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Steven Lyons
@stevenlyons.bsky.social
Visual designer / illustrator living in the Bay Area with a focus on the use of design to amplify progressive voices. Work appears in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum at the Smithsonian, LACMA, and SFMoma. http://stevenlyons.com
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ICE agent in Chicago draws and trains a firearm on protestors armed with iPhones. Trump's America in 2025.
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Dems have the wind at our backs, America clearly knows the GOP owns the shutdown and inflation, and THIS is how Schumer makes the most of it? How about demanding the military leave blue cities and ICE stop terrorizing Americans? I can't with this guy anymore.
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:

Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care

"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.

If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Man @gavinnewsom’s team doesn’t mess around
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.

It’s louder & clearer tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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DC Conventional Wisdom Goes Down to Defeat in State after State talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dc-co...
DC Conventional Wisdom Goes Down to Defeat in State after State
Elections are hard to predict. But even with that, some of the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Remember to drop your ballot off today--We can do this! #Yes50 #YesOn50
November 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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#Thugs

"Leaving his home in Ontario to work at a food bank Thursday morning, Carlos Jimenez pulled over to warn a group of federal agents that they should wrap up their stop of a car quickly because school-age children would soon gather there to take the bus, his lawyers said Sunday."
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Vladeck: Even if you accept the predicate that these drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations, that still doesn’t get you anywhere close to legal authority to use military force. They’re trying to blur and sort of collapse the distinction between two regimes we have…
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I’m speechless, I am without speech
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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SNAP benefits have amounted to about 1.5% of the federal budget. The fraud rate is under 1%.

42 million Americans, many of them elderly and disabled, depend on this food assistance through no fault of their own.

16 million are children.
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Uh, no.
Trump says the U.S. will "start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis" with other countries
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Trump says the U.S. will "start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis" with other countries
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
C’mon California you can do this.
#YesOn50
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
57 people summarily executed. No evidence shown. No due process.
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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When the state begins speaking in the language of purity and duty, history warns what comes next.

#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.
"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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PSA: The No Kings PAC is not affiliated with and had no role in putting on the 10/18 mobilization. If you get a spammy text from them claiming your donation will be 5x matched, know that it's not from anyone involved in the No Kings protest (and please direct your angry emails to them, not us)
October 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Millions of Americans are about to lose food aid from the government, but the man in charge is focused on his ‘MAGA-Saddam,’ multi-million-dollar White House ballroom.

Read @swin24.bsky.social's latest:

Trump to the Poor: Let Them Eat Ballroom
zeteo.com/p/trump-whit...
Trump to the Poor: Let Them Eat Ballroom
Millions of Americans are about to lose food aid from the government, but the man in charge is focused on his ‘MAGA-Saddam,’ multi-million-dollar White House ballroom.
zeteo.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
America 2025
"Federal agents fired a pepper round that struck the pastor of the College Heights United Church of Christ. The impact caked his face in orange powder...

“I’m in a lot of pain,” the pastor texted from the emergency room, “He clearly was aiming for the face.”

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM