“…Swift wanted ‘to retain ownership of her performance and secure slots promoting her own projects.’ But the NFL, which is used to acts performing for free at the Super Bowl in order to get exposure, refused.” How dare this artist request ownership of her work, which we insist she provide for free?

"Starbucks desert" ROFL come on man

As the awesome Atsuko Okatsuka showed from the contract (she is NOT attending), they aren't actually allowed to say ALL the "edgy" (read: bigoted) stuff they want, including stuff about religion or about the royal family. So they are the tired, unfunny sellouts we always knew they were.

This speech to the generals feels like a pretty huge miscalculation on the administration’s part—especially since it could be the last news they create before a shutdown.

Setting aside all the bullshit coming out of his mouth, he just sounds really bad.

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Congratulations to Tony Blair on his new role as winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel! I’m sure he will enjoy the solitude as he works on completing his memoirs.

the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

Like a lot of pundits, Klein blithely ignores both power and history when he writes about contemporary politics. Coates takes the long view and he wrestles with power dynamics all the time. One is a serious thinker, the other one thinks he’s a serious thinker.

they’re selling fool’s gold man

This is one of the biggest economic problems in America right now: Everyone assumes that everyone else is making a shit ton of money, when in fact the vast majority of people are making way less than they used to.

The Beacon stepped up! South Seattle’s cinema culture is on the rise:

Get it together, Seattle.

It's crazy all these tell it like it is comedians are going to come back from Saudi Arabia to keep commenting on the world. Like, who cares what your opinion is, for enough money I feel like I could reverse it real easy.

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE: They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet. DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

Mission accomplished! Masterful job, Mister President.

This was 2 years ago today. Go give the bullies hell today. www.tiktok.com/@vicenews/vi...

It’s time to leave TikTok before it goes full Nazi bar.

Jesus Christ.

I hope at least three Seattle movie theaters have already offered to host this movie.

They were bragging about mass layoffs of federal workers back in the first three months of this year! Really seems like the Trump Administration is terrified of the shutdown and doesn’t know how to respond.

What Washington is losing with the demise of Crosscut: As a nearly two-decade venture in nonprofit news comes undone, it underscores the precariousness of public service journalism. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/09/24/l...

Old Man Complains About Escalator Outage

We are so nerdily excited!

This one's for the real book nerds: Two Seattle bookstores are teaming up to celebrate the new Pynchon novel's launch date and the reissue of two books by Norwegian novelist Tarjei Vesaas with an "after-hours bookstore crawl" on October 6th. I love this idea.

“Stop calling our masked secret police Nazis just because they grab people off the street, tear families apart, and throw people into detention camps where they have no rights.”

The pressure on KOMO 4/Sinclair advertisers is working. Seattle Theater Group and Seattle Opera say they are no longer advertising on KOMO. More info on companies that advertise on KOMO is here: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

oh man, lol. Are they purchased by the administration? How secure is the data storage (lol)? How long is the data retained? If the glasses are not provided as part of their employment, what policies govern dissemination of these recordings use personal equipment?

Big Zucker is watching you.

The thing is, a lot of reporters at very high-profile media outlets would definitely go light on the Kissinger part just because he asked nicely.

The thing I will never understand is that Rubio could have left politics in 2016. After Trump humiliated him in the primary, Rubio could have gone to work in the highest levels of any number of corporations and made millions. But instead he chose this. It was an active choice that he made.

Public data shows the local CEO for Cascade PBS makes more than a half mil a year but just HAD to lay off the ENTIRE news team. Bullshit. Sure, the Trump admin is far from helping, but this sh has been f'ed up well before his 2nd term. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

The man has never once practiced or prepared for anything. Just winging it through life. The world's dumbest improv show, and we're all sitting in the splash zone.

Ugh. This is terrible news. There are so few outlets for written journalism in Seattle as it is.

Need a Monday pick-me-up? Here's what you get if you look up the Tesla showroom where we held Seattle's first #teslatakedown protests ✊🙌 Remember: Every act of rebellion pushes our lines forward. And you have friends everywhere.

"Be a fool. Believe things will be good. Better to be hurt." 2/2 Honestly, at this point, might as well try. If you fail, you have more data to try again and do beter.

Reminds me of this Stephen Colbert quote: "Cynicism is not wisdom. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but cynicism is a self-imposed blindness. You put the blinders on yourself to protect yourself from a world that you think might hurt you or disappoint you." 1/2

A lot of posters with private histories on Reddit greeted this letter with cynicism and it’s very hard not to read it as coordinated to make people feel powerless. My generation was known for cynicism, but the older I get the more I see cynicism as a tool to empower the status quo.

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

Have Democratic candidates simply considered making multiple campaign stops with Liz Cheney in swing states? Surely, that will work!

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

We are all just collateral damage in the ongoing war that is one 79-year-old man’s tempestuous love-hate relationship with his TV set.

Little hand drawn animation and banjo theme I made. It's been a year since my brother's passing, it's hard to type stuff so l'll just let the video speak for itself. Thank you for watching. Keep going, enjoy the sandwiches.

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"