Indeed. I don’t need any more films that can be described as “a searing exploration of grief.” Give me Benoit Blanc wearing awesome outfits and solving thr mysteries of weirdo capitalists.

Good thread. Also, my family's insurance will literally double starting next month, and I am so angry about it.

I thought the vocals were really great in Encanto! Wait, is that not what we're talking about?

It was creepy seeing Elliott Bay full of muddy water. And the Duwamish isn't even the most flooded river in the area right now.

15+ years ago I realized that I am not caffeine-compatible. It makes me anxious and pessimistic. THAT SAID. Caffeine intolerance is not something I'd wish on anyone. Don't let weird trend pieces make you feel bad about something that gives you joy! I wish I could be like you!

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

I’m at a cafe and they’ve got Christmas music playing. But I’m 99% sure the songs are AI-generated. They all sound extremely similar to real contemporary Christmas songs, but also just different enough to not be a cover. Shazam can’t identify any of them. It’s wild.

Mamdani clearly has a maxed-out Charisma bonus, so straight nat 20s weren't required... but yeah he definitely rolled at least a few.

The "Trump is senile" narrative is about to get a huge boost on the right.

Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

Jim Jordan begged someone to not rat out the sexual assault that was happening at Ohio State. He was crying on the phone. Groveling. This man threw out all his dignity to try and cover for horrifying crimes of sexual abuse. Think about that for a moment.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Fuse Washington's progressive voter guide is superior in every way to the Stranger's endorsement list. I appreciated the Stranger's endorsements when I was 20. But their snark just isn't that helpful, and as @robertcruickshank.com mentions, their downballot choices are sometimes ill-considered.

As long as it's someone else's 14-year-old, they never care. I'm not saying she should be let off the hook, but there's no stopping the cognitive dissonance.

Wow. While we wait for the few remaining ballots to be counted, we feel like we have won this race. The recent drop put us nearly 1,400 votes ahead, just under the .5 percent threshold for a mandatory recount.

Capitulator? I hardly know her!

This is why there needs to be a hi-cap cohort school in West Seattle. Selfishly I'd love it to be at Lafayette, but Alki would make more sense -- their new building will be twice as big as what they need. It could accommodate two tracks just like Thurgood Marshall.

Yeah why is this a question that even needs to be asked. It's an all-time great album. This elder millennial discovered it thanks to VH1 Behind The Music!

Let’s convince some religious zealots that AI is a tool of the devil. Not kidding. I feel like this would be enough to generate a wave of scrutiny. A satanic panic, but for good! (SAItanic panic?)

Perfection

Wow, nailbiter indeed. Can't wait to see what happens on Monday with the next ballot drop.

I mean, Ross Douthat still has a job, so I'm thinking we did not ruin the workplace enough. Let's get on that, ladies.

I just don’t understand how they thought “ha ha ha this loser can’t afford child care in the city I’m currently mayor of” would be a good look.

This weekend, I received notice of the 21st death of a person in ICE custody since Trump took office. These mostly private, for-profit detention centers put their profits over people’s health and safety. There must be increased oversight and accountability.

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

Right: he's treating Treasury accounts like slush funds to pay military personnel, he's buying luxury jets for cabinet members with our $$, he's using state power to extort bribes to fund his stupid ballroom, and now he wants to help himself to a 9-figure sum while fed workers aren't getting paid.

When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.

I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

🙌

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

Mariners!!!! Seize the moment!!

Here's why I'll be attending a No Kings event tomorrow, and why I hope you will too. www.altrightdelete.news/p/community-...

just go to the protests take whatever precautions you personally feel comfortable with but these are massive, joyful events, go and have fun

Uhhh... This would require literally just making up numbers, am I right? You can't "revise" a count to tabulate something you never collected data for.

OMG this explains so much

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating. Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape. Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

One more inning…. (hopefully)

I'm convinced that the next great cultural divide is between the people who genuinely admire and enjoy kitschy AI slop and the people who find it cringeworthy in the extreme. (I didn't actually need another reason to vote against Mayor Harrell, but, wow... woof.)

Me two minutes ago: this is too much baseball. Me right now: MORE BASEBALL YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! GO MARINERS!!!!

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

I wonder if the West Seattle water taxi still waits around for games that go this long.

Surprise, you’re having a double-header!

I’d say this is harsh, but we are halfway through Game 6 of a five game series, so…

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

I need Edgar Martinez and Ken Griffey Jr. to astral-project themselves into some Mariners batters right now and recreate The Double. (I’d include Joey Cora, but he’s literally there coaching for the other team so that’d be awkward.)