Scott VanderStoep
svstoep.bsky.social
Scott VanderStoep
@svstoep.bsky.social
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Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year.

Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders.

This is why we need Medicare for All.
Health Insurers Are Hiking Premiums as Their Profits Balloon
The US’s six largest health insurers reported massive profits last year, doling out billions on stock buybacks and divid
jacobin.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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This is how it’s done, No Bull 💩, No drama and No Grandstanding!
July 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.
July 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I finally opened the Christmas present from my three kids. Wild Turkey 101.
May 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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gotta say I did not anticipate ICE goons going after the whitest possible immigrants with American families, jobs, and in good standing legally. a freaking Danish-born welder in Mississippi with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife. just omnidirectional hate
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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☀️Happy S☀️nday ☀️
🦋 Meet and Greet 🦋

Knowledge is our power and our protection
Uncertainty can become our strength
No one said this would be easy
But nothing worthwhile ever is
There will be doubts, there will be setbacks
Patience is our greatest asset
Together we are stronger
We will be okay
May 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
April 30, 1975, fifty years ago, was the fall of Saigon.I was saddened to see our country’s delegates have been instructed to avoid events marking this day while in country (New York Times, April 22). There is much to learn about ourselves by learning about this war, in which 58,313 Americans died.
April 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
April 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Harry T Stewart Jr.
July 4, 1924 - Feb 2, 2025
Lt Col Harry Stewart, Jr. was born in Newport News, VA. He joined the Army Air Corps at 18, and received his wings a year later after graduating from training in Tuskegee, AL. He flew 43 missions in WWII, to include one where he
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Tuskegee airman who notched three air-to-air victories in one day dies at 100
Harry Stewart Jr. recorded three victories in one day and won the first-ever 'Top Gun' contest for military pilots.
taskandpurpose.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil.I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants.A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." G Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary
January 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
At Florida State University, American History 583: The Seminoles and the Southeastern Indians, will no longer count for general education.
January 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM