it's easy to blame rubes in flyover country for the nation's current predicament, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of it is down to years and years of elite moral and epistemic derangement, elite cowardice, and elite failure to overcome the collective action problem

You can talk to a lawyer "But you need to tell people we treated you kindly." Wow yeah, someone went above and beyond to be a good Samaritan and in turn they got one of their basic human rights back. Real fuckin saints, these ICE guys.

happening at the same time

tbh I feel like maybe more than anything else, the food discourse in this country has been absolutely poisoned. "clean" is such a horrid adjective. meaningless judgmental drivel. unless maybe we're talking about a plain broth i guess, idk

a little unrelated but reminds me about this time a girl invited me over to show me a movie she loves that I'd never seen, and then she starts kissing me part way through and I'm just thinking wait you chose a great film let's not interrupt lmao maybe why I'm still single

I used to live in Uptown and still go somewhat often, mostly to visit my parents. I just filled this out to say how much better it's gotten since they put in all the bike and transit lanes and they should keep doing that, pedestrianize Republican, add more bike parking, and a library 😅

my building just installed a ring camera 🙃

finally canceled my nyt sub over this

If u get tear gassed by the police, don't take a hot shower afterward I promise you do not want to do this

so I just got to the episode of DS9 where it's revealed that Dr Bashir is genetically enhanced. controversial one. at least as an episode I really like it. makes you understand Julian, his parents, and even Starfleet/the federation. they all have understandable motivations/feelings.

feeling a bit better so fixed the bike with the less complicated problems, and just in time, it's the most beautiful day we've had in ages! I better get out there!

idk but that's enough justification for me that we should go ahead and ignore the unhinged coast guard req for the Ballard light rail bridge

"don't take the bait" is silly on its face but then you rewind the argument a single day and it falls apart further. and then you keep saying it over and over as people are still dragged from their homes, bystanders are beaten, babies are flashbanged. I guess they took the bait! but you shouldn't!

Statement regarding Seattle Social Housing Developer

Seattle, we should put our immense amount of empty retail to good use and make some world class bike parking

sometimes I think, does my effort really translate to a better cup of coffee? I should quit being such a snob. then I make some stale ass cup in a break room keurig and it's the nastiest thing ever. im probably just past the point of diminishing returns but im definitely accomplishing something.

this is why it's annoying when once again people obscure a politics debate w/ an optics debate. people say shit like "oh don't say defund, say RETRAIN!" (lol) but like, you see how those are two different policies right. why are you asking ME to do optics for YOUR policy

"taking the bait" means actually doing something effective about your neighbors being murdered and kidnapped. what you're meant to do is cry and like your local politicians' social media posts.

More time during the panel was spent talking about whether we should use Climate Commitment Act funding directly on highways than talking about traffic safety (one question about 0.05% BAC). The Interstate Bridge Replacement potentially costing $13.6+ billion did not come up either.

If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

one can take some heart in the notion that we are seeing, repeatedly, the platonic ideal of the imperial boomerang playing itself out. from the CIA child soldier shooting those national guardsmen to this iraq war veteran shooting a mom in the face - our ghoulish adventurism is exacting its fee

4 minute headways

so much trouble could have been avoided if we had simply given these guys the proper training

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

"erm we can't get a conviction." fucking arrest the guy. perp walk him as a spectacle to make sure his name and face are broadcast around the world. make them fight his way out of jail. be so loud and obnoxious about it that it plants that seed of doubt in every ICE agent's head

Here's the sort of thing Webloc can do: - zoom in on specific phone, see where else that device has been locally or around country - click a 'route' button to see the specific route - click a nighttime button to see where at night; their likely home No warrant www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Thinking about those takes like "why don't Americans do awesome street protests like the French" after watching this video about a leftist who threw a Molotov cocktail during Ferguson and got 10 years in federal prison including several years in ADX Florence Supermax youtu.be/iMlvLm1yJek?...

WA continues to provide driver data to federal officials for immigration enforcement, despite saying they shut down access

someone getting murdered is not BAIT. it is a domino in a line of escalation.

ICE is a relatively newer agency that has always terrorized communities and attracted white supremacists to their ranks. Do people want to “train” them to be better at that? Any mention of training reveals someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

If a national candidate isn't talking about each of these three things come their election, I won't vote for them: - Abolishing ICE - Universal healthcare - Taxing the bejesus out of the rich

for no reason at all I'm remembering this story and smiling

"I ask folks to remain calm." Stop asking angry residents to calm down and start demanding that ICE leave or cease hostile activity. TAKE THE SIDE OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS.

I wouldn't mind some publically owned bike shops either... related, in general, the economics of repair are not good when it's this cheap to buy new shit. if things like appliance repair were a public, subsidized, accessible service, it would be a big boon to the environment.

hey remember when 115 democrats voted to approve a trillion dollars going to the fascist Pentagon and then we invaded Venezuela with it

bit of a bummer innit

Everyone was patting Hilton the corporation on the back when what actually happened was the local staff or owner decided to take a stand, and buckled when corporate caught wind.

NEVER SAY DIE, BITCHES. We found someone and finally signed the new lease today 😁

HB 2100 would prevent these deep cuts to healthcare and higher education; and last week I confirmed with Washington’s Employment Security Department that it could be implemented as soon as 2026. We can’t wait.

magical

Folks, there's a website called OpenGuessr. Go there, play a few rounds, and you'll see why this is more likely than you think

NYT just has their pr guy send the onion article in full to critics

Not to pick on Abughazaleh but I think that kind of politics helped bring us into this mess.

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

Pretty cool time to point out that most Americans health insurance premiums are about to quintuple because democrats chose to bunt and vote to reopen the government so that this coup could happen on schedule

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

Really amazing example here from US Senator Ruben Gallego (D) of the role the Democratic Party plays in legitimising the actions of the bipartisan fascist regime. "In less than one year"? Get fucked

We can’t have another three years of this