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Steven Lyons

@stevenlyons.bsky.social
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Visual designer / illustrator living in the Bay Area with a focus on the use of design to amplify progressive voices. See my work here: stevenlyons.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 22h
This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 11h
There it is. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It is often weakened by attacks on the institutions in the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January of 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need to get a full accounting of every dollar each media company accepted of our money stolen by Trump to run his partisan political ads on their channels. Companies who accept these ads are receiving property stolen from the American people & are a disgrace for accepting them
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“National Park Service Deputy Director Frank Lands visited Grand Teton National Park this week and looked at three potential locations for a baseball park within the park’s boundaries” WTF 🤬 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
washingtonpost.com
Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Too unpopular to seize power” is amazing subversive messaging. Got the right combo of dismissive and demoralizing. Amplification needed.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The latest sourdough loaf: whole wheat sesame.
Sourdough sesame loaf
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
Why doesn't Trump want you to see his deals with Big Pharma? Maybe because it's a scam that's loaded with giveaways to drug companies—but no real savings for the American people.
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Secret contracts reveal undisclosed terms in Trump’s drug-pricing deals
Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Love this. AI companies furiously trying to figure out how to monetize are losing the narrative war and it’s the kids who get it the most.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Refuse to give billionaires a platform for anything. Stop believing they are smart – they aren't. Stop believing they can "see the big picture" – they can't. Stop believing they are motivated by ethics – they have none.
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Streisand it up, my dudes.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/09/2026
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
11,000 neighbors kidnapped. The population of an entire small town just disappeared.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Amazing image. Kudos to the photographer. Hopefully this is how Trump will be remembered. A nasty old man shouting at the people who support him.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Still can’t get over how they are allowing thousands of white South Africans to immigrate while deporting tens of thousands of people of color. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
cbsnews.com
Trump administration to welcome up to 17,500 more White South Africans as refugees
The Trump administration is planning to welcome up to 17,500 additional White Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees over the next 12 months, according to a notice sent to Congress.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As a reminder, Democrats picked up 41 seats in the House in 2018, while losing two seats in the Senate. We should see a bigger pickup in both chambers this time, to put it mildly. But do not get cocky and coast here. Run through the tape.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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justdeirdre.bsky.social @justdeirdre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Aaron Parnas BREAKING: The DOJ just deleted all of the information regarding who Trump pardoned. They are trying to hide the truth. Don't worry, I saved it all here, so share this: www.pdffiller.com/s/VrmwZo_ZSL
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As we suspected:
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In all the grandiose discussion about colonising Mars, I don't see much about how the soil is poisonous to us. This was only discovered in 2008. It contains perchlorates, which are environmental toxins here on Earth. Any human contact with Mars dust? Super-bad news in the long run. 1/
NASA image from the surface of Mars, showing its red dusty surface with rover tire-tracks running across it.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026
They steal billions from us to give themselves tax breaks and then kick the crumbs out of our mouths.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The refusal to go after Musk is a serious validator of the notion democrats have no real interest in winning. No serious party would let someone like him emerge as a major funder of the opposition and just… not say anything about it.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 21/09/2026
The US military was preparing to intercept and board the ship, with air support, before officials discovered that a chatbot had inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.
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AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
WTAF doesn’t even begin to express the ridiculous-ness
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI Force to be populated by people from the AI industry who are stealing our wealth, water and resources. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Trump to form ‘AI Force,’ name AI czar but rejects calls for constraints
A growing chorus of lawmakers and industry leaders have called for moving more slowly on the technology.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/09/2026
POWERFUL MOMENT Americans forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center to protect a national memorial from a president threatening to tear it down. JFK’s niece, Kerry Kennedy, called on people to show up, and they did. This will never be the Trump Center, in the people’s eyes.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Downright creepy.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration suffered its 24th straight court loss in its voter roll grab Thursday, after a federal judge in Vermont denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to access Green Mountain State voters’ unredacted personal data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DOJ is 0-24 in its voter roll grab after Vermont demand rejected
So far, the DOJ has lost every one of its case to have been decided — and it also lost an appeal to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anything to stir the pot. Look— chemtrails! Such vile people.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
GENEVA (AP) — UN-backed human rights experts find 'reasonable grounds' to believe US committed war crimes in 2 deadly strikes on Iran.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump admin is currently preparing temporary signs that will accuse the National Museum of American History of ideological bias. The National Park Service is planning to add about a dozen signs outside the museum at an estimated cost of $84,000, according to a letter from the Interior Sec'y.
theatlantic.com
The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian
A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hero.
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Steven Lyons @stevenlyons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m looking to pick up some new work. If you know anybody who needs design work for a progressive campaign or project, please have them check my website: stevenlyons.com Thanks!
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Steven Lyons Studio
Design that moves your audience to take action. Specializing in creative for digital/social campaigns, logos and microsite design.
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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A powerful heat dome — which will become the strongest on the planet Wednesday — will tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central U.S. “I don’t even know what to say anymore,” meteorologist Pete Delkus said. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
washingtonpost.com
It’s almost fall, but this record heat dome didn’t get the memo
The strongest heat dome on the planet will soon tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central United States from the Gulf of Mexico.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A fundamental tenet of MAGA and all the other "populist" parties (Reform UK, RN, AfD, etc) is that global warming is a hoax and we must not believe the climate scientists. But the evidence is unequivocal.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kloza: ⛽️
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