Ben Steele
@bensteele.bsky.social
Seattleite, mentally ill, just wanting to make the world a little better.
Half of Seattle's annoying people just went 😮😧😓🥹😶🌫️🫥😮💨 as one.
December 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Half of Seattle's annoying people just went 😮😧😓🥹😶🌫️🫥😮💨 as one.
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The color of the sky in Seattle is dark gray #acafab
![2025-12-12 11:55:00 #acafab dark gray | [#acafab - 30%] [#b4b7b1 - 26%] [#c6c9c7 - 24%] [#c3c5c0 - 10%] [#bfc2bb - 7%] [#bec1be - 2%]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohjjzadgzeub2ffc5agg7k4z/bafkreih6qycoeyiesostehz4mpc3kcxejklahbssukpw5h7dqgx2gf2cvy@jpeg)
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The color of the sky in Seattle is dark gray #acafab
Okay, partially because I walk past their apparel lab all the time and I'm losing my mind about how boring the readymade clothes are in Seattle, I checked the prices for remedial sewing classes at Seattle Central College. Less than $300 a quarter, industrial machine access. My god.
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Okay, partially because I walk past their apparel lab all the time and I'm losing my mind about how boring the readymade clothes are in Seattle, I checked the prices for remedial sewing classes at Seattle Central College. Less than $300 a quarter, industrial machine access. My god.
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Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
The agent, who’s assigned to another HSI office and is in Minnesota on “temporary detail for an operation,” is unfamiliar with the Twin Cities, did not know where they were going, and “was in fear that he was being abducted.”
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa. The pair drove to...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
The problem with Dune meaning that everyone knows its main stars is that Timothee Chalamet breaking containment into a name my Evangelical parents know still feels like they just discovered Call Me By Your Name and we're going to have to do some panicked literary analysis with them.
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The problem with Dune meaning that everyone knows its main stars is that Timothee Chalamet breaking containment into a name my Evangelical parents know still feels like they just discovered Call Me By Your Name and we're going to have to do some panicked literary analysis with them.
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A Sound Transit board committee is about to look at additional analysis on building Ballard Link without a full second LRT tunnel under downtown.
Top level: an interlining scenario could save $4.5B, but delay the project by at least 2 years. Cutting the full tunnel doesn't save construction time.
Top level: an interlining scenario could save $4.5B, but delay the project by at least 2 years. Cutting the full tunnel doesn't save construction time.
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A Sound Transit board committee is about to look at additional analysis on building Ballard Link without a full second LRT tunnel under downtown.
Top level: an interlining scenario could save $4.5B, but delay the project by at least 2 years. Cutting the full tunnel doesn't save construction time.
Top level: an interlining scenario could save $4.5B, but delay the project by at least 2 years. Cutting the full tunnel doesn't save construction time.
Anyways, the federal system must have a counterweight outside it that is not solely beholden to the United States government to force a solution to clear tyranny. Our sovereignty is being used to avoid essential safeguards against evil.
Full opinion here. Judge Xinis is clearly hopping mad with the government's repeated refusals to comply with her requests to be forthright about the situation, and suggests she will take it into account in pending sanctions motions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum Opinion – #110 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by Judge Paula Xinis on 12/11/2025. (kns, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 12/11/2025)
storage.courtlistener.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Anyways, the federal system must have a counterweight outside it that is not solely beholden to the United States government to force a solution to clear tyranny. Our sovereignty is being used to avoid essential safeguards against evil.
Something I'm thinking about today: if the US joined the ICC, then actions taken by China and Russia against the US would be, via the method that crimes against Palestine and Venezuela are in the court's jurisdiction, in the court's jurisdiction.
The Netanyahu case ends unilateral disarmament.
The Netanyahu case ends unilateral disarmament.
The next Democratic administration and Senate can no longer hold their feet. It is time for the United States to independently be held accountable for war crimes. Blue senators must be held to account for their failure to move this over their tenures.
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
December 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Something I'm thinking about today: if the US joined the ICC, then actions taken by China and Russia against the US would be, via the method that crimes against Palestine and Venezuela are in the court's jurisdiction, in the court's jurisdiction.
