we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

More Americans got measles this week than Olivia Nuzzi’s book. Guess which got more press coverage.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

This entire weekend

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

If you see National Guard service members out in our communities, they're here to keep Washingtonians safe. I deeply appreciate the work they're doing.

👇👇👇👇

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.

Happiest with a dog in his arms…Happy birthday, Frank Sinatra. 💙💙 #BOTD #dogs #FilmSky #Legend #Hollywood

Getting out of your feed for a while. HBD, Chairman.. youtu.be/TeDfgUvyKHk?...

Every year, this literary blog’s (admittedly unscientific) survey measures its readers’ interest in switching over to e-books. This year, “the brief surge of e-book interest during the pandemic has been erased, and print has opened up its biggest lead over e-books since 2017.” Is AI to blame?

Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?" Yes: 80% No: 8% Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%. Maybe a political party could lead on this issue. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

"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." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.) Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].

people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this

You will be visited by 3 spirits

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

From a while back but... evergreen

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

Seattle will host the following group stage matches in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, announced Saturday: June 15: Belgium v. Egypt June 19: USA v. Australia June 24: Qatar v. UEFA Playoff A winner (Italy/Northern Irleand/Wales/Bosnia and Herzegovina June 26: Egypt v. Iran

The forecast for the next eleventy dozen days

The newspaper Christmas party at the beginning of The Holiday - just to tell Jasper’s fiancé that he’s been cheating on her. And maybe tell Iris he is NOT WORTH YOUR TEARS

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone

It's not just liberal judges they're doing this to. They're doing this to plenty of conservative judges too; judges who actually spent weeks and weeks poring over the details and with their arms deep in the guts of thousands of pages of documents and days of testimony. Those judges are pissed.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

I think if you measure by “% of thoughts which are racist” the case is easy and almost inarguable. Like, Thomas Jefferson and Donald Trump are/were both racist pedophiles, but Jefferson at least had some other ideas rattling around in his head, too.

"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

At this point….IYKYK

Went looking for the new contact between the City of Seattle and Seattle Monorail Services since the last contact was set to expire 2024. In 2019, when they added the Monorail to the Orca card to system, they also extended the contract to 2034. seattle.legistar.com/LegislationD...

And as a local, it is my duty to tell you that "Last Train to Clarksville" isn't actually about Clarksville. The songwriter saw a sign for Clarkdale in some other state and decided Clarksville sounded better.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

The only reason Grant wrote his memoirs is he was bankrupt and dying of throat cancer and was desperate for a way to provide for his wife after his death. And he would have signed a terrible publishing contract for them if Mark Twain hadn't intervened.

My dream is to have one of those college football coach jobs where a college administrator tells me that I’m fired but also they will pay me 50 million dollars as long as I promise not to come to work

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

how many times has the Seattle Times run a "compassion is great, but" editorial arguing for a lack of compassion at this point? we get it, you think homelessness should be illegal, find literally anything else to talk about. (Also, no Seattle neighborhood has been "destroyed," good god.)

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

What a great headline

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

With an announced attendance of 16,014, Seattle has set the U.S. record for a women's hockey game.

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!

Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine