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Steven T. Jones

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Writer, grandpa, progressive-turning-cynic, watching the world burn. Writes Scribe’s End Notes at https://open.substack.com/pub/steventjones?r=1f5k2m&utm_medium=ios

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The End is Nigh Trump's Authoritarian Project is Faltering, Belied by Its Belligerent Bellicosity. One Prescient SF Thinker Predicts the Endgame.

Every day brings fresh indications that the Orange Wizard and his flying monkeys are losing their grip on the country, even as they double down on distracting tricks and spectacles. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

05.12.2025 23:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fickle Finger of Fate Fortunes Brighten in the Fight Against Trump's Fascism. Plus: SF's Race to Replace Pelosi, and Remembering Climate Change

The finger of fate can be fickle, particularly in a country feverishly flirting with fascism. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

13.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Fickle Finger of Fate Fortunes Brighten in the Fight Against Trump's Fascism. Plus: SF's Race to Replace Pelosi, and Remembering Climate Change

The finger of fate can be fickle, particularly in a country feverishly flirting with fascism. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

13.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Live Updates: Trump Attacks U.N. and Lectures Nations in Address to General Assembly

I’m ashamed and embarrassed by our president. This is what happens when an idiotic megalomaniac surrounds himself with incompetent and corrupt yes-men. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

23.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dark Days Exploiting Tragedy to Promote Censorship, Punish Opponents, Seize More Power. Plus, Who's the Antichrist and Is Trump Fucking Satan?

This isn’t really about free speech, hate speech, Kirk, Kimmel, or being sensitive in our reactions to this shocking assassination. It’s just the latest step in Trump’s authoritarian power play, a cynical move to destroy their enemies and our constitutional order.

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18.09.2025 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our Setting Sun Summer is Ending, And So is American Life as We Know It

Trump’s personal insecurity has always caused him to tear others down to make himself seem better. It’s just what spoiled children and petty tyrants do. But that noxious trait got supercharged when Trump ran for office.

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03.09.2025 19:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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California Pushes AI Regulation as Experts Reveal Looming Dangers Bay Area technology companies are racing to build powerful artificial intelligence systems they admit could pose “catastrophic risks” to society. But a new report by academic experts commissioned by Gov....
15.08.2025 15:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Reality Bites Autocrats Distort and Conceal Reality: Killing Journalists, Firing Regulators, and Lying to Citizens. But Eventually, Reality Bites Back.

Trump has adopted an aggressive strategy of denying, covering up, and threatening reality — trying to write his own version of reality for all of us, real reality be damned. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

15.08.2025 19:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Age of Entropy America is Winding Down and Headed for Collapse, So Let's Just Start Over

Maybe we need to embrace our era of entropy and accept the end of our flawed American system. Let things break down so that we can start anew and build entirely new economic, political and governance systems. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

01.08.2025 14:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“The Moment We Feared Has Arrived” Protests Against Trump's Aggressive Immigration Raids, and His Militarized Response, Could Easily Spin Out of Control

This is the moment I’ve been dreading. It’s when you can clearly see how escalating cycles of violence in American cities could easily lead to the authoritarian police state that Trump seeks.
And worst of all, I’m really not sure what we can do to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

12.06.2025 02:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Rage of Little Men Performative Masculinity Hurts Society, Just Like Grandiosity and Fear of Vulnerability Harm Personal Relationships

Musk didn’t directly answer the question about his drug abuse, instead denigrating the Times as unreliable, even as his eyes rolled back into his head a few times during the event, looking like a raver who just did a K bump after too much Molly. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

03.06.2025 14:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Canada vs. Trump North of the Border, They're Sick of America's Shit, But Still Awfully Nice About It. Plus: Qatari Jet Gift Encapsulates Everything Wrong with Trump

What if the West Coast states seceded from the U.S. and joined an alliance with Canada and Mexico? Hmmm. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

17.05.2025 16:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

All these fascists are bound to lose. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

27.04.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

All these fascists are bound to lose. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

27.04.2025 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

All these fascists are bound to lose. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

27.04.2025 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

Yes, they’re evil, but at least they’re incompetent. It may be what saves our country. All these fascists are bound to lose. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

25.04.2025 00:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

All these fascists are bound to lose. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

25.04.2025 00:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

I couldn’t help but hear Parker Posey’s voice from White Lotus when I read that. All these fascists are bound to lose. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

25.04.2025 00:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

All these fascists are bound to lose. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

25.04.2025 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

Total free fall. All these fascists are bound to lose. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

25.04.2025 00:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

It’s so great to see our institutions holding. All these fascists are bound to lose. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

25.04.2025 00:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

All these fascists are bound to lose. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

25.04.2025 00:01 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascists Bound to Lose Trump's Martial Law Threats Could Backfire on Him. Plus, Pope Francis Triggered Conservatives By Reminding Them of Christ's Core Messages

Luckily for all of us, Trump and his top appointees continue to prove at least as incompetent as they are evil. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

24.04.2025 20:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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News That’s Fit to Print Three Front Page Stories Paint a Scary Portrait of Trump’s Stupidity, Corruption and Authoritarian Designs

China is totally dunking on the Trump administration, and it'll only get worse from here. Starting this trade war was one of the dumbest things Trump has done, and that's really saying something. steventjones.substack.com/p/news-thats...

16.04.2025 22:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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News That’s Fit to Print Three Front Page Stories Paint a Scary Portrait of Trump’s Stupidity, Corruption and Authoritarian Designs

Trump is losing the trade war he started with China -- and it's only going to get worse from here. Chinese citizens are conditioned endure hardships for the greater national good. Americans, not so much. steventjones.substack.com/p/news-thats...

16.04.2025 22:10 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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News That’s Fit to Print Three Front Page Stories Paint a Scary Portrait of Trump’s Stupidity, Corruption and Authoritarian Designs

The front page of Sunday’s New York Times includes a trio of well-reported stories that illustrate the stupidity, the corruption, and the real authoritarian dangers posed by the Trump administration and its actions and appointees. Each is worth analyzing.
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16.04.2025 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is what happens when you make a deal with the devil. He's always going to want more.

16.04.2025 22:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't Freak Out, Fight Back Trump Wants You Scared, But Musk's Failures and Signalgate Fiasco Show They Aren't as Strong or Smart as They Pretend

The real Liberation Day is tomorrow, with Trump/Musk protests around the country, not when our idiot president decided to tank our economy. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

04.04.2025 16:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't Freak Out, Fight Back Trump Wants You Scared, But Musk's Failures and Signalgate Fiasco Show They Aren't as Strong or Smart as They Pretend

Trump and Musk aren’t as strong or smart as they think. WI election & Signalgate show how vulnerable they are. So now’s the time to fight back. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

02.04.2025 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Transitioning Toward Solutions Newsom’s New Transgender Athlete Stance Opens Important Conversation About Liberal Orthodoxy Harming Democrats and Enabling Trump

Rather than legitimizing MAGA and its many calculated grievances, Gavin Newsom would be better off engaging with innovative policymakers here and abroad to create better models for Democratic governance, particularly on divisive issues.

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12.03.2025 23:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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