Former Republican media consultant. Worked in 5 presidential races. Senior advisor to Lincoln Project. Author of 9 books. I am obsessed with doing endurance sports badly.
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ICYMI: Dr. & Sen. Bill Cassidy once championed vaccination programs for children. Now, as a senator, he cast the deciding vote that could lead to devastating consequences for children. @stuartpstevens.bsky.social says the responsibility falls on Cassidy. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stuart-ste...
Mass shootings are an American nightmare. But RFK Jr will kill more Americans than all the mass shooters combined. And Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. let it happen. It’s the greatest case of medical malpractice in history.
Stuart Stevens: "In my first race, I had stumbled onto a truth as basic and immutable as the fact that water freezes below 32 degrees Fahrenheit: Race was the key in which much of American politics and certainly all of Southern politics was played."
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
These people hate America.
Todd Blanche is acting like a mob lawyer because he is.
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
Putin meets alone with Trump. A week later, US intelligence is gutted by Tulsi Gabbard. FBI goes after John Bolton. Had Putin ordered it through Amazon, could not have been more efficient.
Q: Is Putin tapping Trump along? Sen. Thom Tillis: "How can anybody objectively look at what's happening right now and conclude otherwise?...He's a thug. He's a murderer. He's a rapist. He needs to go." (ht: @thebulwark.com)
It does amuse me that the children of these angry white guys will spend most of their lives living in a minority-majority country. And there’s absolutely nothing they can do about it.
Race is the original sin of modern Republican Party. Thoughts from an insider.
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
Excellent video! Q: When did you first learn about the Southern Strategy? While you were a GOP operative? Why didn't a lightbulb go off earlier?
Race is the original sin of modern Republican Party. Thoughts from an insider.
The Republican party has given a sweetheart deal to one of the most monstrous child sex traffickers in modern history. Nothing is more important than making sure the voices of the Maxwell-Epstein survivors are heard. Please join this important conversation.
Hope you will join!
Democrats spend far too much time thinking and talking about how to attack Trump & his party. No one attack ever works in politics. What does work is a commitment to sustained aggression. Attack, attack, attack. How Newsom is attacking is much less important than the fact that he is attacking.
“They put Trump’s name on the trucks. This is the clearest possible signal that ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force that exists at the disposal of Trump. This is not a choice someone makes if they intend to leave office in three years.” www.thebulwark.com/p/fascist-se...
You can see his deep disappointment in what the Republican Party has become-- Stuart Stevens speaks of where we are now www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stuart-ste...?
From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
Great piece by @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
I wonder if Marco Rubio ever wonders what would happen to his kids if they needed help and had to turn to someone like Marco Rubio?
I saw my first ICE attack — 4 unmarked black SUVs with blue lights flashing, w three house painters cuffed on the side of a highway they'd backed up for 30 minutes in both directions — and I can tell you this much: I will die hating these people, and I will spend the rest of my life ruining theirs.
Navy Academy grad, former Navy Seal, Harvard Med School grad, ER doctor. Follow and subscribe to @dbarkhuff.bsky.social Substack. He’s the real deal.
Like every turning point in the ongoing Trump humiliation of GOP leaders, no Republican has stood to defend American dignity and Decency. Two monsters: Vladimir Putin and Ghislaine Maxwell, embraced by the Republican Party. Putin and Maxwell: Welcome to the GOP open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
Let’s get this straight. We pay for her housing and we pay to fly her psycho boyfriend with her on vacation. Why?
Like every turning point in the ongoing Trump humiliation of GOP leaders, no Republican has stood to defend American dignity and Decency. Two monsters: Vladimir Putin and Ghislaine Maxwell, embraced by the Republican Party. Putin and Maxwell: Welcome to the GOP open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
Man who sends army of rapists into Ukraine enjoys time with man found liable for sexual assault a judge called rape.
Well, we’re going to have those elections and does Stephen Miller believe he’s created such good will they will never come for him? What do you think?
The ICE today that is chasing gardeners through Brentwood and intimidating political rallies, is the ICE that can come for your guns and surround MAGA rallies with hundreds of armed, masked men. The only thing stopping that is a couple of elections and the good will of non-MAGA Americans.
Conservatives spent decades warning against a government para-military organization that would come for their guns and free speech. Now Trump and Republicans have created the perfect force to make that nightmare a reality: ICE.
