Steve
@stevemic.bsky.social
Poli Sci teacher, nerd, classical liberal, host of Social Science Fiction.
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Trump's people just reenacting the Comfortably Numb scene from The Wall. Shooting him up with stimulants and sending him out to give a racist rant.
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Trump's people just reenacting the Comfortably Numb scene from The Wall. Shooting him up with stimulants and sending him out to give a racist rant.
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Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.
Here’s my response:
Here’s my response:
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.
Here’s my response:
Here’s my response:
Great piece and very heartening. Speaking as someone who desperately wants UBI to work and only worries about all the landlords raising rents in response. Maybe I'm not optimistic enough.
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Great piece and very heartening. Speaking as someone who desperately wants UBI to work and only worries about all the landlords raising rents in response. Maybe I'm not optimistic enough.
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Great recent article on the variables involved by @scottsantens.com
www.scottsantens.com/17-key-varia....
www.scottsantens.com/17-key-varia....
17 Key Variables That Determine UBI’s Inflationary Impact
Will universal basic income cause inflation? Will the prices of everything rise? I get asked that all the time. Here's the deal about UBI and inflation: it all depends.
Can UBI be inflationary? Sure,...
www.scottsantens.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Great recent article on the variables involved by @scottsantens.com
www.scottsantens.com/17-key-varia....
www.scottsantens.com/17-key-varia....
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Accountability, Justice, and Narrative
Why Trump Officials Can’t be Allowed to Get Away with it a Second Time
substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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Re-upping this piece once more because it was a long time in the making. But also because after he was wrongly accused by media outlets, law firms, and politicians, Silverman deserves to have as many people read about his vindication as possible.
Accusing Jordan Silverman
A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.
radleybalko.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Re-upping this piece once more because it was a long time in the making. But also because after he was wrongly accused by media outlets, law firms, and politicians, Silverman deserves to have as many people read about his vindication as possible.
Pete Hegseth has a Teenage Boy's Grasp of Warfare
Logistics Wins Wars
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Protest is good for you and good for the nation. Get out there
Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
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Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Protest is good for you and good for the nation. Get out there
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Senate is back in session today.
1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.
You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.
1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.
You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Senate is back in session today.
1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.
You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.
1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.
You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.
Remarkable, and fortunate, that these morons fail to understand the the strategy of fascists as they embrace the ideology. No attempt to actually capture society and infiltrate non-state institutions.
October 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Remarkable, and fortunate, that these morons fail to understand the the strategy of fascists as they embrace the ideology. No attempt to actually capture society and infiltrate non-state institutions.
Certain we already live in a fascist state and the gestapo are coming any day now but also has a lawyer on standby because surely the law will protect him when they come.
October 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Certain we already live in a fascist state and the gestapo are coming any day now but also has a lawyer on standby because surely the law will protect him when they come.
It's remarkable how disturbingly well it lines up.
Who Went Nazi?
The More Things Change…
substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It's remarkable how disturbingly well it lines up.
I'm deeply depressed that I thought this was plausible for the first couple sentences. I'm also deeply embarrassed that I knew what this was referencing by the second paragraph. I need to log off for a while.
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I'm deeply depressed that I thought this was plausible for the first couple sentences. I'm also deeply embarrassed that I knew what this was referencing by the second paragraph. I need to log off for a while.
- Oh no, a shark attack
-That's definitely a shark but it isn't attacking yet, so we should remain calm and get everyone out of the water
- So you think sharks don't exist, is that it?
-That's definitely a shark but it isn't attacking yet, so we should remain calm and get everyone out of the water
- So you think sharks don't exist, is that it?
September 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
- Oh no, a shark attack
-That's definitely a shark but it isn't attacking yet, so we should remain calm and get everyone out of the water
- So you think sharks don't exist, is that it?
-That's definitely a shark but it isn't attacking yet, so we should remain calm and get everyone out of the water
- So you think sharks don't exist, is that it?
"C'mon Trump. Bet you can't issue an executive order that I can't find a way to justify"
- Roberts
- Roberts
September 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"C'mon Trump. Bet you can't issue an executive order that I can't find a way to justify"
- Roberts
- Roberts
Absolutely. First time hearing your character's voice coming from somewhere else after the consciousness "transfer" is truly disturbing
September 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Absolutely. First time hearing your character's voice coming from somewhere else after the consciousness "transfer" is truly disturbing
It's not the one where he gets super smart. I think it's later in the series and involves Barclay seeing worn-creatures while he's in the teleporter
September 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It's not the one where he gets super smart. I think it's later in the series and involves Barclay seeing worn-creatures while he's in the teleporter
And isn't there a Barclay episode where he's afraid of the teleporter and he's depicted as fully conscious during the process? That would suggest the latter interpretation.
September 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
And isn't there a Barclay episode where he's afraid of the teleporter and he's depicted as fully conscious during the process? That would suggest the latter interpretation.