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Steve Smith

@edmlawyersteve.bsky.social

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Criminal defence lawyer in Edmonton, AB (not a fan of electronic dance music). He/him. Posts mostly about topics other than Canadian criminal law; should be treated as lacking any credibility whatsoever on such topics. Reskeet probably = endorsement.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 20d

Like a horse who's been sued by other horses.

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

Old (October 3) news, but, man, this quote from an affected elementary school: “Our staff is well-versed in the proper protocols for keeping our students and school community safe in case federal law enforcement representatives attempt to enter school property or interact with students or staff."

Federal agent throws tear gas canister from SUV on busy Chicago street

Federal agents threw a tear gas canister at people on a busy street in the Logan Square neighborhood on Friday outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

www.cbsnews.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the pieces Mike Johnson hasn't seen, the Politico Young Republican Nazis piece he will have not seen the hardest.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking as an evangelical user of clicks.tech’s products (seriously, I stop just short of going door to door), I have extremely strong positive feelings about my phone keyboard.

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

When he’s not talking about how he’s going to hell, he’s doing the things that’ll get him sent there, so I’ll take the talking.

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the few cases where I’ll take “tell, don’t show”.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says a lot of weird and concerning stuff that people just kind of shrug at but right now I’m stuck on how he keeps insisting he’s going to hell

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it was just the same one over and over?

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

Has anybody actually checked what Colin Kaepernick’s doing during the national anthem these days? Eric seems awfully confident, but really, who’s to say?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

Good point. But was Thiel always like this? Or has his Nazification proceeded in, ahem, lockstep with Vance’s?

(Honest question, as I only became familiar with Thiel in the last couple of years. I used to be happier.)

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

That’s probably fair. At minimum, he was receptive to Nazism. But I actually think he probably wouldn’t marry a non-white woman today; something’s shifted in him.

And assuming that every “new” Nazi was Nazi all along risks ignoring a real radicalization problem…people are pretty malleable.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

It actually seems like Twitter made Vance into a Nazi.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

I think the answer in Vance’s case is actually “relatively recently”, though, isn’t it? He’s always sucked, but he used to suck in a less Nazi way (or at least a less overtly Nazi one).

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

Today I learned that there’s something called “BuzzFeed+” for paid subscribers, and if I don’t stop trying to imagine exactly who those paid subscribers are, I’m going to have to lie down for a while.

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 3d

Dictionaries suggest that it’s generally used to describe weather, but I can’t recall ever seeing it so-used.

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 3d

In the spirit of Creed Bratton’s observation that the only things you can ooze are sexuality and puss (and, I would add, generally only one of them at a time): is anything torrid besides affairs and paces?

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 3d

I am generally extremely skeptical of uncorroborated allegations of such absolutely cartoonish levels of evil, but ICE has imbued in me a credulousness of which I had not previously realized that I was capable.

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 3d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Despite counsel’s vigorous advocacy…”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 3d

As to the actual answer…in a functioning democracy people shouldn’t run on promises of prosecutions (even/especially for offices with no authority to prosecute), and I’m often torn about the extent to which people who want the U.S. to be a functioning democracy should adhere to the norms of one.

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not saying that it *was* planted, but I am saying that “Can you please share your feelings about ICE?” seems about as organic as “Your campaign has the momentum of a runaway freight train; why are you so popular?”

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 3d

Hypothesis: the GOP hasn’t shut down the House to block release of the Epstein files. It’s shut down the house to (further) normalize governance by executive fiat.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3d

kinda surprised peter thiel didn't smoke weed in college cause hearing him talk you're like, i think this guy is smoking weed in college right now

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Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 4d

I think they're probably a reliable source on the narrow question of what they were told by the person who sent them the video.

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 4d

The remainder of Yegwave's post: "The witness says an officer later parked in front of their car and told them to leave if they weren’t involved, and they drove off."

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 4d

From Yegwave's post: "According to the person who recorded, the man said he hit the ditch after swerving to avoid a porcupine. When EPS arrived, the video begins. This occured on Winterburn Rd & Yellowhead Rd. (cont)

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently unjustified use of conductive energy weapon by Edmonton Police Service members. Video posted by the Yegwave Instagram account earlier this evening.

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 5d

Another tactic these cunning rapscallions are using to mask their violent extremism is to refrain completely from violence. Is there no end to their nefarious schemes?

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 5d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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