This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew. They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.
Let him who is without sin cast the first sandwich.
Simon Rosenberg & Stuart Stevens Live | Is America's Golden Age Over? www.lincolnsquare.media/p/simon-rose... The Republican Party always has been a sham. If the best Republican president in the past one hundred years remains Eisenhower, he's nearly gone from living memory.
We know that Ghislaine Maxwell is just as culpable as Epstein. So why has she been moved to a prison country club? @katiephang.bsky.social
I’ve made a zillion political ads. I wish I’d made this one. It’s an instant classic. I’m donating to @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social and hope you will consider supporting.
Very much enjoyed this conversation with Simon. I admire him so much. Hope you will give it a listen.
5pm ET: Just hours ago, TX State Sen. Carol Alvarado and fellow Dems walked out of the chamber as the #Txlege began to take up the proposed congressional maps. She joins @therickwilson.bsky.social & @stuartpstevens.bsky.social to take behind the fight for democracy. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
This is like using Navy Seals as crossing guards.
Consider this: the man who is making health decisions for America says his heroin use was a positive and he’d still be doing it if he thought it would continue to help. This is not an addiction story. It’s a story of madness. . people.com/rfk-jr-heroi...
My latest on @lincolnsquare.media "Something happened in the Republican Party. We evolved a system that rewarded lack of character and elevated weak men and women. " An Inside Look: How the Law-and-Order Party became the Party of Jeffery Epstein www.lincolnsquare.media/p/an-inside-...
It’s 1779 and France has announced peace talks with Great Britain to settle conflict with American colonists.
My latest on @lincolnsquare.media "Something happened in the Republican Party. We evolved a system that rewarded lack of character and elevated weak men and women. " An Inside Look: How the Law-and-Order Party became the Party of Jeffery Epstein www.lincolnsquare.media/p/an-inside-...
Up to 1000 children & young women were trafficked by the sociopathic monster, Ghislaine Maxwell, yet she is the only person in jail... now a cushy TX resort. We know the Epstein List names very sick, moneyed, powerful men. Way past time for accountability. The #pedoprotectors should be very ashamed.
Very powerful from @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
Mexican Army Ranger calls out ICE GOONS ✊🏽
In @lincolnsquare.media tomorrow, I write about the sad case of my former client John Cornyn. Take a look at this. Big John. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0vcB...
There’s an astounding John Cornyn video in this you won’t believe.
Please read by the great @joetrippi.bsky.social substack.com/@lincolnsqua...
Fact check: mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia). This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs. Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
I don’t understand @danielsilvabooks.bsky.social. How does he do it? Another tremendous piece of writing. Such a gift to the world. Read his latest. It’s wonderful.
The only weaponization involving Jack Smith is this investigation. This is worse than the Red Scare. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens with a very personal message on YT, culminating in We, the Dems, are right They, the Guardians Of Paedophiles (formerly GOP), are wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnB...
I urge every Republican, every independent to watch this plea from Stuart Stevens. youtu.be/SSnBeifBas0?...
"One of my favorite cartoons of Trump era shows a MAGA supporter ascending to heaven. His first question is, “Who killed Jeffrey Epstein?” When God responds, “It was suicide,” the MAGA acolyte says to himself, “This goes even deeper than I thought.” And so it does." substack.com/@lincolnsqua...
BREAKING: @stuartpstevens LIVE on Trump's Quid Pro Quo with Ghislaine Maxwell- only on Lincoln Square: Join us live right now: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
It’s not enough to take the steroids, you have to hit the gym and skip the all you can eat buffet.
"One of my favorite cartoons of Trump era shows a MAGA supporter ascending to heaven. His first question is, “Who killed Jeffrey Epstein?” When God responds, “It was suicide,” the MAGA acolyte says to himself, “This goes even deeper than I thought.” And so it does." substack.com/@lincolnsqua...
Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew
Really looking forward to talking with @jimacosta.bsky.social, a real truth teller. Back when I worked for Republican campaigns, we had our differences but Jim was always a total straight shooter, respected by all. He's never played the access journalism game. Join us tonight!
For Christ sake, a corrupt felon is president surrounded by an evil cabal of fools and Russian stooges.An army of masked thug bounty hunters are roaming the country. Trump is stealing billions. Stop with the focus groups. Attack, attack, attack.
