Steve Steffens
@leftwingcracker.bsky.social
Lefty hack, baseball fan
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There really are so many undiscovered choke points
Please enjoy this local news: “Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is evicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit from a county-owned building where it has occupied an office for about three years but never paid rent…
“We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”
“We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”
Lehigh County exec says he’s evicting ICE agents from Allentown office, citing 3 years of unpaid rent
Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel’s announcement to evict the ICE agents came shortly after the county’s financial watchdog revealed the agency owes more than $115,000 in rent.
www.mcall.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:17 AM
There really are so many undiscovered choke points
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Absolutely no one here is saying don’t vote. If you don’t vote you’re a fool. But Democrats need new leaders so that their voters do not feel they’re been stranded on an island.
So sick of this. It doesn’t matter how you vote if you spend every day convincing other people that voting isn’t worth it because both sides suck.
That is the takeaway from platforms like this one, whether it’s your intention or not.
That is the takeaway from platforms like this one, whether it’s your intention or not.
January 21, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Absolutely no one here is saying don’t vote. If you don’t vote you’re a fool. But Democrats need new leaders so that their voters do not feel they’re been stranded on an island.
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BREAKING: The Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota has just donated $10,000 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an essential org working on the frontlines to protect people from ICE's terror.
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 AM
BREAKING: The Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota has just donated $10,000 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an essential org working on the frontlines to protect people from ICE's terror.
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Every city and county should do this
Josh Siegel, the new Lehigh County Executive, is kicking ICE out of its Allentown office. “[Their] failure to pay rent, combined with DHS’s national reputation for recklessness, chaos, and public disorder, warrants ending any relationship with the County. We will not accept their blood money.”
Citing $115,000 in unpaid rent, Lehigh County evicts ICE from Allentown office space
County Executive Josh Siegel says the Department of Homeland Security’s ‘national reputation for recklessness’ warrants termination of a county lease agreement with the federal agency.
www.cityandstatepa.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Every city and county should do this
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trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him
January 20, 2026 at 7:54 PM
trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him
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I didn't say it was. I said he's lost his goddamn mind. Take it however you want to take it. But having known him for many years I will say there's is a facility missing. He had more of it even four years ago.
I think it is a mistake to think his condition is dementia. Trump has always been like this it’s just now he has ultimate power and no guard rails. He’s always been a really shitty stupid person.
January 21, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I didn't say it was. I said he's lost his goddamn mind. Take it however you want to take it. But having known him for many years I will say there's is a facility missing. He had more of it even four years ago.
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Some people think that. I do not. Rizzuto belongs in the Hall of Fame. So does Mazeroski.
Sir, I think the biggest mistake is us thinking the HOF is only for the Ruths, Robinsons, and Clementes.
January 21, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Some people think that. I do not. Rizzuto belongs in the Hall of Fame. So does Mazeroski.
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And when Utley gets in, I'll bet you anything he says in his speech that he's not there without Rollins.
I mean to say Utley is head and shoulders above Kent. Utley is one of those players the new statistics are made for; you see how he measures up with those and there's no question. But I do think a reason why many votes so suddenly flipped to Utley is being held against Kent.
January 20, 2026 at 11:49 PM
And when Utley gets in, I'll bet you anything he says in his speech that he's not there without Rollins.
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Get the hell out of here with Shapiro. If you're in line for the Vice Presidency you're asked three dozen questions you'd sock anyone else in the mouth for. I've sat across the table from guys like him a hundred times and I always walk away richer.
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Get the hell out of here with Shapiro. If you're in line for the Vice Presidency you're asked three dozen questions you'd sock anyone else in the mouth for. I've sat across the table from guys like him a hundred times and I always walk away richer.
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I agree with our friend @jamellebouie.net. There is no victory for them in Minneapolis. They know it. They are not acting like they think otherwise. There is nothing to do. If they pull out, it will get worse for them. If they call in the Army, it will get worse.
January 19, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I agree with our friend @jamellebouie.net. There is no victory for them in Minneapolis. They know it. They are not acting like they think otherwise. There is nothing to do. If they pull out, it will get worse for them. If they call in the Army, it will get worse.
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You don't cheapen the argument by doing that. It's politics. Politics is not throwing punches, it's throwing them correctly.
January 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
You don't cheapen the argument by doing that. It's politics. Politics is not throwing punches, it's throwing them correctly.
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"Not everything is about money."
It is. You may not like it, but it is. Money talks. It's a question of how the money is used. It's wrong to simply say "You can't afford groceries." You have to say "Money that could help you afford groceries is being used to shoot your neighbors dead."
It is. You may not like it, but it is. Money talks. It's a question of how the money is used. It's wrong to simply say "You can't afford groceries." You have to say "Money that could help you afford groceries is being used to shoot your neighbors dead."
January 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
"Not everything is about money."
It is. You may not like it, but it is. Money talks. It's a question of how the money is used. It's wrong to simply say "You can't afford groceries." You have to say "Money that could help you afford groceries is being used to shoot your neighbors dead."
It is. You may not like it, but it is. Money talks. It's a question of how the money is used. It's wrong to simply say "You can't afford groceries." You have to say "Money that could help you afford groceries is being used to shoot your neighbors dead."
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Ike knew this.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
January 20, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Ike knew this.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
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I was less interested in the joint warning from Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin because they could be called, in the sense of the church, liberals. Broglio, Archbishop of the Military Services, is conservative. Telling troops it is morally acceptable to disobey going to Greenland is something.
January 20, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I was less interested in the joint warning from Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin because they could be called, in the sense of the church, liberals. Broglio, Archbishop of the Military Services, is conservative. Telling troops it is morally acceptable to disobey going to Greenland is something.
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Jeff Kent is the Hall of Fame's worst mistake since Jack Morris and Harold Baines.
January 20, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Jeff Kent is the Hall of Fame's worst mistake since Jack Morris and Harold Baines.
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Beltran was always a first or second ballot Hall of Famer. I don't want to hear your Black Sox arguments. Signs are stolen every day, and players don't care half as much about Houston '17 as the rest of you. He paid his price for helping run the scheme. And not for nothing, people like him.
January 20, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Beltran was always a first or second ballot Hall of Famer. I don't want to hear your Black Sox arguments. Signs are stolen every day, and players don't care half as much about Houston '17 as the rest of you. He paid his price for helping run the scheme. And not for nothing, people like him.
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Bears leaving points on the board. Playing a dangerous game vs. these Rams.
January 19, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Bears leaving points on the board. Playing a dangerous game vs. these Rams.
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The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work.
Really depraved shit.
Really depraved shit.
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work.
Really depraved shit.
Really depraved shit.
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Enten: "Americans at this point do not like ICE. And that's very different from what we saw during Trump's first term. We're talking about -17 approval rating. That's a 17 point drop from where we were during Trump's first term. Among independents, the number is even lower."
January 15, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Enten: "Americans at this point do not like ICE. And that's very different from what we saw during Trump's first term. We're talking about -17 approval rating. That's a 17 point drop from where we were during Trump's first term. Among independents, the number is even lower."
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its circa 2002 politics being re-run again and again, like the snl parody of olbermann calling on bush to resign www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNe...
January 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
its circa 2002 politics being re-run again and again, like the snl parody of olbermann calling on bush to resign www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNe...
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yeah government murdering people is different than private individuals murdering people, trish
Tricia McLaughlin on Renee Good: "I think if the individual was killed last week by an illegal alien, I don't think we would be seeing any protest."
January 13, 2026 at 8:23 PM
yeah government murdering people is different than private individuals murdering people, trish
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1. ICE will kill you.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
January 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
1. ICE will kill you.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.