Steve
@sagustany.bsky.social
I work in IT, write code and fix things. I love travel, food and wine, music, reading, chess and more. I love New York always. I’m pro-democracy and anti-fascist.
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Steve
@sagustany.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hello BlueSky, I’m new here. I work in IT, write code and fix things. Things I like: tech, food and wine, travel, music, art, New York (but just about all cities, really), astronomy, chess and other games, books…did I miss anything? Probably. I miss Twitter when it was good, but just can’t now.
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I'm sorry to say it, but I find discussions of international law increasingly difficult to talk about in the current context.
I feel a bit like Gandhi, when asked about Western Civilization...
"I think it would be a good idea"
I feel a bit like Gandhi, when asked about Western Civilization...
"I think it would be a good idea"
June 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I'm sorry to say it, but I find discussions of international law increasingly difficult to talk about in the current context.
I feel a bit like Gandhi, when asked about Western Civilization...
"I think it would be a good idea"
I feel a bit like Gandhi, when asked about Western Civilization...
"I think it would be a good idea"
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Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?
The Subway Is Not Scary
Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?
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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
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not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
You see, the rules are: if you have information that would be damaging to a Democrat, release it immediately, don’t bother with things like, you know, verifying if it’s true. If it might be damaging to Trump, well, we have to review it until everyone forgets about it and moves on.
He doesn’t want to rush anything. It has to be properly formatted.
June 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
You see, the rules are: if you have information that would be damaging to a Democrat, release it immediately, don’t bother with things like, you know, verifying if it’s true. If it might be damaging to Trump, well, we have to review it until everyone forgets about it and moves on.
If the objective really is to use tariffs as a means to “rebalance” trade deficits with other countries, first of all, good luck with that. We’re a consumer economy. You think tariffs are going to change the fact that we buy more from China than we sell to them?
DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?
LUTNICK: Generally 10%
DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%
LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff
DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
LUTNICK: Generally 10%
DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%
LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff
DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
June 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If the objective really is to use tariffs as a means to “rebalance” trade deficits with other countries, first of all, good luck with that. We’re a consumer economy. You think tariffs are going to change the fact that we buy more from China than we sell to them?
This is funny, because the Republican Party has been running up huge deficits while in power for as long as I have been alive and have no problem lying to voters that the Democrats did it.
Rand Paul: "Once this bill votes, and this debt ceiling goes through, the debt is owned by the GOP, and there is no more campaigning and saying 'This is the Democrats.' It will be owned by the Republicans and I think that's a huge mistake."
June 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is funny, because the Republican Party has been running up huge deficits while in power for as long as I have been alive and have no problem lying to voters that the Democrats did it.
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I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.
May 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.
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I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.
May 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.
What every head of state is saying around the world right now.
If I’m a foreign government right now—the one lesson that I’ve learned at this point is that there is no durable agreement to be made with this administration.
Any assurance, policy, or deal will be arbitrarily annulled by a random 3 am post. No point in expending energy negotiating with this.
Any assurance, policy, or deal will be arbitrarily annulled by a random 3 am post. No point in expending energy negotiating with this.
May 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
What every head of state is saying around the world right now.
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Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
May 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
Or as I like to call it, the “you’re making me vote for Trump” argument. They have no choice! If they see a gender neutral bathroom, they have to vote for a fascist dictator. They don’t want to do it, but they must.
one of the strangest phenomenons in political commentary over the last decade is people treating trump purely as an epiphenomenon of liberal discourse norms they don't like foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/p...
How Progressives Are Unwittingly Aiding the Rise of Autocracy
Dictators get an unlikely boost from the left’s identity politics.
foreignpolicy.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Or as I like to call it, the “you’re making me vote for Trump” argument. They have no choice! If they see a gender neutral bathroom, they have to vote for a fascist dictator. They don’t want to do it, but they must.
