Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Got a mirror, slim?
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Got a mirror, slim?
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
…I can explain that.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean… who knows this better than the citizens of Huntsville? 🤔
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
One would scarcely have thought it possible.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Because of all the National Park Service people DOGE fired. Brilliant.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Or Markwayne. Okay, I guess that one does get commented on quite a bit.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m sure he’ll have a press conference tomorrow to set everyone’s minds at ease. 🙄
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Now there’s a fine looking specimen if a man. The guy with the golf cap looks pretty shaky tho.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Looking at Schumer’s seat in ‘28?
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Swing. Nice effort, but the ball went past as the bat while fully extended. That’s a swing to me.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s the Jimmy the Greek of our era… made an entire career out of being conspicuously right ONCE.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m so old that when I see “profusely illustrated” it makes me think of Firesign Theater’s “great prison novel” riff. Sorry I can’t help anyone much under seventy decipher that one.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
And here’s a gift link to Tom Bartlett, of all people, covering similar ground in his previous Atlantic article. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
/Ode to Billie Joe playing in the background
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
I went to a Nats game on Labor Day a dozen years ago and it was all about a “salute to the military.” Like every other game, in other words.
Robyn Swirling (@rswirling.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This is what a regular traffic stop looks like in DC now.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
He looked better after he almost died from COVID. Of course he was pumped up on steroids and who knows what else and was high as a kite.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay, I’m not going to press the point because I rarely watch their broadcasts anymore, and if it’s a game I really care about I mute the announcers. But that’s the way I remember it when I was paying attention.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
No one at ESPN likes baseball or understands why anyone would. They literally think the game on the field is something people who tune in want to be distracted from.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve been a Washington baseball fan since around 1957, so I’ve seen some bad, bad baseball. But I can’t watch this team.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
On the other hand we all know there is absolutely nothing so trivial that they won’t lie about it.
National Immigration Law Center (@nilc.org) reposted
Following Trump's deployment of the National Guard and a surge of federal law enforcement to D.C., it's critical that people can identify with whom they are interacting and that they document those interactions. Our guide helps distinguish between federal law enforcement and U.S. armed forces.🧵
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m gonna need to see “mistake” replaced with “reckless” and some mention of the effective collapse of the CDC before I sign off on it.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Everybody knows guys like JD Vance and everybody hates them. I see no evidence that he understands his weaknesses and limitations. However, some of the richest, meanest, weirdest, craziest and most delusional people in the world are heavily invested in him. That's going to be a problem.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
As you may have notice, they're quite adept at that maneuver.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
If he doesn't play golf this weekend I'll sit up and take notice. The weather is stunning.
post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) reposted
he already killed the Pope
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
(it was a joke)
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Washington DC remains the murder capital of the world!
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, Tom Harkin is six years younger than Grassley, if Democrats think 74 year old Tom Vilsack is too young and inexperienced to trust.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Good for Chris.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
The BIG NEWS will be if he’s not playing golf.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
If you can find a way get ALL Democrats to sign onto this and compel hearings on that very subject you’ll have done something important.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Trying to recruit a 78 year old to run for the Senate in Maine.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, we know they won’t. If you have any thoughts about how to stop them BEFORE they undermine all our independent institutions and centralize power under their far-right cronies I, for one, am keen to hear them.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
And clearly you don’t have to be any good at it, either.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
So you’re going to go on record with Senator Murray and others that he needs to be fired, and do whatever you can to make him too toxic for Trump to retain him? That would be great.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh oh… who’s gonna pick up the trash and spread the mulch on the national mall?
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Spiritual homeopathy
JohnXuandou (@johnxuandou.bsky.social) reposted
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Troof.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Nice day for it.
Schooley (@schooley.bsky.social) reposted
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov) reposted
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the guns. Ever and always... it's the guns. It's the only thing that every one of these maniacs has in common.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Who's laughing now, Ms Pirro?
