Jeff Stirling

Jeff Stirling

@stirlingthinks.bsky.social

Humanist, researcher, teacher, manservant to an imperious dog.

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The 'founding fathers' were, almost without exception, Enlightenment deists. What does that mean? They believed in a Creator, who set his creation in motion and then stepped away. No further interaction with his creation. No acting on prayers. No intercession in its development. (1/3)

Correct. And they will, suddenly, remember that the $40 trillion national debt needs to be immediately dealt with.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

I’m not so sure Republicans are going to agree that a president has the authority to do all the things that Trump is doing when a Democrat is in the WH. Just a hunch.

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

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"September 11th was 25 years ago" -- Ted Cruz defends Trump lying about his response to 9/11 but suggesting he might not remember because it was so long ago

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

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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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

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!"

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

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

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. 🤦‍♂️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump posts a graphic showing Lake Ontario renamed as "Lake America"

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!!!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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

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 ??

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. 🤦‍♂️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

HANNITY: Elon Musk talked about Americans not even needing to save for your retirement like we have historically because of the abundance AI will create. Do you believe that? BESSENT: I do, but I think I would change the timeline. Elon is so far ahead of the curve

Trump voters, y'all put these morons in charge, and I will not live nearly long enough to forgive your ignorance and carelessness.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Jeff Van Drew: "Canada isn't working because they are so far left. This should be a warning shot to them. You better come to America, say, 'We're sorry, we're gonna mend our ways and do what we used to do and groom and maintain the forest.'"

The one thing that might finally convince me that there is a god is if lightning bolts angrily strike this circus and sets the ring ablaze. 🔥🔥🔥 (White House is unscathed ofc)

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

The 1st trillionaire, who directed the destruction of USAID, which has resulted in the dooming and eventual deaths of a hundred thousand children. Just look at what we've built. 🤦‍♂️💔

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social

To be very precise, on top of being a useless conman, he is one of the biggest mass-murders in history, a genocideer on par with any of history's other monsters.

This is Nazi ideology, full stop. I mourn the country I once thought we were building.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."

Jeff Stirling reposted

I'd like to propose that we drain all of Sam Altman's blood and then offer to sell it back to him at cost.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

I left for this and other reasons. I was brigaded on Twitter; they tried to get me fired, established new accounts that claimed I was a 'pedo.' None of the harassment was deemed a violation of their terms of service. It was not 'more fun.' At all.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

And yeah, as a reward for being on Twitter, I received death threats, racist voicemails, a lawsuit and a campaign to have me fired from my job. It's a real mystery why I don't think Twitter is "more fun"

Jeff Stirling reposted

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Coach here is historically ignorant when speaking of the racist restrictions on immigration in the 1920s. He's probably unaware of the KKK's influence during the time. Well, I know, he's ignorant about a much wider array of subjects. I know.

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Agreed. That's my point. It's not a 'benign' condition. We voters have a duty to choose to include competence and ability to do the job as factors in our decision-making. I oppose her on numerous grounds, and I also wouldn't be willing to gamble on her continued good health for 6 more years.

greenstraw2026.bsky.social@greenstraw2026.bsky.social

Sorry. Her medical condition is zero excuse for her stay in office. It's time to go. Same for old man Grassly.

Happy Mothers Day mom. ❤️🙏 She is gone now, but my brother and I lived great and productive lives thanks to her. She packed up a suitcase and grabbed her two boys--10 and 8 yo--and left our abusive, alcoholic father in 1964. It was not common then, and we were too young to grasp the courage it took.

She demanded a checking account of her own at the bank, had to be flirty to get one. She had no skills, but knew what work was, found it, and fed and clothed us in such a way that nobody would know we were poor. My brother and I attained college degrees. She was, and still is, the hero of our lives.

Hey farmers, just show this clip to your bankers! I'm sure they'll freeze payments on your loans for a couple of years. 🤦‍♂️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Brooke Rollins: "Farmers are moving into hopefully what will be a golden age under this president"

Can someone please talk me off this particular ledge that I can't process? If the attacker at the Correspondent's Dinner had been a suicide bomber with an explosive device on his back, the order of succession would have fallen all the way down to . . . Chuck Grassley? 92-year-old Chuck Grassley?

Do you not remember hanging the Medal of Freedom on a foul-smelling Rush Limbaugh yourself? Shut up you useless bitch!

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

"Riding a wave of historic unpopularity, first lady Melania Trump on Monday added her voice to her husband’s crusade to silence dissent and undermine the First Amendment right to free speech with an attack on popular comedian Jimmy Kimmel." www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Wealthy ranchers are destroying our public lands, and ofc Trump is moving quickly to make it worse.

ProPublica@propublica.org

The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers. Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers. (Published Dec. 2025 with @highcountrynews.org)

'But the Civil War was not about slavery, it was about states' rights!' Umm, a state's right to do what? Imagine this pile of genetic trash 👇 wanting to establish a new country based on a hierarchy of race. 🤦‍♂️

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org

In his 1861 Cornerstone Speech announcing the Confederate Constitution, Confederate Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens said that the Confederate Constitution made “great improvements" upon the U.S. one by recognizing that enslavement of Africans was "natural and normal." buff.ly/1JqEwko

Grotesque. This is how the middle class has been hollowed out. And it gets worse, every single year, it just gets worse.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

Welp, I guess the message for Fox viewers here is that they just aren't f*cking enough kids anymore. 👇

Lis Power@lispower.bsky.social

Fox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"