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NCSteve@ncsteve· 24d

All the more baffling because besides making tartar sauce, Heinz also already makes fish and chips sauce.

What kind of couthless degenerate doesn't eat fish and chips with malt vinegar, anyway?

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jul 14

This 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.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jul 12

Graham 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.

“'Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!!' Trump said."

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jul 9

Well. *fusty hrmph* All right then.

I am actually lowkey geeking out that she liked my reply.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jul 8

Today, 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.

July 8, 2026 letter from Beshear to McConnell

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jul 2

3/ 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:

A Page from history.com demonstrating total absence of history programming about the American Revolution, or, well any history really, on 7/2/2026.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jun 30

Justice 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.

"Even worse, JUSTICE THOMAS’s telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

Trump v. Barbara, 662 U.S. ___ (2026) (Jackson, Concurring)

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jun 30

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jun 26

I'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...

Josh Marshal:

"Put more crisply, if you’re so worried about left-wing candidates getting nominations, stop sounding like a wuss in the midst of a grave national crisis.

This isn’t just good intra-party politics, it’s essential on the substance. It’s critical to win the 2026 midterms. But it’s critical you win majorities with leadership and back benches who understand political power and are ready to wield it to maximum extent possible under the law and Constitution. Not norms and traditions. Everything that isn’t illegal. Full stop.:

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jun 22

Sorry 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...

First two sentences of attached order. The movants brief and the court's order were based on news reports and DoJ didn't object.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jun 21

I 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.

Obama selfie with Biden, Clinton and Bush.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jun 10

Leave it to Kevin McCarthy to unselfconsciously deliver an epitaph for an enemy's political career without realizing it is also that of his own.

Kevin McCarthy: "I helped her win. But I just watched her change along the way. Some people warned when she was an early candidate, ‘Watch out, she’s not all there.’ I didn’t.”

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jun 4

My god.

Peter Baker at the New York Times wrote in April that Trump’s “erratic behavior and extreme comments in recent days and weeks have turbocharged the crazy-like-a-fox-or-just-plain-crazy debate that has followed him on the national political stage for a decade.” But what’s “crazy” is that the Times would even frame this as a debate.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jun 2

The 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...

WSJ: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotion of eight Navy captains to be one-star admirals, including two female and two Black officers, according to current and former U.S. officials.

At the same time, Hegseth is trying to promote at least one member of his inner circle who was previously passed over for promotion several times, some of the people said."

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jun 1

BREAKING 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."

I don't know what to tell you. a black and very white photo of ... Mansonites? Corn Children? Members of a cult-whiffing outfit that inexplicably did a just a bunch of Superbowl halftime shows back before watched them. Who knows? But by god, wherever I got this photo, it's fair use.

NCSteve@ncsteve· May 29

NCSteve@ncsteve· May 12

I 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.

A currently circulating meme saying "we need a constitutional Amendment that gives the people the power to remove a sitting president if Congress refuses to do the job. This is getting ridiculous." which latter sentence does not appear to refer to the meme's self-destroying logic loop.

NCSteve@ncsteve· May 10

NCSteve@ncsteve· Apr 4

It's also "1984." This specific printing, an artifact from of my mom's beatnik period I found on the shelves when I was 12.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Mar 10

NCSteve@ncsteve· Mar 10

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Mar 1

“On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns—after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces—at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.”

NCSteve@ncsteve· Feb 15

What 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.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jan 16

When Forbes won't give Republicans the benefit of a presumption of truthfulness, you know they're screwed.

Forbes treating federal statements like potential lies.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jan 13

You 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.

Bill Fucking Ackerman paying bounty money on disobedient suburban moms.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jan 11

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-it...

Sometimes people reason that you need to find the key message and repeat it over and over. That’s true. That’s good messaging. But sometimes someone gets shot in the face and the public refocuses for a bit. That’s okay. There are more than forty weeks before the 2026 midterm elections. The public will go back to thinking about affordability and Epstein. In fact, they’re probably thinking about it this week too. It is a particular kind of fear of your own shadow to think you need to control what the public is thinking and talking about every week and that if your political opponents do something really hideous and unpopular and then defend it they’ve somehow pulled one over on you. That’s not how it works.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Jan 9

Christ. Yeah, assholes, amazing how this keeps happening faster than people can accidentally fall out of windows in Moscow.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent shot and wounded two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which said the shooting was in self-defense when the driver of a vehicle that the agents had pulled over tried to run them over.

NCSteve@ncsteve· Dec 31

The Latest Defenses of SCOTUS’s Corruption Only Make the Case Against It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-l...

"The dictionary definition of corruption focuses on dishonest or fraudulent conduct, usually but not solely involving bribery. The secondary and older definition is the act of taking something in its healthy form, in its prescribed and proper form, and pervert it into something different. The corruption of the Court is bound up with both those definitions. What the current Supreme Court has done is take the proper and constitutional role of the Court and wrench it into something very different. That very different thing is corrupt, unconstitutional and undermines democratic self-government itself. It has moved from a final Court of appeal, which reviews cases and renders decisions by a range of possible jurisprudential philosophies — more conservative or liberal, progressive or libertarian — and changed it into a body which follows no consistent or coherent mode of interpretation or even the most basic procedures and processes for how cases are supposed to make their way from trial courts and finders of fact up through the appellate process. It is a “choose your own adventure” jurisprudence, mixing and matching doctrines based on desired outcomes, frequently manufacturing entirely new ones based on ignoring the explicit language of the constitution itself. And all for the consistent purpose of advancing the partisan and/or ideological interests of the Republican Party."

NCSteve@ncsteve· Dec 18

I 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.

Real headline in Axios: "Republicans vow bitter recriminations after Johnson outflanked on ACA."

NCSteve@ncsteve· Dec 18

Hell. I'm not going to be able to avoid watching this thing, am I?