Steven Suits
@stevensuits.bsky.social
Software Architect. Husband. Father.
Fervent advocate of civil liberties and dignity for *all*
Fervent advocate of civil liberties and dignity for *all*
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Steven Suits
@stevensuits.bsky.social
· Feb 1
America has deep problems, which is why we can’t give up.
Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting.
My latest for The Guardian. ⬇️
Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting.
My latest for The Guardian. ⬇️
Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist | Robert Reich
America has deep problems, which is why we can’t give up. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting
www.theguardian.com
RESIST.
NC Republican senators voted to strike this speech from the record, but it deserves to live on and to be heard. Outstanding @michaelgarrett.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=r2bK...
youtube.com/watch?v=r2bK...
Democracy Under Assault in North Carolina
YouTube video by Michael Garrett
youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
NC Republican senators voted to strike this speech from the record, but it deserves to live on and to be heard. Outstanding @michaelgarrett.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=r2bK...
youtube.com/watch?v=r2bK...
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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NEW: Great point from @ezralevin.bsky.social:
"This is an authoritarian regime that is very scared of mass organizing, peaceful protest.…It is the number-one thing they’re concerned about.…What Trump is doing is not popular.…His hope is that people feel alone."
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...
"This is an authoritarian regime that is very scared of mass organizing, peaceful protest.…It is the number-one thing they’re concerned about.…What Trump is doing is not popular.…His hope is that people feel alone."
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...
‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray
Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.
www.thebulwark.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
NEW: Great point from @ezralevin.bsky.social:
"This is an authoritarian regime that is very scared of mass organizing, peaceful protest.…It is the number-one thing they’re concerned about.…What Trump is doing is not popular.…His hope is that people feel alone."
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...
"This is an authoritarian regime that is very scared of mass organizing, peaceful protest.…It is the number-one thing they’re concerned about.…What Trump is doing is not popular.…His hope is that people feel alone."
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...
I’ve been reluctant to recognize the fact that impeachment is not a realistic safeguard, but unfortunately I think JVL is right here.
"The evidence-based conclusion is that impeachment cannot work because of a design failure."
"The evidence-based conclusion is that impeachment cannot work because of a design failure."
Everyone knows the Constitution isn't a suicide pact. What this newsletter presupposes is . . . what if it is? www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-wh...
Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like?
What if the Constitution *is* a suicide pact?
www.thebulwark.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I’ve been reluctant to recognize the fact that impeachment is not a realistic safeguard, but unfortunately I think JVL is right here.
"The evidence-based conclusion is that impeachment cannot work because of a design failure."
"The evidence-based conclusion is that impeachment cannot work because of a design failure."
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CBS's John Dickerson has the best commentaries.
October 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
CBS's John Dickerson has the best commentaries.
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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
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When humans look at something we find beautiful it causes dopamine release in our brains & looking at plants shifts our brain activity away from fight or flight & into rest & digest mode.
A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
May 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When humans look at something we find beautiful it causes dopamine release in our brains & looking at plants shifts our brain activity away from fight or flight & into rest & digest mode.
A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
I never put much credence in the idea that the president has major, direct influence over the general economy. But this administration has shown that, given enough leeway and incompetence (or malice?), they absolutely can wreck it.
it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months
April 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I never put much credence in the idea that the president has major, direct influence over the general economy. But this administration has shown that, given enough leeway and incompetence (or malice?), they absolutely can wreck it.
How did we end up here?
April 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
How did we end up here?
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Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is:
1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization
2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy
3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them
4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process
5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time
1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization
2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy
3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them
4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process
5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time
Confession that due process is or should be optional according to the vice president
April 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is:
1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization
2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy
3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them
4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process
5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time
1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization
2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy
3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them
4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process
5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time
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Is anyone writing with more consistent urgency about this moment than @jvl.bsky.social? I really don’t think so.
Go read this, and think on the America he describes. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Go read this, and think on the America he describes. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines
Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?
www.thebulwark.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Is anyone writing with more consistent urgency about this moment than @jvl.bsky.social? I really don’t think so.
Go read this, and think on the America he describes. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Go read this, and think on the America he describes. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
One thing Trump's reelection has made exceedingly clear is the extent to which—beneath the veneer of seriousness and importance—humanity truly does persist in complete absurdity.
It's amazing we've managed to accomplish as much as we have.