They keep saying “but the President was elected on the promise to do these things, we can’t just let some judge stop him”! First of all, they have no problem running to the courts for an injunction any time a Democratic president or legislature does anything, so that doesn’t hold up.
May 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
They keep saying “but the President was elected on the promise to do these things, we can’t just let some judge stop him”! First of all, they have no problem running to the courts for an injunction any time a Democratic president or legislature does anything, so that doesn’t hold up.
She doesn’t even need to respond to Trump’s stupid rant, she’s already written this:
May 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
She doesn’t even need to respond to Trump’s stupid rant, she’s already written this:
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The appropriate answer to this is "Who gives a single fucking shit? He was better as a dead guy than the people installing the Plane Crashing Machines and disappearing people off the street so they can cash in on military contracts while firing veterans." It's possible to not take the bait, I swear!
For the most part, leading Democrats are ducking what is fast becoming the first real litmus test of the 2028 campaign: former President Biden's mental acuity.
Dems confront the first real litmus test of 2028: Biden's mental acuity
Some Democrats argue their leaders aren’t owning up to the truth about Biden — and risk keeping the issue alive indefinitely.
www.politico.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The appropriate answer to this is "Who gives a single fucking shit? He was better as a dead guy than the people installing the Plane Crashing Machines and disappearing people off the street so they can cash in on military contracts while firing veterans." It's possible to not take the bait, I swear!
The horrifying reality is that the fascist movement in this country has figured out how to work the political press like puppets on strings, but they don’t care, as long as it results in clicks and ratings.
political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
May 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The horrifying reality is that the fascist movement in this country has figured out how to work the political press like puppets on strings, but they don’t care, as long as it results in clicks and ratings.
The problem with building a massive natsec apparatus in the wake of Sep 11th was always going to be this: what happens when it falls into the hands of very bad people who use it to redefine a terrorist as “anyone we don’t like”?
Breaking:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says she supports the Trump admin suspending habeas corpus.
Habeas corpus refers to people's right to challenge their detention in court.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says she supports the Trump admin suspending habeas corpus.
Habeas corpus refers to people's right to challenge their detention in court.
May 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The problem with building a massive natsec apparatus in the wake of Sep 11th was always going to be this: what happens when it falls into the hands of very bad people who use it to redefine a terrorist as “anyone we don’t like”?
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Step one of everyone’s plan to make the Democratic Party win elections is always “First, my personal ideological faction will gain greater control of the Democratic Party,” which is the exact point I stop taking you seriously
May 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Step one of everyone’s plan to make the Democratic Party win elections is always “First, my personal ideological faction will gain greater control of the Democratic Party,” which is the exact point I stop taking you seriously
Louder please for the people I meet on a daily basis.
The idea that Dems just need to say the magic words in the right order to win is an attempt to put a bandaid on a broken civic system where many voters do not even know how the government or the things they rely on to live work
May 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Louder please for the people I meet on a daily basis.
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Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.
May 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.
I’ve been listening to Kai for a long time, and he doesn’t normally sound the alarm like this. It’s bad.
I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
May 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’ve been listening to Kai for a long time, and he doesn’t normally sound the alarm like this. It’s bad.
It’s really too bad that the rest of us have to live under fascism now because Stephen Miller didn’t like hearing Spanish spoken when he was growing up in Santa Monica, California.
this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions
Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.
May 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It’s really too bad that the rest of us have to live under fascism now because Stephen Miller didn’t like hearing Spanish spoken when he was growing up in Santa Monica, California.
Not only how unhinged they are, but how absolutely, hopelessly far they have strayed from the core beliefs of a religion they claim to make almost their entire identity.
American conservatives calling the pope woke and Marxist is a great indicator for people who don’t realize just how unhinged American conservatives have gotten
May 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Not only how unhinged they are, but how absolutely, hopelessly far they have strayed from the core beliefs of a religion they claim to make almost their entire identity.
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Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
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May 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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