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James Frederick Stephens, J.D.

@jamfste.bsky.social
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Historian, lawyer, philosopher, and writer. #Progressive defender of the #RuleOfLaw. Lover of #virtue, #beauty, #wisdom, #humor, and #joy. Born to learn and share, but aren't we all? Motto: "Feed your head."

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Today’s Beauty @todaysbeauty.bsky.social · 5h
Today’s Beauty September 30, 2026 #flowers #nature #beauty #bloomscrolling #photography
A yellow sunflower bloom in detail
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peparinfante.bsky.social @peparinfante.bsky.social · 2h
#originalphoto #photography #beauty #naturephotography #naturephoto #nature #seascape #seascapephoto #seascapephotography #nikonphotography #sunset
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Warren A @firewall0011010.bsky.social · 15h
#Pedo47's #MAGA is now recognized as the world's most notoriously white, overtly privileged, in-bred, racist, nazi loving, Ignorant, uneducated, domestic violence, Pro-Pedophile movement. Stay trashy #MagaMorons! #Pedo47Protectors! 🖕🏽🤬🖕🏽 - Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Jack Diddly Squat - Distinguished Fellow @mrmucketymuck.bsky.social · 17h
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16h
Senator Dirtbag Schmitt-head, even Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post is mocking his “perjury gotcha” moment. This is the only thing he’ll ever be remembered for. nypost.com/2026/09/29/u...
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 15h
I just can't stop laughing.😂 That #JackSmith hearing was the funniest, most satisfying thing I've seen in politics in years. Seems the stupid, always-lying #GOP will go down in history as #TeamDirtbag, but Smith will be remembered as a classy, competent, patriotic hero. youtu.be/uT2BGYa6RSc?...
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GOP senator's perjury trap for Jack Smith backfires
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#MAGA religion isn't remotely #Christian. The spread of the #TrumpCult is among the most threatening things that have ever happened to the USA. youtu.be/l_FNFciljCE?...
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MAGA Prophet wants Republicans to shut up about their problems and support their Messiah
YouTube video by Rev Ed Trevors
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Keep this in your "No Shit?" file. #Republicans sold their souls and are surprised and whining when the public is taken aback by the hideous dangerous demons hovering over them.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026
Talarico's devoted, deeply thoughtful and studied christianity is very recognizable to Black christians, most of whom are Democrats, who take their faith practices seriously, too. Jimmy know ball. Folks see and respect that.
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't get overconfident, #Democrats. There are still millions of dimwitted #MAGA who, despite the evidence of their own eyes, ears, and bank accounts, have decided to believe that Trump has LOWERED 😖 grocery and gas prices from imaginary highs hit during the Biden administration. #MidTermElections
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 29/09/2026
American kids and teens who suffer the highest rates of gun violence are competing for access to the dwindling violence prevention programs designed to reach them, thanks in part to funding cuts from the Trump administration. Memphis is a ground zero.
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‘No One Is Born a Killer’
As the National Guard prowls city streets and federal funding for violence interruption dries up, a small but mighty team in Memphis works to stop teen gun violence before it happens.
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Renovator www.democracyrenovator.com?r=6ifgwd&utm...
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The Renovator | Danielle Allen | Substack
The Renovator is a Substack for everyone who wants to help renovate our democracy. Click to read The Renovator, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 21/09/2026
We often assume that our memories are stored in our brains, just like a hard drive stores data. bit.ly/4AfiMbS In this talk, philosopher Victoria Trumbull argues this is a radical mistake: she argues that the brain enables memory without containing it, and that time itself stores memory.
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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 26/09/2026
The rise of populism has been lauded as the defeat of neoliberalism. So what does the new world that is struggling to be born look like? bit.ly/422Xj6q Join Wendy Brown to discuss how antidemocratic politics intertwine with neoliberal economics to create today's political climate.
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Democracy in the ruins of neoliberalism
The rise of populism has, in turn, been lauded as the defeat of neoliberalism. But while the old world may be dead, what does the new world that is struggling to be born look like? Join philosopher We...
