Sign in

Wingate Steitz

@wingatehse.bsky.social
871 followers 402 following 2.1K posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/12/2025
Even if Trump's threat of an illegal war - or a military campaign itself - were to depose Maduro, would you trust this administration to build something stable out of a post-Maduro Venezuela?
lnk.thebulwark.com
Trump Is an Idiot Spoiling for War. Also, Maduro Is a Bastard.
The enemy of your enemy isn’t always your friend.
2422941
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Ailing wannabe dictator yelling at his people and insisting that they're getting richer and safer when all the evidence demonstrates the opposite. This is Gaddafi-levels of lunacy.
774139382869
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Lollita @lollitasampson.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Hero, this is the guy all those Americans with their guns claim they'll be during a mass shooting, but never are. This man actually disarmed the mass shooting terrorist loser while being himself unarmed
191066157
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Esta @theonlyesta.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Love it‼️🤣💩
1319
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
😂
No Nativity Scene in Washington, DC
this year
The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene on Capitol Hill this Christmas season.
This isn't for any religious reason.
They simply have not been able to find Three Wise Men in the Nation's Capital.
A search for a Virgin also continues.
There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.
27425
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Friday Friends #10 @marksegal.bsky.social @atoth99.bsky.social @trixie57.bsky.social @lawrencejohnsauter.bsky.social @leadcoalition.bsky.social @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social @witwarrior.bsky.social @colette73.bsky.social @catsareheavenly.bsky.social @andylancelot.bsky.social
710142
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/12/2025
watch a clip from Warnock's Meet the Press interview below and then consider that what he said prompted Trump to have this batshit crazy meltdown:
Raphael Warnock was on Meet the Fake Press with a one sided and very biased Kristen Welker as the Host(ess!). Warnock spent the entire show using Religion to try and divide the Country! If a Republican, in particular ME, made those statements, it would be FRONT PAGE NEWS. He ended by saying that he was going to his Church to preach now, and while I think that’s fine, I do say, “What ever happened to separation of Church and State?” That would be the first thing they would use against us but, actually, it’s something that never much bothered me. Anyway, Warnock is a LIGHTWEIGHT whose wife correctly states that he tried to run her over with a car. Fortunately, she was able to get out of the way, and only almost lost her foot. Warnock is a bad guy, and NBC News, which is second only to ABC Fake News for being the worst, should be ashamed of themselves in allowing garbage “interviews” with untalented and uncaring people to take place. The Public airwaves, which these Networks are using at no charge, should not be allowed to get away with this any longer! They should be properly licensed, and pay significant amounts of money for using this very valuable Public space. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAGA!
1171725528
Wingate Steitz @wingatehse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Border Patrol boss clashes with suburban mayor amid renewed Chicago area immigration blitz chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com
Border Patrol boss clashes with suburban mayor amid renewed Chicago area immigration blitz
The tense standoff between Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss came after federal agents detained a man at a gas station in the northern suburb, one of at least 10 arrest...
000
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Reposting this after panicky Trump screaming at Americans about how great the economy is.
21801181
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“In effect, Trump took to the airwaves, pointed his finger, and said: Quiet, piggy.” Thanks, @radiofreetom.bsky.social
15561124
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
December 17, 2025
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 17, 2025
This morning, four vulnerable Republicans signed onto the discharge petition all House Democrats have signed to force Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring a bill to extend the premium tax credits for ...
521041312
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
NPR @npr.org · 18/12/2025
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. He was 91. n.pr/3KYPXvx
n.pr
Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett has died
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. He was 91.
30962238
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/12/2025
602257809
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?
I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
537262065754
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/12/2025
Henry James’s Venice was a “city of intense beauty and deep secrets” that he transformed into novels, letters, stories, and essays during his visits in the late 19th century. Anne Applebaum set out to experience that version of the sinking city:
bit.ly
Henry James’s Venice Is Still Here
Henry James’s Venice was a “city of intense beauty and deep secrets” that he transformed into novels, letters, stories, and essays during his visits in the late 19th century. @anneapplebaum set out to experience that version of the sinking city:
15111
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/12/2025
Full episode: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Y3WvMv?utm_...
1216
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/12/2025
Tim Miller: "A+++, Rome isn't built in a day, not gonna get fixed in a week, not gonna get fixed in 11 months apparently." Catherine Rampell: "Well, it's especially not gonna get fixed if they keep on doing things to break it further."
1032949
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
6136041468
Wingate Steitz @wingatehse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
December 17, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025
This morning, four vulnerable Republicans signed onto the discharge petition all House Democrats have signed to force Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring a bill to extend the premium tax credits for ...
000
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
He is literally ranting and raving, and I am really really glad this is being carried by the networks
1733160433
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This would be an excellent time for politicians to stop demonizing universities.
181434186
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Manic
5484974
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/12/2025
Trump unleashes a blistering campaign speech against his general election opponent, President Joe Biden.
