stephenmp.bsky.social
@stephenmp.bsky.social
Band dude, cat dad, Nuggets fan
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Some conspiracy theories are adjacent to the truth. Many are bad answers to good questions. But people who assume conspiratorial explanations are correct by default are deeply deranged and the more influence such people have over a society, the more deranged that society will be.
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.

The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.

Hope that clears things up.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Whole lot of people who claim to be capable of recognizing antisemitism in right wingers name checking Soros can't seem to grasp this.
I actually don’t happen to care for AIPAC’s tactics the past few cycles but they’re far from the largest PAC in the country and I’m getting a little pissed off at them being made into the George Soros Boogyman of the far left.
November 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Mind-blowing.

This AP reporter tells how deceptive media practices are being used to skew the truth of the conflict.
For going on 2 years people said loudly, you are being fed information from a terrorist organization. A lot of you decided to negate the truth and lean into your antisemitism.
November 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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We’re five years into the pandemic, and the science is telling a very different story than “just a cold.” COVID affects blood vessels, organs, metabolism, and cognition — and the impacts compound with each infection.
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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There is no one right way to learn, and the only wrong way is to actively refuse to learn.

Good teaching requires that the teacher internalize that, and work to accommodate as wide a range of learning styles as is reasonably possible.
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Republicans don’t need to know how to govern for the same reason the 9/11 hijackers didn’t need to know how to land.
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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10,000 dead in a few days, and the Yale Daily News calls it genoc

no wait

*touches earpiece*

I'm being informed that the term this time is "mass killings"

Huh. Interesting.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I've spent something like 10 years explaining to people "no, this type of politics isn't only a problem on the right, yes, it's important that we call it out and push it out among people who we would otherwise consider allies" - there's no surprise here, at all
There's nothing confusing about it: He's not going away because he's supported by people who are willing to accept "had a Nazi tattoo for a couple of decades" as the price for getting a candidate whose current claimed positions they like
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The youth of Iran doing what so many of us take for granted—playing music, dancing, enjoying life.

It came with a cost. Reports now indicate that arrests have been made.

Want to know what real resistance looks like? Take a look at these Iranian kids.

SPEAK UP FOR IRAN.
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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His domestic policy is Orbanism, his foreign policy is Putinism, and his economic policy is 17th Century mercantilism.
October 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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I wrote this a little over a month ago:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Once a movement discards even the pretense of principle, what’s left is raw power. When truth no longer matters, when morality is only a costume, there are no guardrails. That is what makes MAGA not just hypocritical, but dangerous to the idea of democracy.

open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
The Mask Is Off: MAGA’s “Pedophile” Crusade Was Always a Lie
The Epstein files prove it was never about protecting kids—it was about defending Trump at all costs.
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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On Yom Kippur— the holiest day for Jews— a synagogue in Manchester became a crime scene.

Two murdered, more injured.

This is what happens when hate is normalised, when Jew-haters are allowed to roam free.

It has to stop.
October 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Israelis aren’t going anywhere.

Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.

Both Israelis and Palestinians deserve peace, dignity, and security.

The solution to this conflict lies in recognizing these truths. Not denying them.
September 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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(Non-Jewish) singer Sarah Callinan was hired to sing at a Rosh Hashana service. She witnessed firsthand the level of security now required for Jews to practice their faith safely.

Thank you, Sarah, for speaking up. You’re right, this situation is bad, but your video made it a little more bearable.
September 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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If you insist you are not antisemitic, why are you silent about the tidal wave of hate facing Jews?

You don't have to make it your only priority, but antisemitism has passed the point where you can just ignore it.

Speak up, now. Before it’s too late.
September 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Telling a Jewish woman to get a nose job is antisemitic. Plain and simple. It is one of the oldest tropes used to attack and dehumanize Jews.

Antisemitism is not a partisan issue. We must call it out wherever we see it.
September 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Most Americans do not want civil war. Anyone who is declaring it should stop.

I wrote about political violence again: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Strawberries in Winter
Most Americans do not want civil war. Anyone who is declaring it should stop.
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Like many Never Trumpers and other people with a public profile, I have been on the receiving end of death threats for years just for speaking my mind.
No one in America should risk being killed for exercising their right to speak, no matter how despicable you think their views might be.
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM