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Steve Okino

@steveokino.bsky.social

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Proud member of The Enemy Within™. Living in my safe space--Hawai‘i--with toothless senior cat Franklin. Former TV Newser, political communicator, marketing/web/tech journeyman. Now just a cat guy volunteering in service of homeless felines.

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · Nov 23

Since I've unexpectedly picked up a ton of followers--allow me to introduce you to this program of compassion, kindness, and love, led by the extraordinary @thanhneville.bsky.social at UCLA Health. Follow, donate, and cheer them on as the light in our current sea of darkness, hate, and indifference.

3 Wishes Program @3wishesprogram.bsky.social · Nov 23

The young patient hadn't been outside for 6 months since her hospitalization. As part of her end-of-life care, we made it possible for her family to gather around her outside, in the beautiful sun. #EOLcare #hapc shared with permission.

a family gathers around a dying loved one in a hospital bed, outside, in the sun. shared with permission.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 11h

Quite right: EVEN THE JUDICIARY IS LOSING FAITH IN THE JUDICIARY!!!!!!
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 11h

Dozens of federal judges told The NYT they’re worried about the Supreme Court’s growing use of its emergency docket. The survey shows 47 judges disagreed that it’s been used appropriately, only 12 agreed. Even the judiciary is losing faith in the judiciary.

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🪩 Kiri 🪩 @kirio.bsky.social · 11h

Here's my recap of Mariners/Tigers Game 5. Somehow this is the image that is sticking with me the most.

blogs.fangraphs.com/mariners-fin...

The Mariner Moose lifts Humpy the Salmon up in celebration after Humpy won the Salmon Run for the first time ever. Mariners fans can be seen going wild in the background.

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 13h

Just like most of "Team Trump," this oligarch remains willfully ignorant of reality.

Money does not signify wisdom, knowledge, or sanity.

And money does not command respect.

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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 13h

He’s Team Trump but “Mr. Benioff…said he had not closely followed the news about the immigration raids, Mr. Trump’s call to gerrymander congressional districts before the midterm elections, the government shutdown or the Trump administration’s attacks on the media.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21h

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 21h

Making damn certain America will suffer.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

This asshole is one of the oligarchs (like Zuckerberg) buying up half of Hawai’i and making life unaffordable for regular folks here.

Idiots like him never hide their true colors for long.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Great kicker. Marc Benioff’s PR team wanted him to do an interview about philanthropy. Instead he sounded off on a bunch of Trump policies he supports and called for the White House to send troops to SF.

Doesn’t seem like the comms team was pleased with how the interview went..

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

💯 we need to hear this again and again.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

This nonsense is absolutely ripe for skillful mocking, which would drive Trump bonkers. Satirists of America, unite and get to work.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 1d

The Court, blocking Trump's deployment of Texas NG to Illinois: "not even the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one state’s militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

This is what fascism looks--and sounds--like.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Wait didn't they send the South African boers to Idaho too? Lmao. Trump is using Idaho as his place to appease all the foreign entities who need to hide in the United States. Next week there's gonna be a HOA in Coeur d'Alene with like 6 new board members that are relatives of El Chapo

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

Hawai‘i, usually a strong market for visitors from Canada, saw a 9.2 percent decline in Canadian visitors in August from 2024, and more than 27 percent down from pre-COVID levels.

Great work, Trump.

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

And visitors from Canada to Hawai‘i were down again in August by 9.2 percent from 2024, and down by more than 27 percent from pre-COVID levels.

Thanks, Trump!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

The Canadian boycott of travel to the U.S. continued through September—cementing an enormous economic loss for American tourism in 2025 as visitors from around the world choose not to travel to the States amid geopolitical tensions.
www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

Laws and court orders are for the peons.

Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

Once the Tiffany Network, CBS News had degraded over the decade to cubic zirconium. And now Bari Weiss is going to take it all the way back to a lump of coal.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Every journalist who worked at a flailing and rapidly decaying digital news startup in the mid-2010s knows exactly what is going to happen at CBS News.

Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

Just looking at Vought and Stephen Miller and Tom Homan evokes images of villains and evil and doom, amirite?
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

And creepy Vought is taking a very strange and unhealthy pleasure in it.

Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

Awww, c'mon. As an old boomer now with a library of anti-Trump protest signs, I do indeed fancy myself as somewhat of a terrorist.
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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh. Gone wayyy too soon. 😿

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

Qatar now the highest bidder for the former United States of America. But the Trump auction of our nation has just begun.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

??????

www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho

The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.

www.cbsnews.com

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 1d

Because Red State elected have only one "constituent" they worry about, and he doesn't live in their state.

Ed Kane 🇺🇦 @3dkan3.bsky.social · 1d

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Steve Rattner warns the GOP: Health care cuts will hit red states the hardest

The former Treasury official said the data, which shows GOP-led states use ACA subsidies at a higher rate, has put Republicans under pressure.

www.msnbc.com

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1d

The phrase "don't threaten me with a good time" keeps coming to mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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