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Jeff Stirling

@stirlingthinks.bsky.social
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Humanist, researcher, teacher, manservant to an imperious dog.

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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Christ what an asshole
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Correct. And they will, suddenly, remember that the $40 trillion national debt needs to be immediately dealt with.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Putin has a video It's the only explanation
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Putin has a video
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ahhhh, the Ole Ian Smith plantation aka Rhodesia yikes.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ahhhh, the Ole Ian Smith plantation aka Rhodesia yikes.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yup. You knew it was grief for sale.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
September, 1999
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump is and always was an opportunistic coward. He and his dad procured his 5 deferments to avoid military service in Vietnam by renting a crooked podiatrist, he then promptly accused anti-Vietnam War protesters like me of being "bums" and "traitors" Nobody deserves the Medal of Honor less than him
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
publicly ridiculed anti-Vietnam War protesters like me as 'cowards' and 'bums' and 'traitors' Trump has always done this. And throughout his life it's easy to see that his grotesque narcissism is only matched by his self-awareness of a deeply inborn sense of inadequacy and insecurity 2
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump is and always was an opportunistic coward. It isn't really talked about in it's full context, but not only did he and his dad procure his 5 deferments to avoid military service in Vietnam by renting a crooked podiatrist, he then--once safe from being sent to war and real danger--came out and 1
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I always made twice the sandwiches I could eat when I went to work. Sometimes I didn't end up eating a sandwich at all. I never took a sandwich home after school
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Also, I was a border kid. Anybody old enough and semi-Canadian enough like me to remember this jingle? (which is burned into my brain) "A place to go, A place to grow, On-tair-eeeair-eeeair-eeooohh!"
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And no, we're not changing Gordon Lightfoot's lyrics in his 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' either Ontario will continue to take what Erie gives her. And just wait till this rotting president and his corrupt administration of billionaires find out where the Welland Canal is. 🤦‍♂️🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸 3
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Remove our blithering idiot president from office immediately, I'm begging here. He was never smart, never well-informed, never connected to our wider humanity by any thread of compassion or logic. But now, the accelerating decay. I never thought my country was vulnerable to killing itself. 🤦‍♂️ 2
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Imagine the immense sense of entitlement and delusional self importance necessary to think you and only you have the power to rename a huge body of water that is part of the lives of millions of people in two countries, and has carried Native root of that name for tens of thousands of years. 1
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Can Americans sign too?
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
He really is just stupid ya know. The money and the racism and a scripted 'reality show' character just let him continually fail upward over and over and over again. Shame on all of us. 🤦‍♂️
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
Trump posts a graphic showing Lake Ontario renamed as "Lake America"
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are more of these people in Idaho than you think.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
50 years of Adderall. His bowels are no longer voluntary, and his sphincter retired years ago.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
High cost of existing? Who cares?? You're getting a big bad ballroom, a granite helipad, a green reflecting pool that won't, and a crazy grandpa who rants and stands weirdly!!!
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reminding me of her SOTU response. 🤦‍♂️ Anyway, I'm an old progressive, and I remember the people and policies the Bulwark people used to represent. I welcome their arrival on my side. I like them. I like Sarah's laugh. I loved Tim's book, and i listen to his podcast almost daily. ❤️
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The unrelenting corruption is the result of getting away with it the first time.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I seem to remember Bugs cross dressed on multiple occasions, and it didn't bother anyone.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A rangeland cemetery in Eastern Oregon. There are a dozen family plots like this, with so many children under the age of 10 😪
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I choose to believe that RFK Jr's voice is like it is because his father, a hero of mine when I was young, is reaching through the ether of existence, across the divide between life and death, gripping his son's throat with both of his ghostly hands in a desperate effort to shut him the hell up.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Again I choose to believe that RFK jr's voice is like that because his father, a hero of mine when I was young, is reaching through the ether of existence, across the divide between life and death, gripping his son's throat with both of his ghostly hands in a desperate effort to shut him the hell up
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
At least she'll still have boxed wine. 🤣
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I had a visitor on my deck railing this morning. It's my mom 😪 (Native American culture says I've been visited by an ancestor.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The very same Senators who screamed bloody murder when Jack Smith accessed their phone call logs (not the content of the calls) and text messages on January 6 are now just fine with scraping servers for private communications, compiling Dr. Fauci's diary entries and making them public. WTF ??
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
All of this *waves arms furiously* absolutely all of it is the 'prosperity gospel' model. It's everywhere today. Politics and science both. "Send your money in now and you'll be rich down the road." Everyone in charge and most of the oligarchs are just Benny Hinns and Creflo Dollars with power. 🤦‍♂️
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This idiot is a wartime president 🤦‍♂️
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I'm an old, anti-Vietnam War activist. I've seen all this homefront War misinformation before, and it makes me sick.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
$200 to any reporter who asks him, "can you please take all the marbles out of your mouth before you speak to us?"
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump voters, y'all put these morons in charge, and I will not live nearly long enough to forgive your ignorance and carelessness.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Still true, yes?
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Gorn's gotta gorn, ya feel me?
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Slow-motion Eugenics. That's what this is. That's what these bastards want.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
That bastard of a president is putting these children at risk. And he knows it. I'm exhausted from hating him so hard. (since the 1980s tbh)
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
There are NO GOOD REASONS!! Just shut it down through grade 9.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Yes precisely. Her work is canon for us. Richard White as well.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The West was not a story of rugged individuals, bravery against the wild (both human and not), and unfortunate 'others' (Blacks, browns, and Asians) No group of people (white 'pioneers' in this case) have ever been as subsidized by their federal government than the settlers of the American West were
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It is not older than me, however. When I was young, the "history from below" as you put it, was just one step in the direction of real, multi-nodal, deromanticized history. De-mythification needs so many more voices heard. In my domain, the mythical American West still persists. It's stubborn.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Jesus
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Okay fish ladies, there's your cue.
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Or, as we like to call it, 'Mike Pence 2.0'
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Jeff Stirling @stirlingthinks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
More of this!
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