steve jlord
@lordboise.bsky.social
Do or do not: There is no try
Old-school FDR progressive
Boomer
Slow thinkers, keep right
Blue Boise in Red Idaho
Accidentally Like a Martyr
Audentes Fortuna Juvat
[Fortune favors the bold]
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Old-school FDR progressive
Boomer
Slow thinkers, keep right
Blue Boise in Red Idaho
Accidentally Like a Martyr
Audentes Fortuna Juvat
[Fortune favors the bold]
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steve jlord
@lordboise.bsky.social
· Jan 30
How Democrats Can Start Fighting Back
Too many in the party are overcomplicating the simple and unable to muster any opposition to Trump.
open.substack.com
How Democrats Can Start Fighting Back Right Now
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
Incredible match between Man U and Everton - after being reduced to 10 men on a 13th minute red card, Everton scores in the 29th minute, and even a man down, goes on to win 1-0, playing an away game at Old Trafford, Manchester's home turf.
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Incredible match between Man U and Everton - after being reduced to 10 men on a 13th minute red card, Everton scores in the 29th minute, and even a man down, goes on to win 1-0, playing an away game at Old Trafford, Manchester's home turf.
As @markhertling.bsky.social just said on Deadline White House, "It's what any sane person would do."
"Enlisted personnel obey lawful orders; officers ensure the orders that reach them are lawful. The real constitutional failsafe...is the officer corps, obligated to the Constitution alone."
@markhertling.bsky.social on the military and illegal orders: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-ameri...
@markhertling.bsky.social on the military and illegal orders: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-ameri...
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
As @markhertling.bsky.social just said on Deadline White House, "It's what any sane person would do."
Judge Currie carefully quotes both Alito and Thomas as authority for her decision to treat Halligan's appointment as invalid. Very savvy opinion.
US District Judge Cameron Currie has dismissed the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York AG Letitia James after finding that former Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan was not lawfully appointed as a prosecutor. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Judge Currie carefully quotes both Alito and Thomas as authority for her decision to treat Halligan's appointment as invalid. Very savvy opinion.
BREAKING: COMEY, JAMES CASES DISMISSED
By Ben Meiselas
www.meidasplus.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Huge shout-out to Cliff Cash and the whole Removal Coalition! Definitely bigger than Trump’s inauguration.
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Huge shout-out to Cliff Cash and the whole Removal Coalition! Definitely bigger than Trump’s inauguration.
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Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
I can't get out of my head that Emil Bove kooks like Roy Cohn's illegitimate offspring.
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
n.pr
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I can't get out of my head that Emil Bove kooks like Roy Cohn's illegitimate offspring.
Fast forward to September 2005, appointment of John Roberts to be the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
A died-in-the-wool Federalist Society member, Roberts has imposed FedSoc dogma to repudiate the very existence of the 14th Amendment.
November 22, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
A died-in-the-wool Federalist Society member, Roberts has imposed FedSoc dogma to repudiate the very existence of the 14th Amendment.
November 22, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 22, 2025
On Tuesday, six Democratic lawmakers, themselves veterans of the U.S.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Fast forward to September 2005, appointment of John Roberts to be the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
A died-in-the-wool Federalist Society member, Roberts has imposed FedSoc dogma to repudiate the very existence of the 14th Amendment.
November 22, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
A died-in-the-wool Federalist Society member, Roberts has imposed FedSoc dogma to repudiate the very existence of the 14th Amendment.
November 22, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Superb 21st century protest song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4...
"Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Superb 21st century protest song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4...
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🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
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For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
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"Timothy Snyder: Russian invasion is on a world war scale, but Ukraine alone is fighting it, keeping us in a 1938-like historical moment"
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Timothy Snyder: Russian invasion is on a world war scale, but Ukraine alone is fighting it, keeping us in a 1938-like historical moment"
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
Thank you @markhertling.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Thank you @markhertling.bsky.social
I got no expectations to pass this way again
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I got no expectations to pass this way again
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The revelation of their plan this week shocked European leaders, who are now paying almost all of the military costs of the war, as well as the Ukrainians, who were not sure whether to take this latest plan seriously until they were told to agree to it by Thanksgiving or lose all further US support.
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The revelation of their plan this week shocked European leaders, who are now paying almost all of the military costs of the war, as well as the Ukrainians, who were not sure whether to take this latest plan seriously until they were told to agree to it by Thanksgiving or lose all further US support.
Elon Musk: "What happened to my Neuralink implant? I thought I got the bugs out of the ones Valentine Corporation used. Can we make his head explode?"
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Elon Musk: "What happened to my Neuralink implant? I thought I got the bugs out of the ones Valentine Corporation used. Can we make his head explode?"
