Steven

Steven

@padnick.bsky.social

430 followers72 following2K posts

Steven reposted

Steven reposted

I don’t mind spending every day Leaving you stranded in the pouring rain Look for the car with no parking pass Put her in neutral and then drag her ass And she will be towed And she will be towed

Steven reposted

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

wired.comA 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working ThereDespite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

Steven reposted

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Steven reposted

Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Oh. This sounds nice. Maybe I should have stayed in academia.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

in a research library that has most of the entire set of the documentary history of the ratification of the constitution and i am in hog heaven

Steven reposted

If Americans need our little southern recipe for how to defeat fascism it goes like this: - Put people in the streets by standing for popular demands (wages, healthcare, public services) - Do not engage with fascists online - Do not succumb to doomsayers or media-driven narratives - Be happy

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Steven reposted

Best thing is she probably relayed this anecdote herself, presenting it as a win. Just dunking on her own daughter like Shaq to juice the stock price .00001 cents

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

Steven reposted

the core point of the pedocon theory article is that some people are looking for unequal relationships--people who are easier to control and manipulate--and one very reliable way of achieving that is to go after young people

liberalcurrents.comWe Need to Talk About Pedocon TheoryThe connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.
This post is unavailable.

That is so much turtle

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

This footage shot by a tourist aboard Jacksonville Boat Charters near Amelia Island, Florida shows a leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). At 2000 lbs (900 kg) & 7 ft long (2.1 m) they're the largest turtles & indeed one of the heaviest extant reptiles on Earth. Here There Be Monsters!

Steven reposted

scott galloway and jessica tarlov held an event here in town yesterday where “don’t impeach or waste time on investigations because ‘28” was the consensus position of the panel. so yeah, this is something to anticipate.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social

If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

Steven reposted

I don’t believe they’ll do anything but light money on fire here but fuck them for even thinking it.

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Steven reposted

Reuters Pictures@pictures.reuters.com

Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4yGkBNh 📷 Evan Vucci

Steven reposted

Are you fucking kidding me

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

Steven reposted

Today's "This Moment in Baseball" memory brought to you by: steroids. Steroids: Find Your Inner Psychopath!

Baseball by BSmile@bsmile.bsky.social

Today In 2000: Roger Clemens throws Mike Piazza's broken bat barrel at him as he runs to first base during World Series Game 2 at Yankee Stadium! #MLB #Baseball #Mets #Yankees #Postseason #WorldSeries

Steven reposted

lol I love Luka so much man. They put a rookie on him in the opener tonight, in his first game ever, and he took that as immense disrespect and just hit a halfcourt shot on him to end the half. The most spiteful guy in the NBA, he is the fucking best.

Steven reposted

This could be turned into a movie and just as easily be a comedy as a tragedy as a thriller.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.

Steven reposted

Can we start a petition to permanently replace the Subway Takes guy with either Conan or this lady or both

the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Steven reposted

I just went to fraud.gov and reported Trump’s bribe attempts. It was both childish and very satisfying. And I only dropped one f-bomb! Proud of myself.

fraud.govThe Fraud LedgerA public record of the fraud, waste, and corruption identified by the Trump Administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud since January 2025.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump announces "fraud whistleblower incentive program" -- "Americans will now be able to go to fraud dot gov and report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities ... if you turn somebody in and you find $1 billion, we're giving a commission of 1%. That's a lot of money"

Steven reposted

Albania's corrupt government secretly sold a popular nature preserve to Jared Kushner to be bulldozed for an exclusive resort, and Albanians responded by burning everything to the ground.

BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social

The Supreme Court burns to the ground in Albania, Parliament and the Department of Education has been stormed, the Prime Minister is in hiding and the country is effectively in the hands of the rebels. Albania rejects blatant corruption and their country being sold.

Steven reposted

The easiest way to get a big scoop in journalism is to straight-up steal it from @marisakabas.bsky.social, as we've seen over and over from "respectable" outlets.

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

It's disheartening to see the largest publications in the nation not cite original reporting from independent/individual reporters. Not one mention of @marisakabas.bsky.social's work in ID'ing Tommy. Instead, the WSJ implies that Tommy came forward himself. Disingenuous, at best.