Stephen Lyons

1 month ago | theglobepost.com | Stephen Lyons

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”— Milan Kundera“In the 35 years since the crackdown, all discussion of the incident has been heavily censored in China, as authorities have effectively attempted to erase it from history. Public commemoration or mere mention, online or off, of the Tiananmen crackdown is banned.”— Amnesty International regarding China’s obliteration of the Tiananmen Square protests from its history.

1 month ago | thesatirist.com | Stephen Lyons

by Stephen LyonsDATELINES: Hawaii, Kremlin, Greenland, Starbuck’s, Chick Fil A, Palm SteakhouseAt 11:44 p.m., Hegseth posted in the chat, “NEED DRINKY! ASAP!”The text beneath this began, “TIME NOW 12:11 a.m.: Weather is FAVORABLE here in Hawaii.

2 months ago | stephenjlyons.substack.com | Stephen Lyons

“It seemed revolutionary to admit cruelty, disregard of human values, and general amorality, because this at least destroyed the duplicity upon which the existing society seemed to rest,” —Hannah Arendt, “The Origins of Totalitarianism” As the Trump administration, led ironically by former Obama administrator, and new “border czar” Thomas Homan, sics its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Chicago and other sanctuary cities to carry out perhaps the largest deportation effort in U.S....

2 months ago | stephenjlyons.substack.com | Stephen Lyons

When I attended bar and bat mitzvahs in high school one of the games we would play was the limbo. Now, I was an awkwardly tall boy with absolutely no flexibility. To bend backward and fit under the bar was almost impossible. So I was out of the game early, but hung around to see which double-jointed classmate would eventually prevail. As a teenager I thought I had an inkling of how low the bar could go. Turned out I had no idea.

2 months ago | stephenjlyons.substack.com | Stephen Lyons

February 22, 2025From the desk of DOGE and @elonmusk“Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.