381004101
Wingate Steitz @wingatehse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The Intellectuals Fueling the MAGA Movement www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
nytimes.com
The Intellectuals Fueling the MAGA Movement
000
Wingate Steitz @wingatehse.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Susie Wiles open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
open.substack.com
Susie Wiles
Trump's Chief of Staff seems to have an addition problem
000
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/12/2025
Do not forget that the endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval.
lnk.thebulwark.com
Trump’s Wager and the Authoritarian Shift
Is Trump getting weaker, or is the authoritarian danger increasing? Yes.
1133990
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
👇🏽
14174373986
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
AI is coming for the Great Lakes. The "world's most-powerful AI data center" in Wisconsin will gobble up 8.4 billion gallons. Even the average data center uses 300,000 gallons a day. Oh, and they're getting fat tax exemptions. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling – just as US data centers move in
Region struggling with drought now threatened by energy-hungry facilities – but some residents are fighting back
12925
Wingate Steitz @wingatehse.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief
000
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/12/2025
A new book traces the history of Black nationalism in the U.S. through the remarkable, contradictory life of an overlooked activist, Dara T. Mathis writes. On Ashley D. Farmer’s biography of Audley Moore:
bit.ly
The Midwife of Black Nationalism
A new biography of Audley Moore shows how pivotal the overlooked activist’s work was to 20th-century Black-liberation efforts.
02312
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Under Trump: - The economy has slowed, heading towards recession now - Inflation is rising, most things cost more - His cutting of energy subsidies is driving up utility prices - He's taken 100s of billions from health care/food assistance in a war on working people - He's making measles great again
9559224
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…” Lawless.
821100235673
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
LOLOLOLOL hahahahahahaha
1810161243719
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16/12/2025
Note: The person in this clip isn't reading Isaiah. He's reading Psalms — and Psalm 21 is shown onscreen. It includes this line, referring to God's enemies: "You will make them like a fiery furnace when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them."
42813
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Mo Collins @mocollins.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I love you, Minneapolis! 💙
092
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
{ } @genxsoothsayer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Sociopaths are incapable of empathy, compassion, sympathy or care for anyone lest themselves Maybe you missed it in his first admin, but YOU BETTER GET IT NOW. How we allowed for a sociopath to be elected tot the highest office when he shouldn’t be allowed to run a lemonade stand is beyond me.
297
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This post from @stevevladeck.bsky.social about the shadow docket is excellent. It's from a few months ago, but I continue to think about it. Highlighted a money quote below. www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...
[M]aybe one can defend the Court granting emergency relief more often than ever before and in cases with far greater real-world (and structural) impacts. And maybe one can defend the Court altering (if not completely scrapping) the traditional balance of the equities in these cases. But does that defense extend to the Court doing so especially in cases in which President Trump is a party—and no others? And does it extend to the Court doing all of this without usually providing written explanations of what it is doing—or why? And even if the answer is somehow “yes,” does it also extend to the Court doing all of this, not usually explaining what it’s doing or why, and nevertheless accusing lower courts who fail to read the justices’ minds of “defying” the Court?
311029
Wingate Steitz @wingatehse.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex
000
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/12/2025
Steven Miller plucks an ideology from the 1920s and brings it to life
1843950
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/12/2025
"No similarity between the clear-thinking, self-governing stocks that sired the American people and this stream of irresponsible and broken wreckage that is pouring into the lifeblood of America the social and political diseases of the Old World." Sound familiar? newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
21709210
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/12/2025
"The fact that we don't even debate gun control. We don't even debate AI... These are kind of important things for the future of the country." Bill Kristol and Tim Miller discuss the absence of serious debate about phenomena shaping American life. lnk.thebulwark.com/49cSE61?utm_...
1026355
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/12/2025
"Private-equity might not be causing the housing crisis, but corporate owners could end up making it a lot worse—for everyone," @annielowrey.bsky.social argues:
bit.ly
Private Equity Is America’s New Landlord
Is there someone to blame for the housing crisis?
36224
Wingate Steitz @wingatehse.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
December 15, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025
“For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was to a certain extent about character.
000
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
reginaldedward3 @reginaldedward3.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
These memes that show Musk speaking eloquently and profoundly is a hoot! Have they ever heard in person. He is one of the absolute worst public speakers I've ever seen in my 64 years on this earth.
1135
Wingate Steitz @wingatehse.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Tennessee Says Yes to Christian Nationalism open.substack.com/pub/warrenth...
open.substack.com
Tennessee Says Yes to Christian Nationalism
State partners with Turning Point USA to form clubs in every Tennessee school
000
Wingate Steitz @wingatehse.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com
MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media
This isn’t just about business; it’s about democracy
000
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
🌺🌈🦋laura hunter🌈🙏🌺 @laurahunter-88.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
301084506
Wingate Steitz @wingatehse.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Remembering Rob Reiner open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
open.substack.com
Remembering Rob Reiner
And the time our paths almost crossed.
000
Reposted by Wingate Steitz
Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15/12/2025
“It’s like a candle has gone out, and we’re trying to relight it.” Bethlehem is counting down to Christmas under the shadow of war and a growing outflow of residents.
bloom.bg
Bethlehem Counts Down to Christmas Under the Shadow of War and Exodus
As a fragile ceasefire holds in Gaza, low-key festivities in the West Bank are up against deep economic strain and a rising wave of emigration.
22110