Stephen Kleege

Eight Crew Members Dead in B-52 Crash at Air Force Base ….appeared to be part of an initiative to bring the equipment into the digital age. nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/… via @NYTimes

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500. If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

This is Trump’s Watergate. Today, the @nytimes released a truly stunning report on the Epstein cover-up by the White House.  Collusion, breaking the law, evading subpoenas—it’s all in there: - Trump quashing the files - The VP, COS, DOJ, FBI, and others colluding in the Situation Room to stop their release and compliance - Officials lying to the public  - Admin in-fighting and exits - Officials who appeared in front of Congress during this time Read the report here: nytimes.com/2026/06/10/mag…

All the women loved me ….’fore the left me behind. open.spotify.com/track/5X1vY2lf…

Here’s how journalists at a 1990s financial paper handled corporate meddling after reporting on Trump’s mismanagement of the Plaza hotel. @stephenkleege/note/c-270514587?r=12r7y0&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@stephenkleege…

@LisaDNews @ElizLanders What about the immunity from audits?

Update to this: Trump admin and some J6 convicted assailants say this hold may be only temporary. (See my colleague @ElizLanders reporting on this.) This is why Senate Rs are refusing to go forward w reconciliation until the fund is clearly dead.

Three months ago today, a war began that no one voted for — and the cost has been paid by people who had no say in it. Thousands of civilians have lost their lives. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers will never come home to their families. Americans across this country and our city have watched prices rise at the pump and the grocery store, their budgets strained by a conflict launched without a single vote of Congress. Every life lost abroad and every dollar squeezed from a working family here is part of the same reckless bill, handed to the people who could least afford it by those who will never pay it themselves. I opposed this war from the first day. I oppose it still. It must end.

Read my fact-based fiction on Substack. True stories from my career in music and journalism. open.substack.com/pub/stephenkle…

I knew a woman with gummy bear toes. open.spotify.com/track/5X1vY2lf…

@LisaDNews Does this mean Fox News get back the $787.5 milion penalty it paid for repeating Trump’s lies?

NEW, READ - How the Trump Administration says the $1.8 B “weaponization fund” will work. We have obtained - and you can read here - the justifying document DOJ is giving to GOP senators, as many express deep concerns about it.

@JoyceWhiteVance @twistopherrobin Will Fox News get back the $787.5 milion penalty it paid for reoeating Trump’s lies?

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@factpostnews Will Fox News get back the $787.5 milion penalty it paid for reoeating Trump’s lies?

Trump says his $1.8 billion weaponization slush fund is "peanuts" compared to what January 6th insurrectionists actually faced

@RepMikeLevin Will Fox News get back the $787.5 milion penalty it paid for reoeating Trump’s lies?

🚨Last night in House Appropriations, all Republicans present voted to allow THEMSELVES to get settlements from the January 6th Slush Fund. I am not making this up.

It’s the second anniversary of our album. Give it a listen and a 👍. open.spotify.com/album/0MBbemie…

@MaxAbrahms @miriamsouccar nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…

The New York Times has long been accused of bias. But never before have I seen so many people openly wondering whether they’re also complete idiots.

@ScottJenningsKY nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…

This New York Times "article" about Israel is such a journalistic atrocity that I actually feel stupid reading it out loud. If everyone at the NYT who is responsible for this is not fired, then the publication will lose whatever shred of credibility it has left.

As the cops call a halt to the murder/kidnapping investigation, the remaining members of Krank adjust to life without their star singer, guitarist and roadie. @stephenkleege/note/c-255853288?r=12r7y0&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@stephenkleege…

Check out the penultimate chapter of "Best Served Lukewarm," my courtroom drama on Substack. Best Served Lukewarm - 11, by @StephenKleege open.substack.com/pub/stephenkle…

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. @BlackiLi @WilliamJBroad nytimes.com/interactive/20…