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Stephen Therry

@stephentherry.bsky.social

Canadian with some knowledge in psychology, sociology, emotional intelligence. Infantilization and cult of personality destroy us. "I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human." -John Trudel

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

Trump, clearly feeling low on attention today, is outside the White House ranting and raving like a lunatic about his various vanity projects around the White House

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

"There’s one other big unknown here. The document declaring the opening of Operation Puppet Master contains another vague reference: It says this effort has also been sanctioned under something called 'Operation Keyhole.' Yet it’s unclear what this even is." — @gregsargent.bsky.social

Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.

Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.

newrepublic.com

Decoding Fox News@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is Natalie Harp, the close aide to President Trump. These clips are from 2021 when she worked at OAN. She ended her program with a daily Bible quote. Sometimes she swapped out the Bible for a quote from Trump leading with "And remember what Trump said..."

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 3d ago

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

data4democracy.substack.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Ossoff on why he invoked Natalie Harp during his speech: "We're in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives ... and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself"

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 3d ago

North Korea is supplying Iran with the weapons it is using to kill Americans. Trump is an enemy of the United States. www.military.com/feature/2026...

North Korea’s Rogue Strategic Pipeline Arming Iran's War Effort: Exclusive Interview

Iran’s missiles hitting U.S. and partner forces may trace back to an overlooked source: North Korea. In a Military.com exclusive, expert Bruce Bechtol explains the alliance.

military.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump allies himself w/Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship w/Kim Jong Un, I am not happy that the US has agreed to Joint Military Exercises…I recently asked the President of SK if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of Iran, & they said, ‘No thanks!’”

Trump allies himself with totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful … While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, ‘No thanks!’”
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d ago

After boycotting American products and shunning vacations south of the border, Canadians are pouring their incandescent anger at the U.S. into a new cause: ousting the American ambassador. More than 190,000 have signed a petition calling for the removal of Pete Hoekstra.

Canadian Petition to Expel U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra Takes Off

Mr. Hoekstra has been President Trump’s faithful messenger in Canada amid a historic low in relations. More than 190,000 Canadians want him gone.

nytimes.com

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 4d ago

Oh the Democrats now claim they want to abolish the entity that Trump admin is able to use at scale due to the violent infrastructure that the Biden admin funded and built as it carried out the unrealized sick ambitions of the first Trump admin? Abolish ICE. Don't abolish facts and accountability.

March 2024 article on Biden funding ICE at dramatically high Trump-era levels and giving ICE more power to abuse immigrants communities
Michael Kapp@michaelkapp.com · 4d ago

BREAKING: the Democratic National Committee just unanimously approved a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE! After terrorizing our friends, families, and neighbors, ICE has no place in our nation. I'm grateful @democrats.org agreed. Now we're onto the hard work to make that happen!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Bleak tidbit from Regime Change — Bessent attempted a Hitler-style shakedown of Zelenskyy as one of his first acts as Treasury Secretary

“Bessent’s proposal would require Ukraine to pay the United States 50 percent of future revenue from state-owned natural resources, including hydrocarbons and rare earth minerals. The document prescribed very specific commitments from Ukraine, but offered no security commitments from the United States. Even though the minerals deal had been Zelensky’s idea, part of the “Victory Plan for Ukraine” he had recently unveiled, he was shocked by Bessent’s terms. Zelensky explained that he was leading his country through a particularly violent phase of the three-year-old war, and insisted that he and his staff needed more time to consider the proposal. Bessent saw things very differently. He had traveled nearly five thousand miles to an active war zone to obtain Zelensky’s signature, and now Zelensky was telling him no. “You need to sign this,” Bessent urged. “The purpose of this is to show that there is no daylight” between the U.S. and Ukraine. Zelensky, furious, replied that the document was an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty. This was not the way international agreements worked—this was a shakedown.” Excerpt From Regime Change Maggie Haberman https://books.apple.com/us/book/regime-change/id6761716648 This material may be protected by copyright.
Dante Atkins@danteatkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 5d ago

The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5d ago

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Stephen Therry@stephentherry.bsky.social · 6d ago

Or because we all know the truth: Schumer is complicit to his corporatiste donors and now he uses his daughter to hide it, while counting on gullible online Schumer agents like you to get enraged toward us and even try to scare us by talking of targeting our own child to make a point.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7d ago

BREAKING on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth was the lone Cabinet secretary on Trump's secret flight out of Turkey. Remaining on the 'decoy' plane: Marco Rubio, Scott Bessett, Stephen Miller, Steven Cheung, and other Trump officials.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · last wk.

And, again, you cannot stop oligarchs and fascist control leading to further consolidation of capital through moderate attempts to "work with" them. That only ensures the project will continue and even accelerate. If you don't believe it, just look at what's happened and what's happening now.