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are you an AI idealist, alarmist, or skeptic? - Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School hls.harvard.edu/today/are-yo...
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Are you an AI idealist, alarmist, or skeptic? - Harvard Law School
A Harvard Law course will explore the values, incentives, and anxieties driving artificial intelligence.
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 25/09/2026
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warns that emergency appeals are becoming a "special avenue" for "certain privileged litigants."
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Justice Jackson says Supreme Court intervenes too quickly on Trump's side
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warns that emergency appeals are becoming a "special avenue" for "certain privileged litigants."
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Netanyahu hasn't exactly made the world a safer place for jewish people or anyone else.
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brad (so-called free thinker) @bradicality.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
gift link
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U.S. Government Airs Pro-Trump, Anti-Communism Ad
The unusual ad, which said it was paid for by the U.S. government, aired on Fox News in major TV markets.
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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He violates federal law every single day. And then nothing happens.
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Temptation to Forget by @evalunes medium.com/thought-thin...
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The Temptation to Forget
Under Calypso’s Spell
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loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pay attention to certification at the county level before, during and after Nov 3-- the midterm election. Especially for members-elect to the House of Representatives. Delay, deny, disrupt will be the Trump minion agenda. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/... @democracydocket.com
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How rogue counties could help Trump and throw the midterms into chaos after Election Day
Since 2020, certification has increasingly become a tool for fringe local officials to delay results, force state intervention and cast doubt on votes they are legally required to finalize.
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Progressive Power @progressivepower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump team now wants to put his name on Ford’s Theatre site of the Lincoln assassination: report #Trump #FordTheatre
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Trump team now wants to put his name on Ford’s Theatre site of the Lincoln assassination: report
White House officials apparently pitch renaming buildings in Trump’s honor to get on the president’s good side, according to a report
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This makes a little more sense than the #KennedyCenter, in that #Trump did lead a MAGA conspiracy to assassinate the now-dead #PartyofLincoln and destroy Honest Abe's legacy. #Ford’sTheatre is famous for the horrendous act of treason that occurred there. #PartyOfJWBooth www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm not the kind to say it all points back to a single historical episode, but so much of what Trump is doing with ballroom & Kennedy Center—the wanton destruction, the callous indifference to the past—was evident when he destroyed Bonwit Teller's irreplaceable sculptures nearly a half-century ago
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#MAGA doesn't know what a King is. Nor do they know or care what the #POTUS is required to be and not to be. Fugging idiot horde of apes is beyond reach. It's hopeless trying to educate or convince them. They simply have to be utterly defeated and kept from political influence at any level of gov't.
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Tusareve Gorilla's Playful Swing
ALT: Tusareve Gorilla's Playful Swing
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
💩"L'État, c'est moi." #NoKings #FlagHumpingPOS
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Donald Trump with American Flag
ALT: Donald Trump with American Flag
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If a large, determined, constitutionally legitimate group of patriotic heroes decided to deep-clean the #WhiteHouse, who am I to complain? I don't think a vigorous deep-cleaning would be unreasonable at this point. In fact, you would think the Secret Service, et al., would be eager to help. #cleanup
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
...“It doesn’t matter who is in charge, because this problem is out of humanity’s league.” Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari says, “AI is not just another tool; it is an agent. It can learn and change by itself..." #AI and #Reckless #Greed don't mix well. medium.com/personal-gro...
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No One Is Ready For What’s Coming. No One Knows What’s Happening
This is terrifying.
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Trump is among the most evil leaders in recorded #history. #America, should she survive him, will forever have to face the shame he and his demonic cult have brought on us.
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Crazy #WhiteHouse propaganda believed and repeated by #MAGA alert.
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What is the point of covering lies? Why lend your media-company's hard-earned credibility to the lie factory? Just stay home and spend time the time fact-checking and debunking filthy #propaganda. I've never understood why legacy media doesn't boycott #Trump rather than wade in #WhiteHouse sewage.
