D. Earl Stephens
@dearlstephens
Won journalism awards at ancient places called "newspapers" | Author | Columnist Raw Story, Alternet, Elsewhere | Navy Vet | Retired Managing Editor Stars & Stripes | Animal-lover | for my latest ...
📌Just in case a MAGA in your life is lecturing you about respecting Lindsey Graham and the dead. Have a good day, everybody.
📌I endorse this message 100%, and hope every Democrat and Democratic candidate can, too. Onward ...
📌BREAKING: Trump has opened the habitats of imperiled animals to corporate raiders in the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 yrs. I hate him and anybody who supports him with the power of a million burning suns. They are sickening, bloodthirsty fucks. LEAVE THE ANIMALS ALONE.
📌War in Iran, war on our vote, war on fair housing prices, war on cheaper gas prices, war on cheaper food prices, war on affordable healthcare, war on women, war on our environment, war on our government, war on NATO, war on our White House, war on the truth ... Enemy of the people 👇🏼
📌The arrogance of the New York Times editorial board can't keep going on like this. Constantly rapping Democrats on the knuckles, while holding these abhorrent Republicans to absolutely no standards at all. THEY, more than almost anything I can think of, gave us the abhorrent Trump and his cult.
📌I have rarely underestimated just how revolting Trump is, but by placing his odious orange smudge on the accomplishments of the U.S. team, and a sport watched by billions of people around the globe really is above and beyond. The world be will be an infinitely better place when he is finally gone.
📌No Kings March, left, Wannabe King Trump's Patriot Front March, right.
On this date in history since 2018: -2018: Trump hires sexual abuser and Roger Ailes ally, Bill Shine, to head his communications team. -2019: Trump defends speech where he cites our Continental Army "taking over airports" in the Revolutionary War. -2026: God only knows what's going to happen.
📌MAGA didn't vote for him because he'd drain the swamp. He IS the swamp. They voted for him because he is a bigot.
📌Even standing on a box, Trump's little bigot, Markwayne Mullin, couldn't touch the classy Mayor Mamdani.
🔥 It’s hot out there, folks, but PLEASE take care to protect your four-legged family members.
📌The National Weather Service website has been down for hours. Normally, I would attribute it to run-of-the-mill issues, but these days I wonder if something more sinister is at play and even our weather forecasts are under attack by Hurricane Blowhard and the climate-denying Sharpies in his regime.
📌Oh no! It looks like the joyless Mamdani has had the audacity to open the public pools to the public today! Horrors! What other hell will these social Democrats rain upon us? Next thing you know they'll freeze the rent of the hardworking people who live in the city! What's that? Noooooooooooo!
📌So John Bolton pleaded guilty on Friday morning to mishandling classified information, and Trump hoarded it in his tacky bathroom like a dirty old man (traitor). Not a day goes by when the notion of law and order in America is rendered as nothing but an absurd punchline.
📌Mamdani is rightfully flexing in the NY Dem primary tonight, and it looks like his pick, Brad Lander, is going to hammer Dan Goldman in NY-10. Congrats to Lander, but thanks to Goldman for his service to this country, and skillfully helping to lead the first impeachment of the odious Trump.
📌All he is does is whine like a spoiled, trust-fund brat. He's a weakling with no answers, and only petty, useless ideas. He has done NOTHING for Americans but make our lives more expensive, his Epstein class richer, and our White House a garish dump. He's bought and paid for. A sellout. A traitor.
📌Six years ago today from the family of the late, great Tom Petty. Look, decent people can’t stand Trump, and will NEVER understand how anybody can.
🖊️That’s a picture of my stepdad reading my book shortly before his death. He was a prodigious reader, and as his health was failing told me, “I’m not ready to die, Earl, there are so many books I haven’t read yet! Happy Father’s Day, good man. You were one for the books.
📌Using this Juneteenth to remind everybody how damn far we still have to go to truly be a free and decent country, and that DEI is about fairness not favoritism. And to all you phony universities, corporations, and politicians who caved to the bigoted Trump on this extremely important issue: SHAME!