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Steve O'Donnell

@steveodonnell.bsky.social

NYC native living in Oklahoma. I'm retired now from a career that included teaching high school, staying home to raise my infant daughter (that was work, I can assure you), and managing internal communications for some big U.S. companies.

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Just to be clear, I.C.E. here means "internal combustion engine," not Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

12.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Next up: CBP borrows a nuke.

12.02.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are we the only country where leaders successfully sell the "trickle down" theory of economics?

11.02.2026 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess secret information on UFOs is just higher on the list than secret information on Epstein.

10.02.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kinda like the people who didn't grow up in New York City and don't really know anything about Donald Trump.

10.02.2026 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the ad that Fox News does NOT want you to see.

Fox News rejected our newest ad, which demonstrates that Trump has β€œgone too far” with ICE.

But we will not remain silent in the face of these attacks.

Share our ad and follow @usjewishdems.bsky.social to join us in the fight.

06.02.2026 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2062    πŸ” 1167    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 63

I believe the Geneva Convention has a provision guarding against torture of military personnel.

07.02.2026 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Next up: Trump performing in blackface.

06.02.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember when the entire nation was in an uproar because Jimmy Carter admitted having "committed adultery in my heart"?

06.02.2026 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That may mean that the oceans won't rise as quickly, right Dr. Oz?

06.02.2026 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In fairness, he never claimed to be a MATH genius. [Checking notes for what kind of genius he is ... still checking ... still checking ...]

06.02.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Six Ways to Reform ICE and CBP And why congressional "reform" isn't actually the real problem....

The problem of ICE/CBP reform is we have a monster rampaging through our democracy and are trying to restrict *which* cities it can pillage and *how many* civilians it can eat. The problem isn’t the restrictions on the monster; the problem is the monster. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...

05.02.2026 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1269    πŸ” 408    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 31
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After ICE release St. Paul woman, she says agents keep returning to her home Thi Dua Vang legally came to the U.S. two years ago. So when ICE showed up, she thought it must have been a mistake.

www.kare11.com/article/news...

06.02.2026 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6618    πŸ” 2809    πŸ’¬ 207    πŸ“Œ 116
Portland stands against federal injustice

Portland mayor:

"To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave.

"To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children..."

content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORP...

06.02.2026 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2142    πŸ” 688    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 19

Exactly. As I said in an earlier post: Why redact the names of the PERPETRATORS [ahem, ALLEGED PERPETRATORS] and expose the names and likenesses of the VICTIMS?!? You're doing a hell of a job, Pammie.

06.02.2026 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | β€˜Melania’: Watching a First Lady Vanish in Plain Sight

The New York Times culture editor Nadja Spiegelman and Opinion columnists Maureen Dowd and Carlos Lozada all watched the "Melania" movie so you don't have to. You can read the transcript or listen on "The Opinions" podcast from The Times

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

06.02.2026 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ba-dump-bump

05.02.2026 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're doing a hell of a job, Pammie!

04.02.2026 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone on Bluesky suggested that we SEARCH for things on Amazon, and then leave Amazon to buy from the manufacturer's own site. I can attest that this strategy works.

04.02.2026 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Eighteen Trillion Dollar Hoax Yet this totally imaginary $18 trillion political talking point continues to be repeated endlessly in the hope that nobody in the public or press would ever be brave enough to rudely ask for some expl...

www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...

04.02.2026 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

You’re doing a hell of a job, Pammie!

04.02.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside the AI surveillance state From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute, data about you is everywhere. And with AI, companies can gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever.

WBUR's On Point (also available as a podcast) did an episode about this subject yesterday.

www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

04.02.2026 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Someone please do a calculation of the environmental impact of all those copies eventually going to the landfill.

04.02.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Probably the only thing in the store that they'll actually let you have for a dollar.

04.02.2026 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because one copy of Sarah Pakin's book is never enough!

04.02.2026 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Here's the answer you give when people say, "You can't blame me for what ICE is doing."

04.02.2026 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Same thing just happened in Oklahoma: owner of a warehouse backed out of a deal with ICE for a detention center. And you can't get much more Republican than Oklahoma.

04.02.2026 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In his world, women have value only if they're smiling and eager to please "Daddy."

04.02.2026 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"There is some logic and reason that is to be applied here." There are also some Constitutional rights to be honored here, too, Mike.

04.02.2026 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Translation, not using the word "fuck" (oops, sorry, used the word "fuck"):

Why redact the names of the PERPETRATORS [ahem, ALLEGED PERPETRATORS] and expose the names and likenesses of the VICTIMS?!? You're doing a hell of a job, Pammie.

04.02.2026 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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