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Steve G

@stephenlg.bsky.social

created November 11, 2024

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Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Got a mirror, slim?

2/9/2025, 7:20:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

…I can explain that.

2/9/2025, 7:06:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean… who knows this better than the citizens of Huntsville? 🤔

2/9/2025, 7:00:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

One would scarcely have thought it possible.

2/9/2025, 1:52:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Because of all the National Park Service people DOGE fired. Brilliant.

2/9/2025, 1:37:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Or Markwayne. Okay, I guess that one does get commented on quite a bit.

2/9/2025, 1:34:17 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m sure he’ll have a press conference tomorrow to set everyone’s minds at ease. 🙄

2/9/2025, 1:23:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 12:18:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Looking at Schumer’s seat in ‘28?

2/9/2025, 12:15:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

1/9/2025, 11:53:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

1/9/2025, 10:49:37 PM | 27343 6866 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

1/9/2025, 11:20:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

1/9/2025, 10:50:10 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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...

1/9/2025, 10:03:53 PM | 41 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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...

A group of uniformed troops walk along the National Mall, with the Washington Monument and the Capitol in the background. A headline reads:
1/9/2025, 9:57:57 PM | 2293 805 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

/Ode to Billie Joe playing in the background

1/9/2025, 8:25:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

1/9/2025, 2:45:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robyn Swirling (@rswirling.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

This is what a regular traffic stop looks like in DC now.

1/9/2025, 2:14:47 AM | 274 127 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

1/9/2025, 1:47:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

1/9/2025, 12:24:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

31/8/2025, 11:40:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

31/8/2025, 9:15:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

31/8/2025, 7:22:38 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.🧵

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18/8/2025, 6:23:47 PM | 43 39 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

30/8/2025, 4:40:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

30/8/2025, 2:47:27 AM | 7648 2447 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

30/8/2025, 3:33:53 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

As you may have notice, they're quite adept at that maneuver.

30/8/2025, 2:19:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

30/8/2025, 2:18:49 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) reposted

he already killed the Pope

30/8/2025, 2:07:46 AM | 271 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

(it was a joke)

30/8/2025, 2:07:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Washington DC remains the murder capital of the world!

30/8/2025, 1:22:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

30/8/2025, 12:32:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Good for Chris.

30/8/2025, 12:06:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

The BIG NEWS will be if he’s not playing golf.

29/8/2025, 10:44:41 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

29/8/2025, 10:36:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Trying to recruit a 78 year old to run for the Senate in Maine.

29/8/2025, 10:32:54 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

29/8/2025, 10:32:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

And clearly you don’t have to be any good at it, either.

29/8/2025, 3:27:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

28/8/2025, 7:49:49 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh oh… who’s gonna pick up the trash and spread the mulch on the national mall?

28/8/2025, 5:41:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Spiritual homeopathy

28/8/2025, 5:39:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JohnXuandou (@johnxuandou.bsky.social) reposted

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

13/8/2025, 6:06:20 AM | 18839 7333 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Troof.

28/8/2025, 5:13:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice day for it.

28/8/2025, 3:50:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.”

28/8/2025, 2:23:12 AM | 3273 596 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

28/8/2025, 12:51:59 AM | 12197 3017 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

27/8/2025, 10:22:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Who's laughing now, Ms Pirro?

27/8/2025, 4:53:05 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

27/8/2025, 3:01:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

27/8/2025, 1:25:03 PM | 2565 417 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

26/8/2025, 10:11:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

I have navel lint better informed than this dotard.

26/8/2025, 7:46:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

26/8/2025, 7:35:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Great work, Tiger Beat.

26/8/2025, 5:28:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty clearly the thoughts of someone who hasn’t driven a car in half a century.

26/8/2025, 5:23:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

A wannabe dick-taster?

26/8/2025, 5:20:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

26/8/2025, 5:13:20 PM | 86 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

This must be terrifying to JD Vance and his family.

26/8/2025, 2:56:23 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Are those people here in the room with us now?

25/8/2025, 3:10:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

25/8/2025, 1:22:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

If it's Sunday night it must be Red Sox vs Yankees.

24/8/2025, 4:18:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s let himself go. 🤣

24/8/2025, 3:33:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Also not “a game.”

24/8/2025, 2:30:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s let himself go… and no one cares about him enough to help.

24/8/2025, 3:17:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

24/8/2025, 1:05:11 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

It was even better last night when he blew the save.

24/8/2025, 12:50:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

23/8/2025, 11:32:37 PM | 3774 1037 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

But isn't that some lovely grass?

23/8/2025, 11:32:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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."

23/8/2025, 12:28:16 AM | 720 95 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Well why on earth would she lie about such a thing? 🫩

22/8/2025, 9:13:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

“Believe it or not” Yeah I’m a “not”

22/8/2025, 6:38:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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."

21/8/2025, 9:50:32 PM | 655 187 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, right into the belly of the beast. What a brave guy.

21/8/2025, 9:06:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.”

21/8/2025, 1:54:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.”

21/8/2025, 1:52:10 PM | 17 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

20/8/2025, 10:15:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

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20/8/2025, 10:09:32 PM | 31351 5458 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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."

20/8/2025, 9:43:23 PM | 13 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Interesting the things they’re happy to spend millions of dollars on.

20/8/2025, 9:25:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

“I ache in the places where I used to play…” /Leonard Cohen

20/8/2025, 9:12:53 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

“Sir? This is a Shake Shack.”

20/8/2025, 9:11:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess they were all home taking naps when ICE got booed out of Mt Pleasant.

Large diverse crowd of protesters no elderly hippies in sight
20/8/2025, 7:03:44 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) reposted

Oh damn shots fired @muellershewrote.com

The Government is the logical party to make comprehensive disclosure to the public of the Epstein Files. By comparison, the instant grand jury motion appears to be a
20/8/2025, 5:57:49 PM | 653 138 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Almost as if it were intentional.

20/8/2025, 5:59:47 PM | 42 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

20/8/2025, 5:58:55 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Himmler, Goebbels and Goering.

20/8/2025, 5:44:26 PM | 218 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Peewee Goebbels says what, now?

20/8/2025, 5:30:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, neither is where you want to see a shitstain.

20/8/2025, 2:48:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

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Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

And if she chooses to run again next year she will win.

18/8/2025, 11:21:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

18/8/2025, 6:18:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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...

Photograph of a barred owl perched on a branch in late-winter woods at Champion Lake in Tennessee. The browns of the owl exaggerated against the winter gray of the woods by processing all except the owl in black and white.
18/8/2025, 3:29:59 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Better send in the national guard.

18/8/2025, 3:31:28 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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?

18/8/2025, 3:30:48 PM | 19 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

18/8/2025, 3:24:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Could be that presidential bestie Steve Witkoff was as badly outmatched as people had suggested he was.

17/8/2025, 11:17:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

17/8/2025, 11:15:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

16/8/2025, 11:12:43 PM | 9404 3132 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve G (@stephenlg.bsky.social) reply parent

Worst guy good point pic
17/8/2025, 1:39:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view