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Shame he never asked Grok how Venezuelans would feel about his leaving the rest of the Maduro regime in place in exchange for their allowing him to plunder the country.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The mind that boggles at this phenomenon—the inevitable result of putting violent xenophobic assholes in power and letting them run amok—is probably reeling at all sorts of basic cause and effect situations.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love what I do. I expect that it goes without saying that I think it’s important. I honestly don’t know if I could do it in a death penalty jurisdiction, where it would be even more important.

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 01/10/2026

If only there were clues as to why. Truly "mind-boggling."

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And don’t think I don’t appreciate it.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nuts that all three of Bouchard’s goals (and four of his five points) were at even-strength. “And I also quarterback the league’s best powerplay unit.”

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Ryan Batty @ryanbatty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Scoring five and still losing. It’s opening night but the Oilers are already in mid season form.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okay, so if you ignore goaltending, I think it’s fair to say that the Oilers are markedly better than the worst team in the league. SOMETHING TO BUILD ON.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was literally just typing “Jarry’s actually looked good since the fifth goal” as he let in the winner. That’ll learn me.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ll bet Stuart Skinner’s save percentage in Winnipeg’s opener cracks .800.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As long as we can limit Vancouver to zero shots going forward, we’ve still got a chance.

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Sky Hulud @skyhulud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like knowing that I'm going to tune in every night to a flawed team with shit goaltending. It's familiar. Comfortable.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s time to see what an injured Freddie Andersen can do.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve now read the decision declaring section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs & Substances Act invalid, and I link to it here (thanks to @austincorbett.bsky.social for the reminder that *some* provinces’ courts still post their decisions on their websites). Some preliminary thoughts:

bccourts.ca

2026 BCSC 1855 R v Kalicum

Citation:

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t buy the underlying polling data (i.e. this isn’t a criticism of their modelling), but 1. The Greens being limited to one seat that isn’t Elizabeth May’s, and 2. The Conservatives shut-out in Edmonton, 3. Which becomes the anchor of NDP strength (with 2 of their 10 seats) are…something.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This may actually be the funniest thing this account has ever posted.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Your mom trying to remember the name of that podcast

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I expect that this is part of it, but I think another part is the “Crying Game” fear: heterosexual male bigots are terrified at the prospect of being attracted to a trans woman. They are not threatened in the same way by trans men.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not only have I never heard “Choosin’ Texas”, I’ve never heard of Texas.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

…and I think he knows a thing or two about dying!

Screenshot of a Global News article, dated September 27, 2026, headlined “Pope Francis says medically-assisted dying is ‘false compassion’”

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lionel Hutz putting in a semi-colon between “that” and “you’re”.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s nice to know that, as a nerdy and insufferable kid with good standardized test scores, I could really have turned out a whole lot worse

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026

It's really comin down out there (civilization)

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why are you checking your 38 year-old son’s laptop?

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At evening Churu time, Maisie waits politely at the corner of the throw rug where I always put hers down, while Pickle circles my legs like a shark, as Maisie gives him an expression that says "This fucking barbarian doesn't even know proper Churu etiquette."

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s not that Trump likes Communists so much as that he likes strongmen. He is perhaps the only “true communism has never been tried (laudatory)”.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anne Selzer is a cautionary tale on the perils of treating one pollster as authoritative for a particular jurisdiction, but, even so, the fact that it’s Janet Brown saying this makes me happy.

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WalkingTaako🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is usually more of a Saturn thing

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This isn't the first poll I've seen where Saskatchewan/Manitoba is the outlier that you'd expect Alberta to be. Is Danielle Smith driving my people leftward?

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seems like a good time to reshare this.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The racist thing. The most racist thing he can think of is “the kind of thing Trump likes to do.”

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What I thought was a piece poking fun at the grimness of Springsteen's lyrics turned out to be something much more clever...you have to read to the end.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why is the race for U.S. Senator from Minnesota—a light blue state recently terrorized by ICE, in which the Republicans are running a candidate whose key platform plank seems to be hatred of Minnesota—so close?

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The old “if you preface a transparent lie with ‘obviously’ it seems more believable” trick. (This is Akiva paraphrasing the government lawyer, to be clear, not him speaking in his own voice.)

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In a saner time, “Officials are circulating a list of government sites that could carry the president’s name” would *be* the headline, because that is objectively fucking bonkers.

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