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Jeremy Styron

@jeremystyron.bsky.social
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Former editor, op-ed columnist and reporter; secular humanist; agnostic-atheist, center-left Follow my writing at thefreethinkerfile.substack.com

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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Rage, rage against the dying of your legacy, which was mostly dead to begin with.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Any and all failures of this weasely figure, I'll happily applaud. 👏🎻 #mikejohnson #politics #news #house
nytimes.com
Johnson Fails to Kill Bipartisan Measure to Allow Proxy Voting for New Parents
The speaker tried to use an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to deny a bipartisan majority the chance to hold a vote on their proposal to allow new parents to vote remotely in the House.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Ya know, I'm starting to think DOGE isn't about saving and efficiency at all.
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Mary Kasprzak @marykasprzak.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I think the Booker filibuster is a good attempt to get out of the defensive crouch and be visible opposition. The fight is for attention is one dems have been losing
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Senate Republicans standing up to Trump on his fantasy of impeaching federal judges and dismantling district courts is a big deal. #courts #Trump #politics #news
thehill.com
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Election laws? What laws? #elonmusk #Wisconsin #politics #news
abc7chicago.com
Elon Musk hands out $1M payments after Wisconsin Supreme Court declines request to stop him
Elon Musk gave out $1 million checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters ahead of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to President Donald Trump's agenda and "th...
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The best use of our time is to randomly help all of our banking friends. They definitely need more cash. #politics #news #senate
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
He'll care eventually. And by the way, prices for American-made cars are also going to increase. This administration gets dumber by the day, and that'll probably be its undoing. #tariffs #trumptariffs #politics #news
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
See below for psychological breakdown of the disturbing manipulation that Trump and Vance attempted to use on Zelensky, who is supposed to be a close ally of ours. It really runs the gamut of victim blaming, bullying and browbeating, and it's no way to treat a friend. #ukraine #zelensky #trump
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theresistance94.bsky.social @theresistance94.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
- Trump’s face on a $250 bill - Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore - Trump’s birthday as a federal holiday - change the Constitution to allow a 3rd Trump term 4 bills proposed by Republicans to kiss Trump’s ass, and zero to lower grocery prices. Cult culture doesn’t help Americans.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Meet the DOGE staff members that you didn't know you didn't know doing unauthorized work for Musk, also unauthorized. Did Musk also tell them to email to hr@opm.gov describing five things they accomplished last week? Inquiring minds want to know. #doge #news #politics
nytimes.com
Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government
The Times identified 46 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
People are waking up. Trump and Elon are making little-L liberal, disastrous changes to government, and this is going to increasingly anger all but the most radicalized (or deluded) conservatives like those in this article. The chinks are beginning to show. #doge #news #politics #townhall
abcnews.go.com
Some Republicans hammered at home by constituents about DOGE, Ukraine
Some Republicans are facing pushback in their hometowns as President Donald Trump and DOGE makes severe cuts across the federal government.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Long live the king? Thems fightin' words. Or they would be at any other time in American history. But half of Congress is weak and the other half has sold out their own country to curry favor with a wannabe despot. #longlivetheking #trump #politics #news
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
... Cause he's all about saving money, huh? How many more government departments do we have to shutter to pay for this trip? Where's DOGE? #superbowl #trump #news
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Oh you mean the fee the Associated Press charges every news outlet and organization, including the government, to access the AP news wire. If you're going to rant, at least try to rant about reality. Fucking idiots. #ap #USAID #news #politics
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We already know Trump doesn't respect veterans and the military personnel, in so much as he can use them toward his own ends like everyone else, but this is pretty lowdown. #news #politics #fagan #coastguard #trump
nbcnews.com
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We already know Trump doesn't respect veterans and the military personnel, insomuch as he can use them toward his own ends like everyone else, but this is pretty lowdown. #news #politics #coastguard #fagan #trump www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The lack of transparency from the “Department of Government Efficiency” is contributing to growing anxiety within the federal workforce. Musk’s staff described these meetings as “one-way interviews,” during which federal employees were asked about their work and which colleagues should be fired.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Members of Elon Musk’s secretive team, tasked with reviewing federal agencies for potential cuts, are refusing to reveal their full names to civil servants. Musk’s representatives declined to provide their surnames and refused to answer any questions.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
As soon as all these wacky ideas start hitting the pocketbooks of Trump, Elon and all their billionaire friends, the appetite to cause "pain" will go down immensely. #stockmarket #news #politics
investors.com
Futures Plunge On Trump Trade War
Apple, Nvidia and Tesla sold off sharply. Palantir earnings are due after the close.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Did we make America great yet? Just wondering when that happens -- before or after the trade war and economic recession? #tradewar #trade #tariffs #trump #news #politics www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/b...
