A dude with *this much baggage* cruising makes me think the GOP will get worse before it gets better

Incredible that they've taken Talarico saying his order at a particular taco place was a potato, egg, and cheese breakfast taco and turned that into "he's a vegan." Just straight-up old-school flim-flam.

Kevin Hart is the first guy to get addicted to being in commercials for gambling.

This is the most incredible triumph of propaganda in my lifetime. The idea that Hitler was "left" and/or a "socialist" once was correctly seen as self-evidently insane. But here we have the richest & most powerful man on earth blithely repeating it.

Inshallah and things of that nature

the important thing to realize about republican primary voters is that they’re bad people

Paid subscribers on Letterboxd can choose the background they want to appear on each movie’s home page. For some reason, this is one of the options for The Muppets Take Manhattan.

There will be zero mainstream examination of what exactly is wrong with Texas Republicans. Just unconscionable that they want to send an absolute criminal to the Senate

I just introduced the Anti-Insurrectionist Act in NY. It's simple: If you're a New Yorker who takes from Trump's illegal January 6th slush fund, NY will tax 100% of it.

A truism since Reagan is that the private sector could do some things better/cheaper. When we finally shake this off, I hope it becomes a core of liberal democracy (like separation of church and state) that we don’t rely on the private sector for public goods. In the long run it twists/harms both.

I would, no shit, listen to Trump and RFK talk about what they believe the causual mechanism of this is for 1,000 hours

i keep seeing this post floating around and... it's just not accurate? the reason that there are a bunch of disused canals around the midwest is that they were obsoleted by better canals over the following 200 years. Commercial shipping in the Erie Canal indeed peaked and declined... in 1951

Canadian government slaughtered 20k dogs to fuck with the Inuit. Now that makes me pissed.

The only people who don't get that this is a deliberate strategy from big retailers are the sort of centrist dopes who have a stranglehold on our press. It's so obvious! What other reason would there not be more staff on hand?! BLM didn't make Home Depot lay people off!

The best time to build rail to Ballard was 50 years ago when voters rejected Forward Thrust. The second best time to build light rail to Ballard is right now. Voters approved it, Seattle's planned its future growth around it, we've passed legislation to get it done faster. Build the damn trains.

It is actually incredibly important for one of the most well regarded senators in the Democratic Party to say clearly and unequivocally that the next president should blacklist officials who aided and abetted crimes against humanity.

Really telling that in the MAHA era eating vegan, a measurably healthier way to eat, is still treated like a joke that makes you gay

For some people it's a stand-in for "the environment," or "human rapaciousness & greed." For some it's a pretext for progressive social & economic policy. For some it's a stand-in for "idealistic, unrealistic lefties." For some it's a synecdoche for a globalist conspiracy to bring down the West.

This remark is aimed squarely at Fox viewers who think foreign aid makes up 1/3rd of the national budget

They would’ve made all new slurs if Obama did a Hoop It Up tournament on the South Lawn for his birthday.

No good can come of this.

How. Much. Is. This. Shit. Costing. Us.

maybe I'm built different but if somebody was attacking my trans child I would beat the fuck out of them, I don't care who it is or how long we've been friends

I'm old enough to remember when a highly regarded senior scholar accused me of "cynical framing" (and worse) for suggesting that Wurman's "scholarship" was generated entirely for the purpose of being cited, and not because it was the result of sincere scholarly exploration. Whoopsies.

Californians, today is a good day to complain to your elected officials about our state emergency alert system still forcing people to open links from X/Twitter - a site run by a genocidal madman that often forces you to log in just to see content.

the pope: hey just checking in on the AI encyclical designs- the pope's digital comms intern (looking up from Figma, the ancient spirit of Michalangelo speaking through him): WHEN I AM FINISHED!!!

GOP has "abandoned the idea of crafting policy. They are a full-time media operation, trolling and creating content. The president is checked out. There is no turnaround coming as long as Trump/GOP are in power." On the pod, @dceiver.bsky.social nails the moment: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

You’d think at some point conservatives would get tired of letting corporations mug their hometowns over and over

if your opening gambit is an obviously false assertion — that there was an entire literature challenging the conventional view of birthright citizenship — and then you work your way backwards into an argument, you are a hack and a liar no matter how certain you are that you are right

Would be interested in knowing (I mean, not really) what these guys think a Democratic Party embrace of crypto would look like. Yes, the party of making government work is super-interested in tax-free heroin bucks

There is no decision any city can make more catastrophically stupid than running a f'ing interstate right through the middle of itself. It's just one of the fatefully stupid decisions Seattle has made, but it might be the worst.

Kinda drives me crazy that every sentence of media coverage of Iran doesn't have a "..., none of which would be happening if Trump hadn't decided to invade a country" attached to it

I mean, its a really big boat. Most people don’t even get to be on a regular boat that much. Why is it surprise that folks want Vegas on a boat?

Yeah, but can the Chinese use slurs at work now?

Rise of The Machines

If you hit the play button on Prodigy Fat of the Land at the exact same time as you start reading the Circe chapter from Ulysses it totally synchs up

Weird person saying the underutilized magnolia library should be 10x as big lol. But made me wonder where they’re missing. So instead I wanna ask the hive mind where we should REALLY be expanding library access. Belltown/uptown, west Seattle somewhere? Where else?

the most solipsistic, selfish people in the world are so addicted to hearing that they’re great and special that they not only built machines to tell them so, they’re trying to foist those same attitudes on all of us

We cannot build a trebuchet powerful enough to fling him to where he deserves

For all the endless hoopla about "Democrats connecting with ordinary people," 99% of which is "Democrats must rigidly adhere to the directives of elite reactionary centrists," Steyer here is talking about an issue in the same way that actual people who vote for Democrats do. Good stuff.

i don't care how often Trump goes to the hospital but i'm very interested in how many times he leaves

In Seattle, organizers are warning of a growing crisis as more and more trans refugees seek to escape red states. Mutual aid networks of "broke trans people helping broke trans people" are being overwhelmed, and one organizer @evanurquhart.bsky.social spoke with is facing eviction herself.

When your community removes a racist statue, do like Charlottesville and melt that fucker down. Because if you just stash it in storage, it becomes what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve” — ready for redeployment. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/s...

Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing

This feels like a 30 Rock joke

i dunno I think sometimes people just enjoy talking to like minded people. do you do this kind of shit with your friends offline

Please note that a restaurant being slightly rude to a fascist patron is grounds for calling in the marines