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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Raven portrait. Hail the genius bird. 🪶
Raven portrait
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
one thing that is worth remember apropos this useful piece is that novel technologies do not necessarily require novel political solutions. americans have had to deal with fast-moving, disruptive technological change in the past, and they did so through collective, democratic action.
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Opinion | Bernie Sanders, Steve Case and Others on What Washington Should Do Now on A.I.
How can the government reel in the technology? Here are six ideas.
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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
September 2025 monarch butterflies on zinnias #Inverts 🌿
Orange and black monarch butterfly with wings spread Distinctively marked monarch butterfly on pink zinnia Monarch butterfly on zinnia
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/09/2026
We're going to see more of these bogus stories trying to rehabilitate the image of DOGE bros who happily did massive damage. The premise of "oh we really thought we were helping" is a lie.
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm speaking to my fellow Trump-rejecting #Christians. When your mentally stuck #Republican loved ones are doubling down on their sinful political choices, don't let them gaslight you. They can't accept the ugly truth and maintain their self-image. 😭 #PsychologicalTrap youtu.be/3BtTtGCTo3A?...
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Why Dysfunctional Families Protect the Wrong Person | Isaiah 5 Explained
YouTube video by Leave then Cleave
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of the scariest verses of the Bible for me during this present darkness, known as the Trump Age, is Matt 7:2: "You will be judged in the same way that you judge others. And the forgiveness you give to others will be given to you." My confusion comes from what is meant by "judge" #ChristianLiving
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phillipmedhurst @phillipmedhurst.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Ruth takes away the barley Judges 3:15 Pen and ink sketch for "La Sainte Bible: Ancien Testament . . . Compositions par J.-James Tissot" Paris: Brunoff & Cie 1904 […] [Original post on pixelfed.com]
Ruth takes away the barley Judges 3:15 Pen and ink sketch
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Don't tell me "both sides are the same." I'll think you're either ignorant of current events, or trying to stay in a comfortable position among your business associates and neighbors by avoiding your Christian duty to boldly speak out on behalf of the weak, sick, poor, broken, sorrowing #ActiveFaith
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Little-Known Painter Who Sharpens Your Visual Perception by @cjoneswrites christopherpjones.medium.com/the-little-k...
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The Little-Known Painter Who Sharpens Your Visual Perception
Discovering treasure in everyday life
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#RuleOfLaw and #Democracy is being held up by the fidelity of the judges serving in the lower state and federal courts. #History will record these judges as heroes.
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#MarkOfTheBeast? He has to be on every thinking persons' list of #antichrist suspects. No one in history that one can check off more boxes with better timing on the elements of the "Man of Perdition" than #Trump. Nor is there a better "Strong Delusion" example than perverse MAGA-style #Christianity.
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Rambling Idiot @ramblingidiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Trickster. #foxoftheday
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember when #pedophilia and war crimes were not core #Republican values? Those were good times.
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Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#Lincoln #Trump #25thAmendment #USConstitution
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 17/09/2026
Despite being in effect for 237 years, the U.S. constitution has been formally amended just 27 times. #ConstitutionDay #USConstitution
Chart showing hardest and easiest national constitutions to amend.
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Eliana @otrodia.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
How do you know your country is fully fucked? Folks in #government doing their job and abiding by the #USConstitution get Courage awards! #FuckTrump
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🦉When you think about it, doesn't every U.S. citizen have moral, ethical, and social-contractual⚖️duties to defend (by all necessary⚔️means) the #RuleOfLaw, as defined in the #USConstitution, against all foreign and domestic enemies, especially if those enemies have seized control of the government?🦅
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The people of the United States have been conditioned to accept greed as a fact of life. It is not. Greed is a choice made by the selfish at the expense of those with less power. #Greed isn't a #virtue, and it certainly shouldn't be the foundation upon which a great society rests its economy.
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James Frederick Stephens, J.D. @jamfste.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Connecting to people on a deep level is important. 😄
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