Les Sterling

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[Quadcarl @Quadcarl]

@HunterBiden It’s basically this shit.

[Les Sterling @lessterling]

Wow. Suddenly “experts” are worried about incendiary language.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Trump assassination jokes are spiking. Experts worry they promote actual violence.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

@StephenM shut up you ugly fuck

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Why be a red state when you could be a blue state?

Vote blue 2026, save your state.

States with highest Murder Rates
🔴 Louisiana : 16.8
🔴 Mississippi : 15.4
🔴 Alabama : 12.2
🔴 Missouri : 11.8
🔴 South Carolina : 10.5

States with the lowest Murder Rates
🔴 Utah : 2.2
🔵 Rhode Island : 2.0
🔵 Maine : 1.7
🔵 Vermont : 1.5
🔵 New Hampshire : 1.1

Bottom 5 public school systems (based on test scores)
🔴 Alaska
🔴 Louisiana
🔴 Arizona
🔴 Oklahoma
🔵 New Mexico

Top 5 public school systems (based on test scores)
🔵 New Jersey
🔵 Massachusetts
🔵 Connecticut
🔵 Vermont
🔵 Minnesota

States with the lowest life expectancy in years
🔴 Mississippi : 70.9
🔴 West Virginia 71.0
🔴 Alabama 72.0
🔴 Louisiana 72.2
🔴 Kentucky 73.5

States with the longest life expectancy in years
🔵 Hawaii : 79.9
🔵 Massachusetts : 79.6
🔵 Connecticut : 79.2
🔵 New Jersey : 79.0
🔵 New York : 79

States with the highest infant mortality rates
🔴 Mississippi : 9.11
🔴 Arkansas : 8.59
🔵 Delaware : 8.07
🔴 Lousiana 7.65
🔴 West Virginia : 7.47

States with the lowest infant mortality rates
🔴 North Dakota: 3.29
🔵 Massachusetts : 3.31
🔵 New Jersey : 3.61
🔵 New Hampshire : 3.66
🔵 California : 3.95

States most reliant on the federal government (per dollar)
🔴 Alaska : $2.36 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 Kentucky: $3.35 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 West Virginia : $2.72 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 Mississippi : $2.34 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 South Carolina : $3.42 per $1 in taxes paid

States least reliant on the federal government (per dollar)
🔵 New Jersey : $0.35 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 California : $0.50 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 Minnesota : $0.58 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 Massachusetts : $0.41 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 Illinois : $0.60 per $1 in taxes paid

States with the most domestic violence arrests
🔴 Nevada
🔴 Oklahoma
🔴 Missouri
🔴 Kentucky
🔴 Florida

States with the lowest domestic violence arrests per capita
🔴 North Dakota
🔵 New York
🔵 Rhode Island
🔵 Vermont
🔵 Massachusetts

Lowest GDP per capita
🔴 Mississippi : $53,061
🔴 Arkansas $60,276
🔴 West Virginia $60,783
🔴 South Carolina $61,616
🔴 Alabama $65,889

Highest GDP per capita
🔵 New York : $117,332
🔵 Massachusetts : $110,551
🔵 Washington : $108,468
🔵 California : $104,481
🔵 Connecticut : $99,035

States with the highest incarceration rates
🔴 Louisiana : 775
🔴 Mississippi : 717
🔴 Arkansas : 614
🔴 Oklahoma : 598
🔴 Texas : 563

States with the lowest incarceration rates
🔵 Massachusetts : 116
🔵 Maine : 130
🔵 Rhode Island : 152
🔵 Vermont : 153
🔵 New Hampshire : 165

highest obesity rates
🔴 West Virginia : 41.2%
🔴 Mississippi : 40.1%
🔴 Arkansas : 40.0%
🔴 Lousiana : 39.9%
🔴 Alabama : 39.3%

lowest obesity rates
🔵 District of Columbia : 23.5%
🔵 Colorado : 24.9%
🔵 Hawaii : 26.1%
🔵 Massachusetts : 27.4%
🔵 California : 27.4%

States with the worst public transportation:
🔴 Mississippi
🔴 Nebraska
🔴 Wyoming
🔴 North Dakota
🔴 Alaska

States with the best public transportation
🔵 New York
🔵 Massachusetts
🔵 Washington
🔵 New Jersey
🔵 Illinois

States with the lowest college graduation rates
🔵 New Mexico
🔴 Nevada
🔴 Idaho
🔴 Oklahoma
🔴 Alaska

