Steve Smith
@stephenhsmith.bsky.social
Advocate, counselor and polemicist.
The Chief Justice ought to install a mirror in his chambers so he can see why people don’t respect the courts.
May 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Chief Justice ought to install a mirror in his chambers so he can see why people don’t respect the courts.
Reposted by Steve Smith
🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨
Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for:
Diane Seltzer for President
Amanda Molina for Treasurer
Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother.
Get your ballot and vote ASAP.
Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for:
Diane Seltzer for President
Amanda Molina for Treasurer
Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother.
Get your ballot and vote ASAP.
April 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨
Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for:
Diane Seltzer for President
Amanda Molina for Treasurer
Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother.
Get your ballot and vote ASAP.
Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for:
Diane Seltzer for President
Amanda Molina for Treasurer
Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother.
Get your ballot and vote ASAP.
With the economic decimation caused by the tariffs, it’s almost like you have to have been stupid or in on the grift to have voted for him.
April 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
With the economic decimation caused by the tariffs, it’s almost like you have to have been stupid or in on the grift to have voted for him.
US expels the South African ambassador, who Rubio called a “a race-baiting politician”. I take him at his word, because no one knows more about race-baiting than the Republican Party. See, e.g. Reagan’s “welfare queen” and Bush 1’s Willie Horton ad.
March 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
US expels the South African ambassador, who Rubio called a “a race-baiting politician”. I take him at his word, because no one knows more about race-baiting than the Republican Party. See, e.g. Reagan’s “welfare queen” and Bush 1’s Willie Horton ad.
“Nothing says “party of the everyman” quite like two born-to-riches nepo baby billionaires selling $80,000+ cars on the White House lawn.”
-Jeff Tiedrich
-Jeff Tiedrich
March 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“Nothing says “party of the everyman” quite like two born-to-riches nepo baby billionaires selling $80,000+ cars on the White House lawn.”
-Jeff Tiedrich
-Jeff Tiedrich
Trump is so far up Putin’s ass he can see Sarah Palin’s house
March 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Trump is so far up Putin’s ass he can see Sarah Palin’s house
Vice President JD Vance is earning the description Winston Churchill applied to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s secretary of state, John Foster Dulles: a bull who carries a china shop around with him. - George Will
March 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Vice President JD Vance is earning the description Winston Churchill applied to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s secretary of state, John Foster Dulles: a bull who carries a china shop around with him. - George Will
I guess we know now how he bankrupted all those casinos
March 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I guess we know now how he bankrupted all those casinos
Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the solution to higher egg prices is to raise chickens in your backyard.
You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried.
You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried.
March 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the solution to higher egg prices is to raise chickens in your backyard.
You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried.
You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried.
With Musk taking billions from government contracts and the White House parroting the Kremlin, it looks that that distinction, among others, is dead, too.
March 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
With Musk taking billions from government contracts and the White House parroting the Kremlin, it looks that that distinction, among others, is dead, too.
My grandmother used to say that the difference between the capitalists and communists is that the capitalists say “thank you” when they take your money.
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
My grandmother used to say that the difference between the capitalists and communists is that the capitalists say “thank you” when they take your money.
Reposted by Steve Smith
This was no blunder by Zelensky. It was a set up job to justify Trump‘s complete embrace of Putin. He made him an offer he couldn’t accept, and with brutal rancor designed to force a walk out
February 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This was no blunder by Zelensky. It was a set up job to justify Trump‘s complete embrace of Putin. He made him an offer he couldn’t accept, and with brutal rancor designed to force a walk out
Reposted by Steve Smith
At a bus shelter in London
February 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
At a bus shelter in London
Political theorist, John Locke, on whose writings the founding fathers relied, wrote that a leader disregarding constitutional order gives up legitimacy and the people are justified in treating him as a “thief and a robber.”
February 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Political theorist, John Locke, on whose writings the founding fathers relied, wrote that a leader disregarding constitutional order gives up legitimacy and the people are justified in treating him as a “thief and a robber.”
“[W]hosoever in authority exceeds the power given him by the law and makes use of the force he has under his command…ceases in that to be a magistrate; and, acting without authority, may be opposed, as any other man, who by force invades the right of another.”
February 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
“[W]hosoever in authority exceeds the power given him by the law and makes use of the force he has under his command…ceases in that to be a magistrate; and, acting without authority, may be opposed, as any other man, who by force invades the right of another.”
To Republicans bemoaning budget cuts; as Hunter S. Thompson said, “buy the ticket, take the ride.”
February 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
To Republicans bemoaning budget cuts; as Hunter S. Thompson said, “buy the ticket, take the ride.”
If Senator Susan Collins was truly “troubled and deeply concerned”, maybe she’d actually do the right thing for once in her life.
February 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
If Senator Susan Collins was truly “troubled and deeply concerned”, maybe she’d actually do the right thing for once in her life.
Happy Presidents’ Day- in the current climate, this guy seems like FDR
February 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Happy Presidents’ Day- in the current climate, this guy seems like FDR
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here"
The Tempest, Act 1, Sc. 2
The Tempest, Act 1, Sc. 2
February 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here"
The Tempest, Act 1, Sc. 2
The Tempest, Act 1, Sc. 2
Now, with that money frozen, they’re on the hook. As Spike Lee once said, they brought that shit upon themselves.
February 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Now, with that money frozen, they’re on the hook. As Spike Lee once said, they brought that shit upon themselves.
Farmers who signed contracts with the USDA under those programs paid up front to build fencing, plant new crops and install renewable energy systems with guarantees that the federal government would issue grants and loan guarantees to cover at least part of their costs.
February 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Farmers who signed contracts with the USDA under those programs paid up front to build fencing, plant new crops and install renewable energy systems with guarantees that the federal government would issue grants and loan guarantees to cover at least part of their costs.
American farmers, who voted for Trump by a wide margin, report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals.
February 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
American farmers, who voted for Trump by a wide margin, report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals.
Trump's Tariff on Aluminum Would Hike Price of Marjorie Taylor Greene's Hat
-Andy Borowitz
-Andy Borowitz
February 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Trump's Tariff on Aluminum Would Hike Price of Marjorie Taylor Greene's Hat
-Andy Borowitz
-Andy Borowitz