Steven T. Jones
@scribesf.bsky.social
Writer, grandpa, progressive-turning-cynic, watching the world burn. Writes Scribe’s End Notes at https://open.substack.com/pub/steventjones?r=1f5k2m&utm_medium=ios
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The finger of fate can be fickle, particularly in a country feverishly flirting with fascism. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Fickle Finger of Fate
Fortunes Brighten in the Fight Against Trump's Fascism. Plus: SF's Race to Replace Pelosi, and Remembering Climate Change
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The finger of fate can be fickle, particularly in a country feverishly flirting with fascism. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
The finger of fate can be fickle, particularly in a country feverishly flirting with fascism. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Fickle Finger of Fate
Fortunes Brighten in the Fight Against Trump's Fascism. Plus: SF's Race to Replace Pelosi, and Remembering Climate Change
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The finger of fate can be fickle, particularly in a country feverishly flirting with fascism. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
I’m ashamed and embarrassed by our president. This is what happens when an idiotic megalomaniac surrounds himself with incompetent and corrupt yes-men. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Live Updates: Trump Attacks U.N. and Lectures Nations in Address to General Assembly
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September 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I’m ashamed and embarrassed by our president. This is what happens when an idiotic megalomaniac surrounds himself with incompetent and corrupt yes-men. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
This isn’t really about free speech, hate speech, Kirk, Kimmel, or being sensitive in our reactions to this shocking assassination. It’s just the latest step in Trump’s authoritarian power play, a cynical move to destroy their enemies and our constitutional order.
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Dark Days
Exploiting Tragedy to Promote Censorship, Punish Opponents, Seize More Power. Plus, Who's the Antichrist and Is Trump Fucking Satan?
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September 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This isn’t really about free speech, hate speech, Kirk, Kimmel, or being sensitive in our reactions to this shocking assassination. It’s just the latest step in Trump’s authoritarian power play, a cynical move to destroy their enemies and our constitutional order.
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Trump’s personal insecurity has always caused him to tear others down to make himself seem better. It’s just what spoiled children and petty tyrants do. But that noxious trait got supercharged when Trump ran for office.
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Our Setting Sun
Summer is Ending, And So is American Life as We Know It
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September 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Trump’s personal insecurity has always caused him to tear others down to make himself seem better. It’s just what spoiled children and petty tyrants do. But that noxious trait got supercharged when Trump ran for office.
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Trump has adopted an aggressive strategy of denying, covering up, and threatening reality — trying to write his own version of reality for all of us, real reality be damned. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Reality Bites
Autocrats Distort and Conceal Reality: Killing Journalists, Firing Regulators, and Lying to Citizens. But Eventually, Reality Bites Back.
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August 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Trump has adopted an aggressive strategy of denying, covering up, and threatening reality — trying to write his own version of reality for all of us, real reality be damned. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Maybe we need to embrace our era of entropy and accept the end of our flawed American system. Let things break down so that we can start anew and build entirely new economic, political and governance systems. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Age of Entropy
America is Winding Down and Headed for Collapse, So Let's Just Start Over
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August 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Maybe we need to embrace our era of entropy and accept the end of our flawed American system. Let things break down so that we can start anew and build entirely new economic, political and governance systems. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
This is the moment I’ve been dreading. It’s when you can clearly see how escalating cycles of violence in American cities could easily lead to the authoritarian police state that Trump seeks.
And worst of all, I’m really not sure what we can do to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
And worst of all, I’m really not sure what we can do to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
“The Moment We Feared Has Arrived”
Protests Against Trump's Aggressive Immigration Raids, and His Militarized Response, Could Easily Spin Out of Control
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June 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This is the moment I’ve been dreading. It’s when you can clearly see how escalating cycles of violence in American cities could easily lead to the authoritarian police state that Trump seeks.
And worst of all, I’m really not sure what we can do to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
And worst of all, I’m really not sure what we can do to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Musk didn’t directly answer the question about his drug abuse, instead denigrating the Times as unreliable, even as his eyes rolled back into his head a few times during the event, looking like a raver who just did a K bump after too much Molly. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
The Rage of Little Men
Performative Masculinity Hurts Society, Just Like Grandiosity and Fear of Vulnerability Harm Personal Relationships
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June 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Musk didn’t directly answer the question about his drug abuse, instead denigrating the Times as unreliable, even as his eyes rolled back into his head a few times during the event, looking like a raver who just did a K bump after too much Molly. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
What if the West Coast states seceded from the U.S. and joined an alliance with Canada and Mexico? Hmmm. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Canada vs. Trump
North of the Border, They're Sick of America's Shit, But Still Awfully Nice About It. Plus: Qatari Jet Gift Encapsulates Everything Wrong with Trump
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May 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What if the West Coast states seceded from the U.S. and joined an alliance with Canada and Mexico? Hmmm. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Luckily for all of us, Trump and his top appointees continue to prove at least as incompetent as they are evil. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Fascists Bound to Lose
Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages
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April 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Luckily for all of us, Trump and his top appointees continue to prove at least as incompetent as they are evil. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
The front page of Sunday’s New York Times includes a trio of well-reported stories that illustrate the stupidity, the corruption, and the real authoritarian dangers posed by the Trump administration and its actions and appointees. Each is worth analyzing.
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News That’s Fit to Print
Three Front Page Stories Paint a Scary Portrait of Trump’s Stupidity, Corruption and Authoritarian Designs
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April 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The front page of Sunday’s New York Times includes a trio of well-reported stories that illustrate the stupidity, the corruption, and the real authoritarian dangers posed by the Trump administration and its actions and appointees. Each is worth analyzing.
