.
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When a country turns its myths into policy, women pay the price.
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
When a country turns its myths into policy, women pay the price.
Trump’s remarks about Somali Americans reflect so much of what is wrong about our understanding of history and the way we are all connected by it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Trump’s remarks about Somali Americans reflect so much of what is wrong about our understanding of history and the way we are all connected by it.
Don’t confuse headlines for history. A lot of pundits are selling hope but ignoring structural reality. We are still only in year one.
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Don’t confuse headlines for history.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Don’t confuse headlines for history. A lot of pundits are selling hope but ignoring structural reality. We are still only in year one.
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Trump didn’t just pardon a drug trafficker. He pardoned his own foreign policy. This isn’t justice gone wrong; it’s the American empire doing exactly what it was built to do. Shout out to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social and his point about the root causes of immigration flows.
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Trump didn’t just pardon a drug trafficker. He pardoned his own foreign policy. This isn’t justice gone wrong; it’s the American empire doing exactly what it was built to do. Shout out to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social and his point about the root causes of immigration flows.
Silence helps no one: ICE detained the Brazilian-born mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, a former DACA kid, showing Trump’s crackdown now hits his own inner circle.
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Silence helps no one: ICE detained the Brazilian-born mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, a former DACA kid, showing Trump’s crackdown now hits his own inner circle.
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The Trump administration's Russia-Ukraine "peace" efforts "skip the victim, flatter the aggressor, and enrich the brokers," argues @www.stewonthis.com in this brief video, including references to my breakdown of the 28-point-plan.
(I won't hold the Baltimore sports fandom against him.)
(I won't hold the Baltimore sports fandom against him.)
The Peace Plan that Wasn't
When peace talks skip the victim, flatter the aggressor, and enrich the brokers, it’s not diplomacy, it’s a deal.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Trump administration's Russia-Ukraine "peace" efforts "skip the victim, flatter the aggressor, and enrich the brokers," argues @www.stewonthis.com in this brief video, including references to my breakdown of the 28-point-plan.
(I won't hold the Baltimore sports fandom against him.)
(I won't hold the Baltimore sports fandom against him.)
Ukraine is being treated like a broken asset ripe for exploitation.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Ukraine is being treated like a broken asset ripe for exploitation.
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The last president sicced the Justice Department on his own son. This one fired a qualified prosecutor and installed an unqualified loyalist to stage a kangaroo court against a private citizen, a case that even sober minds agree was evidence-free and unnecessary.
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The last president sicced the Justice Department on his own son. This one fired a qualified prosecutor and installed an unqualified loyalist to stage a kangaroo court against a private citizen, a case that even sober minds agree was evidence-free and unnecessary.
The “peace plan” that wasn’t.
A quick breakdown of the deal on Ukraine, and what it says about the collapse of the order the U.S. claimed to uphold.
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Shoutout to @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
A quick breakdown of the deal on Ukraine, and what it says about the collapse of the order the U.S. claimed to uphold.
Full video at stewonthis.com
Shoutout to @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The “peace plan” that wasn’t.
A quick breakdown of the deal on Ukraine, and what it says about the collapse of the order the U.S. claimed to uphold.
Full video at stewonthis.com
Shoutout to @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
A quick breakdown of the deal on Ukraine, and what it says about the collapse of the order the U.S. claimed to uphold.
Full video at stewonthis.com
Shoutout to @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
I made it to my first 1000 subscribers! Thank you for all of the support!
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I made it to my first 1000 subscribers! Thank you for all of the support!
MTG didn’t just get ousted, she became disposable.
The GOP rewards women who scream for the cause and not those who try to steer it. The moment Marjorie Taylor Greene got ambitious, the old boys’ machine spat her out. This isn’t new. It’s how male power works in the party.
The GOP rewards women who scream for the cause and not those who try to steer it. The moment Marjorie Taylor Greene got ambitious, the old boys’ machine spat her out. This isn’t new. It’s how male power works in the party.
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
MTG didn’t just get ousted, she became disposable.
The GOP rewards women who scream for the cause and not those who try to steer it. The moment Marjorie Taylor Greene got ambitious, the old boys’ machine spat her out. This isn’t new. It’s how male power works in the party.
The GOP rewards women who scream for the cause and not those who try to steer it. The moment Marjorie Taylor Greene got ambitious, the old boys’ machine spat her out. This isn’t new. It’s how male power works in the party.
Mamdani and Trump in the Oval Office isn’t a glitch in the matrix, it’s the new algorithm.
The populist left and populist right are circling the same pressure points: housing, crime, cost of living.
The center has no script for this.
The populist left and populist right are circling the same pressure points: housing, crime, cost of living.
The center has no script for this.
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Mamdani and Trump in the Oval Office isn’t a glitch in the matrix, it’s the new algorithm.
The populist left and populist right are circling the same pressure points: housing, crime, cost of living.
The center has no script for this.
The populist left and populist right are circling the same pressure points: housing, crime, cost of living.
The center has no script for this.