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Stephen Lyons

Illinois, Urbana
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  • 3 weeks ago | thesatirist.com | Stephen Lyons

    by Stephen J. LyonsMuscle bros flexing their barbed-wire tattoos circle each other like sumo wrestlers itching for a throw-down. Ear buds in place, they strain and grunt to the hearing-loss beats of gangster rap and conservative podcasts. They pose in front of mirrors. They drink multi-colored concoctions of steroids purchased on the dark web from a former Eastern Bloc nation’s stockpile. They do not wipe down the sweaty, petri-dished weight machines when finished.

  • 2 months 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.

  • 2 months 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.

  • Mar 4, 2025 | 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....

  • Mar 3, 2025 | 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.

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