I'm not sure the generic fav/unfav of the parties has much meaning these days. Very few people are in love with their party. Why should they be? Dems should stop worrying about their party image and wake up every day attacking Trump/MAGA.
I'd like to see a question that asks "Do you believe both political parties are outdated and out of touch with what America in 2025 needs?" I bet it would test 70% plus.
Promoting Trump must have been amusing to Murdoch, a harmless and profitable pursuit, an exotic animal dealer smuggling boa constrictors. Until you wake up & your profit center is around your throat. Rupert Murdoch May Want to Stay Away from Open Windows www.lincolnsquare.media/p/rupert-mur...
2017, RUBIO: “Active measures taken by Putin to influence and manipulate 🇺🇸 public opinion…. to sow chaos and division in our politics, and doubt about the legitimacy of our elections…” So did Trump’s now Secretary of State do a treason too? 🤔
Better odds that Melania goes back to Knavs.
In Finland, the Russian threat feels very real. Hope you’ll read my latest for @lincolnsquare.media open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
In Finland, the Russian threat feels very real. Hope you’ll read my latest for @lincolnsquare.media open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
davidpepper.substack.com/p/whiteboard...
At the tip of Norway, far above Arctic Circle, I asked the app that tracks sunrise and sunset times what tomorrow would bring. The answer below. There is no sunset or sunrise. Only sun 24 hours a day.
Someone has been studying the life of Magda Goebbels and learning from her mistakes.
Mike Pence: “I believe the time has come to release all the files regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s investigation and prosecution.” www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6YJwL9M/ #karma
Happy Birthday to a friend of Gabriel Allon!
If people want to stop being compared to Nazis they should stop acting like Nazi collaborators.
Donald Trump thinks you're stupid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibZ...
Hope you will join.
Trump's base is non-college educated white voters, the fastest declining large demographic in America. In 2000, was 60% of the electorate. Now 39% & dropping. So much of what Republicans are doing is trying to curate the electorate to make it whiter, less educated, and poorer. It's evil.
Jonathan Last is a national treasure.
We're in a bad place when the videos these agencies put out to promote themselves are as bad as the videos people put out to document their abuses. www.youtube.com/shorts/ziiGi...
I remain baffled why Trumpism is covered without discussing race. Those "deeply researched most pro-Trump regions" are 80% plus white. -In 2020, 85% of Trump's coalition was white. -In 2024, that dropped to.....84% white. Trumpism is a movement fueled by fear of a non-white America.
Is Finland ready for war? In a tiny town in Lapland, there’s a gym in the bomb shelter.
Midnight in Finland
Disabled veteran who is a U.S. citizen taken during Camarillo immigration raid
17c. Not bad.
Fast.
Road trip with reindeer.
Magical, crazy event. Swim from Sweden to Finland and back to Sweden across the Arctic Circle on the Tornio River that divides the countries. Fun, fun. swimac.eu/en
Tomorrow
I was drawn to Republican Party in part because of its espoused belief in personal responsibility. That was a lie. But I still believe in personal responsibility. open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
ICE agent terrorizing neighborhood in America or Russian special forces terrorizing neighborhood in Ukraine?
If you missed Stuart Stevens’ latest column on why Trump’s Mega-bill is like Pickett’s Charge, read it now. It’s an unflinching look at the world Trump is trying to build by reviving the Lost Cause. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/one-big-be...
Political consultant Stuart Stevens suggested that the Department of Homeland Security look a little closer to home — perhaps as close as the White House — in its efforts to root out convicted criminals for deportation.
Clay seems to know a lot about these laws.
Midnight in Sweden
“Conceived by a Kansas farmer and created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Food for Peace has sent burlap sacks of grain stamped “From the American People” to more than four billion people in 150 countries around the world. Now it is effectively dead.”
Courageous young women should be celebrated for their heroism.
"The Confederacy was founded by wealthy white men desperate to hold on to their power and secure their fortunes...Trumpism is driven by wealthy white men desperate to hold on to their power and secure their fortunes...they have convinced enough non-wealthy whites...to create a powerful movement."
July 4th 2025 will go down as the Pickett’s Charge of Trumpism. J.D. Vance is wrong. America is still an idea with tremendous power. open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...