B Steinm
@bearman02.bsky.social
Fan of the Constitution, dogs, horses, and good red wines. Married. No DM’s pls, and no porn or crypto. (is that redundant?)
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Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
Federal agents are arresting American citizens.
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
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$BIIB
Intravenous (IV) drug treatments (via hand) for early Alzheimer's disease, such as lecanemab (brand name Leqembi®) and donanemab (brand name Kisunla™), utilize MRI scans (umm, has he had those?) extensively for both patient screening and safety monitoring.
December 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
$BIIB
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They campaigned on cleaning the swamp…only to build a much bigger, swampier swamp.
December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
They campaigned on cleaning the swamp…only to build a much bigger, swampier swamp.
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A U.S. citizen in Minneapolis was tackled, choked, and detained by ICE because agents decided he “looked Somali.” He begged them to check his digital passport, they refused, drove him 7 miles away, then told him to walk home in a snow storm.
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A U.S. citizen in Minneapolis was tackled, choked, and detained by ICE because agents decided he “looked Somali.” He begged them to check his digital passport, they refused, drove him 7 miles away, then told him to walk home in a snow storm.
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Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."
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THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIPPED A GANG OF EIGHT MEETING????!!!!
Mike Johnson on video of the second September 2 strike: "My admission here is I was not in the Gang of 8 briefing yesterday because we were working on the healthcare stuff"
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIPPED A GANG OF EIGHT MEETING????!!!!
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Disturbingly enough I will be headed to N’awlins in a few hours. Will update if I see similar behavior downtown.
Masked Border Patrol agents pointing guns at roofers outside New Orleans.
No probable cause.
Just targeting Hispanics working construction and trying to provide for their families.
No probable cause.
Just targeting Hispanics working construction and trying to provide for their families.
December 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Disturbingly enough I will be headed to N’awlins in a few hours. Will update if I see similar behavior downtown.
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This is extraordinary and extraordinarily revealing if true.
“An artificial intelligence chatbot unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as 'unambiguously illegal.'”
report by @mikaelthalen.bsky.social
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“An artificial intelligence chatbot unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as 'unambiguously illegal.'”
report by @mikaelthalen.bsky.social
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The military's new AI says 'hypothetical' boat strike scenario 'unambiguously illegal’
An AI chatbot unveiled by the Pentagon appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as “illegal.”
san.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is extraordinary and extraordinarily revealing if true.
“An artificial intelligence chatbot unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as 'unambiguously illegal.'”
report by @mikaelthalen.bsky.social
1/2
“An artificial intelligence chatbot unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as 'unambiguously illegal.'”
report by @mikaelthalen.bsky.social
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NOAA workers are literally flying into storms to make sure weather forecasters can get more accurate and up-to-date information that saves lives and property.
Fund NOAA. Terminate DOGE.
Fund NOAA. Terminate DOGE.
'Hurricane Hunter' plane deploys to Pacific Northwest as major atmospheric river takes aim at Seattle
NOAA is sending its famed reconnaissance aircraft into a powerful storm system that threatens widespread flooding and damaging winds for Western Washington.
mynorthwest.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
NOAA workers are literally flying into storms to make sure weather forecasters can get more accurate and up-to-date information that saves lives and property.
Fund NOAA. Terminate DOGE.
Fund NOAA. Terminate DOGE.
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But the death threats we got were no big deal, apparently. Maybe I should play for her the ones I still have saved.
Marjorie Taylor Greene on why she's leaving Congress: "I've had over 773 death threats that my office reported to Capitol Police ... should I have to become like Charlie Kirk? I think that's too much to ask."
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
But the death threats we got were no big deal, apparently. Maybe I should play for her the ones I still have saved.
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the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison “offered assurances” he would drastically transform CNN if he bought Warner Bros. Discovery www.wsj.com/business/med...
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison “offered assurances” he would drastically transform CNN if he bought Warner Bros. Discovery www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Are there any tech guys who don't convey an urgent need for a swirlie?
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Are there any tech guys who don't convey an urgent need for a swirlie?
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Column worth reading, by former two-term GOP governor who discovers that Harvard is not the hellscape of intolerance and group-think that the MAGA and its media are constantly telling him about.
(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Column worth reading, by former two-term GOP governor who discovers that Harvard is not the hellscape of intolerance and group-think that the MAGA and its media are constantly telling him about.
(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The prez lies as easily as he breathes
Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The prez lies as easily as he breathes
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Been 4 years since leading military analyst & Trump's future children's rights commissioner Scott Ritter informed us that Russian plans to invade Ukraine exist only in US & NATO imagination
December 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Been 4 years since leading military analyst & Trump's future children's rights commissioner Scott Ritter informed us that Russian plans to invade Ukraine exist only in US & NATO imagination
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WHAT THE FUCK
This is immoral. "3-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court. More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to serve as their own attorneys in front of an immigration judge as the Trump admin. ramps up removal proceedings." coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
WHAT THE FUCK
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Poland‘s Vice President Radoslaw Sikorski absolutely torches Elon Musk.
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Poland‘s Vice President Radoslaw Sikorski absolutely torches Elon Musk.
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Donald Trump could rewrite the Constitution and end birthright citizenship in the middle of Fifth Avenue and note lose a single conservative Supreme Court Justice.
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Donald Trump could rewrite the Constitution and end birthright citizenship in the middle of Fifth Avenue and note lose a single conservative Supreme Court Justice.
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Ronald Reagan: America is a "shining city upon a hill"
Now:
Now:
“Gone is the long-familiar picture of the United States as a global force for freedom, replaced by a country that is focused on reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians, instead seeing them as sources of cash.” Via NYT
Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Ronald Reagan: America is a "shining city upon a hill"
Now:
Now:
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Longtime Sports Illustrated columnist Reilly also wrote the book Commander in Cheat which documented the many ways that Trump cheats at golf.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Longtime Sports Illustrated columnist Reilly also wrote the book Commander in Cheat which documented the many ways that Trump cheats at golf.
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Once again video evidence shows that DHS is lying. You can clearly see pepper spray fumes around AZ Rep. Adelita Grijalva yet DHS says it never happened. Right.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2i7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2i7...
Grijalva claims she was pepper-sprayed by federal agents in Arizona
YouTube video by 12 News
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Once again video evidence shows that DHS is lying. You can clearly see pepper spray fumes around AZ Rep. Adelita Grijalva yet DHS says it never happened. Right.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2i7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2i7...
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New in PN: Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise
"For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly killing 'drug dealers.' Now he's making that happen even as he pardons actual drug kingpins."
"For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly killing 'drug dealers.' Now he's making that happen even as he pardons actual drug kingpins."
Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise
He's talked about executing drug dealers for a decade.
www.publicnotice.co
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
New in PN: Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise
"For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly killing 'drug dealers.' Now he's making that happen even as he pardons actual drug kingpins."
"For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly killing 'drug dealers.' Now he's making that happen even as he pardons actual drug kingpins."
Moral sewer
In their confirmation hearings, RFK Jr pledged he would not be anti-vax, Hegseth said he respected women serving in leadership positions in the military, and Bondi said she would not weaponize DOJ against Trump’s political enemies.
December 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Moral sewer