NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Actually, I now do recall reading this piece when you wrote it, but I think I may have forgotten it do to having a mild rage-stroke when I got to this part. 000
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm so old, I remember when UNC would not have been hiring tendentious right wing anti-tax propagandists for billionaires to put in charge of tax policy studies. 030
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The standard press narrative frame for opinion and sentiment polling stories forbids analysis of whether people were blaming the president for things that aren't his fault. Now that public sentiment is accurate and just rather than pumped up by media stupidity and propaganda, they seem confounded. 000
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Apologies for going off on a side issue, but I'm having trouble squaring the statements, the nature and scope of the grand jury material leaked, and the single source shanking of Evans with AP's guidelines on using and identifying anonymous sources. 000
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It's the part where he's been waging jihad on windmills for a decade out of sheer oligarch nimbyism that would make it funny if not for the fact that he literally couldn't understand if you explained it to him because NPD and NIMBY go hand-in-glove. 000
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 21/08/2026At first I thought it proved the lack of self-awareness, but then I realized I had gotten the ephemeral chatbot agent smirking and shaking its virtual head at its own LLM and the interaction became as unnerving as they all are. 010
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The "specific individuals behind the project have declined interviews and have not publicly revealed their personal identities" part is how you know this was likely an oligarchist op and all the other disclaimers will turn out to be half-truths or full lies. 1302
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I don't know precisely what important 18th Century principle of jurisprudence will require SCOTUS to step into a state court matter and vacate the trial court with orders to dismiss, but then neither do they yet. I sure hope it doesn't entail overruling Lochner, though. 000
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*gaaaaasp*hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! 010
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 19/07/2026All the more baffling because besides making tartar sauce, Heinz also already makes fish and chips sauce. 101433
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This is, of course, a lie. But a lie they are too stupid to realize is incriminatory, not exculpatory. It's an admission that, at at a minimum, the ICE thug committed manslaughter. 121
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Graham inflicted grave narcissistic injury on Trump during the campaign before whatever happened at that round of golf that reduced Graham to a quivering simp. If Trump is passing by the opportunity to stick one last barb into him after a sudden and unexpected death...well, it's kinda sus. 100
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Today, as a matter of fact. IMO, it's not a letter a politician with a law degree would send if he didn't already know the answer and have the goods. 100
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 02/07/20263/ I admit I've gotten pretty detached from pop culture these last two years but, well, let us see, just to show one random example, what free videos are being pushed today at "History.com," the History Channel site, dontchasee: 100
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Justice Jackson is the most important constitutional theorist on SCOTUS in a century. One lonely dissent or concurrence at a time she shows how Originalism broke democracy by chaining the uncomfortably revolutionary visions of the First and Second Founding to an infinitely plastic imaginary past. 041
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I've been a TPM reg and subscriber for twenty years now. Sometimes people in the comments there ask me why I comment so rarely. It's because I so rarely have anything to add to what Josh Marshal saying here in the crisis. ‘Centrists,’ This is On You talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/centr... 010
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Sorry for the tangent, but I just read words I never expected to read together in the background section of a federal district court order and my brain is stuck in a Lewis Black "if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" loop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 000
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I feel like there are some stories about what these four were talking about together that inexplicably and without clear source descriptions will be leaking soon. Failing that, leaks about the paranoid ravings and ketchup splats the mere fact they were together without him will have to suffice. 050
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Leave it to Kevin McCarthy to unselfconsciously deliver an epitaph for an enemy's political career without realizing it is also that of his own. 010
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The first paragraph is obvious Christian Identity Klan shit escalation. But that second paragraph?: Yeah, if you know anyone who spent significant time in the military, ask them what it means if someone has been passed over "several times" and yet is still serving.🚩🚨☣️ www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... 020
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 01/06/2026BREAKING NEWS: Up With People will not perform at the Freedom 250 concert. In a prepared statement, a spokesman cited a growing sense among members that the event had gotten "creepy and weird." 161
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I swear every failure of the whole damn left from Third Way to Tankie is due to people led into logical doomloops of futility because they treat the ineluctable math of social, political, and economic systems as opinion or superstition that will wither away before their strength of conviction. 000
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 15/02/2026What do they have on this guy, FFS? I never saw someone so eager to pour gasoline on the ashes of their reputation, set them on fire, take a shit on the ashes of the ashes, pour on more gasoline, and so on and so on ad infinitum. 020
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 16/01/2026When Forbes won't give Republicans the benefit of a presumption of truthfulness, you know they're screwed. 041
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 13/01/2026You know, if the Fourth and Fifth Amendments have been repealed by our oligarch overlords, I can definitely think of some motherfuckers who might benefit from the thrilling challenge of starting life over from scratch with a can of dog food and a cardboard box in an alley someday soon. 021
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Christ. Yeah, assholes, amazing how this keeps happening faster than people can accidentally fall out of windows in Moscow. 030
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 31/12/2025The Latest Defenses of SCOTUS’s Corruption Only Make the Case Against It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-l... 041
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I would love to believe that this headline is intentionally witty. But, alas, I really can't make myself believe they actually knew what that word means. 110
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Hell. I'm not going to be able to avoid watching this thing, am I? 020
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Because if you don't check it, you might buy one of the soup bowls they sell that have lead in them? Welcome to the techbro Randian utopia. 030
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 05/12/2025"Engulf & Devour," The evil conglomerate in Mel Brooks "Silent Movie," had a logo a lot like that. 1170
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 21/11/2025CNN's bothsidesing of POTUS demanding the execution of political opponents is pretty much all you need to know about CNN and its collaboration with tyranny by creating epistemic crisis. No link but on youtube. And here's the headline they wrote for it: "Claims." He put it in fucking writing, FFS. 020
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 20/11/2025One wonders whether the query was "write a story about Trump demanding the arrest of Democrats for sedition" and the LLM's training made it assume Bothsidesing was mandatory or else the query was "Bothsides Trump demanding the arrest of Democrats for sedition." www.newsweek.com/donald-trump... 120
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 18/11/2025What *ought* to be shocking is how comparatively unconcerned the people whose concern trolling about Biden's cognitive decline drove him off the ticket remain about Trump's. But, alas, to be shocked now, I would have to have thought it wasn't pure, and transparently, bad faith Swift Boating then. 000
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 14/11/2025The journalism convention that requires stories about the latest annual increases in retirement account contribution limits, the standard deduction or Social Security COLA's to take a breathless tone suggesting it's a bit surprising it's happening at all is so weird. 020
NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 08/11/2025We're so overwhelmed by the depth, breadth, multi-dimensionality, and sheer Castle-Bravo runaway magnitude of the shitshow we had to break it into two to meme it. 020
![With all these options remaining, why does the fate of thousands of criminal prosecutions in this District potentially rest on the legitimacy of an unprecedented and byzantine leadership structure? The Government tells us: the President doesn’t like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants. Notwithstanding the chaos that pervades criminal prosecutions in this District, and without regard to the possibility that scores of dangerous criminals could have their cases dismissed or convictions eventually reversed, “the [E]xecutive branch, at least right now, is not prepared to . . . use [the legal] options.” U.S. v. Naviwala, Memorandum Opinion, Case 2:24-CR-00099-MWB, (D.N.J. March 9, 2025). Holy crap, my Bluebook skills are atrophying.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ofuru56bahsh7scg3fa4wx5u/bafkreihrcurg7nawowqo5h56sjakuokfqkf7hqew4w46hzxegbqqitipye)