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course "American Workers" is in small enough type that it will be easily missed by most passers by.
post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) reposted
fwiw people are calling this nullification and I don’t think that’s quite fair. they were charging a felony and he didn’t commit a felony. the grand jury did their job faithfully and well.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah not everybody with an incorrigible 14 year old sociopath can afford to send them to military school like your parents did.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
I have navel lint better informed than this dotard.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
That this will be left unchallenged is conclusive proof, if any were still needed, that the Republican Party is nothing but a cult. An authoritarian, undemocratic cult at that.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Great work, Tiger Beat.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Pretty clearly the thoughts of someone who hasn’t driven a car in half a century.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
A wannabe dick-taster?
digby (@digby56.bsky.social) reposted
Is it legal for this Trump flunkie to pore over the mortgage records of Trump's enemies and reporting them to the DOJ for potential crimes? It can't be part of a normal audit or there would have been other people involved. It's specific targeting.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
This must be terrifying to JD Vance and his family.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Are those people here in the room with us now?
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
She has the whole Anne Coulter "PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEE" thing down. Willing to say whatever it takes. No dignity or self respect.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
If it's Sunday night it must be Red Sox vs Yankees.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s let himself go. 🤣
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Also not “a game.”
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s let himself go… and no one cares about him enough to help.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
To say nothing of Cape Buffalo stampedes, which you’ll note we’ve also seen none of since the National Guard blessedly arrived.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
It was even better last night when he blew the save.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
I’m sure the South Carolina National Guard will be in hand to help the state’s resid— Hang on, I’m being handed something
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
But isn't that some lovely grass?
Mark Harris (@markharris.bsky.social) reposted
I feel like many of the year two headlines are going to be along the lines of "Trump Appears in Public for First Time in 23 Days" and "Flies Buzz Around Quiet President in Challenge to Political Norms."
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Well why on earth would she lie about such a thing?
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
“Believe it or not” Yeah I’m a “not”
Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) reposted
KBJ: "This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins."
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, right into the belly of the beast. What a brave guy.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
“…which is why we’re eliminating all recognition of achievements by minority groups at museums and federal agencies.”
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Eliminating museum exhibits recognizing achievements by so-called “DEI” groups is a strange way to “focus on the positive.”
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Legal… but still casts doubt on the wisdom of firing so many career prosecutors involved in the J6 cases.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
“this administration did itself no favors by firing qualified prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases, pushing out others by pursuing a political agenda," former Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan Ballou said. "It sounds like the U.S. attorney is trying to import both staff and credibility."
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Interesting the things they’re happy to spend millions of dollars on.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
“I ache in the places where I used to play…” /Leonard Cohen
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
“Sir? This is a Shake Shack.”
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess they were all home taking naps when ICE got booed out of Mt Pleasant.
National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) reposted
Oh damn shots fired @muellershewrote.com
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Almost as if it were intentional.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Panhandling is not violent crime. It may be annoying and you might not like seeing it, but the people of DC have made it abundantly clear whenever given the opportunity that they find JD Vance far more annoying and like seeing him even less.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Himmler, Goebbels and Goering.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Peewee Goebbels says what, now?
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, neither is where you want to see a shitstain.
Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 (@mayorwu.boston.gov) reposted
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
And if she chooses to run again next year she will win.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
The only reason he even mentioned it at all was because he saw the news item about reservations being off and he had to blow some smoke.
NaturePaul (@naturepaul.bsky.social) reposted
Barred Owl In Winter Woods #1 featured in Go Take A Hike Photography Group @fineartamerica.bsky.social fineartamerica.com/groups/go-ta...
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Better send in the national guard.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
As in, many washed up has-been performers will be fetid at this year’s Kennedy Center awards?
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
He has made the city safer in the same sense he’s cleared the streets of rampaging hordes of bengal tigers and rainbow farting unicorns.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Could be that presidential bestie Steve Witkoff was as badly outmatched as people had suggested he was.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent
Just seeing Trump walking away from a battery of microphones and cameras after only a few moments had to be jarring in and of itself.
Bryan Blessed (@bryb.bsky.social) reposted
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent