I cannot stress enough that there is avfrber dream version of the Pacific Northwest that lives vividly in the minds of some people. That version is crime ridden, scary, features roaming gangs, etc. Then there's the actual Pacific Northwest. Which is calm, chill, good weather, good people.

War-ravaged Portland

Wired doing exemplary work on DOGE www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

One thing at a time. And please prioritize taking care of yourself.

"Though FEMA can be picky in disbursing aid, it must abide by federal civil rights law; private charities do not." -->really smart story about Trump + private faith-based disaster aid. @grist.org tried to follow the money and...it got murky grist.org/accountabili...

NEW: Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences. by @emcahan.bsky.social

If you're seeing that SCOTUS had already approved the types of actions done by the FCC chair... No. No, it didn't. slate.com/news-and-pol...

there's a whole ecosystem built around building logical-sounding, legal-adjacent justifications for the most recent Trump push and then he stands up and says IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO MAKE FUN OF ME

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Judge Katsas: “The President removed Lisa Cook her position as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System based on apparent misrepresentations Cook had made in applying for home mortgages…” Me: *taps sign* MORTGAGE APPLICATIONS AND MORTGAGE AGREEMENTS ARE NOT THE SAME THING

🚨🚨🚨 ProPublica reporting job alert 🚨🚨🚨 Where: The Midwest (Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota). What: Accountability reporting! Salary: $90K-$125K job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Hardy! My man! What a runner. (And his celebrations are NFL level)

An abundance of the actual words of a man who was supposedly "practicing politics the right way." If you (like I) had not followed Kirk's career closely, this is a very succinct summary from @jamellebouie.net. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

The @wsj.com owes the nation an apology for its irresponsible reporting after the Charlie Kirk shooting. In the effort for a scoop, the Journal’s indication that the shooter was tied to transgender causes --since discredited—fueled hateful vitriol and further eroded trust in media.

Well...... there's no way to look at this as a good thing: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

It's very odd to both understand the references the shooter was making and also understand that it doesn't really help at all in understanding his motives. All these types of messages can be used to mean multiple things depending on the context.

I wrote one (1) story about Gamergate in 2016, was instantly targeted and threatened on social media, and was scared off from reporting anything further on online culture. Many media organizations have repeatedly failed to deal with bad faith attacks and are too often wholly unprepared for new ones.

A thoughtful piece. slate.com/news-and-pol...

you cannot be disparaged by your own words... people cannot attack you with your own ideas if ones words are repeated and they are viewed unfavorably that is not a reflection of the one who repeats it is a reflection of the author

I, for one, don’t think that fearmongering and willfully spreading misinformation is the right way to engage in politics, setting aside the targets of that engagement.

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001. www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.

It’s like opening a grocery store selling pure puke. Cans of throw up and bags of barf and cartons of hurl. “Why does no one want to buy my regurgitate? Are you Luddites? I’m just flooding the zone! Look at all this food I have carefully prepared! Feed, you foolish doubters! Do you hate nutrition?”

"Some day we’ll look back on the Trump nightmare and realize its worst horrors were all the things the regime didn’t even bother to do, like building up wind and solar power, or looking for a cure for cancer — or even caring when workers are gored by a forklift."

MIZZOU WINS BORDER WAR #Jayhawks 31 | #Mizzou 42

This play will be in every Mizzou highlight reel for decades

WE NEED TO PLAY THIS GAME EVERY YEAR

63 yd TD for Mizzou on the ground will probably end it for Kansas

I may have set the bar too high for my teenage son's first college football experience.

Hell yeah! Turn tail and go back to larryville beakers! Mizzou rah!

Seattle chapter of the Mizzou alumni association showed up today for Mizzou / kansas

I cannot stress enough how good it feels to be playing and hating the hell out of kansas. First quarter was rough but I love how the Tigers responded.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on a new immigrant detention facility. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Owz... This is a bonkers story. I don't remember Aspiration but, damn, a lot of celebrities fell for this scam... but Kawhi got paid!

WELCOME TO BORDER WAR HATE WEEK

Remembering KOMU 8 Sports Director Ben Arnet, BJ ‘03, who died Thursday in Columbia. He was 43. www.komu.com/news/ben-arn...

happy labor day. solidarity forever youtu.be/fmsCDVTvOcI?...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

“.. I never have seen an instance of an advanced, affluent country with among the finest scientific resources .. under assault, not from small pockets of the public or people who have unusual beliefs, but from the government itself.” @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

I wrote about the largest seizure of smuggled antiquities at JFK Airport and the prison sentence given to a licensed Egyptian doctor as a result: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Over on Whatever today, I write on the Pixel 10 Pro's "Pro-Res Zoom" and how that "AI"-generated zoom feature is not creating photos, but illustrations, some of which have not much to do with actual reality, and what that means for taking photos with the phone: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/08/29/p...

Big news from me: The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General is currently locked out of many crucial systems after being hit by a ransomware attack earlier this month. Will provide updates as I have them.