nytimes.com
Stocks Fall Around the World as Trump Tariffs Loom
The S&P 500 regained some of its losses from earlier in the day. Shares in Asian manufacturers and European carmakers tumbled on concern that tariffs will hurt trade and disrupt supply chains.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. No. 10: The Brothers Karamazov #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
On what authority is Musk attempting to shut down USAID? Funding for the agency runs through Congress, and funding must be rescinded through Congress. When are the remaining sane Republicans and Democrats going to do something? All of this is illegal. #usaid #elonmusk #news #politics
reuters.com
Musk to give update on reform effort amid questions about his power
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is heading U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to shrink the federal government, will give an update on the effort early Monday amid reports he has been given access to a vital payments system at the Treasury Department.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
It's impossible to call yourself a "great" nation, or even a good one, when you refuse to take a moral stand in support of those who need sanctionary from violence and oppression, when you pawn them off as someone else's problem. #immigration #migrants #venezuela
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The U.S. ought to have a Hall of Shame with cheaply made statues of our most loathsome historical figures and president, as judged by leading historians. Tourists can throw overpriced eggs at their heads. Someone on Threads suggested a bathroom. That could be called the Shitter of Shame.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Well that was pithy. I would liked to see an additional sentence or two. Something like, "We are very sorry for causing a panic and upsetting everyone. We don't know what we're doing." #rescinded #news #trump #spendingfreeze
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
At this moment, the silence from the GOP, which has been almost completely subsumed by people without a thread of moral courage, is defeaning. People like Mike Johnson, who has evidently already severed his spine from his brain, are a lost cause. (1) ...
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
So why is Dr. Phil, specifically, following ICE around again?? This plot for the final season of America doesn't even make sense.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
What could possibly go wrong? Every day brings a new national disgrace. #hegseth #news #politics
nbcnews.com
VP Vance breaks tie in the Senate to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary
Three Republicans voted with every Democrat against Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, forcing Vance to step in and put Hegseth over the top.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A criminal who just released a bunch of criminals doesn't want criminals coming into the country. Got it. #pardons #news #politics
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So much for appealing to his better nature. #news #politics #bishopbudde #bishop
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If it happens anything like last time, Trump is going to have to start recruiting actual Muppets to fill these posts because the talent pool really drops off the cliff if some of these folks get the boot. I hear Gonzo's looking for work. #trump #news #politics #cabinet
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
📍ZERO MARGIN—GOP majority Congress now LESS than <1 vote after Rep Waltz resigns to become Trump NSA. Meanwhile, Rep Mike Turner also refusing to vote after removal as Intel Comm chair. Thus, 218-215 GOP House margin down to 217-215, meaning 1 more vote defection leaves a tie.
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
⚠️Trump’s withdrawal from WHO is unlawful until is is approved by Congress. The U.S. entered WHO via 1948 resolution passed by both houses of Congress. Trump WH’s unilateral action notifying the UN of US withdrawing violates US law because it does not have express approval of Congress to leave WHO.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The dude is weird and spastic, ok, so I can't pretend to know what he was doing. But people comparing this to that one time #KamalaHarris flailed her arms around, and it sort of had the same angle. Please. #ElonMusk
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
He can alter all the paperwork he wants, but he can't change the historical record. #LizCheney #Inauguration2025 #Trump #pardons
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The party of criminals pardoning criminals. #Inauguration2025 #Pardons #proudboys #trump
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This pastor, Lorenzo Sewell, dares quote and tries for a poor impersonation of Martin Luther King Jr. at this sham inauguration of a man who embodies none of MLK's spirit or message, to say nothing of Jesus'. I was like, "whatever," during most of this event, but that actually made me angry.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
We're about to be in a trade war and probably a war war. #inauguration
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The External Revenue Service. 😆 He's creating efficiency in government by creating more government. Better get Elon on that! #inauguration #doge #elonmusk
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
They're going to spend the last 10 minutes praying, "lifting up" the most evil president -- a contemptuous liar, abuser and manipulator -- in the nation's history, and pledging that he uphold a Constitution that he's already trampled on routinely. An utter farce. #inauguration
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This is a weak @MeetThePress interview with @SpeakerJohnson. Welker isn't calling Johnson out on any of his BS. Trump's economic windfall when he took office the first time had little to do with Trump; he inherited Obama's economy. Also.. #news #politics #trump #meetthepress
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The tiny little man might get his feelings hurt that someone other than him is being honored, while he dishonors the nation by taking the oath of office that once meant something. #news #politics #inauguration #trump #mikejohnson
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The man should be in jail. He's already broken the oath of office, so the proceedings on Jan. 20 are going to be a complete farce and everyone there will know it. #inauguration #trump #jacksmith
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A CBS News reporter said "smoke is hanging like the sense of loss" over a community destroyed by the fire. Maybe a tragedy that's turning Los Angeles into Apocalypse Now isn't the best time to work on your lyrical prose as a news writer. #LosAngelesFire
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Remember when Zuckerberg was gung-ho about managing and trying to tamp down on disinformation and dangerous rhetoric, once going so far as to suspend Trump's account? Me either then. It's funny how a $1 million donation makes memories, and ethics and whatnot, just fly away. #facebook #zuckerberg
nbcnews.com
Meta’s new hate speech rules allow users to call LGBTQ people mentally ill
Changes to its hate speech guidelines were among broader policy shifts Meta made to its moderation practices.
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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Jeremy Styron @jeremystyron.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Mike Johnson and the GOP can barely let a moment pass without making things up or misrepresenting history. #GOP #MikeJohnson #news #house #politics
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