Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 1hWoman: “I’m going to abort a fetus!” GOP: “Murderer! Go to jail” Trump: “I’m going to nuke thousands of unborn children (and millions of living humans” GOP: …. 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 1h“How many unborn children would die?” is something you do not hear Republicans ask in response to this, curiously. 100
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 1hSo what’s Samantha Power been up to, as Problems from Hell proliferate? 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 14h"If anything, Trump reminds us that socialism is not the only ideological justification for state projects to take control over resources and wealth." www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comRepublicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump?Trump supporters may be surprised to learn the state takeover of means of production is not driven by the left 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Challenge your assumptions! Today, it is liberals playing the part of conservatives: fighting to protect the established order (democracy, open society, individuals liberties) from destruction by far-right revolutionaries. View my own: unexemptional.substack.com/p/liberals-a... 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So, what have y'all been texting Senator Tom Cotton today? 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Reminds me of a story (surely apocyphal) of an astronomy professor lecturing that an expanding sun will swallow the Earth in 5 billion years. A distressed woman in the audience blurts out: did you say 5 million or 5 billion? The professor clarifies 5 billion. She says 'phew' and sits back down. 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...theguardian.comWhen is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: nowRobert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"I'm a Reagan-Romney Republican who called Democrat policies to throw money at people a cancer on society and our cherished liberty. Here's why President Trump's plan to throw money at people is not just good politics but good policy." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump says US to send one-time $90 payment to 20m seniors enrolled in MedicarePresident says payments, to be sent in early October, are meant to offset cost of monthly insurance premiums 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There’s no fucking way in hell that MLB HQ is going to allow the Braves, Padres or Brewers to prevent the Dodger$ from going to the World Series again. 100
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I wish for this too but it's not going to happen. MLB has allowed the Dodger$$$ to become too $$$$. Which is why I barely follow baseball anymore. 000
Reposted by Todd SteinDan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 03/10/2026I find it depressing that we're arguing over whether or not LLMs qualify as "conscious beings" when countless non-human animals clearly qualify as such and yet we continue to inflict needless pain and cruelty upon them. 2467
Reposted by Todd SteinAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru... 382252484
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hmm. I wrote this in October 2024: unexemptional.substack.com/p/what-us-pr...unexemptional.substack.comWhat U.S. president would call a foreign leader a “son of a bitch,” “bad guy” and “fucking liar” but then do everything he asksincluding sending $23 billion in military aid, providing political cover, and protecting him from accountability under international justice mechanisms? 040
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Right. The Impunity Agenda knows no temporal bounds. They need to retroactively exonerate past abuse of Executive authority to justify ongoing abuses. Very clear why they're doing this. 010
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wait til Whiskey Pete hears about the Saxby Chambliss 2002 campaign. 010
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Manfred’s Dodger-enabling has so thoroughly alienated me that I am watching a USMNT friendly instead of MLB playoffs. 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026GOP: Communism is self-destructive. Stalin eliminating military officers made them so weak that they had to rely on us to bail them out. Also GOP: 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Great Intelligence. So we can say that the product is what comes out the GI tract. 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026GOP: Xi Jinping Thought means that Communist Party cadres are required to use the Party Leader’s language: Also GOP: 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To Republicans, Americans have no agency and no capacity to form their own opinions. 010
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Asking regular Americans to sacrifice while senior White House aides post photos like this: 151
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comGone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than everAfter public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump’s deportations to third countries violate human rights, UN experts warnSending migrants to countries they do not come from can have deadly consequences and must be halted, says report 001
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, I know that firebombing Dresden was a war crime for which there was no accountability. But the parallel still qualifies. 000
Reposted by Todd SteinEdward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...nytimes.comTrump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan. 22209142
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump allies could use midterms ‘counting window’ to disrupt results, experts warnFears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Even at midfield Ruby Mace is preventing goals like a D Boss. 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026GOP: Communism is a dehumanizing political system because party cadres are required to repeat whatever comes out of the Party leader’s mouth. Also GOP: 000
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Chuck Grassley is older than the Social Security system. 054
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026GOP: Communism is evil because the Party tells you what you want and where you want to shop. Also GOP: 010
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And everyone who voted for Barack Obama helped kill Alex Pretti, if you think about it. 021
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026static.klipy.comRandy Marsh: We're Going Back to the PileALT: Randy Marsh: We're Going Back to the Pile 030
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I paid for 20 years of term life insurance and didn't die. So my family got nothing. I am a fraudster. 000