Todd Stein
@toddstein.bsky.social
Full of hate. Anti-exemptionalist. Functionary of the Human Rights Industrial Complex (Congress-State-NGO). Personal account. @SFGiants @washcaps @everton @WashSpirit
If the President can so easily be persuaded to make a pronouncement by one aide with a 3x5 poster, imagine what he might do in response to another aide arguing for the utility of tactical nuclear strikes.
POLITICO: “.. The White House was blindsided by the idea, according to two people familiar with the situation .. and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.” 🤡
@politico.com $XHB
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November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
If the President can so easily be persuaded to make a pronouncement by one aide with a 3x5 poster, imagine what he might do in response to another aide arguing for the utility of tactical nuclear strikes.
Sounds like a guy who thinks individuals negotiating their own personal labor contracts is best for workers.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Sounds like a guy who thinks individuals negotiating their own personal labor contracts is best for workers.
Star Trek victory: saving the Humpback Whales
Next Star Trek challenge: ending the scarcity economy
Next Star Trek challenge: ending the scarcity economy
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Star Trek victory: saving the Humpback Whales
Next Star Trek challenge: ending the scarcity economy
Next Star Trek challenge: ending the scarcity economy
factcheck: true
Your podcast has both radically reconfigured my understanding of rock history and affirmed my least interesting music opinion, that the Beatles are obviously the greatest band of all time
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
factcheck: true
Maybe the only reason to keep subscribing to the Washington Post is the joy I get from the Monday morning Sports section on days like this.
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Maybe the only reason to keep subscribing to the Washington Post is the joy I get from the Monday morning Sports section on days like this.
When you do this please give a thought to us DC residents who have no senators to call, squishy centrist or otherwise.
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
When you do this please give a thought to us DC residents who have no senators to call, squishy centrist or otherwise.
But what do the people at issue say?
Zeldin: "Conservatives say there are two genders. Democrats are saying there are a hundred genders and counting and growing."
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
But what do the people at issue say?
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Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
Trump's on-camera sleepiness raises further questions about Biden's fitness for a second term.
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Trump's on-camera sleepiness raises further questions about Biden's fitness for a second term.
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Where my GOP China hawks at?
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Where my GOP China hawks at?
The fight for the soul of the Republican Party is between the “Hitler is awesome” faction and the “but Hitler had some good ideas” faction.
Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes has led to a major reckoning in the Republican party.
The GOP Civil War Over Nick Fuentes Has Just Begun
Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes has led to a major reckoning in the Republican party.
www.wired.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The fight for the soul of the Republican Party is between the “Hitler is awesome” faction and the “but Hitler had some good ideas” faction.
Reminds me of Chinese police interrogating Tibetans over their awareness of the Dalai Lama.
Indian Illinois Department of Transportation employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was 'aware' of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was 'aware' of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking out about the incident, which happened Friday morning, calling it another example of President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem "continuing to question U....
chicago.suntimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reminds me of Chinese police interrogating Tibetans over their awareness of the Dalai Lama.
Playoff time. Let’s go Spirit! Beat Louisville.
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Playoff time. Let’s go Spirit! Beat Louisville.
Muammar Gaddafi lived the Bab al-Azizi military compound just outside Tripoli.
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Muammar Gaddafi lived the Bab al-Azizi military compound just outside Tripoli.
Trump’s ICE is using iris scanning technology to surveil and collect biometric data on immigrants — the same tech that Chinese authorities use against Uyghurs and other minorities.
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Trump’s ICE is using iris scanning technology to surveil and collect biometric data on immigrants — the same tech that Chinese authorities use against Uyghurs and other minorities.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
As MAGA Jesus said: “For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink”
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
As MAGA Jesus said: “For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink”
Those pronatal chuds should be supporting the NWSL because, wow, it is fertile.
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Those pronatal chuds should be supporting the NWSL because, wow, it is fertile.
Cosplayer-in-Chief
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Cosplayer-in-Chief
"We are on the way to final victory. That victory rests on our faith in the Führer."
-- Joseph Goebbles, February 18, 1943
-- Joseph Goebbles, February 18, 1943
Stephen Miller: "Let me just say Mr President that this country was going to die without you. This country was going to actually die without you ... you alone saved it."
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"We are on the way to final victory. That victory rests on our faith in the Führer."
-- Joseph Goebbles, February 18, 1943
-- Joseph Goebbles, February 18, 1943
Major sports associations are punishing their own members for engaging in activity that the associations promote as socially-acceptable and desirable through their profitable affiliation with the profitably sports gambling industry.
An NCAA investigation into sports gambling-related infractions has led to six men's basketball players from three schools receiving permanent bans from the sport, the organization said.
https://cnn.it/4otQeVT
https://cnn.it/4otQeVT
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Major sports associations are punishing their own members for engaging in activity that the associations promote as socially-acceptable and desirable through their profitable affiliation with the profitably sports gambling industry.
