Ulysses
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Thesteadystate.org
Old Salt “Mustang”
Retired Intelligence Executive
“To strive, to seek, to find but not to yield” Tennyson
Thesteadystate.org
Old Salt “Mustang”
Retired Intelligence Executive
“To strive, to seek, to find but not to yield” Tennyson
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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If this doesn’t tug at your heart, make you well up with sadness, you are not human.
January 27, 2026 at 12:56 AM
If this doesn’t tug at your heart, make you well up with sadness, you are not human.
Prediction: With videos catching the ICE executions and putting the lie to DHS etc. I expect ICE to soon shutdown cell service in areas they want to raid. They want fear via publicity but now it has become a double edged sword. Keep an eye out for this kind of tactic.
January 25, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Prediction: With videos catching the ICE executions and putting the lie to DHS etc. I expect ICE to soon shutdown cell service in areas they want to raid. They want fear via publicity but now it has become a double edged sword. Keep an eye out for this kind of tactic.
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“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
January 25, 2026 at 2:56 AM
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
I am a veteran. Alex was a caregiver for our heroes. All veterans should grieve for him.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I am a veteran. Alex was a caregiver for our heroes. All veterans should grieve for him.
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The study found that only about 4% of the tariff burden is shouldered by foreign firms, with a “near-complete” pass-through of 96% to US buyers.
Americans Bear Almost All the Cost of Trump Tariffs, Study Shows
President Donald Trump’s duties on imported goods are paid almost entirely by American importers, their domestic customers and ultimately US consumers, a study from a German think tank concluded.
bloom.bg
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The study found that only about 4% of the tariff burden is shouldered by foreign firms, with a “near-complete” pass-through of 96% to US buyers.
Top notch idea.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov Form protective interstate compacts with other @demgovs.org to pass state laws having businesses pay all their taxes to state instead of IRS so that you all can protect the taxpayer dollars from this extortion. No Blue states should pay.
www.change.org/free_states_...
www.change.org/free_states_...
Sign the Petition
Tell your Governors: Unite and Keep Blue States Free Forever!
www.change.org
January 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Top notch idea.
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What if blue states (CA, IL,NY....) withhold their payments to the Feds. Who will bail out all those red southern states who can't feed their own constituents?
January 14, 2026 at 12:26 AM
What if blue states (CA, IL,NY....) withhold their payments to the Feds. Who will bail out all those red southern states who can't feed their own constituents?
Excellent idea.
Governor, it’s time for the blue states to sign a joint security and economic defense pact and assume a united front against this monstrous pedophile.
Specifically, every dollar withheld from any blue state will be matched by a federal dollar NOT going to Washington.
Make these fascists pay.
Specifically, every dollar withheld from any blue state will be matched by a federal dollar NOT going to Washington.
Make these fascists pay.
January 14, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Excellent idea.
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Blue states should withhold their tax dollars from DC.
January 14, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Blue states should withhold their tax dollars from DC.
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Withhold federal taxes. Deduct what the state is owed and needs. Give them what’s left and say thanks for nothing. Seriously, it’s time to consider this.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Withhold federal taxes. Deduct what the state is owed and needs. Give them what’s left and say thanks for nothing. Seriously, it’s time to consider this.
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Start withholding funds from the federal government. I don’t know why this hasn’t been discussed with more seriousness.
They are withholding congressionally approved funds so fight fire with fire.
They are withholding congressionally approved funds so fight fire with fire.
January 14, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Start withholding funds from the federal government. I don’t know why this hasn’t been discussed with more seriousness.
They are withholding congressionally approved funds so fight fire with fire.
They are withholding congressionally approved funds so fight fire with fire.
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Soft secession! Now! Right Now. I don't want to hear anyone's plans except those who have a plan to stop this!
January 14, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Soft secession! Now! Right Now. I don't want to hear anyone's plans except those who have a plan to stop this!
For wider distro. Send to Blue State political leaders.
Shutdown the State to Federal Payments System. Timing would be important too. Day he invokes Insurrection Act or Martial Law or cheats enough to keep Congress. Keep the funds in state. Pay military in each state from state coffers. Same for health care etc. $$$ matter in divorce cases!
January 14, 2026 at 2:24 PM
For wider distro. Send to Blue State political leaders.
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his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
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December 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Claiming to be av”Republican or Former Republican” - who voted for Frump at least once - does not absolve you. We knew who he was in 2015. Even before. You were never - right,or upstanding. You were just MAGA lite.
December 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Claiming to be av”Republican or Former Republican” - who voted for Frump at least once - does not absolve you. We knew who he was in 2015. Even before. You were never - right,or upstanding. You were just MAGA lite.
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Trump’s Un-American National Security Strategy open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... The Trump NSS attempts to draw a close to an era of American multilateralism and openness to the world that made the United States the strongest, wealthiest, and most respected nation on earth.
Trump’s Un-American National Security Strategy
The Steady State | by Adam Wasserman
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
NSL4A-no comment? @nslforamerica.bsky.social
A Dangerous Strategy that Distances NATO and Puts Our Security at Risk open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... NATO is an Alliance of Democracies based on shared values and interests. Sadly, Trump has undermined many of those values, including the rule of law, free elections, and free speech."
A Dangerous Strategy that Distances NATO and Puts Our Security at Risk
The Steady State | by Gregory L. Schulte
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NSL4A-no comment? @nslforamerica.bsky.social
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This is precisely the population we need to concentrate on. Get them energized and to the polls!
Will someone please ask the 89 million Americans who didn't vote in the last election if they are being affected by anything this administration is doing to the other Americans?
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is precisely the population we need to concentrate on. Get them energized and to the polls!
Idiocracy as a social and political construct is being embedded in law.
Trump is telling Americans that decades of data from NASA, NOAA, and the U.S. scientific community are a “scam.” Discrediting independent expertise is a clear indicator of democratic decline. And so is threatening to investigate scientists whose conclusions you don’t like.
Trump on climate change: "The world was gonna burn up, but it actually got much cooler. It's a little conspiracy. We have to investigate them immediately. They probably are being investigated."
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Idiocracy as a social and political construct is being embedded in law.