Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.

So he’s an ice agent

Good. Then make it permanent. #AbolishICE www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

The Department of Homeland Security is anything but that. It’s a bloated agency that’s wasted billions in taxes to kidnap, terrorize, and murder American citizens, and it’s only been around since 2003. The country would be safer without DHS.

There is no path forward for America if ICE is not abolished.

the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims

Ever since the 1962 Seattle World's Fair closed multiple streets to car traffic, no one visits this part of Uptown anymore.

I've been walknig around Pioneer Square, looking at the food trucks and streets where people can walk without fear, and saying "we can do this ALL the time" throughout the World Cup. Pedestrianization works best when you just do it, rather than Seattle Processing the concept until it's a no.

Hey folks. Are you a cap hill, udistrict, or downtown furry in Washington state senate 43rd district? Care about stopping Kosa on the state legislative level in Washington? Here’s a candidate to do that with!!!! They even have a Bluesky! Definitely give @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social a look!!

Re: *Xbox's FIFTH round of layoffs since spending almost 70 billion on a single acquisition, today's tune of 3200 layoffs* -- I can't shake the feeling today that, while things have been fucking AWFUL for a long time, we crossed a very real invisible line. Idk when the beginning of the end was, but

Whenever members of Congress are unable to cast votes, they should be required to file illness or injury reports, just like pro athletes, detailing their condition and expected return date

The Stranger couldn’t even make it two years after being acquired??? 😭

Great catch. Very perceptive, schizanon. A+

The wealthy few who fight to keep from having to pay what they owe in taxes (& the WA GOP politicians they donate to) keep seeing their spin fall apart as taxes on them continue breaking records. The evidence is in: rebalancing our tax code works, giveaways to the richest 1% don't.

Shocking nobody, the former chair of the DNC is blaming voters for voting.

The irony is — of course — that pamphlets like this are a form of activism, which is apparently the worst possible thing you could do (next to being homeless) according to these people. Imagine hating your community this much…

It feels like the regulatory agencies in Seattle are designed with the singular malevolent goal of strangling local businesses into oblivion, like some kind of necrotic disease.

Absolute clowns running the Sound Transit Board — what is going on over there.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson says "we are Sound Transit, not Sound Parking," and says she won't support Prince's $100 million parking garage amendment.

This made it into the public record at tonight's Bainbridge Island planning commission meeting, with a comment from someone identified as Olivia.

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

I think I’m traumatized by technology I don’t control and that force things I don’t want into my life. And a VCR never made me spend ten minutes on updates. A VCR never let a stranger steal my personal information.

I know you're facing a lot, @mayorofseattle.bsky.social but hear me out. Make Westlake pedestrian-only again. One block, that's it.

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

sometimes the way you heal as a nation is to cauterize the fucking wound

This is basically why I stopped using Google search last year.

Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

We didn't deserve this day.

Bsky still has major limitations on video uploads, no support for group messages, no features to prevent or remove unwanted followers short of the nuclear block (which they chastise people for using)…but it’s the “mean users” (apparently *unique* to this platform) that are an issue for retention.

I know a ton of people have (rightfully!) been voicing concerns about the abundance of AI garbage at GDC, but I thought my own experience there was kind of reaffirming. The number of people loudly groaning about, rolling their eyes at, and making fun at the expense of AI was off the charts!

GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent." But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

If anyone ever needed a clear example of why so many people are struggling financially despite ✌️The Economy✌️ doing well, look no further.

I've been to all 254 TX counties, and Big Bend is the very best of Texas. The stunning, expansive desert landscape still feels untouched. It deserves to stay that way. It breaks my heart thinking about it being needlessly ruined for a f***ing wall. Here's some photos I've taken there. 🧵4/4

in 2012, it was six. now it's four.

genuinely delighted to see the games press taking on areas like prediction markets + gambling + gamification, which are tumorous outgrowths of game design & should be subject to rigorous, knowledgeable critique and *derision* within the games community

To create a durable affordability agenda, Democrats must embrace widespread anger at corporate power.

Abolish ICE. Abolish CBP. Abolish DHS. Agencies designed to tear families apart and kill people.

According to a study by The Lancet, the US has been responsible for 38 million deaths since 1970 due to its illegal sanctions. According to Brown University, the US has been responsible for 4.5 million direct & indirect deaths from post 9/11 wars. Now, 10 million more could die from USAID cuts.

There is no reforming this. Abolish ICE. Abolish CBP. Dismantle DHS.

Please read this thread. And then donate to your local Immigrant Defense group if you can.

If you were on the fence about reading Careless People (aka the expose on Facebook) by Sarah Wynn-Williams don’t be. This book is so much more explosive than what you’ve seen. The intersection of right wing extremism and Facebook is addressed directly. What a bunch of douchebags.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

yall missing the keystone reform

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