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@stephensears.bsky.social

Associate prof. Optimistic Pessimist. No DMs Guided by the arts, science, and serendipity. We are obliged to be part of the Fourth Estate.

created November 16, 2024

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Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe this race shows why he was left off their Tour de France roster.

3/9/2025, 3:34:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

This is how a human looks after a lifetime of virtually no limits on behavior or wants.

2/9/2025, 6:15:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

This plan works - if it shows the new home for the exact same Palestinians who have always lived in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

1/9/2025, 10:39:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Imagine squandering that much talent! You can decide if I’m referring to Ayuso or UAE.

1/9/2025, 9:13:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

Pro-labor policies are good for all of us. Today, remember great leaders of the movement, like Eugene Debs, Hattie Canty, and Cesar Chavez! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

1/9/2025, 5:03:48 PM | 1 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

In the next world war, we will be an axis power

31/8/2025, 6:21:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Just following the existing laws would make a drastic change.

30/8/2025, 3:53:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

FFS! I drives me crazy they won’t see that DEI policies ARE merit-based. I’m tired of living in the bizarro universe!

30/8/2025, 5:52:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I appreciate your attempt to manifest this inevitability.

30/8/2025, 2:20:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

This needed to be said, and Ron’s friend said it well.

30/8/2025, 2:08:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

They anticipate the Republican president making midterm voting nearly impossible.

30/8/2025, 1:58:49 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a brilliant post!

29/8/2025, 6:16:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

The message might be more reassuring coming from the actually devout, rather than these profane heretics.

28/8/2025, 11:39:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

If only he could sing and dance like a monorail salesman, this would all be easier to take.

27/8/2025, 5:34:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Or the steady diet of bad food cloud patrons’ judgement to the point they’ve become aggressively angry about graphic design.

27/8/2025, 1:51:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

What a nightmare it must be to live inside such a dissociative consciousness.

26/8/2025, 10:33:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Without real policy makers or leaders who understand history, the United States has become dysfunctional, incompetent, and ineffective.

26/8/2025, 10:08:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

So far, the marching band refuses to yield.

26/8/2025, 7:36:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Or is it the Trump disaster is a threat to leadership?

26/8/2025, 7:35:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I heard the Republican president characterize visiting the rape island as a “privilege.”

26/8/2025, 7:33:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

What happens when cruelty isn’t a byproduct of politics but the point itself? Enter Trump’s sadopopulism. Check out Jay Kuo's breakdown of this terrible ideology.

25/8/2025, 7:24:37 PM | 1548 487 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

King coverage = Clicks.

26/8/2025, 7:26:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Because their priorities will never match constituent priorities. They get elected bc lying and brazen manipulation have no consequences.

26/8/2025, 7:18:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Look! Our first NASCAR president.

26/8/2025, 7:14:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

You mean like the Republican Senate’s 9-month refusal to provide advise and consent for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, or like when one Republican house member denied hundreds of military promotions for 10 months?

26/8/2025, 7:12:48 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

How about we make some laws to keep neanderthals out of federal government?

26/8/2025, 7:04:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

Remarks from a true leader:

26/8/2025, 6:57:14 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Stuffing burn bags.

26/8/2025, 6:52:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Hmm- I wonder if the media has a motive for fueling widespread outrage?

26/8/2025, 6:50:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I always dreamed of a Trek-like one-world government, until I realized it is probably gonna be China’s Wars-like Empire.

26/8/2025, 6:45:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Infamy.

26/8/2025, 6:38:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I see your VHS cart, and I raise with this filmstrip/cassette player combo.

Filmstrip projector with cassette player.
26/8/2025, 6:36:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Executive orders are NOT LAWS.

26/8/2025, 6:07:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s not really building a ball room. He’s building a space for a very, very, very long table.

26/8/2025, 6:06:48 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

This is how to do this:

26/8/2025, 5:56:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

So when we first showed up at the Union Station today, we ran ICE off as soon as we got here.

26/8/2025, 1:46:37 AM | 6359 2181 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you mean “angry posts” had enough or “join a militia” had enough? Degrees are important here.

26/8/2025, 5:49:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Does this mean Utah gets extra red state guard troops too?

26/8/2025, 5:45:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

This scene proves getting paid to do a job does not necessarily make you a professional.

26/8/2025, 5:43:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s well understood they’re both weak little cowards, terrified of reality. Right?

26/8/2025, 5:36:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I would prefer him being taken by a swarm of dementors, rather than a pulmonary disfunction.

26/8/2025, 5:32:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

“We were just following orders,” wont protect them.

26/8/2025, 12:19:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

More money is made from click-baiting than truth-telling.

25/8/2025, 11:01:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Using the stock market and housing starts to gauge economic health tells you all you need to know about the priorities.

25/8/2025, 3:05:50 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted

It’s about racism and pretending it’s not about racism will not magically erase the racism

22/8/2025, 3:02:21 AM | 3336 1246 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Republicans are calling it a “woke logo.” There’s nothing left for them but cognitive behavioral therapy.

21/8/2025, 8:35:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I think about deleting my account at least once a day.

21/8/2025, 7:52:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

A reassuring video featuring your fellow citizens

21/8/2025, 6:15:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Their fear of change explains all of this - I mean, except for the racism and greed.

21/8/2025, 4:56:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

The French know how to handle his type.

21/8/2025, 1:59:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

We can have the world we want. Stop gaming out compromises to power and greed.

20/8/2025, 5:31:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s been assimilated, left with no role but to bear witness to their crimes with dead eyes and blackened pit where his soul used to be.