States with the highest college graduation rates
🔵 Massachusetts
🔵 New Jersey
🔵 Connecticut
🔵 New Hampshire
🔴 Virginia

highest sex crime rate
🔴 Alaska : 118.4 per 100k
🔴 South Dakota : 72.6 per 100k
🔴 Nevada : 70.2 per 100k
🔴 Arkansas : 52.0 per 100k
🔵 Michigan 72.4 per 100k

lowest sex crime rate
🔵 New Jersey : 15.1 per 100k
🔵 Connecticut: 18.2 per 100k
🔵 New Hampshire : 19 per 100k
🔵 Maine : 21.3 per 100k
🔵 New York : 22.7

most teen pregnancy
🔴 Mississippi : 26.4
🔴 Arkansas : 24.5
🔴 Louisiana : 23.8
🔴 Oklahoma : 22.9
🔴 Alabama : 22.0

lowest amount of teen pregnancy
🔵 Massachusetts : 6.1
🔵 New Hampshire : 6.6
🔵 Connecticut : 7.6
🔵 Vermont : 7.8
🔵 New Jersey : 8.3

[Les Sterling @lessterling]

@PressSec @PressSec What a sad, pitiful existence you are. You have to know, deep inside somewhere, that you are going to end up under the proverbial bus at some point.

[Morgan Downey @morgan_downey]

For centuries, monarchs ruled Persia.

Then in 1921, a military officer named Reza Khan seized power with British cash.

By 1925, he crowned himself King: Reza Shah Pahlavi.

The Pahlavis ruled the country.

But the British ruled Iranian oil.

By 1950, Iran was pumping 660,000 barrels a day (7% of global supply). Almost all the revenue went to London. Iran got pennies.

Enter "Mossy."

After the Shah abdicated during WW2 (UK and Soviets took over), a democratic window opened.

In 1951, the Iranian parliament elected Mohammad ("Mossy") Mosaddegh.

Mossy was a character. He ran the state from his bedroom, wearing pajamas. He was so fascinating that Time Magazine named him "Man of the Year" in 1951 (beating Churchill and Eisenhower).

But then he committed an unforgivable sin: He nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) to take back control of Iranian oil revenue from the British.

He became a Western pariah overnight.

The CIA was on a post-WW2 roll installing new governments here and there.

To help out the British, in 1953 the CIA launched Operation Ajax, led by Kermit Roosevelt (Teddy's grandson), to overthrow Mossy.

Toppling the new Iranian democracy turned out to be surprisingly easy.

The CIA reinstated the Shah.

The oil company AIOC whose main revenue was Iranian oil was rebranded as British Petroleum (BP).

For the next 25 years, a consortium (40% BP, 40% US oil majors - a little kicker for the CIA Shah reinstallation) once again drained Iranian oil revenues.

The Shah was a puppet. He used his secret police (SAVAK) to keep the strings attached.

Iranians wanted change.

Unfortunately Mossy was long gone.

So a 1979 revolution ousted the Shah, only for an even more extremist ayatollah to fill the Shah-shaped power vacuum.

Today, in 2026, Iranians know that the ayatollah is just the Shah with a different hat.

They know that this time Iran doesn't need another Shah.

It needs another Mossy.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

@DHSgov This is the murderer.

[Les Sterling @lessterling]

lol 😂

https://t.co/KPJoRUkW0D

[bug girl @buggirl]

i don’t give a fuck what kind of food people buy with their food stamps and i don’t give a fuck about a few people taking advantage of a system if it means even 1 person who is hungry gets help to buy food

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

A former Fox News host, who paid a settlement to avoid a sexual assault case, is Secretary of the Department of Defense.

The former head of World Wrestling Entertainment, who is accused of covering up the sexual abuse of minors, is over the Department of Education.

A former heroin addict, who is accused of sexual assault by a former family babysitter, is over the Department of Health & Human Services.

A 34 time convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, who has been accused of sexual assault by 26 women, is president of the United States.

When unqualified, morally bereft, white people occupy the highest positions in our government, y’all need to shut up about Black people and DEI.

[Les Sterling @lessterling]

@carriecoon It’s SO good!!!

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

🎯

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

I wish conservatives got this straight:

Without blue states, America would look like a failing country; patchy internet, collapsing schools, no tech, no medicine, no future.

Red states cash the federal checks. Blue states write them.

You don’t fund the nation. You bleed it dry.

The math is simple: the places screaming the loudest bring the least to the table.

[I Hate James Dobson @IHateJDobs]

What a good day to shitpost

[💙 Dr. MemeNstein votes 💙 BLUE 🇺🇸🦅 @Coste1Costello]

Our capital city has been over taken by drugged out maniacs.
—Trump, 8.11.25