state.of.steve

Reading is fundamental!

Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.

Unfortunately, that’s it—it’s just an empty wannabe pejorative at this point. We need to find a new (perhaps simpler) angle for stoking resistance than throwing around “fascism” and “oligarchy” on social media.

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This is the spirit I like to see!

Education Department to Fire 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.

Donald Trump said he'd abolish the Department of Education, and that's exactly what he's doing.

If you send your kids to public school, Trump is sending you a clear message: he doesn’t care about you.

That legacy media will platform a clown like this is unconscionable. And my 10th graders are better writers than him.

I'm looking forward to catching up LIVE with Stephen Colbert tonight. Feels like there will be plenty to discuss!

Tune in to the Late Show at 11:35 pm ET.

Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.

“Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,

And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.”

- Walt Whitman

Man, if this offensive balance and defensive focus had been there all year, who knows? As it is, Woody has a chance to go out on a high note. Keep it going!

“Today’s fake populists, Musk and his DOGE wrecking crew chief among them, seek to deepen inequality, in part by dismantling not just the federal Department of Education but the institution of public education itself.”

This aggression will not stand, man.

Nice W, fellas!

Yeah, I’m still bullish on the young folks. Don’t press ‘em down, leave ‘em be.

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Take it to ‘em, middle America. It’s not too late to stand up & fight back.

No. Two-way guys in NFL aren’t entirely rare. In MLB they are and to be as special as Shohei is even more rare.

Get well soon, sir!

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JD Vance’s Debacle in Germany Exposes MAGA’s Sinister Global Endgame Did you know that the United States is joining an international fascist network?

"I never could have imagined, none of us could, that the government of the United States of America would openly ally itself with a fascist political party. In the heart of Europe. In Germany, for God’s sake."

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World “What we’d hope for on the planet is creativity and sanity, conviviality, the real work of our hands and minds.”

Counterculture is calling

“I certainly taught against the grain of the dominant culture, but I was always also complicit with that culture even if it was complicity under duress.” - Curtis White

In Los Angeles I saw a billboard asking me to join the green revolution. It was paid for by a group called CalRecycle. I could think of only one thing: why weren’t they called RecyCAL!? Climate change is real, and we need to use everything at our disposal to fight it, including portmanteaus.

Never had Twitter. On Threads but starting this account just in case.