20/8/2025, 5:25:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Forget it. They don’t get irony.

20/8/2025, 5:08:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Correction: Sex-Offender Puppet for Putin

19/8/2025, 5:18:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Heinlein explained this in, “If This Goes On -,” first published in 1940. Not only was the leader a conman, he was also a rapist.

19/8/2025, 5:14:34 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

No president has dishonored his office or his oath more than he has.

19/8/2025, 5:05:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

Loco heroes have arrived to defeat ICE GOONS ✊

19/8/2025, 2:03:02 AM | 1101 423 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I yearn for a glimpse at the visitors’ group text thread. So much mocking…

19/8/2025, 2:52:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I have a big problem with bullies, however I’m ok with bullying bullies.

19/8/2025, 2:31:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

Mr. Reich is always worth reading:

19/8/2025, 2:21:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

I know, I know, but it’s especially important to be paying attention right now.

19/8/2025, 1:41:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

No, but the scale would provoke an entirely new conspiracy theory.

19/8/2025, 12:08:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

One of the truisms of American society, is our habit of first heroizing, then vilifying famous personalities. It’s just a matter of time before MAGA completes the cycle.

18/8/2025, 2:14:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe they should us the whole field:

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17/8/2025, 9:38:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Visikarte (@visitkarte.bsky.social) reposted

America is banning books- people who ban books are mostly on the wrong side of history. Countries that ban so many books definitely are on the wrong side of history.

15/8/2025, 3:45:23 PM | 1027 411 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I was hoping their meeting would be like when an alligator and a python try to eat each other and later someone instagram’s their bloated corpses.

16/8/2025, 3:41:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I would have preferred if he’d been met by a Ukrainian drone.

15/8/2025, 10:22:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, I thought we all agreed it was clearly her doing.

15/8/2025, 10:20:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s out right theft of a democracy. We should treat them like we would react to a home invasion.

15/8/2025, 10:18:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I can’t imagine choosing to be an authoritarian with constant protesters, rather than being a beloved leader who helps people. What WASTED lives these two have led.

15/8/2025, 10:15:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture darren32359.bsky.social (@darren32359.bsky.social) reposted

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13/8/2025, 8:28:16 PM | 365 271 | View on Bluesky | view

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If a school is funded with public money, maybe we should stop calling it a “private school.”

13/8/2025, 3:31:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nytimes using all the ways to avoid saying “lied.”

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13/8/2025, 5:23:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some Doubt

13/8/2025, 5:15:30 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fascists end up in a bunker.

13/8/2025, 4:27:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Truth post confirms his bowel incontinence.

13/8/2025, 4:11:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

The message and tone of his MSG rally told us everything we needed to know. i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b4...

Trump’s Madison Square Garden pre-election rally.
13/8/2025, 3:54:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Woke has become an acronym for their fear.

13/8/2025, 3:42:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I won’t be surprised if the Democratic Party turns out to be nothing more than collateral damage in the fight for our democracy. The people (on both does) are yearning for actual representation and leadership.

13/8/2025, 3:38:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social)

Los Angeles and Chicago are ongoing tests for the fascists- but DC is not LA. DC is officially a city that belongs to ALL of us. Act as if martial law in the U.S. capital is an existential threat.

13/8/2025, 3:28:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is NO both sides. The Republican party is attempting to dismantle the democratic process and end the rule of law.

13/8/2025, 3:18:16 AM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m not refunding his deposit.

13/8/2025, 3:11:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Crime is statistically down everywhere. Lying and being afraid of non-white people won’t save your job. Democratic voters come primarily from urban places. Fake warnings about cities is part of the Republican attack on our system of government.

13/8/2025, 3:09:21 AM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this at all related to the administration firing 1000 people at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...

12/8/2025, 7:55:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s almost like abusing children is a plank in the Republican party’s platform.

12/8/2025, 5:29:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Then he should resign and go back to Knoxville- which, according to NextBurb, has higher rates of violent crime.

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12/8/2025, 3:29:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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After the troops are deployed, maybe they’ll read their oaths again and take the Republican President into custody.

11/8/2025, 11:48:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I guarantee his minions have watched those newsreels from the 30’s- which is how he emulates those authoritarians, step-by-step.

10/8/2025, 6:09:52 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish I could enjoy this, but not only is Beainy’s white partner denying he’s an investor, but a different white dude registered MAGA Burger in Texas in an attempt to take the concept. It’s likely one of the two white dudes called ICE on the Lebanese man for scoundrel-business reasons.

9/8/2025, 3:51:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Americans want a representational democracy.

9/8/2025, 1:48:22 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m putting all my eggs in the one-disgruntled-interpreter-with-nothing-to-lose basket.

9/8/2025, 1:47:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok. That’s enough bizzaro-world.

9/8/2025, 1:45:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I believe them.

9/8/2025, 1:43:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’d like to think that if enough people were to focus…

9/8/2025, 1:43:19 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All it would take is one agent to snap.

9/8/2025, 1:41:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

I knew Roseaneh’s tenure was exceptional among presidents, but I had no idea his term was 407 years!

8/8/2025, 7:45:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stephen sears (@stephensears.bsky.social) reply parent

Trials broadcast on a thriving PBS network of stations, just like the Watergate hearings that preempted my viewing of Sesame Street.

8/8/2025, 7:26:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I look forward to a future president restoring dignity to the office.

8/8/2025, 7:19:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey Kennedy Clan: why don’t you do something about your lunatic brother/ cousin/ uncle?

8/8/2025, 6:37:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How one shows they’ve never heard of Microsoft365.

8/8/2025, 1:50:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view