Steven T. Jones

Maybe it’s going to take a billionaire — one who’s already devoted his fortune and time to progressive causes — to beat the billionaires. Steyer for CA governor. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Failure and farce fill the American air these days, like heavy pollen on a warm spring day, fed by the early blooms of our changing climate, triggering allergic reactions from sensitive souls still unaccustomed to living through our national fall from grace. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

YIMBY housing laws and a tower proposed for the Marina Safeway site are roiling San Francisco politics. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

There is a hint of hope in Trump’s morass of venality. Our mask is off, exposing the ugliest sides of American empire to the world. So the game is on in trying to reform this rogue country from within and for other countries to figure out how to stand against us. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Trump’s job was to plan what’s next after our military kidnapped Venezuela’s head of state — and he failed, badly, as if it never occurred to him. Trump’s dangerous, incompetent regime needs Congress to rein it in. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Every day brings fresh indications that the Orange Wizard and his flying monkeys are losing their grip on the country, even as they double down on distracting tricks and spectacles. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

The finger of fate can be fickle, particularly in a country feverishly flirting with fascism. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

The finger of fate can be fickle, particularly in a country feverishly flirting with fascism. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

I’m ashamed and embarrassed by our president. This is what happens when an idiotic megalomaniac surrounds himself with incompetent and corrupt yes-men. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

This isn’t really about free speech, hate speech, Kirk, Kimmel, or being sensitive in our reactions to this shocking assassination. It’s just the latest step in Trump’s authoritarian power play, a cynical move to destroy their enemies and our constitutional order. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Trump’s personal insecurity has always caused him to tear others down to make himself seem better. It’s just what spoiled children and petty tyrants do. But that noxious trait got supercharged when Trump ran for office. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Trump has adopted an aggressive strategy of denying, covering up, and threatening reality — trying to write his own version of reality for all of us, real reality be damned. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Maybe we need to embrace our era of entropy and accept the end of our flawed American system. Let things break down so that we can start anew and build entirely new economic, political and governance systems. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

This is the moment I’ve been dreading. It’s when you can clearly see how escalating cycles of violence in American cities could easily lead to the authoritarian police state that Trump seeks. And worst of all, I’m really not sure what we can do to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Musk didn’t directly answer the question about his drug abuse, instead denigrating the Times as unreliable, even as his eyes rolled back into his head a few times during the event, looking like a raver who just did a K bump after too much Molly. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

What if the West Coast states seceded from the U.S. and joined an alliance with Canada and Mexico? Hmmm. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Luckily for all of us, Trump and his top appointees continue to prove at least as incompetent as they are evil. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

The front page of Sunday’s New York Times includes a trio of well-reported stories that illustrate the stupidity, the corruption, and the real authoritarian dangers posed by the Trump administration and its actions and appointees. Each is worth analyzing. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

The real Liberation Day is tomorrow, with Trump/Musk protests around the country, not when our idiot president decided to tank our economy. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Trump and Musk aren’t as strong or smart as they think. WI election & Signalgate show how vulnerable they are. So now’s the time to fight back. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Rather than legitimizing MAGA and its many calculated grievances, Gavin Newsom would be better off engaging with innovative policymakers here and abroad to create better models for Democratic governance, particularly on divisive issues. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Bird flu killed Rocky the owl as threatens to become the next global pandemic. So maybe it’s not the best time to recklessly chainsaw through key federal agencies. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Conservative hack challenges Zelenskyy for not wearing suit, but not Musk, who wore a T-shirt to a cabinet meeting this week. Such hypocrites. thehill.com/policy/inter...

FBI Director Patel could indict Musk for all the crimes he’s committing now and the wealth he stole from taxpayers. Think about it: what better way to keep the rest of America’s oligarchs in line than to defenestrate and jail the biggest oligarch of all. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

“They’re just getting started in trying to turn this country into a theocracy,” one speaker said, as others chanted “Stand up, fight back.” Part of the crowd began singing “We Shall Overcome,” which was soon drowned out as the chant of “Fuck that Nazi” picked up. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Resistance rising! Thousands protested Musk and Trump in the Bay Area streets yesterday, targeting Tesla and its Nazi CEO. youtu.be/RWxJa_lrE_s?...

It’s time to counterattack Elon Musk, targeting the main source of his wealth. More here: open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

So much for free speech.

It’s the new Gilded Age, with a shiny facade covering up deep rot and corruption, just daring us to rise up against our billionaire overlords before they finish looting the federal treasury. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

First Trump triggered a wave of Venezuelan migrants to the U.S. with harsh sanctions on the Maduro regime. Yet now he’s sending those who fled back to that supposed tyrant. Trump is just so dumb and inconsistent. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

None of it makes any sense, except to MAGA’s adolescent bully boy mentality, which revels in seeming tough, punching down, shocking liberals, and mocking expertise. They’re drunk on their own power and unaware of their own limitations. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Our criminal president seems to really like criminals that like him. It doesn’t bode well for what comes next. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

I love riding my cargo bike with my granddaughter and dog. G-Pa

These days, our new reality has a well-known right-wing bias, after Trump parroted Colbert's right-wing parody to seize power. Now Zuckerberg joined MAGAverse. But the wind-swept wildfires destroying Los Angeles are a reminder of how real reality really is. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Thanks for the plug, Brian. And here’s my most recent writing: open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

The famous strategy of President Teddy Roosevelt — who led creation of the Panama Canal — was to “speak soft and carry a big stick.” Trump speaks loud but would have a hard time wielding a big stick with his tiny little hands. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Americans are so unhappy with our health care system that they celebrated the murder of a health insurance executive on the streets of Manhattan. So why was health care reform such a non-issue this election? open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

As we work through these confusing times, remember to be wary of our wizard and his false notions of wicked and good. Don’t be afraid to stand up for what you believe and be a little wicked. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Happy Thanksgiving. If Trump can’t lower grocery prices, eat the rich. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Happy Thanksgiving. If Trump doesn’t bring down grocery prices, eat the rich. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Update: We’re up to 75 members of Congress on Bluesky, including 17 Senators. A few notable additions from the last few days: - @repandrecarson.bsky.social - @rep-rosa-delauro.bsky.social - @pattymurray.bsky.social That’s around 1/3 of Democrats in Congress. Good progress! go.bsky.app/F78vyQi

Ding dong, Gaetz is gone! His rapid descent shows how unknowable the future really is. So let’s keep our cool and not let Trump freak us out…yet. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

We can’t completely ignore the shitty national reality that the dumb and dangerous half of our county has created, but we don’t need to wallow in it with them. Save our strength for the battles that matter. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Why Musk, Besos and other billionaires are helping Trump’s push toward fascism. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Self-important leaders from the Silicon Valley love to bash government and celebrate their own creative destruction, but I don’t know anyone who would rather live in a society erratically ruled by Elon Musk than one run by well-meaning government employees. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Elon Musk props up autocrats and spreads their anti-American propaganda. And he’s still tanking Tesla and losing to China. Don’t let rich greedy assholes have so much power. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...

Despite all the performative patriotism, flag-hugging, and selective reverence for the U.S. Constitution by American right-wingers, it’s long been an open secret that they prefer theocracy to democracy. Christian nationalism is on the rise. open.substack.com/pub/steventj...