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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 3h

S&H is multiplicative.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 3h

I’m almost certain these would be illegal in Minnesota.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 3h

In actuality, this would a strategically good opportunity for Iran to lob some missiles at a tanker or two and chalk up to fog-of-war rather than an escalation. It would weaken Trump further.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe he’ll escalate and occupy Kharg, bragging about having BOTH Venezuelan and Iranian oil. Seriously, he’s already done his “to the victor go the spoils” speech today. Twice. He thinks he’s really clever to have leaned that phrase.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 3h

How would this accomplish anything with respect to gas prices outside the range of “nothing” to “raise them”?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 5h

Mike Johnson ceases to be the Speaker when the current Congress ends.

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 10h

great news, fam—they finally found a way to make hard seltzer without the alcohol

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 8h

Elon realizes Grok sux

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 8h

Some dude is now screaming that this future of philanthropy. No more do we need to donate to a women’s shelter or a food pantry! Just wire the money to the US Treasury for Trump Accounts!

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 8h

Buying a stock isn’t building. It’s not being an entrepreneur. Furthermore, these accounts are index funds. You can’t even think about wise investment. It’s just a blind handover of capital to Wall Street.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 8h

There’s also a strong element of propaganda here. Susan Dell, Cruz, Bessent and everyone keep trying to describe Trump Accounts as “entrepreneurship”. They talk about how this helps kids learn to build something. How!!?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 8h

I honestly think that the real reason they’re pushing this is helping prepare for a push to privatize social security. They want you to love the stock market. We’re going to see another Bush effort to allow workers to allocate X% of their SS payments to a stock account.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 8h

Cruz and everyone else in the room keep saying “if you keep investing!” but where is that money coming from? They’re saying if you have lots and lots of money to invest, you can get really rich. The key to having money is evidently to have money.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 8h

That’s a nice gap year experience, I guess.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 8h

He’s now ranting that these accounts have been really successful and all these kids are wealthy. Anyway, the $1000 seed capital grows to maybe $8K by the time the kid turns 18.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 8h

It seems like anyone who would really benefit from a tax-deferred child account would be fairly wealthy already. If you’re low income, you don’t really have the $5K/year to set aside to make it really pay off to the degree promised.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 8h

So, Trump has announced that all children are automatically enrolled in Trump Accounts, and that going forward all children will be quite rich when they turn 18.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 9h

Antivax will never go away. It’s just too “fun” for the participants. There’s an endless number of directions to go with the antivax fanfic so they can keep it fresh for themselves.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 9h

I think you’re reading too much into subtext that isn’t there, but I’ll read the book with an open mind and compare against what you wrote. I’m going into this skeptical, but I can still read objectively.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, and forcing/manipulating a woman into terminating a pregnancy against her choice is also classified as reproductive coersion. I can’t find anything that even implies getting pregnant to “trap” a father is included. Even the incels don’t seem to believe that’s a thing.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 9h

There’s actually a decent amount of studies on reproductive coercion, it definitely happens, and it’s almost 100% a man interfering with contraception so that a woman becomes pregnant. So, um, not a phrase this dude seems to understand.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 9h

Fingers crossed he forgets to care because by then he’s working as a security guard at a Florida strip mall.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 9h

Are we not blaming “woke” any more? That seems the best choice of amorphous bogeymen here.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 9h

Wow, next thing you know he’ll get concerned about the national debt.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 9h

Will the book make any sense to me if I’ve never played the game?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Congress may still have room to respond with a new law, but it can’t just say the court got the Constitution wrong." The hell it can't. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/m...

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Congress Is Supposed to Be More Powerful Than the Supreme Court. Why Isn’t It?

Trump and his allies in the Capitol have revealed a problem that has been developing for decades.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maritime means water. Boats. A lot of people don’t know that word. Mare-ee-time. I stopped 98% of the fentuhnol coming across water. BOOM. I call it the big boom. They don’t even fish. Fishing is dead. This country was dead, now the King of North Korea says we’re the hottest country in the world.

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President Trump Delivers Remarks on Maritime Policy

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Power tools! I’d buy a DeWalt cordless impact driver and for the next week or two Amazon would be recommending I buy another DeWalt cordless impact driver. My father noticed the same pattern. After many years, they finally tweaked the algorithm to detect likely one-time purchases.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had a run where all the main banner ads on everything from Washington Post to TheRegister were for $75K+ sewerproof robots that could attach fiberoptic cabling to the pipe walls. It lasted for weeks.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Each faction thinks they have the message the voters want to hear, and in some ways that makes it all worse. The fascists aren’t just trying to attract fellow fascists, they’re trying to convert otherwise normal conservative voters.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is what happened in the UK. When the Conservatives lost power, they schismed. Half of them tried to be normal small-c conservative and the other half went full-Nazi. It’s not even really about ideology, it’s about power.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I stand like that. I had an L4/L5 fusion two weeks ago and have to wear this soft brace thing for another 4 weeks.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He said at the start there’s a line about 3 or 4 miles long outside and they had to erect a Jumbotron for the overflow. Suppose that’s what Natalie told him?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve lived places where they break open a pound of butter in the grocery store and sell the individual sticks, and they’d be around $1 right now.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

and this is a character in a book about a game, correct?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That he hears “what would Hitler do?” every time he visits Farage in the UK says a lot about the Reform UK party, as well as his choices about who to visit.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m genuinely expecting something like that eventually, especially when more and more GOP people with political aspirations of their own turn on him.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Or someone shows him the actual polls and he fully decompensates. He could just start dropping n-words and f-bombs, demands ALL the various National Guards seize all the ballots, and goes out in a full 25th Amendment blaze of glory.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I saw more pro-Paxton than anti-Klobuchar ads during the Vikings game.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I keep tuning in, in case It Happens live on stage, but instead it’s 98% THE EXACT SAME SPEECH. I’m not sure he even knows what state he’s in for these things. He clearly doesn’t care.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He might be having vision issues too, because the crowds are also dwindling.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We lived in the UK for four years, kids were born there, and we have British extended family. I never once saw anyone bake a cookie. Not once. I don’t recall even seeing chocolate chips. If they existed, it was probably some little 100g pouch.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

BREAKING: Italy experiencing tourism. Will Paris be next?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It would also flood the courts with several million lawsuits from anyone with a grudge. Still, it's a flaw in the Constitution if it's legal for a President to essentially declare himself a king so long as Congress itself doesn't object.

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This check is going to self-employed people earning over $60k and families earning over $130k and I have to assume by the demographics that a supermajority of these people are solidly Blue folk.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The impeachments will continue until morale improves"

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is why I support "impeach early, impeach often". The Supreme Court's fanatical obsession with standing has left us with no other clear choice. They've basically said it's the only mechanism to challenge a lawless Executive, so let's start doing really spicy hearings and impeach everybody.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even then, the only legal remedy might be to impeach and remove. There obviously is not a whole lot of case law on renegade Presidents with a Congress turning a blind eye in favor of, I dunno, trading stocks and doing media appearances. I think that’s what the GOP Congress does these days.

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