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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 15/04/2026
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992 Followers - 11 Posts - "Josh Shapiro For President: the Epstein Establishment’s Golden Boy https://open.substack.com/pub/certainthoughts/p/josh…"
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 19/03/2026
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What Is Jewish Power For?
The JCPA, J Street, and a family of allied organizations are flailing in a moment of stark precarity, utterly incapable of addressing a crisis of their own making.
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Inside Outrance @insideoutrance.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Always stoked to contribute when @certainthoughts.substack.com puts one of these things together. open.substack.com/pub/certaint... Contributing to the discourse, I guess
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Graham Platner's Nazi Tattoo: Everyone Weighs In.
A roundtable discussion about the controversial insurgent Maine Democrat
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 11/10/2025
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One Battle After Another: Everyone Weighs In.
A roundtable discussion about Paul Thomas Anderson's sensational tenth feature film
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.
The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn
) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Here it is, my answer for every time I get asked "why don't (most) Dems just...[message better, be bolder, sound authentic...etc]" www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
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Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 04/10/2025
Ezra Klein is Crashing Out open.substack.com/pub/certaint...
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 23/09/2025
Tonight's Dramatic Return Is His Chance to Do the Funniest Thing Ever: Call for Impeachment open.substack.com/pub/certaint...
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The One Jimmy Kimmel Joke That Could Save America
Tonight's Dramatic Return Is His Chance to Do the Funniest Thing Ever
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TrumpWatch @trumpwatch.skyfleet.blue · 12/09/2025
Hoisted by Our Own Libtards #Trump
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Hoisted by Our Own Libtards
Profoundly Stupid Liberal Responses to the Charlie Kirk Shooting
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 12/09/2025
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Hoisted by Our Own Libtards
Profoundly Stupid Liberal Responses to the Charlie Kirk Shooting
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 07/09/2025
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The Godfather Waltz: Requiem for an American Dream
Certain Sips ☕ The Weekend Brew: September 7, 2025
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 30/08/2025
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How Zionism Joined the Fascist Coalition
Abandoning Judaism, the Democrats, and Democracy Itself
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 24/08/2025
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Across the Universe
Certain Sips ☕ The Weekend Brew: August 23, 2025
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 21/08/2025
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Trader Joe's Tuesday Treats: Buy Nothing.
Wednesday Edition
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 29/07/2025
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Donnie Darko is a Documentary
The Terrible True Story of an American Rapture
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 18/07/2025
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I Thought We Said "Never Again"?
The Moral Crisis of the Benefit of the Doubt
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 15/07/2025
🗣️ICYMI: Stop talking about AI. You’re killing the vibe! 🎯 open.substack.com/pub/certaint...
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Stop Talking About AI.
You're Killing the Vibe.
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 28/06/2025
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Stand With Zohran, Join the Movement
Sign the pledge: use your vote to make genocide politically toxic.
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 20/06/2025
As we prepare to attack Iran, every major jewish American org is advocating for the same insane choice we made in Iraq. This is a choice one would make if they want people to hate and kill Jews, not love and respect them. This is a beacon of antisemitism, and it’s coming from inside the house.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 16/06/2025
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Carlito's Way (1993) as Model U.N.
Loyalty Has Its Limits.
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 08/06/2025
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Zuul @zuulthegatekeeper.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha. Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children. Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.
MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
Islam's holiest day is marred by grief and peril as Gaza marks Eid al-Adha
Rather than the ritual sacrifice of a lamb, a Palestinian man told NBC News, "We sacrifice the blood of martyrs. We sacrifice our sons, our daughters, and our mothers.""This is not an Eid of joy; it is an Eid of mourning and death," Ahmed Darwish, displaced from Rafah to west Khan Younis, told NBC News as he stood beside the graves. "Our children and women are in pieces.
Instead of sacrificing animals, we collected body parts this morning."
On Eid, Israeli strikes continued as families wept by the bodies of their loved ones, killed before celebrations could begin.
Reda Abdel Rahim Eljara told an NBC News team that Israeli air strikes had already killed her husband and one of her sons. On the first day of Eid al-Adha, she lost two more sons and her daughter-in-law.Umm Ahmad Al-Qatati said her son, Omar, 11, was shot as he left his tent to shower and get ready for a visit to see his father.
"He was so excited for Eid morning, but they sent him to the morgue instead," she said. "Instead of celebrating Eid, he went to be with his Lord."
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 04/06/2025
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Abundance This, TACO Trump...Shut the Fuck Up.
Is Establishment Idiocy a Mask for Complicity?
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
fuck you, I killed it
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 03/06/2025
🦅🇺🇸 Van Hollen for President open.substack.com/pub/certaint...
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TC @tcustodis.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 31/05/2025
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If This Is What Israel Does, Then Israel Shouldn't Exist
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🤣🤣
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
catstituent outreach
I’m sitting on a bench in a black and white plaid minidress and a high ponytail. My hand is on a little calico kitten named Sprinkle. Her head is the size of a walnut. Next to me is a white and brown-striped cat named Tofu who is looking on curiously. She just received a bunch of pets.
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Chasing Oz @chasingoz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/05/2025
One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation. Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.
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Missouri Supreme Court defies voters, halts abortions in the state
Despite passage of a constitutional amendment last fall, the ping-pong battle over "reproductive freedom" continues.
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 28/05/2025
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Solve Substack's Tech Support Crisis
The Human Solution: Substack Service Corps
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Pretty remarkable point from Ehud Olmert, no dove himself.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
oh my god
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/05/2025
Breaking News: Charles Rangel, the former dean of New York’s congressional delegation who became the first Black chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, died at 94.
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Charles B. Rangel, Longtime Harlem Congressman, Dies at 94
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
My campaign office unfortunately has to hire security as an individual is regularly vandalizing it. This is in addition to a Republican calling our office the “Home of Hezbollah”. Security is an unplanned expense but we want this to be a safe place. If you’re able, help us offset the costs below ⬇️
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/05/2025
You know what was an awesome abundance agenda? The Green New Deal.
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 25/05/2025
I was taught that all of humanity was created in God‘s image. Either that has never been true, or we are killing God 100 times a day in Gaza.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/05/2025
Princess Bonkers says happy #Caturday
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My NEFARIOUS PLANS have finally been EXPOSED!!
ORIGINAL POST: Thank you to @goodgoodgoodco for covering my campaign’s mutual aid efforts! Remember y’all: Politicians *can* spend their money this way. They just choose not to. [Gen-Z congressional candidate uses campaign funds to feed people in need: ‘So much money gets wasted in politics’]

QUOTE POST: This has now pissed me the hell off - you are not from here - who are you targeting????

MY REPLY: Hungry people
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 24/05/2025
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
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U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Since I am officially a dad now I will be updating both my politics and posts accordingly. in: earnest climate posting cringe dad jokes that are somehow vaguely Leninist discussions of snack praxis out: doomerist takes sectarian squabbling commentary on anime with excessive fan service
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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Goodemorning Gonzobongos! Hallo! Sorry fore sleeb in so late!
Orange and white cat resting on a cat tree. He says, "good morning Gonzobongos! Hello! Sorry for sleeping in so late!"
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Evan Stern @certainthoughts.substack.com · 22/05/2025
🚨 Breaking: Israel’s Human Shields open.substack.com/pub/certaint...
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Breaking: Israel's Human Shields
What Happens When You Starve 14,000 Children to Death?
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