Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

I subscribe to this channel, and it's always a bright spot in the day. Watch a few in a row and see how it changes your view of the world and "reality" and then consider what doing the opposite is doing to us.

All I can really do at this point while grading

My next door neighbor & I each cook dinner for the other once a week & deliver the meal to each other’s house. It means we each have to make a decent, healthy-ish, balanced meal once a week, and we each have one night when we know we’re getting a good meal with no work or planning. It’s amazing.

Seattle is currently hosting a mega masters — a hearing where hundreds of kids, some as young as three, are going through deportation proceedings. These kids are expected to understand complex legal processes and represent themselves in court. They deserve better.

We are investigating a small number of domestically-acquired #cyclosporiasis cases and will release more information if they are proven to be related to the outbreaks in other states.

How Google And AI Nearly Made A Seasoned Reporter Spiral This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Last month, my colleagues and I published an…... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/10/how-google-and-ai-nearly-made-a-seasoned-reporter-spiral/

The quick resegregation of higher education is particularly pronounced. In 1951, in the case of McKissick v Carmichael, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compelled the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law to admit 4 black students. In 2025, they admitted 5. law.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

Here is what OMB rule means for states/local governments (>$1 trillion in revenue at risk): 1) More admin burdens: inestimable amount of new paperwork, allowance for agencies to add vague new “risk factors” in grant determination, vast expansion of E-verify, Buy America provisions on everything…

For those who do love maps, let me recommend the David Rumsey map collection at Stanford--it's huge, all online, with free downloads, a stunning array of the greatest cartography over the centuries from Asia as well as Europe and the America.... davidrumsey.com

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

take the train to wander around the swamp on Sunday! 🦫✨

ICE is extremely active in Seattle right now. I know at least two people in North Seattle who have witnessed abductions. Be vigilant. www.king5.com/article/news...

I just created www.lgbtqlegislation.com which builds on the work of the LegiAlerts team to provide an interactive data dashboard to look at 20+ years of anti-LGBTQ legislation and especially anti-trans legislation. It also includes an overview of pro-LGBTQ legislation. Check it out!

The University of Washington Elections Database that I co-direct with Scott Allard offers publicly available datasets on demographics & language minorities for Washington State residents, registrants, and voters. We have a beautiful new website redesign today <3 waelectiondata.csde.washington.edu

Apparently I interrupted the barber's lunch break and he really wanted to eat his ramen before it got cold so he kept leaning over and trying to take bites while still cutting my hair with the other hand, doing a whole silent comedy routine he thought I couldn't see. My hair was effed.

it just wants to be your friend. forever.

Our friend the Morro Do Baú Flea Toad is one of seven new species of Saddleback Toads that were first described in 2015 after an expedition in Brazil! Their scientific name Brachycephalus fuscolineatus refers to the dark stripe down their back! (photo by Luiz Ribiero)

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

Another pride wallet going out this week! Its got the marmalade seal of approval

crabitalism

Okay, I have to admit, this is much earlier than I though such a thing would exist.

I think about this so often, man

Thinking today about how often SFF folks scoff at the idea that romance requires worldbuilding when we're out here daring to build societies where consent exists and is even tangentially understood, which is a task more ambitious than any magic system.

I've pulled this thread into a post, and I've also covered the current state of the CHARLIE Act. bookriot.com/federal-book...

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

every day someone comes on this retirement home for millennial forum posters and gets my ass

Last week in western New York, I had the pleasure (?) of encountering my first invasive population of Myrmica rubra, commonly called "European fire ants".

Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Every time someone is like "prison abolition? but what about RAPISTS" bitch we have basically abolished prison for rapists as it IS, and we aren't even trying anything restorative or whatever

China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete - boingboing.net/2026/07/06/p... "Nine more towers are planned across China, totaling over 3.7 gigawatt-hours. Unlike pumped hydro, a gravity tower needs only flat ground."

whenever white people deny this about identity politics, it reminds me of this old math joke

Great news for everyone else newly obsessed with this: the art collective behind the mosaics sells merch www.hotratsummer.gay/merch

Absolute banger of an obituary in the Seattle Times today, rest in peace Judy

Enjoy a joke (I am vry funny) (This piece is available in the @anthrocon.org art show!)) #bananaslug #artworld #ishawayart

Continuing on The US invented the modern concept of the National Park The Americans with Disabilities Act is both not enough and yet more than almost any other country on earth has. And the knock on benefits extend beyond people with disabilities There's a GREAT 99PI on curb cuts on this

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

i have no use for this at all but wanted to repost bc the design is really neato. i love the way interface design is trending towards a minimal, functional aesthetic rn and this is a really nice example

seems bad

i can't believe these fuckin guys are ruling over us

Okay. So. Obscure Military Holy Orders. Bear with me on this one: In 1687 the French were aggressively expanding their trade and slavery operations on the Gold Coast. As part of this two young West African boys were sent back to France, most likely as slaves. One may have been called "Aniaba". /1🧵

Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.

This picture of a juvenile secretary bird appeared on my tumblr feed the other day and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. the legs, the hairdo, the expression?? what am I supposed to do with this information

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still thinking about the greatest wikipedia article ever written