The Netanyahu case ends unilateral disarmament.
The Netanyahu case ends unilateral disarmament.
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I saw someone ask elsewhere about what the common law said about the children of Confederates born during during the Civil War.
They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children.
Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…
They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children.
Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…
December 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I saw someone ask elsewhere about what the common law said about the children of Confederates born during during the Civil War.
They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children.
Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…
They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children.
Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…
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Easiest way to kill in America is to use a car. No charges not even a night in jail.
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Easiest way to kill in America is to use a car. No charges not even a night in jail.
The next Democratic administration and Senate can no longer hold their feet. It is time for the United States to independently be held accountable for war crimes. Blue senators must be held to account for their failure to move this over their tenures.
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The next Democratic administration and Senate can no longer hold their feet. It is time for the United States to independently be held accountable for war crimes. Blue senators must be held to account for their failure to move this over their tenures.
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At 18 or 19, a queer man was assaulted by his church to exorcise "homosexual demons". The church has enough membership to sway an election, and it appears the local DA is undermining the criminal case.
A man who says members of a secretive North Carolina religious group held him down and beat him wants the prosecutor kicked off his case, accusing the district attorney of siding with a church that dozens of former congregants have said abused them.
religionnews.com/2025/12/10/m...
religionnews.com/2025/12/10/m...
Man who says religious group beat him wants prosecutor removed after long wait for retrial
(AP) — Word of Faith is a nondenominational Protestant church that was founded in 1979 by Sam and Jane Whaley in the foothills of Blue Ridge Mountains between Charlotte and Asheville.
religionnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
At 18 or 19, a queer man was assaulted by his church to exorcise "homosexual demons". The church has enough membership to sway an election, and it appears the local DA is undermining the criminal case.
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WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
Everything the Houthis did, America is doing.
Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Everything the Houthis did, America is doing.
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Today's random thought is that if there are approximately 83,622 (mostly) gay and bisexual men in King County, my community experience of dating and friends in gay Seattle is functionally a straight person of options in Vanderburgh Co., IN (½ pop is 90k).
December 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Today's random thought is that if there are approximately 83,622 (mostly) gay and bisexual men in King County, my community experience of dating and friends in gay Seattle is functionally a straight person of options in Vanderburgh Co., IN (½ pop is 90k).
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New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
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everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
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Let's not let the fact that the double strikes are unambiguously murder to overshadow the fact that *all* of the strikes on fishing boats are unambiguously murder.
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Let's not let the fact that the double strikes are unambiguously murder to overshadow the fact that *all* of the strikes on fishing boats are unambiguously murder.
If you call for money, the question is simple: what will you do to enforce the Leahy Laws about not selling weapons to human rights abusers and conduits to human rights abusers like the United Arab Emirates?
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
If you call for money, the question is simple: what will you do to enforce the Leahy Laws about not selling weapons to human rights abusers and conduits to human rights abusers like the United Arab Emirates?
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Restoring American democracy rests on the fantasy that there are enough "good Republicans" to pass the necessary Constitutional overhauls. There are not and never will be.
Free states need to ignore the authority of this modern Slave Power. We need a soft secession now.
Free states need to ignore the authority of this modern Slave Power. We need a soft secession now.
Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Restoring American democracy rests on the fantasy that there are enough "good Republicans" to pass the necessary Constitutional overhauls. There are not and never will be.
Free states need to ignore the authority of this modern Slave Power. We need a soft secession now.
Free states need to ignore the authority of this modern Slave Power. We need a soft secession now.
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looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
Per my colleagues at the International Campaign for the Rohingya, the Department of Homeland Security has abandoned a meeting they agreed to set regarding the threats to end TPS for a country in active and brutal civil war.
What is a petition for redress of grievances if not a meeting?
What is a petition for redress of grievances if not a meeting?
December 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Per my colleagues at the International Campaign for the Rohingya, the Department of Homeland Security has abandoned a meeting they agreed to set regarding the threats to end TPS for a country in active and brutal civil war.
What is a petition for redress of grievances if not a meeting?
What is a petition for redress of grievances if not a meeting?