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Steve Banfield

@stevebanfield.blog
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Kentuckian in Seattle. Photography, bourbon, politics, golf, dogs, UK Wildcats, and startups but not always in that order. Opinions personal, strongly held, and often fiercely debated.

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wilber’s attorney: “Wilber has a bullet lodged near his spine and is losing feeling on the left side of his body.” #AbolishICE @DoorDash
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 22/09/2026
Fuck ICE. @govandybeshear.bsky.social needs to step up and make sure this young woman is treated humanely and released.
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KSU women's basketball player detained by ICE at Louisville airport | Exclusive
Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
News wasn’t “fake” until the President was.
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 11/09/2026
Surf safely y'all cause Musk's minions want to steal your data.
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WARNING: Do not use, or even visit, Votesafe.org!
It’s an Elon Musk scam to steal a LOT of data about you.
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 06/09/2026
Everything he builds we will tear down. Everything. Nothing with his name will remain.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Federal corporate political spending has already reached nearly $650 MILLION ahead of the midterms, according to Public Citizen. That’s an all-time high — and we’re still months away from Election Day. Big Money is the real threat to “election integrity.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 01/09/2026
As a Kentuckian I have an aversion to all things Tennessee Orange, but this is beautiful. #dollyparton
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Volunteers to honor late Dolly Parton with helmet decal
Tennessee will honor the late Dolly Parton with a helmet sticker this season. The 80-year-old country singer and philanthropist was a native of Tennessee and had ties to the university.
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 27/08/2026
I was at an event in downtown Seattle yesterday evening attended by some folks visiting from Vancouver, BC. All I could say was "I'm sorry y'all are having to deal with this shit". They were gracious, as all Canadians are, but clearly concerned for how bad things might get.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
GROUNDWORK: “.. After adjusting for inflation, corporate profits have grown 52% since 2019. Wages have grown just 12%.” @groundwork.bsky.social
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NPR @npr.org · 26/08/2026
via @wpln.bsky.social Dolly Parton’s death Tuesday marked the loss of not only an American country music legend, but, also, a major philanthropist.
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Dolly Parton's legacy transcends music, from books to scholarships to vaccines
Dolly Parton’s death Tuesday marked the loss of not only an American country music legend, but, also, a major philanthropist.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could. From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America. Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 26/08/2026
Live your life as beautifully loud and unapologetically as Dolly did, leaving behind a legacy of love and joy that everyone speaks of with reverence. That was her gift to all of us.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hey @nytimes.com, serious question— wtf is wrong with y’all?
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 25/08/2026
So what's stopping the decent, hardworking people of the USPS from just delivering ballots and telling their bosses in DC to GTFO?
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Kentucky Democrats @kydemocrats.org · 05/08/2026
Data centers are noisy, harsh on the environment, and steal space that belongs to our communities. Fitting that the KY GOP is backing a project that is just as secretive and non-transparent as they are.
fox17.com
Trump administration announces $100 billion AI data center project in western Kentucky
The Trump administration has announced plans to transform part of a former uranium enrichment facility in western Kentucky into a massive AI data center.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 04/08/2026
Oh hell no.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/07/2026
Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term
Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If Andy Beshear does not push this to a conclusion that either has him appointing McConnell's replacement, or McConnell reappearing, Beshear will be out of Democratic politics. We need rabble-rousers, not the same quiet, proper Dems who keep losing.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The same folks who are *obsessed* with banning gender affirming care in civilian life are going to provide gender affirming care in the military. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 16/07/2026
JD Vance is unqualified to hold any office.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche, who is facing his Senate confirmation hearing, previously shut down DOJ crypto investigations while holding more than $150,000 in crypto investments. From our Dec. 2025 investigation:
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Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“‘That is RIDICULOUS,’ one person with knowledge of the planned golf trip said in a message. ‘Pence and Harris never pulled anything like that.’” www.ms.now/news/veeps-s...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026
If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.
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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
7/14/26 🎥 KING 5 Seattle youtu.be/IOd9w5IYHck?...
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ICE agents arrested a man, leaving his 14-year-old son in the vehicle on the freeway
YouTube video by KING 5 Seattle
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Claudia: lesbian space merc @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'll specifically add my thoughts to this, so there's no confusion. Lindsey Graham was a terrible person who used his political power for evil. We should absolutely call that out. But don't be homophobic about it. We can criticize his hypocrisy without the punchline being, "Ha ha he was gay."
Meme of Batman angrily snapping a shotgun in half, sending splinters and shells flying. He says, "THIS is the weapon of the ENEMY. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it."
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 13/07/2026
Iran and the Financial Times know TACO!
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Demented old man has the power to launch a nuclear war. He is a raging threat to humankind. Please Congress- you must impeach him
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The Verge @theverge.com · 08/07/2026
An upcoming bill would require companies seeking to operate fully autonomous vehicles in New Jersey to use cameras plus two other sensing technologies, most commonly lidar and radar. This would effectively ban Tesla’s camera-only Robotaxi system in NJ unless the company changed its hardware.
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The robotaxi law that could ban Tesla
Tesla’s Robotaxi cameras can’t navigate through New Jersey politics.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon swears in new civil rights division lawyers at the DOJ. Because nothing says “we care about civil rights” quite like only hiring white people.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Jimmy Carter had to gave up his peanut farm to avoid any conflicts of interest while president. The Obamas were forbidden to refinance their home while he was in office. Donald Trump has made over 21,000 stock trades while in office, often using his office to manipulate markets.
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 06/07/2026
I'm excited for today's USA vs Belgium match even though I'm not a football fan, but the whole thing just has a pall over it given Trump's dirty dealing and FIFA's corruption. I'd say "everything Trump touches turns to shit" but FIFA was already there.
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Adam Willems @adamwillems.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Reported on the mixed economic results of the World Cup for local Seattle businesses: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘They had hyped us up so much’: Seattle businesses near World Cup stadium report declining sales
The city’s tourism board estimated 750,000 visitors would visit over the course of the World Cup
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Spot the difference
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 29/06/2026
A few thoughts on why golf rangefinders slow down play and why most recreational olfers would play better and faster using just a simple GPS device with basic yardages. In golf as in business, more precise data is not always better data.
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the pin is not the target
Summer in Seattle is pretty great. I try to take advantage of the long days, assuming the weather and my knees cooperate, to get out on the golf course. I'm at best an average golfer with a world class passion for the game. On a recent round at my local public course, I saw a pretty familiar sight that made me just shake my head.
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 27/06/2026
I hope he runs.
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Riding Into 2028: On the Midterms Trail, Andy Beshear Eyes a Bigger Prize
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Just 10 days after the SpaceX IPO, the stock has plunged and the average investor has seen most of their initial gains disappear. And don't forget: rules protecting investors from volatile new stocks were gutted — at SpaceX's behest. The universe's largest Ponzi scheme?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“.. A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Reflections Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.
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US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers
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