imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

Three more people have died after coming into contact with ICE since our tally was updated last week. The federal government doesn't publish an account of how many people their agents injure and kill, but we do.

get weirder 🫵

After listening to people smarter than I am, I think it’s probably for the best to offer people some sort of off-ramp from all this. But goddamn, reading this kind of thing in 2026 instead of 2016 gives me a fucking eye twitch and I do not trust anybody who stuck with Trump this long at all

"This site is hostile to journalists" IDK I'm just a tiny indie reporter but people seem to like when I post information here that they find helpful or interesting.

“We’ve invented a service that will do every substantial piece of human activity so you can focus on being slowly lowered feet-first into an industrial shredder”

This. I hate watching video. Let me just read a goddamn article.

A fantastic goth monthly in Seattle, if that's your thing!

God imagine being such a loser Chuck Schumer owns you

This is important y’all. This is our chance to save the stars.

What sucks about our current era is upon witnessing this truly magnificent footage I first had to spend several minutes just trying to figure out if it’s a buncha slop AI bullshit.

What I would give for one snowfall like this in Tacoma again

This thread is great, but this piece sticks out. When trying to prevent another “never again” moment, we have to push back early, on the small things, when it’s not yet cool, still cringe even. If we wait until the tanks are already rolling, the detention facilities full, then it’s too late.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

This. The right has been livestreaming their intentions forever. FRC’s Meg Kilgannon, now at US Dept of Ed, outlined the strategy of attacking top surgery as a way of delegitimizing trans people and “dividing the T from LGB”, back in 2017 at the Values Voter Summit to thousands, including lawmakers.

when you say “ill eat dog shit for lunch if i have to” two years before we’ve even heard what’s on the menu, it kinda makes it sound like you *want* to eat dog shit for lunch. and unless you’re trying to convince everyone to eat dog shit, maybe spend some time thinking about some other options, k?

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

ALTMAN: And so you can use Sora to generate interesting videos of you and your friends, all with AI. FALLON: (giggling) So, heh, so that's a video of me in space, wow! ALTMAN: Exactly. FALLON: Could you generate a video of me where I'm not just a useful clown for fascism? Where my work has meaning?

I listened to several of these and across all of them two things are standard- the simpering nature of these calls which are always "oh I dont know theyre nice I'm sure why don't you lock them in a cage just in case" & how ENRAGED they get when they simply have their own words repeated at them

So much that’s good in this, but clipped out this in particular. Yes, yes, yes: it’s a losers’ ideology, demonstrably, historically so. It’s stupid and pointless and wearying, and, as he says, it ends up eating itself. It’s who it takes with it on the way down the shitter that’s the tragedy.

yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

The Dead Flag Blues

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

science is astonished at the discovery of the first Republican to realize we live in a society. no hypothesis for his origin has yet achieved general acceptance, although the most popular theory is spontaneous generation from the quantum foam.

LOL Go home, Sara

Immigrants can teach us how to fight dictators: "Myrla Baldonado became one of the “forced disappearances” under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., in 1983. She was kidnapped by state agents, swept away to a secret location, tortured, and then imprisoned for two years." And yet:

Watching other countries actually make their leaders and powerful men face consequences with jealousy.

I like the policy above but I hate the sales tax holiday idea. Imagine all the things people won't buy all year because they're waiting for one three-day weekend to come up, like we're holding a Black Friday Weekend sale as a state.

To the surprise of absolutely no one: www.kuow.org/stories/ice-...

labor unions coordinating with tenant unions is exactly the kind of cross-movement organizing that actually scares power. rent is a labor issue when half your paycheck disappears before you buy groceries

Love to see it!

The reason this session is short (not making this up) is so eastern side of the state lawmakers can get back home by horseback for the harvest season Our county is riddled with rules preventing any governance

I received a report today from a community member who spotted approximately 24 new unmarked SUVs. outside the ICE facility in Tukwila, WA, just south of Seattle. It’s hard to say for certain what this means, but it could indicate a greater deployment of personnel in the region in the near future.

An infuriating list

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Guess what fuckers, the flip side to "ideas are all that matters" is IDEAS ARE HARD

Here it is, your moment of zen.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

The best theory I’ve ever heard about “Florida Man” is that it’s actually a Venom-like symbiote that jumps From person to person to do the most bat shit insane stuff possible

This is a terrible precedent to set not just for the families of trans youth. If the federal government can pick a big enough hostage, state officials will be powerless to stop threats against them. They inherently lose state sovereignty over regulating their own matters.

I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

A reasonable discussion about AI would come to the conclusion that this tech is damaging to humanity in virtually every way a tech can be damaging. But I'd rather have an emotional discussion and point out that this tech is shit made by assholes, and it stole from me, personally, so fuck it.

So much news is going unreported right now that giving this one airtime borders on immoral, IMO.

It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines. '"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'