I called my Rep, Kim Schrier WA-8, to state my concern that during a time that medicare, social security, public land, the NEA, & public health including the ACA are all under attack, she felt it was the right time to condemn socialism rather than fascism...

Remembering Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray on her 115th birthday

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.

“I wish him only the best in private life” is my new favorite sick burn 🔥

Man, I love Election Day. I love this goofy-ass country. I love this republic. Let's keep it.

Visiting beautiful Durham. How are y’all’s mosquitoes still out and why are they after Yankee blood?

I think the coolest thing you can do right now is live with integrity and care about the people around you, not just your friends and family but your community. Deny the lie they want you to believe, that taking as much as you can while giving nothing back is the goal.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Anti-fascists (Antifa) storming the beaches of Normandy.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” Jane Addams, born on this day in 1860

The town of Yarrow Point (pop. 1,130, median home sale price $4.4 million) has a new proposal to increase its stock of affordable housing: cataloging all of the "philanthropic individuals" who are renting their houses out and getting credit for that.

New York’s hottest saint is Elizabeth Ann Seton. Born into a prominent Episcopalian family, this saint has everything: a dead mom, a divorced dad, life set against the backdrop of the American Revolution, TUBERCULOSIS, a religious conversion, the composition of a banger top 40 hymn, the War of 1812

3 weeks into covid, I’m now also sick with some new thing, and I hereby formally submit my complaint to the Department of No Fairs.

My favorite James Dobson fact is he believed that a lot of wives bait their husbands into hitting them.

James Dobson Meets His Maker. (It Is The Devil.) www.wonkette.com/p/james-dobs... By Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social

Just downloaded the Merlin birdwatching app. My beginner PNW birding book couldn’t tell me what the orange-crowned warbler on my porch was, apparently because it’s uncommon, and now that I’ve got an uncommon bird on my list, this app is my whole personality.

Somehow, my last day working at Ford’s Theatre was 10 years ago. Time stopped being linear after that 🤷‍♀️

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

This is excellent reporting and writing of what Rocha went through in the private, GEO Group run ICE detention center in Tacoma. Highly recommend reading from start to finish.

Bless them and the bravery of their work, their calling to shine a light on the horrors. The least the rest of us can do is look — Just a little, as much as we can bear; and act, as much as we’re able, within all the limits of any power we have.

Late last week, the state growth management hearings board found Mercer Island's growth plan out of compliance with state law. The decision is likely to have a seismic impact on how cities across the state are required to plan for affordable housing. www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/06/m...

Washington! Vote your faces off. Get your ballots into a drop box by tomorrow 8/5 at 8pm, lest your community descend into madness or tyranny or the like. Local elections are super important!

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator very grim

McMenamins to Challenge Itself by Restoring Historic Tacoma K-Mart: tinyurl.com/2cfcx565

Vote, Washington!. If want help with city or county people in King, Pierce, or Snohomish counties, I can point you in the right direction for values alignment or, in some cases, whether they’ve personally wronged me! (But I DO have 2 endorsements who’ve personally wronged me, so 🤷‍♀️)

Happy July 4! 🇺🇸

The time draws nigh! Our fiscal year ends at midnight, & you can help us reach our $20k matching grant.

We believe theater has the extraordinary ability to foster empathy, cultivate understanding, & strengthen communities. By amplifying diverse voices & championing new works, we invite audiences to engage with stories that challenge, inspire, & reflect the complexities of our shared human experience.

Hi from karaoke night where me & @oldschoolhero.bsky.social now feel STRONGLY that @nordicmuseum.org ought to put up an A-ha exhibition, preferably wherein you kinda get pulled into the “Take On Me” music video please & thank you

At the evening service tonight, the rector led a moment of silence acknowledging the US strikes in Iran & the impending uncertainty, & the church bell tolled ~12 times. I'm fairly new to mainline Protestantism & have never heard that many tolls before. Are those the "everything is okay" tolls?

Welp

In libraries, we call this vocational awe. The idea that if you are invested in your calling, you should accept low wages/inhumane conditions is a nasty little trick of capitalism. I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.

it is funny how tech overlords, whose sole work experience is pretending to have something to sell while getting and burning through tons of outside capital with an end game that is solely enriching themselves, just assumed government jobs were as inefficient, corrupt, and pointless as their own

Lovely community & glorious turnout in Covington, WA today for Charlie's first protest. No pics for social, but trust that he was a patriotic cutie-pie 🇺🇸

Spokane, Washington tonight became the center of national attention after a peaceful protest outside an ICE facility was escalated by police.

Kinda looks like LAPD is out here doing the Lord’s work today 👀

Co-signed from the PNW. I've known Sarah through their skillful & nationally respected gov comms work. This is a Sarah Russell stan account now.

I’m getting confirmed tomorrow. By a bishop and everything. Not sure what this timeline is, but we’re doing sacraments now.

My body is a money pit.

In which I’m becoming our collective dads: Got my kid to the 5am Easter Vigil because I don’t want to fuss with the parking at the 10am service.

Vibe check: three councilmembers are openly LGBTQIA+, including me. I deeply and wholeheartedly appreciate the mayor and deputy mayor’s comments tonight. This is allyship in action. @masonthompson.bsky.social and @ramiok.bsky.social never disappoint when there is an opportunity to show up. 💜

Spread the word to your actor pals! No need to bring Viola’s ring monologue to that audition unless you’re *really* feeling it.