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this presser, Mamdani:
✅ got Trump to call himself a fascist
✅ got Trump to commit to helping nyc
✅ got Trump to endorse him before Schumer and Jeffries
✅ got Trump to say he’s a rational guy
✅ pissed off Elise Stefanik & maga
✅ allowed for the BEST Stephen Miller diss tracks/memes thus far
✅ got Trump to call himself a fascist
✅ got Trump to commit to helping nyc
✅ got Trump to endorse him before Schumer and Jeffries
✅ got Trump to say he’s a rational guy
✅ pissed off Elise Stefanik & maga
✅ allowed for the BEST Stephen Miller diss tracks/memes thus far
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
this presser, Mamdani:
✅ got Trump to call himself a fascist
✅ got Trump to commit to helping nyc
✅ got Trump to endorse him before Schumer and Jeffries
✅ got Trump to say he’s a rational guy
✅ pissed off Elise Stefanik & maga
✅ allowed for the BEST Stephen Miller diss tracks/memes thus far
✅ got Trump to call himself a fascist
✅ got Trump to commit to helping nyc
✅ got Trump to endorse him before Schumer and Jeffries
✅ got Trump to say he’s a rational guy
✅ pissed off Elise Stefanik & maga
✅ allowed for the BEST Stephen Miller diss tracks/memes thus far
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Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly to Stephen Miller: “I got shot at serving our country in combat, and I was there when your boss sent a violent mob to attack the Capitol. I know the difference between defending our Constitution and an insurrection, even if you don’t.”
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly to Stephen Miller: “I got shot at serving our country in combat, and I was there when your boss sent a violent mob to attack the Capitol. I know the difference between defending our Constitution and an insurrection, even if you don’t.”
Trump exhorting violence against his political opponents is but one more consequence of the Roberts court granting Trump virtually unlimited immunity for nearly any misconduct.
BREAKING:
Sen. Elissa Slotkin says police responded to her home tonight in response to a bomb threat. Slotkin wasn't at home at the time.
This is two days after Trump said Slotkin and other Democrats committed "seditious conspiracy, punishable by death."
Sen. Elissa Slotkin says police responded to her home tonight in response to a bomb threat. Slotkin wasn't at home at the time.
This is two days after Trump said Slotkin and other Democrats committed "seditious conspiracy, punishable by death."
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Trump exhorting violence against his political opponents is but one more consequence of the Roberts court granting Trump virtually unlimited immunity for nearly any misconduct.
Love the Guv's take on Stefanik.
On @allinwithchris.bsky.social Gov Kathy Hochul responds to Rep Elise Stefanik’s repeated assertions that Zohran Mamdani is a “jihadist”:
“She’s full of shit.”
“She’s full of shit.”
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Love the Guv's take on Stefanik.
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the hidden ulterior motive behind MTG resigning is she's genuinely very depressed and unwell
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
the hidden ulterior motive behind MTG resigning is she's genuinely very depressed and unwell
Exactly.
Mamdani took the chance that he could work Trump into a self-own, and it paid off.
It's nothing more than a half-hour meeting with a codger and a sharp, young, rising politician who trusted he could play the codger.
Mamdani took the chance that he could work Trump into a self-own, and it paid off.
It's nothing more than a half-hour meeting with a codger and a sharp, young, rising politician who trusted he could play the codger.
The left joins with right against the middle takes on the Trump/Mamdani meeting are way off. There is nothing substantive here. There will be no policy breakthroughs. That’s not what this is about. It’s about a young smart guy who knew how to play an old fool who worships stars.
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Exactly.
Mamdani took the chance that he could work Trump into a self-own, and it paid off.
It's nothing more than a half-hour meeting with a codger and a sharp, young, rising politician who trusted he could play the codger.
Mamdani took the chance that he could work Trump into a self-own, and it paid off.
It's nothing more than a half-hour meeting with a codger and a sharp, young, rising politician who trusted he could play the codger.
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With his ultimatum that Ukraine surrender to Russia, Trump finally wins a prize:
The Neville Chamberlain award for betraying peace, freedom, and justice.
The Neville Chamberlain award for betraying peace, freedom, and justice.
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
With his ultimatum that Ukraine surrender to Russia, Trump finally wins a prize:
The Neville Chamberlain award for betraying peace, freedom, and justice.
The Neville Chamberlain award for betraying peace, freedom, and justice.
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Narcissists lack a self. Normal people develop their own likes and dislikes, opinions, values and morals. A narcissist grew up being told what they feel and think doesn't matter. All that matters is you appease your parental figure. Trump changes opinion all the time because he has none.
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Narcissists lack a self. Normal people develop their own likes and dislikes, opinions, values and morals. A narcissist grew up being told what they feel and think doesn't matter. All that matters is you appease your parental figure. Trump changes opinion all the time because he has none.
and that's just the worst, most personal part - it's also a continuation of the more general Russell Vought/Project 2025 policy to dismantle public health in general
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
and that's just the worst, most personal part - it's also a continuation of the more general Russell Vought/Project 2025 policy to dismantle public health in general