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The real Liberation Day is tomorrow, with Trump/Musk protests around the country, not when our idiot president decided to tank our economy. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Don't Freak Out, Fight Back
Trump Wants You Scared, But Musk's Failures and Signalgate Fiasco Show They Aren't as Strong or Smart as They Pretend
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April 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The real Liberation Day is tomorrow, with Trump/Musk protests around the country, not when our idiot president decided to tank our economy. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Trump and Musk aren’t as strong or smart as they think. WI election & Signalgate show how vulnerable they are. So now’s the time to fight back. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Don't Freak Out, Fight Back
Trump Wants You Scared, But Musk's Failures and Signalgate Fiasco Show They Aren't as Strong or Smart as They Pretend
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April 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Trump and Musk aren’t as strong or smart as they think. WI election & Signalgate show how vulnerable they are. So now’s the time to fight back. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Rather than legitimizing MAGA and its many calculated grievances, Gavin Newsom would be better off engaging with innovative policymakers here and abroad to create better models for Democratic governance, particularly on divisive issues.
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Transitioning Toward Solutions
Newsom’s New Transgender Athlete Stance Opens Important Conversation About Liberal Orthodoxy Harming Democrats and Enabling Trump
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March 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Rather than legitimizing MAGA and its many calculated grievances, Gavin Newsom would be better off engaging with innovative policymakers here and abroad to create better models for Democratic governance, particularly on divisive issues.
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Bird flu killed Rocky the owl as threatens to become the next global pandemic. So maybe it’s not the best time to recklessly chainsaw through key federal agencies. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Rocky Times
Death of a Beloved Burrowing Owl From Bird Flu Offers Warning About Recklessly Slashing Federal Spending. Plus: Beginning of The End for Trump, and Let's Blame the Billionaires
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March 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Bird flu killed Rocky the owl as threatens to become the next global pandemic. So maybe it’s not the best time to recklessly chainsaw through key federal agencies. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Conservative hack challenges Zelenskyy for not wearing suit, but not Musk, who wore a T-shirt to a cabinet meeting this week. Such hypocrites. thehill.com/policy/inter...
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March 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Conservative hack challenges Zelenskyy for not wearing suit, but not Musk, who wore a T-shirt to a cabinet meeting this week. Such hypocrites. thehill.com/policy/inter...
FBI Director Patel could indict Musk for all the crimes he’s committing now and the wealth he stole from taxpayers. Think about it: what better way to keep the rest of America’s oligarchs in line than to defenestrate and jail the biggest oligarch of all. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Jailing Musk
Elon's Reckless Hacking of Government and Growing Unpopularity Could Made Him Trump's First Big Scapegoat. Putin Showed the Value of Ousting Once-Close Oligarchs.
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February 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
FBI Director Patel could indict Musk for all the crimes he’s committing now and the wealth he stole from taxpayers. Think about it: what better way to keep the rest of America’s oligarchs in line than to defenestrate and jail the biggest oligarch of all. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
“They’re just getting started in trying to turn this country into a theocracy,” one speaker said, as others chanted “Stand up, fight back.” Part of the crowd began singing “We Shall Overcome,” which was soon drowned out as the chant of “Fuck that Nazi” picked up. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
React, Resist, Repeat
Trump-Musk Cuts Create Backlash, Feed Protests. Plus: The End of Accountability, Burning Man Secrets, and What Happens to Displaced Workers.
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February 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“They’re just getting started in trying to turn this country into a theocracy,” one speaker said, as others chanted “Stand up, fight back.” Part of the crowd began singing “We Shall Overcome,” which was soon drowned out as the chant of “Fuck that Nazi” picked up. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
Resistance rising! Thousands protested Musk and Trump in the Bay Area streets yesterday, targeting Tesla and its Nazi CEO. youtu.be/RWxJa_lrE_s?...
February 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Resistance rising! Thousands protested Musk and Trump in the Bay Area streets yesterday, targeting Tesla and its Nazi CEO. youtu.be/RWxJa_lrE_s?...
It’s time to counterattack Elon Musk, targeting the main source of his wealth. More here: open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
February 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
It’s time to counterattack Elon Musk, targeting the main source of his wealth. More here: open.substack.com/pub/steventj...
So much for free speech.
UPDATE: The White House defended its decision to block The Associated Press from covering two official events on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
White House defends blocking AP from event for using 'Gulf of Mexico'
The White House blocked the Associated Press from covering two official events on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
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February 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
So much for free speech.
It’s the new Gilded Age, with a shiny facade covering up deep rot and corruption, just daring us to rise up against our billionaire overlords before they finish looting the federal treasury.
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They Not Like Us
Trump's Vengeful Attacks on Government, Blackness and Everyday Americans Hobble the Country. But This Game Ain't Over. Plus: Kendrick's Coup, Mediocre White Boys, and Boycott Tesla
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February 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It’s the new Gilded Age, with a shiny facade covering up deep rot and corruption, just daring us to rise up against our billionaire overlords before they finish looting the federal treasury.
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First Trump triggered a wave of Venezuelan migrants to the U.S. with harsh sanctions on the Maduro regime. Yet now he’s sending those who fled back to that supposed tyrant. Trump is just so dumb and inconsistent.
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Trump to send Venezuelans back to Maduro’s repressive state
An agreement with the government of Nicolás Maduro will allow the deportation of hundreds of thousands back to the authoritarian socialist regime many have fled.
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February 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
First Trump triggered a wave of Venezuelan migrants to the U.S. with harsh sanctions on the Maduro regime. Yet now he’s sending those who fled back to that supposed tyrant. Trump is just so dumb and inconsistent.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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