It's amazing we've managed to accomplish as much as we have.
lol this was quite the way for Trump to wrap up a "dinner remarks" speech that flirted with 2 hours in length
April 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
One thing Trump's reelection has made exceedingly clear is the extent to which—beneath the veneer of seriousness and importance—humanity truly does persist in complete absurdity.
It's amazing we've managed to accomplish as much as we have.
It's amazing we've managed to accomplish as much as we have.
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one of my tiktok followers made this
April 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
one of my tiktok followers made this
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Justice Sotomayor, writing in today's deportation case. How many times must she write, "With fear for our democracy, I dissent," before Republicans get the point? Perhaps only when, as the poem goes, they come for them.
April 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Justice Sotomayor, writing in today's deportation case. How many times must she write, "With fear for our democracy, I dissent," before Republicans get the point? Perhaps only when, as the poem goes, they come for them.
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If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility
The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.
www.newsobserver.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
Feeling this more every week.
"The effects of all this are to make those who are not in lockstep with MAGA feel they are losing their grip on reality. What is happening is that our reality is being remade before us in the image of an irrational, chaotic, despotic, and unscientific worldview."
"The effects of all this are to make those who are not in lockstep with MAGA feel they are losing their grip on reality. What is happening is that our reality is being remade before us in the image of an irrational, chaotic, despotic, and unscientific worldview."
I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad
American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Feeling this more every week.
"The effects of all this are to make those who are not in lockstep with MAGA feel they are losing their grip on reality. What is happening is that our reality is being remade before us in the image of an irrational, chaotic, despotic, and unscientific worldview."
"The effects of all this are to make those who are not in lockstep with MAGA feel they are losing their grip on reality. What is happening is that our reality is being remade before us in the image of an irrational, chaotic, despotic, and unscientific worldview."
Up until last night Congress had been completely failing to rise up to this moment as the emergency that it is. Booker's act is primarily one of symbolism, but symbolism is essential for swaying the tides of public opinion.
Thank you, Senator.
Thank you, Senator.
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Up until last night Congress had been completely failing to rise up to this moment as the emergency that it is. Booker's act is primarily one of symbolism, but symbolism is essential for swaying the tides of public opinion.
Thank you, Senator.
Thank you, Senator.
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Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
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NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
![I am the immigration attorney for Jerce Reyes Barrios, born in January 16, 1989 in Venezuela. 2. In February and March 2024, Mr. Reyes Barrios marched in two demonstrations in Venezuela protesting the authoritarian rule of Maduro. At the second demonstration, he was detained and taken to a clandestine building where he was tortured (electric shocks and suffocation) along with other demonstrators. 3. Shortly after his release, he fled Venezuela for the United States. He registered with CBP One in Mexico, then presented himself to CBP officials on the day of his appointment. He was taken into custody and detained at Otay Mesa Detention Facility in September 2024. 4. We applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT protection in December 2024. His final individual hearing is set for April 17, 2025 before Judge Robinson at the Otay Mesa Immigration Court. 5. On March 15, 2025, Mr. Reyes Barrios was deported to El Salvador with no notice to counsel or family. It was not until March 18, 2025 that counsel was able to reach an ICE official and learn that he had in fact been deported. 6. Mr. Reyes Barrios was/is a professional soccer player in Venezuela. He has never been arrested or charged with a crime. He has a steady employment record as a soccer player, as well as a soccer coach for children and youth. 7. Initially, Mr. Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa and accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on two things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary and the word "Dies." OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo and the pictures of the logo]. 8. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts and found a photo of Mr. Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifncv2sfxob3h7ozdkoymku3wfpbknlroa6bric46v5y7asbrzrim@jpeg)
March 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
I think the last six months have likewise finally and completely quashed any remaining faith I held that Americans were, on balance, virtuous.
The decisive test of our society in my lifetime was the 2024 election and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing.
March 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I think the last six months have likewise finally and completely quashed any remaining faith I held that Americans were, on balance, virtuous.
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Trump is building support for the idea that the "radical left" courts must be defied to save the country. So that once they do so, the right will have already been convinced he is doing a good thing.
Is this the same guy who tore into people for criticizing judges when he spoke at the Justice Dept *checks calendar* just last week?
March 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Trump is building support for the idea that the "radical left" courts must be defied to save the country. So that once they do so, the right will have already been convinced he is doing a good thing.
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
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THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
March 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/