Steve Casburn
Librarian. Data analyst. Music lover. Native of Benicia, California. Now in Portland, Oregon. Stops in Ohio and Texas along the way.
May Bluesky change the world rather than the world change Bluesky.
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- Reposted by Steve CasburnFINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs: “Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”
- Reposted by Steve CasburnI sometimes will get the Washington Post and the Washington Times confused but now it doesn’t matter
- Reposted by Steve Casburnfunny how the man who cost the Washington Post hundreds of thousands in subscriptions by canceling the paper's presidential endorsement—almost certainly the most destructive decision in the history of the paper, if not journalism itself—still has his job
- Reposted by Steve CasburnReally nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- Reposted by Steve CasburnIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- Q: Did I ask for your opinion, Grandpa?
- A respected voice among librarians, gone too soon...
- Reposted by Steve CasburnOne way for the media to win back the respect of viewers would be for them to show us that they have some self-respect of their own. When you let the president denigrate and humiliate your colleagues without saying a word, you're not really giving off a "holding the powerful to account" vibe
- Reposted by Steve Casburn“burn the entire democracy down and start over” is an opinion equivalent to “apocalyptic times are good because the rapture is coming and I’ll go to heaven” in that it’s a way people give themselves permission to do none of the complex and difficult things that would make things a little better now
- Reposted by Steve CasburnThe girl dancing behind this wall of text blocked me in mere seconds when I said, “and now you’re dancing in a TikTok about it.” She was obviously sitting there watching her notifications for that sweet, sweet dopamine.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnThe key is to be ashamed before they become public.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnIt’s as if our media and their wealthy owners that could act to hold them accountable are in the Epstein Files too
- Reposted by Steve CasburnBezos fucked the paper and instead of fixing it he’s destroying it despite the fact that he could spend the money to make things right without even noticing its absence.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnI personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
- Reposted by Steve CasburnScenes from a personalist regime: the president speaks directly with the security agents expected to generate a justification for his taking control over elections
- Reposted by Steve CasburnA lot of fantastic journalists in that building aare losing their jobs today. Bezos can rot in hell. Do NOT buy anything from Amazon. It's easier than you'd think.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnWashington Post staff is being reduced to Megan McArdle and a big bag of meth.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnMeanwhile in the US we can't fire someone from the CBS News properly.
- This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
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- Reposted by Steve CasburnThe Epstein Files help me understand why this country doesn’t care about school shootings.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnThree rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
- Reposted by Steve Casburnso crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnProbably the big question should be, who is the current Epstein? A culture that engrained and widespread doesn't go away just cos one guy died.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnFucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
- Reposted by Steve CasburnSometimes you just want to ask John Roberts, you destroyed the United States for ****Donald Trump*****
- Reposted by Steve CasburnThe Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
- Reposted by Steve CasburnThe tell is that these guys never get mad about any feature other than skin color. Even if Odysseus were real, he would've looked nothing like Matt Damon. But that doesn't matter to Mr. Murray because, in his mind, they at least share a similar skin color.
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White people being proportioned mentally and physically *just right* is how the racists who think about this shit explain it. - Reposted by Steve CasburnLOL!!!!!! “It’s not a crime to drive to the bank with Jesse James!”
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- Reposted by Steve CasburnHaiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.…
- Reposted by Steve CasburnLike when society and laws crumble, historically it’s a great time for stupid but physically strong goons to just go around assaulting and robbing people. And personally, I don’t trust the esteemed members of some small communist book club to defend me or anyone else very well
- Reposted by Steve Casburna thing that puts the lie to everything every texas republican has ever said about the alleged wave of immigrants they’re so afraid of is that the trump administration is very regularly just dumping people in texas if they can’t deport them and no texas republican has said a word about it
- Want to work off some anger with the help of Minneapolis garage rock?
- Reposted by Steve CasburnThere are a lot of people in this world for whom the idea that they might be at fault, poor performers, or worst of all, in a morally questionable posture is as remote from their brains as the planet Neptune. When they are prospective clients, I've developed a pitch for that. Online? Fuggedaboutit.
- Reposted by Steve Casburnsomething that's really important to keep in mind about this administration is that they have exactly one move, and it is escalation it does not mean that the escalation is going to work, or that they're actually winning
- Reposted by Steve CasburnFor context, "more than 3 million pages" is really not a lot in terms of large litigations, and there is no excuse for the freaking Department of Justice, in their highest profile matter, to miss any redaction, particularly not given the volume of over-redactions they made.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnSometimes I get a really good quote in. “Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s @evacide told @RollingStone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
- Reposted by Steve CasburnThere’s just no way to sugar coat it when your wingman and former best friend is one of the most notorious child sex traffickers who ever lived. And you have MULTIPLE other associates who hung out with him. AFTER he got convicted of prostituting a child. www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...
- Reposted by Steve CasburnPutting those investigative skills to work.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnContinuing a long tradition of putting his name on things and then unceremoniously closing them down
- Reposted by Steve CasburnGreat so now even after the asshole’s dead the Kennedy Center’s going to look like the home theater where Uday Hussein watched rape videos
- "The days you don't hear about us are the days we successfully silenced our victims."
- Reposted by Steve Casburn"With Closure, Kennedy Center Follows the Path of Trump Steaks, Trump Plaza, and Trump Vodka"
- Reposted by Steve CasburnRemember how the DOJ said it needed all this extra time to protect victims? About that...
- NEW: The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted images of nude women (and possibly teens) as part of its Epstein release. The faces of those people were also left unredacted. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
- I will root for the Minnesota Twins this year as a small daily reminder to appreciate the courage of the people of Minneapolis-Saint Paul. I will not announce this development to my family with the phrase "I'm Adopting Twins!" because I'm trying not to be that kind of person any more.
- Dante Spinotti was the equivalent of a prism in the latest Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social interview. Chotiner shot a laser at Spinotti, and as it passed right through him, it split to hit a number of people and cultural practices on his other side. [1/2]
- In Chotiner's interview, Spinotti comes across as a man who simply follows orders; uninteresting in himself, but fascinating in what he reveals about which orders from which people within which bounds get followed. [2/2]
- In 1999, John Peel made a list of 400 recorded musical tracks from the 20th century, four from each year. Here is track #125 (1931).
- Reposted by Steve CasburnTrump's secret police force are shooting and imprisoning innocent Americans. Not everyone is happy.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnThis is a good time to point out something I think people miss. In Russia, you can’t protest the way you can in the United States, but they can get away with doing stuff like what is mentioned on the sign. (Without putting up a sign)
- Reposted by Steve CasburnI love how SCOTUS says a president can't be sued in office because he is too busy and important, but in the meantime he sues ABC, the Iowa polls, the NY Times, Hillary, CBS, his own government, and now threatening another against Trevor Noah for a joke. John Roberts, saying cool cool cool.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnThe thing is, Trump will *always* renege on any deal you make with him, for the sheer hell of it.
- Reposted by Steve CasburnSo on Friday, I sued State's Attorney Burke - not for money, but for justice. Since she is unwilling or unable to prosecute people who terrorized Chicagoans for weeks, I am requesting the appointment of a Special Prosecutor who will. That is the only relief I am requesting. (Cont.)
- Reposted by Steve CasburnI didn't realize that Donald Trump this term was just going to knock down all the memorials and make them Trump brand, but apparently that's what's up
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- Reposted by Steve CasburnDOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look
